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[Texas Historical Commission Marker: First Christian Church of Howe]
No full textPhotograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for First Christian Church of Howe in Howe, Texas. Text: In the 1840s, settlers moved to this area as part of the Peters Colony. In the early 1870s, plans for the Houston and Texas Central Railroad coming through the settlement brought new residents to the community, known as Summit. Renamed for railroad official F.M. Howe, the town of Howe was established circa 1872. The same year, several residents met to organize what would become the first Christian Church of Howe. Founders and charter members included George Miller, J.A. Hughes, Henry Stevens, J.A. Matthews, W.T. Copeland, Si Collins, C.E. Wheat, L.M. Davis, J.C. McBee, Jim McCoy, and John Grigg, and members held their first Sunday school classes and worship services in homes, schools, and other buildings. The congregation grew and purchased this site in 1893 from John W. and Minnie B. Simpson. The church, led by trustees Charlie Hanna, J.W. Bearden, and John and Frank Grigg, constructed a building on the site. The structure was one of four Protestant sanctuaries constructed in Howe during that period. Each had similar vernacular designs showing Victorian influences. Features included fishscale shingling, steep-pitched gable roofs and neo-Gothic details. The First Christian Church congregation added an annex in 1925 and later purchased a parsonage on adjoining property. During its years as a congregation, the First Christian Church members held revivals in the churchyard and ministered and witnessed to those in the Howe community. In 1982, because of declining membership, the church disbanded, and members donated the sanctuary and site to the city, which prepared to use the facility for community purposes while maintaining a link to the community's past
Bottom-current sediment waves, sediment drifts and contourites in the northern Rockall Trough
No full textFour types of large-scale sediment bedform occur in the northeast Rockall Trough: broad sheeted drifts, elongate drifts, sediment waves and thin contourite sheets. A large sheeted drift occupies the northern basin; its crest can be traced for 40 km perpendicular to the bottom-current flow direction. Elongate drifts occur adjacent to steep areas of continental slope, separated from the break of slope by a moat. Drift crests are oriented alongslope, parallel to bottom-current flow. Elongate drifts are asymmetric, with the steeper flank facing upslope; sedimentation rates are higher on the downslope flank. Sediment waves, with a wavelength of 1–2 km and wave height up to 20 m, occur locally on the flanks of sheeted and elongate drifts; larger waves (wavelength of 3–4 km and wave height of 50–100 m) occur on the flank of the Wyville–Thomson Ridge. Wave crests are oblique to bathymetric contours, to drift crests and to bottom-current flow. The association of sediment waves and drifts, their orientation oblique to regional slopes, and the presence of contourite sediments in cores, indicate that these are bottom-current rather than turbidity-current waves. A contourite sheet, typically 10–25 cm in thickness and composed of well sorted sand, covers the present-day seafloor along the lower slope. Bedform evolution through time has involved a complex interaction between bottom currents of variable intensity, sea level change and sediment input. The present sea level highstand is characterised by minimal sediment input and redistribution of sediments by strong bottom currents, giving active bedform growth and contourite development. Variability of sediment input is the main factor affecting sedimentation during sea level lowstands. Where input was high, as when ice sheets reached the shelf edge, downslope sediment transport dominated, overwhelming any bottom currents that were active. When input was low, such as during the last lowstand, some evidence for active currents can be observed, although these were less energetic than those during highstands
J.A. Daigneau
No full textPhotograph - J.A. Daigneau building, Athabasca, Alberta. It was built in 1912 by Joseph Daigneau and burnt down in 198
Author inscription in The Chinese slave-girl: a story of woman's life in China
No full textThis edition includes a gift inscription by author Rev. J.A. Davis, "To Rev. A. G. Russell with the warmest regards of the author J.A. Davis."Davis, John Agnell, 1839-1897
Sediment drifts and contourite sedimentation in the northeastern Rockall Trough and Faroe-Shetland Channel, North Atlantic Ocean
No full textThe salinity: ?18O water relationship in Kongsfjorden, western Spitsbergen
No full textWe present the first oxygen isotope measurements from Kongsfjorden in north-west Spitsbergen, and use the isotopic composition and hydrographic data to provide a detailed assessment of the mixing between freshwater and oceanic waters. Temperature, salinity(s) and oxygen isotope profiles are used to describe the seasonal evolution of hydrography in the inner part of the fjord, and to infer the dominant mixing and exchange processes. Data from atmospheric, glacial and marine sources throughout Kongsfjorden are used to construct a salinity: ?18O mixing line in a region that receives inputs of freshwater and marine Atlantic water. The dominant source of freshwater is glacial melt from a tidewater glacier complex at the head of the fjord, resulting in a seawater salinity: ?18O relationship where ?18O = 0.43S ? 14.65. The Kongsfjorden data provides a northern latitudinal limit for mixing lines in the north-western European coastal system
Morphodynamic evolution of Kongsfjorden-Krossfjorden, Svalbard, during the Late Weichselian and Holocene
No full textWe present a combination of fjord bathymetry and shallow seismic data from Kongsfjorden and Krossfjorden, Svalbard, to characterize and analyse change in the fjord coastal environment physiography and the glaciosedimentary processes since the Last Glacial Maximum. Swath bathymetry reveals a series of several styles of landform, frequently superimposed upon each other, permitting the reconstruction of the relative timings of deposition of each landform with the oldest successively overlain and cross-cut by younger landforms and erosional processes. Large transverse ridges interpreted as recessional moraines are overlain by streamlined lineations formed subglacially during a subsequent ice advance. A complex of recessional morainal ridges occurring within the central fjord are incised by glacial lineations and meltwater channels from younger glacial events
Empathy in preschool children: the development of the Southampton test of empathy in preschoolers (STEP)
No full textIn this study, we investigated a new instrument: the Southampton Test of Empathy for Preschoolers (STEP). The test incorporated 8 video vignettes of children in emotional scenarios, assessing a child's ability to understand (STEP-UND) and share (STEP-SHA) in the emotional experience of a story protagonist. Each vignette included 4 emotions (angry, happy, fearful, sad) that reflected emotion judgments based on the protagonist's facial expression, situation, verbal cues, and desire. The STEP was administered to 39 preschool children, and internal reliability, concurrent validity, and construct validity were addressed. The results showed good internal consistency. They also highlighted moderate concurrent validity with parent-rated empathy, a measure of facial indices, and construct validity with teacher-rated prosocial behavior.<br/
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