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	<description>Life as an archaeology PhD student studying and traveling in the Middle East</description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,400 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=932&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the Baq&#8217;ah Valley</title>
		<link>http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/exploring-the-baqah-valley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Jordan archaeology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/?p=926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for not posting more frequently, but my time over the last few weeks has consisted of scanning pottery for 10-12 hours.  My wife and kids flew back to the States at the end of August.  So now all I do is scan every day.  Angela&#8217;s brother had come out to tour around Jordan so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=926&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy Football</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citadel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy football]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really love playing fantasy football and planned on only playing in one league this year.  Somehow I am now in 3 leagues, two of which are drafting on the same day.  Being in Jordan I will have very little time for my teams this year, but I thought I would pay homage to my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=923&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Georeferencing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[georeference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gis arcmap]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to highlight some of the work I did for the last map from my previous post. One of my goals when doing the survey work was to get enough high quality photographs and corresponding GPS points to be able to georeference the pictures in Arcmap.  Georeferencing is the process of aligning spatial data [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=917&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fellowship Update</title>
		<link>http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/fellowship-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/?p=911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been extremely busy over the last couple weeks.  I finished my survey work, scanned material in the Salt Museum, worked on getting my project report in to the DOAJ, and worked on my ACOR fellow&#8217;s lecture.  All of this is now done and its back to scanning. During the last few weeks we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=911&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Work Complete</title>
		<link>http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/survey-work-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[dissertation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boom camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital camera]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I completed my survey work at Safut.  With the help of my wife Angela (and kids) and James (a fellow fellow) we successfully took pictures of areas A, B, C, and L using a boom camera setup. We took off from ACOR around 6AM and finished taking pictures around 1PM.  I had to take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=904&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Work</title>
		<link>http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/survey-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/?p=901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday I setup a new grid at Safut using the GPS RTK system we use at Tall Jalul.  Saturday I planned on walking the site and gathering points to make a new topographic map, but the GPS rover unit would not communicate with the base station.  I spent four hours trying to fix it.  Eventually, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=901&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Update</title>
		<link>http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/quick-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jordan archaeology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am between touring around with my parents and sister, and beginning my survey work on Friday so there has been no time for blogging.  Just wanted to stop by and give a quick update. My parents and sister flew in for 8 days and we spent the time touring all over Jordan, from Jerash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=896&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lead Codices Redux</title>
		<link>http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/lead-codices-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I received a text from one of my Jordanian friends &#8220;I was wondering if you would be interested in looking at a really old Bible looking book my uncle came across.&#8221;  I was intrigued and told him I would be happy to take a look.  He emailed me a picture and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=890&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dissertation Weekly #10</title>
		<link>http://ochesnut.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/dissertation-weekly-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrews University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past two weeks have been void of writing.  The time has been spent scanning and drawing pottery full time.  I&#8217;m afraid the remainder of my time here might take that form.  However there are still plenty of sentences to pick from, so here we go. The recording system used by the Tell Safut Project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ochesnut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3372300&amp;post=887&amp;subd=ochesnut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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