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Rosemarie Trockel is an artist's artist and although I'm not an artist, I am a huge fan of her work and that makes the disappointment of her current exhibition at the New Museum even more awkward. Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, is a three-floored exhibition, including some stairways, and it is a mini-retrospective in some ways. It formulates itself as a survey not only of her own work but also of her influences. It is within the formulation that the failures occur and most surprisingly in the arrangement, display and general installation, which you think would not be the biggest issues when a museum is the presenter.
Throughout the show, which is curated by Lynne Cooke in collaboration with Trockel and with additional support by Massimilano Gioni and Jenny Moore, there are systems of seeing and of contextualizing that hark on ways of presentation found in science, academia, and other forms of institutionalized display. This reliance on these methods inadvertently, or possibly advertently, sucks out much of the magic and the humor that makes Trockel so formidable in her own influence. This technique was first seen on the fourth floor which is oddly the way shows start, from the top down. Here there are a collection of zines, books, pamphlets and drawings by Trockel that ranged from 1980s to the 2000s and they are a fine selection to view as they show her wit and her unhinged imagination with words, images and quick release of both. The somber display of a considered height with a slight slant to the shelf with a painted brown back runner and clear acrylic case, was highly practical yet sufficiently dull. Display of such materials always seems to be problematic at best but there was something notable in the full embrace of that tendency for failure here. Also, the use of books, as a tool of subversion but also as a tool of authority to the artist and to the contents and gestures, made heavy imprint in the way the rest of the show could be viewed.
The rest of this floor has some very nice sculptures in ceramics with fantastic glazes, like platinum, as well as the use of furniture as sculpture. The ceramics are hung mostly on the wall and they are great to see but they seem lost and somehow just arranged in an unimagined way. The sofa sculpture and the platform with fabric draped over seems off in contrast with the ceramics, it's like a home furniture display that forgot the big ticket items. This odd lacking of something carries throughout the exhibit including the third floor that has Trockel's knit canvases. She is well known for these yarn paintings and these are always wonderful to see in real life as the tactility and hues of them are as engaging as the concepts behind them. The selection is a bit uneven and it feels as if they had to work with only what was available versus what may be the best. The works that have unknit yarn stretched over the stretcher bars to create a minimalist string painting were notably uninspiring. In addition to Trockel's work, this floor also included the work of Judith Scott, an outsider artist who makes wrapped abstract forms out of yarn, string and other fabric remnants. Her work is very-very good regardless of her labeling and the inclusion of many strong works by her is fitting but the combination of Scott's and Trockel's yarn works in the same room as it was installed felt like a hindrance to both women. Also, Scott's pieces were so strong it almost seemed to suck the light away from Trockel's.
The finale on the second floor seemed to be the brain of the show. Here the "cosmology" of Trockel's influences converges in addition to some of her more stellar pieces. One method of this display recalls the fourth floor's old timey scientific display, which mixes Trockel's own curiosities of flora and fauna with those wonderfully detailed naturalism illustrations. The systems of categorizing, labeling and ordering through the scientific methodologies of the past are heavily emphasized. This again brings to point the act of legitimizing, of giving the author, in this case Trockel, authority over her subject, or the ideas behind the visuality of it. This is in no way a fault but there is something too transparent in the act that lacks surprise to any degree. In the other side of this floor are large rectangular clear boxes that act as curios of her influences that range from spectacular outsider artists like James Castle and Morton Bartlett to contemporaries and nearly forgotten aesthetic compatriots. The objects are interesting; the gathering of them impressive but again the display seems to vacuum seal any life away. It is not all terrible though, within the suite of collected specimens there are standouts, one in particular, a large crab on top of a clear box that has her signature fabric patterns, is one the best objects around. This is the problematic aspect of this entire show. There are so many incredible pieces but somehow not arranged in a way that lets them act that way.
This is a show that has all the components for a fabulously successful exhibition. The work is there; the ideas are there, the timing is just right, as Trockel's name and influence has been in resurgence over the past few years. She is a fantastic, smart, worthy to be recognized artist who will continue to be an artists' artist so the concern of her legacy is not tainted. But, it is incredibly frustrating to see all these good parts, all the makings of a show that could re-spark or introduce for the first time her work to a new generation. The show did not fail so much as just fizzle away into dullness. I love Trockel's work, her punk attitude, but if I hadn't already and this was my first dose, I would have just blinked the whole show away. The show's overall structure is smart and makes more then perfect sense with Trockel's art and life, it does invigorate many of the most important things about her own work and hopefully next time this is presented or re-imagined there will be a balance of the formulas with the aesthetics, because if one thing is for certain about Trockel, it is that she makes wonderful things to look at and to puzzle out what it all means.

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I have been making this horse quilt pattern, "Race the Wind", for several years now. I get a charge out of making it every time. It's so much fun to put a new spin on the pattern. This is one I made for my oh so awesome nephew, Kole. He got married last weekend and he has always liked the quilt that is not really similar, but sort of, that is hung over my fireplace
Like all patterns, I make them my own. When I teach classes I tell my students that patterns are only guidelines to bend at your will. Sometimes they take this instruction a little too far, but, you know, it's kind of good they embrace the idea...smile.
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Loving Others? One.
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The Power of Yeshua Adonai!
We can say that we believe, but if their is no fruit, something is seriously wrong with our walk with Yeshua? We must love others as we are loved by Elohim and forgiven our past sins!
Ruach Ha 'Kodesh cannot move beside us to put into effect the gifts that have been given to us, to serve and lead others that we meet to faith in Yeshua!
Loving enemies and those who persecute us is hard, but if we claim we must follow to be really effective?
Matthew/Levi 5:5-11, Romans 12:9-14, Ephesians 1:4, Hebrews 6:10.
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Elohim for Y'srael.
Loving costs, because it demands that we sacrifice ourselves and that may be a challnege to many of us? It is easy to say, 'I love you, but it is much harder to wash the dishes, clean up the mess of someone else!
Galatians 5:22-23, 1 Yochanan 2:4-5.
The love of Elohim is unconditional, He has loved Y'srael for so long after time and time again it has rebelled against His Commands.
Psalm 106:45.
This is the king of forgiving love that Yeshua demands of us to share with Him, what He has done for us.
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The present academic requirement for NCAA Division I schools is 16 core classes, a 2.0 cumulative grade-point average or higher, with a 2.5, 820 sliding scale on the SAT and graduation from high school. The SAT sliding scale will remain the same, but there are two changes in 2016. First, you must have a 2.3 GPA in core classes. Second, you must complete all 10 core classes before your senior year. There no longer will be an opportunity for you to get better grades or recover lost core classes, as there have been before. Changes are also coming to the NCAA Division II level, where there are 16 core classes but with different classes for eligibility. In Division I, you will need four years of English and three years of Math, while in Division II, you will need three years of English and two years of Math. The fill-in courses will be different, but you must still meet the 16 core classes needed. I recently talked with a head coach from a Division II school whose athletes are pre-engineering students but are coming up short on core classes. The NCAA is holding colleges and their coaches accountable for graduation rates. Recently, the UNLV football team was banned from bowl eligibility next season due to academic requirements, and the NCAA champion Connecticut men's basketball team was under that same ban in 2012-13. These changes from the NCAA are making a statement that colleges need to have higher academic standards, to ensure academic success. So what does this mean to you? If you (or your son or daughter) are not on a strict plan to reach these new standards for the next four years, you are probably already academically ineligible per NCAA standards. The NCAA has also closed the loophole for student-athletes going to junior colleges to make up all of the requirements, with higher GPA standards, to transfer in to Division I schools. 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If you will be an eighth- or ninth-grader next year, go see your counselor and verify that you will be on track to have the 10 core classes completed. Make sure your counselor is certain these are the compliant classes your high school has given to the NCAA eligibility center. Counselors have very difficult jobs. Most do great work despite heavy loads, with an average of 400 students. They must monitor NCAA requirements that are constantly changing, not to mention colleges with different standards of eligibility for athletic scholars. Make sure you have your 48H form (found on the NCAA website) with you when you meet with your counselor to ensure you are taking the right courses, approved by the NCAA Eligibility Center. The Eligibility Center process takes place your junior and senior years and aligns your classes with GPA and SAT or ACT scores. So the GPA is a constant activity, while the SAT and/or ACT is at the end of your high-school career. 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I was excited when I saw Library Quine's Red Ted Said flannel board set. She linked back to Sarah at Reading Rabbit who posted her version the week before and also to the free patterns at Making Learning Fun.
I liked the changes Library Quine made to the rhyme. I adapted it a little further because I didn't make a red teddy bear.
I used this felt set during my 2nd Stuffed Animal Sleepover of the Summer Reading Program. I may also use it during my last 2 preschool story times (Bedtime and Pajamas).
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Term.org is an online car insurance website that has been helping car owners make smart insurance decisions since 2002. They are celebrating the 10th Year Anniversary for Term.org. They are proud to be a part of the Term.org team. Their designers, bloggers, and management have done an excellent job these past ten years of the company's life. They are appreciative of their work in bringing term.org to where it is now.
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Bradley University
1501 W Bradley Ave
Peoria, Illinois 61625-0001
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5800 Godfrey Rd
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One Brookings Drive
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The ongoing conflict between the BC Teachers' Federation and the ruling BC Liberals has gone on too long with no resolution in sight. Now our schools are closed. Public opinion in the province is sympathetic to preserving excellence in public education. Opinion also reflects a reservoir of trust in the public school teachers so many grew up with and know. On the other hand, the K-12 education issue has not been enough to sway elections to the NDP over these many years of Campbell-Clark government. As a result we find ourselves in continuous stalemate: the government inclined to treat public education as a waning priority, while the public trends against each premier on this issue. Add to this mix an unusually determined and unified BCTF and the result is deep and enduring conflict.
A superintendent related to me a conversation with a high government official. The gist was that stakeholders in our public schools needed to understand they were no longer "the favoured child" in provincial allocations. This analysis has the air of truth: the values of the BC Liberals tend toward construction and development at the expense of human services, with the notable exception of Medicare (more on this later). With little concern about cost over-runs, we have acquired some of the best infrastructure in North America: SkyTrain, convention centre, stadium, the Port Mann Bridge. Then there was construction for the Olympics. All the results are first-class. We generously build new schools and university buildings. But when it comes to addressing human services like childhood poverty, special education, or class size and composition, we plead austerity and settle for underfunding and a "good enough" attitude.
Can we have the widest bridge in the world, the smartest meters, and the best schools? So far Premier Clark indicates we cannot.
There really is a data-driven case to be made that Canada's schools are the highest ranking in the world for those countries with a multicultural population. And B.C.'s schools, serving this country's most challenging demographics, are a leader in Canada. Were it not for 12 years of fighting over the last five per cent in school funding and the neoliberal choices that former deputy minister Emery Dosdall oversaw, the world would be coming to Vancouver, not Helsinki, to learn from public schools. We have more to share than bridges, density, dams, and scenery. We have wasted over a decade squabbling about a funding gap of less than $8 per month per B.C. resident.
Why is there no similar outcry over Medicare? The MSP subsidizes about 12 per cent of the health care budget, providing the margin of excellence the people of B.C. want. The tax is cumbersome and regressive, but politically it establishes an earmarking of funding for a popular priority and it's working. The BC Liberals don't count the MSP in calculating the province's tax burden, so it skates around their low-tax agenda along with rake-offs from ICBC and rising hydro rates. (As if anyone moving to B.C. comes here for our low cost-of-living!)
So what does this have to say about school funding? Let the voters of B.C. express themselves on this issue. In my view they would pay the marginal costs to end the battle of the five per cent and set our sights on our schools being the envy of the developed world for their service to all our children. Channel the new funding through the MSP structure because it is an established method and there is a legitimate health aspect to special education as well as serious societal liabilities for children who are not educated to their capacity. The health costs of illiteracy, for example, moved the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. to include reading disorders in its mission and funded research.
Our politics need to reflect our most heartfelt values. K-12 education, like health care, is not simply another activity of government. These endeavours address basic human rights. To their credit the people of the province are sympathetic to these priorities. There can be political solutions that allow our noblest values to prevail in British Columbia.
Paul Shaker, PhD, is professor emeritus and former dean of education at Simon Fraser University. Visit his website here.


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ECOWAS leaders yet to find political solution in the Gambia
LIBERIA-Liberia's Information Minister, Eugene Nagbe says ECOWAS remains resolved to using negotiations as opposed to force in ensuring a peaceful transition of power in The Gambia.
Minister Nagbe said: "ECOWAS Authority Chairperson, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, will continue to engage President Yahya Jammeh through various means, including direct telephone communications, to step down."
He told ELBC Monday, January 16, 2017 that the sub-regional body recognizes President-elect Adama Barrow as leader of the Gambia, upon the expiration of Mr. Jammeh's tenure on January 19, this week.
He said ECOWAS has also decided that Mr. Barrow will stay out of the Gambia until his inauguration later this week.
State Media in Senegal was quoted by the BBC as saying that the decision for Mr. Barrow to remain in Senegal was sanctioned by West African leaders after a summit in Mali.
According to the Information Minister, ECOWAS leaders took the decisions in Bamako, Mali, after their intervention failed.
Mr. Jammeh told a high power ECOWAS delegation, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in Banjul during the weekend that he would not step down in the absence of the Supreme Court's ruling which is expected in May 2017.
Reports from ECOWAS engagement last week with President Jammeh in the Gambia said the West African Regional Bloc suggested that the United Nations approve military action, if Mr. Barrow's Tuesday inauguration is blocked.
On Saturday, January 14, 2017, West African Leaders repeated calls for President Jammeh to attend voluntarily the Africa-France Summit in Bamako, Mali.
Mr. Barrow defeated President Jammeh in last month's election, was at the Bamako Summit and was referred to as the President.
President Yahya Jammeh, who initially admitted election defeat, said he will not step down ahead of the Supreme Court's hearing slated for May this year.


text: The present decade of a "post-American world" (how some scholars call a system of international relations marked by the relative decline of US global influence) has been seeing its share of highly publicized conflicts – Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, Egypt, Libya, Thailand, Syria and Ukraine, along the continuous Israeli-Palestinian struggle. The aforementioned one's have had a limited, thought dominant presence in the public eye, unlike more permanent situations in the "failed" North African states. In relation to them, one of the terms whose resurgence I've noticed in Western media's op-eds and analysis is "useful idiots". This term is used to refer to western public intellectuals and human rights advocates, critical of their own societies' cultural intolerance, human rights standards and foreign policies.


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"Research studies show that more students leave college because of disillusionment, discouragement, or reduced motivation than because of lack of ability or dismissal by school administration." ~ Edward Anderson, Ph.D. | The Gallup Organization
- More than 60% of college graduates regret their choice of college major and find employment in a totally different field.
- Most college students will change their major more than once and take an extra 1.5 years to graduate.
- The average cost for a college education is $10,000 to $15,000 per year at state universities and much higher ($20,000 to $40,000 or more) for many private and out-of-state institutions. Post-graduate tuition can be even more costly.
- Next to investing in a home, your college education may be one of the largest investments you'll ever make.
- Many college graduates will work several years to pay off educational debts, and some will never achieve financial freedom due to poor career choices.
- Many college students would be better off skipping college altogether and pursuing technical or vocational career training.
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A lot of early trends in Web communication—blinking, bold text; cutesy link names like "Behind the Magic" instead of "About Us"; Flash splash pages—have faded, but frustrating and unhelpful Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) remain. It's time to retire them, or seriously reform them.
My Issues with FAQs
Frequently Asked? Really?
It's hard to believe the questions in most FAQs are asked frequently. Often, they are so obscure or detailed I can't imagine who would ask them.
If Asked So Frequently, Give the Answers Better Locations
If they truly are questions visitors frequently ask, why hide them in a FAQ? Answer those questions in obvious places. Put shipping information on the ordering page. Talk about a product's history on a sub-page for that product.
Unusable, Self-Defeating Pages
Often, FAQs contains scores of Q&As answering every possible question. Linked questions at the top of the page go down to the answers. Trouble is, by forcing a visitor to read through so many questions, they're likely to give up, defeating the page's purpose of providing information.
However, a reader may hit CTRL+F and search the page for a keyword. But again, too much information might drive a visitor away. If I find the first 10 results for "Shipping" don't answer my question—even though I'm only a 1/3 of the way through the page—I'm leaving.
For external search engines, a long FAQ can serve as (unintentional) search bait and your site's top ranked page. If I go looking for product info but find the FAQ, I'm going to the next site in the search results.
Today, You Probably Don't Need a FAQ
FAQs began when the Web was young, trying to provide exhaustive information in a publish-only world. Today, technology and mature Web communications practices make this approach unnecessary.
Tools & Technology
- Site Search: Rather than writing a FAQ, break content into levels of detail—basic information, supporting information a layer deeper, details technical specs a layer below that. Then, use something like Google Site Search so users can zero-in on information they're looking for.
- Wikis & Forums: There are many free, open source wikis and forums where customers and staff can interact to provide answers to questions. These tools allow previously asked questions and answers to searchable, reducing the need for them to be asked again, plus provide the opportunity to engage customers directly.
80/20 Rule
For Web communications, the 80/20 rule is: 80% of customer questions can be answered by 20% of your knowledge.
Put another way, most questions will deal with (what to you is) simple and basic issues, and they will be asked repeatedly. Questions about very specific and detailed knowledge are rarely asked.
So, if detailed question are rare, why expend the effort to guess what they are, write and edit the text, and post it online? Better to provide basic information and put up a forum, wiki or "Contact Us" form to deal with those rarely-asked, detailed question.
But You Might Need One
That said, if your site covers a complex topic where the needs of every user might be unique (customizable software, doing your taxes), a FAQ might be needed.
So what to do? Develop your Q&As, but integrate links to them throughout the site:
When completing form #1234, you must fill in "family history" and provide your ABC# for the appropriate time period.
The three links might go to their own Q&A, which in turn has links to more information (including other Q&As), letting the user follow a path until he/she finds the needed information.
What's Can We Learn from FAQs?
Though I'm not a fan of FAQs, a good lesson is their question and answer format. As I've done in this section, using a question as a heading tells the user an answer will follow. Often, a question is shorter and easier to digest than trying to summarize an entire section. For Web writing, this is vital for someone scanning a page.
Closing Thought: Rename FAQs?
Though I've spent this post dissecting FAQs, perhaps we've reached a point where the term FAQ has become a word in its own right.
Consider we have "KFC" instead of "Kentucky Fried Chicken" because they don't want to use the word "fried" (and it might not be chicken). Or "R&B" is no longer "rhythm and blues" but a form of pop/dance music.
Similarly, perhaps FAQs no longer contain frequently asked questions, but a page on the site to convey information too detailed or obscure to put anywhere else.


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Hungary's OTP Bank has agreed to buy a 99.74% stake in the Bulgarian unit and an 88.89% shareholding in the Albanian unit of France's Societe Generale Group, it was announced on August 2, confirming media reports from Wednesday.
The deal fits well with the strategy of OTP, which has set foreign expansion as a key priority. It plans to expand in the Central and Southeast European markets where it is already present but has a small market share. OTP's management did not rule out entering new markets. The bank's liquidity reserves at €8bn would provide enough room for that.
Chairman-CEO Sandor Csanyi has said that OTP would even consider financing acquisitions at the expense of dividend payments, but shareholders nevertheless can expect to receive dividends after record earnings in 2017.
OTP will make the acquisition in Bulgaria through its local unit DSK Bank, the country's second-biggest bank. Societe Generale Expressbank has a market share of about 6.7%, making it Bulgaria's seventh-biggest bank.
The Hungarian lender will further strengthen its market position in Bulgaria and boost its market share to 19% after the acquisition. UniCredit is the largest lender on the market with a 19.5% share.
OTP entered the Bulgarian market in 2003 by buying DSK, which has become the most profitable foreign subsidiary of the Hungarian banking group with HUF47bn profits in 2017, accounting for 16% of OTP's total earnings. Foreign units are playing an increasing role as they generated 40% of consolidated profits at the group level.
DSK Bank had total assets of about BGN12.4bn at the end of 2017. Societe Generale Expressbank had total assets of around BGN7bn (€3.57bn) last year and generated BGN106.7mn in profit. It operates 140 branches, employs 1,600 staff and serves some half a million customers.
In a separate disclosure, OTP said it agreed to acquire an 88.89% stake in Banka Societe Generale Albania, the country's fifth-largest bank with a market share of 6%.
Albania will be OTP's ninth foreign market. Hungary's largest bank has subsidiaries in Serbia, Croatia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Montenegro, and Romania. OTP acquired its Croatian unit, Splitska Banka from Societe Generale in 2016.
OTP expects to close both transactions in 4Q18, pending regulatory approval.
In addition to these transactions, OTP said it is in talks with the French lender on entering into a services agreement on providing mutual services in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary. These services would include investment banking, capital markets, financing and global transaction banking.


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Today I'm excited to share a 50th Anniversary Party from this past summer. A sweet friend (one of Ainsley's friends mommy's) asked if I would be interested in a 50th Anniversary Party. I've got a serious heart for marriage and anniversaries (hence the birth of Lace and Loyalty) so I was super excited to be able to capture it for their family. How many people have parents that have been together for 50 years? Not too many that I know.
The kids pulled together to have a 50th anniversary party for them, and hired me to capture it for them. Here are a few favorites from the evening!
They had a tented party out back and invited close friends and family to celebrate.
This cake is actually a replica of their actual wedding cake. It was pretty amazing. They had a photo of the old one. This one was spot on.
A little thank you and cutting of the cake.
And I pulled them aside for a little Pittsburgh anniversary session. They are the cutest. So sweet and genuine together. You could tell that they love each other so much. I look at couples like this, and hope that it will be Josh and I when we grow older. And, it really can be if we're intentional. This surely didn't happen for them on accident. I am SURE that it was a lot of ups and downs, trials, victories, laughter, and tears. Each of those things just deepened the love that they share.
And they sure are blessed with some adorable grandbabies! Getting this photo was pretty hysterical. Kids of all ages, and some little ones who hadn't napped, some others hopped up on sugar… but what I love about it, is how real it is.
And this is Caroline (Ainsley's friend) and her family. I'm so thankful that they hired me to shoot such a special occasion. Love them. <3
Happy Friday!!! Have an amazing day!!
I would love to chat with you about your Pittsburgh Anniversary Session!


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Sabellius (fl. ca. 215) was a third-century priest and theologian who most likely taught in Rome, but may have been a North African from Libya. Basil and others call him a Libyan from Pentapolis, but this seems to rest on the fact that Pentapolis was a place where the teachings of Sabellius thrived, according to Dionysius of Alexandria, c. 260.[1] What is known of Sabellius is drawn mostly from the polemical writings of his opponents.
The Catholic Encyclopedia writes:
It is true that it is easy to suppose Tertullian and Hippolytus to have misrepresented the opinions of their opponents, but it cannot be proved that Cleomenes was not a follower of the heretical Noetus, and that Sabellius did not issue from his school; further, it is not obvious that Tertullian would attack Callistus under a nickname.[1]
Sabellius' opposition to the emerging idea of the Trinity led to his excommunication as a heretic by Pope Callixtus I (Callistus) in AD 220. Wace and Bunsen have both suggested that Calixtus' action was motivated more by a desire for unity rather than by conviction.[2]
Sabellius taught that God was single and indivisible, with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit being three modes or manifestations of one divine Person. A Sabellian modalist would say that the One God successively revealed Himself to man throughout time as the Father in Creation; the Son in Redemption; and the Spirit in Sanctification and Regeneration. (Because of this focus on God's revelation of himself to man, Modalism is often confused with economic Trinitarianism).
This understanding has been called Sabellianism and modalistic monarchianism.[3] The suggestion of development and change within the Godhead was seen as contradicting the concept of impassibility. It also stood in contrast to the position of distinct persons existing within a single godhead by representing Father, Son and Spirit as different "modes" (hence the term "modalism"), "aspects" or "faces", "masks" (persona in Latin)[4] that God presented successively to the world. More importantly it stood against the Trinitarian teaching that "God was one God in Father" rather than One in the Father's essence only.[5]
It has been noted also that the Greek term "homoousios", which Athanasius of Alexandria favored, was actually a term that was reported to be put forth and favored also by Sabellius, and was a term that many followers of Athanasius took issue with and were uneasy about. Their objection to the term "homoousios" was that it was considered to be "un-Scriptural, suspicious, and of a Sabellian tendency."[6] This was because Sabellius also considered the Father and the Son to be "one substance." By that Sabellius meant that the Father and Son were "one essential Person", though operating as different manifestations, roles, faces, or modes. Athanasius, however, used the term differently than Sabellius, affirming oneness of the Divine Essence while maintaining the distinctions between the Divine Persons.
The term "homoousios" was accepted, however, at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., using the Athanasian formula and doctrine, of the Father and Son being distinct persons, though co-eternal, co-equal, and con-substantial. The objections to using the term were addressed by clarifying that it was not being used in the Sabellian sense of oneness of Person, but rather to denote oneness of Essence while affirming the distinctions of the Persons or "hypostases".
According to Epiphanius of Salamis, Sabellius used the sun's characteristics as an analogy of God's nature. Just as the sun has "three powers" (warmth, light, and circular form), so God has three aspects: the warming power answers to the Holy Spirit; the illuminating power, to the Son; and the form or figure, to the Father.[7] Sabellius used the term "prosopa" which is Greek for "faces" to describe how the person of God has three faces, this idea is found in 2 Corinthians 4:6 "...God's glory displayed in the face (prosopon - singular form of prosopa) of Christ.
God in essenceEdit
Von Mosheim thus described Sabellius' views:
But while Sabellius maintained that there was but one divine person, he still believed the distinction of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, described in the Scriptures, to be a real distinction, and not a mere appellative or nominal one. That is, he believed the one divine person whom he recognized, to have three distinct forms, which are really different, and which should not be confounded.[8]
The Teachings of Sabellius were most vigorously opposed by Tertullian in North Africa and Hippolytus in Rome, who both proposed a hierarchical trinity of subordinate persons.[9] Tertullian is reported to have given Sabellius' doctrine the name Patripassianism, meaning 'the father suffered', since Sabellius made no true distinction of persons between the Father and the Son. The term is from the Latin words pater for "father", and passus from the verb "to suffer", because it implied that the Father suffered on the cross. Tertullian coined the term in his work Adversus Praxeas, Chapter I: "By this Praxeas did a twofold service for the devil at Rome: he drove away prophecy, and he brought in heresy; he put to flight the Paraclete, and he crucified the Father." This charge he applied to Sabellius as well.[10] This is a distortion of Sabellius' teaching according to Clissold, who quotes scholars who have appealed to Epiphanius' writings.[11] Epiphanius (died 403) says that in his time Sabellians were still numerous in Mesopotamia and Rome - a fact confirmed by an inscription discovered at Rome in 1742, evidently erected by Sabellian Christians.[12]
Modern movementsEdit
Although there are some doctrinal characteristics shared by a modern group called Oneness Pentecostals with those of Sabellius, the former do not teach the exact doctrine of Dispensational Modalism as purportedly taught by Sabellius. Some consider this, however, an unfounded assertion, as we have no writings of Sabellius to definitively prove for one way or another.
So it cannot be certain whether Sabellius taught a dispensational Modalism or taught what is known today as the Oneness Pentecostal theology since all we have of his teaching comes through the writing of his enemies. All of his original works were destroyed. For example, the doctrines that were purportedly believed by the Templars have recently been shown to be falsifications. The following excerpts demonstrate some of the known doctrinal characteristics of ancient Sabellians which may compare with the doctrines in the modern Oneness movement. Both movements hold that the Biblical God is one Person, not Three. And that Father, Son, and Spirit are different aspects or manifestations of that one Person, and not three distinct persons.
Sabellianism was doctrine adhered to by a sect of the Montanists. The Montanists are the same sect that Tertullian himself was a member of when he wrote (the anti-Sabellian) Against Praxeas.[13] Apparently then, there were both Trinitarian and modalist participants in the Monatism which was later condemned. Cyprian wrote of Sabellians "How, when God the Father is not known-nay, is even blasphemed-can they who among the heretics are said to be baptized in the name of Christ only, be judged to have obtained the remission of sins?"[14] In 225AD Hippolytus spoke of them saying "Some of them assent to the heresy of the Noetians, affirming the Father Himself is the Son." Victorinus had this to say of them "Some had doubts about the baptism of those who appeared to recognize the same Father with the Son with us, yet who received the new prophets."
It is reported that some Sabellians experienced glossolalia (speaking in tongues) and baptized in the "shorter formula" because of their denial of the Trinity.[15] Sabellians were referred to by the following Church fathers: Dionysius (c.200-265 AD) wrote "Those baptized in the name of three persons...though baptized by heretics..shall not be rebaptized. But those converted from other heresies shall be perfected by the baptism of the Holy Church." [16] "Sabellius...blasphemes in saying that the Son Himself is the Father and vice versa." [17] "Jesus commands them to baptize into the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-not into a unipersonal God." [18]
Sabellianism teaching of Modalism and singular name baptism was also accompanied by glossolalia and prophecy among the above-mentioned sect of Montanists.[citation needed] In 225 AD Tertullian speaks of "those who would deserve the excellent gifts of the spirit-and who...by means of the Holy Spirit would obtain the gift of language, wisdom, and knowledge." However, none of these practices were the source of controversy concerning the Sabellians - - it was simply their Christology which proved most offensive. In any case, unlike many others deemed as heretics, the Sabellians were never excommunicated from the Church at large.[citation needed] One hundred years later, the Deacon Arius would compare Bishop Alexander to Sabellius, in effect accusing Alexander and Athanasius of reviving an old heresy, that at the very least had Sabellian leanings.[citation needed]
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b Monarchians, New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^
- Wace, H., A Dictionary of Christian Biography: And Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D. With an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies, Hendrickson Publishers, 1994. ISBN 1-56563-057-2. Partly reproduced online at CCEL
- Bunsen, C. C., Hippolytus and His Age, Kessinger Publishing, 2007. Originally published by Longmans, 1852. Partly reproduced online at Google Book Search
- ^ Jaroslav Pelikan, The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600), The University of Chicago Press, 1975, pp.179-181
- ^ pgs 51-55Vladimir Lossky The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, SVS Press, 1997. (ISBN 0-913836-31-1) James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1991. (ISBN 0-227-67919-9)[1]
- ^ pgs 51-55 Vladimir Lossky The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, SVS Press, 1997. (ISBN 0-913836-31-1) James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1991. (ISBN 0-227-67919-9)[2]
- ^ Select Treatises of St. Athanasius - In Controversy With the Arians - Freely Translated by John Henry Cardinal Newmann - Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911, footnote, page 124
- ^ Von Mosheim, J. L., Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Years from the Christian Era, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006, p220. ISBN 1-59752-704-1 Originally published by Trow & Smith Book Manufacturing Co, 1868. Partly reproduced online at Google Book Search
- ^ Von Mosheim, J. L., op cit, p218
- ^ Mattison M. M., Jesus and the Trinity, Auburn University, Alabama Retrieved Oct 7, 2007.
- ^ St. Athanasius (1911), "In Controversy With the Arians", Select Treatises, Newman, John Henry Cardinal trans, Longmans, Green, & Co, p. 124, footn.
- ^ Clissold, A., The Creeds of Athanasius, Sabellius and Swedenborg, Adamant Media Corporation, 2001 (originally published by Longmans Green and Co, 1873) Partly reproduced online at The Creeds of Athanasius, Sabellius and Swedenborg: Examined and Compared With Each Other
- ^ Northcote, J. S., Epitaphs of the Catacombs", 1878, p. 102. Cited by Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- ^ Tertullian, of Carthage. "Against Praxeas". Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ^ Cyprian, c. 250, W, 5.383,484
- ^ J.H. Blunt, p.332,Heik, p 150, kelsey, pp. 40,41
- ^ St. Diontsius, Letters and Treatises, p.54
- ^ Dionysius of Rome, c.264,W, 6.365
- ^ Tertullian, C. 213,W,3.623
External linksEdit
- The Theories of Sabellius and Paul of Samosata, Compendium of the History of Doctrines, pp262-265
- Barnett, D., History of the Doctrine Concerning the Nature of God in the Early Centuries of Christianity: Sabellius (part 8)
- Bernard, D. K., Oneness Believers in Church History, The Oneness of God (chapter 10)
- Tillich, P., The History of Christian Thought (Lecture 12): Monarchianism. Sabellius. The Arian Controversy. Nicaea.
- Tertullian, Against Praxeas c.213 AD
- Views of Sabellius, The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, American Biblical Repository


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Bloodland, by Alan Glynn (Faber, £12.99)
If Winterland, Irish writer Glynn's magnificent second novel, was a state-of-the-nation book, then Bloodland, although centred on Ireland, is something of a state-of-the-world one, straddling three continents. It's scarily plausible in a way that eludes most thriller writers, with an alarmingly authentic cast of control freaks and loose cannons, including a mysteriously dead tabloid darling, a rudderless ex-Taoiseach, a property developer going bankrupt as his assets are reclaimed by brambles and squatters, a washed-up mercenary from the Congo, a raft of ruthless American players and a presidential hopeful. I've not read such a multi-layered, expertly plotted portrayal of arrogance, greed and hubris for a long time – there are, as the publishers claim, echoes of John le Carré, 24 and James Ellroy here, but Glynn's talent is all his own, and his ability to ratchet up the tension is eye-popping.
The Killer is Dying, by James Sallis (No Exit, £7.99)
Sallis, the American author of such novels as Drive and Cripple Creek, is routinely praised for his hardboiled lyricism, and his latest novel is no exception. Here, three stories – of Christian, a hitman dying from an unnamed illness, of an abandoned boy who has Christian's dreams, and of a world-weary detective with a dying wife – are only tangentially linked, but the crime (such as it is) takes second place to the portrayal of the characters' loss-ravaged lives. The Killer is Dying is beautifully written, with commendable brevity and lack of swank, but the dreamlike atmosphere tends to fog. As it's a novel, a spot more focus and a lot more lucidity wouldn't hurt, but read as an extended prose poem, it's well-nigh perfect, although best avoided by persons of a melancholy disposition.
The Lost Daughter, by Lucretia Grindle (Mantle, £12.99)
Grindle's fourth novel is a well written, well imagined time-slip, set in both present-day Italy and during the notorious "Years of Lead" in the 1970s, when the Red Brigades attempted to destabilise the country by numerous robberies and acts of violence. The Lost Daughter focuses on the most famous of these, the kidnapping and assassination of prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978, and its links to the sudden disappearance of American student Kristen Carson 32 years later. Some of the motivation is hard to fathom from this chronological distance, and more information about the climate in which lethal ideologies took root wouldn't have gone amiss. However, the emotional core of the book, which is rendered with subtlety and truth, more than makes up for it; the portrayal of a bereaved young woman whose loneliness, infatuation and naivety lead her into dangerous territory is delicate, sympathetic and engaging.
The Secrets of Pain, by Phil Rickman (Corvus, £18.99)
Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal to better effect than Rickman, whose Herefordshire-based series featuring exorcist – or, in church parlance, "deliverance consultant" – Merrily Watkins is both strikingly original and consistently intriguing. This time, it's a mixture of paganism and the military as Watkins and DI Frank Bliss find themselves dealing with a burned-out SAS chaplain and a bunch of obnoxious bankers who use the Welsh borders as a playground; their macho games include bizarre initiation rituals, but are tolerated because they boost the flagging local economy. A labyrinthine plot and a fascinating portrayal of the quagmire of ancient grudges and shifting allegiances of a close-knit community make this an absorbing and thought-provoking page-turner.
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Bloodland, by Alan Glynn (Faber, £12.99)


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|April 6, 1862 to April 14, 1862
|HARDIN, Tennessee
|Civil War, The Battle of Shiloh
|"American Civil War Era," Furman University
|No votes.
During the battle of Shiloh, Colonel Issac L. Dunlop discovered that even the clearest laid plans and troop organization can be turned into complete chaos after the start of battle. According to the Official Reports of the battle, Colonel Isaac L. Dunlop and his Ninth Arkansas Infantry are clearly put under the command of Brigadier General J.C. Breckinridge in the Reserve Corps, to the east of the battlefield. However, Col. Dunlop's regiment somehow managed to get in the dead center of the battle within the first day on 6 April, 1862. General A.S. Johnston found them and ordered them into battle, specifically to charge up a hill and force the Union soldiers to give up their position. Dunlop stated that he learned afterward that the men they faced were Pickett's, but whether or not his regiment was partially responsible for the taking of the famed "Hornet's Nest," no one knows. They continued pursuing the Union soldiers until their position became one of "extreme peril" that was right in between "two batteries, both pouring grape and canister into [the] ranks" and then fell back to a safe position for the night.
Further organizational confusion was apparent the following morning, 7 April, when Dunlop and his men were pulled from battle in the face of a Union advance and ordered to support General J. K. Jackson and make a stand. However, the brigade fell before Dunlop could get into position, and chaos began to rule the day; Dunlop's regiment advanced too far forward and became completely detached from General Jackson's Brigade, becoming "exposed to a destructive fire from both flanks." Rather than rejoining Jackson, Dunlop chose instead to continue moving his men in the same direction and joined up with a different brigade, this one commanded by Col. John D. Martin. In spite of numerous attempts to make a stand and hold their position, ultimately the order to fall back was given.
Dunlop, in typical Confederate fashion, made little mention of the defeat. Instead, he emphasized in his report the bravery of his regiment, their perseverance in battle, and their tireless dedication to confronting the enemy. He gave little indication that the battle was going against them when the order came to fall back at 3 pm on 7 April, and then returned to commending the bravery of the fallen and giving numerical information to his commanding officer, J. S. Bowen.
Victor Davis Hanson, in Ripples of Battle, describes the Confederate force at Shiloh as a "microcosm of the Confederacy" that was rife with disorganization, confusion, and disunion. Other authors, such as Brooks Simpson and Ned Bradford, definitely agree with the portrayal of confusion and chaos, though they diverge on other subjects. General A.S. Johnston provided clear and charismatic leadership, but Col. Dunlop's report clearly indicates that without such a strong leader the Confederate forces barely managed a semi-organized retreat. With the loss at Shiloh, as well as the loss of Johnston, the western theatre had little hope of Confederate success for the remaining three years.


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As the sequence of the the unicellular choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis continues to be analyzed, it is now clear this "simple" creature is loaded with all kinds of animal genes. Today, let us consider the research of Xinjiang Ca, from Duke University Medical Center. Cai's paper is entitled "Unicellular Ca2+ Signaling 'Toolkit' at the Origin of Metazoa" (Mol. Biol. Evol. 25(7):1357–1361. 2008).
Cai introduces the situation as follows:
A fundamental question in evolutionary biology is to determine how animals (Metazoa) evolved from a unicellular ancestor by understanding the genetic basis of multicellularity. Many signaling pathways critical for cell–cell communications and animal development probably predated, or occurred concurrently with, the origins of animals. Among these pathways, Ca2+ signaling pathway plays a key second messenger role in regulating many cellular processes in virtually all types of animal cells including fertilization, contraction, exocytosis, transcription, apoptosis, and learning and memory.
It is striking to realize that intracellular concentrations of calcium play crucial roles in many metazoan processes. For example, it is the controlled rise in calcium concentration that triggers the release of neurotransmitters from a neuron and also triggers the contraction of muscle fibers.
Cai continues:
In order to execute distinct physiological functions, each animal cell type selectively expresses a unique set of proteins from a comprehensive Ca2+ signaling 'toolkit' which allows them to transduce appropriate extracellular
stimuli such as neurotransmitters, electrical signals, growth factors, and hormones into spatiotemporal Ca2+ signals. The large repertoire of animal Ca2+ signaling machinery is generally believed to arise from ancient multicellular organisms in which diverse forms of cell–cell communication became essential for development and physiology.
Yet Cai finds that this toolkit did not arise in some ancient multicellular creature, but instead likely existed in an ancient unicellular creature.
Here, we demonstrate for the first time the presence of an extensive Ca2+ signaling 'toolkit' in the unicellular choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis. Choanoflagellates possess homologues of various types of animal plasma membrane Ca2+ channels including the store-operated channel, ligand-operated channels, voltageoperated channels, second messenger-operated channels, and 5 out of 6 animal transient receptor potential channel families. Choanoflagellates also contain homologues of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors. Furthermore, choanoflagellates master a complete set of Ca2+ removal systems including plasma membrane and sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2þ ATPases and homologues of 3 animal cation/Ca2+ exchanger families. Therefore, a complex Ca2+ signaling 'toolkit' might have evolved before the emergence of multicellular animals.
That this single-celled organism possesses such a complex calcium signaling toolkit is striking, especially when considering the same unicellular creature possesses a complex tyrosine kinase toolkit and contains many genes used to connect cells into tissues. Certainly, this level of complexity is superfluous to unicellular life, as many protozoa can exist just fine without it all.
Cai then concludes with a thought-provoking question:
We conclude that an extensive Ca2) signaling 'toolkit' exists in the unicellular choanoflagellates, preceding the origins of animals (Metazoa). The current hypothesis of Ca2+ signaling acquires new dimensions in light of this novel discovery. Why does such an apparently simple unicellular organism need a complex Ca2+ signaling machinery?
And a complex tyrosine kinase circuit? And a battery of genes normally involved in forming tissues? Whatever the functions that are involved in this sophisticated unicellular creature, it is looking more and more as if the stage was set for the evolution of metazoan life.