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Who we are
Michelle Sowey: Co-founder and Director.
After receiving First Class Honours in Philosophy from the University of NSW, Michelle Sowey worked in intelligence analysis and educational equity before dedicating herself to supporting children's thinking through philosophical dialogue. She began The Philosophy Club in living rooms and community halls across Melbourne and Sydney, using a process of collaborative enquiry to ignite children's curiosity and deepen their understanding.
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Papyrology, Gender, and Diversity: A Natural ménage à trios
G. Parca
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Preoccupation with issues of identity and difference permeates our world. Such interest also permeates the fields of Classics and Gender Studies. Some of the academic wars waged in the wake of the publication of Black Athena (1987, 1991) have led scholars to look East and South, to Egypt, in search of another face of Greece (Burkert [1992] & West [1997]). Those debates have also prompted reflection from within. Jonathan Hall's Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (1997) pondered the question of who the Greeks thought they were and why, pinpointing the fashioning of a subjective sense of "Hellenic" identity around Thessalian hegemonic designs in the late archaic period. And in his recent Hellenicity (2002) that same scholar examines the shift from ethnic to cultural criteria of identity in Athens' own formulation of "Greekness" in the course of the fifth century. The image of Greek culture that has thus emerged is at once sharper and less neat. The multiplicity and fluidity of culture forms the object of Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke's Cultures within Greek Culture (2003), a collection meant to recognize and probe "the ways in which Greek culture is actively engaged in a complicated process of negotiation, conflict, and collaboration between cultures or subcultures" (2). As scholars of Egypt or of the Near East under Greek and Roman rule, papyrologists also have become attuned to the subtle game of tension, adaptation, and reciprocal influence between native and imported traditions and practices.
Born of the cemeteries, temples, houses and rubbish heaps of Graeco-roman-egyptian-syrian-mesopotamian-judaean towns and villages, papyrology is a good medium with which to tackle the issues of cultural diversity "in place" which this conference sets out to explore. All too often narrowly understood as a discipline concerned with the edition and explication of Greek and (for the most part) documentary texts recovered in Egypt, papyrology may actually be defined so as to include any writing in ink on portable (and hence generally perishable) materials—papyrus, parchment, wood, leather, and potsherds.1 And while the vast majority of those texts have come out of the papyrus-friendly sands of Egypt, the Roman Near East has also yielded substantial numbers of documents on perishable supports (more than 600 are recorded in the latest survey published in 1995).2 Papyrology has come to mean Greek papyrology because the texts which most of us encounter in research and teaching are those studied by philologists, archaeologists and historians of classical antiquity—most of whom are neither trained in Egyptology nor able to read Demotic, Coptic, Aramaic, or Hebrew. Greek papyrologists are of course aware of the existence of copious parallel documentation (principally for the Ptolemaic period) in Egyptian vernacular, just as historians of the Roman Near East know that the literary and epigraphical sources in Latin and Greek do not tell the whole story.3
The point here, however, is not to expound the challenges of the discipline but rather to discuss papyrology as it relates to issues of gender and diversity. My goal is to sketch a historiographical and prosopographical survey of the pioneering landmarks, later advances, and current directions of this "auxiliary" field of inquiry. The survey, inevitably, is selective.4
The Early Days
Interest in women emerged early among papyrologists. One of the first books on the subject was published in 1939. It was written by a woman, Izabela Biezunska, who sought to explain why the legal status of Greek women in Hellenistic Egypt was different from that enjoyed by women in classical Athens. Another study, Lea Bringmann's 1939 Bonn dissertation, had little impact,5 but Izabela Biezunska lived long enough to offer a critique of her conclusions. Reflecting on her own work some fifty years later, she remarked that while the novelty of her approach lay in applying the methods of social anthropology to the study of women in antiquity, her insistence on using classical Athenian law as her point of reference led her to disregard the distinct social structures, legal traditions, customs and practices of the many other Greek communities that made up the Hellenistic world.6 Her pioneering efforts, she acknowledged, lacked the crucial perspective of diversity (diversity within Greek culture, that is).
The question of the status of women in the Hellenistic kingdoms, and in Egypt in particular, was also addressed by Claire Préaux. An economic and social historian, Préaux showed that political incapacity did not mean fiscal exemption for women in Egypt: in so far as they were economic agents, women paid the taxes pertaining to the activities they were engaged in (such as taxes for the right to work as artisans, taxes on the revenue of the land they owned or leased, or yet taxes on the sale of real property, animals and slaves). Ethnic affiliation, on the other hand, dictated different legal capacity. The tutelage of women continued to be observed in Hellenistic Egypt among the population of Greek origin whereas Egyptian women enjoyed a legal capacity equal to that of men and, therefore, acted independently in matters connected with law and justice. Papyri show Greek women (kyrios in tow) and Egyptian females (acting alone) buying and selling real estate, lending and borrowing, party to work contracts, making wills, receiving bequests, and sometimes even drafting their own marriage contract.7 Préaux also points out how widows and partners in a union not legally sanctioned enjoyed extensive materna potestas (they could, for example, give away their daughter in marriage or apprentice their child to a master craftsman), and some (on the basis of testamentary disposition) administered the property of a child. Thoroughly mindful of the two distinct cultural and legal traditions, Préaux, in the end, was unable to view the extended legal capacity of Greek women living in Egypt as a possible result of the influence of the Egyptian milieu onto that of the newcomers. A proponent of cultural imperviousness ("étanchéïté des cultures," in her own words) she preferred to view the development as the result of an evolution already begun in classical Greece.
Enter Feminism
One of the first American classicists to bring an explicitly feminist approach to the study of ancient history was papyrologist Sarah Pomeroy whose "Selected bibliography on Women in Antiquity" (issued in 1973), Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves (first published in 1975), and 1983 NEH seminar have shaped the way we "do", teach and write "women's history."
Owing to the largely documentary nature of the evidence found in papyri (where we encounter, to name but a few, official decrees, administrative correspondence, census lists, wills, contracts, and private letters) the research conducted on women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt tends to be empirical: it reaches the objective reality of women's lives and experiences with an immediacy rivaled only by epigraphy and apprehends women as subjects and agents defined and motivated by specific social and cultural norms, expectations and restrictions. However, because papyrology is a rather technical discipline and because its materials stem from regions of the ancient Mediterranean perceived as neither fully Greek nor Roman, its far-reaching lessons are easily overlooked.8
The 1980s and 1990s were productive years for "feminist papyrology" (a phrase surely to remain a hapax). A clearer picture of the social and economic life of women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt emerged both from the publication of new texts and from new questions asked of texts long available. For example, Deborah Hobson looked at women property owners in Roman Egypt (1983, 1984) while Sarah Pomeroy examined the impact of landownership by women on family relationships and on the female literacy rate (1988). Keith Bradley looked at wet-nursing contracts in order to expose the sexual regulations that governed the transactions (1980), and Hans Hauben compiled a list of Ptolemaic women owners and leasers of boats with a view to elucidating their link to the royal house (1993). Jennifer Sheridan updated the list of women who act without a guardian in documents of Roman date (1996) and later examined the correlation between economic power and female literacy in late antique Egypt (1998). Raffaela Cribiore (2001) has now gathered the extant evidence on women teachers in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt and compiled a corpus of women's personal correspondence—comprised of private and business letters, self-written or dictated, isolated or part of archives—that illuminates the place of women in family and society, correlates status and education, and shows that literacy to some extent shaped the way women thought and communicated.9
These important studies evidently drew mostly on texts written in Greek, gender rather than diversity being their guiding principle. In the meantime, Egyptologists-demoticists did much to inform the debate over whether Ptolemaic society was defined by the reciprocal exclusiveness between Greeks and Egyptians (Claire Préaux' position) or was rather characterized by a blurring of ethnic distinction and a certain fluidity in ethnic self-definition.10 Historians of 'Greek' and Roman Egypt are now becoming increasingly sensitive to the cultural bilingualism which the Leiden and Leuven schools have shown to be crucial to signaling or concealing difference.11 Three Dutch-speaking scholars stand out here for their agile weaving of an almost seamless fabric out of the tattered fibers of Greek and Demotic texts. I highlight Pieter Pestman's 1961 Marriage and Matrimonial Property in Ancient Egypt and his repeated ventures in Greek-demotic bilingual familial archives (1981, 1985), as well as Jan Quaegebeur and Willy Clarysse's brilliant "proofs" of the rewards to be reaped from such collaboration, in arenas as varied as dynastic cult, popular religion, onomastics and prosopography (see bibliography). On this side of the Atlantic, Life in a Multi-Cultural Society (1992), the proceedings of a symposium organized by Janet Johnson at the Oriental Institute of Chicago, inscribes itself in that particular interpretive school.
Where are we now?
Recent publications reveal at least two major trends: first, the desire to make the largely untapped resources of papyrology available to a wide readership; second, the expanding horizons of papyrological research as it relates to gender and diversity.
The desire to make the abundant papyrological evidence available to non-specialists has resulted in (among other publications) the volume Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt, edited by Jane Rowlandson (2001). This anthology of over 300 texts translated from Greek, Latin, and Egyptian is articulated around five major themes—"Royalty and religion", "Family matters," "Status and law," "Economic activities," and "Being female." The selection reflects the conscious attempt to document the diversity of women and the richness of their varied experiences in time and place. On the topic of status and law, for example, the unit opens with texts that highlight the treatment of women in Egyptian law, followed by texts that reveal how the colonial setting opened up new possibilities for legal activity for Greek women; Roman legal transformations are surveyed next,12 and the unit closes with Coptic documents that expose the mechanics of marriage and divorce between the 6th and 8th centuries C.E.
And it is worth pointing out that two collections of essays published at the same time as this anthology feature papyrology as well: I, Claudia II (2000) includes a piece by Diana Delia on Greek matrimonial property agreements "Egyptian style" and one by Ann Hanson on the social and economic aspects of widowhood, especially that of young women. A shorter version of Raffaela Cribiore's chapter on women's letters also appeared in Laura McClure and André Lardinois' Making Silence Speak (2001).13
Alongside such "outreach" ventures, specialists are also pondering questions surrounding the role and status of women in a multicultural society, and I will briefly present three examples rich in lessons about gender and diversity in place.
Katelijn Vandorpe (2002) re-tells the story of Apollonia, a businesswoman from Pathyris. Located south of Thebes in Upper Egypt, the town has left hundreds of papyri and pot shards (ostraka), in Greek and Demotic, most of them belonging to family-archives. One such archive is that of Dryton,14 a cavalry officer from Crete. Eventually posted to Pathyris, Dryton met and married Apollonia, a local girl. He was 42, she about 20. Her family, also Greek, had been living in Egypt for several generations and had adopted Egyptian ways and customs. This is why Apollonia ("The one of Apollo") also bore the Egyptian name Senmonthis ("Daughter of Montou").
Dryton was both an officer and a well-to-do businessman, and his young wife followed his example. She has left us eight loan contracts dating from the period c. 145–126 B.C.E.; these are loans in wheat, barley, spelt, and money. Three of the contracts are drawn up in Greek, five in Demotic. All five Demotic ones are drawn up according to Egyptian practice, that is without a guardian. In two of the five contracts (drawn up by an Egyptian notary), Apollonia presents herself as a Greek woman, bearing a double name, with the Greek one mentioned first. The other three texts are acknowledgements of debt for very small loans, written by the debtor himself.15 When higher amounts are lent out, as is the case in the three Greek contracts, Apollonia goes to the Greek notary16 and Dryton is named as her guardian.17 When doing business, then, Apollonia presents herself as a Greek woman. In private letters and papers, on the other hand, she is known only as Senmonthis. Apollonia, then, grew up as an Egyptian girl, but when she married a Greek officer, she seized the opportunity to reap the benefits of her Greek background and opted for social advancement over legal independence.18
Mixed marriages are also part of Dorothy Thompson's stimulating reflection (1997) on the cult of Demeter in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. She proposes that the cult offered a locus of joint identity for different groups and may have helped introduce Egyptian wives to the culture of their Greek husbands. She further suggests that while the prominent role of women in the cult of Demeter was probably crucial to its wide popularity, the association of Demeter with secret rites of initiation must have played a part as well. Those rites were ceremonies in which social boundaries were transcended, personal identity was affirmed and women were key players—all aspects beneficial to the settlers and their bi-cultural families. And there is also the fact that the story of Demeter, who sought and retrieved her daughter from the realm of death, provided an accepted parallel to the myth of Osiris, dismembered and made whole again by his wife Isis. In the multi-cultural context of Egypt, then, Demeter spoke both to those anxious to preserve their Greek heritage and to those who looked to the native gods for guidance.
Lastly, a profile of the female indigenous clergy emerges from Frédéric Colin's (2002) superb study of indigenous female priesthoods through a meticulous examination of the extant Greek and Egyptian materials of Ptolemaic and Roman date. He shows that Egyptian priestesses, like their male counterparts, could accede to the rank and status of priestly personnel, played a concrete role in the performance of particular rituals and received the economic profits attached to their function, and could join others in a professional association.
Albeit written on perishable material, papyri are one of the most enduring repositories of primary evidence on gender and diversity in Greek and Roman Egypt and beyond. This natural ménage à trois has been long lasting.
General Bibliography
Bernal, M., Black Athena. The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985; II The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence (New Brunswick NJ 1987-1991).
Burkert, W., The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, translated by M. E. Pinder and W. Burkert (Cambridge MA 1992).
Dougherty C. and Kurke, L. (eds.), The Cultures within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration (Cambridge, U.K.-New York 2003).
Hall, J., Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge U.K.-New York 1997).
Hall, J., Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture (Chicago 2002).
Parca, M., "Local Languages and Native Cultures," in J. Bodel (ed.), Epigraphic Evidence. Ancient History from Inscriptions (London-New York 2001) 57-72.
West, M.L., The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford-New York 1997).
Gender and Papyrology: Select Bibliography
Biezunska-Malowist, I., Etudes sur la condition juridique et sociale de la femme grecque en Égypte gréco-romaine (Lwow 1939).
Biezunska-Malowist, I., "Les recherches sur la condition de la femme grecque en Égypte grecque et romaine, hier et aujourd'hui," Antiquitas 18 (1993) 15-21.
Bozza, F., "Il matrimonio nel diritto dei papiri dell' epoca tolemaica," Aegyptus 14 (1934) 205-244.
Bringmann, L., Die Frau im ptolemäisch-kaiserlichen Ägypten (Bonn: Scheur 1939).
Castiglioni, A., "La donna in alcuni papiri recentemente scoperti in Egitto," Vita e Pensiero 9 (Milan 1919) 343-348.
Préaux, Cl., Le statut de la femme à l'époque hellénistique, principalement en Égypte, "Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin" XI: La femme (Brussels 1959) 127-171.
Schubart, W., "Die Frau im griechisch-römischen Ägypten," Internationale Monatschrift für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik 10 (1916) 1503-1538.
The Years of Growth
Bradley, K.R., "Sexual Regulations in Wet-Nursing Contracts from Roman Egypt," Klio 62 (1980), 321-325.
Clarysse, W., "Greeks and Egyptians in the Ptolemaic Army," Aegyptus 65 (1985) 57-66.
Clarysse, W., The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt (Leiden 1983).
Cribiore, R., Gymnastics of the Mind. Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton-Oxford 2001) [Chapter 3: Women and Education]
Cribiore, R., "Windows on a Woman's World. Some Letters from Roman Egypt," in A. Lardinois and L. McClure (eds.), Making Silence Speak (Princeton-Oxford 2001) 223-239.
Delia, D., "Marriage Egyptian Style," in I Claudia II, 139-147.
Hanson, A., "Widows too Young in their Widowhood," in I Claudia II, 149-165.
Hauben, H., "Femmes propriétaires et locataires de navires en Égypte ptolémaïque," Journal of Juristic Papyrology 23 (1993) 61-74.
Hobson, D., "Women as Property Owners in Roman Egypt," TAPA 113 (1983) 311–321.
Hobson, D., "The Role of Women in the Economic Life of Roman Egypt: A Case Study from First Century Tebtynis," Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views 28 (1984) 373-390.
Hobson, D., "House and Household in Roman Egypt," Yale Classical Studies 28 (1985) 211-229.
Kleiner, D.E.E. and S.B. Matheson (eds.), I Claudia II. Women in Roman Art and Society (Austin 2000).
Pestman, P.W., Marriage and Matrimonial Property in Ancient Egypt: A Contribution to Establishing the Legal Position of the Woman (Leiden 1961).
Pomeroy, S. B., "Selected Bibliography on Women in Antiquity," Arethusa 6 (1973) 125-152.
Pomeroy, S. B. (with R.S. Kraemer and N. Kampen), "Selected Bibliography on Women in Antiquity. Part II, 1973-1981," in J. Peradotto and J. P. Sullivan (eds.), Women in the Ancient World. The Arethusa Papers (Albany N.Y. 1984).
Pomeroy, S. B., "Women in Roman Egypt. A Preliminary Study based on Papyri," ANRW II 10.1 (1988) 708–723 = Reflections of Women in Antiquity, ed. H. Foley (London 1981) 303-22.
Pomeroy, S. B., Women in Hellenistic Egypt. From Alexander to Cleopatra (Detroit revised ed. 1990).
Pomeroy, S. B., Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece. Representations and Realities (Oxford 1997).
Quaegebeur, J., "Cleopatra VII and the Cults of the Ptolemaic Queens," in R. Bianchi (ed.), Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies (New York 1988) 41-54.
Rowlandson, J., "Beyond the Polis: Women and Economic Opportunity in Early Ptolemaic Egypt," in A. Powell (ed.), The Greek World (London 1995) 301-322.
Sheridan, J.A., "Not at a Loss for Words: The Economic Power of Literate Women in Late Antique Egypt," TAPA 128 (1998) 189-203.
Sheridan, J.A., "Women without Guardians: An Updated List," BASP 33 (1996) 117-131.
Diversity in Place
Bagnall, R. and R. Cribiore, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor 2005, forthcoming).
Clarysse, W., "Some Greeks in Egypt," in Life in a Multi-Cultural Society, 51-56.
Clarysse, W., A. Schoors and H. Willems (eds.), Egyptian Religion. The Last Thousand Years. Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur. 2 vols. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 84-85 (Leuven 1998).
Colin, Fr., "Les prêtresses indigènes dans l'Égypte hellénistique et romaine: une question à la croisée des sources grecques et égyptiennes," in H. Melaerts and L. Mooren (eds.), Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte, 41-122.
Cotton, H.M., "Women and Law in the Documents from the Judaean Desert," in H. Melaerts and L. Mooren (eds.), Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte, 123-147.
Johnson, J. H. (ed.), Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond (Chicago 1992).
Johnson, J. H., "Women, Wealth and Work in Egyptian Society of the Ptolemaic Period," in Clarysse W., A. Schoors, and H. Willems (eds.), Egyptian Religion, vol. 2, 1393-1427.
Melaerts, H. and L. Mooren (eds.), Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte hellénistique, romaine et Byzantine. Studia Hellenistica 37 (Leuven 2002).
Quaegebeur, J., "Greco-Egyptian Double Names as a Feature of a Bi-Cultural Society," in J. H. Johnson (ed.), Life in a Multi-Cultural Society, 265-272.
Rowlandson, J., (ed.), Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt. A Sourcebook (Cambridge 1998, reprint 2000).
Thompson, D., "Demeter in Graeco-Roman Egypt," in W. Clarysse, A. Schoors and H. Willems (eds.), Egyptian Religion. Vol. 1, 699-707.
Vandorpe, K., "Apollonia, a Businesswoman in a Multicultural Society (Pathyris, 2nd-1st Cent. B.C.," in H. Melaerts and L. Mooren (eds.), Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte, 324-336.
Wilfong, T.G., Women of Jeme. Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt (Ann Arbor 2002).
1 H.M. Cotton, W.E.H. Cockle, and F. Millar, "The Papyrology of the Roman Near East: A Survey," JRS 85 (1995), 214.
2 JRS 85 (1995), 214-235 (n. 1 supra). The archive of Babatha, found in Roman Judaea, is discussed here by Ann Hanson in her essay on women and family archives.
3 On local languages in inscriptions from Roman Africa and Palmyra, see Parca (2001), 70-2.
4 While my paper is meant to "set the stage", the other two participants in the 'papyrology panel' whose articles appear here engage with specific issues: whether gender plays a role in the archiving of personal letters (Hanson) and whether language choice in the bilingual (Greek & Coptic) written environment of late antique Egypt was at all motivated by gender (MacCoull)
5 The vicissitudes and outcome of the Second World War may explain Lea Bringmann's short-lived career and the relative obscurity of her book.
6 Antiquitas 18 (1993), 19-20.
7 On indigenous women and work in Ptolemaic Egypt, see now Janet H. Johnson (1998).
8 Were it not for syntheses such as Pomeroy's Women in Hellenistic Egypt (1984).
9 Archives collected by illiterate women document those women's business acumen and awareness of legal matters: cf. Ann Hanson's paper. See also MacCoull's essay (p. 4) on women's choice of Coptic over Greek for the writing of private letters in late antique Egypt.
10 The work of Leslie MacCoull and others (see her essay) carries the diversity debate into the Greco-coptic context of Egypt in the early Byzantine period.
11 Cultural duality in Egypt under the first Ptolemies is explored in: S. A. Stephens, Seeing Double. Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria (Berkeley 2003) and R. L. Hunter, Theocritus. Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Berkeley 2003).
12 The Gnomon of the Idios Logos or "rule book" of Augustan date, includes several clauses regulating status, marriage, and inheritance.
13 A corpus of letters by women from ancient Egypt, prepared by Bagnall and Cribiore, should appear later this year (2005).
14 On which see n. 1 in Ann Hanson's paper.
15 The acknowledgements are written by the debtor himself who, being Egyptian, uses Demotic.
16 The legal material from pre-641 Aphrodite (Upper Egypt) examined by Leslie MacCoull (pp. 9-11) includes women clients hiring both Coptic-writing and Greek-writing notaries.
17 In the remaining loan contracts from Pathyris in which a woman is lender or borrower, the women are all women with Egyptian names, who act on their own and without a kyrios (Vandorpe 331).
18 Their family papers are now reunited in K. Vandorpe, The Bilingual Family Archive of Dryton, His Wife Apollonia, and their Daughter Senmouthis (Collectanea Hellenistica IV) Brussels 2002.
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Monday, July 02, 2007
A New Project - Mosaic Bird Bath
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I love those tiles. They will make a gorgeous birdbath. You might want to put a filler/sealer on the crack before you add your tile. The stuff they use to fill sidewalk cracks. That will insure that it won't leak. I can't wait to see the finished product.
- July 03, 2007 8:57 AM
- cherry menlove said...
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- July 03, 2007 10:04 AM
- Rosemary said...
Your birdbath is going to be even more beautiful. I will be checking your ebay seller soon.
Isn't that always the way?? The wrong size and having to buy 25 of a thing that you only need one of.
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- July 03, 2007 10:22 AM
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New Project! How exciting. I've done a bit of mosaic work, so feel free to check with me if you have problems. I'm far from expert, but sometimes two heads are better than one.
- July 03, 2007 10:42 AM
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- Rhoda said...
That sounds like a fun project, Cindy. Beautiful pieces of tile. Can't wait to see it finished.
- July 03, 2007 12:35 PM
- WhineNRoses said...
I love your blog-
Good luck with the mosaic project!!
I am always doing projects too!
- July 03, 2007 12:44 PM
- Marilyn said...
Cindy, I love the tiles. I'll definitely be checking out the ebay seller to see what she might have for me....can't wait to see your finished birdbath!
- July 03, 2007 4:35 PM
- Southern Heart said...
Your tiles are so pretty, and will be perfect with your birdbath. I will look forward to seeing it completed! (I admire your energy, too....you are so creative!).
Have a wonderful holiday!
- July 03, 2007 5:28 PM
- Cottage Magpie said...
I've never done mosaic, so I have no helpful hints, but I'm excited to see how it turns out! ~A :-)
- July 03, 2007 9:13 PM
Wonderful idea!!
Theresa N.
- July 04, 2007 5:44 AM
- Lallee said...
I'm looking forward to seeing this project. I bought some tiles from eBay about 4 years ago and they are still in the package! Maybe you will inspire me to finally use them! Very pretty tiles you chose.
- July 04, 2007 6:49 AM
- Heather ~ Pretty Petals said...
Hi Cindy! Oh I have been wanting to do a mosaic too... I am so anxious to see how yours turns out. I bet it will be so beautiful!
Heather :)
- July 04, 2007 8:18 AM
- Nancy said...
I can hardly wait to see the finished birdbath! The tiles are so lovely....
- July 04, 2007 8:32 AM
- Linda aka yellowroseli said...
You inspire me!!! Love the mocaic pieces. Looking forward to seeing the finised product. Have a safe 4th.
- July 04, 2007 9:31 AM


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2003 Beta Gamma Sigma Inductees.
Fifteen Montana State University College of Business students were recently inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma national honor society.
Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) is a national scholastic honor society for business students. Qualifying for membership is the highest scholastic honor a student in business can attain. To be eligible, students must rank in the upper seven percent of their junior class, the upper ten percent of their senior class or the upper twenty percent of their graduate class.
The society was founded in 1913 for the purposes of encouraging and rewarding scholarship and accomplishment among students of business, for promoting the advancement of education in the art and science of business and for fostering integrity in the conduct of business. Students who receive this BGS award must attend schools that are accredited by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
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SUNDERLAND'S full-back shortage is causing Gus Poyet his biggest selection headache for tomorrow's FA Cup third round clash against Leeds United.
The Black Cats squad will be boosted by the return from injury of Anthony Reveillere and Patrick van Aanholt on Monday, with both full-backs likely to be in contention for next Saturday's visit of Liverpool.
Without that pair, Billy Jones and Santiago Vergini have operated on either side of the defence for the last three games, yet both are worrying head coach Poyet.
Jones needs a breather after being thrown straight into the deep end following two months on the sidelines with a hamstring injury, while Vergini has barely trained over the last fortnight due to a tight hamstring and has been substituted in each of Sunderland's last three games.
But with no other natural full-backs at Poyet's disposal until the return of Reveillere and van Aanholt, the ex-Leeds assistant manager may have little choice than to include at least one of the pair for tomorrow's Stadium of Light clash.
Poyet said: "The effort Santi has been making has been incredible.
"He's been one of the players who has hardly trained, but managed to continue playing somehow.
"It's tough.
"It's tough on Billy too.
"You would think after all that time out, he would play a game, then maybe another game and then rest him.
"Rest him? I've got no chance.
"It's not ideal. Maybe if it was Tuesday or Wednesday, we'd have an extra player.
"But we need to respect the cup.
"It would be too easy for me to go 'rest, rest, rest' and get a load of players from the Under-21s and say 'all the best'."
Groin injury victim Lee Cattermole, along with veteran defender Wes Brown, will not be involved tomorrow, yet there are natural replacements available in fit-again Liam Bridcutt and Sebastian Coates.
Poyet faces one of two options at full-back, with Vergini the likeliest to miss out.
The Uruguayan can either hand a debut to academy product Tom Robson – an unused substitute on three occasions this season – or use one of wing duo Will Buckley and Charis Mavrias as a makeshift right-back.
"They've done it, but that's a risk," said Poyet on Buckley and Mavrias.
"But if you don't have players, someone needs to play."
He added on Robson: "My aim, I think I have said this many times, is that whenever we can achieve it – two years, three years – is to go down to the 21s and get a player who can go into the first-team.
"That's not the case (at the moment).
"Robbo has been with us for a while and we put so much in his head that we confused him a little bit.
"Now he's getting back on his feet.
"Is this the right game to play him from the beginning? I'm not sure because we need to be careful.
"Now if we need him, then he'll have to jump in.
"But at the moment, I'd prefer to wait a bit longer.
"It's different for an offensive player, if you score or run about it's fine.
"But when it's in defence, we need to make sure they really know the position and what they need to do.
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New Intro to Meteor Video
MDG released a great new 20 minute intro to Meteor video. It does a very good job of explaining the basics for someone that is very new to Meteor. It is a great resource to give to people that are new to Meteor.
Rate Limiting in Core
This is a blog post that explains the new feature of being able to add rate limits to various parts of your Meteor app. It gives a simple code example of how it can be used and explains why it should be used. I would say it's a must-read for any Meteor developer.
Updates in the Meteor Community
Unit Testing React Components in Meteor
This is a very good blog post that goes through and shows you how to write proper unit tests for your React front end. It has detailed code examples that give you exact instructions on how to set it up and get going to make sure that you have a well tested React front end for your Meteor application.
Testing Meteor Packages
This is part two of a three part tutorial series that goes through in detail on how to setup your Meteor application in a package-based architecture. I agree with many of the points that the author makes and the approach taken to ensure a good development experience for Meteor developers.
How I Develop Meteor Apps - Part 2
This is the second part to a great 3-part tutorial series that explains how to properly test the packages you create for your package-based architecture. The author does a good job of explaining it in depth and making sure that you know everything you need to in order to get going on testing your Meteor packages.
Kadira Debug v2
The MeteorHacks team has released Kadira Debug version 2. It comes with some new features like CPU monitoring, CPU profiling, and improved events streams. Not only were there feature enhancements, they also improved their UI.
Introducing Portable Meteor User
This is an article that explains how you can persist your users between your various Meteor applications. It's a simple method that stores your token in localStorage and essentially "shares" that state between your applications.
Sideburns is an awesome template system for Meteor and React. It makes your React application look like the way you would code a Blaze implementation. It separates the template from the logic and I like it. I think it's a great way for people who dislike JSX to get going on React.
Reactive Dict, Reactive Vars, and Session Variables
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There are no records for this musher during the 1998 race.
Born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1958, Martin became fascinated with sled dogs while still a teen. He came to Alaska in 1979 to enhance his knowledge of care and training of sled dogs. He began working and training with long-time Alaskan mushers Earl and Natalie Norris and ran his first Iditarod in 1980. Martin and wife Kathy Chapoton, a retired teacher, reside in Big Lake, Alaska, where the family owns and manages Happy Trails Kennel. They have two sons, Nikolai, 30 years old and Rohn, 28.
Martin started and completed thirty-five Iditarod races, thirty-three consecutively (holding the record for consecutive finishes) and entered the 2019 race. He is a four-time Iditarod champion, winning in 1992, 1994, 1997 and 2002. His greatest pride comes with being a five-time winner of the Leonhard Seppala Humanitarian Award for Best Dog Care.
Martin finds great pleasure in training and traveling with his sled dogs. He shares his knowledge and passion for Alaskan huskies and mushing by speaking in schools, giving summer tours and presenting motivational speeches.
He is on the Board of Directors for the Blood Bank of Alaska; believing in its mission he has donated xxx gallons of blood. He is also an honorary Rotary Member after participating for many years as an active member and being part of the End Polio campaign.
Following Martin's 2002 Iditarod victory, the process for his becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States was completed under the burled arch in Nome.
Upon completion of the 2005 Iditarod after a woodworking accident 4 days prior to the race start resulting in the amputation of a part of his finger; his fellow mushers awarded him both the Sportsmanship and Most Inspirational Awards.
Martin was the first musher to complete the Iditarod in less than 9 days and held that record for nine years.
Martin's book, DOG MAN, is the story of self-discovery and takes the reader with him on the adventures, misadventures and lessons learned from his devoted relationship with his canine friends.
Martin is forever in awe of the spirit and ability of the Alaskan husky.
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SVC to Honor Snap-on Inc. Chairman & CEO at Commencement
Southern Vermont College will honor Nicholas T. Pinchuk, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Snap-on Incorporated, at the College's 91st Commencement Exercises on Saturday, May 12.
In April 2007, Pinchuk became president and chief operating officer, as well as a member of the board of directors, at Snap-on Incorporated. In December 2007, he was elected as chief executive officer and was named chairman of the company in April 2009. Pinchuk joined Snap-on in 2002 as senior vice president and president of Snap-on's Worldwide Commercial and Industrial Group.
Before Snap-on, Pinchuk was president of global refrigeration operations, a multi-billion dollar business unit of Carrier Corporation, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation. Prior to that, he served in executive, operational, planning and financial capacities within Carrier and United Technologies, including: president of Asia-Pacific air conditioning operations; global vice president of strategic planning; and chief financial officer of Carrier International Corporation. Before joining United Technologies, he was with the Ford Motor Company, where he held various financial and engineering positions.
Pinchuk is an outspoken leader on workforce development and technical education and careers. Recognizing his role in the formation of our nation's technical education agenda, the Career and Technical Education Foundation named Pinchuk National Business Leader of the Year in 2011. SkillsUSA named him Champion of the Year in 2012, recognizing his extensive support for the growth of a skilled American workforce. He was inducted into the 2014 Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame. More recently, the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association recognized Pinchuk in 2015 for his far-reaching professional contributions.
"It is a genuine honor to have Nick Pinchuk as our commencement speaker," said SVC President David R. Evans. "He is an extremely influential business leader, and heads a company that is one of the most respected brands in the United States, one that has developed multiple strategies to help young entrepreneurs get their start and gain success in business. His sincere interest in higher education and in fostering a strong economy makes him an ideal speaker for our community."
Pinchuk served in Vietnam as an officer in the United States Army. At JP Morgan Chase & Co.'s ongoing series of conversations with influential leaders in business, Pinchuk responded to how his military service had influenced the way he ran his business. He said, "My time in the Army taught me the value of teamwork, the importance of skills and the power of confidence and belief. It's guided how I serve my company and how I think about any issue, including the up-skilling of our youth."
Pinchuk received a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and master and Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He currently serves on the board of directors of Columbus McKinnon Corporation and the National Association of Manufacturers. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Manufacturer's Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, on the Senior Advisory Board of the Syracuse University School of Management, and on the Board of Trustees of Carthage College.


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Greater love hath no person than to have given up Sunday afternoon's glorious weather for an indoor concert. But Voces Intimae, Dallas' spunky art-song series, had a decent audience for a particularly enterprising and enjoyable program of art songs by Texas-based composers. The music was all fairly conservative but capably crafted.
Three of the composers were there, at Zion Lutheran Church, and gave introductions to their works: Simon Sargon, Francis Ostentowski and Margaret Barrett. Performances were divided among four young singers, with unfailingly skilled and sympathetic collaboration from pianist Anatolia Ioannides.
The prize, for me, was Ostentowski's Letters From a Poet in Italy, setting four charming Jerry McElveen poems about a trip to said land, with deftly textured accompaniments. "Caregiver," about a visit to the house where Keats died, is hauntingly lovely, but "David" takes a jazzily irreverent look at Michelangelo's famous statue. Soprano Erin Alcorn sang expressively, but the voice only bloomed on top.
Alcorn was less persuasive in Robert Xavier Rodriguez's Six Songs of E.E. Cummings; I'd like to hear them done by another singer. Roiling, rippling accompaniments seem to be the default position here, although "I carry your heart with me" is particularly affecting. "May I feel" is a surprisingly explicit seduction.
Rodriguez's Praline and Fudge sets cooking directions in a witty Handelian recitative-and-aria parody. It was deliciously served up by Matthew Stump, with a bass substantive and finely focused. There's a vocal star in the making here.
Stump also made fine work of Sargon's Take Five, smartly setting whimsical, even irreverent poems by Samuel Hoffenstein. Particularly witty is the interspersing of vocal lines between the piano's funeral march in "Hairless."
The other vocal standout was Laura Begley's substantive mezzo, delivered with authority and suave expressiveness.
Barrett's I Am Trying to Get at Something Utterly Heartbroken holds the attention, but it sometimes breaks up Annie Dillard's words in arbitrary fashion, and rising-and-falling chords at the beginning seem a facile gesture.
Sargon's Loveliest of Trees, setting six sobering A.E. Housman poems, and Joelle Wallach's The Firefighter's Prayer weren't ideally served by tenor Bo Wang. His is a lyric voice, capable of a lovely croon on high, but his intonation was erratic.


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Just because Whistler sees the benefits of relaxing provincial liquor laws doesn't mean other B.C. towns and cities are ready to raise a glass in support.
At last week's Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) convention in Victoria, Whistler got the chance to see that not everyone agrees that the legislation should change to allow people to walk around freely with booze at fenced-off events where minors are present.
Though Whistler's resolution passed, it sparked a lengthy, and at times off-topic, debate on the convention floor.
What may be a no-brainer in Whistler, it seems, isn't as cut and dry elsewhere.
"We tend to forget that in Whistler because we're all for liberalizing them (liquor laws)," said Mayor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden of the resolution spearheaded by Sea to Sky communities.
It is one of the benefits of the annual convention — understanding the provincial context. For four days elected officials have the opportunity to air concerns, lobby for change and muster support for initiatives like Whistler's.
The behind-the-scenes message for Whistler from Minister Rich Coleman of energy and mines, isn't promising, despite the majority vote.
"The province seems to be moving very slowly," added Wilhelm-Morden.
In a private meeting with the minister and representatives from the corridor, the mayor specifically raised Divyesh Gadhia's recent letter to the editor (Pique Sept.20, 2012) in the wake of the GranFondo in which he complained about having to choose between drinking a beer in the beer tent or spending time with his family after the ride. He couldn't do both.
The mayor learned that the province is looking at making changes to events like GranFondo. It is not clear yet what the province is contemplating.
A ministry spokesperson emailed Pique this week: "The Special Occasion Licence program is currently undergoing a major review, and the views of the Squamish Lillooet Regional District will be taken into consideration.
"When it comes to liquor, two key priorities for government are restricting minors' access to alcohol and public intoxication. Any changes to the Special Occasion Licence program would have to take these priorities into account and ensure that adequate controls are in place to restrict minors and intoxication."
For new councillor Jack Crompton, this first UBCM was an eye-opening experience, one that he loved.
"Educating ourselves and advocating for Whistler were probably the two most useful things," said Crompton of the convention. "That was a big deal — to be able to meet people to work with us to make positive change."
Like Whistler's meeting with the CEO of BC Transit Manuel Achadinha. "It was very positive," said Crompton.
He said there are a number of things that Whistler is working on with the Crown corporation, things designed to improve transit in the resort. Whistler is waiting now to see if those lobbying efforts will be fruitful in the weeks to come.
"I'm hopeful that there will be some positive news coming out of that one," added the mayor.
She also met with senior officials to plead the case for Whistler to access the multi-million dollar gas tax fund to help connect the last remaining homes on Alta Lake Road to the municipal sewer.
She described feeling "cautiously optimistic" on that file.
The UBCM was also a chance to not only look outside of the corridor but also look ahead to what's coming down the pipeline, said Crompton.
In particular, the province is working on the Natural Resource Road Act, legislation for 2014 that will impact roads into the backcountry surrounding Whistler.
Coming out of the meetings at UBCM, Whistler is considering preparing an inventory of backcountry roads in the immediate area and who maintains them in an effort to mitigate potential problems in the future.


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3. Openwork metal music
4. The master of contemporary jewelry art
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7. Folklore performance Kashkadarya
8. Aesthetic phenomenon
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9. Interrupted flight...
10. Master film reportage
11. It is a weapon and a work of art
12. The fine art of Kazakhstan era of change
13. Idiofonicheskie toos in the art of dance
14. Musical polyphony on the earth of ancient Samarkand
1. Academy of Arts - The Creation of Independent Uzbekistan
2. Classicism of the Two Decades
3. The Art of Uzbekistan in the Context of Time
4. Traditional Arts of Uzbekistan of Independence Period
5. Fine Arts Week - 2011
6. Theatre: Time of Change
7. Musical Uzbekistan - Richness of Diversity
8. Feature Film Cinematography in Uzbekistan over the 20 Years of Independence
9. Key Trends in the Monumental Sculpture of Karakalpakstan
10. Anvar Mamajanov
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12. The Art Life Chronicle
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1. History and Modern Day in Documentary Films of Karakalpakstan
2. Blue Deer and Red Elephants, or Kitsch Trend in Uzbekistan Textiles
3. Reflections on the Uzbek Art Photography
4. Life Is a Fleeting Instant
5. The "Amphitheatre" of Artist Erkin Vorobyov
6. The Result of the "Nafosat-2010" contest
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8. Mursal Najafov (1918-1997), the Chronicler of the Azerbaijani Art History
9. International Cooperation Prospects
10. The Portrait of the Alisher Navoi
11. Aristotle's Riddle
12. Programmatic Line in Instrumental Music of the XX Century Uzbek Composers
13. The Art Life Chronicle
14.Glazed Ceramics from Fergana Valley: History and Modern Day
15. The TOP-ART-2010 Results
16.On the Wings of an Angel
17. Editorial Board
1. The Unknown Antefix Finds from Khalchayanа
2. The Early Herat Miniature
3. Life Dedicated to Science
4. The Tashkent Wall-painting School
5. Hedonism in Contemporary Art
6. "TashkentAle 2010" - Results and Experiences
7. New Names. Jamshid Jumanov
8. Brief Historical Overview of the Origin of Puppets
9. Public Art
10. Epic Concept in the Stage Design
11. The System of Epistemes in Advertisement Design
12. Literary Works on Screen
13. Charming Shukur Burkhanov
14. Dedication to the Composer Suleiman Yudakov
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2.On the Subject of Hedonism in the Art of Central Asia
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8. New Names: Malika Yuldasheva
9. On the Issue of Studying the Genesis of Cinema in Uzbekistan
10. Folk Customs and Rituals on Stage
11. LIK Motion Theatre: Art and Charity
12. Jewellery Decoration of the XVIII-XIX cc. Arms from Azerbaijan
13. New books
14. Celebration that Stays with You
15. The World of Kimono
16. Art Life Chronicle
17. The 50th Anniversary of the "Social Sciences in Uzbekistan" Journal
18. Editorial Board
1. Transformation of the Image of War...
2. Hedonism in the Art of Central Asia
3. Tashkent and Its Artists
4. Visiting the Masters and Students
5. Local Features of Traditional Embroidery of Kashkadarya
6. New names: Nuriddin Narziev
7. New names: Nodir Bobomuradov
8. Yurt - Home - Cosmos
9. Colour Solutions in the Design of Kazakh Dress
10. Felt in the Turkic World: History and Present Day
11. Traditional Instruments in Uzbek Popular Music
12. A Monument of Abu Ali Ibn Sino
13. International Museum Day in Uzbekistan
14. Art Life Chronicle
15. Editorial Board
1. Contacts, Achievement, Results…
2. Reconstruction of Nadir Divanbegi Architectural Ensemble in Samarqand
3. Tashkent and Its Artists
4. Varsham Yeremyan (Notes of a Cameraman)
5. The Problem of Utopia in the XIX-XXI Centuries Art of Uzbekistan
6. Ruzihon Jalilova: "The Bloom of My Land"
7. Khabibulla Rakhimov: "The Seasons of Tashkent"
8. From the History of Relationship...
9. Music Culture of the 20th Century Uzbekistan
10. Homage to Joseph Martin
11. Interconnections in Art Criticism of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan
12. Folklore Traditions in Kazakh Cinematography
13. New books
14. Art Life Chronicle
15. Editorial Board
1. Art Values of the Land of Khorezm
2. Male Costume of Ancient Khorezm
3. The Art of Khorezm: Pages of Cultural History
4. The Art of Jewellery-Making in Ancient Khorezm
5. City on the Sand
6. Ata Palvanov, Master Wood-Carver from Khiva
7. Traditional Costume of Uzbek Women
8. Silk Money from Khorezm
9. The First Uzbek Photographer
10. The Urgench Gallery of Paintings
11. The V Tashkent Biennale: Results and Reflections
12. Spiritual Universe of Atahan Allabergenov
13. Traditional Forms of Khorezmian Dance
14. The Art of Sattar Bahlulzade
15. Art Life Chronicle
16. Editorial Board
1. The Theme of Love and Its Attributes in Oriental Miniature
2. The Art of Termez Painters Mir Musavvir and Mir Saeed Ali
3. The Art of Bahrom Hamdami
4. Of Human Beauty
5. Abdukadir Yusupov
6. Artist Gulzor Sultanova
7. Images of Fellow-Villagers in the Works of Sultanbai Dekhkanov
8. Colour and Ornamental Categories...
9. The Four Seasons and Music
10. The History of One Children's Song (On the Continuity of Musical Tradition)
11. Anniversary of Akbar Khakimov
12. New Books
13. Memorable Dates Calendar for 2009
14. Art Life Chronicle
15. Editorial Board
1. Representation of Settlements in Uzbekistan Petroglyphs
2. Some History of the Art of Photography in Tashkent
3. Pavel Ben'kov in the History of Uzbek Painting
4. Zoomorphic Motifs in Karakalpak Ornamental Art
5. Oriental Style Traditions...
6. Fine Arts Week 2009
7. Searching for Golden Mountains
8. Anvar Mirso and his Landscapes
9. The Unique Collection of Saltanat Siddikova
10. On the Subject of Ethnic and Cultural Parallels
11. Art Life Chronicle
12. Editorial Board
1. Craftsmen's Ritual "Kamar Baste"
2. Semantics of Khapamat and Gulband Jewellery
3. Moon-face: New Trends in Contemporary Art of Uzbekistan
4. The Uzbek Land, So Rich in Talents!
5. Magic in Stone
6. The Images of Khorezm in the Painting of Soliy Kadirov
7. Artistic Dynasty of the Narkuzievs-Makhmudovs
8. Nigora Sharafkhojaeva
9. Sayora Gafurova: In the Prime of Her Art
10. Mustafo Bafoev: Features of His Art
11. Modern Cinema of Uzbekistan: Social Functions and Poetics
12. Art Life Chronicle
13. Editorial Board
1. Reconstructing Central Asian Bullock-cart
2. Central Asian Ceramics in the Collections...
3. Gypsum Decor from the Varakhsha Palace
4. "Troops Marched as the Rolling Thunder…"
5. The Interior and Space Outside
6. Little Known Paintings
7. Photo of the 1960s
8. Colour Traditions in Creative Textile
9. Wood-Carving in the Art...
10. The World through the Eyes...
11. "5 + 1" - The Art of the Young
12. Dilyara Nizametdinova
13. The Art of Yallachi
14. Ancient Art on Modern-Day Stage
15. Popular Music in Uzbekistan...
16. Life Devoted to Art
17. Creative Cooperation of Uzbek...
18. Art Life Chronicle
19. Editorial Board
1. Sufistic Concept of Attire in the...
2. Cryptography of Karakalpak Patterns
3. From the History of Tilla-Kosh Jewellery
4. The Harmony of Mind and Imagination
5. Space in Thoughts, in Images, in Canvases
6. Metaphysical Experience of Bakhodir Jalal
7. Art Workshop and an Exposition under...
8. The Artist Brothers and Their Dialogue in Art
9. Oq-Enli Carpet: Genesis, Artistic...
10. Continuity of Traditions
11. The Role of Music and Dance in...
12. The Art of Jazz in Uzbekistan
13. Artistic Career of Muyassar Razzakova
14. Felix Yanov-Yanovskiy in the...
15. Editorial Board
1. Results, Progress and Outlook
2. Semantics of Turban
3. Life and Style of a Renaissance Woman...
4. Features of Art Schools in...
5. Blacksmith's Craft in Bukhara
6. My Spiritual Sources
7. Bridges Connecting the Hearts
8. Sufistic Motifs in the Art...
9. The Palette of Emotions and Sentiments
10. Simphony in Clay
11. Hafisa Gilmanova: «Reflected Light of...
12. New Trends in Uzbekistan Painting...
13. Editorial Board
1. Ateshkads in Zoroastrian Temples of...
2. The First Woman-Artist in the...
3. Gifted and Versatile Painter
4. New In Modern Art
5. Landscapes of Abduvali Muminov
6. Abduction of Reality as Approximation to Meaning
7. Creative Search
8. Colour and Music
9. Tokhtasin Jalilov
10. On the Issue of Tarona Studies
11. Music in Puppet Show
12. Mannon Uygur
13. Europe Seen by the Man from Uzbekistan
14. The Tree of Life
15. Decorative Ornamentation of Monumental...
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17. Editorial Board
1. Tashkent: along the roads of history
2. The Ceramics of Chach
3. Tashkent, the Capital of Islamic Culture
4. Traditional Arts and Crafts of Tashkent
5. Interconnections in the Art of Murals
6. Russian Vanguard
7. Tashkent: New Ensembles of the Old City
8. The Artist, the Model, the Viewer
9. A Chronicle in Colours
10. Contemporary Art of Palestine
11. In search of the lost...
12. Usto Mumin in the Echo of Vanguard
13. The World of Central Asian Musical Instruments
14. Art Life Chronicle
15. Editorial Board
1. 10 years since the establishment of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan
2. The Years of Formation
3. A View on Contemporary Art
4. The Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan
5. Artistic Education in Uzbekistan
6. Art history of uzbekistan
7. Introduction to the Art Overseas
8. Achievements and Challenges
9. International Caravan-Sarai of Culture
10. The 10th Anniversary of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan
11. National Fine Arts of Karakalpakstan
12. New Books
13. Captions
14. Editorial Board
1. The Evolution of Uzbek National Costume
2. Restoration of monuments in Samarkand
3. Suzane from Nurata
4. New Life of Traditions
5. Every Day is the Day of Creation
6. The art of stage design
7. The Magic of Reality
8. Master in the Seventh Generation
9. Delegation of Belgium in Uzbekistan
10. Enlightened by Orient
11. News of Baisun
12. Max Ernst in Tashkent
13. Great Silk Road
14. Uzbek-Iranian Cultural Connections
15. New Books
16. Art Life Chronicle
17. Editorial Board
1. Architecture of Fayaz-Tepa
2. The building of public libray
3. Man of the new East
4. Traditional costume of Boysun women
5. Spring rainbow of SHOC countries in Tashkent
6. Harmony of undersongs
7. Scene designer Maria Soshina
8. Young architects
9. Art of Uzbek ganch-makers abroad
10. New names
11. Mini opera in Uzbekistan
12. Personality of Amir Temur
13. "Alpamysh" is a symbol of youth
14. " At home of Temuchjin
15. New facets of contemporary crafts
16. From Borsa-Kelmas up to Renaissance
17. Chronicle of Art Life
18. Editorial Board
1. Alisher Navoi and his epoch
2. Kamaliddin Bihzad and Music
3. Genesis of female mausoleums in
Central Asia
4. Miniatures of Sadriddin Pochaev
5. Marble cutting of Gazgan masters
6. The eternal true in interpretation Gairat Baimatov
7. Pictorial suite by Ilkhom Osman
8. Manysidedness of creativity
9. Nargiz Alimova
10. Nigora Latypova
11. Music of the Spheres: Fiction of Reality?
12. Music and-stylistic features
13. Ritual songs of Surkhan
14. Festival of Art Photo
15. New sides of cooperation
16. About me and art
16. Chronicle of Artistic Life
17. Editorial Board
1. Battles of Alexander the Great
2. From history of headwear in Uzbekistan
3. Ornament impersonates the World and Sky
4. Philosophy of Color
5. Dungan Costume and Ornaments
6. Cosmogony of tybeteika or "Anyialmond"
7. "Masters of New East" in global artistic process
8. Myths of the West and Myths of the East
9. National traditions and modern artist
10. The brothers – artists from Zarabag
11. Allusions of Gulya Gromova's character sketches
12. Art works from natural materials
13. Gairat Ibraghimov
14. Dilshod Eshmatov
15. Gallery of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan
16. Restoration of historical heritage
17. Declaration
18. F. Karomatov
19. Youth in Art Criticism
20. New Books
21. Chronicle of Artistic Life
22. Editorial Board
1. Xenippa - Nahshab - Nasaf - Karshi
2. Battle-piece Genre in the Creative Work of Kamaletdin Behzad
3. Medieval Architecture of the Karshi City
4. Arts and Crafts of the Kashkadarya Oasis
5. Traditional Kashkadarya Female Clothing
6. Way to Self-knowledge
7. Here and Now
8. Sufi Parable and the Contemporary Art
9. Wind of his Motherland
10. From the History of the Karshi Musical Culture
11. Musical Classics as a Development Factor of the Spiritual Culture
12. The Issue of Artistic Integrity of Mass Performances
13. Talent Devoted to People
14. Director Bakhodir Yuldashev
15. Threads of Centuries Lead into the Future
16. Fashion - Perspectives of the French-Uzbek Cooperation
17. Chronicle of the Artistic Life
18. Editorial Board
1. Woman and Creation
2. Architecture and Artistic Culture
3. Female Images in Bactrian Coroplastics
4. Pearl of the Uzbek Art - artist Shamsroi Khasanova
5. "Soul Moving among Ideas" - Love Conception from Lubov Tiora
6. Fantasy Retrospective of Maxim Voronov
7. Miniature Style Gold Embroidered Pictures of Mahfuza Salimova
8. Traditional motives in today's fashion
9. A Little about Women ... and Theatre
10. Aesthetic Richness and National Color of the Uzbek Lullabies
11. Eulogy on My Lady Music
12. Remembering "Tanovar"
13. For the 80th Birthday Anniversary of A.Kh. Liviev
15. Chronicle of Art Life
16. Editorial Board
1. Pages of history
2. Medieval Art of Sogd
3. Samarkand governors
4. Symbolical "texts" of Afrasiab
5. Amir Temur and Philippe Brunelleschi
6. Under Auroral standards
7. The musical instruments of Samarkand
8. Samarkand Ceramics
9. Samarkand Suzane
10. The national costume
11. Under a spell of the East
12. Samarkand - harmony of forms
13. The Storyteller from Childhood
14. Art - Therapy
15. Music of Samarkand
16. Art is over the borders
17. G.A. Pugachenkova
18. New Books
19. Chronicle of Art Life
20. Editorial Board
1. Architecture
2. Horse equipment
3. Interior decor
4. Karakalpak woman
5. The master of Uzbek
6. Artist - Epoch - History
7. Poet Gafur Kadyirov
8. Song of the Soul
9. The dynasty of artists
10. Vladimir Pilipyuk
11. Batir Zakirov and "Music hall"
12. Cinematography
13. Cooperation of Uzbek
14. Uzbek - French contacts
15. Chronicle of Art Life
16. Editorial Board
1. Palette of the Ancient Artist
2. Look back at your home
3. Art metal
4. Tashkent Biennale - 2003
5. Temurgalib Djamolutdinov
6. Bahtiyor Mahkamov
7. The Sea is leaving
8. Dmitry Novakov
9. Eshmamat Khayitov
10. Uzbek pop music
11. Boysun historical
12. The Boysun Deer
13. Art of Uzbekistan
14. Speech of Art
15. Sculptors in Navoi
16. New Schoolbook
17. Chronicle of Art Life
18. Editorial Board
1. From history of Bukhara's
2. Splendour of Bukhara
3. Hydro Architecture of the Bukhara
4. Bukhara's costume
5. Plan-miniature of Bukhara
6. Bukhara's Art of jewelry
7. Decor in Bukhara's
8. Lively colors of Bukhara's
9. Bukhara's Gold Embroidery
10. Bukhara's Artist
11. View of Bukhara's sculpture
12. Abduvohid Krimov
13. Mutavakkil Burkhanov
14. Chronicle of Art Life
15. Editorial Board
1. Hellenic traditions
2. Reconstruction of Chorustun
3. Architectural masterpieces
4. Dialogue
5. Desert and Garden
6. The Uzbek path of cubism
7. Vakhob Ziyaev
8. The Reflection
9. To art biography
10. Khazarasp
11. Musical Portraits of Cities
12. Art in Centuries
13. Chronicle of Art Life
14. The World of Fine Arts
15. Editorial Board
1. Monuments of ancient art
2. Capitals - columns from Mizdahkan
3. Ritual jewelry
4. Kiymeshek
5. The Unique Treasury
6. My Karakalpakstan
7. Crystal - clear streets
8. Phenomenon of Edison Kee's Art
9. Khodjimetov Sherzod
10. Baksi and Jyrau
11. Musical Spring in Boysun
12. Boysun Ceramics
13. International contacts
14. Chronicle of Art Life
15. Editorial Board
1. Navruz
2. Coroplastics of East Kashkadrya
3. Uzbekistan and Spain
4. Rabats and Sardoba of Abdullakhan
5. Makhallya in Evolution of the City
6. Peter Annenkov
7. Echo of Ancient Epos
8. Akhmetshina Rezeda
9. Ikram Akbarov and Evolution
10. Metamorphoses
11. Rhythms of Inspiration
12. Our Dear Old
13. Seismograph
14. Chronicle of Art Life
15. Editorial Board
1. High Day for Soul
2. Ancient Korea and Ancient Uzbekistan
3. Central Asian Beads
4. Wall Painting at Tavka
5. Buddhist Mandalas
6. Ceramic of Bukhara
7. Lions in Seclusion
8. Ages of Prosperity
9. Relief of the Memory
10. Artist Alisher Alikulov
11. Uzbek Pop - Music
12. Inanimate Puppet Playing
13. Chronicle of Art Life
14. Editorial Board
1. The Cultic Semantics of Ceramics
2. The Medieval Vessel
3. The Urban Development
4. The Art World
5. The Hunter after Secret
6. "Navkiron Uzbekiston"
7. Clothing of the Kungrat Women
8. The Tapestry
9. Muse Of Photograph
10. Another Cinema
11. Analysis of historical prototypes
12. Chronicle of Art Life
13. Editorial Board
1. Historical Civilizations
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3. The Khorezm Jewelry Art
4. The Gijduvan Traditional Embroidery
5. "Thirst of life" Tura Shomirzaev
6. The Way to Poetry and Philosophy
7. Gobelins of Olim Ismoilov
8. Boysun - bahori
9. The Festival Becomes
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11. The Jewelry - Land
12. Congratulations
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2. Gava Sughda - Nautaka - Kesh
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4. The embroidery of Shahrisabz
5. Creating means revealing
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7. Jurat Rahmani
8. Ceramic artist Ashur Mamasoliyev
9. Zaur Mansurov
10. Abdujabbor Nazilov
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COC's General Director Alexander Neef's Contract Extended to 2020-21
Toronto – Canadian Opera Company General Director Alexander Neef has signed a new contract with the COC that extends his tenure as General Director through the 2020/2021 season.
"The relentless improvement in the artistry we are witnessing on the stage of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts is the best evidence of Alexander Neef's unique ability to fit the right artists to the works that can best show their talents," says Philip C. Deck, President of the Canadian Opera Company Board of Directors. "He has harnessed all the assets that the COC has built over time – our fantastic opera house, our terrific orchestra, our fabulous chorus, great production teams and an audience that supports our innovations – and woven them into a package that attracts the finest artists in the world. Our Canadian opera community demands the best and they have enthusiastically embraced the artistic vision that Alexander's leadership has created."
"From the range of operatic repertoire presented under his leadership to date to the incredible opera stars now being seen and heard with the COC, he has already left an indelible mark on the culture of this city," adds Deck. "Alexander has truly made the COC home to the best, and I look forward to the continued growth in artistic excellence that his tenure will bring."
"I'm very proud of what the COC has accomplished in my first four seasons as General Director. When I was given the opportunity to lead this company, sights were set very high on taking it to a new international standard following the achievements of opening the opera house and the premiere of Canada's first Ring Cycle. With that aim, the COC has become a destination for artists of truly remarkable calibre, drawing the most exciting, emerging artists to our stage as well as opera's well-known and celebrated stars," says Alexander Neef, General Director of the Canadian Opera Company. "This kind of achievement has only been possible through the unwavering support of the COC's Board of Directors, staff and volunteers, patrons and donors."
"At the time of my appointment in 2008, my promise was to make the COC one of the best companies in the world. The last four years have been about increasing the company's international reach and reputation, and that will continue to be a priority, but they've also been about taking the necessary time to form relationships and deep roots within our community," adds Neef. "I am very excited about what the commitment of the next nine years will allow the COC to achieve and the contribution we'll be able to make to the creation and development of the operatic art form in this country."
Since commencing his appointment as General Director in October 2008, Neef has overseen the presentation of one world premiere (The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, 2009), three Canadian premieres (Maria Stuarda, 2010; Love from Afar, 2012; A Florentine Tragedy, 2012) and six COC premieres (Rusalka, 2009; A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2009; Nixon in China, 2011; Orfeo ed Euridice, 2011; Iphigenia in Tauris, 2011; Semele, 2012), as well as adding 10 new productions to the COC's repertoire (Fidelio, 2009; A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2009; The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, 2009; Otello, 2010; Idomeneo, 2010; Aida, 2010; The Magic Flute, 2011; Rigoletto, 2011; Love from Afar, 2012; A Florentine Tragedy/Gianni Schicchi, 2012). He's been instrumental in the COC debuts of numerous Canadian and international artists, and it was under his leadership that the company returned to the world-renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music for the first time since 1993 with its spectacular production of Robert Lepage's The Nightingale and Other Short Fables in March 2011.
Neef's many credits for the company also include increasing the public profile and professional development opportunities of the COC's Ensemble Studio program, a training program for young opera professionals. In 2010, an Ensemble Studio performance of a COC mainstage production was introduced as part of the annual season, with the program's young singers cast in the title roles. Although many Ensemble members perform smaller roles or are understudying roles in the COC's productions, this special performance allows them greater opportunity to showcase their talents as well as gain valuable practical experience by working under the direction of the same creative team as the mainstage cast and performing with the full COC Orchestra and Chorus. In 2011, the Ensemble Studio Competition was launched, inviting the public to be part of the singers' professional journeys by opening the final round of auditions to an audience for the first time.
Alexander Neef's new contract extends his tenure with the Canadian Opera Company through to the end of September 2021. The COC's upcoming 2012/2013 season will mark Neef's fifth as General Director.
About the Canadian Opera Company
Based in Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America. The COC enjoys a loyal audience support-base and one of the highest attendance and subscription rates in North America. Under its leadership team of General Director Alexander Neef and Music Director Johannes Debus, the COC is increasingly capturing the opera world's attention. The COC maintains its international reputation for artistic excellence and creative innovation by creating new productions within its diverse repertoire, collaborating with leading opera companies and festivals, and attracting the world's foremost Canadian and international artists. The COC performs in its own opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, hailed internationally as one of the finest in the world. Designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects, the Four Seasons Centre opened in 2006, and is also the performance venue for The National Ballet of Canada. For more information on the COC, visit its award-winning website, coc.ca.
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Gold for April delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange was last at $1,184.20 per ounce, or about $12 below where it was before the report was released.
Gold Price Drop Mining News
Gold prices ride rollercoaster on US jobs report
Gold hit a five-month low in the wake of the jobs report, but recovered quickly climbing 4.8% to 1,230.
CHARTS: What life remained in junior mining the gold price drop choked off
The best indicator of the health of the global exploration sector has fallen to a record low.
Jim Rogers says gold could fall to $900
"50% corrections are quite normal in markets."
Green investors missing golden opportunity
The likelihood of a strong rebound is supported by both a struggling mining industry and gold's performance during the last great bull market of the 1970s.
Rick Rule: The precious metals could sell off again
Rick views this period as a reflection of the four times during his career that he's seen absolute capitulation, which is setting the stage for a "spectacular recovery".
Guide to surviving the global mining crisis launched
Most obvious measures include abandoning non-essential exploration work, postponing hires and focusing on core-business operations.
Gold price surges as bargain hunters scramble for cheap metal
The gold price surged nearly $40 an ounce on Monday as a weaker dollar helped the metal recover from one of its worst quarterly performances in history.
No physical gold buying to the rescue
"Some bought too much when gold prices fell to $1,300 and now their cash is tight."
'The washout is nearly complete': Jim Cramer
Seeing Cramer in the gold camp is discombobulating Peter Grandich.
INFOGRAPHIC: Gold production costs around the globe
Production costs and big upcoming gold projects.
American gold miner suspends work on Nevada project
Nevada mine put on care and maintenance due to declining gold prices.
Gold drops below $1,200 ounce
Silver is at US$18.59 per ounce.
Gold gets sicker
Silver is under $19.
What's an investor to do in markets like these?
Stay calm and invest on, as I believe there is opportunity in picking up what the bears left behind.
Ben Bernanke's real message for gold investors, translated by John Williams
Don't fall for propaganda from the Federal Reserve about tapering quantitative easing, says ShadowStats editor John Williams in this interview with The Gold Report.
Junior gold nining sector: From distress to misery for investors
Is GDXJ now a buy?
Tapering the taper talk
As usual the Federal Reserve media reaction machine has fallen for a poorly executed head fake.
Gold price drops $97 to September 2010 level
Gold price plummets after the US Federal Reserve signaled an end to its loose monetary policy may come sooner rather than later.
Gold stocks decimated, Barrick drops to 21-year low
Billions wiped off sector as gold price drop sends many stocks to multi-year lows.
One of the great gold bears reverses course
"If gold bounces $100 from here - which is not that hard to see - then gold stocks will have a big run."
Gold price shows muted reaction to upbeat Fed
Gold fell around $17 on Wednesday after the Fed again hinted that QE3 may be tapered off if the US economy continues to improve.
Forget the Fed: Five more reasons the gold price has much further to fall
The sudden $200 drop in April scared a lot of gold investors out of the market. Those that remain should heed these warnings.
Gold price drops to one month low ahead of Fed decision
Gold investors are worried that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke could announce on Wednesday that the Fed will start tapering off its quantitative easing program.


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EmptyABC and the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians have ratified a new four-year contract covering about 1,100 staff employees and several thousand daily hire employees represented by the union at the network and four ABC-owned stations.
All eight NABET bargaining units at ABC ratified the contract, which takes effect Saturday. Last month, both NABET's leadership and its negotiating team had unanimously recommended ratification.
"We're pleased that NABET members from all eight of the union's bargaining units ratified these agreements and are now moving forward with ABC under this new four-year contract," Jeffrey Ruthizer, senior vp labor relations at ABC and lead negotiator.
NABET's representation of employees in certain job categories varies by location to include broadcast engineers, desk assistants, newswriters, plant maintenance staff, publicists and traffic coordinators.
Details of the agreement weren't immediately released. It encompasses certain employees at WABC New York, KABC Los Angeles, WLS Chicago and KGO San Francisco and at ABC in New York, Los Angeles and Washington.
The previous contract expired March 31.


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