Stratovolcanoes,
also known as composite
cones, are the most picturesque and the most deadly of the volcano types. Their lower slopes are gentle, but they rise steeply near the summit to produce
an overall morphology that is concave in an upward direction. The summit area
typically contains a surprisingly small summit crater. This classic
stratovolcano shape is exemplified by many well-known stratovolcanoes, such as Mt.
Fuji in
Japan, Mt.
Mayon in
the Philippines, and Mt.
Agua in
Guatemala. Read more and see pictures at
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/stratovolc_page.html
Mount Vesuvius is
a stratovolcano a short distance from the Gulf of Naples. Its eruption in AD 79 buried the Roman cities
of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing about 16,000 people. In 1858, French organist Louis James Alfred
Lefébure-Wély wrote a piece for the harmonicorde (combination piano and
harmonium) titled Naples—La Prière sur le Vésuve, Op. 123, No. 3 The American Organist magazine March 2014
The word "tantalize" comes from the plight of the mythological Tantalus,
who so offended the gods that he was condemned in the afterlife to an eternity
of hunger and thirst. He was made to
stand in a pool in Tartarus, the Underworld zone of punishment. Each time he reached down for the water that
beckoned to his parched lips, it drained away. Overhanging the pool were boughs laden with
luscious fruit. But each time Tantalus
stretched to pluck this juicy sustenance, the boughs receded from his
grasp. http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/tantalus.html
QUOTE She takes more pleasure in rediscovery
than in discovery itself, the mixture of newness and familiarity that
rediscovery affords. December by
Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
University of Toledo Professor Emeritus
Joel Lipman has learned
from nationally known poets who told him to keep his focus local. That is his intention with ABRACADABRA Studio
of Poetics. “I want to build a local poetry community,”
Lipman said. “My goals as a publishing
poet were not to reach everybody, but to reach people that somehow I happen to
cross paths with.” Lipman came to Toledo
in 1975 after already being involved in the poetry community in Buffalo and
Chicago. He assumed a position in UT’s
Department of English Language and Literature to teach creative writing. Opening ABRACADABRA has been a family affair.
His son Eli is a partner while his
daughter Samantha designed the website. “ABRACADABRA
gave me a chance to plug into my three kids,” Lipman said. Lipman was inspired to move further with his
idea for ABRACADABRA while visiting his other son Jesse, a slam poet who lives
in Honolulu, as he competed in the National Poetry Slam Finals in Boston. “It’s a national movement with enormous
participation,” Lipman said. “Going there and seeing the vibrancy … made me aware
of the fact that there was a huge appetite for poetry in the country.”
Matt Liasse
A demonym, also referred to as a gentilic,
is a name for a resident of a locality and is usually, though
not always, derived from the name of a locality. For example, the demonym for the people of
the United Kingdom is British (derived from "British
Isles"); the demonym for the people of Canada is Canadian; the demonym for the people of Norway is Norwegian;
while the most common English language demonym for the people of the Netherlands is Dutch.
The word demonym comes
from the Greek word for "populace" (demos)
with the suffix for "name" (-onym). While many demonyms are derived from
placenames, many countries are named for their inhabitants (Finland for the Finns, Germany for the Germans, Thailand for the Thais, Denmark for the Danes, France for the Franks, Slovakia for the Slovaks, and Slovenia for the Slovenes). The English language uses several models to create demonyms. The most common
is to add a suffix to the end of the location's name, slightly modified
in some instances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym
Stella Bain,
the 17th novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve, opens in 1916, in a French
field hospital where the eponymous protagonist awakens with practically no
memory of who she is or how she arrived there. Set against the rich and tragic backdrop of
World War I, this mysterious story traces Stella’s attempt to piece together
her true life and the events leading up to the desperate, shell-shocked state
in which she wakes. A resident of
Massachusetts, Shreve has explored the theme of identity in earlier novels,
which include The Pilot’s Wife, a selection of Oprah’s Book Club,
and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for the Orange Prize
in England. She has frequently written
from a male point of view, but her focus, primarily and in Stella Bain, has
been on women: their choices,
relationships, triumphs, crises, imposed gender roles, and essential humanity. http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/a-talk-with-bestselling-stella-bain-author-anita-shreve-before-her-nashville-visit/Content?oid=4062048
A.Word.A.Day with
Anu Garg
scrutate (SKRU-tayt) verb. tr.
To investigate. from Latin
scrutari (to examine). Earliest
documented use: 1882.
manumit (man-yuh-MIT) verb. tr. To free from slavery. From Latin manus (hand) + mittere (to let go).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root
man- (hand), which also gave us manual, manage, maintain, manicure, maneuver,
manufacture, manuscript, command, manure, manque, legerdemain, and mortmain. Earliest documented use: 1455.
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Subject Hand
words
I was intrigued to learn that the word surgeon (archaic spelling:
chirurgeon) is derived from Greek chiro- (hand). In Czech, the word is "chirurg". However, in Polish, German, Dutch, and Russian
it is chirurg. In French it's chrurgien, in Italian -- chirurgo, and so on and
so on. In Scandinavian languages, the
"ch" in the beginning of the word is replaced by "k". Podiatrists are also hand-workers, like
surgeons and chiropractors. Or at least
that is what I understand from the old riddle:
What did the Irishman say to the podiatrist? Me fate is in your hands. That's why podiatrists are also known as
chiropodists. Anu Garg
Internal Revenue Service 2014 Standard Mileage Rates IR-2013-95,
Dec. 6, 2013
Beginning on Jan. 1, 2014,
the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel
trucks) will be: 56 cents per mile for
business miles driven; 23.5 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes;
14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations
Great Lakes mostly frozen over; big
thaw to replenish water levels by Tom Henry
Lakes Michigan and Huron
are expected to regain 9 to 14 inches, yet still could be as much as a foot
below their long-term average. Lake
Superior, which holds more water than the other four Great Lakes combined,
might edge above its long-term average this month for the first time since
1998. Many might be surprised to learn
the lake bringing down the region’s ice-cover average is Lake Ontario. Its surface, even now, is less than 60 percent
frozen. The others were as much as 91 to
96 percent frozen. Lake Ontario is last
to freeze for a number of reasons: It
has one of the region’s warmer climates — though residents of upstate New York
might disagree — and gets warmth from two hydroelectric plants. But, perhaps more importantly, it has some of
the fastest-moving water and relatively little surface area for its depth. The Great
Lakes region has 30 million U.S. and 10 million Canadian residents. Ice covered 92.2 percent of the Great
Lakes March 6, 2014 according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. That’s the most since
94.7 percent of the Great Lakes surface area was frozen over in early
1979. See three maps from the NOAA at http://www.toledoblade.com/Energy/2014/03/12/Great-Lakes-mostly-frozen-over-big-thaw-to-replenish-water-levels.html
Issue 1121
March 12, 2014 On this date in 1894, Coca-Cola
was bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg,
Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator. In 1912, the Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of
the USA) were founded in the United States.
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