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|Christ the Magician
A survey of ancient Christian sarcophagus imagery
William Storage and Laura Maish
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Jesus commonly appears on ancient Christian sarcophagi in the role of a magician. This comes as a surprise to many modern viewers. Catholic tradition holds that the diversity in early Christian belief stems from heresies that branched out from an original kernel of orthodoxy. This view of the roots of the early diversity in Christian belief is difficult to reconcile with the books of the New Testament - which presumably represent the earliest Christian writings - let alone the heretical works refuted by early apologists like Justin Martyr and Tertullian. Christian history also holds that, while Gnostic sects like the Valentinians existed in the city of Rome, they had died off there or conformed by the third century, and that Christian belief at that time was very similar to that of today. In contrast, the imagery from ancient Roman sarcophagi, carved in stone, is evidence of incompletely-formed Christianity in Rome late into the 4th century. This funerary imagery clearly shows the problem with interpreting the ancient Christian community solely through texts of the clergy.
Christian sarcophagi have been grossly overlooked as a tool for studying early Christianity. They're much less vulnerable to being revised to alter their details or meaning to conform to current theology than are written materials. This is true despite the merciless "restoration" work visible on many of the sarcophagi, performed, for example, by antique dealers seeking to increase an item's value or perhaps by 18th century apologists nervous about the lack of crosses in early Christian art. These restorations are usually very apparent, and rarely obscure the original composition (occasionally providing humor, when the deceased woman's portrait is recarved as Jesus, or when a soldier is recarved as Peter). Furthermore, extant sarcophagi have come down to us through a much more random (less selective) process than have Christian texts, which, independent of any rewriting, have been selected for their suitability to ecclesiastic agendas while others were either banned or abandoned and forgotten. Where we have only tiny scraps of the earliest Christian manuscripts, there is a wealth of ancient information written in stone that can be inspected first-hand by anyone with access to the world's great museums and churches. To be sure, some sarcophagi have been reworked and others are modern forgeries, but many exist, particularly in Rome, with imagery that can be solidly identified as 3rd and 4th century work. Surprisingly, the stories told by sarcophagus imagery are often different from those of the gospels.
No Christian sarcophagi can be firmly dated to earlier than the third
century, and even these are rare and disputed[1].
Various theories have been proposed for this lack of evidence of early
Christianity. Some suggest, on the basis of Exodus 20:4 ("shall not make for
yourself an idol"), that the earliest Christians rejected icons like the Jews of
the same period. This seems unlikely, especially since evidence shows that Judaism was
not completely aniconic during the same period. For example,
20th century excavations at Dura Europos revealed an early synagogue with rich
iconography. The earliest Christian writers report that Christian clothing and household
objects were richly decorated with biblical illustrations. These early writers,
such as Tertullian (On Modesty, 7.1) and Clement of Alexandria (The Instructor,
3.11.59 - "let our seals be either a dove, or a fish, or a ship scudding before
the wind, or a musical lyre...") did not appear to be critical of such usages of
Christian art. Charles Murray, in his exhaustive investigation, concluded that
there was no real condemnation by early church fathers of non-idolatrous
iconography in the early centuries of Christianity. Archaeological evidence
suggests that lively art was a prominent feature of early Christianity.
A more likely reason for the lack of Christian art before the fourth century is that the number of Christians was very small. Written accounts describing Christianity as an important component of first and second century Rome are now increasingly thought to be later forgeries. Analysis of the authenticity of secular mentions of Christianity are beyond the scope of this discussion, but a few summary points are useful. For example, the brief mentions of Christianity in Josephus, and Suetonius are sufficiently problematic (e.g., brevity, inconsistent language, lack of citation by subsequent writers whose point would benefit from citing it) to raise questions of their authenticity. Likewise, Tacitus's description of the "vast multitude" of Christians persecuted by Nero is inconsistent with other contemporaneous Roman histories, Even the descriptions of Paul's ministry in Rome in the Acts of the Apostles suggest that Christianity was a tiny club at the time of Nero. If authentic, Tacitus's passage indicates his disgust with Nero and perhaps the attitudes toward Christians in Tacitus' time. Against its authenticity, Eusebius, the church historian of the fourth century, makes no mention of the passage when it clearly would have been in his interest to do so.
Many biblical scholars conclude that Acts was a late addition to the books of the Christian proto-canon; an attempt both to meld together the epistles attributed to Paul and certain of the large body of then-circulating gospels. Perhaps more importantly - at least for Christianity's presence in Rome - Acts introduces - and develops at great length – the idea of apostolic succession, absent from the gospels, but absolutely essential to a hierarchically organized sect of Christianity that was the ancestor to Catholicism. Acts alone - not the gospels or epistles - placed Paul in Rome. Christian tradition - not any book of the Bible - placed Peter in Rome.
Whether Christians were in Rome before the third century, scant
archaeological evidence exists. The late third century then shows an
explosion in popularity of biblical themes, probably the result of the rapid
growth of Christian sects at that time. As mentioned above, ancient writings
reveal a great variation in beliefs between these sects, which show gnostic and
docetic elements to various degrees. Marcionism and Valentinism, against which
the church fathers railed, were popular in Rome. These sects were either
extinguished or absorbed by what later became Catholic orthodoxy. Their writings
are now commonly referred to by the misleading term, apocrypha. As stressed by
David Cartlidge, the term brands these books as clandestine; and they were
nothing of the sort. Despite later condemnation by church authorities there is
no basis for the notion that those who used these books saw themselves as
members of splinter groups, or that the distinction of orthodox was in
any way meaningful in the third century. Christian sarcophagi portray stories
from what must have been thought by their patrons to be the key events of the
Christian story, whether those stories were transmitted orally or in scriptures.
Granted, the sarcophagi, due to limitations of their medium, cannot describe Christian belief as richly as the books of the New Testament or the writings of the early church fathers. But they do tell quite a bit; and of what they do tell we can be certain, since it is carved in stone. Christian sarcophagi have mainly been the focus of the fields of history of art and Christian apologetics and devotion. There has been an astounding lack of interest in Christian art by those involved in the study of Christian origins, an enterprise almost solely devoted to ancient texts.
Over the past decade we have visited Roman churches and museums to study Christian sarcophagi and funerary art having scriptural parallels. We've taken several thousand photos of these ancient carvings. We have catalogued the images, and have identified scriptural references where they exist. Many images on the earliest Christian gravestones are purely iconic or symbolic. Many of the earliest images are identical to those of pagan funerary art, thus their identification as Christian is solely contextual. Whether certain pieces have Christian origins is uncertain, particularly those involving grape harvests, philosophers, orants and the good shepherd - all images popular before the dawn of Christianity. Even in a Christian context these images cannot be linked to any specific biblical story, so they aren't listed here. Scenes with scriptural parallels, mostly involving miracles, dominate fourth and early fifth century sarcophagi, gradually being replaced by images of Christ as supreme ruler, saints, and images unrelated to scripture. Our focus here is the relatively short period of narrative imagery that can be correlated with early Christian writings, many of which are not canonical, some of which are now considered heretical.
The rendering of characters from the gospel stories is remarkably consistent on the sarcophagi. Jesus appears as a young man with a boyish features and an expression that's usually both joyful and confident. This is the blond Jesus of the catacombs and early Christian wall paintings, not the dark-haired, solemn, "oriental" Jesus of later Christianity. His face, hair, and effeminate body features are indistinguishable from those in the Roman rendering of youthful Apollo, from whom Jesus can be differentiated only by context. Peter's looks vary little from specimen to specimen, despite the fact that the sarcophagi seem to span two centuries. Even Pontius Pilate and the soldier who crowns Jesus are recognizable from one sample to the next. We can be certain of identifications of most figures in the sarcophagus scenes, based on details of the scene, such as the rooster from the story of Peter's denial, the hand-washing of Pilate, the lions with Daniel, and the jugs of wine at Cana. A few of the scenes are less easy to correlate with Bible stories - is that Jesus raising Lazarus or Ezekiel -sculpted to resemble Jesus - bringing life to the dry bones? Finally, some common scenes don't correlate with stories in the Christian canon at all, but do correlate with stories from Christian books deemed heretical by the increasingly catholic church.
Miracles are by far the largest group of scriptural subjects found on Christian sarcophagi of the period. At the turn of the 20th century Alexander Soper concluded that the prominence of miracle scenes resulted from the fact that they fit well into traditional frieze and panel sarcophagi. Soper reported a higher rate of certain scenes in Christian catacombs than on sarcophagi, including the three youths in the furnace, and the Jonah story - these requiring more horizontal space to show. While layout restrictions may be a factor in the difference between sarcophagus and catacomb images, we observe that most of the important non-miracle events of the Old and New Testament fit the frieze or paneled sarcophagus format equally well. It seems more likely to us that the reason for the prominence of miracle images wasn't a matter of format but simply the obvious one; they were the most popular with patrons of the sculpture. From the evidence of sarcophagi, it seems inescapable that for ordinary people - those buried in sarcophagi or with simple grave slabs - Jesus was first and foremost a miracle man. More interesting still, unlike his representation in the gospels, he was seen as a magician.
Other departures from scripture are common on sarcophagi. For example, all images of the entry into Jerusalem also include a small figure peering down from his perch in a tree. This would seem to be Zacchaeus, the man short of stature from Luke 19:1 but Zacchaeus lives in Jericho, not Jerusalem, at least as the story is told by Luke. Perhaps in a lost counterpart to Luke's gospel, or in oral tradition at the time, Zacheaus was in Jerusalem. The prominence given to this incidental character from whom even evangelists struggle to extract a lesson is surprising. It's possible that in an alternate gospel Zacheaus played a more significant role.
Another minor oddity is the crown placed on Jesus' head by a Roman. It
is a normal corona, not made of thorns, and contains a diadem. The Roman,
gingerly placing the crown, does not appear to mock Jesus, whose mood seems more
joyous than solemn.
In some cases the departure from scripture seems to be a matter of artistic practicality; this typically takes the form of abbreviating and distilling a scene into its most identifiable symbols. For example, Nebuchadnezzar's giant golden monument is reduced to something like a life-sized statue. Some departures seem to point to pagan parallels, like the reclining Jonah, who instead of lamenting, appears as Endymion, proud and handsome. The artist may have meant to force an association between the biblical story and a pagan precedent, or merely have unconsciously introduced familiar pagan elements into the biblical scene. The latter appears to be the case in the rendering of Peter's denial. The cock on the column is an image that can be soundly traced to a sequence of pagan precedents. But this is not the case with the wand-miracle images.
Of 414 total scenes, we counted 68 where Jesus or Peter use wands to perform miracles. In a few other scenes, Moses and Ezekiel also use a wand to bring water from a stone or to resurrect dry bones. Also, very rarely, Jesus carries a wand but is not using it to conduct power by contact. Nowhere in the Bible is there any indication that Jesus would use a wand. Some claim the wand is in fact a staff of authority, but on the sarcophagi the wand doesn't appear with Jesus in any role of authority. The meaning of a wand would have been completely unambiguous in ancient times; it was the primary symbol of magic in eastern and western art of the period. The wand is a common symbol of the Roman mystery cults - Mithraism in particular - whose savior-heroes, like Jesus, performed magic healing, and whose followers formed intense personal bonds with a savior-hero.
Modern Christianity differentiates magic from divine powers, but this was not
always the case. The pagan writer Celsus, as quoted by the Christian writer
Origen, asked whether we should regard all the other magicians trained by the
Egyptians as son of God also. Origen, in his multi-volume diatribe against
Celsus, did not claim that Jesus' magic itself was unique. He instead argued
about its source. Clement of Alexandria and Acts of Peter describe contests of
magic between Peter and Simon the Magus. Justin Martyr made desperate but
unconvincing attempts to differentiate Jesus' magic from that of others.
Athanasius tied himself in a bit of a logical knot, explaining that Jesus was
not a magician, but that his magic triumphed over that of other magicians.
Jesus' wand is almost always present in scenes of the multiplication of loaves and fishes, but it is never used for healing the blind man, the paralytic, or the woman with an issue of blood. These healing scenes instead involve direct bodily contact - the laying on of hands. Margaret Jensen suggests that early Christians may have thus seen healing as a less magical feat, performable by mere wise men, differentiating "medicine" from real magic. The biblical Jesus defends himself against accusation of being a magician. It seems unlikely that Jesus would have confused his audience by denouncing magic while using a magician's wand, particularly if his message was that the source of his healing power was God the Father. Thus we cannot reconcile certain parts of the canonical gospels with some of what we see on the sarcophagi.
The wand was not merely an artistic device to ensure that viewers could identify the scriptural miracle being shown. Scenes of Lazarus, the miracle at Cana, and the loaves and fishes did not require the wand to allow their association to the biblical stories for anyone even remotely familiar with the biblical stories. If viewers were expected to recognize less dramatic scenes such as the abduction of Habakkuk and Jesus before Pilate, they certainly wouldn't need to see a wand in order to recognize the resurrection of Lazarus. It thus seems fairly certain that at least the typical 4th-century Christian consumers of sarcophagi pictured Jesus as a magician - a divinely powered one perhaps, but a magician nonetheless. Apologists have argued that such imagery could be the product of those on the fringe of orthodoxy or of illiterates without firsthand access to the scriptures. This argument is weak on several counts. First, since the magician images are the most common images on Christian sarcophagi of the period, if they were out of step with authors of scriptures or other early Christian writings, it was those writers who were in the minority position and therefore out of step with popular belief. Second, portraits of the deceased holding scrolls on many sarcophagi indicate that they were in fact educated and literate. Finally, illiterate peasants could not afford ornate marble sarcophagi.
Raising Lazarus, miracle at Cana, multiplication of loaves, and the widow's son
By our count, the two most common scenes from scriptures appearing on sarcophagi both involve wands. The most common is the well known story of multiplication of loaves and fishes - actually, stories, since the four canonical gospels include six descriptions of feeding the multitude - all describe feeding the 5000 (Matthew 14:17, Mark 6:37, Luke 9:13, John 6:7), and only Mark and Matthew include the 4000 (Matthew 15:32, Mark 8.1). Multiplication of loaves and fishes also appear in many apocryphal gospels and is the only miracle story common to all canonical gospels. The number of baskets represented on sarcophagi varies, probably due to space and composition limitations. There seems to be some interaction of the multiplication of loaves and Eucharist scenes, although the latter never correlates with a Last Supper. The number of guests in all Eucharist scenes is seven, a possible reference to the post-resurrection appearance to the seven disciples (John 21). For Clement of Alexandria, the loaves represent the Jewish Law "and the fishes signified the Hellenic philosophy that was produced and moved in the midst of the Gentile billow, given, as they were, for copious food to those lying on the ground, increasing no more, like the fragments of the loaves, but having partaken of the Lord's blessing" (Stromata 6.11.94).
Since the most repeated miracle story in the Bible is the story most commonly shown on sarcophagi, it may come as a surprise that the second most common sarcophagus scene does not appear in the Bible at all. Nor is it ever mentioned by early church fathers in extant writings. However, it does appear in the apocryphal book, Acts of Saints Processus and Martinianus. In it Peter strikes a rock and produces water, echoing Moses in Exodus 17:6, and then baptizes his jailers. Roman Christian tradition holds that this event took place in the Mamertine Prison (Tullianum), on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. The prominence of this image and its absence in the Bible suggest to us that Christianity in Rome was far less catholic than what was reported by the church fathers including Ignatius, Irenaeus, Origen, and even Eusebius.
Peter is again the subject of the fourth most common sarcophagus image - the related scene of his capture and arrest, again not present in the canon. Joseph Wilpert concluded that the images of Peter's arrest were derived from the story of his arrest by Herod Agrippa (Acts 12:3-19)[2]. This seems highly unlikely, given that Peter's water miracle is absent from Acts, the Roman dress of his jailers, and the tradition of Peter in Rome. Furthermore, none of Peter's miracles that actually do appear in Acts ever appear on sarcophagi. Some of Peter's miracles from Acts would make impressive carvings, such as his resurrection of Tabitha or his miraculous murder of Ananias and Sapphira.
The table below lists the scenes by number of occurrences. Of the scenes listed above, 196, or just under 50%, include Jesus. Seventy three (17%) depict Peter, who always uses a wand to perform his miracles. Of Jesus' miracles, about 45% include wand usage, and 1/3 involve healing by direct contact. Just over 1/4 of the sarcophagus scenes are from the Old Testament, including several Old Testament books whose canonicity is disputed. The most common Old Testament book represented is Daniel, the basis for six sarcophagus scenes, including 18 images (4% of total) of Daniel in the lions' den. Scenes not present in most versions of Daniel, but present on the sarcophagi, include the judgment of Susanna, Habakkuk in his field, and Bel and the dragon. We are specifically excluding a large number of images of the good shepherd from our count. Despite gospel references, e.g., John 10.11. Christian use of the shepherd on sarcophagi is identical to the pagan use of the same image for charity, and cannot really be correlated to a Bible story.
Perhaps more interesting than the frequency of non-canonical imagery is the
absence of references to scenes that are central to modern Christianity. There
is no passion, no last supper, no crucifixion, no post-resurrection appearances,
no annunciation, few nativity scenes, very few images of Paul, and nothing from
Acts of the Apostles.
Careful observers will note that most of the images of the visit by the magi to the infant Jesus depart from scriptures in an important detail. Gospel Mark has no magi story, but in the other gospels the wise men follow a star to the location of Jesus' birth. Most of the sarcophagus images show a toddler Jesus, with a full head of curly hair, sitting on his mother's lap, arms outstretched to directly receive the gifts offered by the magi. In other nativity scenes an ox and an ass peer through an opening at Jesus in his crib. Both scenes correlate with apocryphal texts. In the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew the ox and ass are described just as they appear on the sarcophagi. Early Christians no doubt saw this scene as fulfillment of a prophecy they read into Isaiah 1:3 ("The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner's manger"). In the Protoevangelium of James, the magi visit Jesus when he is two years old. Henry Wansbrough and Thomas Matthews see the magi incident as not a celebration of the birth of a spiritual ruler, but as a surrender of the magi to a newborn supermagician. The gifts are not random items of high value, they are instruments these magi used to cast spells, now rendered impotent in the presence of stronger magic. If they're correct we can see the scenes of visitation by magi as yet another reference to the connection between Jesus and magic.
Jonah ranks fifth in frequency on sarcophagi - the most common Old Testament scene. A reason given by ancient and modern writers for Jonah's popularity is that the Jonah story is a metaphor for Christ's resurrection. Matthew 12:40 explains Jonah in this way, comparing Jonah's three nights in the fish to Jesus' three (?) nights in the heart of the earth. This cannot be the whole story of Jonah's popularity, however. Jonah is usually shown relaxing, nude on the beach after being cast from the fish, looking rather suave, unlike the worried state one would expect based on Jonah 4:5. The popularity of Jonah at rest is easily explained, however, by its similarity to other heroes in the same pose on contemporaneous pagan sarcophagi. Silenus, Bacchus, Endymion and Arianna appear in the same pose and in similar settings. Endymion, popular on pagan sarcophagi because his peaceful sleep under the spell of Selene presents a pleasant image of the deceased at rest, was no doubt a model for the image of Jonah at rest.
Jonah on the beach (left) compared to Silenus in banquet, both from Roman sarcophagi
The raising of Lazarus (6th most common sarcophagus image) is the only New Testament scene on the Jonah Sarcophagus. Jensen and others read this image as foretelling the resurrection of Jesus. Perhaps so, but since the wand is always present, and the Lazarus image usually accompanies other wand-miracle images, it is equally likely that the Lazarus image celebrates Jesus' magic healing powers like the other scenes where he uses a wand. As with many of the other images, the rendering of the Lazarus story departs from the text. Instead of a burial cave with a stone covering, the carved images show an above-ground structure with a facade common to Roman temples. This may simply indicate a Roman idealization of burial, and may be influenced by the interest ancient Romans took in more ancient Egyptian cults and myths. Texts from pyramids of the 5th and 6th dynasties regarding the resurrection of Lazarus also align closely with the sarcophagus imagery. This imagery also relates to the story of resurrection of an anonymous man in the Secret Gospel of Mark as quoted in a letter (authenticity disputed) of Clement of Alexandria.
25% of identifiable images on these sarcophagi are of Old Testament scenes. Most of these involve Daniel and Jonah. This may point to Jonah and Daniel as metaphors for Christ's resurrection, though one might ask why indirect refers would be given priory over direct references. Virtually no images directly related to the resurrection appear. Images of the empty tomb and the ascended Christ appear later in Christian art, but rarely on sarcophagi, particularly sarcophagi bearing other images with scriptural parallels. Ernest Cadman Colwell argued that common sarcophagus scenes such as the sacrifice of Isaac, Noah in the ark, Jonah and Daniel all, in fact, do appear in the New Testament as references to the Old Testament text. Thus it is possible that these secondary references were the basis for the sarcophagus images. But this seems a stretch. Daniel, for example is mentioned in name only (Matthew 24:15 - mentions Daniel's reference to the abomination of desolation) and perhaps an oblique reference in Hebrews to prophets who shut the mouths of lions. One possibility is that images directly referring to crucifixion would be deemed too gruesome for the early Christian audience. Another is that details of Jesus' resurrection were unknown or undeveloped in oral tradition and writings of early Christianity. Readers who find this prospect incredible should note that early versions of Mark stopped at chapter 16, giving no explanation of the empty tomb and reporting no post-resurrection appearances. It's also worth noting that Clement of Rome shows no knowledge of any of the Gospel events; he never mentions them.
The popularity of images of Daniel may stem from association with Jesus' resurrection, but they can also likely be linked to magic. The book of Daniel describes him as being a magician whose magic, sourced by his God, greatly surpasses that of all the Chaldeans and the magicians of Nebuchadnezzar's court.
Peter always uses a wand to draw water from the rock in his prison; but unlike Jesus, he also sometimes carries a wand but is not in the act of using it. According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, Peter often found himself in magician showdowns. He defeated his nemesis by making a dog talk and resurrecting a smoked fish in response to a levitation trick performed by Simon's the Magus. Peter's unique position as wand-bearer at rest does might assert more than his magical prowess. It could also remind viewers that Jesus has passed his powers as well as his authority to Peter. This message was key to apostolic succession, securing Rome's position as the seat of the Christian church. A sarcophagus seems an odd vehicle for this message, however, and if it were intended by the sculptor it could have been expressed much more directly.
Arguments against Christianity by pagans identified similarities between Jesus and other legendary healers of the day including Apollonius of Tyana, Orpheus of Thrace, and Asclepius. As with Jesus, there was and still is debate as to the extent that to which these figures were based on living people. Unlike the case of Jesus, no imagery of the other healers exists that shows them in the act of healing. If this type of image is in fact a Christian invention, it might have contributed significantly to Christianity's explosion of popularity in 4th century Rome, a place where it appears the citizens had grown tired of the impersonal and static imagery of state gods and were attuned to decoding messages encoded in sculpture.
Paul appears in very few images. His name is inscribed in one fragment containing his easily identifiable image. His appearance on this fragment matches the description of him in the non-canonical Acts of Paul. Wilpert considered this piece to be a modern forgery. Another fragment may contain a reference to the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla. The fragment shows Paul commanding a sailing ship named Thecla. If this is truly a reference to the martyr, Thecla, in Acts of Paul, it is an indirect one. Images related to Paul's arrest (mentioned in the epistles and in Acts), and his martyrdom (non-canonical Acts of Paul only) appear rarely, all at the very end of the date range covered by these sarcophagi.
We find that a high percentage of sarcophagus images related to scriptural texts (whether canonical or not) depict acts that would be immediately identified by ancient viewers as magic. Patristic writings reinforce this view of Jesus as magician, but specify that his powers came from a different source than those of other magicians. Jesus is the most common figure on the sarcophagi, and often performs miracles or acts of magic. The only other New Testament miracle worker to appear is Peter, the second most common figure on the sarcophagi, though the two most common scenes of Peter are noncanonical. Peter's water miracle is the second most common scene on the sarcophagi, and he always uses a wand for his miracles. The disagreement between the narratives in existing texts and the details of sarcophagus imagery suggest that Christian thought was not nearly as uniform as Christian history suggests it was.
|Loaves and fishes miracle
|Vat 31410, Vat 31610, Vat 31427 (Dogmatic), Claudianus, Paolo 1, Massimo 2
|Pieter and the jailers
|Massimo 1 (Claudianus),, Vat 31408, Vat 31452, Vat 31464, Vat 31484
|Jesus heals the blind man
|Vat 31408 ("Ludovisi"), Vat 31427 (Dogmatic), Vat 31461 Bethesda, Vat 31472
|Arrest of Peter
|Vat 28591 (Anastasis), Vat 31439, Vat 31509 Sabinus), Vat 31508, Vat 31527
|Vat 31496 (Jonah), Vat 31533, Vat 31535, Vat 31593, Lorenzo 1, Vat 28592
|Vat 31408 ("Ludovisi"), Vat 31427 (Dogmatic), Vat 31431, Vat 31464
|Miracle at Cana
|Vat 31472, Vat 31482, Vat 31499, Vat 31508, Vat 31515, Vat 31516
|Jesus heals the paralytic
|Vat 31461 Bethesda, Vat 31464, Vat 31472, Vat 31482, Vat 31499
|Daniel with lions
|Vat 31427 (Dogmatic), Vat 31459, Vat 31472, Vat 31474, Vat 31511
|Issue of blood
|Vat 31484 (Crescens), Vat 31489 (Agape), Vat 31505, Vat 31508
|Sacrifice of Isaac
|Vat 31470, Vat 31472, Vat 31474, Vat 31528, Vat 31556
|Magi in adoration
|Vat 31533, Vat 31404, Vat 31443, Vat 31450
|Peter's denial
|Vat 31427 (Dogmatic), Vat 31472, Vat 31475
|Arrest of Jesus / Jesus with Pilate
|Vat 31485, Vat 31486, Vat 31487, Vat 31528
|Vat 31533, Vat 31541, Vat 31593
|Original sin
|Vat 31664 ("Ambrose"), Vat 31569, Vat 31533
|Fiery furnace
|Vat 31541, Vat 31553, Vat 31565, Vat 31564
|Moses receives the Law
|Vat 31532, Vat 31533, Vat 31546
|Raising the widow's son
|Vat 31532, Vat 31436, Vat 31536
|Traditio legis
|Vat 31528, Vat 31486, Vat 31487
|Entry into Jerusalem
|Vat 31461 (Bethesda), Vat 31486, Vat 31511, Vat 31537, Vat 31551
|Symbols of work
|Vat 31427 (Dogmatic), , Vat 31489, Vat 31535
|Ezekiel and bones
|Vat 31408 (Ludovisi), Vat 31450, Vat 31472
|Christ teaching
|Vat 31527, , Vat 31573, Vat 31651, Massimo
|Judgment of Susana
|Vat 31473, Vat 31558, Vat 31664
|Pilate washes hands
|Vat 31543, Vat 31598a>, Vat 31653, Vat 31660
|Red Sea crossing
|Vat 31434, Vat 31435 , Vat 31569, Vat 31660
|Caan and Abel
|Vat 28591, Vat 31513, Vat 31556
|Paul's beheading
|Vat 28591, Vat 31513, Vat 31556
|Adam and Eve
|Vat 31426, Vat 31648 (Junius Bassus), Vat 32458, Vat 32458
|Jesus baptized
|Vat 31491, Vat 31542
|Daniel kills serpent
|Vat 31473, Vat 31536
|Moses strikes rock
|Vat 31533
|Jesus before Caiaphas
|Vat 31542
|Vat 28591
|Arrest of Paul
|Vat 31648 (Junius Bassus)
|Peter's martyrdom
|Vat 31653
|Vision of Ezekiel
|Vat 31439
|Noah and family
|Vat 31662
|Paul and Thecla
|Vat 31645
|Washing of feet
|Vat 31487
|Moses removes sandals
|Vat 31535
|Creation of Eve
|Vat 31427 (Dogmatic)
|Paul (named)
|Vat 31524
|Jesus hands keys to Peter
|Vat 31649
|The three youths refuse the idol
|Vat 31664
|Ascension of Elijah
|Vat 31664
|Habakkuk in his field
|1 ?
|Vat 32458 - possibly another ref. to plowing, e.g., Psalms 129:3 or Isaiah 28:24
[1] Graydon Snyder, in Ante Pacem: Archaeological Evidence of Church Life Before Constantine, lists several dozen pre-Nicene funerary artworks, the vast majority of which are in catacombs. There is some debate about the accuracy of their dating.
[2] Joseph Wilpert, Walter Lowrie, and Adolph von Harnack are constantly cited in discussions of Christian art and archaeology, and they contributed greatly to our knowledge of this subject matter. They all assumed biblical inerrancy and leapt (great distances) to conclusions about history based on wild extrapolations from vague statements in Acts. For example, both Harnack and Wilpert derive from Acts 12:17 ("[Peter] departed and went to another place") that Peter arrived in Rome in the year 42. Note that Acts never even states that Peter went to Rome. ("Another place" sounds to us like he died. We too love Rome, but equating it with heaven is going too far...) Similarly, Wilpert and Lowrie perpetuate the notions of crypto-Christian carvings and that catacombs were secret Christian hiding places, despite a complete lack of evidence and the utter implausibility that catacomb burials could be kept secret.
Online Sources
All of the extant ancient writings we examined in relationship to Christian sarcophagi have been organized and formatted for the web by Peter Kirby at earlychristianwritings.com.
General Bibliography
David Cartlidge. Art and the Christian Apocrypha. 2001. ISBN-13: 978-0415233927.
Ernest Cadman Colwell. "The Fourth Gospel and Early Christian Art". The Journal of Religion, Vol. 15, No. 2. (Apr., 1935), pp. 191-206.
Paul Corby Finney. The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art. 1997. ISBN-13: 978-0195113815.
Robin Margaret Jensen. Understanding Early Christian Art. 2000. ISBN-13: 978-0415204552.
Robin Margaret Jensen. Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity. 2004. ISBN-13: 978-0800636784.
Jensen's books are probably the best sources on Christian art that are easily available. She seems to see Christian art as operating completely outside the realm of Hellenistic art. For example, she explores various theological reasons for Daniel's nudity, including issues surrounding baptism and his prefiguration of the resurrection, yet fails to consider the obvious: Christian sarcophagi were made by Romans. Daniel is both magician and hero. Roman heroes are nude. Voila.
Theodor Klauser. Fruhchristliche Sarkophage in Bild und Wort. Olten, Urs Graf-Verlag, 1966.
Walter Lowrie. Art in the Early Church, Pantheon Books. 1947. ASIN: B000PXTSCI.
Thomas F Matthews. The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art . 1999. ISBN-13: 978-0691009391.
Matthews's book, dedicated to destruction of what he calls "The Emperor Mystique" argues convincingly against the view that fourth century portrayal of Jesus was derived from Constantine-style political imagery. That view, once popular, is a bit of a straw man today. Matthews also seems to deny the possibility that ancient artisans might be influenced by the appearance or styling of an imperial image without intending to retain or convey any of the meaning behind the original image. Despite this, the book is a great overview of early Christian art.
Morton Smith. Jesus the Magician: Charlatan or Son of God? 1998. ISBN-13: 978-1569751558.
Joseph Wilpert. "Early Christian Sculpture: Its Restoration and Its Modern Manufacture". The Art Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 2. (Dec., 1926), pp. 89-141.
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Education - Training Colleges (Govt./Aided)-Kottayam
1. Mount Carmel College of Teacher Education for Women, Kottayam- 686 004 (1953)
Tel: 0481- 2573120, 2574820 Fax:0481-2573120
Web: www.mountcarmelcollege.edu.in, E-mail:mountcarmel_college @yahoo.edu.in.
Principal: Dr. Sr.Philomina Thomas. Tel: 0481-2578120,9495850707
B.Ed in English., Maths., Natural Science, Physical Sc., Social Science
M.Ed(SF) in Language Education (English), Mathematics Education, Science Education, Social Science Education
2. NSS Training College, Perunnai P.O, Changanacherry-686 102 (1954) Tel. 0481-2420481
Principal: Smt.R.Christal Gladis Tel: 0481-2401720, 2420481 (O), 04734 254766 (R), 9946311927 (M)
B.Ed in English, Malayalam, Hindi, Maths, Physical Science., Natural Sc., Social Science
3. St. Joseph's Training College, Mannanam, Kottayam – 686 561 (1957)
Website: www.stjosephtrainingcollege.org , Fax: 0481-2597347
Principal: Fr. (Dr) K.M. Rajan, 0481-2561312(R)
B.Ed (Aided),M.Ed (SF)
4. St. Thomas College of Teacher Education, Pala 686 575 (1957)
Tel.: 04822-268117, Fax: 0482-2216537
Principal: Dr (Sr) Celene Joseph,
B.Ed in Commerce, English , Mathematics , Physical Science,Natural Science , Social Science
M.Ed (SF) in English ,Malayalam, Mathematics, Science , Social Science ,Commerce
Education - Training Colleges (Unaided)
1. Labour India College of Teacher Education, Marangattupally P.O., Kottayam-686 635. (2004)
Principal: Smt. Alice Mathew. Tel: 04822 –250566, 212228
B.Ed. in English, Malayalam, Hindi, Social Science, Maths, Physical Science, Natural Science, Commerce,
M.Ed in English, Malayalam, Hindi, Social Science, Maths, Science and Commerce
2. Mangalam College of Education, Vettimukal P O, Ettumanoor- 686 631( 1995)
Principal: Dr. Peter Mathew, 0481 2539906, 9847722590
BEd in Physical Science, Natural Science, Maths, Social Science, Commerce.
M.Ed (SF)in Commerce ,Science , Social Science and Mathematics
3. St. John the Baptist's College of Education, Nedumkunnam, Kottayam-686 542 (1995)
Pricipal: Sri. N.J. Joseph Tel: 0481-2489400
B Ed in Maths, Natural Science, Physical Science ,Social Science, English
M.Ed(SF) English, Malayalam, Maths, Science, Social Science
4. St. Mary's Training College, Karikode P.O., Peruva, Kottayam-686 610 (2002)
Tel: 04829-257150, 256670
Principal: Dr. V.T Mathew Tel: 04829-243240, 9447305887
BEd in English, Maths, Social Science, Physical Science, Natural Science, Commerce.
5. St. John the Baptist's College of Special Education, Nedumkunnam, Kottayam (2006)
Pricipal: Fr. Johnson Mathew Tel: 9447213103
B.Ed. Special Education(MR)
6. St. John of God College of BEd Special Education, Pampady, Kottayam (2013)
B.Ed. Special Education(MR)(SF) (15). (Subject to the approval of RCI)

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W.Va. Surgeons Keep Insurance Walkout
Published 7:00 pm, Wednesday, January 8, 2003
West Virginia surgeons stayed off the job for a ninth day Thursday, but said they would end their walkout if legislators voice support for Gov. Bob Wise's plan to help them cope with high malpractice insurance.
"They need to give their commitment to us now, then we'll go back to work," Dr. Robert Caveney said.
Three state senators said later Thursday they would scrutinize Wise's bill during a Friday meeting with Insurance and Retirement Services Director Tom Susman.
"We want to understand the true details before we publicly endorse it," Sen. Andy McKenzie said. "If we do that, the doctors that we have spoken to have pledged that they will return to work immediately."
During Wednesday night's State of the State address, Wise asked lawmakers to endorse his plan to provide $20 million to help doctors meet escalating malpractice insurance premiums and extend state-provided coverage to qualified doctors. The proposal also would cap damage awards and impose further limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.
State Sen. Ed Bowman, one of the lawmakers who spoke to doctors involved in the walkout, said he has questions about some of the costs being drawn from the state's tobacco settlement fund. He spoke favorably about other parts of Wise's plan.
Since the walkout started Jan. 1, elective surgeries at four hospitals have been canceled and more than 30 patients have been transferred elsewhere in the state and Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Hospital administrators say the action is costing them thousands of dollars a day.


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Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. Utility Construction - Skilled Level in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. was established in 1982. Since that time we have established ourselves as one of the region's foremost authorities and the most-trusted resource in trenchless utility construction.
With more than 30 years in the industry, the employees of Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. have built our reputation by providing a highly professional service to our customers that is always focused on safety, quality, and service.
While meeting the needs of the customer, we maintain a friendly work environment and strive to offer the flexibility needed to create a healthy work-life balance. Our employees are our biggest asset.
We are currently seeking qualified individuals to fill both entry-level and skilled crew member positions on our team.
Benefits of joining our team!
Stability – Since established we have never laid off any employee. In fact, the majority of our employees have been with the company for more than 10 years.
Increased earning potential through overtime availability and incentives.
Continuing education via hands on and classroom opportunities.
Opportunity for advancement – most supervisory personnel have advanced from within.
Family owned and operated.
401(k) / profit-share plan.
Health, disability, vision, dental, and life insurance.
Cafeteria §125 Plan (Flex Plan).
Safety apparel allowance.
Incentive pay.
Vacation and holiday pay.
Rain/Snow pay.
We are a specialty trenchless utility contractor using methods such as auger boring, tunneling, directional drilling, pilot tube, micro-tunneling and pipe ramming. Successful teammates are a team player, reliable, self-starters, and responsible. As a member of our team your responsibilities will include:
Loading and transporting materials and equipment to various job site locations.
Assisting in job site setup.
Operating specialized construction equipment and vehicles, safely, productively, and according to company policy.
Maintaining and submitting accurate paperwork (time cards, logbooks, receipts, etc.).
Learning new skills and techniques on a continual basis and passing that on to others.
Mentoring new employees.
Working safely at all times.
CDL Class A OR B - Strongly Preferred - NOT required.
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Holiday tasks: Unplug, connect
Published 5:25 pm, Saturday, December 24, 2011
For these holy days, a reminder: Connectivity is not connectedness. In fact, more connectivity can make us less connected and can imperil our health, personal and social.
Because we are carnal beings. Through our bodies, we relate to the world. Ask anyone who is ill, physically disabled, injured, homeless or elderly.
Genuine connectedness demands our embodied presence to, with and for each other. Immersed in connectivity through our connecting technologies, however, we assume a counterfeit body — the screen. The more we live in our screens, the more unwittingly we vaporize our innate bodily rapport with our natural world.
In Christmases past, our family couch carried a certain magic, as when Dad had me feel underneath it for my first golf club, a nine-iron. Months later for my birthday, it was a seven-iron. And so on twice yearly until I had enough to venture onto the links. The best part of the game was simply feeling alive outdoors in sync with my body in a sensuous landscape.
There were no WiFi, Wii, laptops, iPods, iPads, smartphones or other screen-centric condiments. As kids, we played in physical places, like bike-riding to visit friends for a pick-up game of football. We engaged our palpable world. And though TV was a welcome reprieve, we knew that the screen was a screen, nothing more.
Things have changed. The screen is our altar, and simulation is our religion — so pervasive we don't even notice it. Whereas screens first offered a pale alternative to the real, they now replace the real. Even more insidious, as in philosopher Jean Baudrillard's "hyperreal," for many of us, screens outperform the real.
But with the screen, aren't we in better touch?
Ah, the all-too-forgiving touch metaphor. Cool tools to "stay in touch" can disconnect us from our senses through which we touch. Tethered to our screens, do we really see? Listen? Touch?
Our natural and social geography beckons us to silently converse through our senses, what anthropologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl calls our "participation" in the here-and-now. Yet inhabiting our screens, we live in some space without a place. Wherever we go, we'll never arrive.
Connectivity is not connectedness. In his insightful book "Hamlet's Blackberry," William Powers cites a Conde Nast Traveler magazine study of three reporters navigating the byzantine streets of Moscow. One had a Blackberry Bold and another had an iPhone. But the third with a simple guidebook fared the best. She personally interacted and engaged with the locals, face-to-face.
When screens monopolize our gaze, they replace others' embodied presence. Think of those near-collisions with someone texting, zombie-like.
When screens become our preferred reality, our safe womb, as chronic voyeurs we lose our bodily anchor and weaken proprioception, awareness of our own bodily orientation.
Nonetheless, according to global marketing firm McCann Worldgroup's April 2011 study of 7,000 young people, 53 percent of those ages 16 to 22 would rather lose their sense of smell than their connecting technologies (http://www.pcmag.com/article/print/264950).
Yet there is hope. In his "Unfriending Facebook" (The Spotlight, Aug. 18), Mark Guido, a junior at Voorheesville's Clayton A. Bouton High School, bravely offers us this challenge: In our Facebook world, where is our humane connecting? Face-to-face, we communicate in ways we can't screen-to-screen.
Marcel Proust inspires us, "The true journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having fresh eyes." For these holy days and beyond, here's the question: What are we not doing while we are on the screen?
As gifts to others and ourselves, first find time to unplug. Next, awaken your senses and discover what is around you. Then take a good long walk, without your screen. You'll feel the difference and be all the better for it.
Michael Brannigan is the Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Values at The College of Saint Rose. His email address is email@example.com.


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Release Notes: Many bugfixes. This release finally passes the standard filesystem tests: tiobench, bonnie, and bonnie++. There is a new, somewhat smarter chunk writer plugin, a new compression plugin for systems with LZO2.x (instead of LZO1.x), and a new configuration file format.
Release Notes: A new code base. New structure, new file format, plugins to increase flexibility and extensibility, lower memory requirements, etc.
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We are not having a cocktail hour but we still would like to incorporate a signature drink into our reception. Since there is such diversity in what our family drinks, it would be difficult to come up with a drink that everyone would enjoy.
The bride and groom get a champagne toast with their package and it is going to cost about another $175 to get champagne for the rest of the guests. None of our guests really enjoy champagne.
Would it be totally tacky to have the guests toast a signature "shot" rather than champagne? I was thinking of getting shot glasses as one of the wedding favors.
Or, should we go with the tradition of champagne, even though it really isn't enjoyed? Or, third option, toast to a signature drink, even though it might not be a drink everyone enjoys?
And I guess option four, can the guests toast with whatever beverage they have in hand??
Anyone have non-traditional toast ideas or should we just stick with tradition? Thank you!!
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Attention IPB Leaguers! This post is for you! (This post is also mostly recycled from last year; we're all about efficiency here at IPB.) By now you should have received an invite from Andrew to join either the Amazingleague or the Superleague. By now you should have registered your team. And by Thursday, September 24th — and this is the most important thing EVAH — you must exclude all of the players in your favorite team's conference. If you're a Blues fan (shudder), you must exclude all, and we mean all, players from Western Conference teams from your draft-eligble players list. If you're a Panthers fan (what, St. Louis isn't good enough for you?), you must exclude all, and we mean all, players from Eastern Conference teams from your draft-eligible players list. We mean business on this matter; this fantasy league is meant to be a fun educational experience, dammit! If you do not exclude all the necessary players from your draft-eligible list, and end up accidentally drafting players from the wrong conference, you will have to jettison them from your roster and then you'll be stuck choosing from the dregs of the correct conference that were left behind. Believe us, that is a fate worse than death.
Now you might be asking, "That's all well and good, but how do I exclude players, O Wise Ookies?" It's simple:
1: Click on the "Draft Central" tab.
2: Select "Pre Draft Rankings" at the top of the screen.
3: Above the list of "Default Player Rankings", there is a small link that reads "Edit My Rankings".
4: The following screen shows three columns — Excluded Players, List of Players, My Players. You must go through every single player in the List of Players box and move all players from the conference you're NOT drafting from, using the arrows between the boxes, to the Excluded Players box. This sounds like an unholy terror of a task, but really, it should take about 20 minutes. If you're slow. And if you're like Pookie, you'll ask every few minutes, "Columbus is in the WC, right?" And if you're like Schnookie, you'll spend the entire exercise saying, "Thank goodness I'm not drafting from the East. All these players suck!" The most important step of all, once you've moved all the players you aren't allowed to have on your team, is to hit the "SAVE" button at the top of the screen. Because goodness knows, you don't want to have to do that all again, do you?
The Amazing and SuperLeagues will have auto-drafts, which means that once you're done sorting your players, you're good to go. The draft order will be set at random by Yahoo, and then when the computer runs the draft for us, you'll be given the highest-ranked player available whenever your turn comes up. If you want to go with the pre-set rankings, that works. If you feel the pre-set rankings are totally bogus and don't give, say, The Iron Boar (ranked number 421 over all) enough respect, then you can set your own rankings in the "My Players" box. The draft will be two days from today (namely: Thursday, September 24), so get sorting!
We'll be providing updates on both the leagues here on IPB so you can enjoy all the fun and excitement from across the best fantasy league in all the land, but please take note of the message boards and smack talk features on Yahoo. Take note, and use prodigiously. The more swagger and smack talk the better, right? And taking the time to talk smack will help your bolster your self esteem as you face the unenviable task of taking on the juggernaut Craig Andersoxers and The Too Oranges. Starting today, you're all gunning for second place.


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BEIJING--Lenovo Group Ltd.'s (0922.HK) talks with International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -1.82% to buy part of the U.S. company's server business have broken down due to differences over price, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Despite weeks of negotiations, there remains a "huge gap" in terms of the valuation of IBM's x86 server unit, according to the person. Lenovo values the server unit below $2.5 billion, said the person.
"There was no agreement on valuation," said the person. "In terms of sitting around the table and working through the nuts and bolts of the transaction, that's not happening right now."
IBM doesn't break out server revenue, but Morgan Stanley estimates the x86 server business generated about $4.9 billion of the company's $15.4 billion in server sales last year.
Last month, Lenovo said it is in talks with an unnamed third party for a potential acquisition but it didn't disclose further details.
Some analysts said that the cessation of talks could be part of negotiation tactics by both sides, and a deal could still make sense and happen in the coming months.
IBM has struggled to compete in selling x86 servers against rivals Dell Inc. DELL and Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ, -1.32% in a market that has seen margins fall as volume has increased. IBM has a history of aggressively shifting its business mix to areas with better growth and higher profit margins.
For Lenovo, an acquisition would give it a significant portion of the low-end server market and enable it to better compete with H-P and Dell, rivals which it has outmaneuvered in the personal-computer market in recent years.
Analysts said Lenovo could use its strong channels and connections in China to sell servers into a market where the hardware is still in high demand. The purchase would also help Lenovo secure a new source of growth and profit as world-wide PC sales are plummeting and the company's fledgling smartphone business hasn't yet taken off outside China.
In 2012, IBM was the No. 3 player in the low-end server market after H-P and Dell, according to technology research firm Gartner.
Any foreign investment by a Chinese company in a U.S. company tied to critical technology or national security could be looked at by U.S. regulators. Lenovo's 2005 acquisition of IBM's PC unit came under scrutiny by the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment before the deal was approved.
The political environment is more pitched this time around. U.S. concerns over cyberattacks originating in China have become a sticking point between the countries. A U.S. congressional report last year concluded that Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. posed a national-security threat, saying their equipment could be used by Beijing to spy on Americans. The companies denied the allegations.
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Republicans who wish to run for county offices must file an application for a place on the Republican Party general primary ballot. Contact Fonty Carthel, Hale County Republican Party Chairman at 806-293-4922 or come by 2204 West Fifth in Plainview. Deadline for filing is 6 p.m. Dec. 14, 2015.
Because Kiwanis Club flags were not distributed on Veterans Day due to high winds, flags will be distributed on Pearl Harbor Day, Monday, Dec. 7.
Tulia's 2015 Christmas on the Square, sponsored by the Tulia Chamber of Commerce, will be held Saturday, Dec. 5. Breakfast with Santa, sponsored by the Rotary Club, is from 9-11 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church. The Tula Chamber's Annual Arts and Crafts Show is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center. There will be a free Christmas movie from 1-3 p.m. Pictures with Santa at the Depot from 3-4:30 p.m. will include hot chocolate and cookies. The Annual Light Parade starts at 7 p.m.
The Margaret Johnson Love Fund has been established at Centennial Bank. After working 33 years in the cafeteria at Highland School, the longtime Plainview resident recently underwent open heart surgery at Covenant Hospital in Lubbock.
Keep Plainview Beautiful and Hale County 4-H are partnering to promote recycling in Plainview. Children are invited to see the Trash-o-saurus at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, at the Walmart Supercenter and receive a gift sack containing fun recycling activities. Adults will receive a recycling and disposal guide, while supplies last. The America Recycles Day event is sponsored by the City of Plainview. For information, contact the City Landfill at 296-1152.
The annual Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Christmas Parade of Lights is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, in downtown Plainview. Judging is at 5:30 p.m. Theme is "A Panhandle Christmas." Entry forms are available from the Chamber at 1906 W. Fifth, and they can be faxed or email email@example.com. There's no entry fee.
The next meeting of the Literary Lunch Bunch is at noon Tuesday, Feb 2, in Van Howeling, Room 104 on the Wayland campus. Books to be discussed are "Clementine," by Sonia Purnell; "The Master & Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov; "Big Magic," Elizabeth Gilbert; and "Little Women," Louisa Alcott.
The American Legion Auxiliary is compiling Christmas boxes to send to servicemen and servicewomen from Hale and surrounding counties who are serving overseas. Anyone who knows the names of military personnel from the immediate area currently deployed in a foreign country is asked to contact Theta Vaughan at 806-296-9485 with their full name and service address before Dec. 1.
The first annual Lip Sync Battle to benefit Snack Pak 4 Kids will be held at 5 p.m. Dec. 12 in the PHS Auditorium. Admission is $5 for adults and a box of Pop-Tarts for children 18 and under. To participate in the Lip Sync Battle as either a group or solo, contact Val Lopez at 806-518-4125 or Dora Sanchez at 806-774-0641.
A 90th birthday recipient for Mary Lou "Mamalu" Applewhite of Lubbock, a longtime former resident of the Cotton Center/Hale Center area, will be held from 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, in the home of Morris and Iroma Applewhite of Hale Center. Friends are invited to bring or send her cards and notes.
The Pioneer Club in Hale Center is conducting a raffle for eight place settings of Christmas dishes by Spode. There are several nice serving pieces included with the set. The dishes were donated by a Pioneer Club member and proceeds will help fund the library. Tickets are available for $5 each or five for $20. The drawing will be held at 3 p.m. Dec. 4 at the library. You do not have to be present to win. Tickets can be purchased at the Hale Center library, or from any Pioneer Club member. The library is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You can make donations to fund the library by mailing them to P.O. Box 214, Hale Center, TX 79041
The annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner hosted by local churches, organizations and individuals is set for 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23, at the Ollie Liner Center. The dinner is free and open to the public. The evening will include a mass choir and a gospel presentation. While a number of churches and organizations already have indicated their interest in providing turkey, ham, dressing, gravy, corn, green beans, bread, tea and cobblers, all participation is welcomed and encouraged. Anyone wishing to provide any of the food items should contact Dr. Rick Shaw at Wayland, 291-3409, as soon as possible.
Applications for grants provided by Soroptimist International Plainview are now available. The Violet Richardson Award goes to a young woman, age 14-17 as of Dec. 1, 2015, and she must be engaged in a volunteer activity. Applications are due Dec. 1. For further information, contact Jeanie Pennell at 806-293-1484 or 806-292-6565.
"Thanks Vets and Welcome Home" is an RSVP (Ready to Serve Volunteer Program) project to let returning veterans know how much their service to our country is appreciated. A resource notebook in a gift basket will be presented to veterans returning to live in the Floyd, Hale or Lamb counties. Call RSVP at 806-291-1224 or come by 825 Austin in Plainview.
South Plains College Plainview Center, 1920 W. 24th St., offers courses/programs in academic transfer (core curriculum courses), alternative energy (including wind energy), automotive technology, cosmetology, vocational nursing and welding technology. Spring registration began Nov. 12. If you are interested in admissions/program info or want to schedule a financial aid appointment, call 296-9611, ext. 4302 or 4304.
South Plains College Cosmetology program is accepting applications for the spring 2016 semester. Interested students must be admitted to the college, apply for financial aid, take Cosmetology entrance exam, interview with program director, and attend Cosmetology orientation. Call 806-716-4302/4304 for more information and for test dates.
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At the Farber Research Foundation Professor Steiner and his aide, Christopher Mitchell, succeed in disintegrating objects into energy and reassembling them elsewhere through laser power; a similar experiment on a live guinea pig, however, makes the reassembled animal electrically charged. Dr. Pat Hill, a female associate, helps correct the miscalculation, and Steiner decides to demonstrate his discovery for Professor Lembach, an important visiting scientist. Meanwhile, the head of the foundation, Dr. Blanchard, is being blackmailed into sabotaging Steiner's equipment by Latham, an outsider who wants to take credit for the study. The experiment fails again, and Steiner decides to perform the test on himself in an attempt to vindicate his theories. Jealous of Mitchell, who has fallen in love with Hill, Steiner forces his secretary, Sheila Anderson, to assist him. He is initially successful in projecting himself from one room to another but emerges from the experiment as an electrically charged and facially disfigured monster. After Steiner kills several people, including Blanchard, Hill tries to persuade him to reverse the experiment in the hope that he can change back into a human being. Instead, the crazed scientist chooses to destroy both himself and his equipment.


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As chief executive of Rusal, the world's biggest aluminium producer, he has a ringside view of what is going on in the commodity markets and the turmoils of his own sector.
Last month mining giant Rio Tinto waved goodbye to its chief executive Tom Albanese, as it wrote another $10bn (£6.4bn) to $11bn off its aluminium assets.
It was a reminder, not that it was needed, of the continuing pain afflicting the aluminium sector, blighted with overcapacity and rising energy costs – a particular headache for such an energy-intensive industry.
However, Mr Deripaska argues that the aluminium prices will climb higher than expected this year, contradicting those who take a more negative view.
"They are wrong," he said during a interview with the Telegraph at Davos. "It's the wrong sentiment. The market is very strong in terms of demand, with 7pc growth for the last five years."
Prices, he had to acknowledge, have not kept up because of "too much capacity" among producers.
As they have turned out more of the metal, the latest figures from the International Aluminium Institute show that global production in December hit an all-time record of 45.55m tonnes, on an annualised basis.
Mr Deripaska said: "We had a time when the high prices in aluminium attracted so many players into the industry and that's why they built a lot of capacity ... they had pressure from the banks to keep this going."
In response to this excess of supply, he said, Rusal has completed an "investment programme, we restructured a lot of our capacity, we mothballed, we optimised output, we carried out very rational output planning for the next three years."
Still, he would argue that the activity of financial players in the market masks a tighter supply of the metal. People who want to buy it in physical form have to pay a "ridiculous premium, which we have not seen in 20 years", he noted.
Certainly, the complaints from users about the queues to get metal out of warehouses – often controlled by the banks active in the market – are legion.
Simply, there is money to be made for some from locking the metal up to collect dust in giant sheds. In a typical arrangement, a bank or commodity trader buys metal, sells it forward at a profit and strikes a warehouse deal to store it cheaply away from the market.
"If you write off the metal tied into different warehouse and financial deals, you will see there is no metal available," Mr Deripaska said. "We have a very narrow [supply-demand] balance which in two years will turn into a deficit.
"This stock, which seems so high and creates this wrong analysis, is actually not available.
"This year the price will move much more higher than people predict. I don't want to guess [where], I just try to indicate very clearly ... that the price mechanism is very artificial."
Meanwhile, the actual consumers of the metal, he said, have become very cautious financially, avoiding hedging – entering into trades to protect their exposure – around their own activities.
"In reality they expose themselves to higher risk. In '13, '14, [the price] will be significantly higher," he said. "This is something that we try to warn our customers: go to a long-term contract, try to define a hedging strategy. Don't look at the current forward [price] curve which is highly affected by financial players."
How far is this a fair analysis? After all, you would not expect a metals magnate to talk down his price.
Still, if not all agree with his forecast of a price climb, the rest of what he says is echoed across the market – which analysts at HSBC sum up as having "a moderate surplus, but significant excess capacity and excess inventory".
Don't underestimate the impact financial players can have in a commodity market, in other words. ER
Tarnished Is this the beginning of the end of a golden era for gold bugs?
With stock markets soaring and risk appetite increasing, Credit Suisse has now turned even more bearish on gold.
On Friday, analysts at the investment bank declared that this year is "the beginning of the end of an era" for gold bugs.
At the start of January, the Swiss broker cut its 2013 price target on the metal by 5pc to $1,740 an ounce. Analyst Tom Kendall declared that "the gold cycle is likely to peak this year" as he predicted a fall starting in the third quarter.
Mr Kendall now believes that gold prices will start falling sooner than he expected just one month ago. "With global growth now improving and inflation expectations contained, we feel that downside risks are building for gold," Mr Kendall argued. "It looks increasingly likely that the 2011 high will prove to have been the peak for the dollar gold price in this cycle, and that the 'beginning of the end' of the current golden era comes sooner than the third quarter we forecast in January."
However, US billionaire investor Paul Singer disagrees. "We envision an environment, perhaps not too far away, in which the need to own something 'real' will be transcendent in investors' minds, and the present lack of investor sponsorship of gold will bring forth a sharp rally," Elliott Management, his $21bn (£13bn) hedge fund said in its fourth quarter report. GW
Brent crude
Oil prices gained last week with the price of Brent crude hitting its highest level since October at around $117 a barrel, "reflecting renewed optimism about economic growth, US dollar weakness and the Fed's pledge to maintain its asset purchase program," HSBC commodity analyst Michael Lewis said.
Joe Conlan, an energy analyst at energy consultants Inenco, said that last week's surprise fall in US GDP is not a worry for oil bulls. "When you look behind the data, especially at the 22pc drop in military spending and the US fiscal cliff, it should not come as a shock or a cause for alarm," Mr Conlan said. He thinks Brent crude prices could hit $120 a barrel this week. GW


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What is a Fellowship?
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Reuters Market Eye - Caution is likely to prevail in shares ahead of the September-quarter earnings from Infosys Ltd(INFY.NS) on October 11, which will kick off the results reporting season for blue chips.
Traders say weakening economic growth and still high inflation could have weighed on corporate earnings.
India is set to report industrial output data for August on Friday.
Investors will also be eyeing market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) of India, which holds its quarterly board meeting on Saturday.
India's Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, is visiting the United States on October 8-October 14, to attend the G20 Finance Ministers' and Central Bank Governors' Deputies meeting in Washington and the World Bank/IMF's annual meeting.
Sat: SEBI board meeting Wed: India's finance minister to attend G20 and World Bank meetings
Thurs: Trade data for September (tentative) Fri: Infosys July-Sept earnings
India's industrial output data for August (1200 GMT)
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I'm so happy my bridal shower was today! It was a complete surprise! It was small but fun and exactly what I would have wanted if I planned it myself. I just had to make a post about it cause I feel so happy and loved that so many people would come out just for me :-)
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Shia LaBeouf's first dalliance in the spotlight was a world away from Hollywood — he started out as a stand-up comic when he was just 10 years old.
The actor followed in the footsteps of his grandmother and started working the adult comedy circuit before hitting the big-time on the Disney channel.
But LaBeouf left audiences aghast with his bizarre routine, when he started cracking blue jokes about his parents' sex-life.
He tells Britain's The Guardian newspaper, "My act was like, 'Yeah, I walked in on my mom and dad screwing today … and you go from there, building up such a disgustingly accurate description that the audience would start thinking that it was insane what they were listening to — this little kid they can't yell back at, and who can only legally perform if all the alcoholic drinks are taken off the tables.
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Ryan Malone scored in the 11th round of a shootout, and the Tampa Bay Lightning bounced back from giving up a goal late in the third period to beat the New York Rangers 4-3 on Thursday night.
Rangers rookie Derek Stepan scored for the third straight game to tie it with 8:42 left in regulation, but New York couldn't finish the comeback. The shootout was tied 2-2 after three rounds, and the next 15 shooters were denied until Malone won it with a drive that caromed in off the post.
The Rangers held a 17-7 shots advantage in the third period, but were outshot 3-0 in overtime.
Steven Stamkos scored his 27th goal, and Martin St. Louis added a goal and assist for the Lightning, who won for the fifth win in six games.
Stamkos, who along with St. Louis was kept off the score sheet in Wednesday night's 2-1 overtime loss at the New York Islanders, quickly regained his scoring touch by netting his sixth goal in eight games. St. Louis put Tampa Bay ahead 1-0 just 2 minutes in and helped set up Stamkos' tying goal late in the first period.
Vincent Lecavalier put the Lightning back ahead in the second. Tampa Bay has earned at least a point in seven straight games (5-0-2). Dan Ellis, who made 34 saves, has started three straight games since fellow goalie Mike Smith injured a knee.
Ruslan Fedotenko and Alex Frolov scored 12 seconds apart in the first to give the Rangers a brief lead and prompt Tampa Bay coach Guy Boucher to burn his lone timeout. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 21 shots for the Rangers, who were missing top-line forward Marian Gaborik because of a groin injury.
The Rangers, playing for the first time since a 4-1 loss at Philadelphia on Saturday, have dropped two in a row (0-1-1) following a three-game winning streak.
St. Louis did all the work himself on the Lightning's first goal. He stole the puck in the neutral zone and skated in alone to score his 14th.
Fedotenko got that one back at 11:16, and Frolov cleaned up a rebound of Artem Anisimov's shot in front to make it 2-1 at 11:28.
The Rangers then gave up the next two goals to relinquish the lead.
Stamkos got the comeback started late in the first when St. Louis turned a turnover by defenseman Dan Girardi into a goal. St. Louis got the puck in the left circle and made a slick pass behind his back to Stamkos, who zipped a shot past Lundqvist to make it 2-2 with 1:06 left in the period.
Girardi took a tripping penalty 26 seconds into the second, but after the Rangers killed it, they controlled the puck for large stretches. Despite the puck possession and pressure in the Lightning end — including a prime, short-handed chance — the Rangers couldn't go back in front.
The Lightning grabbed a 3-2 lead with 5:18 remaining in the second. Pavel Kubina slid the puck from the right corner along the goal line to Lecavalier, who used his quick stick to deflect it inside the right post for his fourth goal on Tampa Bay's fourth shot of the frame.
NOTES: The Rangers outshot the Lightning 10-7 in each of the first two periods. ... Lecavalier scored his first goal in five games after missing 15 because of a broken right hand. ... St. Louis has four goals and 10 assists in his last nine games. ... Rangers LW Mats Zuccarello, recalled from Connecticut of the AHL on Wednesday, made his NHL debut in place of Gaborik. New York coach John Tortorella said he expects Gaborik to play Monday against the New York Islanders.


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Calgary Saddledome affected by major flooding in Alberta (Photos)
Severe flooding has hit the Province of Alberta and roughly 75,000 people have been forced to evacuate the area. One of the areas hit included the Saddledome, home of the Calgary Flames.
Estimates of the potential damages this flood has caused isn't being considered right now as both the city and province focus on the current state of emergency.
About 600 soldiers have been deployed in southern Alberta and another that size is expected to be dispatched by noon.
Earlier in the morning, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said the worst was yet to come, as the Bow River waters continued to rise significantly during Friday's early hours.
Another 30-35% rise was expected Friday morning by 6 a.m. before the river reached its peak.
The Elbow River was already believed to have reached its peak.
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Via Glenn Street, here's a photo of the water making its way down a ramp toward the floor of the arena:
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This will be our first Christmas with Bandit, so we weren't sure how he'd react to a tree. While he did want to eat one of our squirrel-shaped ornaments, he doesn't seem to have noticed the balsam fir in our living room.
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Cascade Regional Park Mission Reviews
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Oct 13, 2007
Cascade Falls Regional Park is 9.5 hectares in size and is located in the outskirts of the Mission area. The Park's main attraction, Cascade Falls, drops an impressive 30 metres into a large pool. From the upper falls, Cascade Creek runs a series of smaller falls within a deeply incised gorge as it drops 18 metres of elevation to the valley floor. There is a smaller water fall a short ways down from the upper falls, with a deep pool of cool green glacier water. This is where the majority of the public swim. I found it easiest to trek over the rocks along the creek to get to the lower falls.
To swim in the upper pool you have to climb over the rocks of the lower falls, so make sure you don't bring anything you don't want to drop in the waters below. Swimming, diving and cliff jumping are at your own risk….so just be careful! The lower pool is deep enough to jump off the high rocks above it, but make sure you jump far enough out to clear the rocks of the cliff.
The creek is lined with rocks, so have a seat and enjoy the sounds of the rushing water. A few picnic tables are around the park and are great for a quick break or to stop for lunch.
The trails are easy to find and easy to follow, and don't take long to hike if you walk fast. Dogs are allowed but must be on a leash at all times. With portions that include stairs and a lookout platform at the Main falls there are many wonderful things to enjoy at Cascade park.
There are a few signs posted that guide you towards the falls as you leave Mission, but as you get closer the signs are almost non-existant, so bring an easy to follow map along just in case. During the summer there are Police road blocks checking for alcohol, but don't be intimidates….I thought I had passed the falls so I asked one friendly officer for directions.
Hours of Operation:
The park is open year round. The parking lot is closed from October to May. The gate is open from June to September, 8 AM - 8 PM daily. You can park outside the gate and walk in when the gate is closed.
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denature is a perl program that attempts to convert an HTML page into XSL-FO which it
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Local communities are microcosms of the global context. CISV's local programmes use the same principles as its international programmes to connect people in a meaningful way with their local communities.
Mosaic is a project based programme which empowers individuals and chapters to be agents of change, reach out, and involve as many people as possible. Each project is a separate CISV experience that relates to a local need and interest and involves a different target group. It does not have to be in a camp setting, as with many CISV programmes, but is designed according to the needs and abilities of the CISV chapter. Using the three phase educational approach of discover, understand and create, local members develop projects in conjunction with like minded organizations or community groups. The aim is to create an authentic learning experience for participants and deliver a benefit to the wider community.
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Registration for the National Bike Summit officially opens on Monday, October 31 - which just happens to be Halloween, so be prepared for a treat if you register early! Also, please share our short National Bike Summit video with your club, colleagues and friends so they can see why the National Bike Summit is a must-attend event.
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The Cross Keys Hotel
The Cross keys is a contemporary modern hotel located just off the A171 and is surrounded by beautiful countryside with views of the wonderful Roseberry Topping. The hotel is just a 10 minute drive from Middlesbrough Town centre, and provides the perfect stop over for guests travelling to Whitby, Scarborough, and Bridlington.
The hotel has 20 en suite bedrooms and has variety of room types such as family rooms and twin bedded rooms. All rooms have flat screen digital TV's, unlimited free WIFI, work desk and lamp, hairdryer with tea and coffee making facilities. Irons and iron boards are available upon request.
The hotel has a fully licensed restaurant bar offering an extensive quality menu, meals are served all throughout the day and evening. Breakfast is served daily in the restaurant and there is ample free onsite car parking.
Take a little time out at the Cross Keys Hotel, in the pretty market town of Guisborough. You'll be well placed for business and leisure destinations around Middlesbrough, as well as exploring the stunning scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. Explore the ruins of Guisborough Abbey. Sample some proper fish and chips at Whitby. Bag a bargain at Cleveland Retail Park, or travel in style on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Then set a course for a tasty meal in our restaurant and a great night's sleep in your extra-comfy bed.


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