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Tambora, Indonesia
There are big eruptions, then there are big eruptions. On April 10, 1815, Tambora, a volcano in Indonesia, produced one of the largest eruptions in human history. This eruption produced what became known as the "year without a summer" after the volcanic aerosols from the eruption produced some of the coldest summers in many parts of the world. The Tambora eruption in 1815 was a VEI 7, on a scale that goes to, well, 7*, putting it in a class of some of the largest and most violent eruptions imaginable – and I, for one, can hardly imagine what might happen if an eruption of this magnitude occurred today.
(*, OK, technically it goes to 8, but those are for eruptions that have never happened in human history, those 1000 cubic kilometer behemoths like Yellowstone.)
Tambora from the International Space Station
Lets get some facts out there about the eruption (taken from Stothers, 1984), just to give us some prespective:
- Total volume erupted: ~150 cubic km of ash, 25 cubic kilometers of ignimbrite (~50 cubic kilometers dense rock equivalent) within the first 3-24 hours – that is an eruptive rate of between 50,000 and 800,000 cubic meters per second. That is only the equivalent of 25,000,000 to 400,000,000 2-Liter bottles of soda erupting every second.
- Ash fell as far as 1300 km / 800 miles from the volcano. How far is that? Drive from Boston to Charlotte, NC. That is how far a measurable quantity of ash was found.
- The sound of the explosion was heard 2600 km / 1600 miles away. This time, drive from Boston to Wichita, Kansas.
- The eruption produced pitch darkness – no light from the sun whatsoever – for 600 km / 375 miles from Tambora. Now, that is only from Boston to near Baltimore.
- The pyroclastic flows from the eruption traveled 20 km / 12 miles from the vent.
- Tsunamis generated by the eruption (most likely the pyroclastic flows hitting the ocean) traveled 1200 km / 750 miles.
- Tambora itself lost 1450 meters / 4800 feet in height and created a ~650 meter / 2100 foot deep crater. That is ~2000 meters / 6900 feet from the old summit to the bottom of the new crater! How much material is that? 30 cubic kilometers of the volcano – gone!
- And the most sobering fact: at least 88,000 people died due the eruption and its aftermath.
Now, that is an eruption that none of us have even come close to experiencing in our lifetime (so far). Tambora – the volcano – was though to be inactive at the time of the eruption. In fact, prior to 1815, the last known eruptive activity was around 740 A.D., although the volcano has shown signs of life as little as 3 years before the cataclysmic 1815 eruption. Since then, Tambora has had two known minor eruptions in 1880 and 1967, both VEI 2 or smaller.
The location of Tambora, map from Stothers (1984)
Timeline of the Eruption
Here is a timeline for the "Great Eruption" of 1815:
- April 5, 1815: Explosions were heard in the area around Tambora – as far away as Batavia (Jakarta), over 1200 km.
- April 6, 1815: Light ash fall, more explosions
- April 10, 1815, 7 PM: Three(?) active vents as the eruption peaked.
- 8-9 PM: The vents coalesce(?) into a single vent of "liquid fire" (according to observers in Tambora, 20 km away. 20 cm pumice and ash falls in Sanggar (30 km). The ash column is believed to have pierced the stratosphere (>17 km / 55,000 feet) – this injected sulfur and other volcanic aerosols into the stratosphere (see below).
- 10-11 PM: "Violent wind" uproots trees in Sanggar. This might be the column collapse of the eruption. A 1-4m tsunami strikes many of the Indonesian Islands.
- After 10PM: Pyroclastic flows and caldera formation. The flows destroyed Tambora (the village). Concussions from the eruption felt over 1000 km away.
- April 11: Loud explosions heard over 2500 km away, ash as far away as western Java and the Celebes Islands. "Nitrous" odor as far as Batavia. A second, smaller tsunami was felt in Madura, north of Java.
- April 12: 80% of the total volume of ash has fallen. It continues to fall in many places until April 17. Explosions stop by April 15, but ash clouds surround the volcano until April 23.
- After April 12-17: Kilometer-wide pumice rafts with uprooted trees found in the ocean. Explosions were reported but not confirmed in August of 1815 and as "flames" were reported (again, not confirmed) as late as 1819.
Climate Effects
The "Great Eruption" produced a what is known as the "Year without a Summer" in 1815 and 1816. The eruption itself is thought to have released 175 trillion kilograms of sulfur aerosols. The ash/dust signal was recorded in both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet in tracers like Ba, Bi and Pb concentration, precipitation acidity and other climate tracers. The effect of all these aerosols was a drop in average global temperature between 0.7 and 3 degrees (C), while warming the stratosphere by as much as 15 degrees (K). You could fill volumes with the events of the "Year(s) without a Summer," but I'll just sum it up by saying that Tambora caused an great deal of turmoil – crop failures, famine, acid fogs, cold winters, vivid sunsets and haze throughout the northern hemisphere as far as London, Russia, the United States and beyond. These effects remained for possibly as many as 4 years after the eruption. The eruption had cultural results as the dreary summers in Europe in 1815-16 prompted Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein and allowed J.M.W. Turner to paint some of the stunning sunsets (below) in England during those years. It is interesting to note that Tambora is likely not the only culprit, as 1815-16 also featured a very weak solar maximum that could have caused some of the cooling. Geologists like Haraldur Sigurdsson has been researching the destruction of villages near the volcano (althought "Lost Kingdom" might be a little overstated.)
J.M.W. Turner painting of Chichester Canal in 1816
This barely scrapes the surface of the Tambora 1815 eruption and its effects. If you really want to wade into the eruption, you can check out the following sources:
- de Boer, J.Z. and Sanders, D.T., 2002, 'Volcanoes in Human History' – specifically Chapter 6.
- Self, S. et al., 1984, Volcanological study of the great Tambora eruption of 1815,Geology; v. 12, no. 11, p. 659-663
- Stothers, R.B., 1984, "The Great Tambora Eruption in 1815 and its Aftermath", Science; v. 224, p. 1191-1197.


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That's All Folks!
It's been bothering me for a long time that I've let this blog go by the wayside. When I first started it (almost FIVE years ago), I did so because it provided a great format for me to share my thoughts and observations in long-form and to create a format for dialogue on a wide range of topics, political and otherwise. I also believed that it sent a message of accessibility and communication that needed to be amplified between elected officials and the people whom they represent.
I was proud of the conversations that we were able to have on this blog and that it was cited in everything from media articles to political science textbooks as being at the forefront in the changes in political communications. And while the response and readership were great, I eventually realized that there simply weren't enough hours in the day for me to take care of everything else that I needed to and to continue to do this blog in the way that it deserved to be done. The ability to use Facebook and Twitter to reach an even wider audience essentially sealed the deal. And while I no longer share the in-depth viewpoints there that I did here, on a certain level, the interactivity in the short-form formats is even greater.
In any event, and barring something unforeseen, it's time to put this blog on official hiatus. It's been a great run, an experiment that worked better than I could have imagined, and based on what I've been told many times, an inspiration for numerous other elected officials. And while I don't see firing this back up anytime soon, I'll never say never.
Until then, I hope that we'll stay connected via my Facebook page and/or my Twitter account. This blog may go dark but the future's still bright.
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Capra pyrenaica
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Capra pyrenaica Schinz, 1838
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|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
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|Date Assessed:
|Herrero, J. & Pérez, J.M.
|Hilton-Taylor, C. & Temple, H. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
This species is now abundant and its range and population are currently expanding as a result of habitat changes resulting from rural abandonment. Consequently it is assessed as Least Concern. Hunting reservations and protected areas have played a crucial role in species recovery.
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|Range Description:
|This species historically occurred throughout the Iberian peninsula, including southwest France, Spain, Andorra, and Portugal (Grubb, 2005). It is, however, extinct in the northern part of its range (including in France and Andorra), and no longer occurs in the Pyrenees. Capra pyrenaica is now endemic to the Iberian peninsula. Of the four described subspecies, only two are extant: C. p. victoriae and C. p. hispanica. C. p. victoriae occurs in the central Spanish mountains (Sierra de Gredos), and has been re-introduced to a number of additional sites in Spain (Batuecas, La Pedriza, Riaño) and northern Portugal (Peneda-Gerês National Park) (Palomo and Gisbert 2002, Cabral et al. 2005, Moço et al. 2006, J. Herrero pers. comm. 2006). C. p. hispanica occupies the arc of mountains that run along the Mediterranean coast, from the Ebro river to the rock of Gibraltar (where it no longer occurs), as well as the Sierra Morena. C. p. lusitanica died out at the end of the 19th century, and C. p. pyrenaica went extinct in 2000 when the last known individual was found dead (Pérez et al. 2002, Cabral et al. 2005, J. M. Pérez pers. comm. 2006). It formerly occurred throughout much of the French, Spanish and Andorran Pyrenees, and persisted until recently in Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park in the Maladeta massif. The species is found from sea level to 3,400 m (Palomo and Gisbert 2002).
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Regionally extinct:Andorra; France (France (mainland)); Gibraltar
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|The population in the whole of the Iberian peninsula was estimated at c.50,000 individuals in more than 50 subpopulations (Palomo and Gisbert 2002, Pérez et al. 2002). Subpopulations include those of the Sierra Nevada (16,000 individuals), Sierra de Gredos (8,000 individuals), Maestrazgo (7,000 individuals), Serranía de Ronda and Sierras de Grazalema (4,000 individuals), Puertos de Tortosa y Beceite Natural Park (4,000 individuals) Cazorla (2,500 individuals), Sierra Tejeda y Almijara (2,500 individuals), Sierras de Antequera (2,000 individuals), Sierra Morena (2,000 individuals) and Muela de Córtes (1,500 individuals) (Pérez et al. 2002, J. Herrero and J. M. Pérez pers. comm. 2006). Numbers have expanded dramatically since the early 1990s, when the total population was estimated at c.7,900 individuals (Shackleton 1997), and continue to increase. Its range is expanding in Spain and into Portugal (Cabral et al. 2005). In 2003 the Portuguese population consisted of a minimum of 75 individuals. (Moço et al. 2006).
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|It occurs in rocky habitats. Even small rocky patches in arable farmland and on the coast may be used, although cliffs and screes interspersed with scrub or pine trees are the most typical habitats. It often lives in very close proximity to humans, and is a familiar and popular species. It disperses readily and can rapidly colonise new areas if appropriate habitat is available. It is an important trophy-hunting species, with some trophy prices exceeding EUR 2,000 (J. Herrero pers. comm. 2006). Hunting can be an important source of revenue to local communities in rural areas. The species can sometimes be an agricultural pest, causing damage to almond trees (J. Herrero pers. comm. 2006).
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|It is hunted legally for sport, and to some extent for food. This is generally considered to be at sustainable levels, although poaching of large males might have an impact of gene flow.
|Major Threat(s):
No threats are causing population or range declines at present - indeed the species is expanding. However, alteration and fragmentation of habitats (through agriculture, forestry, fires, and infrastructure development) may impact upon certain Capra pyrenaica populations, and competition with the introduced the aoudad (Ammotragus lervia) might become a conservation problem in the near future (Cabral et al. 2005, J. M. Pérez pers. comm. 2006). The aoudad was introduced during the 1970s in southeastern Spain, and recently an important range expansion of this exotic ungulate has been reported (Cassinello et al. 2004); competition between these two ungulate species can be expected. The impact of hunting (predominantly for trophies) has not been scientifically assessed (J. M. Pérez pers. comm. 2006), but the poaching of large dominant males might alter gene flow (J. Herrero pers. comm. 2006). However, hunting levels are broadly under control. Outbreaks of mange (Sarcoptes scabiei) occur sporadically and have caused at least one major population crash (Shackleton 1997, Palomo and Gisbert 2002). Wild goats are occasionally killed by accident during wild boar hunting-drives with dogs (J. Herrero pers. comm. 2006).
Previously, the population was kept low by competition with domestic livestock, which restricted wild goats to marginal habitats. The causes of C. p. pyrenaica' s demise are unknown, but there are a number of hypotheses including competition for food with chamois, inbreeding depression, parasite infections from domestic livestock, climatic conditions, poaching, and low fertility due to plant secondary compounds (Shackleton 1997). The last remaining individual, a 13-year-old female, was killed by a falling tree.
|Conservation Actions:
|The species is protected under Appendix III of the Bern Convention and Annex V of the EU Habitats and Species Directive. It is listed as Critically Endangered in Portugal, owing to its very small population in that country (Cabral et al. 2005). C. p. victoriae occurs in Sierra de Gredos, las Batuecas and Riaño Hunting Reserves and Manzanares Natural Park. C. p. hispanica occurs in a number of protected areas, including Sierra de las Nieves, Sierra de Grazalema, Sierra Nevada, and Sierra de Tajada y Almijara, Puertos de Tortosa y Beceite, and Muela de Cortes. However, most of the range occupied by wild goats is outside protected areas. Conservation measures proposed include establishing additional populations of C. p. victoriae in other areas to strengthen its conservation status by reducing the possibility of an epizootic or some other catastrophe wiping out, or severely depleting, the present small population. When establishing new populations, founder effects should be considered, and sufficient numbers of animals should be introduced to maintain genetic diversity (J. Herrero pers. comm. 2006). Measures should be taken to reduce poaching (Cabral et al. 2005), and the impact of hunting should be scientifically assessed.
|Herrero, J. & Pérez, J.M. 2008. Capra pyrenaica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T3798A10085397. . Downloaded on 21 September 2018.
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Mobile Learning
Mobile learning has become very popular over the last few years. Smaller and more powerful devices that have become much easier to use made it possible to deliver innovative and more flexible services to learners. Especially smart phones which now, apart from cameras and music players, now also contain sensors like gyroscopes, GPS receivers, and a digital compass, cater for a number of innovative applications such as augmented reality.
Mobile technologies enable more flexibility for learners, freeing them from the desktop. Learning with mobile devices particularly serves work-based learning scenarios or field trips. But also the anytime anywhere aspect is most appealing to learners and teachers alike. Delivery of mobile content via e.g. ebooks provide learners with ubiquitous access to quality resources.


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DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Cardinal Health Inc. will spend about $2 billion to acquire the medical supplier AssuraMed to extend its reach to patients receiving care at home.
The Dublin, Ohio, company said Thursday that AssuraMed serves more than a million patients and generated sales of about $1 billion in 2012. It said the privately held Twinsburg, Ohio, company is a natural extension of its businesses and also will help it serve ambulatory care locations like doctor's offices.
AssuraMed operates through two separate businesses, Independence Medical and Edgepark Medical Supplies.
Cardinal Health Inc. will pay $2.07 billion for AssuraMed, or $1.94 billion not counting tax benefits it will receive from the deal. It will pay for the acquisition using $1.3 billion in new senior unsecured notes and $770 million in cash. The company said it has received a commitment letter from BofA Merrill Lynch for the loan.
Cardinal expects the deal to close in April.
Company shares climbed 81 cents to $46.25 per share in premarket trading after Cardinal announced the deal.


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Tabloid Wars: OK! vs Us Weekly
For months now, Janice Min and Us Weekly have been taking on bottom feeding rags like Life & Style and In Touch for their bullsh*t reporting. Lately however the target has been OK! Magazine, possibly because OK! has landed a few exclusives – Jamie Lynn Spears especially – and outbidding everyone but People on photos.
Now OK! is fighting back. And how.
The following passage can be found in their latest issue – it's a full on attack!
When Madonna brought her adorable daughter, Lourdes, 11, as a date to her Raising Malawi fund-raiser on Feb. 6, the tabloid Us Weekly decided it would be more interesting to report a marital rift between Madonna and hubby Guy Ritchie than the boring truth that Madge was raising millions for children orphaned by HIV and AIDS. Under the headline Madonna & Guy's Bitter Fight, the angry rag turned a cute Mommy-and-me day into exclamation-point-inducing drama. Fight! Rift! Breakup! BS. When OK! asked a real pal of the songbird to comment, we were met with disappointment. Absolutely not they couldn't be happier, says the friend, who has a few choice words to say about Us Weekly. The only question here is why that pitiful little publication would target Madonna when she's doing something so obviously charitable. That rag needs to get its facts straight. Madonna's rep called the fabrication just ridiculous and added that everything's fine with the Ritchies. We wish we could say the same about Us Weekly!
Damn. It's on y'all. Because anyone who messes with Min gets it up the ass.
Remember, the Pitts weren't playing ball with Us Weekly for a while and Janice put Angelina on the cover and called her life "twisted". My money's on the Min. You?


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December 21. 2012 11:32PM
Nashua - A New Hampshire man who worked for a private contractor in Afghanistan has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after his conviction on charges of importing child pornography.
James Markwith, 31, formerly of Nashua, pleaded guilty in September to a single count of transporting and distributing a visual depiction of a minor for distribution into the United States.
Prosecutors said while Markwith was attending a job-training program for DynCorp International in Fort Worth, Texas, he became acquainted with another person and, after Markwith was transferred to Afghanistan, their conversations became sexual in nature. In April, Markwith sent the other person images of child pornography from Afghanistan.
In June, Markwith was arrested in by federal agents in Nashua.
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By Reiji Murai and Sophie Knight
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Display, the world's top maker of screens for smartphones and tablets, will reach maximum capacity at a recently opened factory by next summer, CEO Shuichi Otsuka told Reuters on Thursday, raising the likelihood of an IPO early next year to fund a new facility.
Otsuka said in an interview that a plant opened in June in Mobara, Chiba prefecture, had already reached full capacity and that it is aiming to double capacity by June or July next year, reaching the plant's limit.
"A new factory is in our sights, but it's not time to make a decision on it yet," Otsuka said, adding that the company could use cash for capital spending if it turns a profit this year and "the earliest timing for an IPO would be in 2014."
A source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday that the company was aiming for an IPO during the current financial year to next March that would value the entire business at about 800 billion yen ($8.04 billion).
Earlier this year Otsuka had said that the earliest launch for an IPO would be in fiscal 2014. The IPO could raise about $1 billion dollars, market watchers believe. On Thursday Otsuka referred only to calendar 2014 and refused to say whether an IPO could come in the January to March quarter.
Japan Display was formed in 2012 from display units of Sony Corp, Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp, and is 70 percent backed by the government.
While other companies forged from troubled divisions at Japanese tech conglomerates, notably chipmakers Renesas Electronics Corp and Elpida Memory, struggle with tough foreign rivals and a strong yen, Japan Display has prospered by diversifying its client base, deciding early on to aggressively seek clients besides Apple Inc.
"We're always worried about a drop in demand from a supplier," Otsuka said. "That's why we've expanded our client base and have moved into making tablet screens too."
The CEO said the company's revenue jumped 50 percent in the April-June quarter and that it made a profit despite the costs of setting up the Mobara factory, to which it has pledged $2 billion worth of investment.
Although the company does not name its own customers, industry sources widely confirm that it is supplying screens for Google Inc's Nexus7 tablet and there are rumors it will make the displays for Amazon.com Inc's next Kindle Fire electronic reader.
Sources say Japan Display is the supplier for Nexus7's low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) LCD screen, which boasts better resolution, touch-sensitivity and higher energy efficiency than the alternative amorphous silicon.
Makers used to struggle to scale LTPS to larger displays, but Japan Display has apparently solved the challenge. Otsuka says he expects LTPS to penetrate through to the mid-range market before long.
"To win you can't just focus on the high end. With LTPS we can go to the middle-end makers and say, 'Look, there's more you can do'", Otsuka said.
He also said he believed that the middle-end will grow as so-called "white-box" Chinese smartphone makers move to brand themselves and focus more on value, which will require higher specification models.
However, he doesn't see Chinese panel makers catching up to Japan Display and its two main competitors in small to midsize displays, Sharp Corp and LG Display Co Ltd. any time soon.
"Smartphones are differentiated by their displays. Is there any value in having three companies all using the same commoditized panel? We have to ensure that we continue adding value to our customized LTPS screens to ensure that doesn't happen, but I don't think it will."
($1 = 99.5350 Japanese yen)
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By Michael Connor
(Reuters) - Detroit's school system got a tough lesson from America's $3.7 trillion municipal bond market when investors demanded and obtained sky-high interest rates on debt issued just a month after the city filed the nation's biggest-ever municipal bankruptcy case.
The $92 million of one-year state aid revenue notes sold through the Michigan Finance Authority came with a whopping 4.375 percent coupon and priced at par, according to a pricing sheet from lead manager JP Morgan Securities.
The yield on the Detroit school notes, which were rated SP-1 by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, was almost 22 times the yield triple-A-rated Columbus, Ohio, got for $19.8 million of one-year limited tax notes it sold on Tuesday. Those notes were priced with a yield of 20 basis points and a 2 percent coupon.
"It has Detroit in the name, and there's some headline risk," said Dominic Vonella, a Municipal Market Data analyst.
Like Detroit, the city's school district is run by a state-appointed emergency manager and is beset with substantial financial problems aggravated by long industrial decline. Detroit's city government on July 18 filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy court protection, reporting more than $18 billion of liabilities.
Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon, who oversees the state Finance Authority, said he was pleased with the results of the debt issuance, which was well-oversubscribed with $600 million of orders from 30 firms.
"The level of investor interest in the transaction continues to demonstrate the strong demand for Michigan investments," Dillon said in a statement.
A school district spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the deal.
Some other local Michigan issuers have delayed planned debt sales in recent weeks because of a shoot-up in yields since the Detroit filing, which has spooked some retail buyers. Tax-free yields are at two-year highs.
The Detroit school district notes are backed by promised state revenue due the school system but on a subordinate basis behind certain senior lien obligations, according to a preliminary offering statement for the sale.
On Tuesday, trading in the secondary market was light and spotty. Many maturities on MMD's scale of AAA-rated issues were unchanged while other, mostly near-term maturities declined enough to lift yields by as many as 6 basis points. Most changes were smaller.
Both the benchmark 10-year and 30-year maturities on the MMD scale remained flat, with the 10-year staying at 2.90 percent and the 30-year ending at 4.40 percent.
(Reporting by Michael Connor in Miami and Karen Pierog in Chicago; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Ken Wills)


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Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
Based on materials from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods, LEME is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript.Expand
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Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA)
The Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA) is the online version of the print Lexikon des Mittelalters, the standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies, published between 1977-1999.Expand
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Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)
This database is comprised of Latin texts with translations in English, French, German, and Italian, chiefly from these corpora: Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina; Corpus Christianorum.Expand
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Literary Research Guide
A selective, annotated guide to essential reference sources for the study of British literature, United States literatures, and other literatures in English. The contents include over 1,000 entries, which reference nearly 1,600 additional books, articles, and electronic resources.Expand
Over 700 reviews are cited.
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Literature Criticism Online
Provides access to editorially selected critical responses of authors, works, and topics from every age and literary discipline. Includes over 200,000 reprinted critical essays, arranged chronologically within each entry to provide a "history" of the critical reception of a work. Literature Criticism is the online version of Gale's literature criticism print sets:Expand
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Medieval Family Life-The Paston, Stonor, Cely, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers
The Medieval Family Life database contains the only 5 major letter collections from fifteenth century England, the Paston, Stonor, Cely, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers.Expand
The Paston letters document the life of a gentry family during the War of the Roses. The Celys were a merchant family in the wool trade and collections contains commercial dealings for both the economic and social historians. Plumptons documents continue through to the early 16th century, and Armburgh family material is primarily concerned with a dispute over a family inheritance. It includes both the original medieval manuscripts and transcripts, as well as family trees, a chronology, a glossary, a and an interactive map.
Subjects: English and American Literature, History Middle Ages 400-1450, History World
Medieval Travel Writing
This database presents manuscripts of European travel writing dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries culled from libraries around the world. It covers geography, exploration, trade, literature, and the new field of medieval postcolonial studies.Expand
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Monumenta Germaniae Historica
The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) is a collection of medieval historical sources (historical works, charters, legal texts, letters, political texts, and literature) for the study of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the Middle Ages.Expand
This database contains all five divisions of the MGH (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates) and is continually expanding with the hope that the entire body of MGH editions will be available digitally by 2016.
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Oxford Biblical Studies Online
This is a comprehensive source for the study of the Bible, biblical history, and the reception history of the Bible. The site combines scholarly texts and reference works with critical tools for Biblical study.Expand
Popular resources on this site include the full text of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, concordances for the NRSV and NAB translations, the Oxford Bible Commentary, the Oxford Companion to the Bible, several of the Oxford Encyclopedias, the Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible, the Oxford Bible Atlas, and many more resources from Oxford University Press.
Subjects: Classics, History Ancient -400, History Middle Ages 400-1450, History Early Modern 1450-1800, History Modern 1800-, Jewish Studies, Philosophy, Religion
Oxford Bibliographies Online. British and Irish Literature
As a key part of Western literary and cultural history, British and Irish literature encompasses a massive range of periods, authors, and works that make it one of the most active fields in academia today.Expand
A great deal of this work has moved online with the most recent scholarship, research, and statistics appearing in online databases. With advances in online searching and database technologies, researchers and practitioners can easily access library catalogs, bibliographic indexes, and other lists that show thousands of resources that might also be useful to them. Oxford Bibliographies Online's British and Irish Literature provides expert guidance through articles and citations.
Subjects: English and American Literature, History Middle Ages 400-1450, History Modern 1800-, History Early Modern 1450-1800
Oxford Bibliographies Online. Renaissance and Reformation
The Renaissance and Reformation module of the Oxford Bibliographies is a reliable, selective, and authoritative guide to the best literature in Renaissance and Reformation studies.Expand
It is designed to help researchers find reliable resources quickly. Each article is peer-reviewed and updated regularly.Walk-in users: OK
Subjects: Art and Architecture, History Early Modern 1450-1800, History Middle Ages 400-1450, Music, Religion, Spanish, Theater Studies
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Provides full, accurate, concise, and readable articles on noteworthy people in all walks of life. No living person is included: annual updates cover individuals who have died after 2000.Expand
The ODNB covers people who were born and lived in the British Isles, people from the British Isles who achieved recognition in other countries, people who lived in territories formerly connected to the British Isles at a time when they were in contact with British rule, and people born elsewhere who settled in the British Isles for significant periods or whose visits enabled them to leave a mark on British life. Allows 2-3 simultaneous users.
Subjects: Comparative Literature, French Literature and Language, History Early Modern 1450-1800, History Modern 1800-, History Middle Ages 400-1450, Biographies
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Provides online access to more than 3,000 articles and electronic resources in English on the Islamic world, includes more than 150 primary source documents with editorial instructions, and has a glossary of Islamic terms.Expand
Also includes two interpretations and one concordance of the Koran.
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Oxford Reference Online
This database includes fully-indexed, cross-searchable full text content from more than 170 subject dictionaries, language reference and subject reference works in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.Expand
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Longtime Saints PA Announcer Jerry Romig Retiring
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Jerry Romig, the public address announcer at New Orleans Saints games since 1969, says he's ready to hand the microphone over to his son, Mark, after Friday night's preseason game against the Oakland Raiders in the Superdome.
The 83-year-old Romig says his voice is fine, but back problems have slowed him.
Romig says his greatest memories include his exclamation, "It's good!," after Tom Dempsey's record-long, game-winning 63-yard field goal in 1970. He says he wanted to be loud enough so those walking outside old Tulane Stadium could hear it.
Mark Romig says his father wants him to show his own personality, but his mother says he should try to sound just like his dad.
Jerry Romig also handled P.A. duties for the first four Super Bowls in New Orleans.


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5 Things You Missed On Instagram Last Night: Kim K. Gets Back To Work
You can only scroll through Instagram with one eye open like CBS for so long. Eventually you've gotta stop thumbing. Here's what you missed while you were catching Zzzs last night
Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner taking a selfie on set, with the hashtag "#WorkDay"
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cboom wrote:Wilson is the worst QB I have seen as a Hawks fan. And I have been around long enough to see them all.
A London Hawk wrote:" off the field the man inside the costume has a passion towards fighting Multiple Sclerosis (MS) after being diagnosed with it four years ago"
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Language & Community
One common misconception Green regularly confronts is that AAE is just "slang", when in actuality, AAE observes systematic rules and structure that differ from general American English in subtle ways.
African American English (AAE) is spoken across the United States, a distinctive dialect intertwined with African American history from slavery to the present day. From analysis of the narratives of ex-slaves to current research on how children acquire the unique speaking patterns of AAE, study of the linguistic system has real-world benefits for millions of Americans.
Lisa Green, Linguistics, directs the UMass Amherst Center for the Study of African American Language (CSAAL), where research is conducted on AAE and language in African American communities. The center also provides resources to students and educators who address language- and dialect-related issues.
One common misconception Green regularly confronts is that AAE is just "slang." But in fact, research that began in the 1960s reveals that AAE observes systematic rules and structure and that it differs from general American English in subtle ways. Green's passion is to break down those misconceptions through research, and to make that research available and useful to the community. To that end, the Center hosts two unique research and training programs, the Summer Dialect Teacher Project (SDTP) and the Summer Dialect Research Project (SDRP) for undergraduates.
The SDTP is intended for educators or people who train educators. Many educators teach students who speak AAE, yet they might not have information about the linguistic features of the dialect, which can be useful in developing classroom instruction. Such information is beneficial in instances in which there are concerns that AAE may be a barrier to student learning and academic success.
SDTP projects are collaborative and interdisciplinary, drawing on faculty from departments such as Linguistics, English, and Education at UMass. For example, Green has worked with Anne Herrington, English, director of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, to offer AAE seminars for teachers that address issues related to language diversity, language use in the classroom, and ways of describing properties of language.
Undergraduates interested in research have a unique opportunity to participate in the Summer Dialect Research Project, a two-week program that focuses on analyzing data and developing and presenting mini research projects. Student projects are on topics such as language use by children who grow up in AAE-speaking communities and implications for the linguistic study of AAE for education.
Students connect with faculty members from UMass and other universities during daily seminars and work closely with those whose areas of research coincide with their projects. "Invariably, even students whose school does not offer linguistics or AAE study are interested in AAE," says Green, and for that reason one of the Center's main goals is to train undergraduates and increase the number of students, particularly those from underrepresented minority groups, who conduct graduate research in those areas.
What's next for the Center? Green intends for the Center to be a primary resource for people who have questions about AAE. She aims to expand the undergraduate research program and encourage students who attend the summer program to consider attending graduate school—possibly UMass—where they can conduct research on language- and dialect-related topics. She believes that as more students come to the Center from around the country and take new knowledge back with them, they can generate a lot of interest in AAE among a wider population.
African American English is full of fascinating phenomena for linguistic study, but it also touches the lives, the history and future of AAE speakers. The Center recognizes the dual concerns of academic research and community outreach, and continues to make practical connections with students and educators in the school systems.
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Happy Ending
i'd like to say that this isn't your typical "Jacob finally imprints" story, except that it is. The teen rating is a safety net. Just in case something later in the story requires it. Jacob/OC ok. I'm really, really sorry. This story is just not working out. so unless I have some huge story epiphany, this story is cancelled.again, I'm really really sorry.
This is my first story. Enjoy!
1. Chapter 1: Seeing Her
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Chapter one: seeing her
I had nothing to do today. Since meaning left my life, I had avoided having nothing to do. I found I could keep my mind off of the pain more easily if I was preoccupied. Even then, I could not escape thoughts of her. Even as a wolf, I was tormented by the sound of her beautiful voice in my head and the ghost of the feeling of her lips on mine. It was worse, really, without other people to keep me distracted. So I came back. It took almost as long for me to become human again as it had been the first time I changed.
I threw myself into my work after that. I patrolled the reservation for hours every night and after those vile bloodsuckers left, all of Forks. I wished, not for the first time, that the pack's minds weren't connected like they were. It hurt to feel their pity.
I struggled fruitlessly to keep my mind blank as I wandered aimlessly down first beach. The sight of a long, white driftwood tree that was much too familiar sent me gasping for breath as if I'd been punched in the chest. It felt like reminders of her were everywhere. Every direction I turned, something would cause the pain to come back, as strong as ever. Sam and Emily together, a blush on a stranger's cheek, even my garage- a place that had always been a haven for me. It held too many memories of her. It also held our motorcycles. I had tried to throw them out, but hadn't been able to get rid of the last piece I had of her. It felt like a piece of me had gone missing. I understood why Bella- I winced as I thought her name- had had to wrap her arms around herself after he left her.
I needed to run. I needed to try to let the speed erase the pain. I was glad I could run so fast. Better than motorcycles, faster than most cars.
I ran into the forest and quickly changed. The wind rushed past me, temporarily erasing all thoughts. I dodged rocks and trees with the surreal grace that came with being a werewolf. Thankfully, the pack all seemed to be human at the moment, so I wasn't going to have to listen to them worry. But nothing could ever keep the pain away for long. I eventually slowed my pace to a walk.
I stopped when my acute hearing picked up the sound of someone weeping in the forest. Without thinking about it, I shifted, put on my shorts, and followed the sound. About half a mile into the trees, I spotted a girl sitting on the damp ground with her head in her hands. She looked about my age- seventeen. She was ivory skinned with thick, wavy, auburn hair down to the middle of her back.
"Hello?" I called out to her.
She started at the sound of my voice.
"I'm sorry." I said softly. I was only a foot away from her now. "I didn't mean to scare you. Are you ok?"
She looked up to meet my gaze and I was dumbstruck by her eyes. They were a bright sapphire, with small flecks of gold that seemed to make them shimmer. "I-I'm just lost" she stammered. Her voice was hoarse- probably from shouting for help. "I'm here in Forks visiting my cousin Tyler. He and a bunch of his friends were hanging out on the beach. I got bored and went to explore the forest. I couldn't find my way back out." Her large eyes filled with tears again and I felt the strange, overpowering urge to protect her from anything that would cause her pain.
I reached a hand out to her to help her up. Her eyes widened slightly as she felt my burning skin, but she grabbed my hand and got to her feet, brushing the dirt and mud off the back of her dark jeans. She was fairly tall, but her head still only came up to my shoulder. "I'm Jacob Black. I live here in La Push, I know my way around the forest. I can help you out."
"I'm Amber Langley" The name sounded melodious and beautiful falling from her lips. Amber Amber Amber. My thoughts repeated her name over and over. "Thanks Jacob." Amber said yanking me back to the real world. She smiled at me and my heart soared. I suddenly felt as though I could live to make her happy.
"No problem" I smiled back, took her cool hand in mine and led her out of the dark trees.
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The Volleyball Drill Book presents 125 drills compiled by two of
volleyball's top coaches, Teri Clemens and Jenny McDowell. This book
from The American Volleyball Coaches Association includes drills to
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The AVCA was incorporated as a private nonprofit educational corporation
in 1981. The AVCA currently has over 5,600 members in all 50 states and
the District of Columbia as well as in 30 countries. Eighty percent of
college coaches are members of the AVCA, and membership at the high
school and club ranks has doubled since 2006. The AVCA provides a
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volleyball products and services providers.
Teri Clemens was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame in 2004. In
14 years of coaching at Washington University, she compiled an
impressive overall record of 529-77 and holds the NCAA DIII record for a
career winning percentage of .873. Clemens led the Bears to seven
national championships, including an unprecedented six consecutive
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Emory, McDowell was an assistant coach at the University of Georgia,
where she helped lead the Bulldogs to a 128-41 record and eight NCAA
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|ARM announces the release of open source support for the ARMv6 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) in the recent 2.6 Linux kernel. Optimizations have been added to the 2.6 Linux kernel to fully utilize new ARMv6 ISA features such as physical cache, application space identifiers (ASIDS) and use of atomic operations. This support enables significant performance improvements that are needed for the execution of applications in time-constrained environments such as consumer devices, networking and wireless platforms.
|Linux has been used from an early stage of theARM11™ core family design, along with other operating systems, to test and validate new core functionality, and this is part of an ongoing effort to contribute to open source GNU and Linux distributions to follow the evolution of the ARM® architecture.
ARM has also contributed to adding ARMv6 architecture support in the GNU GCC tool chain and both Linux and GCC support are, therefore, available from open source. ARM's continuous support of open source initiatives (such as CELF and Open Source Foundation) will help drive adoption of ARMv6 architecture in new consumer electronics, wireless and networking designs.
This effort will reduce time-to-market for Partners building products or reference designs based on Linux technology with the ARM11core family.
|Currently available from the main Linux and GCC open source repositories – see http://www.arm.com for more information.
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Existence after mortal death...
Existence after mortal death...
Hi, I'm new, I'm not atheist, at one time thought I was, currently, I'd define myself as a non active Baha'i.
I've have been postulating on an existence after mortal death on a level that is not spiritual. But as a natural state.
From reading layman's articles about particles which appear out of, thin air. Quantum mechanics, string theory, extra dimensions.
That some how our consciousness is linked to another dimension. Not by or through some imagined divine being but through the natural processes of the universe.
The particles which make up our physical bodies is some astounding matter at the quantum level and what happens at the quantum level does so apparently outside of time constraints.
Are they're atheists who feel the same, that they could be an existence after mortal death, completely unconnected to a supernatural being but as a natural act?
RE: Existence after mortal death...
(13-01-2013 09:24 PM)mawil1013 Wrote: Hi, I'm new, I'm not atheist, at one time thought I was, currently, I'd define myself as a non active Baha'i.Yes, there are atheists who have those kinds of ideas.
I'm not one of them. The evidence is that consciousness is solely an emergent property of the brain.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: Existence after mortal death...
You might find it interesting OP looking into Dimethyltryptamine and the accounts that people give under the influence from smoking or ingesting it.
Check out DMT on youtube.
I feel so much, and yet I feel nothing.
I am a rock, I am the sky, the birds and the trees and everything beyond.
I am the wind, in the fields in which I roar. I am the water, in which I drown.
RE: Existence after mortal death...
Existence after death? Certainly. The atoms in my body used to belong to stars. Some day they will again. Before that, they might belong to any number of things right here on earth as worms eat my corpse, deposit my atoms into soil, plants grow, animals graze, people eat those animals - some of my atoms might find their way into other people. Or not.
Whatever happens to them, those atoms will continue long after I'm dead.
But that's probably not the existence you mean. You're probably looking for some kind of notion that life, soul, spirit, consciousness, thought, etc., something that is uniquely us, something capable of experiencing the universe rather than simply being part of it, will continue after death.
I personally doubt it. I can find no evidence that we have any such part of us that is capable of continued existence after we die, and nothing beyond anecdotal accounts or junk science that anyone else has any evidence for it either.
I want it to exist. I'd like to think that something that is uniquely me will "live" on after my body dies. That would be nice (unless I'm being eternally tortured as a plaything of a sadistic deity).
But I just don't see it, for two reasons:
1. As mentioned above, there is no evidence for it. Believing in something with no evidence for it, just because it sounds nice, makes no sense to me.
2. Even if something continues, there is obviously no way for our "afterlife" to communicate with our current life, no way back, no messages from beyond, no guidance from those who have preceded us into the afterlife. Evidently there is no connection between whatever afterlife we might have and our current life. Given that, it's a fairly futile effort to put much thought or hope into something we cannot detect, experience, or even benefit from during this life.
If it's out there, which seems a really big if to me, then there will be time enough to think about it when I get there.
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RE: Existence after mortal death...
There is no evidence either way. It seems plausible to me that everything gets recycled. That seems to be the way things work in general.
Whether there is something within us that poofs out as we die, I don't know. If there is we can't see or measure it - yet.
I always make room for the fact that we don't know shit. So, if there is something, it is quite possible that we just don't know about it - yet.
Lets assume there is something - it certainly is not needed by the body anymore after death, so I assume it gets recycled.
Given that we don't know whether there is something, and much less what it might be or what it's properties are, speculations as to how it is recycled are highly - well - speculative.
Does it really matter?
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RE: Existence after mortal death...
My thoughts are similar to Dom's. Are we all eventually recycled? Yes probably -- just as we live on people's memory. Are we transported to another dimension? I'm going to guess not -- there's just not enough evidence to suggest otherwise.
But as if to knock me down, reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch, cut me into little pieces
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Re: RE: Existence after mortal death...
Chas Wrote:Yes, there are atheists who have those kinds of ideas.
Consciousness, you mention it, that in itself seems implausible. Yes, a rock, yes atom, yes a particle, but consciousness seems to defy the logic of a sterile universe, even the most simplest so called 'life' seems improbable.
14-01-2013, 01:55 PM (This post was last modified: 14-01-2013 02:03 PM by PoolBoyG.)
RE: Existence after mortal death...
Why are those inclined towards fanciful beliefs always pick "consciousness" as something ethereal? Why not hunger? Or their sense of balance? In any case...
Original poster used some terms that they should define (what do you mean by conciousness, dimensions, etc?) and has used concepts that they should put forward evidence for (dimensions, non mortal deaths?)
A computer shares the same matter as that found in the ground. A computers software, it's "conciousness", is a function of that matter being combined in a certain way. If a computer is reduced back into plastics, gold, silicon, etc. does the computers software still exist? Is it still operating somewhere? Are my Solitaire scores still being kept? No. Not in the slightest.
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RE: Existence after mortal death...
I have issues with the way people throw the word "consciousness" around.
So do insects have consciousness? Do dogs? Do gorillas? How do you know?
All of this is just opinions and assumptions.
Nothing wrong with that, but I'd like to know what exactly you mean with "consciousness".
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The Lunchbox Theatre Company, run by Stuart Palmer, perform "The Whale Show" to senior primary learners at Kranshoek Primary School in Plettenberg Bay. Mayor Welcome Booysen of Plettenberg Bay is helping out on the far right.
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What the fuck is wrong with people? Who would do such a fucking senseless thing?
I guess a better way to ask that question would have been - what the fuck is broken inside of someone that they could do such a thing? Religion alone isn't enough
the person(s) themselves are broken, and religion just feeds and further corrupts that broken thing.
I'm not being all that rational about this am I? I get so <I don't know what word I'm looking for here> about this kind of pointless destruction, I just can't be reasonable until I get my first horrified emotional response out.
What I can't figure out is why some felt it was more important to video the distruction rather than lend a hand. There were several videos played over and over on the news of a group of people struggling to clear debris to gain access to the injured, and the person just sat there recording it.No doubt the NRA will claim if every runner and every spectator had been armed, the bombing would have never happened.
It seems the OP has made up his mind: religious people are the ones who did it (based on the OP and his second comment).
Opinions mean shit.
Stating them as fact(s) makes them worse.
No matter who did it: it's a tragedy, and should, somehow, be prevented in the future.
Russia responded to the Boston explosions by bringing flowers to the U.S. Embassy to support the American citizens
It seems to be the most likely outcome. When was the last time there was an atheist terrorist attack? ...
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
And already I have read accounts of people who felt some divine presence or intervention; a "miracle" which prevented them from being caught in the midst of the carnage. Tell that to the families of those who died or lost limbs.
Another FB friend said this:So-I don't normally do this, but I am probably going to piss a few people off. People just need to shut the hell up. Stop making Boston about yourselves. Stop bending this tragedy to fit your little political fight, or your gun laws, or your belief that God is in the back seat. Stop trying to use this to feed your "I told you so" attitude about The Moral Compass Today. Just shut up-this isn't about how it is making YOU feel-you are alive today. Seriously-be grateful, hold your family, and just let the people grieve who need to.^^^What she said. If only it worked that way.
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