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    Scott M. Wilds letter to "Sir or Madame," January 30, 1979

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    Reference letter from Ohio Historical Society Research Assistant Scott M. Wilds identifying and describing a fragment copy of a page of a longer letter by William Lloyd Garrison, then and now housed in the Benjamin Lundy papers at the Ohio History Connection. Wilds provides more content for the letter and announces that it will be included in a reprint book out shortly from Belknap Press. Wilds' context for the Garrison letter fragment is as follows: "would like to know that we have identified this letter. It is from William Lloyd Garrison to the President and Members of the Anti-Slavery Reunion Convention, June 5, 1874. The convention, which Garrison did not attend, met in Chicago on June 9, 1874. The full text of the letter is printed in the Chicago [underlined] Inter-Ocean, June 10, 1874." Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico

    R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, July 21, 1896

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    Response letter from R. Williams to Susan M. Wierman [sometimes spelled Weirman] following up on a visit from photographer M. Wooley, presumably to snap photographs of Susan and the Lundy home to accompany Williams' biographical essay on Lundy. Williams sends along Wooley's letters and requests additional information from Ms. Wierman about the life and times of some meeting houses significant in the life and times of her father, anti-slavery activist and abolitionist periodical publisher Benjamin Lundy. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico

    R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, March 23, 1896

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    Letter from R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, spelled Weirman by R. Williams), daughter of Benjamin Lundy, concerning Williams' plan to visit Mrs. Wierman to take photographs for a forthcoming article on the life and times of Lundy, to be published in a Chicago newspaper. Williams describes previous visits to Wierman, and makes notes of the resources, publications and repositories he has used in compiling his study of Lundy thus far. He also makes requests of Mrs. Wierman for a sketch of recollections about life with her father and her own involvement in the abolition movement. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico

    Nietzsche's Nihilism in Walter Benjamin

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    Il libro ricostruisce gli elementi che Walter Benjamin riprende da Nietzsche nel definire tanto la sua teoria dell'arte di avanguardia che il suo approccio alla azione politica. Il lavoro vuole definire la linea eccentrica del discorso filosofico di Benjamin nella rappresentazione del moderno come "luogo di catastrofe permanente", in cui egli tenta di superare il nihilism nietzscheano attraverso la "debole speranza messianica". Il libro analizza le figure che Benjamin usa nel Passagen-Werk (Baudelaire, Marx, Aragon, Proust e Blanqui) come allegorie per spiegare molti aspetti della modernità. Il carattere distruttivo del moderno è un concetto che Benjamin riprende in parte da Nietzsche, in parte da Marx, in parte da Scholem e dalla mistica ebraica. Il libro si sofferma sulla metodologia benjaminiana di "strappare" immagini e concetti dal loro contesto per ricomporli in un discorso filosofico del tutto diverso.he book recontructs the lines of Nihilism that Walter Benjamin took from Friedrich Nietzsche that define both his theory of art and the avant-garde, and his approach to political action. It retraces the eccengtric route of Benjamin's philosophical discourse in the rapresentation of the modern as a place of "permanent catstrophe", where he attempts to overcome the Nietschean Nihilism through messianic hope. The book analyses how Benjamin's Arcades Project uses figures as Baudelaire, Maex, Aragon, Proust and Blanqui as allegories to explain many aspects of modernity. The author argues that Benjamin uses Baudelaire as a paradigm to emphasize the dark side of the modern era, offering us a key to the interpretation of communicative and cultural trend of today

    R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, September 9, 1895

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    Short note from Lundy biographer R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, "Wiederman") concerning Williams' proposed return visits to Wierman's home in Clear Creek, Illinois. Williams explains that he had intended to visit with a "Col. Plumb"; but Plumb is elderly and had fallen ill. Williams proposes hoping to visit solo in months to come, and asks after the dates of the local Friends Quarterly Meeting. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico

    Hydrological Reanalysis for the Congo River Basin (1983-2020)

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    <p>The Congo River basin (CRB), the world's second-largest river system, is subject to extreme hydrological events that strongly impact its ecosystems and population. Here we present an unprecedented 38-year (1983-2020) hydrological reanalysis of CRB daily discharge that helped us to analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of recent major CRB floods and droughts, and their teleconnection with El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the dominant driver of tropical precipitation.</p> <p>To develp this dataset, we employ a large-scale hydrologic-hydrodynamic model (MGB) with lake storage dynamics representation and a data assimilation (DA) technique using in-situ discharge and water level and remote sensing observations from radar altimetry.</p> <p>The performance of MGB is satisfactory, with KGE indices of 0.84 and 0.71 for calibration and validation, respectively. Incorporating lake representation significantly improves the simulations, from 0.3 to 0.63 for the Pearson correlation coefficient. Furthermore, DA shows a ~13% reduction in simulated discharge errors through cross-validation.</p> <p>This final version of the product uses all in-situ and radar altimetry observations during the simulation period, after satisfactory performance was verified in the DA cross-validation process. The original simulation period was from 1981 but the first two years were removed to avoid inconsistencies due to model initial conditions.<br>  </p> <p> </p> <p>Please cite as:</p> <p>Wongchuig, S.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Paris, A.; Fleischmann, A.; Gal, L.; Boucharel, J.; Paiva, R.; Oliveira, R.; Tshimanga, R. M.; Calmant, S. 2023. Improved modeling of Congo's hydrology for floods and droughts analysis and ENSO teleconnections.</p>We make available the daily discharge data set of the Hydrological Reanalysis for the Congo Basin in its v1.0 version, which correspond to the "HR_Congo_1983-2020.nc" and and its version in csv format "HR_Congo_1983-2020.nc" and "coordinates.csv" files. The matrix of daily discharge contains 13880 columns (one per day, starting at 01Jan/1983) and 11580 rows (one per unit-catchment). These irregular unit-catchments have an average spatial resolution of ~15km. Shapefiles containing the "Basin_boundary", "Centroids", "Drainage" and "Unitcatchments" are attached. Authors: Sly Wongchuig Correa Benjamin Kitambo Fabrice Papa Adrien Paris Ayan Santos Fleischmann Laetitia Gal Julien Boucharel Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva Romulo Jucá Oliveira Raphael M. Tshimanga Stéphane Calman

    Hydrological Reanalysis for the Congo River Basin (1983-2020)

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    <p>The Congo River basin (CRB), the world's second-largest river system, is subject to extreme hydrological events that strongly impact its ecosystems and population. Here we present an unprecedented 38-year (1983-2020) hydrological reanalysis of CRB daily discharge that helped us to analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of recent major CRB floods and droughts, and their teleconnection with El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the dominant driver of tropical precipitation.</p> <p>To develp this dataset, we employ a large-scale hydrologic-hydrodynamic model (MGB) with lake storage dynamics representation and a data assimilation (DA) technique using in-situ discharge and water level and remote sensing observations from radar altimetry.</p> <p>The performance of MGB is satisfactory, with KGE indices of 0.84 and 0.71 for calibration and validation, respectively. Incorporating lake representation significantly improves the simulations, from 0.3 to 0.63 for the Pearson correlation coefficient. Furthermore, DA shows a ~13% reduction in simulated discharge errors through cross-validation.</p> <p>This final version of the product uses all in-situ and radar altimetry observations during the simulation period, after satisfactory performance was verified in the DA cross-validation process. The original simulation period was from 1981 but the first two years were removed to avoid inconsistencies due to model initial conditions.<br>  </p> <p> </p> <p>Please cite as:</p> <p>Wongchuig, S.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Paris, A.; Fleischmann, A.; Gal, L.; Boucharel, J.; Paiva, R.; Oliveira, R.; Tshimanga, R. M.; Calmant, S. 2023. Improved modeling of Congo's hydrology for floods and droughts analysis and ENSO teleconnections.</p>We make available the daily discharge data set of the Hydrological Reanalysis for the Congo Basin in its v1.0 version, which correspond to the "HR_Congo_1983-2020.nc" and and its version in csv format "HR_Congo_1983-2020.nc" and "coordinates.csv" files. The matrix of daily discharge contains 13880 columns (one per day, starting at 01Jan/1983) and 11580 rows (one per unit-catchment). These irregular unit-catchments have an average spatial resolution of ~15km. Shapefiles containing the "Basin_boundary", "Centroids", "Drainage" and "Unitcatchments" are attached. Authors: Sly Wongchuig Correa Benjamin Kitambo Fabrice Papa Adrien Paris Ayan Santos Fleischmann Laetitia Gal Julien Boucharel Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva Romulo Jucá Oliveira Raphael M. Tshimanga Stéphane Calman

    Hydrological Reanalysis for the Congo River Basin (1983-2020)

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    <p>The Congo River basin (CRB), the world's second-largest river system, is subject to extreme hydrological events that strongly impact its ecosystems and population. Here we present an unprecedented 38-year (1983-2020) hydrological reanalysis of CRB daily discharge that helped us to analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of recent major CRB floods and droughts, and their teleconnection with El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the dominant driver of tropical precipitation.</p> <p>To develp this dataset, we employ a large-scale hydrologic-hydrodynamic model (MGB) with lake storage dynamics representation and a data assimilation (DA) technique using in-situ discharge and water level and remote sensing observations from radar altimetry.</p> <p>The performance of MGB is satisfactory, with KGE indices of 0.84 and 0.71 for calibration and validation, respectively. Incorporating lake representation significantly improves the simulations, from 0.3 to 0.63 for the Pearson correlation coefficient. Furthermore, DA shows a ~13% reduction in simulated discharge errors through cross-validation.</p> <p>This final version of the product uses all in-situ and radar altimetry observations during the simulation period, after satisfactory performance was verified in the DA cross-validation process. The original simulation period was from 1981 but the first two years were removed to avoid inconsistencies due to model initial conditions.<br>  </p> <p> </p> <p>Please cite as:</p> <p>Wongchuig, S.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Paris, A.; Fleischmann, A.; Gal, L.; Boucharel, J.; Paiva, R.; Oliveira, R.; Tshimanga, R. M.; Calmant, S. 2023. Improved modeling of Congo's hydrology for floods and droughts analysis and ENSO teleconnections.</p>We make available the daily discharge data set of the Hydrological Reanalysis for the Congo Basin in its v1.0 version, which correspond to the "HR_Congo_1983-2020.nc" and and its version in csv format "HR_Congo_1983-2020.nc" and "coordinates.csv" files. The matrix of daily discharge contains 13880 columns (one per day, starting at 01Jan/1983) and 11580 rows (one per unit-catchment). These irregular unit-catchments have an average spatial resolution of ~15km. Shapefiles containing the "Basin_boundary", "Centroids", "Drainage" and "Unitcatchments" are attached. Authors: Sly Wongchuig Correa Benjamin Kitambo Fabrice Papa Adrien Paris Ayan Santos Fleischmann Laetitia Gal Julien Boucharel Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva Romulo Jucá Oliveira Raphael M. Tshimanga Stéphane Calman

    Generosity Across the Income and Wealth Distributions

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    PoliticalEconomy|PublicFinanceDespite widespread interest, there is little systematic evidence on the relationship between income, wealth, and charitable giving. Although the media suggests that the well-off are stingy, the misuse of data, incomplete controls, inappropriate empirical specifications and a lack of accounting for the influence of outliers make these claims questionable. In this paper, PERC��������s Mary Julia and George R. Jordan, Jr. Professor of Public Policy Jonathan Meer and co-author Benjamin A. Priday use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide descriptive statistics on this relationship. The authors find that, irrespective of specification, donative behavior increases with greater resources
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