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- pumpkinification, n. October 31, 2011 Oxford English Dictionary
- precipitate October 28, 2011 (Merriam-Webster)
- impetuous October 30, 2011 (Merriam-Webster)
- virga October 31, 2011 (Merriam-Webster)
- thanatopsis October 30, 2011 (Dictionary.com)
- nyctophobia October 31, 2011 (Dictionary.com)
Month: October 2011
Nuntii Latini Graecique 10/31/11
Nuntii Latini:
- Libya tyrannide tandem liberata October 30, 2011 (YLE)
- Nuntii Latini mensis Octobris 2011 October 30, 2011 (Bremen)
- Nuntii Latini Septimanales 28. Oktober 2011 October 30, 2011 (Bremen)
- De proeliis Tunisensibus Lydia Ariminensis (Ephemeris)
- Increscit numerus terrae motus victimarum Herimannus Novocomensis (Ephemeris)
Akropolis World News:
Circumundique ~ 10/30/11
… still kind of quiet:
- My First History Teacher by Mary Hoffman October 30, 2011 Book Maven
- More on Retirement Planning October 30, 2011 Michael Gilleland
- explorator 14.28 October 30, 2011 david meadows
- >> " href="http://arltblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/latin-on-the-timetable-for-pupils/">Latin on the timetable for pupils October 30, 2011 arltblogger
- Scary Stories of the Ancient Greeks and Romans October 30, 2011 Medievalists.net
- Julian the Apostate – Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 23 Part 1 October 30, 2011 Historyscientist
This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas novembres
- ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 6) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla's defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
- 286 — martyrdom of Quentin
Benghazi Treasure Looted from Libya!!!!
I've been sitting on a pile of items on the state of antiquities in Libya of late, but this item from the Daily Mail which just came in easilty eclipses them all, despite the source:
A gang of Libyan looters have raided a priceless collection of gold and silver coins that are believed to date back to the time of Alexander the Great.
The thieves carried off with the pieces, known as The Treasure of Benghazi, having drilled through a concrete ceiling at the National Commercial Bank of Benghazi.
An expert has described the raid as 'one of the greatest thefts in archeological history.'
Whilst the break-in was initially believed to have been part of the uprising against Muammar Gadaffi, Hafed Walada, a Libyan archeologist working at King's College London told The Sunday Times; 'It may have been an inside job.
'It appears to have been carried out by people who knew what they were looking for.'
Alongside the coins, several artefacts, including monuments and figurines of bronze, glass and ivory, as well as jewellery, bracelets and medallions, are also believed to have been seized by the thieves.
Early leads had initially pointed to neighbouring Egypt, where a farmer had attempted to smuggle 503 gold coins and a golden statue through the port city of Alexandria, however attempts to locate him have thus far failed.
Most of the Benghazi treasures had been on Libyan soil following a mass recovery of the collection between 1917 and 1922 from the temple of Artemis, in Cyrene – an ancient Roman city, now Libyan territory and otherwise known as Shahat.
During the Second World War, much of the treasure was on display at the Museum of Italian Africa in Rome, but eventually returned to Libyan soil in 1961 and was kept at the bank.
Italian archeologist, Serenella Ensoli, from the Second University of Naples insisted the treasure was priceless given its historical value.
'The collection is not well studied and is a huge loss for Libyan heritage.'
- via: 'One of the greatest thefts in archeological history': Huge haul of ancient Libyan gold is stolen from underground vault in Benghazi (Daily Mail)
… doesn't bode well at all, obviously …
Circumundique ~ 10/27-28/11
Kind of quiet these past few days:
- Round-Up: October 29 October 29, 2011 (Laura Gibbs)
- Getty Museum Announces Antiquity in the Twentieth Century. Modern Art and the Classical Vision Symposium October 28, 2011
- Freaky Friday: King of the World: Pompey the Great vs James Cameron October 28, 2011
- Battle at the Milvian Bridge October 28, 2011 (N.S. Gill)
- Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea October 28, 2011 Charles Jones
- Web Conference: Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation October 28, 2011 Charles Jones
- Latin Gender October 28, 2011 admin
- More Greek manuscripts online at the British Library October 28, 2011 Roger Pearse
Recent Book Reviews ~ 10/30/11
From BMCR:
- 2011.10.58: The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum: Archaeology, Reception, and Digital Reconstruction. Sozomena: studies in the recovery of ancient texts: edited on behalf of the Herculaneum Society, 1
- 2011.10.57: Le syntagme nominal en Latin: nouvelles contributions. Actes de l'atelier du centre Alfred Ernout. Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 11 octobre 2008. Kubaba. Série grammaire et linguistique
- 2011.10.56: A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
- 2011.10.55: Spectacle in the Roman World. Classical World series
- 2011.10.54: The "Orphic" Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further Along the Path
- 2011.10.53: La céramique protobyzantine de Delphes: une production et son contexte. Fouilles de Delphes, V, 4
- 2011.10.52: Lilio Gregorio Giraldi: Modern Poets. I Tatti Renaissance Library 48
- 2011.10.51: Onomatologos: Studies in Greek Personal Names Presented to Elaine Matthews
- 2011.10.50: Il calamo della memoria. Riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità. IV (Raccolta delle relazioni discusse nel IV incontro internazionale di Trieste, Biblioteca Statale, 28-30 aprile 2010). Polymnia, 13
- 2011.10.49: The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies. Prehistory monographs, 31
- 2011.10.48: I Sofisti. Pensatori, 18
- 2011.10.47: Geoponika: Farm Work. A Modern Translation of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook
- 2011.10.46: Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within
- 2011.10.45: Wille und Handlung in der Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 287
- 2011.10.44: Filostrato Maggiore. La Pinacoteca. Aesthetica, 71
- 2011.10.43: Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria
- 2011.10.42: The Consul at Rome: the Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic
- 2011.10.41: Soldiering for God: Christianity and the Roman Army. History of Warfare 61
- 2011.10.40: Body, Disease and Treatment in a Changing World: Latin Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Medicine
- 2011.10.39: Aristophanes' Comedy of Names: a Study of Speaking Names in Aristophanes. Sozomena: Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 8
From the popular press (via our #classicalbook Twitter hashtag):
- #classicalbook ~ The dark days of the Roman Empire [I think we posted this a couple weeks ago?] October 29, 2011 [Loeb Classical Library]
- #classicalbook ~ Memorial by Alice Oswald: review October 28, 2011
- #classicalbook ~ The Siren's call: A Roman recovered [Swerve] October 28, 2011
- #classicalbook ~ The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, and more – review October 28, 2011
- #classicalbook ~ She rivals Cleopatra in power and status [novel about Theodora] October 27, 2011
- #classicalbook ~ A different Cleopatra: The woman behind the drama, lies and enemies [Schiff] October 27, 2011
- #classicalbook ~ Books: Livia, Empress of Rome October 27, 2011
- #classicalbook ~ David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean October 27, 2011
Commodus' Supernova?
The Telegraph has an item which opens thusly:
The Chinese were baffled by what they described as a "guest star", which appeared in the night sky in 185AD and lingered for 8 months.
Similarly, the Guardian piece on the same subject opens:
A puzzle that has baffled astronomers for centuries has been solved – almost 2,000 years after the first supernova was documented by the ancient Chinese.
- Massive supernova mystery solved (Guardian)
I'm not sure why the press is missing out on this one, but this same supernova of 185 A.D. appears to have been mentioned by a couple of sources closer to our hearts in relation to the time of Commodus. As Paul and Lesley Murdin mention in their Supernovae, Herodian and the Historia Augusta both seem to be referring to this event. First, the HA from the life of Commodus (16 via Lacus Curtius' translation):
Before the war of the deserters the heavens were ablaze.
As Bill Thayer mentions in a note, the 'war of the deserters' happened in early 186. Herodian mentions a similar sort of omen about the same time (i.14 via Terullian.org):
Stars remained visible during the day; other stars, extending to an enormous length, seemed to be hanging in the middle of the sky.
… nothing in Dio, alas. Whatever the case, I'm often struck how celestial events recorded by Chinese astronomers seem to show up as portents in our various ancient historians. I'm sure someone has already done a thesis on this …
Protecting the Riace Bronzes from Earthquakes
This one's been lurking in my mailbox for a few months, but the recent seismic activity in Turkey reminded me of it. Hopefully all museums are taking the possibility of earthquakes into account when they're constructing displays …. the following is all in Italian, but it's not difficult to figure out what's going on if you're Italianless:
Also Seen: Interview with Bettany Hughes
The Iris folks are putting some of their 'back content' up at their new website:
In a Nutshell
One of the more frequent things my spiders drag back to me are references to Pliny the Elder as a source for some strange fact in some newspaper article. Most of the time, they don't come with a reference, of course, and a lot of times it seems like the press is just dropping the name of Pliny to give their article that air of authenticity, so usually I'm immediately skeptical. One such item was related to the phrase "In a nutshell", which was mentioned in a couple of reviews of a book called The Etymologicon:
- Cop this lot! Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle (Sydney Morning Herald)
- The dictionary of odd phrases (The Sun … which also made me skeptical because of the kitteh photo accompanying it)
According to the book (via the Sun):
In a nutshell: Another one from ancient times. Roman writer Pliny claimed to have seen a copy of the poem The Iliad that was so small it could fit in a walnut shell.
… I'd never heard of this before (but I suspect many of my readers have), but after some poking, ecce, there it is (NH 7.21 via Lacus Curtius):
Oculorum acies vel maxime fidem excedentia invenit exempla. in nuce inclusam Iliadem Homeri carmen in membrana scriptum tradit Cicero.
Even more interesting, is that someone in the 19th century no less, actually proved it could be done:
The Iliad in a nutshell. Pliny tells us that Cicero asserts that the whole Iliad was written on a piece of parchment which might be put into a nutshell. Lalanne describes, in his Curiosités Bibliographiques, an edition of Rochefoucault's Maxims, published by Didot in 1829, on pages one inch square, each page containing 26 lines, and each line 44 letters. Charles Toppan, of New York, engraved on a plate one-eighth of an inch square 12,000 letters. The Iliad contains 501,930 letters, and would therefore occupy 42 such plates engraved on both sides. Huet has proved by experiment that a parchment 27 by 21 centimètres would contain the entire Iliad, and such a parchment would go into a common-sized nut; but Mr. Toppan's engraving would get the whole Iliad into half that size. George P. Marsh says, in his Lectures, he has seen the entire Arabic Koran in a parchment roll four inches wide and half an inch in diameter.
- E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. (via Bartleby.com)
… then again, if Austin Powers could fit in a nutshell, the Iliad would be easy:
Birthplace of Augustus Found?
Another one which we hope will make it to the English presses, but this is one I just can't sit on any longer. Tip o' the pileus to Martin Conde for alerting us to Clementina Panella et al's find of what is believed to be the house where Augustus was born. The identification is based on the find of a house which belonged to Octavius (i.e. Augustus' father) near the curia veteres (within the Palatine pomerium), where, we are told, Augustus was born (see the entry from Platner at Lacus Curtius). Here's the coverage from la Repubblica:
Lungo le pendici nord orientali del Palatino, quasi ad affacciarsi sulla via Sacra, a ridosso dell'Arco di Tito, gli archeologi hanno riportato alla luce la casa natale di Augusto, la dimora del padre Ottavio dove nel 63 a. C. nacque il futuro primo imperatore di Roma. Si è conclusa l'undicesima campagna di scavo archeologico dell'università La Sapienza diretta dalla professoressa Clementina Panella e le ipotesi solo avanzate attraverso le indagini di tre anni fa, sembrano oggi trovare la conferma: "Quest'anno abbiamo trovato almeno otto vani di questa splendida domus di età repubblicana che si affaccia sulla valle del Foro romano racconta Panella È la prima dimora aristocratica di qualità, testimoniata da un mosaico eccezionale, con tessere bianche e nere abbinate ad un tappeto policromo disegnato a triangoli".
Il dettaglio cruciale è la vicinanza ad un'area sacra. "È la prima residenza che troviamo sul Palatino dopo un santuario, che abbiamo identificato con le cosiddette Curiae Veteres, luogo sacro che la tradizione ricollega a Romolo, quale punto che delimitava il terzo vertice del leggendario pomerio disegnato da Romolo nella fondazione della città".
Le fonti antiche offrono la conferma: "Sappiamo che Augusto nacque in Curis Veteribus, ossia nelle Curie vecchie avverte Panella e la scoperta della casa natale di Augusto sembra giustificata dal fatto che questa è la prima domus che s'incontra dopo il santuario delle Curiae salendo verso il Palatino". Qui Augusto avrebbe vissuto i primi tre anni della sua vita, per poi cambiare domicilio: "Le fonti dicono che tre anni dopo la nascita, la famiglia si trasferisce alle Carine, la zona dell'antica Velia ai confini dell'Esquilino dice Panella Poi a diciotto anni Augusto compra una casa alle Scalae anularie nei pressi del Foro romano, quindi a trentasei anni acquisterà la famosa e meglio conosciuta residenza sul Palatino".
Ma la Casa natale di Augusto è solo un tassello svelato nella storia archeologica di questo sito che sarà illustrato venerdì prossimo alla stampa con un sopralluogo cui parteciperà anche il rettore Luigi Frati. Sulla domus di Augusto, infatti, si innesta l'impianto di un horreum (magazzino) d'età adrianea, che è andato bruciato nel 193 d. C. e ricostruito per essere trasformato nel IV secolo in un'area di piacere: "L'edificio si arricchisce incredibilmente di fontane, portici, ninfei, sale con tavola da banchetto racconta Panella La tradizione topografica lo associava alle Terme di Elagabalo, ma ora possiamo identificarlo nella sede di un alto funzionario dell'imperatore Massenzio".
Dall'Arco di Tito alla valle del Colosseo, con uno scarto di svariati secoli, le pendici del Palatino restituiscono anche un insediamento abitativo dell'età del Ferro: "Si tratta di capanne della fine del IX secolo inizio VIII secolo a. C., una propaggine dell'abitato che precede la fondazione di Roma avvenuta nel 753 a. C. racconta Panella Si tratta di una scoperta eccezionale perché non si avevano notizie di insediamenti capannicoli verso la valle del Colosseo". A riemergere perfettamente i fori dei pali con tracce di legno e pareti di fango e argilla. Gli scavi hanno documentato anche le fasi storiche del Santuario delle Curiae Veteres, distrutto dall'incendio del 64 d. C. (tanto da lasciare tracce di bruciato sul pavimento), di cui sono state riconosciuti nuovi ambienti datati all'età GiulioClaudia. E in questo angolo di Palatino si legge anche la fine dell'antica città, tra tombe del VI secolo, una calcara di X e un pozzo medievale del XII secolo.
- via: Ecco la Domus di Augusto La casa natale del primo imperatore (Repubblica)
… Repubblica also has a slideshow of the dig site with some of the mosaics and a bit of a fresco … see Martin Conde's flickr photostream for ongoing coverage from the Italian press.
CFP: Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation (Web Conference)
Information for this Web Conference at:
… versions of some papers in Russian are already there (summaries in assorted languages).
Sarcophagus of the Moment
Speaking of the Met (see next post), one of the things my spiders regularly drag back from the interwebs is a sarcophagus photo of some sort, usually from the Met, but sometimes from the Walters. I've been trying to figure out what to do with these (since they are usually quite interesting) and so I'll see if a 'Sarcophagus of the Moment' feature is sustainable. Here's the first entry (from the Met):
This is the one that got me thinking about having such a feature since it is so darned interesting. There is absolutely no concept of scale here … the focus is, supposedly, Theseus and Ariadne, but what really catches your eye are the giant erotes hauling whatever it is that frames the comparatively tiny scenes from the myth. Even more interesting is the upper register with the chariot-driving erotes … one pulled by dogs, one by lions, one by bulls, and one by boars (all, ostensibly, the same scale!).
… there's a larger view at the Met's page, of course, and a couple of photos of the 'ends' … not sure what's on the other side, if anything.
Also Seen: Roman Housing
The Met has added another Roman-related 'thematic essay' to its Heilbrun Timeline of Art History:
Also Seen: 1930s Society Women Dressed as Mythological Figures
I thought I'd mentioned this a few months ago when it first appeared in the Guardian (but maybe I just mentioned it on facebook or twitter) … whatever the case, Flavorwire has reprised (sort of) the Guardian's bit, but includes a slideshow of all the photos … not sure any of them really 'catch my eye', however (can't decide if it's the photography or the 'interpretation' or what) …
- 1930s Society Women Dressed as Mythological Figures (Flavorwire)
Major Roman Military Camp on the Lippe
This is one I've been sitting on waiting for some coverage in English to share … Adrian Murdoch (via his blog) and Lindsay Powell (via facebook) first made us aware of German coverage of what is surely a spectacular find that will keep archaeologists busy for years … this a.m. we are getting some brief coverage from the Telegraph, but the coverage from the Local has more detail:
Archaeologists are celebrating the find of a Roman military camp which was a crucial link in Emperor Augustus' conquest of Germany – after more than a century of looking for it.
The find, near the small town of Olfen not far from Münster near the Ruhr Valley, has already produced a collection of artefacts, not only pottery but also coins and clothing fasteners. These enabled researchers at the Westphalia-Lippe Municipal Association (LWL) to confirm what they had hoped.
"It's a sensational discovery for Roman research in Westphalia," LWL-director Wolfgang Kirsch said in a statement.
He said the newly-discovered Roman camp marks the end of a hunt that started more than 100 years ago to find the "missing link" in the chain of Roman camps on the Lippe River.
"Olfen was strategically very important for the legionaries during the Drusus campaigns in Germania," LWL's chief archaeologist Michael Rind said in a statement.
Roman soldiers used the camp from 11 to 7 B.C. as a base to control the river crossing – which makes the find one of the most important logistical landmarks of the Roman conquerors, he said.
Finding the camp – and its bits of buried treasure – was akin to a scavenger hunt, with clues unearthed slowly over the last century.
In 1890, archaeologists discovered a bronze military helmet near Olfen, leading archaeologists to the area. But it was not until earlier this year that volunteers discovered Roman pottery shards, which sparked action by the LWL. Aerial photography was used to try to identify potential remains of building works, while archaeologists and volunteers searched the area for artefacts which could confirm where the camp was.
They found enough to be sure – and also traced a moat surrounding the camp as well as evidence of a wooden wall that could have protected 1,000 legionaries from attack within an area equalling seven football fields.
The camp's size – relatively small in comparison to other Roman military establishments in the area – along with the construction of its wood and earthen wall and location on the Lippe River, suggest it functioned as a supply depot, according to researchers.
Although the LWL is responsible for five other Roman military ruins along the Lippe, with discovery of some sites dating back to the 1800s, the new Olfen find will likely remain untouched for awhile.
"The monument has up to this point been allowed to lie in the ground widely undisturbed for over 2,000 years – an absolute rarity, and from an archaeological point of view, absolutely ideal.
"Our primary concern is to protect and preserve this monument for the future – and not, to completely excavate it as soon as possible," Rind said in a statement. "The exploration of the camp will probably take several decades to complete."
Discoveries from the association's latest find will be on display from Saturday, October 29, at the LWL Roman Museum in Haltern. The pottery, coins and garment clips will be shown through the end of the year, along with the bronze helmet, the original discovery.
The Local also has a slideshow of some of the finds, including some very interesting Roman coins (but you have to turn your head to see them properly) … I'm sure we'll get some more extensive coverage in the coming days. Adrian Murdoch has also updated his list of German sources in a followup blog post …
Ancient History Alive and Well Down Under
… or again, Up Over … from the Sydney Morning Herald:
THE world of a young person increasingly consists of the right here and the right now but their studies tell a different story.
A record number of high school students sat the ancient history HSC exam yesterday, now one of the most popular subjects among year 12 students.
The study of the antiquated world from Spartan society to Julius Caesar and the ancient city of Pompeii is attracting more students than modern history, which takes in topics such as World War I, the Northern Ireland conflict and Trotsky.
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"We know so much about modern history events from everything around us. It's nice to learn about something completely out of our zone," said Nicholas Saady, a student at Marcellin College in Randwick, where ancient history has become one of the most successful subjects. "It's like a completely different world," said another student, Jack Watts.
More than 12,000 students sat the ancient history exam yesterday, making it the eighth most popular subject for year 12. Meanwhile, modern history has continued to slide down the ranks after being eclipsed by its ancient counterpart in 2004.
"It's a matter of what currently interests students, a bit like fashion," said Catherine Harnack, a history teacher from John Paul College in Coffs Harbour. "I think the modern course is great and it is just being overshadowed because the current fascination with the very ancient past not only in Europe but also now in the Americas in films."
She said the modern course was more politically oriented while ancient history blended political and social history. There is a perception that ancient is easier too, said Toni Hurley, who has taught the subject for 30 years.
"It's accessible to a greater range of students and has the advantage of archaeology, which kids seem to adore," she said.
Just last week we were reading: Classical Languages Doing Well Down Under … they seem to be doing something right down there.
Circumundique ~ 10/27/11
I always feel like something is missing here for some reason:
- Round-Up: October 27 October 27, 2011 (Laura Gibbs)
- In Pompeii-land October 27, 2011 Mary Beard
- Qui Scribit, Obliviscitur October 27, 2011 Michael Gilleland
- 10/26/11 PHD comic: 'Halloween 2011′ October 27, 2011
- Isis and Valerius Maximus October 27, 2011 Roger Pearse
- Yet another wall collapses at Pompeii October 27, 2011 (Sophie Hay)
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi kalendas novembres
ante diem vi kalendas novembres
- 97 A.D. – The emperor Nerva adopts the future emperor Trajan
- 312 A.D – Battle of the Milvian Bridge; Constantine I has a vision and defeats Maxentius to become sole emperor
Primus a Boris
A Pindaric Ode for the Olympics … from the Oxford Student:
An Oxford Classics tutor has spoken of his delight at being commissioned to write a Pindaric Ode to the London Olympics by the city's mayor, Boris Johnson.
Dr Armand D'Angour revealed he was asked last year to write the poem "since as a Classicist [Johnson] knew and had enjoyed" the Ode he had written for the 2004 Athens Games.
Although the poem is under embargo, D'Angour confirmed it was complete and said: "It is written in an authentic metre and dialect of ancient Greek, is translated into rhyming couplets, and contains a number of puns on people's names including that of the Mayor."
D'Angour, described how despite wanting to write in Latin, to distinguish it from his previous Greek Ode, Johnson "wrote to me that he was still 'a bit in love with the idea of a Greek Ode', and added that he had in mind a pun on the Greek word for '(Usain) Bolt'".
"I had previously had in mind some Latin puns such as the words 'Britannis / primus ab oris ('first from Britain's shores', but the Latin letters can be read as saying 'primus a Boris' – 'ah Boris is first')."
"I even tried to think of ways in which it could be performed to music and marching (though my wife put me off the idea, saying that it would be reminiscent of Fascist celebrations)."
"The initial composition took me around a fortnight to complete, and I then spent a few months refining and correcting it. I have a small group of fellow classicists who subjected it to informal scrutiny and made some suggestions, but in essence it has not changed since the original composition."
"I would say it was a challenge, but I was sufficiently on a roll for it not to seem at all arduous, just good fun – which is what I hope its effect on the audience will be. All that remains to say is – Boris for Mayor in 2012!!"
Boris Johnson, elected Mayor in 2008 and up for re-election in 2012, studied Classics at Balliol and has become famous for his love of ancient references and, like Dr D'Angour, was an alumnus of Eton College. Bijan Omrani, a Classics tutor at Westminster, has already had one Ode to the London Olympics published on the Mayor's website.
- via: Oxford don pens ode for Boris (Oxford Student)
If you'd like to see Dr D'Angour's Ode for the Athens Olympics: Pindar and the Athens Olympics 2004 (in both English and Greek). Bijan Omrani's (Latin) ode is here: Ode for the London Olympics by Bijan Omrani.
CFP: A theatre of Justice: aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric
A theatre of Justice:
Aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric
19-20 April 2012, University College London, London
The notion of "performance" has recently attracted considerable scholarly attention both in literary criticism and in cultural history. In fundamentally "performative" societies, such as the Greek and Roman, a "performance" approach seems to be a sine qua non for the understanding of the nature of several genres. Oratory is, certainly, among them: for the Greeks and Romans, oratory was not primarily something they wrote or read, but something they performed before the audience. Despite the significant scholarly advances that have been made on the area of oratory in/as performance, there is still a lot more to be explored, further questions need to be asked and answered.
For example:
What is performance? Suggested definitions of performance based on information offered by Greek and Roman rhetorical texts.
Performance and text: can we reconstruct something as elusive and fleeting as performance from the extant written copies of oratorical speeches?
Why performance matters? What difference does it make in our understanding of the oratorical texts that they were performed?
"Imagine that you are not in a court, but in a theater" (Aeschines 3.153): what is the relation of oratorical performance with theatre?
Features of the "performative" infrastructure of certain oratorical speeches.
Ethopoiia as an aspect of performance.
Our postgraduate conference aims at bringing together not only classicists, but also students from other fields of study such as law, reception and theatrical studies, in order to present their on-going research work in this fertile area.
Keynote speaker: TBA
Interested postgraduate students are warmly invited to submit titles and abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute research paper by Sunday, 18 December 2011 at the latest. Please send your abstracts or enquiries, to both conference organisers:
Andreas Serafim (andreas.serafim.10 AT ucl.ac.uk)
Beatrice Da Vela (beatrice.vela.10 AT ucl.ac.uk)
Boozy Roman Soldier's Find?
From the Shields Gazette:
THE "spectacular" discovery of ancient pottery has revealed how the Romans wined and dined here in South Tyneside almost 2,000 years ago.
And far from sampling the delights of our local brews, it seems they still preferred to ship wines from the Mediterranean to their northern outpost.
Several pieces of a 3ft-tall wine jug have been found during an excavation just outside Arbeia Roman Fort.
The pottery will be stuck together to recreate the metre-high jug, which would have contained numerous litres of wine when it was imported to the fort between AD 250 and AD 350.
The find has been described as "spectacular and significant" by archaeologist Nick Hodgson.
Mr Hodgson is project manager for Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, which conducted the dig at Arbeia with a team of volunteers, from June to September.
He said: "What is special about this is it can be stuck together to see what it originally looked like.
"Containers like this were used for bulk transportation. This is very significant because it is of a rather unusual late Roman type, which only started being imported from AD 250.
"It shows that the Romans still had a taste for Mediterranean wine at that period – they had not gone native and adapted to local beer or wine.
"They were still importing it to South Shields. It's a spectacular and significant find."
The container is made of clay, and includes volcanic rock, and is believed to have been imported on a ship from Campania in Italy.
The jug was found in a roadside gully during the excavations, on the corner of Baring Street and Fort Street, South Shields. Smaller pieces of other similar jugs were also found.
A stone building was also discovered, which suggests there was still occupation and activity in the area in about AD 260, when most civilian settlements outside forts in the north of England had been abandoned.
More than 70 volunteers worked on the 2011 excavation from the UK and abroad, thanks to the Earthwatch Institute, a national environmental charity which supports conservation projects.
It is hoped a community archeology project next year will encourage more local people to get involved with excavations at Roman forts, including Arbeia.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums is hoping to secure £410,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the initiative, which would include excavations, events and research into the eastern section of the wall from its starting point at Wallsend in North Tyneside, to Hexham in Northumberland.
- via: Fort find adds to potted history of Romans' boozing (Gazette)
As regular readers of rogueclassicism are no doubt recognizing, this is yet another example of the assumption — which was challenged in a major way a week or so ago (see: Some Potential Amphora Use Revisionism) — that amphorae always carried wine. Then again, it probably wouldn't be headline-worthy to suggest the soldiers were sitting around spitting the pits out of olives vel simm..
On Shakespeare's 'Small Latin …'
Interesting bit (in the context of a film review) in the Telegraph … here's the incipit:
What do Shakespeare, Keats and Dickens have in common, apart from being great writers, and masters of the English language? The answer is pretty obvious. None of them went to university: to some extent, all three were self-educated. Ben Jonson said that Shakespeare had "small Latin and less Greek", and likewise I don't think Dickens and Keats, despite the latter's Ode to a Grecian Urn, had much of either.
Who is the odd one out, then? Just as easy? Nobody, I think, has ever suggested Keats didn't write that ode and others, or that Dickens wasn't the author of Bleak House and Great Expectations. But Shakespeare – ah, Shakespeare – . So here we go again, with a movie from Roland Emmerich, director of Godzilla, called , opening on Friday. The "Shakespearean thriller" hands the authorship to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, whom the movie, incredibly, has as the love-child and incestuous lover of Queen Elizabeth.
Never mind that Oxford died in 1604, some years before Shakespeare's last plays were written and produced. Such considerations are a mere bagatelle when conspiracies are being revealed. Never mind that nobody at the time attributed the authorship to anyone but the man from Stratford. Evidently, they were all fooled, even Ben Jonson, a fellow playwright who knew William Shakespeare and was not devoid of jealousy.
It is not hard to guess at the director's interest in the authorial conspiracy. But what of those not thinking of box office returns? Snobbery is the reason for their nonsense. The "uneducated" Shakespeare, an actor and theatre manager, who attended neither Oxford nor Cambridge, could not – could he? – have had all the knowledge of Greece and Rome and Italy etc displayed in the plays.
This argument falls flat for three reasons. First, the knowledge isn't that great. Almost all the stuff in the Roman plays is taken – cribbed, if you like – from North's translation of Plutarch's Lives. Indeed, some of the great speeches in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are no more than versifications of North's prose. There are many lines in the plays which suggest that the author had read Ovid's works, but this required no knowledge of Latin. Arthur Golding's marvellous translation of the Metamorphoses was available to him. However, Shakespeare did make mistakes which a better-educated and well-travelled man such as Oxford might not have made. His knowledge of Italian geography is patchy, and he thought Bohemia had a sea-coast. [...]
via: Only foolish snobs don't believe in William Shakespeare (Telegraph)
… it goes on, but not much more is Classics-oriented. One might cynically observe that there seem to be an awful lot of folks who do seem to thing Julius Caesar, e.g., is 'historically accurate' in regards to dialog between ancient dead guys.
Ancient Studies Week at UMaryland
Nice bit of outreach reported on in the Retriever:
Last week the Ancient Studies Department hosted its annual "Ancient Studies Week." This event held a number of events designed not only to display the wide range of fascinating topics that the department of Ancient Studies explores, but also to give students and faculty who may have not otherwise had the opportunity to become involved in the study of ancient artifacts, literature and art.
There were many interesting events offered to students between October 17 and October 21. Among these was an illustrated lecture by Esther Reed on "Excavating Baltimore Synagogues"; a lecture by Professor Helene Foley from Barnard College on "Medea as American Other"; a presentation by UMBC students on their excavations titled, "Ancient Studies Students Excavate"; and a free trip to the Walters museum.
Professor Foley's lecture on "Medea as American Other," like many of the other events, offered students insight into one of the most prominent aspects of ancient culture, and in this case, of Greek Tragedy.
"I discovered the Medea is the most popular Greek tragedy in the United States," said Professor Foley.
In her lecture, she went on to describe why it has become so popular, in terms of the many relatable contexts that different modernized productions of the play have offered. She showed clips, photos and dialogues from productions where the character Medea represented different cultures, including African American versions and Japanese kabuki.
"I thought it was very interesting how they look at this ancient Greek play and used different American contexts," said freshman Dominick DiMercurio II, a Biology major.
It is clear based on this lecture and the other events offered to students this week that the field of Ancient studies, which is sometimes overlooked for more current topics, has a lot to offer students and faculty, even if they are studying in another discipline.
The many applications and contexts that can be derived from these ancient texts and artifacts are notably valuable.
"I think that our society today is intensely preoccupied with the present and that it is very important for us to learn about the past and about our history…there is enormous wisdom in the tradition of Ancient Studies," said Dr. Ellen Spitz, Honors College Professor.
The overwhelming response and attendance at all of these events highlighted the week's enormous success. To everyone who participated in running or attending the events throughout Ancient Studies week, there seemed to be a universal feeling of connection to and reverence for the ancient traditions that helped to shape many of our own cultural constructs.
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Nick Reveiz needed the break.
Now the Tennessee linebacker needs it to end.
"Feels like it's been a long time since I played football," the Vols senior said Wednesday. "We haven't had the pads on in a while, so we're ready to get back to practice and excited about hitting again."
That chance is coming again this afternoon when UT returns to the practice field for the first official workout with the coaching staff for the Music City Bowl later this month against North Carolina. And based on some of the comments from Reveiz during his press conference, the Vols should expect a grueling couple days once the pads are put back on.
-- Given the momentum of November, is there part of you that wanted to just keep practicing?: "I don't know about practicing all the way throughout, because I feel like coach Dooley did a really good job and this whole year has been about trusting coach Dooley and the process that he's put us through. I think it was real smart to let a lot of guys recover. The season is long, and it's really 13 weeks of practice as far as game preparation, then you've got preseason before that, so you just have nicks and get banged up and all those kind of things happen. I think it was really good to have recovery and also have time to start conditioning again so you don't completely get out of it. I think it was a good thing for us."
-- What are you expecting from this next phase of bowl prep?: "It's a little smash-mouth football coming up. We've got a little grueling stretch to be honest, but I think that's good. I've never done bowl practice like this, and I've been through three other bowl preparations and I think coach Dooley did a great job. Obviously we've still got to go through a lot more phases, but I'm liking it so far and I feel like our team is going to get a lot of good work coming up."
-- What have you seen from North Carolina?: "Good, pro-style offense. Great quarterback, and obviously they've had a lot of guys whether it was getting hurt or other reasons that they aren't playing. I guess if you count back to spring ball to now, there's a lot of guys missing. But it's incredible how deep they are. They have a lot of good players, lot of good running backs, lot of good skill players.
"Obviously they were hurt in that area early in the season and they still have great players behind them. I don't even know names on their team, I just know they have a lot of good players. We've watched a lot of film of them playing, and they do a lot of shifts, lot of motions and just try to confuse you a lot. It's going to be key for us to be disciplined, knowing our fits and knowing our alignments and what we need to do when they react."

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Jay Jay McCullough and Jordan Leggett are promising newcomers, still dealing with volumes of information and adjusting to the speed of the game.
Sam Cooper is the new rock - or at least that's what he's working his way toward becoming.
Over the past two seasons under Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris, Dwayne Allen and Brandon Ford combined for 90 receptions and 16 touchdown catches.
Cooper, a rising redshirt junior entering his fourth season in the program, has no idea if he'll post similar numbers this season. He's the most experienced mainstay in the five-man crew, with solid ability as blocker and improving skills as a pass-catcher.
He knows that for the Tigers to avoid a drop-off at the tight end position, he has to take all phases of his game to a higher level.
"I'm just trying to be a student of the game," said Cooper after the Tigers' first full-scale scrimmage last week. "I've had two great role models in Dwayne Allen and Brandon Ford. I'm spending time in the film room, learning from them. All their confidence on the field came from preparation."
Cooper said he's working on all phases of his game.
"There are always a million things you can do better," he said. "It's like things, like make sure of every single step in your footwork...I've been working on my ball-skills, catching the ball, watching the ball in.
"I want to make every play I can make for the team, whatever those numbers may be."
In mentoring younger teammates like Leggett and McCollough, Cooper says he finds himself growing in his own understanding of the game.
"It's been fun mentoring the younger guys, but at the same time, they're helping me," he said. "It's definitely a give-and-take relationship. We've got Jordan who's come straight in out of high school, and helping him out helps me also. Helping teach him blocking assignments helms me to understand them better."
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Two and half years ago, when we first moved to Renton, our family went for a walk one day in our new neighborhood and ended up at Teasdale Park. I was excited to find a vibrant and well-maintained park alive with activity – a soccer scrimmage for grown-ups was taking place on the lawn, my husband was invited to join a pick-up basketball game on the courts, and several families were gathered around the playground watching their kids play together. I walked up to the building by the park entrance, thinking I could get more information about park activities, classes, camps, and events going on there. Instead I found a sign taped to the door, "Due to budget restrictions we are no longer able to operate the City's community park buildings."
My heart sank. I peered in the window and saw an empty room full of potential. At the unused foosball table I envisioned teenagers laughing and having fun. I imagined books and board games filling the empty shelves and craft supplies behind the closed cabinet doors. There was a folded-up table leaning against the wall and I pictured it upright, surrounded by kids getting help with homework, sharing a snack, or making craft projects. I could practically hear the buzz of activity that comes with a room full of children interacting with one another, learning, and having fun. Was it the residual energy of a once-thriving, now-closed rec center or the potential energy of once-again-thriving-time in the future? Both, I think. It was at that moment that I knew I had to do whatever I could to make it thrive again.
Shortly afterward, I made some calls to inquire about the building and the possibility of opening it up as an after school program. I learned that the building had been closed for over 5 years and rented out occasionally by private groups, but, due to budget cuts the city had no plans to reopen it on a daily basis. I was discouraged, and looking back, I probably gave up too easily. When my son started school at Talbot Hill Elementary nearby and I found there was no after school program available, I joined the PTO and and became active in finding enrichment programs to bring to the school. Two years later I am proud of the fact that we have brought in Mad Science workshops and once-a week karate, drama, dance, craft classes, and a chess club through the non-profit Eastside Enrichment. Still, these classes can be expensive for families on a limited budget and they don't take the place of consistent daily after school care so I did some research to find out what types of after school programs there are available in Renton. Here's what I found:
The Cedar River, Highlands, Skyway, and Fairwood libraries offer StoryTime for younger children, StudyZone tutoring for school-age students, and host the Renton Teen Advisory Board to discuss leadership and volunteer opportunities. Days and times for these activities vary and information can be found on the KCLS website. Most of these programs, however, require parental supervision and transportation if you live in a Renton neighborhood without a library.
Downtown Renton has Harambee for teenagers which houses the CryOut! after school program that provides homework help, musical enrichment (they have their own recording studio), and leadership opportunities for teenagers.
The Highlands Neighborhood Center and North Highland Neighborhood Center both offer "Club Highlands" - successful after school drop-in programs run by the parks and rec department for children ages 6 and up. and They offer craft classes, fitness opportunities, movie events, and Wizards of the Coast-sponsored role playing game workshops. The Renton Community Center is also a great resource with various sports, dance, music, and craft classes offered through out the year. The Kennydale neighborhood as well has two active recreation centers through which the Renton Parks and Rec department offers enrichment class opportunities. I applaud our city for using our tax dollars wisely and providing safe places for kids to learn and play.
Unfortunately, none of these facilities are easily accessible to the Talbot and Benson Hill neighborhoods. This is why it's so important that the empty Teasdale Park rec center be reopened. Many of the families who first moved to this area when it was being built in the 70s and 80s enjoyed the rec center when it was thriving years ago. My older neighbors have told me stories about the ballet classes, boy scout meetings, and summer camps their children attended there. As these families downsize and and move to other areas, new families with children are moving in. I've made it my goal to reopen the Teasdale Recreation building so that those of us who live here now can enjoy it just as those before us did.
You can help! Please sign my petition asking the City of Renton to reopen the Teasdale Park Rec Center: https://www.change.org/petitions/the-city-of-renton-reopen-the-teasdale-park-recreation-center.
I'm planning to present my proposal to the upcoming "Fixing Renton's Future" February Meetup this Saturday at 1:00 at Luther's Table sponsored by Rely Local, as well as the Open House held by the Department of Community and Economic Development at City Hall on February 28th from 5:30-7:00.
Help me keep the conversation going. Does your child's school have an after school program? Do you know of any other after school programs in Renton? Do you have any memories of the Teasdale Park Rec Center when it was open to the public? What activities/classes/events do you look for in a community center? Share your thoughts in the comments section below. I'd love to hear them.


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At the end of 2013, the Washington Post's electoral number-crunchers calculated that the Democrats had a 1 percent chance to win back the House of Representatives. Barely into 2014, that already seems pretty optimistic. In the last week, several Democratic representatives saw the writing on the wall and voted with their feet, or with their seat, and announced they will be retiring.
The President's agenda for 2014, write Manu Raj and Carrie Budoff Brown of Politico, is a mix of initiatives designed to energize the Democratic base of women, students and blue-collar workers, and to attract independent voters — aka the parts of the Obama presidential coalition he needs to turn out in the midterms.
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There was plenty to howl about and enough to keep all the four-footed friends tails a-a wagging. The First Annual FurBall hosted by the Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation on Feb. 23 at Royal Oaks Country Club raised over $22,778. The sold-out event featured entertainment by The Bouffants musical group and a four-course gourmet dinner prepared by Royal Oaks Event Facility"s new chef, Greg Austin.
In addition to the more traditional Gala entertainment, one highlight of the evening was the Adopt-a-Pet Parade" where 6 rescue animals were showcased to the crowd. The animals were all which are ready for adoption and highlighted the foundation"s mission of working closely with area rescue groups. Blount Care, Animal Works and ARFNets all had participants in the Adopt-a-Pet Parade.
"I am delighted with the overwhelming show of support we received from the community. We knew we had a great evening planned when we sold-out of tickets in less than three weeks, and we were right. Special thanks go out to our artist community and all of the local businesses that donated goods and services for our auction," said Chris Protzman, Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation president.
All proceeds from the FurBall will go towards the New Blount County Animal Center project. Pet Safe, Coldwell Bank Nelson Realty, Journal Broadcast Group and the Maryville Daily Times were presenting sponsors this year.
Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit organization established to introduce and promote programs to improve animal welfare in Blount County Tennessee and the surrounding areas of the Great Smoky Mountains. To learn more about how you can help with fundraising efforts, visit http://www.smokymountainanimalcare.org.


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It's that time of year again, when we are all scrambling to get the kids fed in the morning and out the door. In our house, we are lucky to even get the kids to eat breakfast, let alone, something good for them. Since we often struggle with Back to School Breakfast Ideas, we thought maybe some of you do as well. So we put together a few ideas that we thought you may like.
One of our favorites are these Zucchini Raisin Muffins, and of course, with the over abundance of zucchini in the garden, they are perfect!
The combination of zucchini and raisins, makes these muffins really moist as well as giving them a delicious flavor! You can certainly make up a couple batches of these, freeze them and have them ready for a busy weekday breakfast!
Another idea for a quick breakfast are these Biscuit Bowls. Cook everything up ahead of time, and just pop them in the microwave and you have a warm breakfast in minutes.
Even though pancakes seem like they would take too long, they really don't. Have bags of Pancake Mix ready, with the additional milk and eggs needed, and in minutes you have pancakes ready to put on the hot griddle.
Same as the Biscuit Bowl, cook these Biscuits and Sausage ahead and simply re-heat in the microwave. Add a slice of cheese and you have your own Sausage Breakfast Sandwich, just like you get in the drive-thru! Need to freeze them? There are instructions for that too!
A moist muffin that is perfect for a quick breakfast. Recipe from PocketChangeGourmet.com
- 1 1/2 cups Flour
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2 cup Oil
- 2 cups Zucchini, shredded
- 1/2 cup Raisins
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, fill a muffin tin with cupcake liners
- In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients and whisk together
- Combine eggs and oil, add to dry ingredients and blend just until combined
- Mix in the zucchini and raisins
- Bake for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean
- To freeze, cool completely and place in a freezer bag, remove air and store in freezer for up to 2 months.
- To thaw, place in fridge overnight or on the counter for several hours.
More Back to School Breakfast Ideas
- Best Ever Fruit Smoothie
- Zucchini Bread
- Blueberry Muffins
- Breakfast Burritos from Eat at Home
What is your go to breakfast on a busy morning? Share with us!
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July 31, 2014
It's day two of the he multi-million dollar lawsuit against a Washington, DC, dry cleaning store. Plaintiff Roy Pearson testified the loss of his pants caused him traumatic suffering and warranted expensive compensation.
Pearson testified that he was beginning his new job as an administrative law judge in 2005, and wanted to make a good impression by wearing his expensive collection of suits during his first week on the job. When the Custom Cleaners dry cleaning shop did not return his suit pants in time, Pearson had to make other arrangements to dress well for work.
Pearson cites DC consumer law in his belief that a sign posted in the shop imposes obligations on Custom Cleaners that the shop did not fulfill. The sign read "Satisfaction Guaranteed."
Pearson argues that every day the sign was displayed, a new violation of law took place. That compounding helps explain part of the damages Pearson wants to recover. Originally Pearson asked for $67 million. As the case progressed, he amended the amount to more than $50 million.


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im a bit shitty they didnt improve the camera..... 2MP is pretty standard, especially considering 5MP is happening in phones now
I think it may be time to leave Windows Mobile! :)
Can it plz mms now? If so bye bye ATT Tilt.
Price is great but I am really disapointed on the features: no front facing camera for video conferencing... + cheap camera
July 11? Is this a joke? The for $199 I am fine with a 2mp camera. I'm miffed at the release date.
What are you talking about. This is the phone ever and you can't wait a little less than a month for it. Patience is a virtue, you know.
sorry i meant best phone ever
I'm a bit disappointed in having to wait a month as well. I guess after waiting out a 2 year sprint contract and waiting this long for iphone 2.0 one more month isn't the end of the world.
Would very much like for it to be much sooner though!
@ animal; it's not so much patience is not a virtue it's more about closing down stores which signals that release is imminent and then not releasing it for a month. All the pre-interviews that I read were signaling "days" in response to questions by reporters. I feel it's misleading. I agree this appears to be the best phone ever. Bye Bye Tilt.
Nothing really surprising about the iPhone 3G, except for the price. I'd consider upgrading my current iPhone if I could get $200 for it. I paid $250 for it.
It seems like this price should help the market share explode. No word yet whether or not the Data plans will cost more though?
I have heard it has metal keys?...does it actually have a real keyboard?
Question to current Iphone users. Does the current (non 3g version) have threaded testing. I went from a Treo (with threaded) to a Tilt (without threaded) and I have to say texting is not nearly as usefule without threaded messaging. TIA.
I think it means the side buttons are metal. No keyboard.
rogueinvogue, current iPhone has threaded texting.
climbing narc, data plans don't change just because you make a shift from 2.5G to 3G -- they're all the same, at least in the U.S.
What about this post that says 3g service will cost $30 a month:
Will it be possible to download iTunes store over 3g network?
what a joke. Same camera! No flash! Only thing that is good is the price but wait till you see the data plan! Apple dropped the ball. Stock will hit 150 by friday!
No copy / paste = LAME!!
After seeing all the features it has, I think this phone is awesome! Having said that it is awesome, there is one thing I don't like. AT&T wants $30 for the data plan plus $39.99 for the voice plan, and $5 for text messaging, which adds up to $75 minimum for iPhone service with minimum text messaging. That is A LOT of money per month to be entering into a TWO-YEAR contract for just a cell phone! AT&T is going to turn off a lot of people over this!
One more thing ... does anyone know how difficult it is going to be to get an iPhone 3G during the first few days? Will each store only have ten phones, or will there be thousands? Does anyone know?
now everyone is gonna have one. Kinda kills the antsy public fame from having one. Its like having a Ferrari - just like everyone else on ur blokk......
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will iphone come in to indonesia?? i just exited and wait.does any one have a info ?
is the price 199 includes 2 yr contract?
wow $199 tht is pretty cheep 4 an iphone... i wonder y they made it so cheep... but now i can aford it.. by by razr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just can't believe that it will not available in indonesia this year. It's a country with more than 230 million people! Even nokia always release their latest one in indonesia. I'm definitely sure if iphone available this year in indonesia, it will hit nokia market!
Dude...if you're from Indonesia you have much more to complain about than the iphone.
Does anyone know if the iPhone will still be $199 or $299 if i don't join the plan and just get the phone?
the iphone will not be sold unless
u sell ur soul to at&t n sign the 2yr
contract wich is the main reason why at&t lowerd the price on the fone, best way to do it is buy cancel the plan after 30 days then
unlock it so u can whore out the fone
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July 6th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
the iphone will not be sold unless u sell ur soul to at&t n sign the 2yr contract wich is the main reason why at&t lowerd the price on the fone, best way to do it is buy cancel the plan after 30 days then unlock it so u can ***** out the fone
But if you cancel the plan, won't they give you a huge fine?? And doesn't Apple sell them without a plan (and for how much??) I am leaving the country at the end of this month, and want to take the new iPhone with me... without plan! Please advise
I just want to know? When does iPhone 3g is being released officially in the international standard? Cause i really are curious, about when it could used internationally and officially? Rumor has it that the present iphone have not be officially been sold as a official goods, while people have jack it and do all sort of stuff that the apple industry have notice. So when?
I've seen this phone in Asia, somewhere in the Philippines and Europe countries last Christmass, Why USA are always late on technology? I mean you can see this high tech machine first somewhere out there.
dude, check out your itunes, go to itunes store, country = indonesia,
it tell dude, iphone will be in indo .
hehehehehh (no illegal/ crack iphone any more.... soon)
Why Iphone 3G didn't come to Malaysia as we have been waiting for ages already. When will it onboard here? We don't even have agent here too. Why?
this is the day! haha! must have one!!!! =)
is it here in the philippines?? think not!! hmp!
All iphone 3G lovers in India...all of us will have 2 wait 4 much long coz the new iphone 3G cant b hacked..its noway possible 2 hack the new iphone 3G..so u can only have a iphone 3G with a contract with either vodafone or airtel..n this contract will cost u a lot..we eill have 2 pay a genuine sum 4 d next 24 months..wich may costs extra rs.10000..haha...but that is really sad..
iphone a very interesting phone but its price cant be that
they r gonna increase it i think when it releases out
they r not gonna give it for only $200 never this is not possible
apple is fooling us they will increase the price of iphone it will cost a $150 more than the original version
this thing is sweet. the relevant elephant has a pretty interesting article about China, the iphone, and what it all means to us. http://www.therelevantelephant.com/blog/entry/madeinchina_introduction
hey!!! why the iphone it can't be go phone too
i cant pay a contract :(
i want iphoneee... yes indeed, indonesia is a big market, but how much does it cost when it arrive?
hei...i think all of you r wrong...its 200$ bcause its made of plastic instead of metal. APPLE's motto is cheap but sell many! hey..rumours r telkomsel will bring iphone 3G to indonesia. NO RUDE COMMENTS PLEASE THANK. BTW DYUUHHH, IT WILL PROBABLY COST 2 MILLION RUPIAH. CHEAP!
Can you please let me know how much does the Iphone 3G 16GB cost and how do I go about ordering on line. I'm writing you from Athens,Greece. Thank you for your time.
okay, im on a contract with my mom who has a razr and i an old iPhone which broke, wanna get a new 3G 1 but cancel data and just use voice like i did with my old iPhone. what i've heard so far:
1: Get the phone and plan for a month so they actually SELL it to you with no fuss, after 30 days or whatever tellem you broke it, and that you switched to your old phone (lol razr). but keep using the iPhone 3G anyway but block all data (what i did last time but just cancelled it, without the lieing story)
2. If you do that you are baaahhhd! apple will get you and make you give it back but for a 10% refund- Apple wins! (im thinking here people mean to say if you cancel the ENTIRE plan)
3. you wont get wifi or edge OR 3G if you cancel the data plan!
4. Suuuure, cancel the data part,you just pay a one time fee (yea- OOFFFF????)
"i've changed my plans all the time and found that they don't charge you for taking data off"
ANYWAY it would be nice to get some advice from someone whos ACTUALLY done it, but i will take anything. my original plan was the first idea above. and if that didnt go well sell the phone on ebay:unlocked (which i can do) and make an easy $700. no lie people, look foh yoh self, theenn switch back to old iPhone, just pay $250 to repair the cracked screen, sigh.
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At last!! Iphone 3G enter Indonesia!!! The Grand launch will be held on March 20th on Pacific Place. And it's price is so expensive !!! Non-contract IPhone 3G 16GB cost IDR 11,000,000 or almost US$ 1000 !!!
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Have Apple looked at these postings, I doubt it, as they really HAVE NOT upgraded the phone sufficiently, but just gone for the kill in order to open up their share of ther market, I bought the 2nd generation phone and I have used it almost every day, ( battery life sucks ! )
I have been buying ,studying and using mobile handsets since Motorla carphones were the norm. I have tried and tested them all, this Apple phone is a gimmick, and well worth having for the simple reason, it's a state of the art gimmick, a must have. Forget the camara, Apple did,forget the bluetooth,Apple did,forget all the other bits & pieces that you'd expect to find ( or SHOULD FIND... ) APPLE DID. After all, Apple DO know what they are doing. Best point, the music facility, it has finally taken my focus away from Sony walkmans after 30 devoted years to cassettes and cd's.
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A quick thinking tourism operator has averted disaster for a little male seal who had become entangled in a piece of plastic commonly used to secure boxes.
Werribee Open Range Zoo's baby hippo is now on public display.
Like all new born babies, the calf will need time to rest and viewings will be subject to change and cancellation.
The new Lemur Island exhibit was officially opened today by Minister for the Environment Ryan Smith.
Nine Ring-tailed Lemurs are busily exploring their spacious new home.
Visitors to the innovative exhibit will be sharing that space with the active and agile Lemurs.
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A new partnership was launched at Melbourne Zoo last week, with Zoos Victoria joining together with AGL Energy Ltd (AGL) to launch Victoria's first, dedicated Marine Response Unit.
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The entire team at Werribee Open Range Zoo are saddened by the passing of Cheetah Kaidi, who was euthanased today following a deterioration of a pancreatic condition.
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A Child-Driven, Child-First Future
When we look at the political future of our nation, all can easily seem bleak. The challenges are ever-growing, and our efforts are a murmur against the thunderous tide coming our way. While I watch and fight that which threatens America's greatness with grave concern, I have a different vision for the future. That vision lies in the power of children, and more specifically foster children.
Let's take stock of what is true. In my home state, the California Youth Connection (CYC), an advocacy group run by and for current and former foster youth, is a clear political force. With hundreds of dedicated members and the ability to organize efficiently, California politicians listen to what CYC has to say.
The founder of CYC, Janet Knipe, has taken the model and applied it on a national scale, signing up affiliated youth-run advocacy groups in Indiana, Virginia, Mississippi, and Oregon under the umbrella of the National Foster Youth Action Network. This summer the affiliated Oregon Children's Action Network vociferously lobbied for college tuition waivers for former foster youth. I delighted as my Google alerts and Facebook pages popped up with familiar names--Pamela Butler and Jamie Hinsz--cogently arguing their points on TV and in newsprint.
Across the nation in Massachusetts, the Department of Children and Families is working with young people to create the Massachusetts Network of Foster Care Alumni. In neighboring Connecticut, I had the chance to visit with current foster youth who were part of Casey Family Services' Youth Advocacy Lead-ership Academy. While I was discussing the use of guerilla media tactics, I mentioned all the other youth groups across the country and one young man matter-of-factly said, "We just got to get everybody together and bang this out." Indeed.
It is further south in Washington, DC, where we see the cohesion of the child-driven, child-first political movement at its apex. Since 2003, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) has hosted a very special group of summer interns on Capitol Hill--foster youth. This summer, 15 young leaders worked in offices ranging from that of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to Representative and presidential candidate Michele Bach-mann (R-Minn.). The internship culminated with a Congressional Briefing in which the youth presented their policy recommendations in a report entitled "The Future of Foster Care: A Revolution for Change." The report makes recommendations on issues like immigration, education, mentoring, psychotropic drugs, child abuse, and government accountability.
In the report's introduction, CCAI Executive Director Kathleen Strottman, who has mentored and helped scores of youth who have come through the program, reminds us of the power these young leaders have: "It is sometimes said that a true leader is not one who leads you down an already established road, but rather a person who has the courage and the vision to forge a new path... We can no longer sit idly in despair while tens of thousands of our nation's future leaders are deprived of the things they need to achieve their God-given potential."
When that God-given potential is unleashed, the youth voice will be the thunder, and our worries about the future the murmur.


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By Meghann Wilhoite
I have a confession to make: I have a terrible memory. Well, for some things, anyway. I can name at least three movies and TV shows that Mary McDonnell has been in off the top of my head (Evidence of Blood, Donnie Darko, Battlestar Galactica), and rattle off the names of the seven Harry Potter books, but you take away that Beethoven piano score that I've been playing from since I was 14, and my fingers freeze on the keyboard. My inability to memorize music was in fact the reason I gave up on my dream of being a concert pianist—though, in retrospect, this was probably the right move for me given how lonely I would get during hours-long practice sessions…
I've since come to terms with my memory "deficiency," but a recent New York Times article by Anthony Tommasini on the hegemonic influence of memorization in certain classical performing traditions brought some old feelings to the fore. Why did I have to memorize the music I was performing, especially considering how gifted I was at reading music notation (if I may say so myself)?
As Tommasini points out (citing this article by Stephen Hough), the tradition of performing from memory as a solo instrumentalist is a relatively young one, introduced by virtuosi like Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann in the 1800s. Before that, it was considered a bit gauche to play from memory, as the assumption was that if you were playing without a score in front of you, you were improvising an original piece.
I should be clear at this point that I have nothing against musicians performing from memory. Indeed some performers have the opposite problem to mine: the sight of music notation during performance is a stressor, not a helper. Nonetheless, I do feel that the stronghold that memorization has on classical soloist performance culture needs to be slackened.
One memory in particular related to memorization haunts me still. After sweating through a Bach organ trio sonata during a master class in the early 00s, the dear late David Craighead gave me some gentle praise and encouraged me to memorize the piece. "Make it your own" were his words. I was devastated. How on earth was I going to memorize such a complex piece?
In spite of my devastated feelings, I heard a nagging voice in the back of my mind telling me Dr. Craighead was right. If only I could memorize the piece, it truly would be my own. I'd heard before from other teachers that the best way to completely "ingest" a piece was to practice it until you didn't need the score anymore. The lone recital I gave from memory during my college years was admittedly an exhilarating experience; I definitely felt that I had a type of ownership over the pieces, even if I was in constant terror of having a memory lapse. In hindsight, though, I believe my sense of ownership was not a result of score-freedom, but from the hours and hours (and hours) I spent in the practice room preparing for the recital.
Whether or not you are moved by my struggles (being a little facetious here), I think that, in 2013, it is time for us to acknowledge the multiplicity of talents a classical soloist may possess, and stop trying to squeeze everyone into the same box.
Meghann Wilhoite is an Assistant Editor at Grove Music/Oxford Music Online, music blogger, and organist. Follow her on Twitter at @megwilhoite. Read her previous blog posts on Sibelius, the pipe organ, John Zorn, West Side Story, and other subjects.
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4 Responses to "To memorize or not to memorize"
When memorising a piece, all sense of restriction is removed, until you have memorised a piece it's external, once it's commited to your memory it is always at your fingertips wherever you go. I'm a classical and jazz singer and as soon as I get a piece, I learn it accurately and commit it to memory within a few days- then the real work starts. Given, with piano this process takes somewhat longer but I go about the process in the same way.
Thanks Meghann for sharing your personal issues with memorization. So many aspiring musicians experience similar challenges that I conclude there's more going on here than an individual's propensity to memorize. Rather, I believe that our traditions of music education often create memorization difficulties among students due in part to the lack of instruction in deep practice methods that would facilitate learning, memorization, and secure performance.
Nonetheless, I share your view that pianists shouldn't feel compelled to memorize every solo, and I riff on that idea further in my recent article, "Should Soloists Always Perform from Memory?" http://musiciansway.com/blog/2013/01/should-soloist-always-perform-from-memory/
Thanks for reading, Gerald, and for passing along your own take on this topic!
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The reality of this measure is that if it doesnt pass, public safety service will not stay status quo. It will suffer tremendously with possible layoffs to police and fire personnel.
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Money managers under the microscope
Watch hedge fund manager Colin McLean give his market outlook
McLean was speaking today at London leg of the Reuters Hedge Fund and Private Equity Summit.
Written in the stars
It is not often that Reuters journalists carefully take down the words of an investor who regularly consults an astrologer, but then not every investor recorded a 32 percent increase in his portfolio in 2008.
As head of Eclectica Asset Management, Hugh Hendry cuts a figure not often seen in modern-day financial investing: a besuited Malcolm McLaren-esque counter-culture figure rather than a pointy-headed quant analyst.
An unpleasant prospect
There's no shortage of ill will towards bankers at the moment.
But some executives in the private equity and hedge funds industries feel they are getting beaten with the same stick by politicians and the public, despite feeling relatively blameless in this crisis.
BC Partners managing partner Andrew Newington, speaking at the Reuters Hedge Fund & Private Equity Summit in London today, explained.
$3 trillion of hedge fund talent? "Absolute nonsense!"
The once-booming hedge fund industry has shrunk rapidly over the past 9 months to roughly $1-$1.4 trillion, as investors have pulled out their cash following some pretty lacklustre returns.
However, according to Mark Kary, chief executive of Polar Capital, the industry never really deserved to have grown to the best part of $3 trillion in the first place.
Subprime master Paulson's Midas touch
Hedge fund managers may get a lot of stick in these troubled times, but there are some that more traditional investors may want to listen to.
The 53 year-old American, no relation of Hank, is having a good financial crisis. In 2007 he pulled off one of the most lucrative gambles in investment history — amassing a personal fortune of nearly $4 billion betting against the sub-prime mortgage sector.
Regrets, I've had a few
Crosby Asset Management's high-profile deal to buy up funds from collapsed asset manager Forsyth Partners in 2007 just looks worse and worse.
Crosby today said that after further demands by clients to withdraw cash it would scrap plans to merge and remarket Forsyth's funds of hedge funds and instead shut them.
Turn! Turn! Turn!
For all the political noise about hedge fund regulation, today's Turner review looks like a relatively easy set of rules for the industry to stomach.
In his 126-page document, mostly about the banking sector, FSA chairman Adair Turner says the watchdog will demand more information from hedge funds and says regulators should be able make rules in areas such as capital and liquidity if hedge funds start to pose systemic risks or become "bank-like" in their activities.
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Reuters Funds Summit: Madoff, the silent presence
Master-fraudster Bernie Madoff is the invisible guest at an annual fund fest in Luxembourg, the European capital for fund administration.
Even though the former Nasdaq chairman is under arrest thousands of miles away from this discreet financial centre nestled between Belgium, France and Germany, his presence was omnipresent. Fund managers just can't stop mentioning him.
Reuters Fund Summit: Will hedge fund regulation open the door to retail investors?
By Huw Jones
Hedge funds are nothing if not optimistic – they have to be in the current climate.
While holed up in an English country resort last weekend, finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 group of countries agreed that the $1.4 trillion hedge funds sector should be made to register, be directly supervised and provide information about their holdings to regulators who track risk in markets.
from Global Investing:
Reuters Funds Summit: The end of equities?
Another in our series of one-minute managers. This time it is Ken Kinsey-Quick, who heads up multi manager investing at Thames River Capital. He reckons the old days of buying and holding equities over the long term are gone for good. Is he right?


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