Synoptic Analysis of the New York March 1888 Blizzard

The meteorological circumstances that led to the Blizzard of March 1888 that hit New York are analysed in Version 2 of the “Twentieth Century Reanalysis” (20CR). The potential of this data set for studying historical extreme events has not yet been fully explored. A detailed analysis of 20CR data alongside other data sources (including historical instrumental data and weather maps) for historical extremes such as the March 1888 blizzard may give insights into the limitations of 20CR. We find that 20CR reproduces the circulation pattern as well as the temperature development very well. Regarding the absolute values of variables such as snow fall or minimum and maximum surface pressure, there is anunderestimation of the observed extremes, which may be due to the low spatial resolution of 20CR and the fact that only the ensemble mean is considered. Despite this drawback, the dataset allows us to gain new information due to its complete spatial and temporal coverage.

Saint Margaret's Tattoos: Empowering Marks on White Skin

Saint Margaret, as presented in the “Katherine Group” life of the virgin martyr, claims to have Christ’s “marks” and “seals” on her. Bringing together postmodern theories of body modification and Paul Zumthor’s concept of mouvance, this essay reads these marks as tattoos that consist of virtual (tattoo fantasies), oral (tattoo narratives), and written elements (the actual marks on skin). Margaret defends and empowers herself by claiming to possess Christ’s ownership tattoo. Her oppressor Olibrius, in turn, intends to overwrite that mark palimpsestically and hence to empower himself, not unlike slave-owners in antiquity. While the gruesome torture scenes suggest that Olibrius wins the upper hand in this contest, the outcome of the narrative instead proves that Margaret triumphs. She dies a virgin after defiantly appropriating, in her tattoo narrative, the torture marks as her own, divine tattoo.

Die berufliche und soziale Stellung des jüdischen Lehrers : Vortrag, geh. auf d. Konferenz d. Vereins jüdischer Lehrer Rheinland u. Westfalens zu Düsseldorf am 21. Mai 1888

von Felix Coblenz

Hebräische Schule (Lemle Moses'sche Klausstiftung) in Mannheim : Jahresbericht f. d. Schuljahr 1888/89 ; zugleich als Einladung zu d. am Sonntag, den 7. April 1889 stattfindenen öffentl. Prüfung ; voran geht: Rede bei d. Einweihung d. neuerbauten Klaussynagoge am 28. Nov. 1888 (24. Kislev 5549 a. m.)

M. Appel

Der Landesverein zur Erziehung israelitischer Waisen im Grossherzogtum Baden in seinen ersten fünfundzwanzig Jahren : 1888 - 1913

Im Auftr. des Vereinsvorstands dargest. von S. Grzymisch

The sleeper effect: Artifact or phenomenon—A brief comment on Bell et al. (2013)

OBJECTIVE: Bell, Marcus, and Goodlad (2013) recently conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled additive trials and found that adding an additional component to an existing treatment vis-à-vis the existing treatment produced larger effect sizes on targeted outcomes at 6-months follow-up than at termination, an effect they labeled as a sleeper effect. One of the limitations with Bell et al.'s detection of the sleeper effect was that they did not conduct a statistical test of the size of the effect at follow-up versus termination. METHOD: To statistically test if the differences of effect sizes between the additive conditions and the control conditions at follow-up differed from those at termination, we used a restricted maximum-likelihood random-effect model with known variances to conduct a multilevel longitudinal meta-analysis (k = 30). RESULTS: Although the small effects at termination detected by Bell et al. were replicated (ds = 0.17-0.23), none of the analyses of growth from termination to follow-up produced statistically significant effects (ds < 0.08; p > .20), and when asymmetry was considered using trim-and-fill procedure or the studies after 2000 were analyzed, magnitude of the sleeper effect was negligible (d = 0.00). CONCLUSION: There is no empirical evidence to support the sleeper effect.

Programm und Tischordnung zum 25. Stiftungsfest am 5. Januar 1913 : 1888 - 1913

Frankfurt-Loge, U.O.B.B.

Rede, gehalten zur Einweihung des Denkmals am Grabe des seligen Freiherrn M. Carl von Rothschild auf dem Friedhof der israelitischen Gemeinde, zu Frankfurt a. M. am 6. Mai 1888

von M. Horovitz