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Figure a reasonable price and double it.
$599 X 2 + $1195 for the kit with 22mm lens and M to EF adapter..
You think they can make it 300$ above the T4i kit and a 100$ above 60d kit?
Looking at initial poll votes we can see, how unpredictable this product is
Very possibly. If the G1X is priced at $800, the mirrorless APS-C with interchangable lens ($200) plus M to EF Adapter ($200) will cost a bundle. I do not expect a body only version, since a lens or at least M to EF adapter is needed and no one has any lenses that fit it right now. I would not consider a body only at first.
Compare it with other Mirrorless Cameras, not DSLR's. Thats why Canon is releasing a mirrorless, they seem to be made of gold, and Canon is not going to let Sony or Fujii out price them. Unfortunately, Nikon 1 with its tiny sensor V1 does not compete.
Sony Nex 7 Kit $1349 http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Compact-Interchangeable-Camera-18-55mm/dp/B005IKZU8O/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1342828726&sr=1-1&keywords=nex+7+sony
Fujii X100 Black kit $1599 ($1199 std kit) http://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-X100-Digital-2-8-Inch-Special/dp/B006UL2VKK/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1342828832&sr=1-2&keywords=fuji+x100


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Tens of thousands of songs will now be available for free for those who hold a Dubuque Carnegie-Stout library card. The library is working with Freegal Music Service to allow Carnegie-Stout library card holders to download three songs per week off the music site.
Susan Henricks is Director of Carnegie-Stout Public Library. She says this is something the library has been hoping to do for a long time.
"Freegal is the first product that has been accessible for libraries that offers digital content of music. Many libraries have really leaped over music. We have the CD music, and then it has kind of gone to digital collections and we have never had a model to offer to people." Henricks said.
Henricks says it is a costly service, but the company offered a great discount price in the state of Iowa.
"It was costly. Part of that is because we are actually purchasing the licensed material so that users can keep these songs that they download. What happened is, the company offered a great price for libraries in the state of Iowa. The more libraries that signed up the greater the discount. So it just came to a point that we thought we just had to try this." Henricks said.
The service will help expand the music collection offered at the library to customers. The online music database, Freegal Music Service, will allow Carnegie-Stout library card holders to get three songs per week for free. The site offers tens of thousands of different music labels for the customer to download including Sony.
Will Layton lives near the Carnegie-Stout Public Library. He often spends his time at the library working and listening to music.
He says he is excited to use the new music service offered at the library.
"I think it's a great idea. Actually, when I was in college the library there had a sort of similar system and I did use that. I think it's great that the public library is doing something like this." Layton said.
Songs that are downloaded by library card holders are for the customer to keep and listen to wherever or whenever they want since the music downloaded on "Freegal" is underwritten by the library.
Carnegie-Stout Public Library paid for this new service through their operating budget. If you are Carnegie-Stout Public Library card holder and are interested in using "Freegal" click here.

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by Leslie Soule, guest blogger and author of Fallenwood
So I got a wild itch the other day and it made me want to write a retelling of the Bellerophon myth - you know, the one where Prince Bellerophon slays a fierce monster called the chimera.
The chimera is supposed to have the body of a lion, a goat's head that sprouts from its back, and a tail that is a serpent/dragon. This creature lives in a volcano and breathes fire. It's the stuff that great adventure stories are made of.
But in the middle of researching the various versions of the myth itself, I hit a snag. At one point, Prince Bellerophon resists the temptations of the (presumably beautiful) Queen Anteiea. Besides that she is someone else's wife, we are not given a reason as to why Bellerophon rejects her advances.
I wondered if maybe Bellerophon had a wife - and then I realized that I knew very little about what ancient Greek marriages would have been like. A bit of research was clearly in order.
According to Cyril Edward Robinson's book Everyday Life In Ancient Greece, "[...] When the two sexes saw so little of each other, love matches were out of the question; and the betrothal was arranged by the parents as a strictly business contract." My reaction to this was, "Aw, man! I was SO hoping for some romance. Tell me that it isn't just a notion invented by writers in order to keep the world going 'round! And yet I recalled reading about the love of Odysseus and his Penelope - its intensity despite twenty years of separation and longing.
As I read and thought a little further, I began to realize that ancient Greece was perhaps not so loveless after all. Robinson confirmed this by writing that, "There is much...to show that marriages begun as a business contract developed into a bond of lifelong and heart-felt devotion." So I ended up finding what I was looking for - a reason why Bellerophon would resist temptation. Long live romance!
Coming soon to Decadent Publishing...
Blurb: Fallenwood is the story of a girl named Ash who, running away after the death of her stepfather, finds her way to a strange and magical world. But the world she now finds herself in - a world that was once called Terra Illumina but now is known as "Fallenwood" - is a world threatening to tear itself apart. Magic is the life force of Fallenwood, and if it keeps being used up, everything will die. But magic is a weapon, and weapons are owned for the sake of power. Now Ash must find a way to destroy the Great Crystal - the catalyst through which all magic in Fallenwood is channelled - and meanwhile, the kingdoms are going to war. Can she save Fallenwood before it's too late?
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ESPN: Summer Shootaround - ACC
ESPN put up its basketball analysis for the upcoming 2012-2013 season. I don't expect to much this upcoming season as it consists of 2 seniors, 0 juniors, and the rest underclassmen, but ESPN essentially calls us the basement dwellers of the conference. I wouldn't expect that in the least. For a good laugh check out who they put in as a our Most Important Player!


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Two Church Plans
October 11, 2012 § 1 Comment
Sometimes I don't mind spending a morning with Adobe Illustrator (although most days it's a special kind of torture). So I did that yesterday.
The first image is a simplified plan of an Early Christian basilica in Greece. It is loosely based on a plan of Nikopolis Alpha, but I cut out some of the ancillary rooms joining the narthex.
I also used the Illustrator to sketch a plan of the church at Kalpsi in Eurytania. This church has a spectacular group of mosaic pavements with dedicatory inscriptions. For my purposes, I was only really interested in the location of dedicatory inscriptions so I decided to create a sketch plan. I think it works for a very simplified representation of where the inscriptions appeared.
How's that for a Thursday morning before a day filled with grading and grant writing?
Some Churches in Byzantine Epirus
September 24, 2012 § Leave a comment
I've spent the last week or so perusing M. Veikou's very new book on Byzantine Epirus (Leiden 2012). It's a monumental tome with over 300 pages of analysis and 300 more of figures, catalogues, and a site inventory. I've commented on Veikou's work on this blog before so I was pretty excited to get my hands on her book length treatment of Byzantine Epirus to see how she developed more fully some of the themes touched upon in her article length work.
While I haven't managed to get all the way through the book yet, she has already offered a few really interesting observations that are not so much novel as well documented and conceptualized. As per usual my short observations this morning are based on what I have found useful or intriguing about the book rather than some kind of universal review of the book's merits.
1. Basilica Cemeteries and Byzantine Settlement. Veikou makes the rather obvious argument that the conversion of Early Christian or Early Byzantine churches into cemeteries in the 7th to 10th centuries – a common phenomenon across the southern Balkans – suggests continuity in settlement between the end of antiquity and the beginning of the Byzantine era (pp. 68-72). As far as I know, she is the first to make this leap and while I have some doubts about its application in specific cases (for example, I could imagine the urge to bury ad sanctos could trump the need to bury bodies in the immediate proximity of a settlement), I think she is probably right. She then takes this a step further to note that the use of earlier churches as places of burial might mark the growing willingness to bury the dead near or within settlements during Byzantine period as opposed to outside of settlements as was more common in the Early Christian period. She does, of course, note that the state of the buildings into which later visitors made burials is often unclear with evidence for churches both with standing walls and completely collapsed.
2. Byzantine Churches on Early Christian Foundations. Veikou also compiles a useful list of later churches built on the foundations of Early Christian (or just earlier Christian) buildings (p. 57). While this is hardly a major emphasis in her work, it is an exceedingly useful list for scholars looking to understand continuity of the religious landscape in Greece.
3. Typologies. Throughout Veikou's section on architecture she proposes numerous typologies or adapts typologies for other authors to describe various architectural features present in both religious and non-religious architecture in Epirus. Such thorough typology building has long been standard practice in Greek (and more broadly Continental) approaches to documenting features in the landscape, but for many archaeologists the most persistent fear is that we impose typologies on material that, in turn, begin to dictate in unanticipated ways, our interpretations. The most obvious example of the typology-tail wagging the dog is when we have used typologies as the basis for either absolute chronology or the develop of features through time. In these cases, the logic of the typology (in, say, Byzantine architecture) has run the risk of trumping the evidence from stratigraphic excavation or other forms of dating. That being said, typologies of the type that Viekou developed in her book offers the basis for a common vocabulary to describe various features in the Epiriote landscape, and she makes a particular effort to link the typologies she creates with those existing in other literature (e.g. her grave typology on p. 76-80).
As I said, I've only just started harvesting this book for valuable data and I've only scratched the surface of Viekou's larger arguments regarding the transformation of the Byzantine landscape of Epirus. As a region of the Byzantine world that is both peripheral to the traditional centers of Byzantine control and authority and located in an important liminal zone between the East and West during the Middle Ages, the development of Epirus over these centuries has significant impact on how we understand the limits and character of the so-called Byzantine commonwealth. In other words, more on this book soon.
Human happiness never lingers for long even in the Bakken Oil Patch
August 13, 2012 § Leave a comment
I just returned for a 6 day field season in Western North Dakota. I had to pleasure of working with a great team of archaeologists and historians to document the material conditions and human stories from over a dozen "man camps" in the Bakken Oil Patch.
The Team: John Holmgren (Franklin and Marshall College), Kostis Kourelis (Franklin and Marshall College), Bret Weber (University of North Dakota), me, Richard Rothaus (Trefoil Cultural and Environmental), and Aaron Barth (North Dakota State University).
The team worked together like a series of experienced professionals and collected a remarkably robust body of data from the man camps including intensive descriptions of each camp and a sample of each units, photographs of individual units and of the entire camp from a kite, sketch plans, gps points, and (perhaps most importantly) over 3 dozen interviews of camp residents. We feel fairly confident in asserting that this is the most detailed study of the man camps in the North Dakota Bakken range to date and we will release a report, a press release, and some images from our work over the next week or so with an eye toward presenting a more comprehensive study in the next 6 to 8 months.
This is the cross marking the spot of the now vanished Betaini Norwegian Lutheran Church in the Betaini Cemetery. The oil pump in the background has brought a new prosperity to the region, a new population, and new challenges, while the metal cross marking a vanished church in an isolated cemetery reminds us that this is not the first boom in the fragile country of western North Dakota.
Scenes like this never fail to remind me of Herodotus 1.5:
"For the cities which were formerly great have most of them become insignificant; and such as are at present powerful, were weak in the olden time. I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay."
The Anti-Monument
May 16, 2012 § 2 Comments
The church at Walnut Street is gone.
There is some press coverage in the Grand Forks Herald. As Emily Wright pointed out, sometimes you need to tear down old buildings to make a neighborhood what it used to be (?!).
But it's hard not to think of this…
If you'd like a copy of the new book about the church, The Old Church on Walnut Street: A Story of Immigrants and Evangelical by Chris Price you can get an electronic copy here or a nice paper copy here.
The End of an Old Church
May 15, 2012 § 1 Comment
This weekend, I attended a conference hosted by the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Buffalo that focused on monumentality in the archaeological record. At the end of the conference, we had a short but thought-provoking discussion of anti-monuments. These were monuments that seemed to subvert the very notion of monumentality (which itself was a tricky thing to define).
When I got back to Grand Forks and saw that our old church on Walnut Street was coming down a few days earlier, it got me thinking. (For more on this church, check out Chris Price's excellent history and, if you feel like it, buy a copy of the book here).
The removal of the steeple reminded me of so many mosques in Greece where the top of the minarets have been removed.
The famous granitoid pavement in the foreground presents the contrasting issues of conservation in our community. An old church is more expendable than pavement.
The de-churched steeple was a depressing sight this morning.
The Chlamydatus of Corinth
April 3, 2012 § Leave a comment
In the most recent Hesperia, Amelia Brown has offered an intriguing article on a significant group of Late Roman portrait statues ("Last Men Standing: Chlamydatus Protraits and Public Life in Late Antique Corinth," Hesperia 81 (2012), 141-176). Chlamydatus statues of Corinth depict men wearing the "distinctive long cloak or chlamys" and this dress typically associates these individuals with imperial office. Brown has assembled a group of 7 largely fragmentary, life-sized statues of this kind from around Corinth with 6 of them appearing in the forum area. These status date to the 4th and 5th centuries and represent both a change in Late Roman portrait style as well as the growing political influence of the imperial center at Constantinople of aristocratic representation at Corinth. According to Brown, these statues appear to be associated with imperial rather than local elite. Corinth's position as the seat of the governor of Achaea probably accounts for the number of imperial elite present, but also made it both an appealing location for the display of honorific statues dedicated to men who had contributed to the safety, urban environments, religious life, and culture of the province.
As per usual, I'll let Dr. Brown's work stand on its own merits and recommend it to anyone interested in understand the development and archaeology of Late Roman statuary. Instead, I'll focus on two interrelated but admittedly peripheral aspects of Brown's work.
First, Brown does a nice job of arguing that the Lechaion road was the main area for the display of chlamydatus statues. In her reconstruction of this space of display the chlamys clad statues stood along the sides of the main road into forum area of Corinth. A visitor to the forum area would have passed under the impassive gaze of these statues as they walked along the main artery of the Late Antique city. The Lechaion Road provided access to basic civic amenities like latrines and shops as well as places of display like the Peirene fountain which likely served as an important source of water for the city as well as an area for informal recreation, gathering, and meeting. Thus Corinthians and visitors to the city lived their daily life in and among reminders of the city's imperial patrons.
The Lechaion Road also likely served as the main route of official processions into the city of Corinth. Important visitors from the west would have enjoyed their official adventus (or ritual of arrival) into the city along the wide, colonnaded, grandiose Lechaion Road. The chlamydatus would have watched the passage of fellow elites and their retinues accompanied by city fathers, fellow imperial aristocrats, and by the 5th century perhaps local representatives of the Christian communities. The position of the statues along the road left the main route into the city open, but also provided a permanent audience for ritual processions. The most important men in the city and perhaps province would always be there, standing to honor their fellow elites.
The statue that I was most intrigued by was the so-called Kraneion chlamydatus. This statue was found cut down and reused as a threshold at the Kraneion basilica which dates to the 6th century and stood immediately outside of the eastern Kraneion Gate to the city. The location of the statue near the eastern gate of the city suggests that this might have been an area for display during the Late Antiquity with chlamys clad statues greeting visitors from the east.
Hesperia 81 (2012), p. 145
The reuse of the Kraneion chlamydatus in the Kraneion basilica interesting is that it was cut down for use as a threshold block. It would be easy to recognize in this use of spolia practical concerns; torso of the chlamydatus provided a substantial block of marble suitable for the requirements of a threshold.
I do wonder whether there might be some symbolic considerations as well. The cutting down of the statue would have made it difficult for a visitor to the church to recognize the former function of the block. On the other hand, the process of selecting and cutting down the block must have involved a series of ideological decisions. The chlamys clad man had to be recognized as no longer relevant or important and therefore suitable for reuse. The placement of the block as a threshold offers a nice parallel to the original location of the statue near the gate to the city (or the placement of the other chlamydatus along the processional route of the monumentalized Lechaion Road). In other words, the location of the reused chlamydatus at the threshold to the church finds a nice parallel with their original location in liminal spaces like the gate to the city or a processional way.
One could even go a step further and suggest that the relocation of the chlamydatus statue at the threshold of the church marked out the boundary between the civic world and the works of the church. The shift is more marked when you consider that within the church the congregation stood in the aisles and watched the ranked procession of the clergy. The congregation may have been accompanied by a passive processions of saints standing in the place of the onlooking chlamydatus along the Lechaion Road while the clergy's liturgical procession echoed the ritualized adventus of Late Roman aristocrats into the city.
The physical subordination of the Kraneion chlamydatus at the threshold of the church echoed the gradual suppression of monumental civic space throughout the empire and their replacement with churches tied to the ecclesiastical rather than civic or imperial elite.
Crossposted to Corinthian Matters.
The Martyria of Salona
March 27, 2012 § Leave a comment
This month, Ann Marie Yasin published an important reconsideration of the martyria of Salona in the Journal of Early Christian Studies (20 (2012), 59-112; pdf here?). Martyria are buildings thought to be dedicated to particular Early Christian martyrs and the veneration of their remains. Scholars have long associated the centrally planned martyrium with some of the earliest forms of Early Christian monumental architecture. In fact, they have in some cases seen martyria as the key intermediate step between the veneration of Early Christian ancestors and saints in the catacombs and the explosive spread of basilica style churches in the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries. As with so much in the study of Early Christian architecture, the material remains for the "evolution", as Yasin puts it, from burial to monumental martyrium have not been subjected to particularly rigorous scrutiny, and the archaeology of the type site of Salona which featured three "early" martyr shrines that are central to how we have understood the development of this kind of building is particularly problematic.
Yasin's article, then, subjects the archaeology of Salona to rigorous critique and suggests that the first step to unpacking the complex history of Early Christian architecture is to determine the viability of longstanding arguments for its development at key type sites like Salona. Yasin casts well-justified doubts over the traditional narrative of Christian architectural development and calls for scholars to focus on three particularly problematic areas:
1. The Regional and the Universal. I am working on a paper on monumental Early Christian architecture of Greece. Following the same lines as my dissertation, I am taking Early Christian architecture in Greece as a more or less unified corpus. To my mind, the most remarkable aspect of Early Christian building is the basic uniformity of Christian architecture. This uniformity reflected the institutional structure of church, reinforced the rising status of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and promoted the universal character of the Christian liturgy.
As Yasin points out in her article, this tendency to generalize has caused issues in the past. Scholars have overlooked the particulars of regional development or, more problematic still, the developments of particular sites or buildings. Yasin's work at Salona, of course, also shows some problems with this approach as the archaeological records for many Early Christian buildings – not to mention the attention to detail in the excavation itself – are not conducive to the detailed study of phases. Moreover, in many cases the excavations followed the architecture and was more concerned with demonstrating the validity of longstanding arguments than carefully detailing the remains.
Yasin's restudy of the archaeological reports and publications from Solona suggest considerable ambiguity in the traditional phasing of the buildings casting doubt on the neat narrative that assumed the pre-existence of important tombs which received progressive architectural elaboration.
2. The Trouble with Texts. Yasin points out that part of the difficulty in reading the Early Christian architecture is the tendency to see these buildings in terms of the various martyriological and hagiographical traditions. Yasin has suggested that, first, these textual sources are not only problematic in terms of chronology (and this is compounded by chronological ambiguities in the excavated buildings), but they often owe as much to literary conventions and tropes as local conditions. As a result, these texts do not serve as a reliable guide to the history of the buildings and may, in fact, reflect an imagined past that explains the nature of a standing structure. In short, past communities had as much invested in explaining the nature of the architecture as modern archaeologists, and both have created stories designed to make a useful sacred past.
3. Ambivalence and Ambiguity. A key point seen throughout Yasin's article is that Christian buildings may not have conformed to the clear evolutionary or ritual outlines supposed by modern scholars. In fact, the ambiguity that characterized the archaeological remains of the martyria in Salona might well reflect the ambiguity and tensions present in the buildings as they stood for their ancient audiences. Buildings could and likely did sustain multiple meanings to their audiences. As a result, inscriptions, floor mosaics, and even hagiographic texts provide little to locate these churches within explicit narratives of development. One is tempted to expand this ambiguity to the architecture itself and note that Early Christian (and later) builders were not above mimicking earlier styles, combining features to create visually discordant and confusing montages, or even fabricating historical inscriptions. The willingness of ancient builders to play with architecture and to engage the viewer in a way that multiple potential narratives become possible and the architecture of the building would actively work to confuse simply interpretations.
The tension between the easy readability of Early Christian architecture in general and the complex features, architectural relationships, and narratives associated with specific sites communicated the tension between the general (perhaps universal) and the local in Christian history. The historical nature of the Incarnation, so central to Christian theology, and the universal power of the Christian God found clear parallels with the general power of the institutional church and the local traditions of the sacred.
Architecture, Access and Agency in Early Christian Greece
March 20, 2012 § Leave a comment
This past week, I've been working away on a paper about monumentality in Early Christian architecture in Greece. Most of the work has involved re-familiarizing myself with my dissertation (which is almost 10 years old now… yikes!), but I have spent some of the week pondering the way in which monumental architecture communicated social, political, and economic ideas to a Late Antique Greek audience.
In my dissertation, I suggested that the organization of the Christian liturgy combined with the arrangement of space within the Early Christian basilica served to promote the privileged position of the clergy to the growing Christian community. The clergy had access to the most sacred areas of the church, performed key roles in the liturgy, and wore distinctive clothing in a hierarchically arrange procession. Moreover, the architecture of Early Christian churches presented a series of barriers starting with western narthex which separated the nave and aisles of the church from the atrium or exterior space, to the barriers that separated the congregation in the aisles from the central nave, to the chancel barrier that separated the eastern end of the church from the processional space of the main nave. These barriers typically served to emphasize a sense of privilege dependent upon access and, in combination with the Christian liturgy promoted hierarchical separation between members of the clergy and the laity.
Nothing in this line of argument is particularly novel. In fact, scholars have observed that Late Antique society had a growing interest in hierarchical display ranging from great urban processions and growing emphasis on the social distinction offered by Late Roman paideia to the carefully articulated ritual spaces of the new capital at Constantinople. While some of these practices had roots reaching back to the early Roman Empire, it seems probable that the changing nature of authority in Late Antiquity required more explicit gestures to enforce distinction between groups within society vying for social and political authority. It makes an easy, tidy argument to suggest, then, that the church invested in buildings and rituals that reinforced social distinction by manipulating access and performing hierarchy.
The only issue is, of course, that the church was not the only institution that invested in these buildings. A wide range of social actors invested in the construction and decoration of churches in Early Christian Greece. To be sure, some buildings appear to be the products of the institutional church. For example the Church Alpha at Nikopolis appears to have been founded by the Bishop Dometios who celebrated his donation with elaborate mosaics and flowery inscriptions (which quoted Homer!) A later bishop of the same name added some decorative flourishes.
Elsewhere, however, we have buildings that appear to be the product of imperial patronage or constructed by members of the local aristocracy. In some instances, it would appear that the numerous members of the local community chipped in to decorate a building. In one case, a donor provided only a half a solidus to the decoration of the church. This would be a modest donation for anyone above the poorest class of urban or rural laborers.
So, if the institutional church used architecture to promote the growing authority of the ecclesiastical hierarchy in Greece, they did not do this without the support of members of the elite and the communities in which these churches stood. Are we to understand that the church exerted a kind of hegemony over certain segments of the Greek population which allowed it to leverage the wealth of these communities to promote its interests? Or was this a more complex form of collusion where independent social actors from across Greek society found common cause in promoting the church as a way to gain access to the political, social, and spiritual power vested in that institution?
I'm increasingly seeing church architecture as both high permeable to a range of actors and, at the same time, the same time space central to the (re)production of the church's role in Greek and Late Antique society more generally. Looking carefully at these buildings – after some time away – has reminded me how messy the process of social and political change can be and that institutions rarely command unambiguous authority.
Monumentality in Early Christian Architecture
March 1, 2012 § Leave a comment
In May, I am going to a conference on the topic of monumentality in archaeology. When invited, I fired off a rather superficial abstract that talked about how Early Christian church architecture in Greece both used existing, earlier forms of urban and domestic architecture to communicate the new status of the Christian religious elite, but also subverted these forms by establishing new relationship between donor, visitors, and the social structures that informed traditional elite architecture.
This week, I've slowly turned my attention to this paper after completing a revised draft of the historical conclusion to the PKAP Survey Volume.
To begin, I re-read Kafka's short story "The Great Wall of China". The fictional narrator of the (obviously fictional) story considers the construction of the Great Wall of China and tells of how it was built piecemeal across China to preserve the moral of the workers. According to the narrator, the very enormity of the task ran the risk alienating the labor of the individual worker by reducing it to something inconsequential by comparison. To combat this, the workers built a single section of the wall – often in a remote location – and returned home for a time of recovery before heading out again like departing heroes to build another section. Thus the wall came to represent the entire community of China – and the narrator himself who hailed from the south, not the north where the wall stood – could take tremendous pride in its construction even though the purpose and extent remained as obscure and paradoxical as the body of the Emperor himself who called for the Wall's construction. In Kafka's story (hardly the only one in his oeuvre that featured architecture), the Wall represented the enormity of the Empire, the incomprehensibility of the Emperor, and the tension between the fragile individual and abyss of time, space, and power that surrounds human existence. (And I have to assume that the story means many other more significant, literary, and existential things!). Monumentality formed the delicate link between the individual and things much larger, more abstract, and more remote.
This story contributed to my larger meditation of monumentality in the discourse of Late Antiquity (or the Early Christian period). Shifting attitudes toward monumental architecture has represented a key indicator in social, religious, political, economic, and cultural change in the ancient world. Indeed, scholars often argue that the end of the ancient world came with the neglect and sometimes destruction of the pagan temple and the construction of Early Christian basilica style churches in their place. The widespread abandonment of basilica style churches, in turn, marks the end of the transitional period between ancient and "Medieval" or "Byzantine" forms of architecture, and scholars have neatly synced the transformation of architectural styles with political, economic, and social changes.
The link between architecture and social change often comes through the study of patronage practices. If we understand the social practices that led to the construction of Early Christian architecture to be largely identical to those that produced earlier forms of monumental architecture, then we can argue that these shift in building types is largely stylistic or a matter of taste or practice. In other words, we can see monumental architecture as evidence for continuity between the ancient world and Late Antiquity. If we see different social mechanisms producing the Early Christian monumental building boom, then it becomes easier to claim that the shift in large scale building practices represents a shift in the organization of society on a more profound level. Along these lines, scholars have seen Early Christian architecture as evidence for discontinuity between antiquity and the Middle Ages. The issue is, of course, that we still do not understand the mechanisms that produced the boom in Early Christian architecture and how these intersect with, say, changing attitudes toward the poor among the same group of people (and the study of Late Antique attitudes toward poverty is a particularly fertile ground for recent study).
The flip side of this concern with patronage, of course, is how these buildings were understood by their audiences across the Late Antique world. Not only are did these building represent a point of contact between massive and abstract institutions like the church and the bodies of individuals living throughout the Early Christian world, but they also represent a place of critique around which community responses to new forms of religious or social organization could cohere.
As Kafka articulated in a fictional context, monumental architecture had the potential for alienating the individuals responsible for their construction as the tension between their massively concrete appearance comes all too close to the abstract entities, institutions, and ideologies which they represent. This alienation provides fertile ground of critique inscribed on the monuments themselves, on the bodies of the laborers who produced them, and in the attitudes toward the buildings in broader social discourse.
More Indigenous Archaeology on Cyprus
January 4, 2012 § Leave a comment
Over the past few years I've played around with the idea of an indigenous archaeology in the Greek speaking Mediterranean. In doing so, I have identified certain practices as drawing on traditions found in hagiographic literature (saints' lives). The most obvious example is the practice of inventio when a pious individual excavates a sacred object, usually an icon. I have written extensively on this blog about inventio and dreams (go here and scroll to the bottom of the post for a little gaggle of links; here's an example of this from Cyprus).
There are also practices preserved in hagiography through which local communities mark out ruined buildings as special sites or sacred space. Saints' lives frequently preserves stories that feature commemorative practices associated with long abandoned or ruined buildings. Often these practices are as simple as pilgrimages to ruined churches for prayers. In other cases, saints or pious communities rebuild ruined churches.
In Cyprus, we have seen how acts of piety have influenced the archaeology of Christian buildings (for example here and here). Recently I was re-reading part of P. Flourentzos, Excavations in the Kouris Valley II: The Basilica of Alassa. (Nicosia 1996), and re-discovered this passage (p. 3):
During my first visit to the area of Ay;a Mavri to conduct the rescue excavation, I noticedthat two stones in the form of an angle was visible it the north-western side of the area. Moreovera great concentration of loose stones had accumulated on the surface round a modern quadrangular structure with two holes at the front and a little iron door (PI. II: 2).
Inside the structure was an icon of Ayia Mavri (Saint Mavri), where the villagers often placed lighted candles as offerings. On the surface a small part of the apse of the Holy-of-Holies was also visible.
All those features attracted my interest and I decided to open the first trench at that particularpart of the area. This first trench, which I call Trench I, measured 2 X II m. and contained alarge part of the structure of the Holy-of-Holies and its eastern end yielded a small tomb.
So I was then sure that this was an area of a church probably of basilica type with a related cemetery.
This short passage presents a kind of indigenous archaeology of the sacred and shows how it intersects with modern archaeological practices.


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There will be another Clemons playing baseball at UT. [ESPN]
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Johnny Manziel has something to prove. [SI]
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Verity Wilson on Fancy dress, far from home
Our guest blog this week comes from Verity Wilson, who teaches the history of design on the joint master's course at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Prior to that, she worked for 25 years … Continue reading
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Hong Kong in the early 1920s
We have just gone live with a collection of 82 photographs taken or acquired by Francis Alexander (Frank) Davidson, who arrived in Hong Kong in the autumn of 1921, fresh from vet school in Edinburgh, and who worked as veterinary surgeon … Continue reading
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Paul French on Jessfield Park, Shanghai: A Brief, and Probably Mostly Apocryphal, History
In the first of our new series of guest blogs Paul French, writer and prolific blogger, reflects on on the history of what was formerly one of Shanghai's largest parks. Most recently the author of a new Penguin China Special, Betrayal … Continue reading
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Dancing in Peking on St Patrick's day
The blog plays catch-up, as it is Oxford University's Professor of Art History, Craig Clunas, who spotted that we have a St Patrick's day photograph (Ph04-092), and has tweeted it via his ever-interesting twitter-feed @CraigClunas. This is a spring picnic — … Continue reading
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Still feverish
A recent trip to Shanghai reminds me how popular the rediscovery of historic photographs of China remains. Here in one shop on Fuzhou lu, Shanghai's bookstore street, is a good stash of Lao Zhaopian magazine, which sparked off the 'Lao … Continue reading
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Flooding in China
This winter will be remembered in the UK for extensive flooding. Floods in China are on a vastly different scale, the Yellow River having the solemn sobriquet 'China's Sorrow'. There are many photographs of various floods in HPC collections. It … Continue reading
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The time in between
A guest blog from Alejandro Acin: I sometimes feel that street photography has become just a game where photographers try to create simple easy to understood messages in standalone photographs often meant to be amusing. There are many exceptions of … Continue reading
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On the British perimeter
Valentine's Day approaches and look-seeing is in the air. Most probably taken in 1937, this photograph by Malcolm Rosholt, has a certain tension that may have mirrored the tension of a city at war, or on a war footing.
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Year of the Horse at BMAG
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Happy New Year 新年快樂
Say goodbye to the aged Year of the Snake – and hello to the new year. Best wishes for the Year of the Horse to all friends of 'Visualising China'. 馬年大吉
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1. I love the jump-floating-tool-bar-thingy on your reviews, but you NEED it on your long features.
2. This is trite, and I'm sure you hear it everyday, but you NEED a mobile app. Yes, your mobile site is cool, but the immersion of an app is unbeatable. My guess is that yall want to release iOS and Android at the same time. WIndows will come eventually. Who cares about BB. I also saw that SB Nation is hiring an iOS developer.
3. I noticed that yall recently upped the frequency of your tweets. I liked how before they were just the semi to really important stuff. This is my personal opinion, but I think yall have started tweeting too much.
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The first cold temperatures of the season means you're probably going to crank up the heat sometime this week. But before you do that, ask yourself one question: when is the last time your heating system got a check-up?
Experts say regular maintenance is the key to preventing any problems.
Tory Moore, of Charlotte is serious about getting his heating system is regularly inspected before the cold temperatures set in for good.
"It was chilly in here [Monday] morning and I wasn't about to cut it on," he recalled. "Not until I had it check out for the safety of myself and my family."
Now Moore gets it checked once a year like clockwork. Especially after a scare several years ago where a crack in his heating system could have had deadly results.
"It was actually emitting carbon monoxide gas into the house," he said. "Although in trace amounts, it could have gotten potentially worse. And we wouldn't have had a clue."
Mark Dellinger, a technician for Morris Jenkins Heating and Air, hears those stories more times then he can remember. All problems, he believes can be prevented with proper maintenance.
"Not having maintenance is like trying to save money on your car by not changing the oil," he pointed out. "It just doesn't add up."
What does add up? Spending a little money now so you can rest easier once winter sets in.
"You can sleep well at your house and that everything is safe," said Dellinger.
Moore agrees and only has to remember his close call -- to know that a yearly check up is worth the money.
"That heat exchanger I had, that was quite an expensive repair," he said. "However, had I let it go -- well who know what would have happened."
Dellinger said it cost less than a hundred dollars for a yearly check up.
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Few expect the San Francisco 49ers to be able to re-sign safety Dashon Goldson, but people around the league are predicting the 49ers will make a run at another big name free agent safety, Ed Reed, according to Adam Schefter. If Reed lands in San Francisco it will mark the second player from the Super Bowl champion Ravens to join the 49ers this offseason as San Francisco acquired Anquan Boldin on Monday.
The 49ers franchised Goldson in the 2012 offseason, but neglected to use the franchise tag again this year when a long-term deal could not be reached. Goldson is seeking to get paid like one of the top safeties in the league, but San Francisco simply can't afford to give the two-time Pro Bowler that type of contract. His rumored destinations include the Lions and Buccaneers.
With the possibility of bringing Goldson back dimming, the 49ers need a new starting safety - enter Ed Reed. Reed will already go down as one of the greatest to ever play the position, but at age 34, he's not done yet. It is possible Reed could still agree to a new contract that allows him to end his career in Baltimore, but the Ravens may decide to go younger and let Reed walk away. The two have not signed a contract yet, and Reed hired an agent on Monday to represent him in free agency, a strong sign that he is going to test the market.
Many assume Reed would take a hometown discount to remain in Baltimore and takeover the Ray Lewis role as the emotional leader of the team, but if things don't work out with the Ravens, Reed is a very attractive option for the 49ers. While no longer unquestionably the best free safety in the game, he still is among the top players and could sign for cheaper than the younger Goldson in the hopes of making another run at the Super Bowl before ending his career.
In San Francisco Reed would join arguably the most talented defense in the league. Last season, San Francisco had six defensive starters selected to the Pro Bowl, including both Goldson, and starting strong safety Donte Whitner. With the skills and leadership of Reed, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection himself, the 49ers defense should only get better.
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Charlie Menard (born 1972) was Chief Operating Officer of the Menards home improvement store chain until late 2007. He now heads up the Eau Claire, Wisconsin Menards Distribution Center. Named after his father, Larry Menard, Charlie never goes by his given name "Lawrence". While he was a member of Team Menard, the Menards racing team along with his cousin Paul Menard, Menard captured the 2004 NASCAR Late Model championship at the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway with a season-high six feature wins, and also claimed the 2004 Dodge NASCAR Weekly Series Midwest Region championship. Menard ran a part-time schedule on the ASA Late Model Challenge Series in 2005 and 2006, and claimed his first career win during the Oktoberfest Race Weekend at La Crosse on October 7, 2005. Menard has a streak of winning at least one feature during the Oktoberfest Race Weekend for the previous three straight years (2004--Central WI Late Models, WI Late Models, La Crosse Late Models; 2005--ASA Late Models, Central WI Late Models, La Crosse Late Models; 2006--La Crosse Late Models). In 2007 Menard pursued a full season on both the ASA Late Model Challenge Series and the ASA Late Model North Series. Menard hired former ASA Late Model competitor Chad Wood as his new crew chief in 2007. Menard captured his first ASA Late Model Challenge Series win since La Crosse speedway in June winning at the Cayuga Speedway near Nelles Corners, Ontario, Canada. Charlie is no longer an active part of the Team Menard Racing unit.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Menard worked his way through his uncle's Menards store chain. He makes his home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.


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Given the lack of games to follow and my general boredom, I thought I would stir the pot with some roster predictions. Here is the predictions and those with an L are considered locks. I suspect there will be 13 position players and 12 pitchers head north so without further adieu:
Olivio L
Iannetta L
Helton L
Barmes L
Tulo L
Stewart L
I see the need for one additional infielder among EYJ, Gomez and Nelson, but I suspect a NR invitee or veteran would be better suited for this role.
All five make it as locks (Hawpe, Cargo, Fowler, Spilly and Smith)
Pitching (Now we get interesting, Iassume Taylor Buckholz is out until June)
Cook L
Francis L
De La Rosa L
Jimenez L
Hammel L
Daley L
Betancourt L
Street L
Morales L (Given the shortage of lefties)
That leaves three open spots. I suspect one will be a LH reliever (Flores), another RH reliever (Corpas) and one long man TBD (Belisle)


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ACTORS have stripped off to help cancer patients.
Warrington's Centenary Theatre Company have produced their own version of the Calendar Girls calendar to support The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity.
They will be performing Calendar Girls at The Brindley Theatre, Runcorn in February 2013.
Women of all ages volunteered to be snapped in cheeky poses.
January's Rachael Benfield, said: "We really hope to raise a huge amount of money. We chose to support Clatterbridge because it is a local charity close to us. One of our members has been treated and had family who were treated at Clatterbridge. It's a wonderful place and they do great work for local cancer patients.' The calendars are on sale, priced £6.50, with £1.00 going to The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity and will continue to sell until Calendar Girls is staged next year.
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Queen's in the News: June 3, 2013
Meredith Chivers (Psychology) – Women's sexuality is a powerful and often mysterious force, in the Boston Globe.
Jonathan Rose (Political Studies) – Toronto is fixated on allegations against Mayor Rob Ford, in the Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee and the Chicago Tribune.
Warren Mabee (Policy Studies) - Claims that Canada loses billions in oil revenue are bogus, in the National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Province and four other national daily newspapers.
Tim Abray-Nyman (Political Studies) – What Rob Ford need to do to survive, on CTV News Channel.
Houchang Hassan-Yari (Centre for International and Defence Policy) – The situation continues to develop in Syria, on CTV News Channel.
Christian Leuprecht (Political Studies) – U.S. warns Russia not to deliver missiles to the Assad regime, on CTV News Channel.
Barry Cross (School of Business) - Creating a flexible, robust supply chain is key to reducing the likelihood and potential impact of disruptions, in Global Finance.
Vincent Mosco (Sociology) – CBC pulls its Postmedia ad campaign, on News Talk 770 Calgary Today.
Jacalyn Duffin (School of Medicine) – Are common bacterial infections making children mentally ill, in The Walrus.
Louis Delvoie (Centre for International and Defence Policy) – A survey of Canada's postwar prime ministers, op-ed in the Kingston Whig Standard.
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I'm willing to admit that I don't understand the BCS system beyond the fact that the polls account for 2/3, and the computer accounts for 1/3rd of the rankings.
So I was hoping someone could explain to me a scenario where Boise St. is higher in the polls, but gets passed because they are lower than TCU/Utah in the computer component of the rankings.
Let's say Boise St. finishes 4th in both polls and TCU/Utah finishes 5th...
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I found this webcam today, and it appears it is stationed atop Wrigleyville Sports - the store might have changed hands since I lived there. Anyways, this is an excellent opportunity for all of us that live away from Chicago to see what is "going on" at Clark & Addison during the game and at other times.
I found this cam today and watched it at the office most of the day, while toggling between espn gamewatch (not MLB TV). With the sox put away in the middle of the ninth, I got called into a short (5 min.) meeting, knowing that Ramirez was on deck. Before I left, I took one last look at the webcam, and when I returned from the meeting, I saw thousands spilling out of Wrigley's front gate. I yelled "yes" without evenknowing what happened, b/c I knew it was over.
Let's beat the daylights out of the sox Sat. and Sun. night.


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EFFINGHAM — Area legislators weren't surprised by anything Gov. Pat Quinn had to say during his annual budget address.
"There were no real surprises," said Rep. David Reis, R-Ste. Marie. "We're not surprised they (Quinn and the Democratic majority in the General Assembly) have continued to expand government programs at an alarming rate."
Reis said state Democrats have "an insatiable appetite for spending" that has driven the state to the brink of economic ruin. He compared the attitude to picking up more items at the grocery store than the shopper has money to buy.
"It's like going to the grocery store and having $50, but you go past the $50 and just keep piling stuff in your cart."
Reis said all the sugar-coating in the world can't enable Quinn to escape raw numbers.
"We have lost 65,000 jobs since Quinn took office," he said. "Also, when Quinn took office, state spending was $28 billion. Now it's $34 billion."
Reis said it's particularly galling that Quinn announced a number of new spending projects Wednesday, including a $500 property tax rebate, a birth-to-5 education program costing $1.5 billion, a $6 billion increase in education funding, and an income tax credit for low-income families, to name a few.
Sen. Dale Righter, R-Mattoon, compared the governor's proposals to classic stories with little truth.
"What we witnessed today was a 21st century version of Aesop's Fables," Righter said in a news release. "The tall tale we heard from the governor was that, but for another multi-billion dollar tax increase, state government will come crashing down."
Righter accused Quinn of inflating the state's budget hole to sell taxpayers on the concept of extending the income tax increase passed three years ago. He, on the other hand, believes a tax rollback is feasible — and won't create the need for massive cuts in state programs.
"What Senate Republicans want to do — and have always been willing to do — is sit down with the governor and the Democrat majority and complete an honest assessment of the line-by-line spending in state government," Righter said. "If we do that, we anticipate we'll discover we don't need to take nearly as much money out of taxpayers' pockets."
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Summer has hit, kids are out of school - but what can you do to have fun, encourage simple and classic entertainment and do it all for less, or even better for FREE?!
We wanted to provide you with a list of 10 things you can do this summer that are FREE to help your budget, time and maximize that summer fun! The best part is that many of these activities will possibly give you more time together as a family!
Here's a list of 10 ideas of FREE things you can do:
- Free fishing - Enjoy FREE fishing days in the month of June and other summer months all across the country meaning that you do not need a fishing license to fish! Check out the list Free Fishing Days 2012 to find out what dates are available in your area.
- Find free roller skating across the nation - Wow, this brings back memories from our childhoods! This is a new program and you can check out the list of roller skating rinks that are currently part of the Kids Skate Free program that are participating now. If there is not one in your area, they have a letter already drafter that you can send to your local rink to ask them to participate.
- Summer Reading Programs - This is definitely a family favorite as Alex and I remember loving these reading programs at our local library! They are available all over the country from your local libraries to some national chains. You will want to check the list of Kids Summer Reading Programs 2012 for the full list!
- Free bowling - There are many great ways to bowl for free across the nation as part of the Kids Bowl Free summer program. Check out the details and locations on the Kids Bowl Free site.
- Free summer movies or concerts in the park for the community - Check in your local newspaper, your local city's or county's websites for the calendar of events for the low-down on the community movies and concerts in the park. Plus you may see other ideas or activities going on in your area too!
- Free museum entrances - There is a possibility that you have many local museums that are free in your area. See our previous post on the topic of Free Museum Entrances.
- Lowes has their build and grow clinics for kids to build a fun activity for FREE- You can see their calendar of Lowe's Build & Grow Clinics. This is a fun hand's on building experience!
- Home Depot Free kids building workshops - Similar to Lowe's, Home Depot also has a kids free building workshops. You can see their schedule of projects on the Home Depot Kids Free Workshops site.
- Don't forget movie night - If you or a friend have a projector and a sheet, schedule a outside movie night and invite your friends! If you want to add a fun dimension to it, if you and your friends chip in you can rent a cotton candy machine; what kid doesn't love cotton candy? :)
- Schedule with your friends to have fun playdates throughout the summer - If you or your friends have a trampoline, pool and even a swingset it can be a fun way for the kids to get together and play with your family's summer fun toys while the adults enjoy some time of relaxing as well.
Also, consider summertime a great time to educate your children on the topic of finances and complete the family financial focus worksheet together and learn about the family's budgeting. It can be a good time to get them involved with couponing too! They can learn everything from cutting and counting (for the younger kids) and organizing in groups and categories (for the older kids). There are so many more skills even such as addition/subtraction/fractions/multiplication practice and the challenge of getting as much as they can with the family's grocery budget on items your family would eat (obviously for the older kids on this one!) while at the same time build those life application skills from preschoolers all the way through high school! Plus you will enjoy the help from coupon cutting to grocery shopping trip planning and implementing!
Enjoy these ways to play, learn and have fun over these summer months!
Alex and Cassie run the site The Thrifty Couple but haven't always been thrifty - in fact, after they were first married they racked up over $100K and learned the hard way how to pay it off in seven years. They started their site to share those tips and resources to help you \meet your every financial goal.


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Five things Mitt Romney must do to win
1. Establish trust with voters
After the bruising primaries, Romney flew solo this summer campaigning across the country on the economy and jobs. He had to defend against Obama and his allies trying to define him before voters accepted him as an alternative in the White House. Romney is more passionate than ever with an evangelical zeal to win ever since he picked House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan to be his vice president. With the pick of his running mate, Romney is beginning to forge a trust that he could run an effective administration. The RNC convention is his next high profile opportunity to continue establishing the "trust" connection.
2. Unveil a vision for America
Policy makes for the best politics. The fight over Medicare shook away the Democratic establishment's effort to play "gotcha" politics and demonstrated how substantially influential the GOP can be if it concentrates on policy. Americans are looking for answers and President Obama has failed to provide the correct ones to get our country out of its struggling economy. While Romney has unveiled various policy initiatives, it will be important to use the convention as a launching point to showcase his plans to make America prosperous again.
3. Deliver a "knock it out of the park" convention speech
Americans want a president they trust and who can provide a vision forward. But they also want a candidate they can relate to or feel comfortable "having a beer" with. Romney's convention speech is a great opportunity to showcase his humanity, conviction, emotion and enthusiasm to be president.
4. Win over "Walmart Women"
November 2012 will be an election referendum against President Obama on the economy. Women historically have voted Democratic for the past 20 years. Winning over "Walmart women," those with a high school diploma and a household income under $50,000, should be a must for the Romney campaign. If Romney focused on kitchen table issues such as jobs, gas prices and the economy, this could touch a nerve with women who make sacrifices for their families, shop at discount stores and do anything possible to keep the household going. This important demographic is looking for an alternative and probably doesn't believe that it is better off today than it was four years ago.
5. Win the debates
Romney showcased his quick verbal sparring skills during the Republican primary debates. Obama knows this and will likely be a formidable opponent during the three debates in September and October. The president will try anything possible to distract from his failed record. It is likely he will renew his attacks on Bain Capital, tax returns and anything that will get under Romney's skin. If Romney can stay focused and keep the pressure on the president to explain how his 2008 campaign of "Hope and Change" is now the 2012 campaign of "Fear and Blame," he will win the debate every time.


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July 19, 2012
[Original Airdate: February 13, 2011] Jeannine Armour follows three successful women working in male-dominated careers; welding, firefighting, and custom bike design. Armour is no stranger to male dominated industries. As a "lumberjill" and commercial fisherwoman, she has worked alongside men for the past seven years, breaking boundaries and stereotypes every step of the way. Women at Work seeks to inspire and motivate young girls and women to follow their dreams regardless of society's perceived limits. (Freelance Producer Leah Dunn)


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The robbery was reported around 2 p.m. on Friday at the T-Mobile store in the 2400 block of Fulton Street.
Police say the three robbery suspects wore hooded sweatshirts and fled together in a white Infiniti car.
No injuries were reported in the robbery and police say they believe the robbers may be carrying weapons.
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Picked up a six-pack of this stout on 1-29-12. Not sure this stout is "retired" as the description says--bottling date on the label was 12-15-11 and the store where I purchased it had quite a few sixes on the shelf.
A nice stout with some really good flavor. Nice vanilla/oaky taste with a smooth finish. Very drinkable. May seem a little watered down to some, but I enjoyed it--a "lite" stout. Really nice overall.
Not the power and depth of some of the more popular barrel-aged stouts on the market right now, but also did not come with the crazy price some of the bigger stouts are getting.
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Not real impressed, possible because I've been drinking Stone IRS lately.
Appearance- Pours black with a rich light colored head. Kinda thin and watery in the pour.
Smell- Both the oak and the vanilla come thorough nicely. Mild malt sweetness but kinda bland. No real hop notes at all.
Taste- Here's where it falls down. Watery and bland. Like the smell, the vanilla and oak come through but just barely. Not much malt sweetness, which is what I expect from a stout. No real hop bitterness, there's hops there but nothing outstanding. I think it all comes down to the lack of malt sweetness and thickness. It's watery and weak. It's not a bad beer, no faults to complain about other than the lack of anything outstanding.
Mouthfeel- Crisp and clean, astringent oak comes through clearly.
Drinkability- Definitely a drinkable beer, not much heavier than any pale ale. It's OK, just not great.
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Martin-Jenkins' colleague pays tribute to the 'legend'
Test Match Special colleague Jonathan Agnew has paid tribute to cricket journalist Christopher Martin-Jenkins, who died today aged 67. According to the BBC's website, the cricket correspondent said:
Listeners to Test Match Special were all too familiar with CMJ's eccentricities - like going to the wrong ground for the start of a Test match. His legendary, chaotic time-keeping was very much part of his charm.
Considering the years he worked as editor of the Cricketer magazine, and as correspondent for the BBC twice, the Daily Telegraph and the Times, and 40 years commentating on Test Match Special and the many books he wrote, it is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket than Christopher Martin-Jenkins.


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Yes, it's that time of year again, when listmaking happens, and we're not talking about Santa Claus. The best of 2012 rundowns are emerging and we started today with our Best Movie Music Moments Of 2012. And yes, "Les Miserables" made the cut with Anne Hathaway's heart-shattering performance of "I Dreamed A Dream." And you'll be able to sob at home along with twenty other tunes from the upcoming musical sung by the cast.
Hathaway's performance aside, enthusiasts will also be keen to hear "Suddenly," a new song penned specifically for the movie and sung by Hugh Jackman. Otherwise, the standard select favorites from the musical that features over 50 songs are here, all belted out by the major players in the film, which also includes Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samantha Barks and more. And while you'll have to wait until you see it in theaters to hear it all, you can listen to Jackman and Crowe sing "The Confrontation" live right here.
"Les Miserables" sings on Christmas Day with the soundtrack arriving on December 21st. Tracklisting below. [Broadway World]
"Les Miserables" Soundtrack Tracklisting
1. Look Down - Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe & The Convicts
2. The Bishop - Colm Wilkinson
3. Valjean's Soliloquy - Hugh Jackman
4. At the End of the Day - Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, The Factory Girls & Les Misérables Cast
5. I Dreamed a Dream - Anne Hathaway
6. The Confrontation - Hugh Jackman & Anne Hathaway
7. Castle On a Cloud - Isabelle Allen
8. Master of the House - Sacha Baron Cohen & Helena Bonham Carter
9. Suddenly - Hugh Jackman
10. Stars - Russell Crowe
11. ABC Cafe / Red And Black - Eddie Redmayne, Les Misérables Cast & Aaron Tviet
12. In My Life / A Heart Full of Love - Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne & Samantha Barks
13. On My Own - Samantha Barks
14. One Day More - Les Misérables Cast
15. Drink With Me - Eddie Redmayne, Daniel Huttlestone & Les Misérables Cast
16. Bring Him Home - Hugh Jackman
17. The Final Battle - Les Misérables Cast
18. Javert's Suicide - Russell Crowe
19. Empty Chairs At Empty Tables - Eddie Redmayne
20. Epilogue - Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, Anne Hathaway, Colm Wilkinson & Les Misérables Cast
Mulwala | January 20, 2013 11:32 PM
Where is Can you hear the people sing? Will Not be buying this !
Dan | December 10, 2012 9:13 PM
No A little fall of rain? Weird.
Jesse | December 10, 2012 7:26 PM
No A Little Fall of Rain?! That one of my favorites! Or do you hear the people sing? I understand its a highlight but its just strange those two aren't on it. I'm guessing a deluxe version is in the future so people will end up buying both to make more money.
SJ | December 10, 2012 6:10 PM
Where is A Little Fall of Rain?!


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Def Coordinator Greg Williams got an indefinite suspension, meaning at least one year and possibly more if the NFL deems he has not done enough to redeem himself.
Head Coach Sean Peyton suspended 1 year (and subsequently 7.5 million dollars).
GM Mickey Loomis suspended for 8 games.
Assistant Head Coach Joe Viss suspended 6 games.
Franchise penalized 500,000 dollars.
Franchise forfeits 2nd round picks in the 2012 and 2013 drafts.
Player suspensions pending, but most likely Johnathan Vilma will get punished severely. So this is the Question.... How do you see the punishments from the New Orleans Saints?


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"I am so excited. I had no idea. I am honored to have this award," said Douglas.
Douglas has been volunteering for eight years.
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Definition of a 'Monogram' from www.dictionary.com:
a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced, commonly one's initials, often printed on stationery, embroidered on clothing, etc.
Single Person Monogram
For men, items like handkerchiefs, ties, etc. can be monogrammed with the last name initial only or with the first name initial for a more personal gift.
More often, men and boys have their initials all placed in the natural order and at the same height, which we refer to as INITIAL personalization.
For women, on items like hankies, stationary, linens, etc a single last name initial is normally used.
Bride and Groom Monograms
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We've all heard the Jordan Eberle hot hand debate based on his 2011-12 percentages, PDO's and regression to the mean. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to look at the debate from a different perspective. What if, at the end of 2011-12, you picked a team from the players who finished with the lowest PDO's - the players who had "bad luck" - and assembled a team for the 2012-13 season?
In this experiment, we're talking about players who are expected to regress to the mean.
My criteria: Filter each position by the Lowest 15 PDO finishes, among those 15 Top TOI, and less than 10% on-ice shooting %.
Here is the PDO lineup and the numbers in a Name (P/60 LY|PDO, P/60|PDO) format. This is all based on 5 on 5 play only. Bold indicates regression, and strikethrough indicates little or no movement.
John Tavares(2.37|975
2.34|950) [Tavares ppg has gone up this year due to PP, despite decrease in 5 on 5 PDO]
Ryan Getzlaf (1.38|977 2.53|1054)
- P A Parenteau (2.27|973 2.95|1053)
Dominic Moore (NOT PLAYING)
- Bench: Tom Pyatt (1.22|971 2.85|1126)
Oilers in the mix: Lennart Petrell (also interesting my preferred Oilers trade target David Steckel.)
Left Wings
Andrew Ladd (1.77|972 1.85|1015)
- Chad Larose (1.50|971
0.54|957) [Larose's TOI is down by 3:68 per game, impacted by Alexander Semin joining the Hurricances]
Sean Bergenheim (INJURED)
David Booth (INJURED)
- Bench: Daniel Winnik (1.04|972 3.47|1121)
Right Wings
- Ilya Kovalchuk (2.00|982
0.62|1036) [PDO up, he hasn't had any secondary assists this year. Parise effect possibly as well]
Corey Perry (1.54|980 1.83|1014)
Ryan Callahan (1.64|979
0.63|985) [PDO up, but no 5 on 5 assists and losing ice time to Rick Nash]
Kyle Okposo (1.99|983
0.98|943) [Tavares PDO is down as well.]
- Bench: Devin Setoguchi (1.35|977
1.24|1013) [Has yet to score this season.]
Francois Beauchemin (0.54|975 1.53|1118)
Dustin Byfuglien (1.27|981
0.95|967) [INJURED - Better ppg this year as well.]
Dion Phaneuf (0.71|971
0.25|965) [Playing more this year.]
Mark Streit (0.92|959
0.57|914) [Every Islander on this list is down on PDO.]
Cam Fowler (0.65|962
0.63|1062) [INJURED - was also being used in lower pairing.]
Nick Leddy (1.02|977
0.95|1025) [Dropped to 3rd pair with 6 minutes less TOI.]
- Bench: Drew Doughty (0.96|986
0.30|896) [Stanley Cup Hangover]
- Bench: Tom Gilbert (0.71|986 1.15|990)
Improved PDO - 13/20 (3 Not playing)
Improved Scoring - 8/20
The season is still too young to see the full body of work on the statistical comparison from last year to this year. It will be interesting to compare at EOY the difference.
In some cases this is easily explained by the difference in roles Larose, Callahan & Leddy are playing with worse teammates this year so less points would be expected and worse percentages perhaps.
As a way of selecting players if you keep a player in a similar role with similar teammates it is a little better than a coin flip at predicting results.


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The Oregon Ducks advance to the 2014 Women's College World Series as the UCLA Bruins and the Washington Huskies are eliminated in the super regionals.