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Severe Weather
Current Watches and Warnings
Oklahoma, Jefferson
Record Report
Statement as of 6:35 AM CDT on May 26, 2016
... Record warmest low temperature tied Wednesday at Oklahoma City...
The low temperature at Oklahoma City yesterday was 74 degrees...
tying the record set in 2008.
Temperature records for Oklahoma City date back to November 1890.
- Alaska - Fire Weather Watch , Special Statement , Record Report
Fire Weather Watch - Copper River Basin, Susitna Valley, Western Kenai Peninsula
Special Statement - Central Beaufort Sea Coast
Record Report - Alaska Peninsula, Anchorage, Baldwin Peninsula and Selawik Valley, Bristol Bay, Central Aleutians, Central Beaufort Sea Coast, Central Interior, Chukchi Sea Coast, Copper River Basin, Deltana and Tanana Flats, Denali, Eastern Alaska Range, Eastern Aleutians, Eastern Beaufort Sea Coast, Eastern Norton Sound and Nulato Hills, Kodiak Island, Kuskokwim Delta, Lower Kobuk and Noatak Valleys, Lower Koyukuk and Middle Yukon Valleys, Lower Kuskokwim Valley, Lower Yukon Valley, Matanuska Valley, Middle Tanana Valley, Northeast Prince William Sound, Northeastern Brooks Range, Northern and Interior Seward Peninsula, Northern Arctic Coast, Northwestern Brooks Range, Pribilof Islands, Southeast Prince William Sound, Southeastern Brooks Range, Southern Seward Peninsula Coast, St Lawrence Island and Bering Strait Coast, Susitna Valley, Upper Kobuk and Noatak Valleys, Upper Koyukuk Valley, Upper Kuskokwim Valley, Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country, Western Aleutians, Western Arctic Coast, Western Kenai Peninsula, Western Prince William Sound, Yukon Delta, Yukon Flats and Surrounding Uplands
- Arkansas - Flood Warning , Areal Flood Advisory
Flood Warning - Ashley, Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Randolph, Union, White, Woodruff
Areal Flood Advisory - Greene
- California - Freeze Warning, Freeze Watch
Freeze Warning, Freeze Watch - Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties
- Colorado - Flash Flood Warning , Flood Advisory , High Wind Warning , Winter Weather Advisory , Winter Storm Warning , Public Information Statement
Flash Flood Warning - Yuma County
Flood Advisory - Central and South Weld County, Larimer County Below 6000 Feet/Northwest Weld County, Northeast Weld County
High Wind Warning - Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County
Winter Weather Advisory - Eastern Sawatch Mountains above 11000 Ft, Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys, Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains above 11000 Ft, South and Southeast Grand/West Central and Southwest Boulder/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Summit/North and West Park Counties Above 9000 Feet, West Elk and Sawatch Mountains, Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Ft, Wet Mountains above 10000 Ft
Winter Storm Warning - Pikes Peak above 11000 Ft
Public Information Statement - Alamosa Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft, Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County, Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Ft, Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Ft, Crowley County, Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft, Eastern Kiowa County, Eastern Las Animas County, Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Ft, Eastern Sawatch Mountains above 11000 Ft, La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Ft, La Junta Vicinity/Otero County, Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County, Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County, Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Ft, Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft, Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains above 11000 Ft, Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Ft, Northwestern Fremont County Above 8500Ft, Pikes Peak above 11000 Ft, Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet, Saguache County East of Continental Divide below 10000 Ft, Saguache County West of Continental Divide Below 10000 Ft, Southern San Luis Valley, Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Ft, Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft, Springfield Vicinity/Baca County, Teller County/Rampart Range above 7500fT/Pike's Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Ft, Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft, Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below 10000 Ft, Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft, Western Chaffee County Between 9000 and 11000 Ft, Western Kiowa County, Western Mosquito Range/East Chaffee County above 9000Ft, Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Ft, Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Ft, Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Ft, Wet Mountains above 10000 Ft, Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000Ft
- Connecticut - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Hartford, Northern Fairfield, Northern Litchfield, Northern Middlesex, Northern New Haven, Northern New London, Southern Fairfield, Southern Litchfield, Southern Middlesex, Southern New Haven, Southern New London, Tolland, Windham
- Delaware - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Delaware Beaches, Inland Sussex, Kent, New Castle
- District of Columbia - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - District of Columbia
- Georgia - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens
- Hawaii - Areal Flood Advisory , Record Report
Areal Flood Advisory - Kauai Leeward, Kauai Mountains, Kauai Windward, Niihau
Record Report - Big Island Interior, Big Island North and East, Big Island Summit, Central Oahu, Haleakala Summit, Kahoolawe, Kauai Leeward, Kauai Mountains, Kauai Windward, Kohala, Kona, Lanai Makai, Lanai Mauka, Leeward Haleakala, Maui Central Valley, Maui Leeward West, Maui Windward West, Molokai Leeward, Molokai Windward, Niihau, Oahu Koolau, Oahu North Shore, Oahu South Shore, Olomana, South Big Island, Waianae Coast, Waianae Mountains, Windward Haleakala
- Idaho - Lake Wind Advisory
Lake Wind Advisory - Lower Snake River Plain
- Illinois - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Randolph, St. Clair, Washington
- Iowa - Tornado Watch , Flash Flood Warning , Flood Warning , Flash Flood Watch , Special Weather Statement
Tornado Watch - unknown
Flash Flood Warning - Cass
Flood Warning - Buena Vista, Clay, Fremont
Flash Flood Watch - Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie
Special Weather Statement - Hardin
- Kansas - Tornado Warning , Tornado Watch , Tornado Watch , Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Flash Flood Warning , Flood Warning, Flash Flood Warning , Areal Flood Warning , Flood Warning , Flash Flood Warning , Areal Flood Warning , Flash Flood Watch , Flood Watch , High Wind Warning , Special Statement , Record Report , Public Information Statement
Tornado Warning - Decatur, Rawlins
Tornado Watch - Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cheyenne, Clark, Cloud, Coffey, Comanche, Cowley, Decatur, Dickinson, Edwards, Elk, Ellis, Ellsworth, Ford, Franklin, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Greenwood, Harper, Harvey, Hodgeman, Kingman, Kiowa, Lincoln, Linn, Logan, Lyon, Marion, McPherson, Miami, Morris, Ness, Norton, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Pratt, Rawlins, Reno, Rice, Rush, Russell, Saline, Sedgwick, Sheridan, Sherman, Stafford, Sumner, Thomas, Trego, Wallace, Wichita
Tornado Watch - unknown
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Kiowa, McPherson, Norton, Ottawa, Rice, Saline, Sheridan
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Cheyenne, Comanche, Rawlins
Flash Flood Warning - Brown, Cheyenne, Douglas, Geary, Jefferson, Johnson, Lyon, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Rawlins, Riley, Wabaunsee, Wyandotte
Flood Warning, Flash Flood Warning - Atchison, Doniphan, Jackson, Leavenworth, Pottawatomie, Shawnee
Areal Flood Warning - Barton, Chase, Marion, McPherson, Reno, Russell
Flood Warning - Butler, Cowley, Lincoln, Linn, Ottawa
Flash Flood Warning - Clay, Dickinson, Miami
Areal Flood Warning - Saline
Flash Flood Watch - Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Ellsworth, Franklin, Geary, Harvey, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Kingman, Leavenworth, Lincoln, Linn, Lyon, Marion, Marshall, McPherson, Miami, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Reno, Republic, Rice, Riley, Russell, Saline, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Washington, Wyandotte
Flood Watch - Bourbon
High Wind Warning - Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace
Special Statement - Barber, Comanche, Jewell, Mitchell, Pratt
Record Report - Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte
Public Information Statement - Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Lyon, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Republic, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Washington
- Louisiana - Flood Warning , Areal Flood Advisory , Special Statement
Flood Warning - Beauregard, Bossier, Calcasieu, Webster
Areal Flood Advisory - Caldwell
- Maryland - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Central and Southeast Howard, Central and Southeast Montgomery, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Inland Worcester, Kent, Northern Baltimore, Northwest Harford, Northwest Howard, Northwest Montgomery, Prince Georges, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Southeast Harford, Southern Baltimore, St. Marys, Talbot, Wicomico
- Massachusetts - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Central Middlesex County, Dukes, Eastern Franklin, Eastern Hampden, Eastern Hampshire, Northern Bristol, Northern Worcester, Northwest Middlesex County, Southeast Middlesex, Southern Bristol, Southern Plymouth, Southern Worcester, Western Franklin, Western Hampden, Western Hampshire, Western Norfolk, Western Plymouth
- Michigan - Special Statement , Record Report
Special Statement - Genesee, Huron
Record Report - Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Crawford, Emmet, Gladwin, Grand Traverse, Iosco, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Mackinac, Manistee, Missaukee, Montmorency, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Otsego, Presque Isle, Roscommon, Wexford
- Minnesota - Record Report , Public Information Statement
Record Report - Clay, East Becker, East Marshall, East Otter Tail, East Polk, Grant, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake Of The Woods, Mahnomen, Norman, North Beltrami, North Clearwater, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau, South Beltrami, South Clearwater, Wadena, West Becker, West Marshall, West Otter Tail, West Polk, Wilkin
Public Information Statement - Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Martin, McLeod, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Nicollet, Pope, Ramsey, Redwood, Renville, Rice, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Stearns, Steele, Stevens, Swift, Todd, Waseca, Washington, Watonwan, Wright, Yellow Medicine
- Mississippi - Flash Flood Warning
- Missouri - Severe Thunderstorm Watch , Tornado Watch , Tornado Watch , Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Flood Warning , Flood Warning, Flash Flood Warning , Flash Flood Warning , Flash Flood Warning , Areal Flood Advisory , Areal Flood Advisory, Flash Flood Watch , Flash Flood Watch , Flash Flood Watch , Flood Watch , Special Statement , Record Report , Public Information Statement
Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Crawford, Dent, Gasconade, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Moniteau, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Osage, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Texas
Tornado Watch - Bates, Cass, Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Pettis
Tornado Watch - unknown
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Cole
Flood Warning - Atchison, Carroll, Cedar, Chariton, Cooper, Gentry, Henry, Holt, Howard, Linn, Livingston
Flood Warning, Flash Flood Warning - Andrew, Buchanan, Clay, Daviess, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Platte, Ray, Saline
Flash Flood Warning - Benton, Caldwell, Clinton, De Kalb, Miller, Morgan
Flash Flood Warning - Bates, Cass
Areal Flood Advisory - Miller
Areal Flood Advisory, Flash Flood Watch - Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson
Flash Flood Watch - Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, De Kalb, Gentry, Holt, Lafayette, Nodaway, Platte, Ray, Worth
Flash Flood Watch - Bates
Flood Watch - Vernon
Special Statement - Dent, Maries, Phelps
Record Report - Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Clay, Clinton, Cooper, Daviess, De Kalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Henry, Holt, Howard, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Mercer, Nodaway, Pettis, Platte, Putnam, Randolph, Ray, Saline, Schuyler, Sullivan, Worth
Public Information Statement - Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Jefferson, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Moniteau, Monroe, Montgomery, Osage, Pike, Ralls, Reynolds, Shelby, St. Charles, St. Francois, St. Louis, St. Louis City, Ste. Genevieve, Warren, Washington
- Nebraska - Tornado Warning , Tornado Watch , Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Flood Warning , Flash Flood Warning , Flash Flood Watch
Tornado Warning - Hitchcock, Red Willow
Tornado Watch - Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow
Flood Warning - Cass, Garden, Keith, Lincoln, Nemaha, Richardson, Scotts Bluff
Flash Flood Warning - Clay, Dundy, Fillmore, Hitchcock, Red Willow
Flash Flood Watch - Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson, Saline
- New Jersey - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Atlantic, Atlantic Coastal Cape May, Camden, Cape May, Coastal Atlantic, Coastal Ocean, Cumberland, Eastern Bergen, Eastern Essex, Eastern Monmouth, Eastern Passaic, Eastern Union, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Northwestern Burlington, Ocean, Salem, Somerset, Southeastern Burlington, Sussex, Warren, Western Bergen, Western Essex, Western Monmouth, Western Passaic, Western Union
- New Mexico - Fire Weather Warning , Public Information Statement
Fire Weather Warning - Central Lea County, Chaves County Plains, Curry County, De Baca County, Eastern Lincoln County, Eastern San Miguel County, Eddy County Plains, Guadalupe County, Harding County, Northern Lea County, Quay County, Raton Ridge/Johnson Mesa, Roosevelt County, Southern Lea County, Union County
Public Information Statement - Central Highlands, Chaves County Plains, Chuska Mountains, Curry County, De Baca County, East Slopes Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Eastern Lincoln County, Eastern San Miguel County, Estancia Valley, Far Northeast Highlands, Far Northwest Highlands, Guadalupe County, Harding County, Jemez Mountains, Lower Chama River Valley, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Middle Rio Grande Valley/Albuquerque Metro Area, Northeast Highlands, Northern Sangre de Cristos above 9500 feet/Red River, Northwest Highlands, Northwest Plateau, Quay County, Raton Ridge/Johnson Mesa, Roosevelt County, San Francisco River Valley, San Juan Mountains, Sandia/Manzano Mountains, Santa Fe Metro Area, South Central Highlands, South Central Mountains, Southern Sangre de Cristos above 9500 feet, Southwest Chaves County, Southwest Mountains, Union County, Upper Rio Grande Valley, Upper Tularosa Valley, West Central Highlands, West Central Mountains, West Central Plateau, West Slopes Sangre de Cristo Mountains
- New York - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Bronx, Eastern Dutchess, Eastern Ulster, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Northeast Suffolk, Northern Nassau, Northern Queens, Northern Westchester, Northwest Suffolk, Orange, Putnam, Richmond (Staten Is.), Rockland, Southeast Suffolk, Southern Nassau, Southern Queens, Southern Westchester, Southwest Suffolk, Sullivan, Western Dutchess, Western Ulster
- North Carolina - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke Mountains, Cabarrus, Caldwell Mountains, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Eastern McDowell, Eastern Polk, Gaston, Graham, Greater Burke, Greater Caldwell, Greater Rutherford, Haywood, Henderson, Iredell, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, McDowell Mountains, Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Northern Jackson, Polk Mountains, Rowan, Rutherford Mountains, Southern Jackson, Swain, Transylvania, Union, Yancey
- North Dakota - Record Report
Record Report - Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eastern Walsh County, Eddy, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina, Ramsey, Ransom, Richland, Sargent, Steele, Towner, Traill, Western Walsh County
- Oklahoma - Tornado Warning , Tornado Watch , Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Flood Warning , Areal Flood Advisory , Flood Advisory , Record Report , Public Information Statement
Tornado Warning - Ellis, Woodward
Tornado Watch - Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Greer, Harmon, Harper, Jackson, Kay, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Major, Noble, Roger Mills, Tillman, Washita, Woods, Woodward
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harper, Jackson, Kiowa, Major, Roger Mills, Tillman, Woods, Woodward
Flood Warning - Cotton, Love, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa
Areal Flood Advisory - Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woodward
Flood Advisory - Cherokee
Record Report - Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant, Greer, Harmon, Harper, Hughes, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnston, Kay, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Lincoln, Logan, Love, Major, Marshall, McClain, Murray, Noble, Oklahoma, Payne, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Roger Mills, Seminole, Stephens, Tillman, Washita, Woods, Woodward
- Oregon - Wind Advisory , Freeze Warning, Freeze Watch
Wind Advisory - East Columbia River Gorge
Freeze Warning, Freeze Watch - Klamath Basin
- Pennsylvania - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Eastern Chester, Eastern Montgomery, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lower Bucks, Northampton, Philadelphia, Upper Bucks, Western Chester, Western Montgomery, York
- Rhode Island - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Block Island, Bristol, Eastern Kent, Newport, Northwest Providence, Southeast Providence, Washington, Western Kent
- South Carolina - Dense Smoke Advisory , Public Information Statement
Dense Smoke Advisory - Charleston, Inland Berkeley, Tidal Berkeley
Public Information Statement - Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Greater Greenville, Greater Oconee, Greater Pickens, Greenville Mountains, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee Mountains, Pickens Mountains, Spartanburg, Union, York
- South Dakota - Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Special Statement , Special Weather Statement
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Buffalo, Hyde, Lyman, Tripp
Special Statement - Spink, Todd
- Tennessee - Flash Flood Warning , Flood Advisory
Flash Flood Warning - Fayette
Flood Advisory - Montgomery, Robertson
- Texas - Severe Thunderstorm Watch , Tornado Warning , Tornado Watch , Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Flood Warning , Flash Flood Warning , Flash Flood Warning , Flood Warning, Flash Flood Warning , Areal Flood Advisory, Flash Flood Watch , Areal Flood Advisory , Flash Flood Watch , Flash Flood Watch, Areal Flood Advisory , Fire Weather Warning , Special Statement , Special Weather Statement , Record Report , Public Information Statement
Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Crockett, Eastland, Edwards, Erath, Fisher, Hamilton, Haskell, Hood, Irion, Jack, Jones, Kimble, Kinney, McCulloch, Menard, Mills, Nolan, Palo Pinto, Parker, Real, Runnels, Schleicher, Shackelford, Somervell, Stephens, Sterling, Sutton, Taylor, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Uvalde, Val Verde, Young
Tornado Warning - Comanche, Foard
Tornado Watch - Archer, Baylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Brown, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Fayette, Foard, Hemphill, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Wheeler, Wilbarger
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Lee
Flood Warning - Bowie, Calhoun, Cass, Cooke, Madison, Morris, Northern Newton, Orange, Refugio, Southern Newton, Trinity, Victoria, Walker, Wise
Flash Flood Warning - Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Harris, Lee, Montgomery, Washington
Flash Flood Warning - Austin, Bastrop, Colorado, Comanche, Eastland, Fayette, Liberty, San Jacinto, Waller
Flood Warning, Flash Flood Warning - Leon, Robertson
Areal Flood Advisory, Flash Flood Watch - Hays, Travis
Areal Flood Advisory - Colorado, Stephens
Flash Flood Watch - Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Chambers, Comal, Coryell, De Witt, Falls, Fayette, Fort Bend, Freestone, Gonzales, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Henderson, Hill, Houston, Karnes, Kendall, Lampasas, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Limestone, Madison, McLennan, Milam, Mills, Navarro, Robertson, Trinity, Walker, Washington, Williamson, Wilson
Flash Flood Watch, Areal Flood Advisory - Austin, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Waller
Fire Weather Warning - Andrews, Davis/Apache Mountains Area, Gaines, Marfa Plateau, Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor
Special Statement - Austin, Bandera, Brazos, Chambers, Colorado, Edwards, Fort Bend, Grimes, Harris, Kerr, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, Real, San Jacinto, Waller, Washington
Special Weather Statement - Hardin, Jefferson, Northern Jasper, Tyler
Record Report - Archer, Austin, Baylor, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Clay, Colorado, Foard, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Hardeman, Harris, Houston, Jackson, Knox, Liberty, Madison, Matagorda, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker, Waller, Washington, Wharton, Wichita, Wilbarger
Public Information Statement - Armstrong, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Carson, Chambers, Collingsworth, Colorado, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Fort Bend, Galveston, Gray, Grimes, Hansford, Harris, Hartley, Hemphill, Houston, Hutchinson, Jackson, Liberty, Lipscomb, Madison, Matagorda, Montgomery, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Polk, Potter, Randall, Roberts, San Jacinto, Sherman, Trinity, Walker, Waller, Washington, Wharton, Wheeler
- Virginia - Air Quality Alert
Air Quality Alert - Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria, Eastern Loudoun, Fairfax, Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park, Western Loudoun
- Washington - Wind Advisory
Wind Advisory - Eastern Columbia River Gorge of Washington
- Wisconsin - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Rusk, St. Croix
- Wyoming - Flood Warning
Flood Warning - Central Carbon County, Central Laramie Range and Southwest Platte County, Ferris/Seminoe/Shirley Mountains, Goshen County, Laramie Valley, North Laramie Range, North Snowy Range Foothills, Shirley Basin, Sierra Madre Range, Snowy Range, South Laramie Range, South Laramie Range Foothills, Southwest Carbon County, Upper North Platte River Basin


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May 28, 2003
Roy Hoffman
Michael DeMocker
Down the stairs from the bedrooms to the floor of his store, past the blouses and pants under dust covers waiting for day to begin, Morris Kleinman made his way to the front door thanking God, blessed be His name, for a regular night's sleep, his devoted Miriam, four healthy children, and strength enough, after a nagging cold, to be the first one up on Upper Dauphin Street wielding his broom against the walk in preparation for the Confederate Veteran's parade.
Above him the swallows looped their crazy script against the chalky Mobile sky. They circled above the Lebanese clothing store and Syrian pressing shop, turned and soared above the Greek bakery where Matranga was baking his New York twist bread that would sell, in today's busy crowd, for a nickel a loaf. As the Holy Cathedral bell gonged six times Father O'Connor scraped his way on one good leg toward the church steps, calling out to Morris, "May peace be with you," to which Morris called back, thinking of the silent, glaring Orthodox priest of his Romanian village, "Good morning, Monseignur, and shalom to you."
Horse hair, wood shavings, tobacco, goat droppings, melon rind, ashes, a lone shoelace--his broom whisked away last night's debris onto the wood-brick street. He reached down into the gutter and retrieved the shoelace, slipping it into his pocket for Miriam's scrap box; yesterday she'd kissed him when he salvaged an ivory button. As he wheeled out the clothes racks he looked down the street, past the red-brick and stained glass Cathedral, past the tattered Star Theater-marquee and the humble mercantile storefronts of Hebeeb and Zoghby and Kalifeh, toward Lower Dauphin where the likes of prosperous Greenbaum and Leinkauf were nowhere yet to be seen.
Oh, he shook his head, the German Jewish merchants still blithely asleep in their canopied beds. The ritual morning prayers humming at his lips, he turned to go back in, eyeing a crate to be opened. Facing east, tallit over his shoulders, he laced the prayer straps through his fingers and intoned the Hebrew, rocking gently, trying not to think about the work pants he'd ordered from Schwartz in Memphis or the dresses from Besser in New Orleans, landsmen with their own ties to the Carpathian vistas of Romania.
The sun fanned out like palmetto leaves across the storefronts where cedar bread boxes awaited Smith's Bakery deliveries and, in the doorway of the Norwegian Seamen's Hall, men curled hoping for day jobs cleaning stables or lugging bananas from the docks. As Father O'Connor said his first "amen" in the incensed recesses of Holy Cathedral, Morris said his last "o main" standing behind the cash register of his store. He added a prayer for safe-keeping of Papa, dwelling still with sister Golda, so far away. "You will join us here in Alabama," he vowed. "Soon."
He folded away his prayer shawl, picked up a crowbar and faced the shoulder-high crate: Besser Fashions, New Orleans. Thinking of his sons curled in a lazy cocoon, he went back upstairs. In the front room, his own, Miriam lay curled in their bed before the French doors halfopened to the balcony. The collar of her embroidered gown came high on the neck, her dark hair coiled in a bun. Without turning she raised her hand to signal she was awake: the eyes and ears of the house even as she dozed in reverie, he knew, of the village lanes and kitchen tables of her Romanian home. He passed his daughter's room.
Lillian had kicked off the covers, her 12-yearold legs sprawled to the far corners of the mattress, her gown twisted up to beyond her knees. The color was robust in her face, blessed be His Name, but after her rheumatic fever--three years ago, this day of the Confederates--who could ever be sure? He stole in and draped the sheet back over her. He turned into the front room where baby Hannah snored in her bed. Just the other side of a muslin curtain dividing the room, 10-year-old Abraham and 8-yearold Herman lay elbow to shoulder, mouths open like fish. He leaned over and stroked the back of his hand over Abe's cheek; his son groaned. He wiggled his fingertip on the peace fuzz over the boy's upper lip; Abe brushed away the finger.
"Gutte morgen, mein boychik," Morris whispered. "Mornin,' " Abe moaned back. "Langer loksh," he exhorted, using the nickname, "long legs," for his lanky son. "No school today, Daddy." "Up!" "Sun's not even up." "This son is the first who will make good at Barton?" "Hm, mm." "Who will make a good marriage to a nice shayna madele?" He nodded in the pillow. "Who will help his Papa in the store?"
He was answered with a rising snore. Morris laid his hand on the boy's shoulder and belted, "Avraham!" The boy bolted upright, but Herman was already on his feet, slipping on his pants, dancing from side to side and bunching his fists like a boxer. Miriam called out, "You will wake Hannah!" "Abe will hush her," Morris answered. "Oh, Daddy!" Abe protested, climbing out now, but Morris instructed, "Stay, you, with the baby." Abe flopped back down and hugged on his pillow. On the first landing, with Herman padding behind, Morris fingered up a cigar butt he'd stuck into an ash tray and chomped down on it.
"Daddy, are we Rebels?" Herman asked as they came to the crate. "Today? Yes, we are Rebels." Morris jockeyed the box out of the corner and wedged the crowbar into a crevice. Herman reached up and grabbed hold of the bar and lifted his feet off the ground. The boards groaned apart. Morris lifted out the skirts one by one: pretty pale blues and checkered reds. "Besser," he addressed the spirit of his supplier in New Orleans, "now, you are making good business." From in the back he pulled a skirt soiled at the collar. Holding it close, he eyed the brown stain.
"Besser," he fumed, "you try to sell to me this drek?" "Daddy!" From deep inside the crate came scratching and scuffling. Feathers flashed brightly, then exploded into wings. "Gall durn bird!" Herman cried. "Shoo." A starling wove toward the eaves. Morris found the bag of old shoes and brought one out, hurling it upwards. The starling dove away, arcing across overalls. "Small blessings," Morris muttered as bird droppings missed the table and splashed against the floor. The starling turned back over his head and flew up the steps. Herman raced behind. Into Lillian's room, back through Abe's and Herman's, the bird coursed. Herman grabbed up a broomstick and jumped onto the bed, dancing around Abe's pillow. Abe sat up blearily.
"What are you doing?" "Is this fun!" "Not fair." "You're the one didn't get up." Herman poked wildly at the air. "Daddy wouldn't let me!" "In bed like a bum!" Morris yelled at him. The bird swooped back into the dining room, veering by Morris's head, who cursed Besser like he was in the next room. "Y'all leave Abe alone," Lillian said, coming from her room, jaw dropping at the spectacle of Daddy waving his arms in the air and turning in circles. Morris ran toward the front of the apartment, throwing open the French doors. The starling looped back, veered toward Herman who shouted, "Go on, git!" before it banked and hurtled into the calm, bluing Alabama sky.
After drinking his black coffee and eating a bowl of mamaligi that Miriam had fixed--he still preferred to pasty Southern grits this hearty Romanian dish of cornmeal boiled down to yellow porridge--Morris hurried back down to the walk. Waiting for the parade to assemble, two boys leaned against a hitching post in front of the Lyric Theater, practicing their drums. Their rolls and rimshots climbed the walls of the popular vaudeville venue, by the marquee reading, Al Jolson May 5, and Alabama Minstrels Tonight, moving like a prowler up the French grille balconies.
Most, this early, just wanted to converse about that bloody conflict he'd heard called "the Civil War" up North but here was "the War Between the States," or "the Cause." When this subject came up, anywhere in America, he kept his mouth shut. Fifty years had passed since the Yankees had come steaming into Mobile Bay and Admiral Farragut had cried, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead," but it was as if the jackal had appeared yesterday. Morris had learned, soon after stepping off the train here in 1907, that mention of "Grant" or "Sherman" started a fight.
Even in school in Romania, he had heard of the great president named Lincoln, but to repeat his name here, except among the Negroes, was to risk a bloody nose. Besides, with every holiday there were sales to be made. Fourth of July--bathing attire. Christmas--children's dresses. Last month had been the celebration called Mardi Gras. He had no evening dress to sell--not like Hammels, run by German Jews, where blue-blooded city dwellers, whatever their origins, spent a pretty penny to outfit themselves elegantly for the occasion. He watched Donnie McCall saunter in now, Panama hat pushed back, red-faced and jowly. Beneath McCall's eyes were always deep circles, like his own Papa's. McCall, an Irishman he called himself, like Papa also had black-black eyes.
A better customer there never was. McCall nodded to his scuffed-up shoes. "Need a new pair, Mr. Morris. Something respectable for today's doings, not too fancy. The colored look up to a man with smart shoes." Morris fetched two-tone lace-ups while McCall settled into a chair. Kneeling at his feet, Morris asked about the funeral insurance business as he shoehorned on the first pair. "One thing folks got to do is die. And when they do, God rest their souls"--McCall stood, peering down--"they want to make sure their funeral's a send-off the likes of which"--he wriggled his toes--"has never been witnessed before. Too small." He sat. "These better will fit." McCall stood again, rocked back and forth.
"Got my name on 'em, don't you think?" "Right here." Morris patted the tips. "I can interest you in a new Panama hat?" "Could be tomorrow." "I will put in the back one with your name just in case." McCall paid for the shoes and said good-day. A tall man shambled in and plopped down in a chair. "Got these suckers from you a while ago," the man said, tugging off his muddy boots. "Name's Jackson." "A good price I remember, Mr. Jackson." The clammy odor of Jackson's feet rose up. "Don't want 'em." "Is not possible." "You make it possible." "How can I take back old shoes?" "I paid $2.95 for these durn boots! They hurt my feet!" Morris broke into a sweat.
"Come, the wife she does not like when I do this, but"--he coaxed the man to the display case--"if she does not see." He handed him a bottle of 25- cent ointment. The man turned it back and forth. "What's it say?" "Dr. Zigorsky's Foot Elixir. A medicine, but for you a blessing. Worth many dollars." "Cost me nothin'?" Morris shook his head. "Hurry, before the wife, she sees." "Got you a deal," said the man, who dragged his boots back on and hobbled out the store. By eight o'clock the walks of Dauphin Street began to fill with people and Morris positioned Herman on a stool near the door to keep an eye out for passersby with sticky fingers. Some paused before the outdoor racks of M. Kleinman & Sons looking over the newest hats and boulevard ties.
A willowy, red-haired young woman turned into the store with easy gait, heading to the fancy ladies' section in the rear. Lillian came from the back office to greet her. As they went down the rows, the woman selected a blue cotton dress and Lillian directed her to the dressing curtain which she drew around her. A moment later she rolled open the curtain and walked to the floor-length mirror. "What do you think?" she asked Lillian.
"You look," Lillian surmised, "like a nice spring day." "What an enterprising girl!" The young woman turned to Morris. "Now for a gentleman's opinion?" He saw again the rich hair and pale eyes of the Romanian girl, Theodora Eminescu, turning to him in the window long ago. Her shoulders rose from her gown, the lantern glow bathing her skin. "We call this, a shayna klayde. A pretty dress." "But how do I look in it?" "In this shayna klayde you are"--he hesitated, not wanting to sound fresh--"a shayna madele." He felt himself blush.
"By the look on your face, it must be good. Reckon I'll take it." Morris quickly turned his attention to the register. Before long the sidewalk was lined with Mobilians craning their necks for sight of the marchers, the Kleinman children among them. There were squeals and shouts as, far off, the full complement of drums sounded, buzzing along M. Kleinman & Sons' street-front panes. The tattoo of cornets charged the air. The first marchers arrived. No matter their look--one man was rigid, another bent--or their size--one was tall like a youth, another once tall but shrunk in old age--the men carried themselves with the same tired, but defiant bearing.
At ages 65 and 70, 75 and 80, they puffed their chests out against their gray jackets, feeble but cocksure. "The alter kockers," Sam Lutchnik, a Polish Jew down the street, had said of the marchers, "the old men, still fighting their war." It was a war that lived still from regiment to regiment, in the trudging boots, the waistcoats cinched tight around the sloping bellies of men who years before, lean and quick, thundered across the fields of Shiloh and Manassas, that town, Morris had heard, named for a Jew. Two men passed, aided by young cadets--the first was missing his left leg, his stump wagging as he hopped on crutches, the second on crutches with no right foot.
Behind them walked a veteran with a cane, tap-tapping on the street. With his free hand he waved at the crowd, his ruined eyes cocked toward the sky. Some veteran groups had banners: Raphael Semmes Division, honoring one man, Morris had been told, who stood at the helm of a big warship called Alabama and had resided at Point Clear, across the bay, and George E. Dixon, honoring a poor boy who had gone under the water in Charleston Harbor in a hand-cranked submarine called the Hunley to blast a hole in a Union ship, and was buried beneath those waters.
The music rose, a tune called "Bonnie Blue Flag." It changed to a melody Morris knew well. It was not a song that belonged to him like the Yiddish melodies he loved to hum from deep in his boyhood, or the religious songs like the soaring "Aveinu Malkeinu" of Rosh Hashonah, or the stirring "Kol Nidre" chanted at Yom Kippur. But these piccolos playing out the spirited melody gave him goosebumps. "Dixie," it was called. The song piped its sad merriment through the streets, where the onlookers clapped and stomped. Behind the last division of men followed a crowd of marching ladies: A-frame dresses sweeping the street, silver hair up in buns or down in thin gray tresses reminiscent of the days they had waited for their young Johnny Rebs to return from the battlefields.
Many had waited, and waited, their faces caught still in that moment 50 years ago when an emissary stepped onto the porch and announced, with deep consolation, that Jack Mayfield or Curtis Kellogg or Ira Glasser would never be returning, sweet Jesus be with you in this time of great need. Among these women Morris saw Ira's widow, Dolores, who'd later married Joseph Levy, a German Jew who himself had died the year before. Today, though, Joseph was forgotten: Dolores walked mourning her bright, Confederate youth. Young women now passed who smiled and waved in the modern way.
These were the Daughters of the Confederacy: Spring Hill Chapter, Oakleigh Chapter, Saraland Chapter, Bay Minette Chapter. Girls no older than Ira must have been when the word came back that the young man's life had bled out of him at Chickamauga. Behind a drum and fife corps filed the cadets of Mobile Military Academy, grave-faced adolescents restless for President Wilson to make a declaration of war, allowing them to jump into trenches alongside the Frenchmen and the Brits, having at the dirty Huns. Some had already found action with General Pershing on the Mexican border, chasing the wily Pancho Villa back to his desert lair; the heroic tales they brought back had ignited their friends. The way they stamped their feet reminded Morris of Cossacks, rifles locked on their shoulders. Abe put two fingers to his lips and shrieked a whistle.
A towering lout bumped into Morris and veered into the store. "I can help you, sir?" Morris asked, following behind. The man wove toward the rack of hats, reached for a Stetson and knocked several hats to the floor. He stepped back, tottering. The smell of corn whiskey soured the air. Miriam looked in from the street. "Shikker," Morris said to her. "What did you say about me?" The man wove toward the counter, steadying himself on the cash register. "I said you are drunk." "Don't talk Yid talk." "Out of the store, mister." "I can do what I Goddamn please!" "Do not curse the Lord God in here." "You're telling me about?" The man gazed up blearily at the ceiling, then back down to Morris. "What business you people got hoopin' and hollerin' today?" "Leave this store." "This ain't your war."
Miriam had disappeared from the door; a band played a weary dirge. "Passed by a woman here," said Morris, "Dolores Glasser, who lost a husband in this War. How old was he? Only a boy, fighting in Chickamauga, I hear of this place, such a sadness. Passed Molly Friedman, her brother today walks with two crutches and no legs, boom.
Fighting for a Jew named Proskauer, I have seen his picture. A proud man from Mobile, too, with a fancy beard. He was not like you, not a horse's behind, not a putz making trouble in an honest man's store." The man fell back from the cash register and glared at Morris. "You're a scrappy cuss, ain't you?" He took a step closer. Morris picked up the crowbar. Miriam came hurrying in with Officer Flynn who gripped the troublemaker's collar and shook him. "You giving Mr. Morris trouble? I got a hole at the jail for a stinkin' mongrel to sleep in."
The man looked helplessly at Morris. Abe and Herman had appeared. Morris shook his head. "No, he will not bother us again." The man nodded dumbly as they went outside. When Flynn had gone his way, the man said, "You ain't such a bad Joe," and brought out a flask of whiskey. Morris grasped it, took a swig, and, as the man stumbled away, spat it out behind him on the walk.
"Ach, my shoulder." Morris spoke to himself, sitting in the rocking chair near the door as a lull came in the procession. The sky had clouded over and rain threatened the day. Wearily he rubbed at his shoulder. Since the November night he'd first slept on those feed sacks in the Eminescu barn, he'd felt the Romanian cold haunting his body, like a sliver of ice deep in his wing. He ceased rubbing, wishing he had swallowed that hooligan's whiskey now, a nice elixir to ease his shoulder's ache. Sheeted men with hoods over their faces trod silently by, on the shoulders of one a large, rugged cross.
The Klan members were met with polite, steady applause. Morris had learned it was prudent, when Klansmen passed, to look straight ahead, nodding, while revealing no emotion at all. What bone to pick anyway, could they have with him? Wilder enthusiasm greeted the wagonloads of farmers who waved Confederate battle flags and hollered and whistled back at the crowd. At the same time as the children went cavorting down the street going bang bang at enemy soldiers there was the crack of real rifles from the direction of Magnolia Cemetery. The sharp report came again in salute to the Confederate dead, scattering swallows from the telegraph wires down Dauphin, igniting a spark in the feet of the children.
Morris rocked back, looking up at the pressed tin ceiling of his store, seeing the brocade of ice on the window of his room as a boy with his brothers and sister close by, hearing the blast of rifles again in the frozen night. Under the blanket next to him stirred Chaim, who burrowed down deeper against the shattering noise. There was another volley of shots and, from the adjacent bed, Ben leapt up and came to join him at the window. Frantically they rubbed their palms across the thick, muted glass, trying to see. Golda began to cry in the next room. Everywhere snow swirled through darkness, hiding the rattle of steel and the pounding of hooves, hiding the screams until it drew back like a veil revealing a man sunk down into the drifts and another alongside, tugging him up, and a horse, like a black ghost flying.
Voices, shouts, villagers emerging from doorways running toward the figures in the snow. Another horse crowded the darkness, then another came thundering, and the door of Morris's own house opened as Papa, night shirt flying, headed toward the courtyard, and Mama was at the door of their room holding Golda, putting her finger to her lips, exhorting, "Sha shtil, kinder, be quiet, children, do as Papa has asked and pray to the Almighty." The night stilled a moment, then held sobbing and angry, rising voices. Morris and his brothers rubbed busily at the window, wiping away their own curtains of breath, watching the men disperse, hearing the sobbing fall away and the voices receding into houses across the shtetl square.
Papa's face was long and dark when he came back in, and the next day when he went off to work at his distillery, and when he returned; and the next day and next, when sitting by the fire, prayer book open on his lap, he gazed off at the dancing flames. He said nothing until that night he came home, eyes sunk into deep moons, and told them the soldiers had visited him with swords and guns, a law, they said, barring Jews from this business, as others had been barred from being doctors and men of the courts. Who knew, they said, what mischief Jews might perform on grains and yeast and water; on the magic liquor they sold to the good Christians of Piatra Neamt? How much money the Jews had accumulated, they complained, at the expense of the good people of the village!
As Papa spoke, his face darkened still, as though wanting to let loose tears like those that had come when they marched to the cemetery with his own father and tossed the dirt onto the casket and sat solemnly for days until the black veils were lifted from the chairs. But he held back the tears, and sat one week, and then another, with prayer book open while gazing only at the fire. He called Morris to him and explained there was little money left for the family, and word had come throughout the region of Moldavia, from Dorohoi to Yassi, that others had businesses that were being closed down.
He told Morris that he must leave school and go to work at a farmhouse on the edge of the Romanian plain; that he had contacted a grain farmer he knew through the distillery, Stefan Eminescu, a good Christian man with a son and two daughters, who could use a boy with good hands and strong back. Mama's hand rested on Morris's shoulder. "Azril," she said, "don't be so hard on him, tell him more gently," and he nodded and said her name, "Shayna Blema," pretty rose. "Pretty rose," Morris repeated, reaching up to touch her slender, soft hand. She started to walk away, but he held her hand firmly now; "gai nisht, Mama," he whispered, don't leave, feeling the floor drop away.
"Morris?" Miriam's voice was exhorting him. Her hand jiggled his shoulder. "Chicken dreaming corn?" "He shook his head. "Not so good." "The parade is over, and more customers will be coming soon." She moved away toward the cash register to go over the morning's receipts. He stood from the rocking chair, the floor still dropping away, and stepped outdoors to steady himself, breathing in Mobile streets.
©2003 by Roy Hoffman. Chicken Dreaming Corn (ISBN 0-8203-2668-2) was published by University of Georgia Press. Reprinted with permission. www.ugapress.org
Roy Hoffman (A&S '75) is the author of Almost Family, winner of the Lillian Smith prize for fiction, and Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile. A native of Mobile, Ala., he worked in New York City for 20 years as a journalist, speechwriter, editor and teacher before returning South as staff writer at the Mobile Register. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, and other publications.
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It probably is but I'm not the morality police so I don't care. I'll take your list and add techno-illiterate I root for the Crusaders and that's about as much as I know about that part of the world.
Just a quick post...
Being rural, a sociaphobe and a nerd means I really don't have much in the way of a social life offline...and since I stopped playing WoW, I don't do much socializing online anymore. So I am looking for anyone who has the time to chat on occasion. I am in Australia, so for most people time zones will differ
So yeah, if you feel like chatting please send me a message and I can add you on yahoo, msn or facebook
I hope this is not an inappropriate post >.<
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It probably is but I'm not the morality police so I don't care. I'll take your list and add techno-illiterate I root for the Crusaders and that's about as much as I know about that part of the world.
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I'm not much of a chatter myself but just wanted to say I appreciate the artwork you recently posted. I can type real-time but haven't used chat software much since the days when IRC was about the only thing going, so I join Ascension in the techno-illiterate crowd in that area.
@Ascension: a person that makes PS filters/styles sing the way you do cannot claim to be techno-illiterate.
Yeah, totally right...Reading the tutorials some of you nuts put up makes me feel like a child!
Deff should look at some of the real time chat options out there...even my hubby's mother gets in on it and she is confused by office word...
Thanks so much mearrin about the art! I love drawing, always have. I have been too busy in the last year or 2 to really be able to spare the 5 or 6 hours it takes to do a drawing, plus the time either side to get set up. That is what started me on doing my cartography on the computer...its so easy to spend 20 mins then save and go back to what I need to do outside.
@Ascension...I have no idea what you meant by "I root for the Crusaders and that's about as much as I know about that part of the world."
Keep the replies coming...not as nervous about replying to my own thread as others hahaha
Hi Jessica, it is slightly off topic but its honest which is better than some of the spam posts we have to cull which say they are almost everything other than what they really are. I'm from the UK and you can find me on myspace as redrobes (cat with red cape !). I'll be glad to post & chat there. I dont do WoW but do play several games like Halo.
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Welcome to Christ Church URC – Tonbridge
High St, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1SG, Tel 01732 770334
Minister: Vacant
We meet each Sunday morning for worship at 10.00am and Holy Communion is celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of each month as part of our morning worship.
Christ Church URC is at the southern end of the High Street (opposite McDonalds). For an overview of what goes on in our buildings, watch the powerpoint presentation here:
Being disciples of Jesus together – making disciples of Jesus together'
We have a membership of about 50, and have members meeting 6 times a year.
The second Sunday in the month is a Communion Service. There are occasional evening services and details of there, of all activites and events, or to find out who is preaching, is available on the Calendar.
For more information use the 'Contact us' form or pop in to the LifeSprings Cafe and have a chat – Mon to Saturday 10-1pm.
We also meet for coffee and fellowship after each Service and we are always happy to see new faces or even just for a chat during coffee.
There is always opportunity for prayer with a member of our prayer team both in church or the Prayer Room.
We provide a creche or Sunday school for those age 4-12 as needed,
During the week there is 'Sunbeams for carers with babies and toddlers.
Small Groups (Cell or House groups) meet at various locations, either in homes or at the church during the week. Details of where and when can found in the Calendar. Click on the name of each group to find out what they are studying. One group is shown above with the Bishop from The Bread of Life International Church, Zambia, a project supported by our church. More information can be seen on the 'Church Groups' page.
'LifeSprings Cafe' – Come and see what the Lord has done in Tonbridge in our new High Street Foyer.
Open Monday to Saturday 10-1pm it offers a warm welcome. In addition to the freshly ground coffee £1.30 and homemade cake at paround £1 there are cold drinks for 30-50p and instant coffee at 60p. The staff are volunteers from all churches who are hapy to keep you company, to chat or lend a listening ear.
There is opportunity for prayer in the prayer room or church, alone or with a member of staff and a prayer request book available.
LifeSprings cafe and the foyer area lep us keep a Christian presence on the High Street and provide information about the wider church community and their activities. Because the foyer is accessed directly from the High Street it is ideal for those who need a level walking surface, use walking aids, wheelchairs or prams. The foyer is a light, bright area to sit in, with the added advantage of bus stops immediately outside. LifeSprings Cafe in the foyer area continues this church's history of being open to serve the people of Tonbridge and visitors, which we have been doing for over 30 years.
LifeSprings Cafe is open later on Wednesday & Saturday – until 2pm
Morning Worship every Sunday at 10am
Our calender has details of regular and special events, meetings and services
The Foyer cafe open weekdays & Saturday 10am to 1pm with LifeSprings Cafe Weds & Sat afternoons until 2pm.
OR join us for coffee after the Sunday service.
Christ Church belongs to the denomination known as the United Reformed Church (URC). To find more about the beliefs of our church come and see us or browse the URC website here. Tou find more about other local activity and activities of the United Reformed Church here and URC events for young people here.
We aim to work with the other Churches in the town, and build up the faith of all who are part of the Church through worship, teaching, fellowship and Bible study, and to help one another to become more like Christ. We believe we have a special calling as the Church on the High Street, making Christ known through our love, our joy, our words and our activities and to bring new people into the Kingdom of God.
'Being disciples of Jesus together – making disciples of Jesus together"
Mission Statement – These are our aims:
We encourage a personal relationship with God our Father through Jesus by the power of the Spirit.
What Scripture says about faith: 'Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see….and without faith it is impossible to please God.'
(Hebrews 11: 1 and 6.)
We encourage all members to glorify God by the way we live our lives, by prayer and Bible study and by meeting together to express our adoration and love of God through His Spirit.
What Scripture says about worship: 'In view of God's mercy, offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – which is your spiritual worship.' 'Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.' (Romans 12: 1 and Colossians 3: 16)
We encourage commitment to one another and growth through prayer, teaching and fellowship and the development of the ministry of all believers through the gifts of the Spirit.
What scripture says about discipleship: 'It was Jesus who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.'
(Ephesians 4: 11 – 13)
We encourage closer working relationships with the Christian church both in our town and in the wider world.
Jesus prayed about unity: 'I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one. I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.' (John 17: 22 – 23)
We encourage all members to show the love of Jesus by word and action in the places where God has put us.
What Jesus says about mission: 'All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.' (Matthew 28: 18 – 20)


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Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive in the Sleeping Bear Dunes
The Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive in the Sleeping Bear Dunes (just north of Empire) is an attraction not to be missed on a Northern Michigan vacation. On the breathtakingly beautiful 7.4-mile Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive you can imagine the might of the glaciers that sculpted the Sleeping Bear Dunes 10,000 years ago, contemplate nature's intricate beauty or just kick back and have one of the prettiest picnic's in Northern Michigan, if not the world!
Watch this video, then scroll on to learn more about the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive:
Twelve interpretive stops along the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive in the Sleeping Bear Dunes bring the natural history of this incredible Northern Michigan attraction to life.
Before heading to the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, it's worth a stop in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore's visitor center (corner of M-72 and M-22, 231.326.5134) for maps, guidebooks and a park vehicle pass—although you can also purchase a pass at the gate.
From Empire, drive north on M-22, veer left onto M-109 and turn left again at the sign for Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive. Snag a self-guided tour brochure at the ranger booth, then, obeying the 20-mph speed limit, glide down the paved road and under the historic covered bridge
Glen Lake Overlook
This is a glorious bird's-eye view of the glittering Glen Lakes, products of glaciers that formed in the Ice Age then me. From here, you can see across Little Glen to where it joins Big Glen under the M-22 bridge known as the narrows. Off to the north, let your eye trace the tree-filled ridge that meanders down in the shape of an alligator snout—hence its name Alligator Hill. A marvelous trail system marked by two incredible lookouts snakes through this forest. Find trail maps at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore visitors center in Empire.
Picnic Mountain
Yep, this is the perfect place to spread a blanket and open the food basket!
Dune Overlook
There is so much stunning scenery to take in at this one stop you'll have to remember to exhale. From this point you can pick out North and South Manitou Islands across Lake Michigan's Sleeping Bear Bay, Pyramid Point (so named by sailors for its shape) that marks the north end of Sleeping Bear Bay, the Sleeping Bear Dunes and the Glen Lakes. That stunning white barn you see is the privately-owned historic D.H. Day farm—named for the lumbermen who built it in the beginning of the last century.
Cottonwood Trail
Here's your chance to stretch your legs and get up close and personal with the dunes. This l.5 mile hike moves you up and down dunes, across blowouts, past patches of bearberry and buffaloberry and by cottonwood trees half-buried in sand. Sand makes a marvelous canvas for animal tracks, so keep your eyes peeled!
Dune Ecology
This is where you'll learn how in the world plants like the cottonwood tree and juniper bush can survive on the sand dunes with their dry wind and inability to hold moisture.
Lake Michigan Overlook
This is the piece de resistance of all Northern Michigan attractions. Walk out onto the viewing platform 450 feet above Lake Michigan and catch your breath at the sight of glittering water that stretches below you. South, to your left, are the Empire Bluffs—the gateway to Platte Bay. Further down the coast is Point Betsie. The Manitou Islands are on the horizon and Sleeping Bear Point is to the north.
For the preservation of this fragile cliff and self-preservation, don't descend the
CAUTION: Descending the Lake Michigan bluff causes erosion and is dangerous. The steep grade makes footing difficult and there is danger from falling rocks. The return climb is extremely strenuous!
Sleeping Bear Dunes Overlook
From this view you can see what is left of the dune that lent its name to the entire 111-square mile Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The dune was formed some two thousand year ago by Lake Michigan winds depositing sand from the bluff. In time, the dune stood 230 feet above Lake Michigan. Legend has it that Native Americans paddling their canoes past wove the dune into a story known as the Legend of the Sleeping Bear Dunes:
A forest fire in Wisconsin 54 miles across Lake Michigan forced a mother bear and her cubs to flee for safety on the Michigan shore. Into the lake they plunged, swimming furiously for the opposite shore. Just as they were nearing land, the cubs tired and sank below the lake's surface. Unable to save her cubs, the mother bear heaved herself on shore and settled into an eternal vigil for her cubs. The Great Manitou took pity on her and raised the cubs up as the Manitou Islands.
The Sleeping Bear Dune is estimated to be about two thousand years old and has a fascinating history. It is classified as a perched dune because it is perched on top of a plateau, high above the lake. When the dune was forming, it was not at the edge of the bluff, but somewhat inland.Wind carried sand from the upper portion of the Lake Michigan bluff inland and deposited it to form the Sleeping Bear Dune.
Notice the skeletons of dead trees within the eroded bowl of the dune. This called a ghost forest and tells a story of alternating stability and change. After an initial phase of active sand accumulation, a period of stability followed when trees began to grow on the dune. Later, more sand moved in and buried the trees. Two layers of buried soil within the dune indicate that there was a second period of stability and tree growth, followed by another period of sand build-up and then the final growth of the trees and shrubs that now cover the sheltered portions of the dunes.
For a long time, the sleeping Bear Dune stood at about 234 feet high with a dense plant cover. However, through most of the twentieth century, erosion has prevailed.
By 1961, the dune was only 132 feet high, and by 1980, it was down to 103 feet. The process is a continuing one. The major cause of the dune's erosion was wave action wearing away the base of the plateau on which the dune rests. As the west side of the dune loses its support, it cascades down the hill. The wind, too, is a major agent of erosion, removing sand and destroying the dune's plant cover. What does the future hold? It seems that the present trend will continue and it is only a matter of time until the Bear disappears completely.
North Bar Overlook
The small lake below is North Bar Lake. The name describes how the lake formed: it is ponded behind a sand bar. At times, the sand bar builds up and separates North Bar Lake from Lake Michigan. At other times, a small connecting channel exists between the two lakes. North Bar Lake occupies part of a former bay on Lake Michigan. This ancient bay was flanked by headlands on both sides: Empire Bluffs on the south and Sleeping Bear Bluffs on the north. Shorelines have a natural tendency to become straighter with time. Wave action focuses on the headlands and wears them back, while shoreline currents carry sediment to the quiet bays and fill them in. Deeper parts of the bay are often left as lakes when sand fills in the shallower parts. The same process that formed North Bar Lake also formed many of the other lakes in northern Michigan: Glen, Crystal, Elk and Torch Lakes, for example.
There is a nice picnic area at the North Bar Lake Overlook stop on the Pierce Stocking Drive.
Pine Plantation
Pine Plantation
Pine Plantation on Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive
Kerry Kelly 2006
Notice that the pine trees at the side of the road are all about the same size and are not mixed with other kinds of trees. This is a pine plantation. You can estimate the age of the trees by counting the whorls of branches. These trees were planted before the land became part of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Logging and farming played an important role in Michigan's history, but left many tracts of land depleted. Property owners planted pine trees in an effort to improve their land. Pine trees serve a number of purposes: they prevent soil erosion, provide a windbreak, yield a timber crop and provide some wildlife habitat. Yet, for all their benefits, pine plantations are out of place in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The park was set aside to preserve the natural environment. Therefore, native forest growth is more desirable here than pine plantations. In some parts of the park, portions of pine plantations have been cut selectively to encourage a mingling of natural growth among the pine trees.
More Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Sleeping Bear Dunes Home
Sleeping Bear Dunes Park Passes Available Online
Sleeping Bear Dunes Hiking Trails


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A user has sent me the following tip that he found while doing a test with the Demo Idp and two Service Providers (not sure if this relates specifically to this problem). Here's the description and the code correction:
However if you try to log out from the second federated service provider, you get an error message stating that "There is no signature in the incoming message".
After analyzing a bit the code in the Demo Identity Provider, I identified the method CreateLogoutRequest in the file Logout.ashx.cs as the potential origin of the bug.
When I made the following change the test has been successful, where it says:
string xmloutput = request.GetXml().OuterXml;
It have modified:
XmlDocument requestDoc = request.GetXml();
XmlSignatureUtils.SignDocument(requestDoc, request.ID, IDPConfig.IDPCertificate);
string xmloutput = requestDoc.OuterXml;
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I had exactly the same problem. When using 2 different SP's and the demo IdP I got the "There is no signature in the incoming message" when logging out from one of them.It seemed that the IdP would sent a redirect to the wrong SP. But the above mentioned fix, fixed the problem for me too.I logged in to post this as a question. But lucky me. It was already answered. Thank you :)
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Stat Pack: Lowton No.1 for tackles and clearances in Man City clash
Matt Lowton and Stephen Ireland were joint No.1 in the 'tackles' category.
They both won five out of five.
Enda Stevens was No.4, coming out successfully in two out of four.
Matt Lowton and Ron Vlaar were joint No.1 for 'clearances'. They both made four.
Ciaran Clark and Barry Bannan were No.4 and No.5 for 'clearances'. Clark made three while Bannan made two.
Vincent Kompany was No.3 in that category.
Gabby Agbonlahor, Christian Benteke and Matt Lowton were No.2, No.3 and No.4 'most fouled' players, while Yaya Toure was No.1.
Christian Benteke and Ron Vlaar were No.1 and No.2 when it came to 'aerial duels'.
Benteke won four of eight while Vlaar won four of five.
Brett Holman was No.4 in the 'take-on' category - the art of gliding past an opposition player - coming out successfully in one of two.
Christian Benteke was undoubtedly the highest Villa player when it came to attacking stats.
He was No.5 in shots with four in total, one on target.
He was also joint No.3 in chances created with two.
Villa's No.1 pass combination in the match was Stephen Ireland to Christian Benteke with eight.
This was followed by Enda Stevens to Ashley Westwood with seven and Matt Lowton to Ashley Westwood with seven.
City's No.1 pass combination was Yaya Toure to Samir Nasri with twenty-one.
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I have a struts 2 (jsp) web application with MySQL database.
Is it possible to take database backup from jsp/java page?
Is it possible to restore in the same way?
Please give me some tutorials or tips..
My actual need is to give a access to admin to take back up and restore it using gui itself, without accessing MySQL from server.
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Today, I had the starter replaced. Even with the old one the vehicle would start quickly and run smooth, although I knew it was on its last legs. Now that I replaced it, it is harder to start. The guy that replaced it says, 'its nothing that I did'. I almost feel like putting the old one back on.
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The Boy Scouts' Christian connection
Boy Scouts | The Boy Scouts ask conservative activist Ralph Reed to set up meetings with Christian leaders it looks to sway on the issue of gay Scouts
Sometime during the week of May 20, about 1,400 delegates representing Boy Scout troops from across the country will gather in Texas and vote on a proposed policy that, if passed, would allow openly homosexual boys to be Scouts while continuing a ban on homosexual leaders.
Most conservative Christians oppose the proposal, so the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has engaged a high-profile adviser to help them make their case: Ralph Reed.
WORLD learned that Reed, founder of the Christian Coalition and now president of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, has arranged meetings and conference calls between Christian conservative leaders and BSA officials who support the pro-gay resolution. According to John Stemberger, founder of OnMyHonor.Net, a group opposed to the policy change, "After the introduction is made, the BSA officials try to convince these top conservative evangelical leaders to support the resolution by finding friendly media venues to discuss it."
Reed confirmed in a phone conversation with me that he had arranged conference calls in an attempt to be a "peacemaker" in the process. He said he had not personally participated in the calls and acknowledged he is paid a small retainer by the Boy Scouts. Reed would not disclose the amount of his fee except to characterize it as "de minimus."
"[I would] deeply resent any implication that I am helping this policy to pass." he added. "I am on record opposing a change in the current policy. Period."
Stemberger, though, called Reed's comment "doubletalk." Regardless of Reed's intention, Stemberger said, "these calls could not help but further the resolution."
Among the conference calls Reed has set up, one was between the BSA and executives at Salem Communications, the largest Christian radio company in the country. Salem executives had no comment on the content of those calls but published a short editorial statement that aired on most of Salem's approximately 100 radio stations. Read by Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and a member of Salem's editorial board, the statement said in part:
"The central authorities of the Boy Scouts of America have announced yet another compromise position on how they propose to deal with the issue of homosexual leaders and Scouts. This came just a year after the Boy Scouts insisted that it would stand behind its ban on openly gay scouts and scouting leaders. But then, earlier this year, they floated a compromise policy amounting to a 'local option' for troops. After the outrage from that proposal, the new proposed policy will require all troops to accept boys without regard to sexual orientation, but they will retain an outright ban on openly homosexual adults serving as scout leaders. As one mother said, 'I knew they would try to split the baby in the end.' And that's exactly what they have attempted to do again. In the end, it will please no one."
UPDATE: In an email to WORLD, Ralph Reed stressed "my 43-year involvement in the Boy Scouts, the fact that I am an Eagle Scout, [and] the fact that I sit on the executive board of one of the most respected local councils in the country [the North Georgia Council of the Boy Scouts]." He said his role was to "facilitate a dialogue." Neither Reed nor the Boy Scouts would say how much the organization is paying Reed.


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Soria is among the Royals' very best trading chips, and they should look long and hard about using it.
I know Sam Mellinger wasn't suggesting that KC trade Soria but was merely saying they should at least consider it. There is a difference, a subtle one sure but a difference nonetheless. But as the White House might say that is wrong thinking. I hate the argument that a losing team doesn't need a good closer because I got news for you, a losing team needs good players period - closers, starters, outfielders, infielders, etc. I mean you could also make the argument that they don't need Greinke because he only pitches every fifth day. (Prediction, the bogus Greinke rumors will continue until he is actually traded.)
It drives me crazy because I've watched KC for years trade off their best players for prospects. When has it ever turned out? What's the sum total KC has received for Appier, Damon, Beltran, and Dye? Yeah I know those trades happened years ago and we have a different GM (more on him later today) but his record isn't so hot either. I mean we already know what Moore likes in a player (low OBP, terrible defense) so trading Soria cripples an already suspect bullpen and probably weakens the offense and defense.
Now should they listen to offers? Well yeah, they have to but they shouldn't consider any offer unless it offers multiple ML ready players with tremendous upside. And not Yuniesky Betancourt upside, which is what scares me about Moore making the trade and is the main reason why I think trading Soria would be a mistake (that and you know because he is so freaking dominant).
His definition of upside differs with reality.


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US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are likely to meet during the East Asia Summit being held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 19-20. Obama is also likely to make a quick trip to Myanmar, becoming the first US president to do so since the military junta seized power in 1989.
Obamas determination to lean across the political aisle in Washington will reflect in his foreign policy in his second term, and making up with Myanmar is perfectly in sync with that belief. Obama has already met Myanmarese President Thein Sein at the ASEAN summit in Indonesia last year and outgoing US secretary of state Hillary Clinton visited Yangon and Naypyidaw last year.
The Obama-Singh meeting will reconfirm all the public platitudes strategic partnership, et al that have recently served to define Indias most important relationship, and underscore the vast panoply of mutual interest, from China to Central Asia, Afghanistan-Pakistan and the Middle East. The challenge to both India and the US, in the next four years of Obamas administration and the remaining 18 months of Singhs, is to put into place a big idea so that the rest of the relationship can gravitate around it.
Official sources in Washington and Delhi say there is revived interest in a free-trade treaty even though large parts of the economic relationship is driven by the private sector, which includes tensions over US visa policies for IT workers and US disinterest in pushing for totalisation of tax reimbursements to Indian workers in the US. But both sides agree that they need something more.
The sources said that with the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in mid-2014, and presidential elections due in April 2014, India could assist in stabilising that country. But with Pakistan unhappy about India playing a greater role in Afghanistan, the sources conceded this would remain an area of tension.
Meanwhile, in official comments on whether the US is changing its policy over giving a visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the State Department said: There has been no change in US policy. While we legally cannot discuss individual visa cases for any particular individual, we of course will evaluate any visa application based on its merits and in accordance with US law.
(The writer is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi)


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We are witnessing an annual phenomenon. Starting around May, hungry Canadians emerge from their long, winter culinary hibernation suffering from root-vegetable fatigue and sticker shock contracted by shopping for expensive, freakishly big, blemish-free fruits and veggies dispatched from far away at great expense to the planet.
Sick of strawberries with more air miles than a politician on an all-expenses-paid foreign junket, we gather our eco-friendly shopping bags—unbleached hemp, if you please!—and hit the farmers' markets. We descend, locus-like, on the markets, voracious for whatever is local, seasonal, artisanal and above all, fresh. With a take-no-prisoners attitude, we gleefully slap down a fiver for a dozen eggs laid by happy hens, or a crisp 20 for a juicy, chemical-free, elk ribeye—a little something for the 'Q!
From May to October, for many Canadians, that's what the weekends are all about: hunting and gathering. But, depending on the market—its location and degree of gentrification—shopping this way, can be something only the privileged can afford.
Happily, nature hates a vacuum, and often, it's in the empty spaces—here, between the wealthy and not so wealthy—where people come together to create amazing solutions and build vibrant communities. Guerrilla gardening, community clean-ups, food drives and pop-up farmer's markets.
Opportunistic and creative foodies are setting up markets in the most interesting places: abandoned lots, unused parking spaces, city parks, restaurant patios, anywhere folks—bakers, country farmers, city gardeners, even wild food foragers—can set up a table and sell their own produce to the neighbours.
Why go?
These markets are grassroots. They are orchestrated and stocked by folks who come together over a love of real food and a desire to bring high-quality, local produce to the inner city.
In Toronto, a shocking and shameful number of people live miles away from proper food shops. Often these people, many unable to afford a car, do their family's grocery shopping at convenience stores, leading to an incredibly unhealthy diet of instant noodles, chips and pop.
Pop-up farmer's markets fill a real need. It's not just about another fun, foodie activity for those who can already afford the best, it's about bringing goodness into neighbourhoods where goodness is in short supply. It's also about bringing people together, creating a sense of community and giving kids a healthy start.
These markets aren't necessarily sanctioned by the municipality, but mostly officials turn a blind eye, especially if the market is conducted on private property and as long as no risky items—meat, dairy, perishables—are being offered.


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CNN's Nancy Grace aired segment on Paige Johnson's disappearance
COVINGTON, Ky. - The disappearance of 17-year-old Paige Johnson of Florence hitnational airwaves Tuesday night.
CNN's Nancy Grace aired a segment on HLN formerly HeadlineNews channel about Johnson live at 8 p.m. and rebroadcast at 10p.m.
Covington Captain Teal Nally and KyPost.com reporter Jessica Noll were some of the guests.
A large-scale search is scheduled to take place first thingWednesday morning.
Covington police said Tuesday afternoon that the searchinvolving multiple agencies will begin at East Fork State Park inBatavia.
Fifty to 70 police and fire crews from multiple agencies willbegin a ground search at daybreak.
"We're asking for people at this point to stay out of the area,cooperate with us, and let the specially trained search and rescuepeople do their job without interference," said Lt. Col. SpikeJones of Covington police.
The reason the search is focusing on the Clermont County park isbecause cell phone records show the man last seen with Johnson wasin that area the night she disappeared.
"Police did their work," said Nancy Grace on her show.
"They did the legwork. They looked up the "pings" on his cellphone and it turns out those "pings" that they discoveredcompletely torpedo his story," shouted Grace.
Court records state 22-year-old Jacob Bumpass of Taylor Mill isthe last man to see Johnson after she disappeared on September23.
Paige was supposed to be dropped off at her sisters house around1 a.m.
The teen, who is a mother to a 2-year-old daughter, never madeit to her sister's home.
Police said Bumpass told them he dropped off Johnson at 15thStreet and Scott Boulevard, but search warrants filed by Covingtonpolice indicate otherwise.
An affidavit states Bumpass admitted to being with Johnson thenight of Sept. 22 and gave her alcohol.
Officers later searched his Taylor Mill Home On Decoursey Piketo find what appeared to be blood and latex gloves in the kitchensink, according to the affidavit.
Cell phone records belonging to Bumpass show he was nearJohnson's home at 1 a.m. and several hours later at East Fork StatePark in Batavia.
Bumpass is being held at the Kenton County jail on a probationviolation. He has not been charged in connection with PaigeJohnson's disappearance.


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The Art of Social Gaming Monetization: It's all about fostering the whales
Most gamers see no tangible value behind virtual goods, whether they're limited or rare or exlusive or just plain cute. It's not worth a penny to them.
While not often profitable to social game developers, these guys are nonetheless necessary to a successful ecosystem. They're the guys who help make a game popular, and with popularity comes whales and super whales—and that's where the money is.
Game developers see pixel-made goods as treasure chests of gold, so long as they can addict a few whales. In the gaming industry, "whales" are virtual currency and goods addicts who spend as much as $1,000 annually on in-game addons. And "super whales" are know to spend upward of $5,000 per year.
Both rare breeds, but combined they account for a tremendous portion of some company's profits. It is estimated that anywhere from 1 to 5 percent of any given social game's players spend any many on "freemium"-model games, in which it's free to play but in-game addons cost money at the player's choosing and discretion. And of that small percent, only about 1 percent are whales, with an even more finite number being classified as the elusive "super whales."
It seems scary to rely on such a small percent of a game's user base for a majority of profits, but there are advantages. The low barrier of entry helps grow player populations fast. It's a starl contrast from games like Blizzard's World of Wacraft, which costs about $100 to buy the game plus its three expansions, and then an additional $15 every month. Here, you have to be willing to fork out big money upfront and more money down the line, periodically, forever.
Success in exploiting—or better yet, creating—whales and super whales lies in the game's model. No one will spend real money on virtual goods if they cannot easily identify a meaningful gain. There are a few ways to do this.
One strategy is to get the player hooked before they feel any need to spend money. Or instance, NimbleBit's Tiny Tower lets you do everything for free, but as the game progresses, it becomes slower and slower to do things. A few real dollars helps spur things along. So at the beginning, it's all good. You enjoy the game, maybe even get a little addicted. Then your tower gets big and construction time slows and your elevator takes forever to bring people to the top floor. Now that the player is already highly engaged with the game, it's quite conceivable that they will spend $5 to boost their experience.
Another strategy is to offer extra packages or expansion-like products to a game. Instead of making all game features available initially like with Tiny Tower, a game may tease you with the basics before encouraging a player to buy an expansion or the full game. This is usually how it works with "Lite" games. Users don't often like paying money upfront for a game they may not like. But if the player enjoys the half-experience enough, they'll consider forking out a buck or five for the full deal.
There are numerous other strategies, with new ones popping up all the time. Social gaming is in its earliest infancy and has a lot of room to grow. But whales only gorge on the choicest of meals, so competition is fierce to have one's game become their favourite fodder.


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Clara, Mrs. Bill Scott, 83, died Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013.
The family will greet friends from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, in the chapel of Fredericksburg Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel of Fredericksburg Funeral Home.
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25Dearica Hamby
Hamby Set For Second Season in WNBA
Former Wake Forest standout Dearica Hamby will open her second season with the San Antonio Stars on Saturday night looking to build on a successful rookie campaign.
Dearica Hamby Tabbed 2014-15 Marge Crisp Award Winner
Dearica Hamby, now playing for the San Antonio Stars of the WNBA, has earned the 2014-15 Marge Crisp Award, presented to the top female student athlete at the school.
Dearica Hamby selected in the WKBL Korean Draft
Hamby was the ninth player selected in WKBL foreigner draft
Dearica Hamby Making Headway as Upstart Rookie in WNBA
Dearica Hamby is averaging 10.1 points and 6.3 rebounds for the San Antonio Stars this season.
Dearica Hamby Made Her Pro Debut on Friday
Hamby scored 10 points in San Antonio's season opener
VIDEO: Wake Forest Women's Basketball Media Day Coverage
Wake Forest head coach Jen Hoover and senior forward Dearica Hamby preview the 2014-15 women's basketball season.
2013 ACC Media Day
Hanes-Inman Education Center Visit
Women's Basketball Helps With Forsyth County Special Olympics
On The Road With The Deacs -- SMU Trip Recap
2015 WNBA Draft
Dearica Hamby became the first Demon Deacon ever selected in the WNBA Draft when she was taken with the No. 6 pick by the San Antonio Stars
Wake Forest vs. Duke (USATSI)
Wake Forest takes on Duke in the ACC Tournament
Women's Basketball vs. No. 4 Notre Dame (USATSI)
Women's Basketball vs. No. 4 Notre Dame (USATSI)
Wake Forest vs. Notre Dame 2-20-14
Wake Forest vs. Notre Dame 2-20-14
Wake Forest vs. Wingate - Nov. 2, 2013
Wake Forest vs. Wingate - Nov. 2, 2013
Had one of the best single-seasons in school-history ... Played in all 31 games and led the nation's top conference in both scoring (22.0) and rebounding (11.0) ... Became the first Demon Deacon to lead the ACC in both categories in the same season ... Earned first team All-ACC honors, becoming just the third Demon Deacon to earn that distinction ... Named an AP honorable mention All-American ... Set a total of seven single-season school-records in points (683), rebounds (340), double-doubles (22), scoring average (22.0), field goals made (265), free throws made (142) and free throws attempted (210) ... Shot over 55 percent from floor, which was fourth-best in the ACC ... Had 61 assists on the year, which was the second-most on the squad ... Let the team with 33 blocks and was fifth in the ACC with 65 steals (2.1 per game) ... Averaged 35.4 minutes per contest, the third-highest in the ACC ... Had a tremendous start to her season scoring 23 points and notching a career-high nine steals against Marquette (11/9) ... Had a career-night against Campbell, leading the Deacs with then career-highs of 28 points and 17 rebounds ... Led all players in points and rebounds and shot over 64 percent from the floor at the John Ascuaga's Nuggett Classic and was named to the All-Tournament Team ... Scored a career-high 31 points to go along with 11 rebounds and a season-high four assists against South Alabama (12/20) ... Grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds and dished-out a then career-high tying five assists against Florida A&M (12/28) ... Averaged 23.5 points and 15 rebounds in the two games at the FIU Sun & Fun Classic and was named to the All-Tournament Team ... Played in front of friends and family at Georgia Tech (1/16) and notched a double-double to go along with a then career-high tying five assists ... Scored 29 points and had career-highs of 18 rebounds and four blocks against Clemson (1/20) ... Named ACC Player of the Week on Jan. 27, for her efforts against Clemson, North Carolina and Boston College ... Went over 1,000 career points in the game against Virginia Tech (2/13) ... Also made a career-high 10 free throws against the Hokies ... Notched her school-record tying 20th double-double with 23 points and 13 rebounds at Miami (2/23) ... Also passed Tracy Connor for most points in a single-season in school-history in the game against Miami ... Recorded her 21st double-double of the year with 22 points and 11 rebounds in the regular season finale against Syracuse (3/2) ... Nearly recorded the first triple-double in school-history in the ACC Tournament against Pitt (3/5), finishing with 25 points, 16 rebounds and a career-high eight assists ... Named Wake Forest Female Athlete of the Year.
2012-13 Highlights (Sophomore)
2012-13 Game-by-Game
2011-12 Season Highlights (Freshman)
2011-12 Game-by-Game
Prior to Wake Forest