Tephra

Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size or emplacement mechanism.

Volcanologists also refer to airborne fragments as pyroclasts. Once clasts have fallen to the ground they remain as tephra unless hot enough to fuse together into pyroclastic rock or tuff.

Overview

The distribution of tephra following an eruption usually involves the largest boulders falling to the ground quickest and therefore closest to the vent, while smaller fragments travel further — ash can often travel for thousands of miles, even circumglobal, as it can stay in the stratosphere for days to weeks following an eruption. When large amounts of tephra accumulate in the atmosphere from massive volcanic eruptions (or from a multitude of smaller eruptions occurring simultaneously), they can reflect light and heat from the sun back through the atmosphere, in some cases causing the temperature to drop, resulting in a temporary, "volcanic winter", climate change. Tephra mixed in with precipitation can also be acidic and cause acid rain and snowfall.

Monster

A monster is any creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is often hideous and may produce fear or physical harm by its appearance and/or its actions. The word "monster" derives from Latin monstrum, an aberrant occurrence, usually biological, that was taken as a sign that something was wrong within the natural order.

The word usually connotes something wrong or evil; a monster is generally morally objectionable, physically or psychologically hideous, and/or a freak of nature. It can also be applied figuratively to a person with similar characteristics like a greedy person or a person who does horrible things.

The root of "monstrum" is "monere"—which does not only mean to warn, but also to instruct, and forms the basis of the modern English demonstrate. Thus, the monster is also a sign or instruction. This benign interpretation was proposed by Saint Augustine, who did not see the monster as inherently evil, but as part of the natural design of the world, a kind-of deliberate category error.

Legend (disambiguation)

A legend is a historical narrative, a symbolic representation of folk belief.

Legend, Legends, The Legend or The Legends may also refer to:

Narrative

Books, comic books, and theatre

Film

Social media

Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people or companies to create, share, or exchange information, career interests, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. Social media is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals. These changes are the focus of the emerging field of technoself studies. Social media differ from traditional or industrial media in many ways, including quality,reach, frequency, usability, immediacy, and permanence. Social media operate in a dialogic transmission system (many sources to many receivers). This is in contrast to traditional media that operates under a monologic transmission model (one source to many receivers).

Fear of Men (band)

Fear of Men is a Brighton-based band that formed in early 2011. On February 12, 2013 the band released a reverse chronological compilation of their early singles through Kanine Records called Early Fragments. The band released their debut album Loom on April 21, 2014 (UK) and April 22, 2014 (U.S.) also through Kanine Records. A limited edition Record Store Day Vinyl was released on April 19, 2014.

History

Fear of Men came together in early 2011 after Jessica Weiss and Daniel Falvey met. For her art degree, Weiss had been creating soundtracks for her short films and she met Falvey at one the exhibitions for her films. Falvey, a guitarist and a fellow art student, liked her recordings and they started working together to create a more pop sound. They teamed up and made several lo-fi demos in the hopes of attracting other players for the band. Quickly thereafter, Alex Fynn O'Neill and Michael Miles joined on bass and drums, respectively. Weiss became the lead vocalist and also played the guitar. Soon after their formation, they released a cassette that was well-received and began to perform at gigs as a support group. Over the course of the following two years, they released several 7" records on small DIY labels like Sex Is Disgusting and Italian Beach Babes. They continued to work on their music to create their crooning indie pop sound. In early 2013, Kanine Records released a compilation of their early singles called Early Fragments. During this time, some bandmembers had relocated and there were some shifts in line up leaving original members Weiss, Falvey and Miles as a trio. They worked on their debut LP Loom, which was released in late April 2014 to critical acclaim from blogs like Pitchfork and mentions from Stereogum. They preceded to go on tour in North America and Europe supporting The Pains of Being Pure At Heart.