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The stylish PENTAX X-5 is a 26X Megazoom camera with DSLR-like features.
SENSOR- Type: 1/2.33" interline transfer CCD w primary color filter- Effective pixels: 16MP- Total pixels: 16.37MPRecorded resolutions (pixels):Still: 16M (4608x3456), 12M (1:1) (3456x3456), 12M (16:9) (4608x2592), 7M (3072x2304), 5M (16:9) (3072x1728), 5M (2592x1944), 4M (16:9) (2592x1464), 3M(2048x1536), 2M(16:9)(1920x1080), 1024(1024x768), 640(640x480) - Burst Shooting(L/H) mode - fixed 5M (2592x1944) or 4M (2592x1464) per frame.- Digital Wide mode ? fixed 5M (2592x1944 - after Merge) - fixed 3M (2048x1536 ? before merge) in single frame. - Frame composite mode, resolution fixed to 3M (2048x1536).- Digital Panorama mode, resolution fixed to 2M (1600x1200) per frame.- Stage Lighting mode, resolution fixed to 2M (1600x1200).Movie: HD 1920(1920x1080): approx. 30fps, 1280(1280x720): approx.60/30fps, 640(640x480): approx. 30fps Quality levels: ***(best), ** (better), * (good)
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LCD/VIEWFINDER- LCD screen: 3.0-inch tiltable LCD (Can be lowered to approx.60? or raised to approx.90?), LCD resolution: 460,000 dots, Wide angle viewable- Viewfinder: Electronic Viewfinder, approx. 230K dots. (Equipped the with diopter adjustment dial).
FOCUS SYSTEM- Type: TTL contrast detection autofocus. - Focus modes: 9 point AF, Spot AF, Auto Tracking AF, Macro, Super Macro, Infinity Landscape, Manual, Focus Point Selection- Manual focus: Yes- Macro focus: Yes, Macro and Super Macro available- Focus lock: Yes, by pressing the shutter release button half way- Focus range: Normal: 1.31' to infinity (wide), 5.6' to infinity (tele), Macro: 0.33-1.64' (wide to mid zoom), Super Macro: 0.03-0.98' (at mid zoom, set automatically)
FLASH- Type: Retractable popup series-control auto flash- Flash modes: Auto, Flash Off, Flash On, Auto + Redeye, On + Redeye, Slow Sync,- Slow Sync + Redeye- Effective range: Wide: approx. 0.66- 38 ft (ISO Auto) Tele: approx. approx. 4.9 ? 20ft (ISO Auto)- Flash Exposure Compensation
STORAGE MEDIA- Internal memory: (approx. 75.3 MB)`- Removable memory: SD, SDHC, SDXC- Eye-Fi Compatible
INTERFACES- Ports: USB 2.0 hi-speed, PC/AV Out, HDMI (type D), DC Input Terminal- Video out: NTSC, PAL (HDMI out supports Auto, 1080i, 720p, 480p)
POWER SUPPLY- Power source: 4 AA batteries (Alkaline, Lithium, Nickel and Rechargeable Ni-MH), Optional AC adapter kit is also available.- Recordable images (approx): (300 - w/ Alkaline batteries), (500 w/ Rechargeable w/ Ni-MH batteries), (950 w/ Lithium batteries)- Playback time (approx) : (420 min. w/ Alkaline batteries), (500 min. w/ Rechargeable Ni-MHbatteries), (950 min. w/ Lithium batteries)- Movie recording time (approx): (75 min. w /Alkaline batteries), (150 min. w/ Rechargeable Ni-MH batteries), (280 min. w/ Lithium batteries)- AC adapter available: Yes (optional)
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS- Dimensions (W x H x D): 4.7 x 3.4 x 4.2"- Weight:Without battery or removable memory: 17.9 oz, Loaded and ready: 21.1 oz- Construction material(s): Reinforced polycarbonate plastic- Operating temperature: 32-104?F- Weather Resistant: n/a- Shock Resistant: n/a
TIMING- Startup: Approx 1.9 sec- Release lag: Approx 0.046 sec
LANGUAGE SUPPORT- English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Russian, Thai, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
IMAGE STABILIZATION- Still: Sensor-Shift SR, Dual (Sensor-shift SR and Pixel-Track SR), Digital SR (High-sensitivity anti-shake mode) - Movie: Movie SR
METERING SYSTEM- Type: TTL- Multi-segment: Yes- Center weighted: Yes- Spot: Yes- Exposure compensation: +/- 2 EV (1/3 steps)
ISO SENSITIVITY- Auto, Manual (ISO 100 ? 6400)
WHITE BALANCE- Auto, Daylight, Shade, Tungsten light, Fluorescent light (D, N, W), Manual setting
SHUTTER- Type: Programmed AE electronic lens shutter w CCD electronic shutter- Shutter speed: 1/1500 to 1/4 sec (up to 4 sec Manual, Night Scene modes)
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Detection- P/A/S/M/B: P, A, S, M- Date stamp: Yes, date, date-time, time (not available in Green mode)- Digital filters (capture): Image Tone (Bright, Natural, Monochrome)- Dynamic Range Adjustment: (Highlight and Shadow correction)
DRIVE MODES- Mode selection: One shot, Continuous Shooting, Burst Shooting (L/H), Self-timer, Remote Control,
Auto Bracketing- Continuous FPS: Approx 1.12 FPS, Burst L (5M or 4M), Burst H (5M or 4M)- Self-timer: Yes (10 sec, 2 sec)- Remote control: Yes
PLAYBACK MODES- Mode selection: One Shot, Index (4 or 9 thumbnails), Magnification, Movie Playback, Histogram, Folder Display, Select & Delete, Calendar- Mode pallet: Slideshow, Image Rotation, Stretch Filter, Small Face Filter, Collage, Digital Filter, HDR Filter, Frame Composite, Movie Editing, Red-eye Compensation, Resize, Cropping, Image Copy, Protect, DPOF, Start-up Screen- Magnification: Up to 10X, scrollable- Digital filters (playback): (B&W, Sepia, Toy Camera, Retro, Color, Extract Color, Color Emphasis, High Contrast, Soft, Fish-eye, Brightness, Miniature Filter)- Movie edit: Save as still image, movie divide
FILE FORMATS- Still: JPG (EXIF 2.2), DCF 2.0, DPOF, Print Image Matching III- Movie (compression): AVI (Motion JPG)- Sound: WAV (PCM), monaural
FILE STORAGE MATRIX (BASED ON 4GB MEMORY CARD)(Best, Better, Good)16M: 727, 1284, 211712M (1:1): 856, 1676, 2568,12M (16:9): 856, 1676, 2568,7M (4:3): 1284, 2366, 37715M (16:9): 1527, 2943, 41625M (4:3): 1527, 2943, 41624M (16:9): 2011, 3771, 54863M: 2366, 4642, 67052M: 3448, 6352, 92841024: 8046, 13411, 17243VGA (640 x 480): 17243, 24140, 30175
COMPUTER SYSTEM REQUIREMENTSFor device connectivity. Bundled software requirements may vary.- Windows: Windows XP/Vista/7, USB port- Mac: Mac OS-X 10.3.9, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, USB port


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Everton Squad Selection Headache
Michael Appleton has admitted that the Baggies camp has been struck by a dose of the flu, and preparations for Everton in the Cup have been hampered by it.
Speaking to wba.co.uk ahead of tomorrow's 8pm kick off with the Toffees, Appleton said.
'Roman Bednar and Gabriel Tamas were initially suffering with flu symptoms. Shame Long has also got some symptoms and has not trained over the last couple of days. We're hoping, fingers crossed, come Thursday or Friday he will have recovered. There are a few of the other boys that have sniffles but they're not at the point where they are unable to train.'
Zoltan Gera will also miss this match, not quite being fit enough yet.
'The game has come too soon for Zoltan, he's desperate to get back but when he does come back we have to make sure he's 100% ready.'
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This hotel is situated in Almuñécar village, the best destination on the Costa Tropical, only around 90 m from San Cristóbal beach and its splendid seafront promenade. It lies close to the village centre, to Majuelo Park and the Tourist Information Office. The hotel is an ideal base from which to enjoy the charming Almuñecar without using the car. It is only around 70 km from Granada and some 80 km from the Sierra Nevada ski resort.This beach establishment is a cosy and family business hotel offering 40 outer rooms, a dining room/ buffet restaurant, a bar, a summer terrace and a TV room. Further facilities on offer to guests include air conditioning, a 24-hour reception desk, a laundrette (charges apply) and WIFI Internet access. There are facilities for disabled people and parking for those arriving by car.All rooms come with a fully fitted bathroom with a shower, heating, individually adjustable air conditioning, a safe (optional), piped music, a hairdryer, a telephone, a TV and WIFI/Internet access. Many rooms also feature a balcony.The hotel offers guests a tennis court and an open-air swimming pool (only in summer) with a children's area.The Al Monkey restaurant has a quiet and cosy dining area in a homely environment where guests will be able to sample homemade Mediterranean dishes from the buffet.By Car: guests arriving from Madrid should take the A4/ E5 to exit 292 for Jaén-Granada. Continue on the A44/ E902 till the junction with the N323 and then take the N340/ E15 towards Málaga. Those arriving from Almería should take the N340/ E15 towards Málaga. From Granada: following the A44/ E902 continue on the N323 and then on N340/ E15 towards Málaga. From Málaga: on the A7/ E15 towards Almería.


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Okay, so it's not really my birthday, but I can cry if I want to! This week are two very special birthdays…
It's for these two guys! That'd be my dad and brother. Their birthday's are two days apart! So in honor of them, Wordless Wednesday shall be Wordless Birthday Boy's Wednesday…
Andrew's birthday is first
Then it's daddio's turn
You'll notice that I only have one picture of my dad and that it is of his back. He's a tricky one to get a picture of!
Happy Birthday Andrew and Dad!
One of my student's birthday is the same day as my dad. I told him and he was less than impressed. He did however tell me not to forget to wish him happy birthday tomorrow on his birthday. Thanks, I'll do that.


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A sales statement gives the consumer in a market an idea as to what benefits he or she will receive on purchasing a product or availing a service. It tells the prospects why the particular good should be bought and defines for them the advantages of their prospective buy. In short, a sales statement creates a desire in a hoped-for buyer to know more about and to buy the product.
Many sales statements are flawed and hence remain unsuccessful in their aim of enticing buyers. Thus it is important, while making a sales statement one must not go by cheap adages which obscurely try to advertise the benefits. Instead, a thorough market research is necessary prior making a sales statement. This shall also enlighten the salesperson as to what the consumer really wants and he shall be able to frame the statement likewise.
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This is a guest post by Susannah Cafardi, NCC Barracks Row Saturday Small Group Director.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
-Jesus (John 14:27)
When we started this week on peace, I found myself wondering what my interactions would look like if I really embraced His peace. Like all the time.
If I'm being honest, I'd say that fear is much more of a natural response for me. I like to think that if I intellectually prepare for what might happen I won't get caught off guard, but how many times have I missed a moment of loving or praying for someone or just genuinely listening because I'm contingency planning about a "What if…"?
When I take a step back, I am fairly certain that my time is far better spent pursuing Him as compared to relying on my own strength (because that's really what my "intellectual preparation" is – a fancy way of saying that I like to rely on myself). Yeek.
In those moments of stillness that I've taken over the last few days (and, I'll admit, there haven't been as many as there should have been), I've learned two things of note.
First – when I spend time pursuing Him and digging in, the likelihood of my embracing His peace amidst the curveballs of my day increases immensely. I'm pretty sure that's not a coincidence.
Secondly – if I find myself slipping into fear and worry, that's not the time to consider my day a failure and throw in the towel, but instead to go back to prayer and Scripture and worship and actively pursue Him and the peace that only He gives.


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'Ek Thi Daayan' trailer out
Emraan Hashmi is now one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. He is back again with a supernatural thriller 'Ek Thi Daayan'. The first trailer of his movie will be released with Vishal Bharatwaj's film, 'Matru Ki Bijli ka Mandola'. The movie has generated much curiosity because of its name, 'Ek Thi Daayan', The movie has Emraan Hashmi playing a magician. The buzz is that Konkona Sen Sharma plays the daayan in this psychological thriller. The movie also stars Kalki Koechlin and Huma Qureshi. 'Ek Thi Daayan' is produced by Ekta Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj and has been directed by debut director Kannan Iyer. The first trailer of the movie will be released on 11th January with Imran Khan and Anushka Sharma starrer, 'Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola'.
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News of the Day From Across the Nation, March 4
Published 6:02 pm, Monday, March 3, 2014
1 Boston parade: A gay rights advocacy group said Monday that it is pushing for gay people to be allowed to march "openly and honestly" in Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade, but an agreement has not been reached with parade organizers. It appeared Saturday as if Boston Mayor Martin Walsh had brokered a deal between MassEquality and parade organizers to allow gay military veterans to march under the group's banner. The sticking point appears to be whether and how members of the group can identify themselves in the parade.
2 Avalanche death: Michel Colville, who was rescued Friday about three hours after her house was destroyed by an avalanche in Missoula, Mont., died Monday morning. Her husband, Fred Allendorf, remained hospitalized in serious condition. He was buried for about two hours before rescuers found him in an air pocket at the base of Mount Jumbo. Phoenix Scoles-Coburn, 8, was buried in the snow for about an hour. He was released from the hospital Sunday.
3 San Diego mayor: Kevin Faulconer has been sworn in as the 36th mayor of San Diego, making the city the nation's largest to have a Republican leader. The 47-year-old former city councilman took office Monday at a community center in south San Diego, telling about 400 people that he would work to unify neighborhoods across the city. Faulconer was elected to finish the term of Democrat Bob Filner, who resigned amid a torrent of sexual harassment allegations.
- They Survived the School Shooting. Now They're Calling for Action. New York Times
- Snow showers over Reno, Feb. 18, 2018 National Weather Service Reno
- SF City Guides tour of Chinatown San Francisco Chronicle
- Hail falls in Berkeley during California cold snap San Francisco Chronicle
- Bob Melvin on pace of play changes Susan Slusser
- Giants Start Rolling San Francisco Chronicle
- View of large fire in Bishop from the road Emma O'Neill, San Francisco Chronicle, SFGATE
- Pod of orcas seen playing in Monterey Bay Randy Straka / Princess Monterey Whale Watching
- Cupid Undie Run in San Francisco Douglas Zimmerman, SFGate
- Nude Valentine's Day Parade in SF Douglas Zimmerman, SFGate
4 King statue: A plan passed by the Georgia House of Representatives calls for civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to be commemorated with a statue at the state Capitol in Atlanta. Lawmakers voted 173-3 on Monday to approve a statue for King. It would be paid for by private donations. The bill now heads to the state Senate and has received overwhelming bipartisan support.
5 Shooter sentenced: A man who kept a swath of southeastern Michigan on edge for weeks by shooting at two dozen vehicles along a busy highway was sentenced Monday to 18 to 40 years in prison on a combination of terrorism and weapons convictions. Raulie Casteel learned his fate in Livingston County Circuit Court, where a jury in January found him guilty of terrorism, rejecting his claim that the shootings were the impulsive result of uncontrolled delusions and paranoia.
6 Wine sales: A bill allowing wine to be sold outside Tennessee liquor stores was poised for final legislative approval Monday before being sent to the governor, who is expected to sign the measure into law. The Senate, which passed its version of the bill in January, was scheduled to vote on minor changes made by the House when it passed its version last month. Both measures would grant authority to cities and counties that have package stores or liquor-by-the-drink sales to hold referendums on whether to allow wine to be sold in supermarkets and convenience stores.


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In my attempt to understand the concept of Children's Day (Día del Niño) which seems to be a big deal in many Latin American countries, I took to the Internet. I found out that Children's Day is an idea adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954. The main message of this day is to recognize children, pay homage to their importance in society, and endorses their well being. Politically speaking, the idea of Children's Day was enforced to promote the rights of all children around the world.
The Declaration of Rights of a Child, simply put:
1. All children have the right to what follows, no matter what their race, color sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, or where they were born or who they were born to.
2. You have the special right to grow up and to develop physically and spiritually in a healthy and normal way, free and with dignity.
3. You have a right to a name and to be a member of a country.
4. You have a right to special care and protection and to good food, housing and medical services.
5. You have the right to special care if handicapped in any way.
6. You have the right to love and understanding, preferably from parents and family, but from the government where these cannot help.
7.You have the right to go to school for free, to play, and to have an equal chance to develop yourself and to learn to be responsible and useful. Your parents have special responsibilities for your education and guidance.
8. You have the right always to be among the first to get help.
9. You have the right to be protected against cruel acts or exploitation, e.g. you shall not be obliged to do work which hinders your development both physically and mentally. You should not work before a minimum age and never when that would hinder your health, and your moral and physical development.
10. You should be taught peace, understanding, tolerance and friendship among all people.
I completely and totally agree with these rights granted to all children around the world and further, would personally work vehemently to always ensure that children are protected from any and all types of harm. In addition, I agree with the general mission of the UN's General Assembly's purpose behind promoting a Children's Day: "a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children."
Truly it's a great principle, great mission, aims to teach great values and promotes the fraternity among children and the safekeeping of all children. What cold be wrong with Children's Day??
I'll tell you: the retailers and their aim to make you feel like a guilty mofo if you don't go out and get your kids presents they've come to expect. These retailers, and their marketing strategy, aim to make you out as the best parent/uncle/grandparent/cousin/friend/what-have-you if you buy the child the latest and greatest gadget "available only at XYZ store" and for a "limited time." The underlying message here is that if you don't go out and buy said toy or gadget, you're weird and plain wicked for not appreciating kids and how important they are to society.
Oh but the retailers aren't at fault, really. Society believes the hype as we believe the hype about Christmas and birthdays and Valentine's Day. If you were to encounter someone who say, never celebrated birthdays or gave gifts on someone's birthday, I'm sure we'd all conclude the guy/woman is a nut and carry on our merry way. In this case, I'm the nut because in the States, I don't recall ever celebrating – or even hearing about – Children's Day. As I got older and began to work in the children's entertainment industry, from a revenue generating level, I welcomed Children's Day in other territories as a prime time to make some "holiday" cash by selling our goods and helping my bottom line. See? Even I succumbed to the hype surrounding Children's Day, only it was from the worst angle possible! Using their desires to generate income for a business purpose. Ugly, to say the least.
From a more objective perspective one thing is decidedly clear: based on the advertisements I see on tv and in print, it appears that the Chilean retailers don't embrace the true nature of Children's Day. Perhaps they don't because the consumer goes out and buys what's necessary because it's what has always occurred and what's expected. I certainly get the retailer side of things and the fact that it's all based on the general public's actions and needs. I wonder if I'll even see some kind of organized activity that truly embraces the nature of Children's Day as the UN General Assembly had hoped: promoting fraternity and understanding between children.
Obviously I'm the big weirdo fighting the power here, and I'm ok with that. I stated on Facebook that I was anti-Children's Day and I'm sure more people than not thought I was a b*tch for writing that. The thing is, I'm fine with being a weirdo because after some researching, I'm even more adamant about NOT going out and buying kids gifts this coming Sunday! Yes it's partly due to having never celebrated Children's Day growing up (though believe it or not, there IS an actual date dedicated to this back home) and yes, it's partly due to not having kids of my own. But having worked in the children's entertainment field, I can completely and totally attest that this day is nothing more than a marketing scheme embraced by retailers and all companies that make and sell children's products. They all want to make a buck off you. Sorry dear parents, but it's true. Much like Christmas and what it's become to those who aren't really celebrating family and/or the birth of Jesus Christ.
Someday in the future this will become a point of contention between G and me. We're taking his kids snowboarding this weekend, which in my humble, non-parent opinion should suffice as celebration for their contribution to society and their mere existence. But of course, we were at the mall yesterday and he got them each a gift for Sunday as well. So be it. They aren't my kids and I'm not about to force my wild opinions on him and influence how he is as a father to them.
But trust me. Someday with my own kids I hope to make Children's Day more about getting along with other kids and less about what the hell I can buy them at Falabella or Jumbo.
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I wrote this appreciation of Stephan von Huene, the American sculptor later based in Germany, upon the publication of a beautiful catalogue of "Tune the World," his retrospective exhibition at the Hamburg Kunsthalle, 2002-2003. Living in New York City I could have only the diminished pleasure of reading the catalogue, Stephan von Huene, Resounding Sculptures, rather than the full pleasure of experiencing works whose synaesthetic performances remain fresh and vivid in my memory. However the catalogue with its accompanying CD does a great service in bringing to mind a wonderful and complex artist, human being, and for me, a teacher and mentor of inestimable importance.
Perhaps some of my reflections on his role as my teacher at a particular historical moment may be of some value in deepening the contextualization of his work while giving some personal impressions of the man. He was my mentor at CalArts after I left the Feminist Art Program. There are some people in one's life who are absolutely irreplaceable, Steph was one of them. He remained a supportive friend and benevolent influence for me until his untimely death from cancer September 5, 2000. At that time, I had hoped to find a publisher for a draft of this text but was not able to do so. Here it is part of a group of posts exploring the theme of "Teaching Contradiction." In this case the "contradiction" is that Stephan was the most nurturing teacher I had in graduate school and thus as much a Feminist teacher as any other.
I met Stephan von Huene when I came to study painting as an MFA student at CalArts in 1971.If one can set the artistic or more precisely the art academic scene of that moment, the dominant aesthetic philosophy of American art schools and art departments of universities was that of Greenbergian formalism. Painting had to be large, abstract, oil or acrylic on canvas. Period. No figuration, no narrative, no overt personal or political content. Sculpture was not particularly considered, but perhaps it is enough to say that it was often taught in dark and greasy garage-like environments by large, heavily bearded men wielding heavy power tools and acetylene torches (in Canada they called them "tuskers"). Of course, in the wider art world there were movements that contradicted these aesthetic imperatives: pop art provided an enjoyable outlet for younger artists interested in popular culture, there were the Hairy Who artists such as Ed Paschke, based in Chicago, who were practitioners of a kind of cartoon-like, colorful surrealism. Beyond that were the possibilities for time-based performance art and for non-art suggested by Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, by John Cage, Fluxus and other underground art movements. But typically these had not penetrated the art academy.
Finally, any desires that might be specific to a feminist investigation of art and culture were only on the verge of being named. Just as CalArts welcomed the Fluxus movement in the person of Alison Knowles, Emmett Williams, and also artists such as Allan Kaprow and John Baldessari, so it was the first school in North America, indeed anywhere as far as I know, to welcome the new movement of feminism as part of its educational program. This was one of the reasons I chose the school.
The CalArts Feminist Art Program, run by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, was an exciting and intense experimental aesthetic and political educational program embedded within this already experimental art school. The women who chose to work within it were provided a unique political education and were given the opportunity to be artistic pioneers, as art subject matter, materials, history and theory were reevaluated and re-written. However, because this was a radical experiment that included a critique of gendered systems of power, the atmosphere in the program could become quite charged, as the professors dealt with questions of authority within a political movement dedicated to the critique of authority.
Given the situation I have just described, it may seem strange that I chose Stephan von Huene as my official "mentor" for my second year of study. The retrospective of his works provides a focus for an understanding of why in fact he was such an appropriate "feminist teacher."
His contribution to my development was first and foremost to treat me with the greatest courtesy as a person and to appreciate the specificity of my work: at the time, I painted small gouaches representing personal narratives in a style related to artists whose work I only came to hear of through the research activities of the feminist program, such as Florine Stettheimer and Frida Kahlo. From a Greenbergian point of view these were "illustrative," a pejorative description. If the goal of teaching through nurturing rather than through abuse was a primary rhetoric of the feminist art program, I found Stephan to be the most nurturing of the teachers I encountered at CalArts. He respected the criteria by which I wished the work to be judged. Since my principal interest at the time was to tell the story of my development as a young sexual being and at the same time to challenge the limitations set by the dominant formalist aesthetic, a formalist critique of the work seemed irrelevant, although even at CalArts it was the prevailing method, at least when it came to painting. So here was Stephan embracing the delicate role of art therapist at the same time as he prodded me into accepting change, chance and accident as formal and methodological principles, always with gentleness and humor.
He also shared his own searches and discoveries, from his work and life, his readings, and even from the psychotherapy he told me he had been in or perhaps was undergoing at that time. Again this was an unusual teaching method, revealing what might be interpreted as weakness while retaining the authority of knowledge and wisdom.
The few times he intervened in a more traditional, formalist, or simply practical manner were few but therefore memorable: for example, he once told me that he could tell the size of a person's studio just from looking at the work – this seemed like a magic trick, but it is one that has served me well as a teacher. When the ceiling of my studio was damaged by a major leak, damaging delicate gouache on paper paintings I had lain on the floor, he said with his characteristic humorous exuberance, "This is great, you should put all your work in the shower!"
The most important studio visit came a year after I had graduated. Stephan visited my studio in New York. He made it clear that he was not pleased with the work I'd done since I left school. He felt that I'd lost my direction, what he had felt was special to my work. I don't remember exactly what he said, though I can still see him in the room. In fact what happened is that I instantly translated his sparely voiced critique into an interpretation of what I should do next to get back to the core he seemed as committed to as I was (or, rather, in that moment, to which he was more committed than I seemed to him to be). The resolve formed in that moment of translation and erasure of the actual comments set me back on the path that I have followed since. I could only even half hear his criticism because he had been supportive of my work and my criteria of judgement.
Most astonishingly, in relation to my being a painter, he once told me that he hated "pigmentation." This is so revealing when one thinks of works he did in the mid-70s such as the Glass Pipes, where he seemed to desire a total dematerialization of art — "the sculptural direction toward nothing," he writes. I felt that this work represented a life and death struggle for freedom from embodiment, and yet took the form of the sound of a scream, one of the most elementally embodied, reflexive human reactions of shock, fear, and existential horror. As a painter, I found his disgust with pigmentation funny but also bracing and it never interfered with his attitude as a teacher.
Stephan did not believe in showing students his own artworks. Or rather, he believed one shouldn't try to influence students into imitation of the teacher's work by immediately impressing the students with his style. Could there be any better example of his unwillingness to abuse professorial power than to deny himself that aspect of stylistic influence that appeals to so many who teach? And perhaps something else was at play, a kind of privacy, diffidence, and maybe the sense that his work was unusual and inimitable.
But finally I did get to see a few of his works, at the end of my first year at school. My memory is a little shaky but I know that I saw one of the Totem Tones at CalArts (see reference & sound link near the end of this post) – a strange, beautiful, uncompromising object emanating weird, funny but also forbidding sounds, yet welcoming through the warmth of the beautifully crafted wooden materials. Beauty and strangeness, science with archaic mechanisms emitting modern atonal sounds, the work seemed perfectly matched to the person, whose aristocratic demeanor commanded a particular respect – and it amazes me now to realize that he was then only 39 years old.
Around the same time, I believe that I also saw Tap Dancer and Rosebud Annunciator at his home.
These works then and now also suggest why he was such a perfect teacher, though a man, for a feminist female young artist in the context of the then prevalent LA "fetish finish" art movement. The relation to Surrealism perceptible in his work was resonant for many women artists including myself interested in narrativity and representation of sexuality. The work's use of dark wood and his variant of fine crafting seemed to have more to do with the California Arts and Crafts movement of the early twentieth century than with the prevalent surfer culture. William Wilson does a good job in his catalogue essay of describing the art world of Los Angeles in the late 60s and the anomalous position of von Huene within that context. His work had some connections with that of Ed Keinholz, as has been noted. But socially he didn't play the macho game; in fact stories from that scene would cause him to flinch as if recoiling in pain and distaste. He was marked by his early childhood experience of cultural otherness, as the child of German immigrants, and that gave him a sensitivity to similar experiences in others.
In his work, his developing interest in technology somehow had a different feel to it than that evidenced in contemporary work dealing with technology. He didn't aspire toward the glorification of plastic. There was an increasing formal reductivism to his work in the 1970s, but he exercised an older type of craftsmanship, in much the way that Walter Benjamin noted that new technologies, when first realized in utilitarian objects, retained archaic traces, so that, for example, the first automobiles retained the outward form of the fanciest, hand-crafted horse-driven carriages, before the full impact of mass production streamlined form to function. The early works had a strange quality of surplus and quaintness of materials in order to create rather primitive sounds. And in later works such as The Semiconductor of Chemnitz there are again traces of the archaic: the face of the figure echoes the faces of mannequins in Atget photographs, just as its mechanisms seem caught somewhere between an 18th century automaton and a robot created at MIT.
Many of his works used metonymic representation of gendered body fragments in ways that reflected surrealist roots. Surrealism had been the demonized other of modernism, in the terms of the New York school: this is a recurrent theme as one can see in the writings of Clement Greenberg and Barnett Newman, among others. As feminist art sought visual form for the depiction of female sexual desire, the surrealist movement provided important models. The surrealist movement has continued to exercise an important influence on feminist art and theory because, although the surrealist artists themselves may have been unregenerate in their views about femininity: placing irrationality and madness in the feminine, at least they prized those states of being. Thus their work and that of the theorists surrounding their group, such as Bataille and Lacan, opened the door for later feminist investigation.
Von Huene's works shared some of the characteristics of a reflection of gender identity as something learned, as a system of signs: as in many later works such as Tischtänzer, gender identity is telegraphed through a reduction of the body to a headless dancing pair of pants or tights, a system of culturally marked codes. The feminist art historian Carol Duncan had written an influential analysis of much representation of the female nude in vanguard modernist painting, "Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting," focusing on the violence done to the subjectivity of the female models, often most blatantly signaled by formal, compositional decapitation. Von Huene returned in many works to the bottom half, the sexed half, but of both men and women, and always with a focus on the signs of gender such as clothing or scale. Also appropriate to a feminist interpretation is the frequent awkwardness of the fragmented body part: the legs and boots of Tap Dancer teeter between a military appearance and the suggestion of a medical condition, transposition of right and left feet, or two left feet perhaps. Certainly his depictions or intimations of women are never exploitative, never deliberately sexually disturbing in the manner of an artist like Hans Bellmer for example.
Fragmentation, figuration, gender, craft, lack, these were all areas of interest that had strong connections to the interests of much feminist art investigation at the time and feminist psychoanalytic theory of later years.
Finally von Huene's unusual relationship to dominant or dominating systems of power are important components for What's Wrong with Art and Blaue Büche in which he uses formal elegance to contain his distaste for abuses of power in the art world. From percussion as pure declarative sound, in Drum, for example, he moves in Blaue Büche and Der Mann von Jüterborg to speech as a percussive instrument of power. In Drum the mechanical devices that drive the drumsticks prefigure the robots that run the world in The Matrix, while in Der Mann von Jüterborg the slow pace of an invisible man moves like a marionette, following in a disturbing yet powerful slow motion the drum beat of human speech. These works develop a sophisticated critique of systems in which the spirit of creativity and of phenomenological investigation is frustrated and perverted by market values. In these works he continues to be a valuable teacher as well as a unique artist.
Stephan von Huene was born in Los Angeles in 1932 of German-born parents. He studied at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and then received his BFA from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1959. He received a Master of Arts degree from UCLA in 1965.
In the 1960s, Von Huene exhibited wood and leather sculptures at the Pasadena Art Museum. His early work was noted for its Pop and surrealist sensibility and for his highly refined craft. He taught at Chouinard Art Institute in LA, and California State University, LA. Between 1971 to 1976 he was a teacher and Dean at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), along with Alan Kaprow and Paul Brach. He also taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1974 and received a National Endowment for the Arts grant that year. In 1975 he completed Drum, a commission with James Tenney, for the Exploratorium Museum in San Franscisco.
In 1976-77 Von Huene received a DADD grant to work in Berlin. He later moved to Germany where he was based in Hamburg and taught at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe (Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe), as well as at the Fachhochschule fur Gestaltung, Hamburg, Germany. His work was included in Documenta 8.
Von Huene's acoustic sculptural work Text Tones is one of the major works in the contemporary collection of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Berlin's Museum for Contemporary Art.
Totem Tone V, (1969-1970), a von Huene sound sculpture is in the collection of the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and was discussed by artist Evan Holloway in a podcast accompanying the 2006-2007 exhibition The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture, curated by Anne Ellegood. You can hear it play toward the end of the podcast, about 20 minutes in.
Selected Bibliography
Stephan von Huene, The Song of the Line, The Drawing 1950-1999, by Marvin Altner, Petra Oelschlager, Petra Kipphoff, Stephan von Huene, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2010
Stephan von Huene 1962-2000: Catalogue Raisonée, by H. Bredekamp, Petra Kipphoff, J. La Barbara, F. Michel, Petra Oelschlagel, Martin Warnke, Christoph Brockaus, Olaf Breuning, Stephan von Huene, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003.
Stephan von Huene: Klangkorper/Resounding Sculptures, by Stephan von Huene, Martin Wanke, and Christoph Brockhaus. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003
For more information:
Stephan von Huene Wikipedia article (German)
Stephan von Huene, official website
Stephan von Huene at the Berlin Museum for Contemporary Art
"Tune the World: Sound Sculptures, Pictures, Drawings," at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, review
Stephan von Huene –Border Crosser, Border Mover, ZKM-Media Museum, 2005


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You can also have the story narrated to you which works well especially as the text appears as it's being read aloud. The final option is a combination of both methods and is a real differentiator between this and other books on the iPad.
The 'Buddy Edition' in the title refers to this new feature and that can be used when the app is installed on two devices and Apple's Game Center also installed on both devices which enables the reader to narrate the story remotely to the child. This is supposed to enable a parent to still read to their son or daughter even if they are away from home and will work across both the iPhone and iPad as it's a universal app.
While I wasn't able to test this out from a 1,000 miles away I was able to test it out between different rooms in our house and after the initial setup, which they do recommend that you do before you want to read for the first time, it worked flawlessly and makes this app truly unique.
The coloring book part of the app consists of 10 different images picked directly from the pages of the book and allows you to choose from a range of colored crayons and an eraser to add your own look to the pictures. You can even save or email your works of art too.
Peter Rabbit Buddy Edition for the iPhone and iPad is a great addition to your electronic library and at just $1.99 for a universal app it's an absolute bargain.
- Amazing remote buddy reading feature
- Great narrated version
- 10 different pictures to color
- Interactive pictures in the book
- Initial setup for buddy version takes a while


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gains from the likes of Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. stood out on a largely upbeat day for tech stocks Tuesday, but BlackBerry Inc. and Nokia Corp. failed to join in the advance after those companies announced new smartphone devices.
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +1.77% ended the day with a gain of almost 24 points to close at 3,462, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, +2.19% added 0.4% and the Morgan Stanley High-Tech Index US:MSH rose by 0.5%.
Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +2.54% rose by 2.2% to close at $33.53 after Windows boss Tami Reller made a presentation at the same conference. She maintained that the company feels good about its direction with Windows 8, which will get a significant update later this year.
Yahoo Inc. US:YHOO shares rose almost 1% to close at $26.64. Before the market opened, Goldman Sachs analyst Heath Terry raised his price target on the Internet company to $30 from $27 due to its stake in Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba. Terry based his new price target on an increase in the estimated value in Alibaba, which is said to be considering a U.S. IPO later this year and in which Yahoo owns a 24% stake.
Later in the morning, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman presented at the J.P. Morgan conference in Boston. He told the crowd that the company was working to increase its appeal to a younger user base.
Among other tech stocks, U.S.-listed shares of consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. SNE, +0.76% rose almost 10%, to close at $20.76, after influential hedge fund manager Dan Loeb of Third Point LLC hand-delivered a letter to Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai in which he urged Sony be broken up.
Groupon Inc. GRPN, +5.49% shares rose more than 8%, to $6.89, after the company unveiled its Breadcrumb POS app for the iPad. The app is designed to allow small businesses to accept credit cards at low transaction rates.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. TTWO, +2.78% shares rose almost 1% to end the day at $16.54. On Monday, the videogame publisher reported better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results, due mostly to strong sales of its new "Bioshock Infinite" title.
On the downside, BlackBerry US:BBRY BB, +5.16% shares fell almost 4% to close at $15.25 after the company kicked off its annual users conference with a new handset called the Q5 that is designed for emerging markets. It also said it was expanding its BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, service to rival smartphone platforms iOS and Android.
Nokia's NOK, +1.58% U.S.-listed shares were down more than 5% to $3.64 after the company unveiled a new Windows Phone handset called the Lumia 925 at an event in London.


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text: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Thomas Lotze <thomas.lotze at gmail.com> wrote: > knowledge and upping our collective ability! We've got plans to look at R, > libsvm, weka, and Hadoop to tackle the problem. I'm excited about working Hi MLers. gods, I miss NB. Anyway, I saw that you folks are looking at R in your pursuit of the KDD contest. You might find Norm Matloff's R notes quite helpful: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/R/RProg.pdf Hope to get back down to the space some day. Jim -- "Egad! A base tone denotes a bad age." ::tmbg


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Lawyers on a Virginia State Bar excursion to Athens are watching history in the making, with a possible change in that country's government coming today.
Besides earning CLE credits and visiting antiquities, the Virginia barristers reportedly have set up a panel discussion with Greek parliament members and lawyers to discuss the rule of law.
"Amazing opportunity" is how one participant described the planned session today.
Reports from Greece indicate there is pressure for establishing a temporary coalition government to hold elections, as the current prime minister struggles to retain power.
-Peter Vieth


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We've talked about Snapchat Best Friends extensively in our previous posts.
Between January 2015 and April 2015, Snapchat released two updates that affected the best friends feature. In the first update, the best friends feature was completely removed. We were no longer able to see who our best friends are, and who others' best friends are. We had mixed reactions to it — some of us loved it; some of us hated it. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel promised us it would be back in a new form.
In the latest update (6th April 2015), Snapchat brought back the best friends feature as promised, but with a twist.
Snapchat Friend Emojis
Snapchat Friend Emojis are the new "best friends". Before we all start freaking out again however, let's take a closer look at how Snapchat Friend Emojis work. Your thoughts on the new Snapchat feature are always welcome; please share using the comment form.
Read all about the new Snapchat Emojis here.
Okay, so what exactly are these new Snapchat Emojis?
Snapchat Friend Emoji is simply a new feature which tells the user who they message the most by using emojis. There are six main emojis to replace the best friends list and all of these appear just after the names of the people in your list. Each of these stands for how strong your friendship is with your Snapchat friends.
Here's what Snapchat's Friend Emojis mean:
Gold/Yellow Heart – You Are Number One Best Friends – This emoji will appear after the name of the person who you send the most snaps to and who also sends the most number of snaps to you.
Grimace/Face With Teeth Out – You Have A Mutual Number One Best Friend – This indicates that the person you send the most snaps to(i.e; your Best Friend – Yellow Heart) is also who this person sends the most snaps to.
Smile – One Of Your Best Friends – This indicates that you send snaps to this person often but not the most.
Sunglasses – You Have A Mutual Best Friend – This indicates that you both send lots of snaps to the same person.
Smirk/Flirting Face – You Are Their Best Friend But They Are Not Your's – This indicates that they send snaps the most to you but you don't send snaps back to them the most.
Fire – You Are On A Snapstreak – This indicates that you and this person have sent snaps to each other back and forth for the number of consecutive days which is shown next to the fire emoji.
Pictures speak a thousand words. Here you go:
What does Snapchat look like now?
Snapchat's latest update is rumored to be more of an attempt to make Snapchat look like a game, where users will have the urge to snap more so that they could get the Fire emoji or other rewards for using it. However the new update of using Emojis rather than the Best Friends feature proves to be more appreciated for privacy issue, which, in the old feature, was able to let you see who snapped you the most and also who your friends snapped the most. With the Emoji update the Best Friends list is no longer publicly displayed. The emojis and the numbers you see are now only for yourself and not for everyone in your friend circle.
Is this Snapchat update good or bad?
Now with this advantage of not being able to see others' Best Friends list, a lot of questions are being speculated on whether this application is a a good one or a bad one. Good; for those who want to flirt around without getting caught by their fiancés, and Bad; for those jealous and over-protective boyfriends and girlfriends who would want to checkout their loved ones' Best Friends list the whole time.
And yes, a lot of drama is in the offering. For instance, if a Smirk Face appears next to the name of the person you considered to be your Best Friend or if that someone special has a Fire emoji with double digits next to his/her ex or if you have that Fire emoji next to your ex, then you are bound to ask yourself a question on whether you and your friends are faithful enough to each other or not.
Here is the fun part, you can compete with your friends by sharing and comparing screenshots of who has the longest Snapstreak or who has what Emoji next to his/her crush. For all of these, Snapchat will become not only an obsession but also more like a game(which seems to be their main intention).
There are also two other new features in this update; the 'Low-Light Camera' feature and the 'Needs-Love' section. The 'Low-Light Camera' feature is an attempt to lighten dark photos and videos, there is a brightening button at the top of the camera that appears as a 'Half-Moon' icon. This feature can be enabled when you are trying to take photos or videos in the dark by tapping the 'Half-Moon' icon and the brightness will improve.
The 'Needs-Love' section is just a reminder to connect with contacts of whom you haven't been snapping for a while.
All in all, the new Snapchat update gives you better privacy advantages and improves your low-lighted photos and videos. For now let us hope that we will get better and more exiting features from the updates to come.


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Friday 18 August 2006
An action packed trailer of massively multiplayer online PC RPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has emerged and, though it is totally entertaining, it also cruelly reminds us all that it won't be out till the end of 2007.
Just click on the movies tab above to see the grippingly cinematic trailer, which shows a series of interracial battles that clearly demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of each race.
Age of Reckoning is a realm versus realm experience that will incorporate player versus player action and engage you in a universe full of epic battles and conflict. With its scale and unique brand of Warhammer humour it's sure to set itself apart from the MMORPG crowd when it is finally released.


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March 1, 2014JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. | By: Associated Press (AP)
The Missouri House has passed legislation that would require voters to show photo identification at polling places.
The Republican-led chamber voted 103-50 in favor of a constitutional amendment that would authorize the voting requirement. The Missouri Supreme Court struck down a previous photo ID law as unconstitutional.
The House also passed a separate bill with specific details of how the voting requirement would work if voters approve the constitutional change. Under that bill, only government-issued and military IDs could be used for voting.
Republicans supported the measures and say they protect the integrity of elections and prevent fraud. Democrats opposed the voting requirement and say it would disenfranchise voters who are unable to obtain a photo ID.
Both measures now head to the Senate.


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Contemporary Christian Music artist Chris Tomlin returns to the Verizon Theatre for two nights in April to bring his message of praise, good news and grace. The celebrated worship leader and native Texan is known for his work with the Passion Conferences, and his Love Ran Red tour is perfect for a youth group or young adult outing. Hits like "How Great is Our God," "Be Glorified" and "Holy is the Lord" will certainly have you singing along!Visit Event Website for More Info


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Relationship dispatch from Steve Schuh:
A chance meeting last year turned into a great relationship between us at Kaldi's and the Meridzo Ministries in Lynch Kentucky. A family member of Josh Ferguson, one of Kaldi's owners, heard about the work Meridzo was doing in Lynch and passed along that Meridzo were looking to open a coffee shop in the town. The goal of the shop is to offer jobs and hands-on work experience to a town desperately needing jobs, and provide some funding for the future of the people and the town.
The mine entrance.
Location of Lamp House Coffee, housed in the old mine workers' cafe.
Lynch Kentucky is an old coal mining town and part of a "Tri-Town" area with neighboring Benham and Cumberland. Combined, the three towns have a population of around 3,000. Not more than sixty years ago, Lynch itself had a population of over 10,000 along with a hospital, theatre and school system. When the steel and coal industry moved away from such labor-intensive mining in the 1960s, the town lost funding and population numbers plummeted at an incredible rate. About 10 years ago, Meridzo began doing missions in the town in an effort to help out. The town has given Meridzo some buildings for them to revitalize. Lamp House Coffee is in one such building.
A photo inside Lamp House Coffee of the same building as a cafe in the 1950s.
The owners of Lamp House came and visited us in St. Louis two weeks ago for an initial meeting and some training. And last week, we went down there to help them get set up and open. The town has some incredible history that we were excited to see.
The work the ministry is doing for the town is truly remarkable and you can see how much it is appreciated by the surrounding community. Lots of people stopped in to see what was happening and asking when the café would be opening. This is a big deal for community and we are very proud to play a part in it!
Coffee training with Mark from Kaldi's and Lonnie from Meridzo.


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Historian Says Piece of Papyrus Refers to Jesus' Wife – NYTimes.com.
A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife …' "
The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, "she will be able to be my disciple."
The finding was made public in Rome on Tuesday at an international meeting of Coptic scholars by Karen L. King, a historian who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation's oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity.
Tip: Steve Liberace, @StuartJRitchie and @UKSkeptics via Twitter
Scholars are saying is not likely a forgery, but what exactly does it mean? The provenance is a mystery. This piece of evidence will fire up the debate about whether Jesus was married, whether Mary Magdalene was his wife and whether he had a female disciple. It is the first known ancient reference to Jesus having a wife even though it was likely centuries after his death.
Carbon testing would destroy the piece but other methods are being considered. Regardless, let the debates on this begin…
UPDATE (19-Sept-2012) And here we go…
Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married.
And experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment's anonymous owner, noting that the document's value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.
Wolf-Peter Funk, a noted Coptic linguist, said there was no way to evaluate the significance of the fragment because it has no context. It's a partial text and tiny, measuring 4 centimeters by 8 centimeters (1.5 inches by 3 inches), about the size of a small cellphone.
"There are thousands of scraps of papyrus where you find crazy things," said Funk, co-director of a project editing the Nag Hammadi Coptic library at Laval University in Quebec. "It can be anything."
He, too, doubted the authenticity, saying the form of the fragment was "suspicious."
Ancient papyrus fragments have been frequently cut up by unscrupulous antiquities dealers seeking to make more money.