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New year: it's the time for re-invention, re-discovery and resolutions. One of our resolutions is always to do more, learn more, see more. What better time than the New Year to take stock, to reflect, and to look forward. This is what we, at London Art Studies, are looking forward to in London in 2016.
Marlene was born in South Africa at a time of apartheid and censorship, where simply a picture of Nelson Mandela was considered to be so dangerous that it was banned. This deep and profound relationship between banning an image and infusing it with power and meaning must have made an impact on Marlene as it has shaped her work.
There have been some fantastic art exhibitions this year and the popularity of box office draws such as Rembrandt and Matisse warms the heart. However as I compiled this list, I couldn't help but notice that the list is dominated by white men - a sore reminder that diversity and representation remains a challenge that must be addressed...
October is a busy time for art lovers (and haters) in London, as hundreds of shows and events happen at more-or-less the same time and a super human effort is needed to see even a small percentage of them. I tried that last year; it was just too much. This year I have seen less but enjoyed it more. My highlights are below...
The problem with Emin's statements is that they propagate damaging myths: about what it is to be an artist, a mother, a woman. And as Virginia Woolf tells us, it far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. It's like looking for nits, or searching for proof for jealousy: resolution can only be reached by discovering what we don't want to be true and in the absence of that we are condemned to continue the search.
In this first ever retrospective of Kazimir Malevich's work for almost 25 years, the Tate Modern has brought together a stunning collection of his work that offers not just an expansive view of this influential Russian artist's career - but also puts into context how radical and revolutionary Malevich was.
Tate Modern's major exhibition, Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, is the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist's paper cut-outs. It brings together around 130 works, many seen together for the first time, in a ground-breaking reassessment of Matisse's colourful and innovative final works.


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Getting ready for the Patriots
The Steelers are shaking off the effects of a few days off today as coach Mike Tomlin just finished his weekly confab with the media to discuss this week's New England game. We'll have a full report from Ed Bouchette in Wednesday's P-G as well as online. And we'll have our weekly video from Tomlin's press conference up later today.
Some highlights from Tomlin:
On the injury front, Brett Keisel has an MCL sprain in a knee and is out this week and at least one more week. This was reported today by Gerry Dulac, but Tomlin confirmed that today. CB Bryant McFadden, who has missed the last five games with a broken forearm is questionable for this week. RB Willie Parker is questionable with a right knee problem. CB Deshea Townsend continues to be doubtful and OT Marvel Smith remains out with a lower back problem. WR Santonio Holmes, who sustained a concussion in the Cincinnati game on Thursday, should be good to go, though Tomlin said they'd monitor the situation all week.
On the change back to punter Mitch Berger, who was cut two weeks ago for Paul Ernster, who was just cut after a poor performance vs. Cincinnati: The punting "was not up to snuff," Tomlin said. "It's good to have Mitch back." Berger had injured hamstrings, which led to a couple of poor performances, before his being released. Tomlin did not answer a question about if the hamstring injuries were still affecting Berger.
On the upcoming schedule: "I don't care about the schedule in March and I don't care about it now. We play New England this week, that's what we're concentrating on."
This begins the tough stretch for the Steelers, with the next four games against playoff contenders. There are only five games left in the season and only the finale on Dec. 28 vs. Cleveland looks like a break in the schedule. Sunday's opponent, New England, looks like it hasn't skipped a beat with Matt Cassel at QB. He torched the Dolphins last week for 415 yards and three touchdowns. He ran for a TD, too. That's two weeks in a row he's passed for 400-plus yards. Make no mistake, the Patriots offense is nearly as good as in years past. Of course they are even better with Tom Brady at the helm, but it looks as though Cassel has them humming pretty good right now at 7-4. When you have guys like WRs Randy Moss and Wes Welker, as well as a TE as talented as Ben Watson, you are going to move the ball through the air. Tomlin said those guys would get open against single coverage and the key would be how well the Steelers played "team defense" on Sunday.
On the ground, Kevin Faulk leads the Patriots ground game, which is No. 7 in the NFL.
If the Steelers are to make some hay in Foxboro, then the offense will have to continue to improve. We'll find out how much carried over from the 27-10 defeat of the Bengals last Thursday night. If the Patriots have a weak spot, it's the defense. It's not nearly what it has been the last few years. The Steelers offense needs some sustained drives and touchdowns, not field goals, to build a lead and keep the Pats' offense off the field.
It should be a marquee game in the NFL this week. So it's time for you to weigh in on this blog with your opinions. What do you see as the keys for this week's game?

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As for the older students, the association said their attention spans are limited in the classroom due to overexposure to technology. They further claimed that these students can't implement the skills they read in their textbooks, but have exceptional technical skills when it comes to consumer electronics.
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High Performance Concrete Pavements Project Summary
Chapter 10. IOWA 1 (a and b) (Highway 5, Carlisle, and US 30, Carroll)
The Iowa Department of Transportation's (DOT's) first TE-30 project consists of an evaluation of the effect of concrete mixing time on several critical plastic and hardened concrete properties. This investigation was conducted using several different mix designs for pavements constructed at two different sites: Iowa Highway 5 near Carlisle and US 30 near Carroll (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). The locations of these sites are shown in Figure 31.
Figure 31. Location of IA 1 projects.
Study Objectives
The issue of mixing time has become a concern to the Iowa DOT as several plant manufacturers have claimed consistent and sufficient mixing in as short as 30 seconds (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). Therefore, the primary goal of this research project is to investigate the effect of concrete mixing time on the resultant air content, air distribution, consolidation, and workability of concrete used for pavement construction (Cable 1998). Secondary objectives include the evaluation of a contractor-designed concrete mix and the evaluation of an alternative mixer.
Project Design and Layout
The investigation of mixing time on concrete properties was conducted at both the Carlisle and Carroll test sites. Nominal mixing times of 30, 45, 60, and 90 seconds were selected for evaluation, and two different mix designs were used: a standard mix developed by the Iowa DOT and a contractor-developed mix (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). No information on the exact composition of the two mixes is available, but the contractor mix reportedly is a "Shilstone" mix containing a uniformly graded aggregate.
Two different mixers were also employed in the study. A standard 7.65 m3 (10 yd3) drum mixer was used at the Carlisle project, whereas a modified drum mixer employing rotation of blades within the drum was used at the Carroll project (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). The same contractor was employed for the construction of each paving project. The experimental design matrix for this study is shown in Table 14.
|Mixing Time (seconds)
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|Iowa DOT Mix
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State Monitoring Activities
To achieve the objectives of this project, the Iowa DOT and the Iowa State University jointly participated in the testing and monitoring of the concrete mixing and paving activities. The paving was performed in the summer of 1996.
The testing methods in ASTM C 94 were used in this study to determine the significance of the mixing time on the consistency of the concrete mix delivered and placed on grade (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). ASTM C 94 is designed to check the consistency of the material at the beginning and near the end of the truck discharge. Using this standard, measurements of slump, unit weight, air content, retained coarse aggregate, and compressive strength were obtained and used to compare the consistency of the mix at different points of delivery (Cable and McDaniel 1998a).
At both the Carlisle and Carroll sites, the tests listed in Table 15 were conducted for each combination of mixing time and mix design included in the investigation. For the slump, unit weight, plastic air content, and wash tests, samples were obtained from three different locations for the same load of material: the center of the haul truck, the side of the haul truck, and on grade in front of the paver (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). Compressive testing of cylinders and cores was performed on concrete retrieved from the same batch as for the slump, unit weight, air content, and wash tests (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). Air void distribution testing was conducted on hardened concrete cores also taken from the same batch (Cable and McDaniel 1998a).
The haul trucks to be tested were selected at random at approximately ½- to 1-hour increments (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). Trucks were selected for testing only when the paver and plant were in continuous operation to ensure representative samples. Sufficient concrete was obtained from each truck to provide for tests of slump, unit weight, air content, and for the preparation of cylinders for compressive testing (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). Upon completion of the unit weight test, the material in the unit weight bucket was washed through a sieve to remove all fines and cement, and then the retained coarse aggregate was weighed and compared to the unit weight and the expected weight of coarse aggregate in the unit weight bucket (Cable and McDaniel 1998a).
|Conducted in accordance with ASTM C143
|Center of truck
Side of truck
On grade in front of paver
|PCC unit weight
|Conducted in accordance with ASTM C138
|Center of truck
Side of truck
On grade in front of paver
|Air content (plastic concrete)
|Conducted in accordance with ASTM C231
|Center of truck
Side of truck
On grade in front of paver
|Wash test
|Conducted in accordance with ASTM C94
|Center of truck
Side of truck
On grade in front of paver
|Compressive strength (cylinders)
|Conducted in accordance with ASTM C42
|Cylinders cast from each specific batch
|Compressive strength (cores)
|Conducted in accordance with ASTM C42
|Cores obtained from known batch locations
|Air void distribution (cores)
|Measured using low-vacuum electron microscope and computer imaging analysis
|Cores obtained behind the paver
The approximate location of a sampled batch of concrete in the pavement was recorded during the paving operation for later coring operations (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). Core sampling was conducted at the noted locations after the concrete had reached a strength of 3.4 MPa (500 lbf/in2).
The instruments used for the air void analysis of hardened concrete cores were a Hitachi 2460 N low-vacuum scanning electron microscope, a Tetra back-scattered electron detector, Deben stage automation, and an Oxford Instrument ISIS x-ray analysis system (Cable and McDaniel 1998a). Samples were prepared from the cores, and special software was used to determine the area and size of the air voids in each image (Cable and McDaniel 1998a).
No further monitoring or reporting is anticipated. This project has now been completed.
Extensive statistical analyses were conducted on the data collected from each test site. Comparisons of key concrete properties (slump, unit weight, air content, and compressive strength) were made between testing location (side, center, or on grade) and between the various mixing times (30, 45, 60, and 90 seconds). Based on these analyses, the following general conclusions were drawn (Cable 1998; Cable and McDaniel 1998a):
- Dump-truck-type hauling units do not significantly change the quality of the material being delivered to the paver and should continue to be allowed in addition to agitator-type hauling vehicles.
- Mixing times of 60 seconds or greater do have a positive influence on the physical characteristics of the concrete product and should be retained as the minimum mixing time for all mixer types.
- Mixing times did not significantly affect the hardened air content or distribution for the Iowa DOT mix designs, but the data showed conflicting results for the contractor-designed mix. This may be the result of a different matrix of coarse and fine aggregates in the contractor mix. Therefore, it is recommended that contractor mix designs should be thoroughly laboratory tested prior to use in the field to determine the impact of admixtures and differences in aggregate/cement matrix on the physical performance characteristics of the mix.
- Mixing times of less than 60 seconds should be allowed only when steps have been taken to change the mixing process to ensure coating of all aggregates prior to mixer discharge into the hauling unit.
- Visual examination of the mix at the Carlisle site (30- and 45-second mixing times) indicated visible sand seams (uncoated sand particles) in the discharged material. The concrete produced under this set of mixing conditions was also noted to be very difficult to place and finish.
Points of Contact
Jim Cable
Iowa State University
Department of Civil and
Construction Engineering
378 Town Engineering Building
Ames, IA 50011
(515) 294-2862
Mark Dunn
Iowa Department of Transportation
800 Lincoln Way
Ames, IA 50011
(515) 239-1111
Cable, J. K. 1998. "Evaluation of Mix Time on Concrete Consistency and Consolidation." Proceedings, Crossroads 2000 Conference, Ames, IA.
Cable, J. K., and L. L. McDaniel. 1998a. Effect of Mix Times on PCC Properties. Iowa DOT Project HR-1066. Iowa Department of Transportation, Ames.


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A lot of familiar faces don't make the cut
It's getting down to the wire on "So You Think You Can Dance." The finalists are practicing, the judges are putting on their frowny faces, everyone is dreading the blood bath known as contemporary. This is always a little gut wrenching, so I hope you aren't rooting for anyone in particular at this point. I always get a little excited about a dancer only to see them doing the walk of shame out of the theater, sobbing and blowing their nose into their tank top. It's no fun for either one of us.
Our judges are Robin Antin, Adam Shankman, Debbie Allen, Tyce Diorio (Toasty!), Mary Murphy and Nigel Lythgoe. In three days, they will face five choreographed routines consisting of hip hop, Broadway, ballroom, a group dance and finally contemporary. Otherwise known as blood bath, but that doesn't have a very nice ring to it.
Anyway, we get straight to business and see some solo dances. Iveta Lukosiute of New York has been sent home twice before making the top twenty. So, she decides to dress up as a naughty policewoman, intent on dragging Nigel to jail. She's good. They've sent her home twice? Crazy!
Marlon Pelayo of Los Angeles is wearing a homemade unitard. I think the judges are having a hard time getting past the outfit. Actually, I'm having a hard time getting past the outfit. It's uuuuugly. All I can see is weird little blobs and circles. Oh, Marlon, you don't have to be wacky at this stage in the game.
Marlon is called to the stage, and surprise surprise, he's getting cut. Debbie tells Marlon he needs to wear pants. Marlon is crushed. And mad. He was trying to be brave! Ugly clothing usually implies you have no taste, Marlon, but okay. Iveta is going to the next round.
Wadi Jones is a fearless B-boy from Ossining, New York who's worked on a new flip. Wowza. Literally, wowza. He is amazing. He says top twenty to me. The sisters Sasha and Natalia Mallory of Bakersfield, California are the last dancers of the day. They do another dance together, which is impressive but I think Natalia usually suffers a bit in comparison to her sister though I have to say, she keeps up, too. But it doesn't matter. They're on the next round.
The body count is down to 114. 46 were cut in the solo rounds. Ouch! Hip hop is next. Tabitha and Napoleon Dumo will be showing the kids a routine.
Chyna Smith from Idaho is going to do her best to be street. And now an injury! Wadi is having crippling leg pain and has to wait a bit to perform. I think Advil should sponsor this competition. Chyna blows the hip hop routine, but the judges tell her she can have a second chance. But Hero McCrae and Patsy Anne Miller do not get another chance. What? See what I mean about getting invested in dancers? Also axed are Mary Kate Sheehan, Kristin Dobson and Princess Lockeroo. Nooo!
19 more dancers get the boot during hip hop. But the good news is that Wadi, who shakes off his pain and performs, does not. Chyna and Iveta, who both get a second chance to dance, also make it through.
Day two kicks off with Broadway. Adam has to run to the hospital, so Jason Gilkison fills in. Broadway seems pretty strong for our contestants. Jordan Cassanova, Wadi, Chyna, Natalia and Sasha all make the cut.
And now we get introduced to two new-but-not-so-new dancers. Rebecca has been to Vegas four times. She's not a quitter, that's for sure. Jeremiah blanked during the contemporary round of Vegas in season four and got cut, in part for throwing a very, very small hissy fit (honestly, I don't know why Mia Michaels wasn't okay with him stomping his feet, if that's all he did). It's redemption time… but not quite. Debbie Allen says Jeremiah's timing was off. But he scrapes through. Rebecca, on the other hand, gets shot down. She asks to dance for her life. Toasty says she should have torn up the floor and he needs her to be a pro. She tries wooing the judges with a tale of how hard her life is and how she can't afford lessons, but Nigel just tells her to keep trying. Damn! I know, they have to cut people, but that was awful. Poor thing.
14 more dancers cut during Broadway.
Then, it's on to ballroom. Gilikson is teaching the kids a jive. All the girls have bleeding feet. Welcome to the big time, ladies!
Natalia and her partner Josh Williams are up first. She's too big for the guy. Who thought this was a good idea? I think the judges are excited they got through it, but they're going to make them both do it again with different partners. Duh. Sasha's up next, and so is Ryan Ramirez.
Sasha is knocked for dancing with her knees open. But she gets a pass. And so does the rest of the group, including Ryan.
At 8 p.m. Natalia and her new partner Bryce are up for her second dance. Much better. She wasn't bad the first time, anyway, but still, it's just nicer to see her dance with someone who's size appropriate. I think the judges really, really want her in the top twenty. And they should. She's good plus she's cute plus she's an inspiration to every not-skinny girl in America. Nigel thinks she brought joy to the routine. She's moving on.
Jeanine's sister Alexis Mason of Miami has sailed through – until now. Tyce thinks she lacks maturity. She's allowed to dance for her life.
She has beautiful technique, but yeah, not much expression. Nigel thinks she's immature. He says no. Mary says yes. Tyce says yes. Debbie says she's a diamond in the rough and says yes. She stays.
We're down to 39 guys and 35 girls. Group dance! Groups of 4 or 5 get a CD at random and must choreograph a routine. While they're sleep deprived, have bleeding feet and probably haven't eaten. Oh, and it's 11 p.m.
As one girl says, "deliria" is kicking in! Clearly
The next morning, Natalia is feeling weak and has chills. Her group won't perform without her. Or at least that's what they say. I'm pretty sure they'll find it in themselves to dance if they have to.
Wadi's group is up first. They love one another, they got the whole routine ironed out in about two hours and, hello, it's good! The judges think it may have been the best group dance in the history of "SYTYCD." See what a little love can do? They and a bunch of other groups get a pass to the next round. In fact, only seven dancers are cut.
Next up, Natalia is cleared by the medics so her group can finally perform. She's in a group with Jordan Casanova and D.C. Chapman. Which apparently wasn't a smooth ride, even when Natalia was fine. DC Chapman felt he was being ignored and stomped out at one point. But not a lot of drama given what we've seen in past seasons.
But hey, good dance despite the setbacks. Tyce really liked it. Robin felt she was watching the music through their dance. Nigel thinks there's more of Natalia to get around the stage (his words, not mine) compared to the tiny girls, and he thinks her ability to keep up and shine is remarkable. She's knocking down walls and barriers. They all get to stay.
On day three, the dancers use their lunch break to go to the pool. Hey, it is Vegas. It's time for contemporary, and Nigel warns them it will be a bloodbath. Travis Wall is the choreographer, and he's pulling no punches.
Ryan Ramirez is in pain. Cat hugs her and tells her she should stop if she hurts. Nigel says she has to go to the hospital, because no one knows if her tailbone is broken. Egads!
In other not-feeling-great news, Natalia's blood sugar is low, and the medic sends her to the hospital, too. Sasha freaks. "It's stupid! She's a dancer!" is her reasoning for why her sister should not go to the hospital. I bet she has diabetes, and I would tell Sasha that's a very good reason to go to the hospital because really bad things could happen if that's the case. Sasha gets it together and performs, and of course her routine is gorgeous. She's going through! Bryce and Wadi Jones, too.
Good news from the hospital. Ryan has deep tissue bruising and swelling, so she can dance. She gets a quick refresher and she gets to dance with season 7 finalist Robert. Debbie says she danced with passion and determination. She was beautiful. On to the next round!
Jeremiah Hughes and Arielle are in the next group. This is where they always get cut. D.C. is in this group, too.
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Chyna Smith gets cut, too. Oh no!
Natalia comes back from the emergency room. She says she probably has diabetes. Nigel gives her a pass through contemporary. She gets to dance, but she'll have to wait for feedback.
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Tomorrow night is the final judgment. Eeek! Thankfully, there are still some favorite, familiar faces in the running for me, so fingers crossed they make it through. I know what I said about not getting attached, but hey, I'm only human.
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Yesterday the family visited Vineland NJ Mennonite Church.
We were coming after 8:30 Mass at Julie's church and arrived a few minutes before the worship service while they were doing their religious education program. But the distinction between religious ed and worship was minimal, almost non-existent. Attendance at both was near-universal (about 110 total) and much of the worship itself was religious education. There was a series of 15 minute'ish sermons (delivered by various men), broken up by some four-part a capella singing (beautiful), recitations from a Bible verse they were memorizing and kneeling prayer (a surprise the first time, as they all spin around suddenly to face the back, kneel and pray).
It's probably one of the most religiously conscientious communities I've seen. A lot of the service involved reviewing belief structure. Their book of discipline is very slim, not much more than a tract, but it's something they use and they spent part of the time reading from it. Much of the worship hour was meant to reinforce who they were, why they were and how they were – to explain over and over why they led their distinctive life. Theirs is a voluntary association for those who agree to follow the authority of the group's teachings. I suspect that every adult in the room could give a detailed presentation on conservative Mennonite faith and give detailed answers about points of doctrine. At the risk of inserting my own opinion I will venture that the worship service felt a bit dry (as Julie said, there wasn't a ounce of mysticism in the whole proceeding) but I don't think the members there would feel offended by this observation. Exciting the senses is less important than reviewing the values and living the moral life.
Visually, the group is striking. Every man in the room wore a long-sleeved white dress shirt buttoned all the way up, dark pants and black shoes; all had short hair and only one or two had facial hair. I was more distinctively plain in my broadfalls and suspenders but the effect of sixty-or-so men and young boys all dressed alike was visually stunning. Like a lot of plain peoples, the women were more obviously plain and all but one or two wore lightly-colored cape dresses and head coverings (I later learned that the exceptions were newcomers who weren't yet members). Seated was segregated, women on the left, men on the right. Gender roles are very clear. There were kids – lots of kids – all around, and a big focus of the sermons was family living. One extended sermon focused on discerning between providing well for one's family vs. greed and the balance between working hard for your family vs. giving up some things so you can spend time with them. Kids were present throughout the service and were relatively well behaved.
The church itself was called a meetinghouse and was plain – no crosses of course. People sat in pews and there was a raised area up front for ministers and elders. The building doubled as a schoolhouse during the week and its schoolrooms had a lot of Rod and Staff books, familiar from our own home schooling. A member described the school as one leg of the three-legged stool, along with church and family. If any one part of the equation was lacking in some way, the other two could help insure the child's moral welfare. School was free for church members but was open on a tuition basis to non-Mennonites. These outsiders were required to make certain lifestyle choices that would insure the school stayed relatively pure; the most important requirement was that the family not have a television at home.
My regular readers will have one question on their mind right about now: did anyone invite us to lunch? Why yes they did! We didn't even have to prompt it. We knew a couple there – M and J, who run a restaurant in the local farmer's market, a favorite Saturday morning stop for us. They took us under their wing when they recognized us, sitting with us during worship and then showing us the school. J said that if we came back again we could come over for lunch. Then she backtracked and offered that we could come now, explaining that the church had had recent discussions over whether it was too pushy to ask first-time attenders to lunch or whether they should restrain themselves and invite them on the second visit. Wow, a church that thinks about this?!
So we followed them to their place for lunch. It was a wonderful opportunity to ask more questions and get to know one another. Meals are important. Julie and I had wondered why there were Mennonites in Vineland NJ of all places – and two Mennonite churches at that! Short story is that there had been a civilian public service facility in Vineland for conscientious objectors and Lancaster-area Mennonites decided that "the boys" stationed there needed the grounding of a local church community (apparently other C.O. camps were scenes of debauchery – Mennonite drag racing in Colorado Springs was cited). This became Norma Mennonite Church, which still exists and is another local church I've been meaning to visit for years (hi Mandy!). In the 1960s, there was a great round of liberalization among Mennonites, an unofficial abandonment of the distinctives codified in their books of disciplines. Many churches split and the Vineland Church was formed by those members of Norma who wanted to maintain the discipline.
This probably explains the strong focus on the rules of the discipline. For those wanting more of the histories, I commend Stephen Scott's excellent "An Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups" along with anything else Stephen Scott has written. The Vineland congregation is part of the Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church conference, profiled on pages 173 – 176. A lot of the Mennonite issues and splits are echoed among Friends and we'd do well to understand these cousins of ours.
The result is a church that's big on group practice: the dress, the lifestyle. M. told me that they don't believe in theology but in Biblicism. He explained that they don't think the Bible contains the word of God but instead that it is the Word of God and he paused to let the distinction sink in. The Bible is not to be interpreted but read and followed, with special attention given the gospels and the letters of Paul.
So no, I'm not going to go Conservative Mennonite on you all. I have a TV. My profession is web design (they're not into the internet, natch). I'm married to a praciticing Catholic (I don't know how they would bend on that) and at this point my brain is wired in a curious, outward way that wouldn't fit into the normative structures of a group like this. Doctrinally-speaking, I'm a Friend in that I think the Word of God is the Inward Christ's direct spirit and that the Bible needs to be read in that Light. There's a lot of people who wouldn't fit for various reasons, people who I would want in my church (they maintain a hard line against remarriage after divorce and I didn't even ask about gay issues). But I have to admit that the process and structure puts together a really great community of people. They're hard-working, kind, charitable and not nearly as judgmental as you might imagine – in practice, less judgmental than a lot of progressive religious people I know. Non-resistance is one of the pillars of their practice and they were genuinely interested in Julie's Catholic church and my experiences among Friends and we talked a fair bit about Islam.
Normally I'd give a big thanks to the church and M & J here, except I know they won't read this. I am grateful to their kindness in sharing their church, beliefs and family meal with us.
Over on Tape Flags and First Thoughts, Su Penn has a great post called "Still Thinking About My Quaker Meeting & Me." She writes about a process of self-identity that her meeting recently went through it and the difficulties she had with the process.
I wondered whether this difficulty has become one of our modern-day stages of developing in the ministry. Both Samuel Bownas (read/buy) and Howard Brinton (buy) identified typical stages that Friends growing in the ministry typically go through. Not everyone experiences Su's rift between their meeting's identity and a desire for a God-grounded meeting community, but enough of us have that I don't think it's the foibles of particular individuals or monthly meetings. Let me tease out one piece: that of individual and group identities. Much of the discussion in the comments of Su's post have swirled around radically different conceptions of this.
Many modern Friends have become pretty strict individualists. We spend a lot of time talking about "community" but we aren't practicing it in the way that Friends have understood it – as a "religious society." The individualism of our age sees it as rude to state a vision of Friends that leaves out any of our members – even the most heterodox. We are only as united as our most far-flung believer (and every decade the sweep gets larger). The myth of our age is that all religious experiences are equal, both within and outside of particular religious societies, and that it's intolerant to think of differences as anything more than language.
This is why I cast Su's issues as being those of a minister. There has always been the need for someone to call us back to the faith. Contrary to modern-day popular opinion, this can be done with great love. It is in fact great love (Quaker Jane) to share the good news of the directly-accessible loving Christ, who loves us so much He wants to show us the way to righteous living. This Quaker idea of righteousness has nothing to do with who you sleep with, the gas mileage of your car or even the "correctness" of your theology. Jesus boiled faithfulness down into two commands: love God with all your might (however much that might be) and love your neighbor as yourself.
A "religious society" is not just a "community." As a religious society we are called to have a vision that is stronger and bolder than the language or understanding of individual members. We are not a perfect community, but we can be made more perfect if we return to God to the fullness we've been given. That is why we've come together into a religious society.
"What makes us Friends?" Just following the modern testimonies doesn't put us very squarely in the Friends tradition – SPICE is just a recipe for respectful living. "What makes us Friends?" Just setting the stopwatch to an hour and sitting quietly doesn't do it – a worship style is a container at best and false idol at worst. "How do we love God?" "How do we love our neighbor?" "What makes us Friends?" These are the questions of ministry. These are the building blocks of outreach.
I've seen nascent ministers ("infant ministers" in the phrasing of Samual Bownas) start asking these questions, flare up on inspired blog posts and then taildive as they meet up with the cold-water reality of a local meeting that is unsupportive or inattentive. Many of them have left our religious society. How do we support them? How do we keep them? Our answers will determine whether our meeting are religious societies or communities.
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Just finished: Kenneth S.P. Morse's "A History of Conservative Friends" from 1962. Like most histories of Conservative Friends, it's both heartening and depressing. It's great to read the quotes, which often put the dilemma very clearly, like this one from Iowa Friends in 1877:
In consideration of many and various departures in Doctrine, Principle and Practice, brought into our beloved Society of late years by modern innovators, who have so revolutionized our ancient order in the Church, as to run into views and practices out of which our early Friends were lead, and into a broader, and more self-pleasing, and cross-shunning way than that marked out by our Savior, and held to by our ancient Friends.… And who have so approximated to the unregenerate world that we feel it incumbent upon us to bear testimony…and sustain the Church for the purpose for which is was peculiarly raised up.
I love this stuff. You've got theology, polity, culture and an argument for the eternal truths of the "peculiarly raised" Quaker church. But even in 1962 this is a story of decline, of generations of ministers passing with no one to take their place and monthly and yearly meetings winking out with disarming regularity as the concept of Friends gets stretched from all sides. "It is certainly true that most of those who call themselves Friends at the present time are only partial Friends in that they seem not to have felt called to uphold various branches of the Quaker doctrine."
Putting the book down the most remarkable fact is that there are any Conservative Friends around still around almost fifty years later.
The task of sharing and upholding the Quaker doctrine is still almost impossibly hard. The multiplicity of meanings in the words we use become stumbling blocks in themselves. Friends from other traditions are often the worst, often being blind to their own innovations, oftener still just not caring that they don't share much in common with early Friends.
Then there's the disunity among present-day Conservatives. Geography plays a part but it seems part of the culture. The history is a maze of traditionalist splinter groups with carefully-selected lists of who they do and do not correspond with. Today the three Conservative Yearly Meetings seem to know each another more through carefully-parsed reading of histories than actual visitation (there is some, not enough). There's also the human messiness of it all: some of the flakiest liberal Quakers I've known have been part of Conservative Yearly Meetings and the internet is full of those who share Conservative Friends values but have no yearly meeting to join.
No answers today from me. Maybe we should take solace that despite the travails and the history of defeat, there still remains a spark and there are those who still seek to share Friends' ways. For those wanting to learn more the more recent "Short History of Conservative Friends" (1992) is online and a good introduction.
Pictures from this weekend's gathering of Conservative Friends (Quakers), held in Lancaster County PA and hosted by Keystone Fellowship Friends Meeting of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative.
Arthur Berk on "Basic Christian Quakerism"
The Convincement Story of John L.: a particularly interesting story of a family's journey from the LDS (Mormon) Church to Friends.
An interview with Raye, a member of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative who serves on their Electronic Outreach Committee. You can also watch it on QuakerQuaker: Quaker Video and Electronic Outreach.
Raye: Ohio Yearly Meeting holds our yearly meeting in Barnesville Ohio – some people know us as those Barnesville folks. We have an electronic Outreach Committee and that includes the oversight and ministry associated with our website. We spend time thinking about how to open up to people who might be interested in Friends' ways and might want to know more about us whether or not they've ever read the Journal of George Fox. We're trying to expand our witness, if you will.
One of the questions that has come up in this electronic outreach group is: what types of communication or video are useful for someone to get to know us but also respectful of the fact that we do worship and that worship is a spiritually intimate time. We're trying to bridge and deal with respecting the worshippers, the Friends themselves, to not put on a performance and yet to try to communicate what it is that is edifying in practice and worship.
Martin: How do you give newcomers a taste of Quakers without directing it too much? If you just have that silent empty box it's hard for newcomers to know what should be filling that box.
Raye: One of the things Friends have done for hundreds of years is to publish, to keep journals and to share that. But that's not all there is to the Friends experience. There are those quiet times and those moments of ministry that we believe are Spirit-inspired. Many of us wish we could give people a little taste of that because that doesn't show up in a lot of published writings. That spontaneous and timely, and at times prophetic, witness that we see in our Meetings. We have considered digital video as a way to do that.
Martin: I love the video possibilities here. Video can be a way of reaching out to more people.
Raye: It's not just anything that can be written. Certainly the writings that have been published are very helpful in getting some sort of a glimmer of where we have been, or in some cases where we are headed or where we are. But there is nothing like that experience of being with Friends in meeting. It doesn't always happen but there are these moments called a covered meeting or a gathered meeting where everybody seems to be in the same place spiritually and when seems to be messages and gifts coming through people. That's difficult to get across.
We're hoping that with video we can discuss these kinds of things after the fact. We don't want to turn it into a spectator sport or performance.
Martin: Authenticity is a key part of the Quaker message. You're not practicing what you're going to say for First Day or Sunday. You're sitting there and waiting for that immediate spirit to come upon you.
Raye: We don't know when that will happen. There are meetings where everybody is very quiet, where there's a sense of that spirit and unity but it may be an outwardly quiet meeting. I have been in meetings where someone stood up and began to sing their message or a psalm or someone had a wonderful sermon that was perfect for the moment. These things happen but we don't know when they will.
My F/friend Raye Hodgson is taking a train from Connecticut to South Jersey next week for a visit, and locals and would-be visitors are invited to my house for some worship! Raye's involved with Ohio Conservative and New England Friends and seems to be doing a cool sustainable agriculture project these days (which I didn't know except for Google!)
It's next Thursday, the 19th at 7:30pm in Hammonton. If you want to join but don't have my address just send me an email and I'll provide details. There's also a Facebook event listing for this. If enough people are interested we can have more occasional Conservative/Convergent/Emergent Quakerly worship in this part of South Jersey! If you can't make it but are intrigued by the idea, let me know and I'll keep you in the loop.
UPDATE: The worship went well, about half a dozen people showed up. If you want to be alerted to any follow-up worship opportunities in the Hammonton area send me an email and I'll add you to my list.
Not something I'll do every day, but over on QuakerQuaker I cross-referenced today's One Year Bible readings with Esther Greenleaf Murer's Quaker Bible Index. Here's the link to my post about today: First Month 20: Joseph rises to power in Egypt; Jesus' parable of wheat & tares and pearls. It's a particularly rich reading today. Jesus talks about the wheat and the weeds aka the corn and the tares, an interesting parable about letting the faithful and the unfaithful grow together.
As if knowing today is Inauguration Day, Isaac Penington turned it into a political reference: "But oh, how the laws and governments of this world are to be lamented over! And oh, what need there is of their reformation, whose common work it is to pluck up the ears of corn, and leave the tares standing!"
Margaret Fell sees the wheat and tares as an example of jealousy and false ministry: "Oh how hath this envious man gotten in among you. Surely he hath come in the night, when men was asleep: & hath sown tares among the wheat, which when the reapers come must be bound in bundles and cast into the fire, for I know that there was good seed sown among you at the first, which when it found good ground, would have brought forth good fruit; but since there are mixed seedsmen come among you & some hath preached Christ of envy & some of good will, … & so it was easy to stir up jealousy in you, you having the ground of jealousy in yourselves which is as strong as death."
We get poetry from the seventeen century Elizabeth Bathurst (ahem) when she writes that "the Seed (or grace) of God, is small in its first appearance (even as the morning –light), but as it is given heed to, and obeyed, it will increase in brightness, till it shine in the soul, like the sun in the firmament at noon-day height."
The parable of the tares became a call for tolerance in George Fox's understanding: "For Christ commands christian men to "love one another [John 13:34, etc], and love their enemies [Mat 5:44];" and so not to persecute them. And those enemies may be changed by repentance and conversion, from tares to wheat. But if men imprison them, and spoil and destroy them, they do not give them time to repent. So it is clear it is the angels' work to burn the tares, and not men's."
A century later, Sarah Tuke Grubb read and worried about religious education and Quaker drift: "But for want of keeping an eye open to this preserving Power, a spirit of indifference hath crept in, and, whilst many have slept, tares have been sown [Mat 13:25]; which as they spring up, have a tendency to choke the good seed; those tender impressions and reproofs of instruction, which would have prepared our spirits, and have bound them to the holy law and testimonies of truth."
I hope all this helps us remember that the Bible is our book too and an essential resource for Friends. It's easy to forget this and kind of slip one way or another. One extreme is getting our Bible fix from mainstream Evangelical Christian sources whose viewpoints might be in pretty direct opposition from Quaker understandings of Jesus and the Gospel (see Jeanne B's post on The New Calvinism or Tom Smith's very reasonable concerns about the literalism at the One Year Bible Blog I read and recommend). On the other hand, it's not uncommon in my neck of the Quaker woods to describe our religion as "Quaker," downgrade Christianity by making it optional, unmentionable or non-contextual and turning to the Bible only for the obligatory epistle reference.
This was first made clear to me a few years ago by the margins in the modern edition of Samuel Bownas' "A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Ministry," which were peppered with the Biblical references Bownas was casually citing throughout. On my second reading (yes it's that good!) I started looking up the references and realized that: 1) Bownas wasn't just making this stuff up or quoting willy-nilly; and 2) reading them helped me understand Bownas and by extension the whole concept of Quaker ministry. You're not reading my blog enough if you're not getting the idea that this is one of the kind of practices that Robin, Wess and I are going to be talking about at the Convergent workshop next month. If you can figure out the transport then get yourself to Cali pronto and join us.
It's that season again, the time when unprogrammed Friends talk about Christmas. Click Ric has posted about the seeming incongruity of his meeting's Christmas tree and LizOpp has reprinted a still-timely letter from about five years ago about the meeting's children Christmas pageant.
Friends traditionally have lumped Christmas in with all of the other ritualistic boo-ha that mainstream Christians practice. These are outward elements that should be abandoned now that we know Christ has come to teach the people himself and is present and available to all of us at all times. Outward baptism, communion, planned sermons, paid ministers, Christmas and Easter: all distractions from true Christian religion, from primitive Chritianity revived.
One confusion that arises in liberal meetings this time of year is that it's assumed it's the Christian Friends who want the Christmas tree. Arguments sometime break out with "hyphenated" Friends who feel uncomfortable with the tree: folks who consider themselves Friends but also Pagan, Nontheistic, or Jewish and wonder why they're having Christianity forced on them. But those of us who follow what we might call the "Christian tradition as understood by Friends" should be just as put out by a Christmas tree and party. We know that symbolic rituals like these spark disunity and distract us from the real purpose of our community: befriending Christ and listening for His guidance.
I was shocked and startled when I first learned that Quaker schools used to meet on Christmas day. My first response was "oh come on, that's taking it all too far." But it kept bugging me and I kept trying to understand it. This was one of the pieces that helped me understand the Quaker way better and I finally grew to understand the rationale. If Friends were more consistent with more-or-less symbolic stuff like Christmas, it would be easier to teach Quakerism.
I don't mind Christmas trees, per se. I have one in my living room (right). In my extended family Christmas has served as one of the mandatory times of year we all have to show up together for dinner. It's never been very religious, so I never felt I needed to stop the practice when I became involved with Friends. But as a Friend I'm careful not to pretend that the consumerism and social rituals have much to do with Christ. Christmas trees are pretty. The lights make me feel good in the doldrums of mid-winter. That's reason enough to put one up.
Unprogrammed liberal Friends could use the tensions between traditional Quakerly stoicism and mainstream Christian nostalgia as a teaching moment, and we could use discomfort around the ritual of Christmas as a point of unity and dialog with Pagan, Jewish and Non-theistic Friends. Christian Friends are always having to explain how we're not the kind of Christians others assume we are (others both within and outside the Society). Being principled about Christmas is one way of showing that difference. People will surely say "oh come on," but so what? A lot of spiritual seekers are critical of the kind of crazy commercial spending sprees that marked Christmas's past and I don't see why a group saying Christmas isn't about Christ would be at a particular disadvantage during this first Christmas season of the next Great Depression.
I've been talking about liberal unprogrammed Friends. For the record, I understand Christmas celebrations among "pastoral" and/or "programmed" Friends. They've made a conscious decision to adopt a more mainstream Christian approach to religious education and ministry. That's fine. It's not the kind of Quaker I practice, but they're open about their approach and Christmas makes sense in that context.
Whenever I post this kind of stuff on my blog I get comments how I'm being too Scroogey. Well I guess I am. Bah Humbug. Honestly though, I've always like Quaker Christmas parties. They're a way of mixing things up, a way of coming together as a community in a warmer way that we usually do. People stop confabbing about committee questions and actually enjoy one another's company. One time I asked my meeting to call it the Day the World Calls Christmas Party, which I thought was kind of clever (everyone else surely thought "there goes Martin again"). The joy of real community that is filled once a year at our Christmas parties might be symptom of a hunger to be a different kind of community every week, even every day.


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Mardi Gras has always been viewed as the ultimate party experience. If you really want to celebrate New Year's Eve why not have a Mardi Gras celebration? Picture yourself in the middle of the French Quarter wearing a colorful mask, and, of course, Mardi Gras beads. You are a stranger in the crowd of masked faces, and the smell of spicy Cajun cuisine is so close that it makes your mouth water.
The upbeat sounds of New Orleans carnival music are everywhere. Everyone is offering you beaded necklaces of all shapes and colors. People are in the streets celebrating the fun, colorful and exciting carnival that is Mardi Gras. Go ahead and combine New's Year Eve and Mardi Gras for a great celebration!
Mardi Gras Invitations
You can certainly choose a New Years party invitation, but a Mardi Gras theme invitation is a lot of fun and is perfect for this party. Include a fabulous Mardi Gras mask and everyone will want to attend your party! (You'll want to mail it in a padded envelope or even a box.)
- What could be more fun than making your own Mardi Gras masks as an invitation? Use construction paper, glitter, sequins, feathers and anything else that will add sparkle to your works of art. Visit your local art supply store or craft store for some ideas and assistance. Put all of the party information on the reverse side of the masks.
- Tie your invite with some classic Mardi Gras party beads. Guests can wear them later to your party!
- Don't forget to add some fleur de lis confetti to the envelope to finish off the look.
Recommend that your guests wear your masks as they arrive. You might even want to encourage them to dress in costume. Be prepared when your guests arrive for Mardi Gras New Year's style! Have plenty of beads and masks! The Mardi Gras party pack has enough for 25 people to dress Mardi Gras style!
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- Make your venue a Mardi Gras paradise from the moment guests walk in the door! Hang a Mardi Gras theme banner over your entrance along with a glittering Mardi Gras door curtain.
- Arrange feather boas and Mardi Gras beads around mirrors. Add a little bit of Mardi Gras garland for accent!
- Lumi-Loon balloon bouquets are colorful additions to the buffet table and corners of your venue. The lights are perfect for New Year's Eve, too! (Don't forget to use a gold balloon weight.)
- Hang some ceiling danglers around your party room, or a keep it easy with a New Year's gold decorating kit with banners and cutouts.
- Make the important areas of your party, like the buffet and drink station, stand out with Mardi Gras Signs. With 8 different iconic locations, turn your venue into a New Orleans hangout!
- Everyone loves Mardi Gras and New Orleans for the jazz! Jazz trio and music note cutouts are fun themed wall decorations.
Make different bouquets of New Years Eve noisemakers and 2016 glasses to use as your centerpieces. Have them coming out of fun green glitter top hats (or other fun Mardi Gras theme hats). Tie purple, gold, and green helium filled balloons to the bouquets to give them some height. Your guests can use the noisemakers later to join in the festivities!
- Pick from either New Years theme paper goods or Mardi Gras theme paper goods. Plain gold, green or purple party supplies will do the trick, too.
- Don't forget the napkin rings! Mardi Gras beads make a fabulous napkin ring AND favor.
- A purple, green and gold mask centerpiece is a simple and fun table decoration.
- Use Mardi Gras coins to scatter across tables.
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- Along with the usual New Year's Eve hoopla, have a costume contest! Whoever has the most elaborate and creative costume is the winner! We have tons of Mardi Gras costumes that will help you win first prize.
- Set up a photobooth with a Mardi Gras photo op. Family and friends will love posing as jesters!
- A Mardi Gras pinata is sure to be a hit! (Pun intended.) Fill with candies that match the color scheme: purple, yellow, and green.
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- A balloon drop is always fun! Make sure to hand out gold confetti horns (they match the theme!) and confetti poppers for the countdown.
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June 30th, 2014 11:28 AM #1
Names suggested by grandmother!
My granny has a great taste in names in my opinion and all of her children have lovely names (Seamus, Susannah, Bernadette to name a few).
She is one of the few people I talk to about names because she gives her view but remains polite and she has some of the most amazing suggestions! She's so excited to be involved in the naming process (she even went out and bought a baby name book).
Here are some that she suggested:
Henrietta - apparently what my dad was supposed to be called if he were a girl
I also love her name Sylvia Lilian, I just think it's a lovely name!
Which would you use? DH and I are considering some ideas.
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The remaining names...
Orla - I like this Irish name until I see the teasing potential of when you change one letter and it becomes "orca". Sigh. I can also be spelled Orlaith but then you may run into pronunciation issues.
Alannah - Alana is Honey Boo Boo's name
Henrietta - I want to like this name because I'm a vintage name lover but something keeps holding me back. Maybe it's because the name sounds slightly confused - the boyish Henri with the frilly Etta.
Lilian - I knew a bully named Lilian when I was growing up so I have a negative association with this name.All the best,