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Job opportunties and careers: what do you do with a degree in anthropology…
I got an Ask about job opportunities from a student in Puerto Rico.
The quick answer is that you can do anything you want with a degree in anthropology. It sounds facetious, but if you want to do it and you have a background in anthropology, I am positive that the case could be made for how the two relate. Anthropologists work in business, government, media, development - and not because they couldn't find jobs in anthropology.
The most obvious answer (the path I'm trying to head down - and the one that your family probably pictures when you say anthropology) is ….. Academia!
If you want to research and do fieldwork… it's the simplest (although not always the easiest) way. Most archaeological excavations are done by academics, who are employed by universities, and go out into the field during the summer - and same for anthropology. It means that you stay at university your entire life - after graduation, work your way up through post-doc and fellowships, lecturing positions - and, one day, full-time professorship Teaching and writing and researching and publishing and (hopefully) doing fieldwork. It would be a good thing if you actually have a desire to teach (rather than just waiting around for field season) - but the issue of how universities have transitioned from being educational institutions into being primarily research institutions, while at the same time dramatically increasing the student body, is another conversation…
Most fieldwork and research is funded by by outside bodies (ie, not the university that employs you), and you don't have to be affiliated with a university to get funding and start a study - but it does help, when it comes to grant applications.
Out in the "real world":
Anthropology gives you a good background with which to make cross-cultural comparisons, to understand other cultures, to understand people's reactions to other cultures, to analyze how different types of information relate to each other, and to help people with different backgrounds/ideas/languages/value systems/goals communicate with each other.
There's a lot of good resources on the internet describing what jobs outside of universities exist for anthropologists so I won't try to list things exhaustively (really, you could probably answer this question with a couple of hours on Google, much better than I can).
But, quickly, as just a starting point, a few that come to mind include:
For Anthropology, in general: Journalist.Loads of roles in the film industry (like, location scout - going ahead to a place before the film crew - or production assistant, or writer), any sort of work in Development and International Charity (from fund-raising to advertising to administrative to whatever hands-on work, be it teaching or medical intervention, that the charity runs). Social worker. Various roles in government, helping policy-makers understand scientific recommendations (about, for example, nutrition!)
For biological anthropology & archaeology: Science writer (ok, another type of journalist), even more government roles helping translate expert/scientific recommendations to policy makers or the general public. Museum work is always an option (but there are more and more universities offering programs tailored specifically to "museum studies" and curating, so it's getting harder to compete for them straight after graduating). Archaeologist
If you're willing to get a second degree or re-train slightly, having an anthropological background is really good when it comes to law (especially international law or human rights law), forensics (helping police identify dead skeletons/bodies),
Also, there's a lot of archaeology that is done (nearly) independent of academia: Contract archaeologists work for private companies that are constructing new buildings - they go in quickly, survey the land, and make sure that nothing of historical significance will be destroyed in the process. I'd imagine that, as law changes to require this sort of survey, and as development throughout the developing world continues, there's going to be no shortage of jobs in it.
DiscoverAnthropology.co.uk has a great collection of links and information, broken down by category: Business, Cultural Organisations, Development/International Aid, Government, Health, Media, Teaching, Tourism.
These are broad areas - but, depending on what you're interested in, and what you picture yourself doing on a daily basis, there are a lot of specific careers that are a degree in anthropology (or archaeology - or biological anthropology, or nutrition and anthropology, or, or, or).
It helps to keep in mind that you need to build up experience.
"What sort of job can I get within a month of graduating with a degree in anthropology?" is a very different question from "What can I aim for in five years, and is anthropology the right degree to set me on that path?".
Internships internships internships. Stepping-stone jobs. Internships. Fieldwork. Volunteer. Internships.
A lot of employers put about equal importance on your education and you experience (and some weigh the experience more heavily). This is true for any field - someone graduating with a degree in journalism is going to have a hard time getting jobs without showing a list of internships and experience on their resume.
And even once you have that body of experience - unpaid internships you did while at school, or for the first few years after graduating - it can still be tough to get "the job" you want - so you might have to enter the field, get a stepping-stone job (some entry-level and easy, but at least in the right general category), and then prove yourself. (And people with degrees in mathematics and engineering have to do the same thing, too, to get where they want to be.)
EDIT - Realized I ignored Business & Industry and the whole wealth of jobs there - jobs not only that anthropological training would help prepare you for (marketing, strategic planning, consulting) but jobs specifcally tailored to anthropologists. My ignoring it probably has a lot to do with my being biased and having little interest in helping the cause of capitalism and in being somewhat horrified to think that anthropologists are using their powers for evil and helping the man. That said… google it. Lots of jobs.
Where's the line between Archaeology and Anthropology?
Hey! I was just turned onto your blog by another blog that had you as recommended reading. Getting back into college after a few years hiatus I was wondering if you could give me a brief summation of what to expect from a degree in Anthropology/Archaeology and the types of classes associated with this degree path (undergrad). I know a lot of the classes cross over into both divisions but where (if any) is the line drawn between anthropology/archaeology. I am leaning towards Paleoanthropology
If you want to be technical about, Archaeology is generally considered a sub-field of Anthropology.
(Of course, when we say Anthropology, we usually mean Socio-cultural Anthropology.)
Some people think of Archaeology as "anthropology of the past" because, really, they have the same goal: insight into the lifestyle of a people. (And then there's the whole "archaeology is just a handmaid to history" thing.)
Archaeologists would disagree, and point out (rightfully) that there's a lot of theory and perceptual work that has developed within archaeology that goes beyond finding things for historians to interpret or just looking at things instead of spending time with the people because the people are dead.
I had a professor who said that Archaeology was a discipline completely obsessed with its methodology at the expense of its point. (But for that matter, Social anthropology is as tightly wrapped around ethnography as archaeology is about excavating, so…)
The same professor - a Social anthropologist - did admit that Archaeology has, historically and currently, been far more open to incorporating anthropology than the other way around.) Archaeology is a lot more interdisciplinary, in general - and has had to be: geology, chemistry, physics, geography… I'd even say that most archaeologists don't particularly care about disciplinary boundaries (they're happy to incorporate whatever they need to get the job done).
Anthropology, in my opinion, has had to become a bit defensive about claiming disciplinary territory because it's own keeps shrinking. Each time a new development is made, each time new ground is broken, specialists go off and divorce themselves from Anthropology (both the Socio-cultural branch and Anthropology as a whole). There's a long list of "disciplines" that are, both in theory and method, essentially anthropological: sociology, women's studies, ethnic studies, peace and conflict studies, global issues, post-colonialism. But they don't publish in anthropology, they don't bring in money to anthropological departments. (This is just my opinion. I'm sure researchers in any of those fields will be happy to tell me that I'm generalizing and misrepresenting their work. I've tried this argument out loud before and been told that, by the same logic, everything should be considered Philosophy - if not Physics. Anyway, I'm off topic.)
On a practical level: Archaeologists dig things up. (Socio-Cultural) Anthropologists don't. Archaeologists deal with past civilizations - be it several thousand years past, or two weeks ago - by looking at what they have left behind. (Socio-Cultural) Anthropologists spend time with living people.
(And Anthropology - with a big A, Anthropology as a whole - puts the pieces together and finds the common ground. But not very many people are bothering to do Anthropology - with a big A - any more, and when they do it, as documentary makers or as social commentary or as thinkers, they sometimes forget to call it Anthropology.)
But, if you really get down to what's being done in the field, any firm line (methodological or theoretical) sort of disappears. (Probably somewhere between Historical Archaeology and Material Culture Studies and Ethno-archaeology, if you want to be specific. And don't even get me started on Evolutionary Psychology and where it should sit.)
The relationship between Archaeology and Anthropology is a bit tense, politically.
Basically: Anthropology is busy defending its disciplinary limits while Archaeology (and Biological Anthropology) are busy pushing those limits. (And there's only so much money to go around.)
There's less of a conflict between American (Cultural) anthropology and Archaeology than there is between British (Social) anthropology and Archaeology. Mainly, the difference is down to the history of who's studied what: "Native American" (indigenous peoples) were always studied by both branches and it seemed pretty obvious that they should be. Europeans, though, used to have a clear line between what the Archaeologists dug up (bronze age things) and who the anthropologists studied (exotic foreigners somewhere far away).
The conflict in the UK has (pretty much) gotten better. (A number of universities are re-organizing their departmental structure and bringing the branches together. Here at Cambridge, the Biological Anthropology "department" is now part of a super Archaeology and Anthropology department. Not that this seems to have changed anything in the day to day - but its the thought that counts…)
And then if you bring in the other branches: (American) Physical anthropology, or (British) Biological anthropology…
In the US, there's a new "battle" between Physical anthropology and Cultural anthropology, and it's all about whether or not Anthropology (in general) is a science - and how much it matters if it is.
Socio-cultural Anthropology has gotten more and more post-modern and reflexive and shied away from statements of objectivity and empiricism. This is, in my opinion (and I'd wager to say, most Social or Cultural Anthropologists working today), a good thing - but it's left Physical Anthropologists out in the cold, unable to identify as Anthropologists and Scientists at the same time.
(Best example of the problem: the American Anthropological Association actually removed the word "science" from its mission statement. Regardless of the fact that alienating Physical anthropologists probably wasn't the intention in the change in phrasing, it was certainly interpreted that way. The response by Physical anthropologists - who, let's face it, studying human evolution in the US are probably a little on edge at all times - may be part of a bigger thing in Anthropology, or a bigger thing in American. Disciplinary gerrymandering or side-effect of anti-intellectualism - either way, it's a "thing".)
Kind of like the Archaeologists, Physical anthropologists are interdisciplinary, and don't care. They do what they want to do to get the job done - and many of them work out of whatever department wants to sponsor the thing that they're currently doing. And this has become increasingly codified in the departmental structure. (Harvard, for example, has moved its paleoanth people out of Anthropology and into a new department of Evolutionary Biology.)
And what about paleoanthropology?
You can kind of think of paleoanthropology as a bridge between Archaeology and Physical-Biological Anthropology. We need the methods and insights of both.
Historically, "we" came out of Anthropology - pure, big A, Anthropology. It was all about the big picture, studying and understanding humanity. (Leakey was responsible for sending Goodall, Fosey, and Galdikas out to do their work, after all.)
A few decades ago, paleoanthropologists were specialized archaeologists: they dug up fossils. Today, you have to know more than the bones - even if you want to work with the bones.
I'd even go so far as to say that paleoanthropology has always been at the cutting edge of archaeology, doing the most "scientific" and interdisciplinary work - that in turn changed the discipline of archaeology. (Of course, I'm a bit biased.)
I've heard people argue about the merits of keeping paleoanth in anthropology - on one level, it's a semantic battle that makes little difference to the work being done. (However, when that battles affects office space, funding, and the number of students who can be admitted - semantics start to seem a lot more serious)
Personally, I see myself as an Anthropologist - more importantly, I see the sort of work that I would like to pursue, research into human origins, as Anthropological.
Not just because I love reading about Social Anthropology and was trained in the 4-field system (well, sort of; we don't call it that here in England) - but, because I think that the history of the discipline, and the theoretical under-pinnings of it, are necessary to paleoanthropology. I don't want to be an applied biologist; I want to be a Biological Anthropologist.
Paleoanthropology is about digging up fossils, about looking at the mechanics, the biology, and the structure, about formulating comparisons and considering implications - but it's also about the nature of humanity.
I need (and I believe the discipline needs) to remember the context, the bigger picture, and the non-empirical, entirely subjective, interpretative theories that have come from Anthropology.
I'm following my own rules of capitalization when it comes to disciplinary sub-fields in order to distinguish between them. Sorry. And I've already edited this twice to fix Biological/Physical/Social/Cultural confusion. Hopefully it now makes sense.
kylemillerrocks-deactivated2013 said: Hey! I was just turned onto your blog by another blog that had you as recommended reading. Getting back into college after a few years hiatus I was wondering if you could give me a brief summation of what to expect from a degree in Anthropology/Archaeology and the types of classes associated with this degree path (undergrad). I know a lot of the classes cross over into both divisions but where (if any) is the line drawn between anthropology/archaeology. I am leaning towards Paleoanthropology
I've had a few similar asks in the past: studying archaeology as a background to paleoanthropology and how to find PhD programs in paleoanthropology. (Although, glancing through the first link, I've just repeated a lot of the same stuff…)
What to expect from a degree in Anthropology/Archaeology
I did my undergrad in the UK, so I can't really speak about American programs (I'm guessing that's where you're planning on studying?) except to make assumptions and repeat things I've heard.
(I went to high school in California, applied to American colleges, and most of my classmates went to college in the US - but no one I know personally studied Arch & Anth. Actually, not true, there are a number of people in my master's program currently who did their undergrad in the US. As far as I know, most of them have a background in biology, biological anthropology rather than Arch & Anth.)
I know that the day-to-day experience will depend on the school and the department - what their gen ed requirements are like, how much focus they have on lab and fieldwork.
The good news about that is that most universities make that sort of stuff very clear on their website. It might take a bit of digging - the department's page or buried somewhere in degree requirements or FAQ for potential students - but you should be able to get a clear picture of what classes you can take, how many you'll be taking each semester, what fieldwork will be available (and how much you'll have to pay for it, on top of your tuition).
Course catalogs are beautiful things. (Although they're usually out of date. So it's more an idea of what you might get than a promise of what will be there.) Looking over the staff profiles - to see who is full time and what their specialities are - is often a good indication of what will be regularly offered.
Speaking (very) generally, I think that the structure of American undergrad programs gives you the ability to pick and chose classes between departments quite flexibly. So even if you're a declared geology major, you can take anthropology classes, and vice versa, and you can structure your four years to be get what you want out of it. (That said, it depends on the school.)
Most American colleges focus on cultural/social anthropology. And a lot of archaeology departments are focused on Native America, Latin American, and Historical archaeology - at least, that's the impression I got. Physical/biological anthropology is a broad field (primates, genetics, disease burden, development issues, network theory, etc) - so if you want to make sure you're going to be taking classes and learning about paleo, read the fine print.
Pure paleoanthropological programs, at least when I was applying (five years ago) were rare. And then tend to go by a variety of names - at some colleges, human evolution and paleo is tied into Evolutionary Biology (whereas, at other colleges, Evo Bio is molecular and ecological).
A classical Arch & Anth program - or a 4-field Anthropology program (Cultural/Social, Physical/Biological, Archaeology, and Linguistics) should broadly prepare you for all four fields (obviously) but it's get a focus and find a way to make sure you take the right classes.
I think the weakness of the classic Arch & Anth programs is that, if you are sure that you want to go on to work and research in paleo, there's a lack of anatomy and geology components. While I'm happy that I did study Arch & Anth, there's a lot that I learned that doesn't necessarily apply to my future work (Malinowski, feminist anthropology, African witchcraft believes, etc) but has broadened my theoretical understanding of the larger issues. I'm a bit jealous of some of my peers who studied biology as an undergrad, because they have a competent and solid grasp of things I'm still struggling with (I could have done with a forensics or osteology lab, for example). Of course, they might say the same about me, and there are things that they've learned that don't apply to paleo.
Even paleoanthropology itself is a broad field. Depending on what sort of work you see yourself doing in the future (and what you learn may lead you to change your mind), you might want to consider minoring in chemistry, physics, anatomy, geology, genetics, or art history.
At the end of the day, chosing a speciality is a compromise between what you find the most exciting, and what you can see yourself enjoying doing on a daily basis.
As interesting as I find the papers on genomics and sequencing of the Neandertal genome - or isotope studies that reveal dietary and migration information - I know that I wouldn't necessarily enjoy the sort of lab-work that it entails. As far as geology goes, I'm an very glad that there are people who love it, and I am happy to turn to them. Personally, I love fieldwork. I'm in it for the excavations and fossils and human origins. But maybe also artefacts and the origins of cognitive systems. Or maybe primate divergence. (See my problem?) If I already had a definitive focus - much less if I'd had one as an undergrad - I could have saved time and geared up. But, I really am glad to have the "big picture" background knowledge from Arch & Anth, because while I will have to specialize for a PhD - and what I do as a PhD will direct the first five to ten years of my career - I have a framework to understand, to continue reading and learning about, work in other areas of paleo - and archaeology.
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More online Arch & Anth textbooks
From SpringerLink, (presumably) free to students.
see the FULL LIST OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY TITLES.
Including several other paleoanth titles (which I'll be downloading as soon as I have the time to name and file them properly)
- The First Humans – Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo R. Leakey, I. Tattersall, and F. Fleagle, Eds. (Contributions from the Third Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop October 3 2006) *
- Handbook of Paleoanthropology I. Tattersall and W. Henke, Eds.
- Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions: Methods, Theories, and Interpretations M. Camps and P. Chauhan, Eds.
- Human Ecology: Contemporary Research and Practice D. Bates and J. Tucker, Eds.
- An Introduction to Archaeological Chemistry T. Price and J. Burton, Eds.
- Statistics for Archaeologists: A Common Sense Approach R. Drennan **
- Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases A. Van Derwarker and P. Peres, Eds.
*I'd already downloaded most of these chapters without realizing it was a book…
**Until I can find a "Statistics and SPSS for Palaeoanthropologists"… this will have to do. Quite timely, actually.
Book Reccomendation (and download link)
The 2007 "Handbook of Paleoanthropology" (by Henke, Hardt, & Tattersall) is absolutely amazing.
It's at that perfect better-than-your-intro-textbook but not-so-narrowly-specific-as-journal-articles level (less patronizing and more specific - with a broader focus and explaining in the gaps).
It's on SpringerLink - I can download the chapters individually as pdfs, but I'm guessing that the access is one of the perks of being a student. Those of you who can, I highly recommend downloading it. (And those of you not at universities - well, I'm sure you know someone that you can privately ask…)
By the way - the numbering of the chapters is crazy. Took me a while to sort out that it's actually three volumes, a bit mixed up.
- Vol 1 is background, evolution, taxonomy, paleo methodology, etc.
- Vol 2 is primate evolution through the Miocene.
- Vol 3 is hominid evolution, Australopithecines through H. sapiens, up to the Neolithic, including cognitive issues.
(PS. Amazon.co.uk wants to sell it to for £600. How crazy is that? Seriously?)


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AbstractThis paper uses the 2000 Census Transportation Planning Package data to conduct a journey-to-work transit trip-making analysis for the City of Richmond, Virginia. In spite of its low modal share, transit is critical to the City due to its unique demographics and high transit demand. Findings of statistical analyses suggest that factors impacting transit uses at place-of-residence and place-of-work are different. Nevertheless, they share one thing in common that it is essential to improve transit accessibility to workers, especially the ones whose households are below poverty status. The existing hub-and-spoke bus transit system is being challenged by the City's suburbanization movement and declining downtown area. To accommodate this trend and unmet transit needs, this paper recommends strengthening the bus transit services in the urban fringe residential areas, rather than exclusively focusing on the suburb-downtown transit improvements.
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The boy walked through the front door of the See-Saw diner, pulled up the edge of his threadbare gray t-shirt and wiped the sweat from his sunburned face. He paused, looking around the seating area, which was empty except for Melody and me sitting in a booth in the corner. Satisfied that we were nothing to contend with, he sat down at the counter by the cash register. Shrugging off his dirty orange backpack, he set it on the stool next to him.
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He stared at the back of her head, making no effort to reply. She set the beverages down in front of him. "Coffee's on the house; I'm going to have to toss the rest of the pot at the end of my shift anyways. You're the only one drinking it." She smiled and then went back to the other end of the counter where she'd been refilling salt shakers.
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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
6 May 2009 at 2:00am
I would LOVE to find a better way to do this. The die() statement was supposed to be a temporary fix, but ended up sticking because nothing else works. I opted not to use a redirect because people who have only one album are going to want the URL /my-gallery/ to show all their photos and not /my-gallery/album/DefaultAlbum. I know that would get a negative reaction. I wouldn't want it, myself.
Anyone else? I wonder if that code needs to be moved to the index() action instead of init().
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6 May 2009 at 2:20am Last edited: 6 May 2009 3:23am
Moving the die() to the index() function solved the security problem for me without the sloppy URL... good call!
In the init() I now have:
if(!isset($this->urlParams['Action'])) {
//SingleAlbumView, handled in index()
} elseif($this->CurrentAlbum()) {
And in the index() is the die():
public function index() {
if(!isset($this->urlParams['Action'])) {
if($this->SingleAlbumView()) {
EDIT: It doesn't get rid of the unconventional use of die() though...
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6 May 2009 at 3:29pm
So I finally got around to installing this on the latest nestedurls update and ran into an error.
When I try to add/edit an album I get this error in the lightbox window in the cms admin.
Fatal error: Call to a member function getErrors() on a non-object in /home/dreamer/public_html/new/sapphire/forms/Form.php on line 543
I know you don't deal with nestedurls, but any thoughts on this?
I'm in a jam because it's a very important project to use sub urls, and this photo gallery will be a main page of the site with 100s of albums over the long run. Gah.
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6 May 2009 at 4:07pm
Yeah, I've never used that module. Do you have any instances of a DataObjectManager running successfully? Because the albums interface is just a straight DataObjectManager -- nothing fancy going on. I have a feeling if that is failing for you, then DataObjectManager is not compatible with NestedURLs, which means perhaps ComplexTableField isn't, either, because they both use the same URL handlers.
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6 May 2009 at 4:22pm
No, I just installed the whole package and used it out of the box. To be honest, this is the first time working with dataobject_manager and the image gallery. I haven't even taken the time to learn how to use it, I just did a quick upload to test to see if it would work out of the box before spending too much time with it.
I have a feeling you're right and it's just not compatible. Gah now I really have no idea what to do with this situation...
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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
8 May 2009 at 5:44pm Last edited: 8 May 2009 6:56pm
Hi Uncle Cheese,
The NextAlbum function is not returning the next album. It is actually returning the last album. Has anyone else seen this problem?
I just re-installed all the newest versions of DataObjectManager, ImageGallery, & SWFUploadField, but no luck.
I also tried re-sorting the albums and then placing them back to their original positions with no luck. Please help!
You can see what I am talking about here: http://22.214.171.124/~pascetti/railings-stairs/album/Cable-Railings
Thank you for your help!
*** I got it ***
*I changed the ImageGalleryPage.php file *
from this
* * * *
public function NextAlbum()
return $this->adjacentAlbum("next");
* * * *
to this
* * * *
public function NextAlbum()
return DataObject::get_one(
"ImageGalleryPageID = {$this->ID} AND SortOrder > {$this->CurrentAlbum()->SortOrder}",
"SortOrder ASC"
* * * *
It is now working. Yay!
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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
9 May 2009 at 1:29am
i have a question...
I have many albums on one page, they positioned vertically and description goes on right. the page gets too long because of that. How to do, so after certain amount of albums it will create next page, like in forums here... 1.2.3 so on...?
another question, i would like to be able to display feature album or images on home page, or most recent ones. It could be just an image, or little slideshow?
Is there anybody who thought of it, because i am kind of stuck... )
thank you so much!
great work
Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
9 May 2009 at 1:39am
@LeeUmm - Can you confirm whether ComplexTableFields are working the NestedURLs module?
@Felicia - I'm aware of this issue. The solution is to just sort the album list once. It happens because the albums are not getting a default sort order on creation.
@Yulia - I haven't set up pagination on the albums list yet. I should probably add that in. As far as a featured image, gallery, or album, that's something you need to handle in your HomePage object.
$has_one = array('FeaturedAlbum');
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main, new DropdownField('FeaturedAlbumID','Featured Album', DataObject::get("ImageGalleryAlbum")->toDropdownMap('ID','AlbumName')));
and on your template
<% control Featured Album %>
Of course, you could substitute ImageGalleryImage or ImageGalleryPage in that code, as well.
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All of us need to stop apologizing
for having been to hell and come back breathing.
Your bad dreams are battle scars.
What doesn't kill you cuts fucking deep
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When it comes to choosing portable sauna for home, it is always beneficial to buy far-infrared sauna made of suitable material. Usually wood is used as far as the material of the sauna is concerned. This wood should have longer durability. However, if pure wood is used to make such sauna room, the walls will start getting damaged due to the heated air created within the room by the attached heater. That's why; cedar wood is used to make such portable room. If you closely watch the walls of this room, you will find that the surface of the wall to be too smooth to touch. These woods are easy available. That's why many sauna makers prefer to make cedar far-infrared sauna.
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Earl Myatt loved his wife, Mary Watt, so much he could no longer stand to see her in pain. The woman he'd met at age 17 and to whom he was married for 42 years had suffered a brain aneurysm that made it impossible for her to continue caring for herself. Instead of dealing with the difficult task of watching her deteriorate, the 59-year-old father of two and grandfather of four took Mary to the Verona train tracks in New York on Sunday afternoon. He helped position them both so that they would be killed by an oncoming train. And, if that isn't heartbreaking enough, the last phone call he made before they committed suicide was to his son.
According to Brad Myatt, Earl called him before the incident to remind him that he loved him and was "sorry." Brad says his father was incredibly in love with and devoted to his mother. After she suffered the brain aneurysm, Mary experienced a very slow recovery in which she needed help to do things like use the bathroom. She also had a difficult time communicating.
Even though he stuck by her throughout the entire ordeal, Brad says his father fell into a state of depression because he couldn't handle seeing his wife deteriorate in such a dramatic way.
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I've only been married eight years and I can't imagine what it would feel like to witness my husband suffer anything more severe than a broken leg. It's difficult to put yourself in Earl's shoes and say with certainty how you would handle things if your partner suddenly lost his or her ability to live a full and happy life. We aren't sure what part, if any, Mary played in this act -- did she ask Earl to take this dramatic step and end her life?
The man left a suicide note in the couple's car, but its content hasn't been made public. While it's possible both Earl and Mary were on board with this decision, it doesn't make it any less painful for the family they've left behind, I'm sure. Their sons are now left with the task of living life without BOTH their mom and dad. I hope the message dad left for his children gives them some peace and closure.
Do you think this man and his wife have the "right" to commit suicide together or was this a selfish decision?
Please call 1-800-273-8255 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in case you are worried about yourself or someone else.
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Chrissy thats heartbreaking, I cant stop crying.
Anyone considering something like this should take a second to research the kind of affect this has on train drivers. Accounts from the drivers usually talk about how horrible it feels because they almost always see it coming and have no way to stop in time. They may end up suffering from PTSD or depression for years afterwards.
The linked article did mention it was a freight train. The conductor and crew still don't deserve this but at least there wasn't passengers.
I think suicide is selfish. I watched my father in law kill him self. It's not something I would wish on my worst enemy! The man knew it was wrong and unfair to his children or he wouldn't have called his son to apologize!


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When asked what matters most, a combined 60% of respondents wanted their tablet experience to be the same or nearly the same as their desktop experience.
At first, I thought this was odd, then I thought about my last few trips down iPad lane. The majority of apps and some of the websites I visit are laid out differently than the web versions. The action buttons are in different places and not all desktop options are available on the tablet. And I only just realized how many YouTube videos aren't available to watch on my iPad.
The more I switch back and forth, the more I notice these difference and my annoyance increases. If the button is on the left on the web, I want it on the left on the right! I understand that there are size issues with a smartphone, but tablet screens are pretty roomy. . .
If you're thinking of just pushing your website out to tablet users – think again. The reason we got into this mobile mix-up mess in the first place is because the code you use to run your website doesn't always work on a tablet. The penalty for creating a bad or broken mobile site?
Wow. Harsh. 67% of respondents said that a poor website experience would keep them from recommending the site to friends and family. Really? Did they actually have to ask that question? Of course they won't recommend a bad experience. Which means you fabulous product will languish on the shelf because you went with the cheapest graphic designer.
Not what you wanted to hear, I know. But the internet has become a visual medium. Imagine shopping on a website without images. I don't care how much you want that new CD, you're unlikely to buy it if you can't see it. You're unlikely to even skim a website that's all text in order to find it in the first place!
One last thought. Unlike desktops, tablets give us the opportunity to touch while we browse and shop. It's not like putting your hands on a cashmere sweater in a store, but there's something more compelling about tapping with your finger vs clicking a mouse. The tablet experience is casual and intimate. It's the easiest thing to grab when your teenager runs by shouting the name of her new favorite band. Google search. T-shirt shop. Birthday gift. Done. And you didn't have to move from the couch.
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The Time would release four albums during the main course of their career. Each albums was strongly influenced by Prince and Parliament. They managed to score numerous hits, including "The Bird," "jungle Love," "777-9311," "Get It Up," "Cool," and "Gigolos Get Lonely Too." They never managed to attain Prince's superstar status, however. Many feel that, while Morris Day was a strong front man, his songwriting skills were rather weak, which hence stifled the group's development. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were ejected from the band in the year 1983 after they were stranded in Atlanta, where they had been producing other artists, and failed to make it to a Time concert in Texas.
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On your mark, get set, tweet! Today marks Weight Watchers Lose-A-Palooza event—a one day social media fundraiser to help raise awareness about and money for the weight loss company's Lose For Good campaign. "Lose-A-Palooza is a one-day social media event, and Weight Watchers will donate one dollar, up to $75,000, to the participating causes for every mention of Lose for Good on Facebook, Twitter or blogs," says Cheryl Callan, chief marketing officer for Weight Watchers.
The fourth annual Lose For Good program was kicked off by Jennifer Hudson (who was one of our "Best Celebrity Slim Downs" of 2010!) last week and is going through October 15. While Weight Watchers members lose weight, they host food drives that anyone can donate to, which benefit local food pantries. Members also make donations to the campaign, which benefits Share Our Strength (to end childhood hunger) and Action Against Hunger (fighting malnutrition worldwide). And the company donates money to these charities for each pound their members lose.
"Lose For Good taps into the spirit of the 20,000 staff members we have who have all successfully lost weight on Weight Watchers. We love helping others and this program is all about helping others while helping to improve yourself," Callan says.
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The Privilege of Despite
I know that we usually use these words to mean something like "without being prevented by," but I started wondering whether the spite segment of these words really could also have the sense of spite as in spiteful ... a kind of malicious ill-willed malevolence, showing a nasty need to vent on or humiliate someone. I got stuck at the idea of trying to humiliate my disability. Trying to feel malicious towards it. It all got rather Monty Python-esque.
So, I tried going at the problem the other way. What do we gain by consistently characterizing a disabled person's ability to function "despite" her disability as a "despite" rather than a "with?" What lies behind that need to see a disability as an obstacle rather than a form of human variation? I am not a sociologist with the kind of theoretical insights to be able to answer those questions, but several things seem to me to exist on a kind of analogous plane: inspiration and role models.
Inspiration from above tends to be unattainable. We can be inspired by towering figures, but most of us are ordinary. Just ordinary. The achievements of the great seem a long way off and are easily beyond our reach. We can try to do whatever we can in the small spheres in which we operate, but greatness, well, that is unlikely. We can nonetheless be inspired from below. And disabled people are always below. Even if your average nondisabled is not likely to run a marathon, the idea that a disabled person might seems inspirational. The very inspiration comes as much from the fact that 26 miles is a bloody long way as from the fact that it is an especially bloody long way when you associate disability with "can't." If even she can do it, I can certainly do it. Or: If this person can do that despite all the burdens of his or her disability, U can surely do this little thing. With all my advantages, I could surely do that or even this (probably non-related thing), if I put my mind to it.
And that's it for me. The despite, in spite thing are about privilege. They are about the privilege of thinking that you have privilege, the privilege of being able to think from what the you assume is a position of privilege. It is about being able to assume that you have more advantages, a better life, more resources, etc. It is the privilege of assuming, incorrectly, that disability is never you, that you are somehow better off, unaffected ... that you have a better. It is the privilege of thinking that someone else's life is hell.
Yeah. That's it. The privilege of assuming you are isolated, protected, privileged.
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Thanks for this careful, layered analysis of language -- I think it's important.ReplyDelete
Despite is always tricky. The problem is in its presumption.ReplyDelete
For example, I very much admire some friends and family who despite facing a load of crap in their lives, have survived, kept their spirits or achieved something. However, being close I know something about what they had to overcome.
As opposed to "It's amazing you go on living, despite being in a wheelchair" (or whatever).
Because the real stories wouldn't make good copy; they're complicated and often the obstacle hasn't got the universal symbol of tragedy that is impairment. For example, not many people will have sympathy for my friend who avoided bankruptcy despite being really terrible with money. But I think what he did was amazing.
Personally, I take my inspiration from extraordinarily people. I remember during one period sick in bed when I was feeling terribly sorry for myself and extremely fed up of the four walls I thought, "Well if Mandela could manage 28 years on Robin Island, perhaps I can push through another week of this."
At which point I realised I had completely lost perspective...
I am going to get a t-shirt printed that says 'I am not brave! Got it?'. Bravery denotes choosing the path that will deliberately put you in danger for a noble reason. This is a path I most certainly did *not* choose.ReplyDelete
It's really interesting that everything on TV about disabled people is about the 'superhero' angle. Why can't we just have programs about us doing normal things (or not doing normal things because you can't negotiate public transport as the case may be!). There's a lot about disabled athletes or other extraordinary feats but nothing about the everyday stuff and I think that's why a lot of AB people have so much trouble 'getting it'.
Can't type much, but loved this. Thank you.ReplyDelete
Sorry, Jennifer. Poor mouse control led to your comment being rejected.ReplyDelete
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ennifer has left a new comment on your post "The Privilege of Despite":
I think the most alarming thing about "despite" or "inspite of" is the ignorance it reveals.
Imagine: "She manged to earn a BA, despite having never owned a cat."
A lot of so-called "inspiration" stories are about people who do things that, well, they can do. Which is insulting to both the subject of the article and the readers.
--> Now it can be *interesting* reading, to learn about alternate ways to do things. And "inspiring" in the limited sense of, "oh, yeah, now I see how I could do that, too, hadn't thought of that work-around."
But I'm with goldfish. Most heroism is way under the radar, because you have to know what the *real* obstacles were, in order to appreciate what it took to overcome them.
I think I get what Jennifer is saying, and I agree: instead of remarking that she climbed a mountain despite her ability, why not ask "how did you climb that mountain with your disability?" or "how did you earn your ba with a learning disability?" or "how do you dance so well in wheelchair?" These questions come from a place of genuine interest, and the answers to them will be both extraordinary and ordinary. Don't you think?ReplyDelete


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On the Run- An Epic Week!April 19th, 2011 at 2:35 pm by Bruce Rader under Health, Military, Sports
All the Running News in Hampton Roads from your Sportswrap Running Reporter, Jon "Flex Leiding
An Amazing Seven Days!
Great efforts were all over the "757″ over that last few days. When we go "On The Run", we go everywhere! Where to start? Chesapeake, Hampton, Williamsburg, Norfolk, Kentucky or Boston? Let's start first with the ongoing story of John Price, who's been "On the Run" since Valentines Day, running back from California. His latest efforts had him in Kentucky, primed for a big return to Hampton Roads very soon. You can follow his blog, with some great pictures of this beautiful land we call home at http://runvb2vb.com/blog/.
In Norfolk, the Lion's Journey for Sight 5K & One Mile Run Saturday had a new venue in Norview High School, but speed was on display. Drew Midland won the 5K in 16:47, followed by Masters great, John Lomogda in 17:33. Inessa Corney, 13, from Australia, was the fastest female in 21:23 and she was the First Female in the Mile at 6:25. Liam Arocho blazed the One mile for the Overall victory in 4:35.
Williamsburg was also the setting for sub 16′s at the Duke of Gloucester 5K. Williamsburg's Ed Moran sizzled thru the 3.1 mile course in 14:38, with the next three finishers all breaking 16:00! Jennifer Quarles led the Ladies in 19:19.
Since we're on the Peninsula, a huge "THANK YOU" to all who participated in the 24 hour Run for Cancer at Sandy Bottom Nature Park. Among the fundraisers, Virginia Beach's Tommy Neeson logged 86 miles. Running for a charity is a wonderful thing to embrace, at least once. To all of you, a hearty "Congratulations!"
The TS Gates 5K in Poquoson Saturday with Brandon MacPherson as the Overall Winner and Meghan Foley was the Ladies champ.
All this and Still, Not Done!
Kale Running brought the big guns for the Dismal Swamp Half Marathon Saturday and were not disappointed. The out and back course along the Dismal Swamp was the perfect setting for Virginia Beach's George Towett, who was First to the line in 1:05:32 . New York's Salome Kosgei was the Ladies Winner in 1:15:56. The Field also featured Fourth overall and Masters Champion, Dennis Simonaitus. The 48 year old from Utah ran an amazing 1:10:56. He is also the only Masters Runner (40 years old and above) to run a 5K in under 15 minutes. Hampton Roads had two other friends in the Top Ten; Chesapeake's David Hryvniak and big friend of the blog, John Piggott, of Williamsburg. Congratulations to all finishers!
It's the oldest and most famous Marathon in America. 27,000 people toed the line Monday and great efforts were aplenty. If you didn't see the highlights, Course records were set by winner, Geoffrey Mutai in 2:03:02, while American, Ryan Hall set an American course record in 2:04:58, finishing Fourth. In 2010, Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot set a Boston course record of 2:05:52. That would have landed him in Fifth this year. For the Ladies, two seconds was all that kept Desiree Davilla from being the first American Woman to win the race since 1985. With less than a quarter mile to go, Kenya's Caroline Kilel outkicked Davilla to win in 2:22:36.
While those are amazing results, Hampton Roads also was treated to some real "Dragon Slayers" on this course. Virginia Beach's Steve Speirs, 44, bested his previous Boston efforts, turning in an epic 2:45:22, running "negative splits" for the second half. Suffolk's Billy Chorey, 30, was not far behind with another stellar effort, 2:46:05. Williamsburg's Christopher Gutridge, 26, crossed the line in 2:49:27, followed by Matthew Lynch of Norfolk, in 2:51:55, while 20 year old, Thomas Gounley, from Newport News, rounded out the Hampton Roads connection for Runners under three hours! In a word…"AMAZING!"
Back to the Future!
No Delorean or Time Machine needed as this weekend offers several races. Saturday, the Suffolk YMCA 5K & One Miler, the One Life Fitness Bunny Hop 5K and One Mile Thumper Run in Chesapeake. At Oyster Point Park in Newport News, the Race for Teal 5K takes off on Saturday morning, while in Williamsburg, the New Quarter Park 5K and One Mile race get going as well. You can always get registered or find out more at kalerunning.com, tidewaterstriders.com, peninsulatrackclub.com, or colonialroadrunners.org.
What's New With the Blog?
Saw some old friends of the Blog over the weekend. It's wonderful how many people read our Running Blog and have some ideas we are working on. Some interviews are in the works as well. If you have an idea for a story or suggestion, please feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can always catch up with my archived Blogposts at ontherunwithflex.wordpress.com, or weekly here at WAVY.com.
Be on the lookout for me this weekend, whether you're out for an easy run, or racing with the pack. I might just catch you… "On The Run!"
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