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Monday, November 21, 2016
Festival participation: ethnographic research
Ethics approval from Flinders University gained on 17 November 2016 for
Festival participation: Engagement of church and community in light of secularisation thesis
The Project:
To interview participants at the Bothwell Spin and Fibre Festival (BSFF), Tasmania. Members of the Uniting Church began this bi-annual community festival and continue to be active participants, including a blessing of the fleece liturgy, the providing of wool for festival participants to craft during the Festival and the holding of a Church service on Sunday as the Festival concludes. The festival has grown over the years, attracting international attention. It is considered a success both by the community and by the church.
This project will explore the meanings attached to this event. It will consider a set of ecclesial foci: Why is the church involved, in particular in the gift of liturgy and craft? What specific theologies shape their involvement? Have those theologies changed over time?
It will consider a set of community foci: What does the community think of the involvement of the church? How do they respond to the gifts being offered? What meanings are attached? How do these two foci connect with theorising regarding the secularisation thesis, which predicts that in modern society, religious participation will decline and religious institutions will weaken.
There is widespread literature noting the decline of religious participation and institutions in Western society. This is loosely organised around a secularising thesis, which is generally posited to be more advanced in modernity, and thus by implication in urban areas. The BSFF is a rural event.
A festival is a fluid event, interleaving together a range of interests, behind which lie a range of narratives. Research of the BSFF can be theorised in relation to the secularisation thesis, given it is located in a rural context and runs as a festival.
Charles Taylor (A Secular Age, 2007) argues that in a secular age, festivals will be conducted in ways that eliminate the tension between the demands of everyday life and hopes of eternal benefit, most commonly by dropping the expectations of eternity and instead framing ultimate purpose as this worldly. Paul Heelas (Spiritualities of Life: New Age Romanticism and Consumptive Capitalism, 2008) argues for the rise of spirituality practised not by discipline, nor by ecstatic experience but through the practices of everyday life. This resonates with the work of Taylor and provides a framework by which to analyse the data.
This research will test the secularisation thesis in regard to the narratives constructed around the participation of the church. Why might the church might be involved? Does their involvement, and in particular their focus on craft, promote a spirituality that is this-worldly? How do participants understand their involvement and the involvement of the church?
The research thus has implications for understanding the motivations behind the general social benefits attributed to festivals. It provides understanding of how the church positions itself within a community and how community participate in such events.
Tuesday, September 06, 2016
researching at Te Papa: another research and the rabbit hole
Happy dance – researching in the Pacific collection at Te Papa! Another research and rabbit hole.
My name is Dr Steve Taylor. I am Principal, Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership and Senior Lecturer, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
I am doing research on indigenous Christologies in Papua New Guinea, through the lens of Drusilla Modjeska's The Mountain, which has a focus on the Omie people of PNG and their art. I presented a conference paper on my work a few weeks ago in Korea, at the International Association for Mission Studies and continue to do work in preparation for a journal article.
I am aware, through Balai, Sana and Judith Ryan (2009) Wisdom of the Mountain: Art of the Omie that Omie art has been obtained by galleries outside PNG, including Te Papa.
I am aware, after a search of your catalogue, using "Omie, Papua New Guinea" that there are 4 items of Omie art in your collection. They are listed as:
I happen to be visiting Wellington next week – Wednesday afternoon, 7th September and Thursday morning, 8th September – and wonder if I could see these items. I am wanting to actually see with my real eyes what is described in The Mountain, in terms of seeking to understand this art as embodied.
If it was possible to see these objects, I would be grateful.
With thanks
Steve Taylor
Email of confirmation today, including an appointment time. Happy dance.
Friday, August 26, 2016
Contribution to Research Environments
Part of being an academic researcher involves contribution to the Research Environment. It is one of 3 factors listed in the New Zealand Performance Based Research criteria; alongside research outputs and peer esteem. Contribution to the Research Environment involves the contribution to vital, high-quality research environment. It involves factors like membership of research collaborations and consortia, contributions to the research discipline and environment, facilitating discipline-based and research networks; generation of externally funded research; supervision of student research and assisting student publishing, exhibiting or performance.
Today, back at work after three days travel, I downloaded an email and collected the mail. It included
- notification that a journal article I had recently reviewed had been published (Religions 2016, 7(9)). Titled "Maintaining the Connection: Strategic Approaches to Keeping the Link between Initiating Congregations and Their Social Service Off-Spring" it provides empirical research on what it means for congregations to start community ministry.
- a post-graduate thesis I have agreed to examine on behalf of another academic institution
- a book to endorse, by a fellow academic, stepping into the world of publishing for the first time
- a book to review, on academic skills, in particular that of note-taking
Each of these are a contribution to research environment – marking to ensure quality, reviewing of journal articles and books and summarising so that others can engage.
My organisation is not eligible to be considered for New Zealand Performance Based Research. Nevertheless, we are Presbyterian and as such, believe in collaborative leadership, that we are better together. The Performance Based Research criteria provide a set of benchmarks by which we might consider our activities and where we put our energy. Contribution to the Research Environment is an essential oil. It is an important category, a reminder that part of being an academic includes not only researching and writing, but providing input into other academics in their writing. Theologically, it is a reminder of the need to do onto others as we would hope they would do unto us.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
film and mission: Missiological approaches to the "Silence" of religious change
I'm presenting today at International Association Mission Studies, Korea. My paper is titled "regard as valuable": Missiological approaches to the "Silence" of religious change. With the historical novel, Silence: A Novel written by Shusako Endo (1923-1999), being made into a film (release date as yet unannounced), I want to explore the possibilities and pitfalls when conversion seems fruitless, which it does in the context of Japan in the 17th century.
In order to engage Silence as a film, I will use Lloyd Baugh, Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film to provide a theoretical frame. I will then place Silence as film alongside a number of other movies that explore the fruitlessness of mission; including The Mission and God lives in the Himalayas.
I'm looking forward to bringing together my research in film and in mission. My conclusion is as follows:
The gift of Silence is that it allows us to see the face of Christ as death on a cross. To represent the fullness of Christ, both Christologically and missiologically, we need the "face of Christ" giving inspiration to artists at every stage of the Philippians arc. When Christ is the Victor, the "conversion-transformation" narrative is one of triumph. We do not ask art images of Christ the Victor or Jesus the baptised to express a complete Christology, expressing every stage of the Philippians arc. We let them stand as Christological snapshots. In Silence, we are offered an artistic gift, that of obedience to the point of death. This is a truthful missiology which voices Christ's silence. Such is the Christological gift of Silence to missiology. It provides an essential snapshot, ensuring our accounts of conversion and transformation include not only narratives of triumph, but also narratives of solidarity with Christ's silence.
Friday, August 05, 2016
Korea bound: Missional Conversation in Seoul
I am in Korea from 6-17 August doing a range of things, all work related. First, I am engaging with the partner churches of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. This will involve meeting with representatives from Presbyterian University Theological Seminary, the seminary of Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK), the urban mission program of Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK), and the assembly office of PCK and PROK. I will be interviewed by Christian Broadcasting media.
In addition, I am meeting with two groups of ministers who have read the Korean translation of my "Out of Bounds Church?" book. This includes the person who translated my first book, The Out of Bounds Church?: Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change into Korean, back in 2006. This for me will be a highlight. (Yes, I've got a gift for him, a copy of my second book – hint! hint! :))
Second, I am presenting two academic papers at International Association of Mission Studies (IAMS). The theme is Conference theme: Conversions and Transformations: Missiological Approaches to Religious Change. This conference happens every four years and I'm delighted to be able to present two papers: both on the implications for conversation of indigenous Pacific Rim Christologies.
Title: "regard as valuable": Missiological approaches to the "Silence" of religious change
Accounts of conversion and transformation within the Christian tradition are often linked to narratives of success and expansion. Yet a truthful missiology needs to engage the entirety of the Christian story. Silence: A Novel is a historical novel that offers an absorbing, albeit bleak, meditation on the inability of the seventeenth century Jesuit mission to establish religious change on Japanese soil.
The book is currently being made into a movie. Directed by Martin Scorsese and due for release in 2016, it will undoubtedly rekindle debate regarding conversion and transformation, including how to understand the mission in the gaps and silences of history.
This paper will examine three missiological approaches. First, the work of Donald McGavran who has argued that lack of success in conversion and transformation is due to the strategies being deployed, particularly a lack of resources focused on evangelism. Second, the work of David Bosch who has argued that suffering is at the core of Christian mission and that silence can be an evangelistic action. Third, the work of Philip Jenkins who has argued that the Christian understanding of Easter, in both death and resurrection, is a more Christian paradigm for understanding religious change than that of progress.
Each of these missiological approaches to religious change will be applied to Silence, both the novel and movie (if released in time). The argument is that missiological approaches that speak of silence are consistent with the Apostle Paul, who asks the church in Philippi to "regard as valuable" the story of Epaphroditus.
Title: Fiction as missiology: an appreciation of religious change in Drusilla Modjeska's "The Mountain"
Stanley Skreslet (Comprehending Mission: The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and prospects of Missiology, 2012) argues that missiology has been slow to examine historical fiction from outside the West. A way to respond to his challenge is presented in The Mountain (2012), a novel by acclaimed Australian writer, Drusilla Modjeska. Book One describes the five years leading up to independence in Papua New Guinea in 1973 and ends with a 'gift child': a hapkas boy. Book Two describes his return – the child of a black mother and white father – to the land of his birth.
In the book an account of conversion and transformation in Papua New Guinea is offered. "Of all the applause, of all the cheers, the greatest is for the Christian missions, the priests who cross the stadium with their crucifixes and their bibles …. 'Jesus,' … 'good' man true" … 'He die on a tree. Very good. He die for PNG.'" (The Mountain, 291). It is a surprisingly positive portrayal of conversion and transformation, referencing indigenous approval ("the greatest [applause] is for the Christian missions") and indigenization ("He die for PNG.")
The paper will take this notion of Jesus as good man true and analyse how this Christology interweaves with themes in The Mountain of ancestor, gift and hapkas. It will argue that The Mountain offers a distinct and creative Christology, one that offers post-colonial insight into the interplay between missiological notions of pilgrim and indigenizing and the complex journeys between there and here. Such a Christology is one result of religious change in PNG.
Best of all, I'm traveling with my partner. She also is presenting a paper at IAMS, which is just fantastic, showcasing her research:
Authentic Conversion: becoming who we are created to be
Conversion to Christianity in Australia today can be understood as resulting from non-Christians desiring, observing and experiencing genuine authenticity. Drawing on qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with recent converts to Christianity, this paper demonstrates first that religious conversion is fuelled by a desire for authenticity. Secondly, religious conversion is resourced by Christians who embrace and exhibit authenticity in their personal, social and spiritual lives. Thirdly, God enables authenticity to develop and flourish. Influenced by Charles Taylor and aspects of Trinitarian theology, the paper argues that this genuine authenticity is relational in nature: focusing not (just) on the self but also on relationship with God and significant connection with, and responsibility toward, others. This understanding rightly challenges the notion of authenticity as a narcissistic actualisation that prioritises the self over external relationships and responsibilities. When relational authenticity is sought and realised by converts, healthy transformation results. This transformation sees new converts 'becoming' the people they were created to be: unique persons who see their worth and their responsibilities in the light of their relationships with God and with others.
Lynne Taylor is a PhD candidate in theology at Flinders University of South Australia where she is using a methodology of grounded theory to investigate why people are becoming Christians in Australia today.
Monday, July 04, 2016
Fieldwork in theology: learnings down-under ANZATS Forum
"Fieldwork in theology: learnings down-under."
Tuesday, 5 July, ANZATS, 4-5:30 pm
Welcome to the Fieldwork in theology forum. This forum focuses on the place of qualitative research in theology. The intention is to share fieldwork notes, the realities encountered in using qualitative research in theology.
Why? The use of empirical methods in theological research is a growing trend in theology. Each year since 2012, there has been an annual Ecclesiology and Ethnography conference in Durham, UK. In 2012, Eerdmans launched two books: Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography and Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ethnography edited by Chris Scharen and Pete Ward. (I have reviewed these in the International Journal of Practical Theology and United Church Studies.) There have been sessions on Ecclesiology and Ethnography at AAR since 2012. In 2014, a new journal was launched – Ecclesial Practices journal, edited by Pete Ward, Paul Fiddes, Henk de Roest.
So journal, books, conferences in UK and US all point to a growing trend in theology.
Downunder, the most internationally recognised writing from Australia comes from Catholic theologian, Neil Ormerod. He wrote a chapter for The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church. At 684 pages, edited by Gerard Mannion and Lewis Mudge, The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church is one of the most impressive global summaries of contemporary ecclesiology.
Ormerod's chapter was titled "Ecclesiology and the Social Sciences". He wrote of a "major divide in ecclesiology, between those who study … an idealist Platonic form in some noetic heaven, and those who study it more as a realist Aristotelian form, grounded in the empirical data of historical ecclesial communities." The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church, Routledge: London and New York, 2008, 639-654.
Ormerod develops this further in his 2005 paper for the Theological Studies journal. He notes that "attempts to engage with the social sciences have not been prominent among ecclesiologists." (815) For Ormerod, this is a theological problem: "underlying these difficulties lies one of the most profound theological mysteries, that of the interrelationship of grace and nature." (818)
Ormerod's downunder perspective gives us some definition. Fieldwork in theology is about a focus on ecclesiology not as idealized, but as grounded in the lived experience of historical ecclesial communities. The use of social sciences to clarify the shape of this lived experience of historical ecclesial communities. The belief that qualitative research is theological: faith seeking understanding at the intersection of grace and nature.
How and Who? In order to explore Fieldwork in theology: learnings down-under, I have brought together a panel of four folk
- Darren Cronshaw
- Lynne Taylor
- Kevin Ward
- Steve Taylor
All have undertaken fieldwork in theology, using qualitative research in pursuing theological questions.
I have asked them each to share for around 10 minutes:
- First, a summary of their fieldwork in theology research
- Second, their most vivid experience of using qualitative research in theology.
- Third, the most complex issue generated by your use of fieldwork in theology.
The aim is not to present research results as such. Rather it is to explore methods, methodologies and theologies – the issues arising as fieldwork research is undertaken in theology. We will do this by using our discussion time not to ask specific questions of each paper, but rather construct a mind map, asking what are issues generated by the use of empirical research in theology.
My hope is that this helps us focus on the realities of research and perhaps set a future research agenda.
Saturday, July 02, 2016
Wanangha nai: a post-colonial indigenous atonement theology
I'm crossing the ditch this week. First stop is Melbourne, where I am part of ANZATS (Australia New Zealand Association of Theological Schools). Second stop is holidays (more on that later).
In Melbourne at ANZATS I'm doing a number of things. These include leading a Forum that I have initiated: Fieldwork in Theology: learnings down-under.
"Fieldwork in theology: learnings down-under"
This forum will focus on the place of qualitative research in theology. The use of empirical methods in theological research is a growing trend, as evident in the new Ecclesial Practices journal, the annual Ecclesiology and Ethnography conference in Durham, UK and sessions at AAR since 2012. This forum will provide space to share fieldwork notes, including experiences of using qualitative research in theology, issues generated by the use of empirical research in theology and ways to network."
This involves a panel of four (Dr Cronshaw, Dr Taylor, Lynne Taylor, Dr Ward). Each will address the question: first, their most vivid experience of using qualitative research in theology; second the most complex issue generated by their use of fieldwork in theology. The aim is to allow discussion of the issues arising as fieldwork research is undertaken in theology, in order to engage the topic focus: the place of qualitative research in theology.
Third, I am presenting a conference paper. It emerges from my experiences on Walking on Country last year and ongoing conversation, digitally and by long-distance telephone call, with Denise Champion.
Jesus as the divine tracker: an indigenous experiment in a post-colonial atonement theology
Here is the introduction …
Wanangha nai. Which means in Adnyamathanha, Where am I going? In this paper, where I am going is to share the story of Great Uncle Alf, honoured by the South Australian Police in 2004, who, I will argue embodies atonement: a knowledge of "this place" so deep that the lost are found and returned to home and community.
To do that I need to provide a methodology, which I do through James McClendon's notion of biography as theology: that by paying attention to lives, we find narratives that guide theology's faithful evolution (Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today's Theology).
And a Biblical conversation, which I do in conversation with Kenneth Bailey, who argues that Luke 15 draws from Psalm 23 and is an atonement theology in which what is lost is found and heaven rejoices (The Good Shepherd: A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament).
Wanangha nai: Where am I going in post-colonial missiology?
First, Missio Dei – God is active in the world. Hence in cultures there are God-bearers, in whom God is Incarnate. Not fully. But enough that God is revealed and cultures and communities are dignified as God-bearers.
Second, paying attention to "ordinary readers." Gerard West, in the context of South Africa, argued that it was well past time for the academy to read Scripture not by educating the non-scholarly to read the Bible like the academy (Reading Other-wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities). Rather by nurturing communities of "intuitive and critical interpreters …[who].. come to the biblical texts from different perspectives that are equally valid." I will explore what that means among an indigenous community in South Australia.
After 9 months immersed in Aotearoa New Zealand and the role at Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership, I am really looking forward to stepping off the dance floor/crossing the ditch, to see friends, to say hello to Melbourne and to pick up some research threads that remain important to me and my mission journey while in Australia.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
The potential of micro-ecclesiologies: Or Who else, beside historians, should visit archives?
I delivered the Presbyterian Research Centre Network winter lecture tonight. It was my 4th talk, on my 4th different topic, in my 4th city, in the last 8 days. Tonight was a chance to try out something I've been thinking about for a while, to run a "research query" on the possibilities of what I defined as "micro-ecclesiologies" for practical theology.
Here's my conclusion
In the first half of this talk, I embarked on an "inquisitive and chaotic … [journey] guided by … curiousity." (quoting Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading). I described visits to the Presbyterian Research Centre, Alexander Turnbull, Hocken and Auckland Research Centre. I described their taonga – the richness possible from lectures on explosions, Parihaka ploughs and historic photos – and the value for childrens' workers, Biblical scholars, those interested in indigenous use of Scripture, peace activists and those desiring to locate any local church within an ecology.
In the second half of the paper, I defined and described micro-histories. I coined a term which I think is unique – micro-ecclesiologies – and then examined it in light of the Creedal affirmation of the church as one, holy, catholic and apostolic. I argued that "micro-ecclesiologies" allow us to understand the church as particular (one), participating in God's life of justice (holy), partnering (catholic) and pioneering (apostolic) – 4 P's in a Presbyterian context, complete with engagement with the theology of the Presbyterian Book of Order.
In other words, while there is a physical, there need be no intellectual gap between KMCL (or the Department of Theology) and Presbyterian Research Archives. Such are the partnerships offered through the study of micro-ecclesiologies.
I really appreciated the opportunity. It was great to hole up in the library this morning and have a few hours of solitude to pursue a "research query" and see where it went.
Definition of query: A query is an inquiry into the database … [It] is used to extract data from the database in a readable format according to the user's request. (Definition from here).
Some of the books I had not picked up for quite a few years – Miroslav Volf After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity since my PhD; Graham Ward Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice since 2007 – and it felt like I was meeting old friends again. It was wonderful to then be able to test the "research query" with a group of thinking people at the lecture and sense the energy in the room. The result is a 5,100 word paper, pulled together yesterday afternoon and this morning, half of which is new words, taking forward some thinking I've wanted to do in relation to practical theology and ecclesiology and ethnography. It could well be either a journal article or the draft of a methodology section for a book project. We will see. For today, it was simply wonderful to be able to think, with friends both old (the books) and new (the Presbyterian Research Network).
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Why bother with historical research in practical ministry and theology?
I'm delivering the NZ PRESBYTERIAN RESEARCH NETWORK Winter Lecture Thursday, 16 June 2016
Why bother with historical research in practical ministry and theology?
Who else, beside historians, should visit archives? In the first part of this talk Steve Taylor will share some examples of how he has used archives in indigenous study, children's talks, practical theology and missiology. The logic behind Parihaka ploughs, explosive lectures, building plans for A-frame churches and archival accounts of hitching lifts on passing boats demonstrate the value of archival research across a wide variety of ministerial and scholarly disciplines.
The second part of the talk will offer a frame by which to integrate these disparate archival examples into being church today. Micro-histories draw on a range of diverse research tools, including observation, interview, survey and archival research, to provide insight. What then, are the possibilities and limits when archives are understand as resourcing and illuminating micro-ecclesiologies? How might micro-ecclesiologies as a "theology of the unique" enrich the church as one, holy, catholic and apostolic?
Winter Lecture, Thursday, 16 June 2016
5.30 to 6.45pm, Knox Centre
Monday, June 13, 2016
Sandpits. Why some papers write quicker than others.
I had an interesting experience over the last 48 hours. Back in October, I submitted two conference paper proposals (250 word abstracts) to International Association of Mission Studies (IAMS) Korea conference. Both were accepted.
One was based on a film, Silence, which was at that time pegged for release in November, 2015. My proposal read as follows:
Title: "regard as valuable": Missiological approaches to the "Silence" of religious change
Accounts of conversion and transformation within the Christian tradition are often linked to narratives of success and expansion. Yet a truthful missiology needs to engage the entirety of the Christian story. Silence: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics) is a historical novel that offers an absorbing, albeit bleak, meditation on the inability of the seventeenth century Jesuit mission to establish religious change on Japanese soil.
The book is currently being made into a movie. Directed by Martin Scorsese and due for release in 2016, it will undoubtedly rekindle debate regarding conversion and transformation, including how to understand the mission in the gaps and silences of history.
This paper will examine three missiological approaches.
First, the work of Donald McGavran who has argued that lack of success in conversion and transformation is due to the strategies being deployed, particularly a lack of resources focused on evangelism.
Second, the work of David Bosch who has argued that suffering is at the core of Christian mission and that silence can be an evangelistic action.
Third, the work of Philip Jenkins who has argued that the Christian understanding of Easter, in both death and resurrection, is a more Christian paradigm for understanding religious change than that of progress.
Each of these missiological approaches to religious change will be applied to Silence, both the novel and movie (if released in time). The argument is that missiological approaches that speak of silence are consistent with the Apostle Paul, who asks the church in Philippi to "regard as valuable" the story of Epaphroditus.
Following acceptance of abstracts, IAMS then required 2000 word papers to be submitted by the end of May, 2016. By the end of May, Silence the movie had not been released! I had already written one paper for IAMS. So I wrote to the conference organisors, advising I was unable to provide a second paper, on Silence, due to the film not as yet having been released. They replied, indicating how keen they were to have the paper. They suggested I complete a draft, based on the book, which I could change if and when the movie appeared. They also offered a 12 day extension, to Sunday 12 June.
I had two other talks to give between the end of May and the 12th of June, both of which required significant preparation. I relayed this to IAMS. However, flying back on Saturday having completed the two presentations, I realised I had 90 minutes in the air. Often being locked in a plane can be highly productive. So I decided I'd spend the time writing and see what happened.
90 minutes later, as the plane began to descend and the call came to turn off all electronic devices, I did a word count. 1750 words!
Wow. Another few hours the next evening, and I found myself with a complete draft. An edit from a competent, understanding academic colleague this morning, and I have just sent a 2,000 word paper, written in the space of 6 hours, over a 48 hour period.
Some papers write quicker than others. Why?
Location – as I said above, I often find myself highly productive when airborne at 30,000 feet. It means no email, office interruptions or phone calls. In addition, looking down provides a different sort of perspective. This becomes a gift, which becomes productive.
Limitation – Given the unavailability of the film, the conference organisers had suggested I provide a draft. This did something mentally. Instead of looking forward, wondering what else I needed to read, and in this case, what else I needed watch, I found myself looking back. What did I already have that I could make use of? Locked in a metal tube, with no new books to distract me, all I had was previous scraps of writing and my head. Searching my hard drive, I found a theoretical frame that I had used in a 2008 conference presentation on female Christ figures in film and realised it could be helpfully used. I remembered I had written in 2010 a film review, in my role as Touchstone film reviewer, that dealt with similar themes. Both opened up some helpful theorisation. Suddenly I had the basis for two sections. The initial work I had done in preparing the abstract became a useful third section. Limitation got me looking within.
Clarity of task – Hemingway said write drunk, edit sober. The argument is that we use different parts of our brain to create than we do to correct. We need to play, and then, separately, to evaluate. We should never do these two tasks together. On Saturday, when I began to write, it was playful. "What the heck," I thought as the plane took off, "I have 90 minutes, so let's see what happens." I doubted I would come up with anything, so there was certainly a risk free environment.
Surprised by my output on Saturday, I decided to have a second play on Sunday. "What the heck, I have a few evening hours free, I wonder if I can land this, write a complete draft before 10 pm tonight?" If I did, I could then sleep on it (sleep-in Monday actually), and then turn from play to edit, reading critically what I had playfully produced.
Sandpits – In a recent post on writing (from binge to snack: why Parking 60 has changed my writing life), I reflected on the difference between binge writing and snack writing. I talked about how the discipline of sixty minutes a day had enhanced my writing.
Reflecting on this past weekend, I did not feel like I was either snacking or binging. I wrote for two sessions, one 90 minutes, then other 150. Then it was an edit, once on the screen in response to feedback, the second on paper as a final edit.
A more helpful image for what I have experienced would be neither snacking, nor binging but sandpitting. Sandpits are places to play. Play happens because of structure – the physical structure of a bounded space, the social structure of watching parents. In the sandpit, results and outcomes are not the issue. Play is.
Location and limitation and clarity of task had produced a sandpit. A "no-outcomes-expected, have-a-go, draw-together-what-you-already-know" play. My play was further supported by that helpful colleague, able to offer quick, objective, time-bound advice. They knew I had time pressures and were able to feedback within those realities.
What I have written will undoubtedly need more work, including wider reading and a reconsideration when (if) the film appears. But I now have words. And some satisfaction, at producing a 2,000 word conference paper in 48 hour period. And respect for the possibilities and potential of being placed in a sandpit!
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
"Women's wealth" as human agency: lines as bridges in Drusilla Modjeska's The Mountain
Behind Sunday's sermon, on "women's wealth" and Dorcas as a pioneering a fresh expression of justice, lay an academic research project I've been pottering away on for the last few weeks. As a result, I've just submitted a paper proposal for Lines in Sand: Borders, Conflicts and Transitions, Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture. It is 9th-11th Sept 2016, University of Glasgow.
It is just before the BERA conference, in Leeds, which I've had a paper accepted at and just after the Ecclesiology and Ethnograpy conference, in Durham, which I've already got a paper drafted for. So there is a nice confluence of conferences. The paper I've proposed for Lines in Sand: Borders, Conflicts and Transitions is in the Literature section. It is new terrain, and therefore I am taking a bit of a punt. But it is an attempt to think through some of my current reading, in particular, of Drusilla Modjeska's The Mountain and the implications for gender and post-colonial ways of being.
The proposed paper is as follows:
"Women's wealth" as human agency: lines as bridges in Drusilla Modjeska's The Mountain
This paper argues that lines are verbs that engender lived experience (Ingold, Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture, 2013). The term "women's wealth" (Goddard, Threads, 2011) is applied as a metaphor to analyze the arc, art and author of The Mountain.
Drusilla Modjeska is a writer of non-fiction accounts of women's literature. The Mountain is a departure, a novel of love and loss set within Papua New Guinea's (PNG) transition to independence and the conflicts surrounding the nation's quest for economic viability in a globalising world. At the heart of The Mountain is "women's wealth," in the form of barkcloth made by the Omie women of PNG. Central to the narrative arc of The Mountain is indigenous agency, the Omie acting creatively in their search for economic sustainability.
The front cover of The Mountain is painted in the black lines distinctive of Omie art. Each chapter begins with a different piece of this art. These lines provide an invitation to read visually. Ingold argued for three types of lines: geometric, organic and abstract. The Omie consider their art is a visual alphabet in which lines are bridges not boundaries. Hence The Mountain invites a focus not on sola literature but on a visual reading that respects lines as organic and abstract.
While writing The Mountain, the author became part of her own fictional narrative arc. She founds a not-for-profit organisation that enables Omie artists to benefit from Western interaction. She writes of her struggle, an English woman living in Australia, to overcome her "internal post-colonial border policewoman" and cross the lines of either/or. She finds agency when recalling "women's wealth": the lives of women she has read, interviewed and observed painting lines-as-bridges.
Hence "women's wealth" – in narrative arc, lined art and women's lived experience – turns lines into bridges, enhances human agency and empowers creativity.
In working on my International Association of Mission Studies paper – Fiction as missiology: an appreciation of religious change in Drusilla Modjeska's "The Mountain" – a set of questions had been generated, around the materiality of what I was researching. That led down a set of research rabbit holes around Pacifica weaving, which, given the numbers of Pacifica students at Knox Centre and the history of Presbyterian involvement, seemed worth pursuing. This proposed paper is a result.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The complexity of being woven together: A microhistory
There's an interesting conference in Wellington, 9-10 June, 2016. It is sponsored by UNESCO and Victoria University. Titled Woven Together? Christianity and Development between New Zealand and the Pacific, it will examine Christianity as a development actor, investigating the roles that Christianity has played in influencing development and humanitarian practices, ideologies, rituals, networks and imaginations in the Pacific. It is a wide brief, interested in all aspects of the interweaving of Christianity and development in the Pacific.
Given the role of the Presbyterian Church of Aoteroa New Zealand in the Pacific, particularly Vanuatu, I contacted Phil King from Global Mission and suggested involvement. Phil King and I began work on a potential contribution. We have had excellent help from Archives, who have located some rich historical documents.
Abstracts are due 26 March, 2016, and here is what Phil and I have submitted.
The complexity of being woven together: A microhistory of the relationship between Talua Ministry Training Centre and three denominations in Australia and New Zealand
Dr Steve Taylor and Rev Phil King
An essential dimension of Christianity in the Pacific is theological education. A common pattern involved denominations establishing a general school, to teach practical and theological topics. By paying close attention to local language and patterns, a contextualised and economically self-sustaining mode of training emerged.
Dramatic changes occurred in the 1960's. New institutions emerged. These were centralised and ecumenical, teaching university level theological education in English. They relied on a different economic model and contextual approaches.
This becomes obvious when Talua Ministry Training Centre, Vanuatu, is examined. At Talua, three denominations from Australia and New Zealand are involved. Each can be theorised, drawing on archival research, as an actor, complexifying the development of Talua. Each is also being acted upon, facing internal tensions regarding gender and contextualisation, which in turn have impacted Talua. Being woven together requires paying attention to a shifting set of complexities, including economic dependency, partnership and contextuality.
For me, it is important that church-based mission agencies are present and thinking in these places. I consider it a sort of "public" missiology, in which activity and history is reflected upon in wider contexts. So I've also contacted Uniting World in Australia, suggesting they could be making a contribution.
Monday, March 14, 2016
Jesus as the divine tracker: an indigenous experiment in a post-colonial atonement theology
My abstract for ANZATS 2016. The theme is atonement, which opens some space to reflect on indigenous Christology and develop a sermon I delivered at Port Augusta Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress Minister last year.
Jesus as the divine tracker: an indigenous experiment in a post-colonial atonement theology
Steve Taylor and Denise Champion
James McClendon (Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today's Theology) has argued that biography can remake theology. This methodology is applied to an indigenous Australian, to argue that a post-colonial atonement theology emerges in the biographical telling.
Warrianha (Alfred Ryan) was an Adnyamathanha man, born in the Flinders Ranges. He was honoured in 2004 for his contribution over many years in the Coonawarra area as a Police tracker, renowned for his ability to find people. This provides a way to read Psalm 23, in which the Lord is the shepherd who, like an indigenous animal tracker, finds those lost in the valley of death. This suggests atonement as the experience of being found and returned to home and community.
This reading of Psalm 23 is strengthened by the work of Kenneth Bailey (The Good Shepherd: A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament), who listened to indigenous peoples in the Middle East. Bailey argues that Luke 15 draws from Psalm 23 and is an atonement theology in which what is lost is found and heaven rejoices.
This provides another category by which to engage Indigenous Australian stories. Biography as theology, as in the life of Warrianha, is a different type of story in contrast to indigenous dreaming stories. Further, it is the story of working across cultures, among the Buandig nation, rather than among his Adnyamathanha people. McClendon's conviction is that by paying attention to lives, we find narratives that guide theology's faithful evolution. Warrianha's life offers potential for those doing theology in a post-colonial age, as a place-specific indigenous Christology that crosses nations.
Note: It is hoped that the presentation at ANZATS will be done in partnership with Warrianha's great niece, Rev Denise Champion, Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress Minister, Port Augusta, South Australia.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Acceptance: New kid in class: Qualitative research into flipped learning
I'm delighted with the news, received yesterday, that my New kid in class: Qualitative research into flipped learning in a higher education context paper has been accepted for BERA (British Educational Research Association). The BERA conference is in Leeds, in September 13-15, 2016. It is just after two other conferences I am hoping to present at. More importantly, it is a chance to take my research on flipped learning, which I undertook in 2014, as part of teaching Christology, into a context that is both international and educational.
It is important to research the impact on learners when we make changes, hence why I did the initial research. It is one thing to present that research to theologians (I have presented at ANZATS in 2015). It's another to present that research to educators, to slip out of my discipline and engage with another. So I'm delighted that my paper was accepted and look forward, with some nervousness, to the opportunity to engage.
Here is the abstract:
New kid in class: Qualitative research into flipped learning in a higher education context
Flipped learning, like any new kid in town, finds itself undergoing careful scrutiny. A Review of Flipped Learning (2013) identified the need for further qualitative research, including its potential to engage diverse learners across cultures and subgroups. This paper investigates the impact on learners when flipped learning is introduced into a higher education undergraduate theology topic. Traditionally, theology has privileged Western discourse. Can flipped learning be a useful ally in encouraging globalisation and personalisation?
A 2014 Flinders University Community of Practice research project implemented three pedagogical strategies. These included the introduction of indigenous voices to encourage personalised learning, the use of Blooms Taxonomy to scaffold activities in-class time and digital participation to cultivate the learning culture. These addressed all four pillars (Flexible Environment, Learning Culture, Intentional content, Professional educator) of flipped learning (The Four Pillars of F-L-I-P™, (2014)).
Students completed a four question written survey at the start, middle and end of the topic. The results indicated a significant shift. Students had moved from an initial appreciation of content, to a consideration of how they learn from the diversity inherent among their peers. Students perceived that the changes had enhanced their ability to communicate effectively and expressed a preference for choice, collaboration and diversity. However, feedback from Student Evaluation of Teaching responses, assignments and interaction with students was mixed. While overall people affirmed flipped learning, some expressed a desire to return to traditional lecture modes.
This data can be theorised using the notion of learning as a social act, shaped by learner agency. Preston ("Braided Learning," 2008) observed that students fill different roles in an on-line learning community. Some act as e-facilitators, others as braiders or accomplished fellows. Each of these roles depend on agency being given to, and received by, fellow learners. Student assignments demonstrated that these roles were present during in class-time and further, that the pedagogical strategies implemented were essential in inviting students into these roles. In contrast, students who expressed concern about flipped learning indicated either a desire to preserve the percieved purity of an objective academic experience or a reluctance to trust student agency.
This suggests that the success of flipped learning depends not on the technological ability to produce videos. Rather it depends on pedagagical strategies, including those that help learners appreciate agency in their peers. In sum, the desire to learn from any new kid in the class remains at the core of the educative experience.
- Dr Steve Taylor, Vice Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Flinders University, South Australia


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The primaries are over and Barack Obama has won and accepted his party's nomination. But you wouldn't know that by the months of canned advice from the right. The McLaughlin Group's right lineup included the ubiquitous Pat Buchanan, the smart blonde Monica Crowley, and on the left, Eleanor Clift and Derek McGinty. Among the topics: The Bradley effect, presidential polling and NASA. Kennedy got credit for creating NASA from nada; Bush and Barack also spoke about NASA's future this week.
I believe it was Pat Buchanan who started: "Why hasn't Obama closed the deal?" I wondered aloud why Pat hadn't closed his mouth. Buchanan is no Neocon. He's an old con with a long record of fear mongering. While he has no criminal record (that we know of), his take on politics is sometimes downright criminal. So if you've tired of pundit Pat you're not alone. Here's a man who makes himself at home in the most unlikely of places, including the ratings goldmine, the new Rachel Maddow Show—a fresh face who presents political satire sans snark.
It's not that he is tiring—it's his tired old idiom "Why can't Obama close the deal?" Millions of Americans have seen past this hackneyed line and Obama supporters simply were not fazed by it. But it fazed the pundits, who repeated it nonstop. This idiom was fresh because of Obama's low-flying post-Denver-convention bounce. Obama has bounced back. From June onwards, he has been in a dead heat according to all polls, both national and statewide. And in some state polls (red states) he has lagged far behind. But according to Pat and company, he had no business being so far behind. They sought to explain it away; enter the Bradley Effect.
The Bradley Effect is a racial meme begun in California after Mayor Tom Bradley lost the California governor's race, even though he was polling double digits ahead of his opponent. This was the meme du jour, applied like actor's pancake makeup to the Obama campaign; he's black, and white people will lie to the pollsters to avoid appearing racist. It was only after the MSM properly bandied about the Bradley effect that it appears now, drum roll, it has been reversed. Or better, it never existed. Yes, there is a reverse-Bradley effect – who knew? The conservatives among the McLaughlin group agree—the Bradley effect never existed then and does not exist now.
We tried reading what those pundits had to say when Obama was trailing in the polls – erratic at best. But I wanted to know what conservatives would sing when Obama closed the deal. No problem, Buchanan et al have cut a new single, "The media has gone into the tank [for Obama], as I've never seen it before." Pat makes a good case: given the big money, MSM fawning, populist hoopla and branding of Barack, he should be running away with the pollsters to the tune of 55%.
September horribilus
If the MSM is in the tank for Obama, that message has been tempered by the fact that it took months for him to shatter the coveted 50% ceiling. When exactly did he break that tie? According to the poll of polls, somewhere around the first of October. The first week in October, as everyone knows, was merely two weeks after Henry Paulson penned the 3-page bailout bill. On the Achilles' heel of his proposal—September horribilus and a market-meltdown fever not seen since the Great Depression, gripped the nation. The market and bailout debacle led to a national chorus of "It's the economy, stupid." And with the sinking of the stock market, so, too, fell McCain's political fortunes–look out below!
Pat panic: the fat lady sings
The "Obama has not closed the deal" idiom is on life support. It has pulled up to the last stop on the tracks. Who better to pull the cord and get off the red line than the man who started it; Here's Pat in his own words on this weekend's McLaughlin Group, "Obama is ahead in the money, enthusiasm, ground troops, the air game and advertising, ahead in the polls (did you say polls?), ahead in temperament, ahead in state-by-state polls." He continued the truth parade with this little sentence: "[I]t is really an uphill grind for McCain to win…he has to pick up every single toss-up state." Ouch.
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Conquest Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico By Hugh Thomas Illustrated. 812 pages. Simon & Schuster. $30.
A century and a half ago, the English historian Macaulay wrote that "every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma and who strangled Atahualpa."
That the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes imprisoned the emperor of the Aztecs and that Cortes's distant cousin Francisco Pizarro strangled the last Incan king of Peru may not be quite such common knowledge these days. But all of us schoolchildren now have the opportunity to catch up with the details of the first episode, in Hugh Thomas's stirring new history, "Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico."
Even in briefest synopsis, the story of "Conquest" is dramatic. The Mexicans were a sophisticated civilization, so developed militarily that the other peoples in their valley were forced to pay tribute to them. Not only was there the natural barrier of the mountains between the Mexicans and the coast, but their wondrous city Tenochtitlan (as Mr. Thomas refers to what today is Mexico City), was in the middle of a lake and approachable only by a system of causeways.
By contrast, Cortes and his conquistadors were vastly fewer in number and an ocean away from home. Not only did they face a difficult trek to reach Tenochtitlan, but also no sooner had they embarked on their expedition than Cortes's superiors in Spain and the Caribbean set about to undermine him.
And yet in a few years, between 1519 and 1523, Cortes was able to make his way to Tenochtitlan, to capture and break Montezuma, to defeat the Mexicans and sack their city and eventually to expand his forces beyond the valley, west to the Pacific and north to what became California, to establish the empire that became known as New Spain.
In fact, so dramatic is the account in Mr. Thomas's telling, that despite its being familiar history you almost don't want to give the story away. Nothing will be spoiled, however, by the revelation that a good deal of the outcome hinged on Cortes's remarkable character. In Mr. Thomas's hands, that character is enthralling, by turns outrageous, inventive, audacious and at times faintly ridiculous.
It was Cortes's practice to read aloud to uncomprehending natives a document calling upon them to accept the authority of the Spanish crown as the temporal representative of the papacy; then if the Indians failed to cooperate, Cortes would crush them for acting in rebellion. He was inventive enough to obtain sulfur for gunpowder by lowering baskets into the mouth of the volcano Popocatepetl.
His most audacious feat was to arrange for the pieces of 12 brigantines to be hauled from some 50 miles away, and to direct the construction of a mile-and-a-half-long, 12-foot-wide channel through which the finished boats could be launched into the lake that surrounded Tenochtitlan. His absurdity lay in his fondness for sprinkling his inspiriting orations with proverbs, four of which his chaplain recorded as follows: "Where goes the ox who will not draw the plow?"; "You are seeking a cat with five feet"; "Wherever we go, we shall find three leagues of bad road," and, his favorite, "The more the Moors, the greater the spoil." Truly fighting words.
Of course, the story has been told before, most famously by the 19th-century American historian W. H. Prescott in his classic "History of the Conquest of Mexico" (1843). Mr. Thomas, a life peer whose best known previous books are "The Spanish Civil War" and "Cuba or the Pursuit of Liberty," acknowledges the greatness of Prescott's work, pointing out that it was used as a guide by United States officers in the Mexican War of 1848.
But Mr. Thomas also remarks that Prescott ignored several important documents, like the 6,000-word report of an inquiry into Cortes's conduct of affairs, the "juicio de residentia," which was begun in 1529. And he concludes that Prescott, "like most people of his generation, was a little disdainful of the indigenous culture of old Mexico."
Mr. Thomas sets out to correct what he considers Prescott's false impression by portraying a rich, cultured civilization that he compares indirectly to ancient Greece. Yet he also has to admit that an essential part of the Mexican culture was bloodletting. "At festivals there were other offerings," he writes, "sometimes of animals and birds, especially quail; but on an increasingly large scale, human beings, as a rule prisoners of war or slaves especially bought for the purpose."
Indeed, every ceremonial act of violence that Gary Jennings depicted in his powerful if sadistic novel "Aztec" (1981) turns out to have been accurate, from the practice of tearing out the sacrificial victim's heart to the festival of Xochiquetzal, goddess of love and pregnancy, in which, as Mr. Thomas describes it, "An impersonation of the goddess was sacrificed, a priest put on her skin, flowering trees were set up in whose branches little boys dressed as butterflies and birds scrambled about, while below the priest-gods pretended to shoot them with blowguns."
"The achievements of the Mexicans should not be overshadowed by consideration of this to us unacceptable side of their practices," Mr. Thomas concludes. Other cultures have practiced human sacrifice. "Yet in numbers, in the elevated sense of ceremony which accompanied the theatrical shows involved, as in its significance in the official religion, human sacrifice in Mexico was unique."
Not being multiculturalists, Spaniards in Mexico used the evidence of this practice to justify the morality of their invasion. Cortes himself also mentioned God and gold among his motives for conquest, although Mr. Thomas ultimately judges him to have been a Renaissance man who essentially desired the wealth and power of a Spanish don.
As for his counterpart, Montezuma: for all his reputation as a conqueror, he seems to have been undone by news of the Spaniards' arrival on his continent. In Mr. Thomas's portrait, he alternated between weeping, attempts at trickery and a form of love for his captor that often infects hostages.
Although every schoolchild may once have known about it, Montezuma's death was inglorious, at least in Mr. Thomas's view of it. Induced by Cortes to deliver a pacifying speech to the Mexicans, he was met with a shower of stones when he appeared on the roof of his palace. Three apparently hit him. He died of the wounds the next morning, June 30, 1520. The battle for his empire, so compellingly recounted in "Conquest," had barely begun.
Photo: Hugh Thomas (Vanesa Thomas/Simon & Schuster)


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The market logic was undeniable. The veteran retailer is well known for his tenacity. His failure to buy M&S eight years ago in a £9 billion hostile bid — or 400p a share — must surely still be classed as "unfinished business".
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But a source with knowledge of the situation indicated Williams suffered a dislocated wrist and would likely be out the remainder of the season.
"Injury-wise if there's a negative, something not positive about this game, Chris Williams had a wrist injury," Smith said. "He had surgery tonight. So I don't know exactly how long he'll be out, but he'll be down for a while."
The last time Smith said a player would be down "for a while," the coach was discussing starting right tackle Gabe Carimi, who hasn't been back in the lineup since suffering partial right kneecap dislocation on Sept. 18 at New Orleans.
Williams had started all nine of the team's games at left tackle this season, and the injury could further strain the Bears' depth along the offensive line.
"He('d) been playing really well as of late, so we're going to have to fill a big void there," said quarterback Jay Cutler.
Edwin Williams filled in for Chris Williams at left guard and later expressed concern about his teammate's injury.
"You never want to go into a game like that, coming in for an injured teammate," Edwin Williams said. "I just did the best I could do."
A natural guard compared to Chris Williams, who had mostly played tackle, Edwin Williams played nine games last season at guard with five starts at the position as a fill in for Lance Louis and center Roberto Garza (who was a guard at the time).
Offensive line coach Mike Tice has been high on Edwin Williams as a potential contributor in a pinch since training camp.
"We've battled from some offensive line stuff this year already," Cutler said. "Losing him is going to hurt. He was kind of one of our anchors in there helping Garza with some of his calls, some of the protections and stuff."
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On the face of it the question of whether or not you can sell your timeshare seems to be a resounding YES! However like anything, it is always advisable to find out all the facts. The costs associated, how long will it take for the sale to go through, when your liability finishes with regards to the maintenance fees, are there any taxes to pay etc.
With so much information available regarding the timeshare industry it can be, to say the least, a bit of a minefield when you decide that you no longer wish to either use your holiday ownership any more or indeed, as so many have found, that your financial circumstances can no longer facilitate the maintenance fees.
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Bug 902992 enables position:sticky only on Nightly and Aurora. Among other things, we should wait for a more stable specification before enabling it on Beta and Release.
Can we prioritize that for 1.4 ?
The code of sms/contacts/call log is using their own fixed header solution implemented in JS and will let us remove it as well as saving some extra repaints.
The feeling of fixed headers will be also much better since the current code relies on "scroll" events and the fixed headers are lagging behind the user gesture with APZC enabled.
David, can we get this for 1.4?
Do we need this for 1.4? Or is this something that can be moved to 1.5
I'm basing 1.4+ on Comment 1, so I'll leave it to Vivien to answer that. I personally have a feeling that this would be identified as a blocker by our partners, but only in a few weeks, at which point it would be much more expensive to fix.
Actually, I think this is enabled in B2G already (bug 945777), and most of our apps are now using position:sticky (eg bug 945481 for Messages).
Not sure why this bug is a blocker then.
Got it. I'll update the summary so that it's clear this is for non-B2G platforms.
Any ETA? Would be great if that could be activated soon. Fiddling around with sicky js-libraries that all are a bit buggy (for our use-case, for others they seem to work just fine), where-as position:sticky on the nightly works perfectly.
Created attachment 8418434 [details] [diff] [review]
Bug 916315 Patch To Enable Sticky Preference By Default, r=dbaron
This patch enables the layout.css.sticky.enabled preference by default in release builds.
Did you send an intent to ship message to dev-platform per https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ExposureGuidelines ?
(In reply to David Baron [:dbaron] (needinfo? me) (UTC-7) from comment #9)
> Did you send an intent to ship message to dev-platform per
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ExposureGuidelines ?
I have sent the intent to ship message to dev-platform and am awaiting feedback.
FYI, I think we had to disable position:sticky in a number of gaia apps for performance reasons. For example, see bug 977680 and bug 978067. I guess the issue is that it creates additional layerization costs.
I don't think this should hold up exposing the API, but just wanted to share that since comment 5 mentioned b2g was using it.
Thead and table type of element is still not supported Sticky, Chrome Canary has supported.
That's bug 975644.
(In reply to David Baron [:dbaron] (Away/Busy May 10-22) (UTC+9) from comment #15)
> That's bug 975644.
Thanks! Current position: sticky does not seem to realize iOS 7 contacts that effect.
Verified on Win 7 x64, Ubuntu 12.10 x86, Mac OS X 10.9.4 with Firefox 32 Beta 1 (BuildID: 20140722195627): "layout.css.sticky.enabled" pref is "true" by default, and position sticky seems to work fine (http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/css/sticky.html).
The compat table of
has been updated.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/32#CSS , too.


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Dead Air: A Cycling Murder Mystery: If that tagline doesn't grab your attention, the comic book-like cover most likely will. Mysteries are always fun, and when they're paired with a situation that is not normal or likely, they become intriguing just because of the entertainment value alone. Dead Air doesn't do too much to speed by the competition with wheels clicking, but it does provide some immediate gratification.
This book is Greg Moody's fifth in the Cycling Murder Mystery series, although for those who haven't read the other four, Moody gives enough background information for one to gain a sense of what happened in the other stories while not giving away too much. It's probably best to begin from square one, but I found myself reading this book first and wasn't too confused.
In Dead Air, Will Ross is a struggling widower after his wife was killed in a basketball bombing. Ross is now left with his child, Elena, as he attempts to overcome his lethargy, get back into the work force in the sports section at local television station TV6, and forget about the past. Elena is the one who has really lost the most – her mother but also her father, because Ross is hesitant to take on the job of father alone.
Ross has his mother-in-law Rose to look after the baby while he gets on his feet, and he finally goes back to his job, where a new anchor is trying to take over his position. Ross also gets a call from the man who killed his wife, and so he promptly calls his good friend Detective Whiteside back into the case to get to the bottom of things.
As all this is occurring, Ross is seduced by a manipulative reporter, Beth Freeman, who is working to get Ross fired from his job and pen an emotional (and faked) special on Ross' detachment from his daughter. Ross' friend Zorro, Clyde Zoromski, tries to warn him about Freeman's bitchiness, but Ross doesn't want a man to get between him and his sexual desires. All this and bombs, bombs, bombs.
Moody puts so many characters into his stories, and they each have their own distinct personality. This is a good thing, because with so many characters, it is sometimes hard to lose track of who they all are. When their personalities come up, though, it makes it easy to tell who they are. I remembered the characters more for how they acted than their actual names.
There are some characters who are just plain likable – Zorro, for example, is a case of a character being more likable in a story than in real life. His attitude is one of negativity, which would probably make him annoying in reality, yet in the novel I wanted to see more of him. Ross, on the other hand, is a helpless bumbling mess, which almost makes sense since he is still full of sorrow from his life, but one would like to hope that a man would not be so enthralled with sex that he would drop all of his morals and wit for it. Ross makes mistakes that are incredibly tedious, being convinced of situations by words alone, that we can understand how he had never found his wife's murderers.
Ross is not the only thing that seems unbelievable. The detectives are dumb – they can't figure anything out for the life of them until the inexperienced figure it out for themselves. Ross was better off alone – the police keep getting in Ross' way, actually, and by the time they figure out the mystery for themselves, it's too late; everything has already been dealt with. Also, most events seem too coincidental. This just happens to happen which sets off this who happens to be there… Yadda yadda yadda it would be okay if it happened once or twice, but the book offers this up as an explanation again and again.
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He stands up, begins to sing, weaving his words like silk string.
His grace, his charm, hides all the harm.
On the inside hes fading away, can no longer stray,
All the fame, all the fans, yet he is the loneliest man.
Lingering for love, but not long enough.
I wish I could meet him, and let him know how I feel,
Tell him hes lovely, without all the concerts and gigs.
I'm not just a groopie, I'm not just a fan, my love for hims more real than that.
To him i'm just another face singing along,
Who'd never understand the emptyness that haunts him, forever long.
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This is more of a song than a poem, i should really add more but i guess i cant think of what else to add. Hope everyone that reads this enjoys it!
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oooh I like it, it would be the greatest chorus to a song :) I'm not sure about the verses or anything, but if you get inspiration you should definitely make it into a song!!
and that's exactly why i don't want to be famous...well, that and the fact that i just don't like being the center of attention. anyways, great job! =D
Wow, I really connected to this poem. Not to cheapen it, but I've had those feelings for an idol of mine too. This is very easy to relate to. You really capture how a fan feels, but you know what they say "you should never meet your heroes" =) This one had been added to my book list.
Wow, you should turn it into a song
I gave you a i like it, I enjoyed it
It was good. Puctual. Well worded. It was pretty cliche though, the whole concept of you being the only fan who REALLY loves him.
Something that annoyed me: hes is not a word. is is he's (you forgot the apostraphe a couple of times)
keep writing, you're good, but challenge or ignore what has been written a thousand times (you don't want to drop into the obscurity of the masses)
hi! renee. kinda sad but even the mightiest lack something. very well stated. makes me reflect and ponder. lol. ;-)
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CNS Burnout
I want to bring up the topic of CNS burnout. So much is said of CNS burnout, and I think it's the least understood training-related factor.
What do you believe causes CNS burnout? Is CNS burnout overblown?
Is training to failure bad for CNS? Slow negatives? Training above 90%?
"Over-reaching" is actually a training technique used in dual factor training. They fatigue themselves "over the line", and then allow that fatigue to rescind, and come back stronger. This has been used by Eastern Block countries for decades.
Are these guys insane? Or is CNS overload allowed as long as you deload?
This is a great topic, but not one I believe we can come to a conclusive decision. Everything I've seen points that there is no scientific data on such as this.
With that said, I do believe it's possible, but maybe I'm confusing overtraining with CNS overload (?). Perhaps it is over-blown. Again (?)
[I've basically said nothing in all that above LOL]
I think that what we view of as over-training is hard to achieve. With that said, I don't think a natural should go anywhere near the tipping point.
The hardest training I do is 90% plus powerlifting movements. It is hard on me for extended periods of time.
When I drop down in reps, my body seems to handle it much better.
Speaking of reps, I prefer higher reps (with great form) for the majority of my workout. IMO it puts you in more of a cardio mode while shredding the muscles. I do on compound movements however, do a PL type of set.
But back to the subject at hand. I think there is some overlapping, but in my pea brain I've always pictured them being separate...but realize this could be wrong.
CNS in my mind is like what is green here and overload could be dealing with pain, repair, & recovery (?):
From what I've read, most all rep ranges (6-20) are solid for getting stronger. There's a study done by "Carpinelli" on the site where he analyzed other studies rep ranges, and found they are all good for strength gains, but that lower reps are the worst as far as injury potential.
This flies against Westside and many powerlifting routines.
When I was at my strongest (400+ bench), I was training in the 6-12 rep range.
As far as cns burnout, I dont think I have ever heard a definitive answer on it. IMO I think it's because it's hard on the body from the hormonal changes that take place from adaptation and recovery. I remember reading a study that said psychological burnout or over-stimulation can also be a big factor as well. Since the brain influences glands that release testoterone, cortisol, etc I could see how that could have a major impact.
And Rick I agree with you on the high reps. I love lifting heavy, but looking back I made my biggest gains lifting in the 8-12 rep range. But I know some people grow really well with lower reps than that.
When bodybuilding training, I only remember over-training once. I was doing a 3 days on, 1 day off routine in my early 20's. It was an Arnold style, and about 90 minutes a day.
I think after 3-4 months on this routine, I felt like I needed a break.
If took me two months to reach meltdown, even on one of the worst possible routines for a natural.
It's the same thing with your CNS, in regards to weight training. It's being trained to handle the workload, just as your muscles are adapting to the stress.
Periods of low rep high intensity work will push your workload capacity up. When you reset back to a higher rep plan, it is like shifting gears again, and your cruising.
Very good conversation gentlemen.
Good thread. So if the CNS can be conditioned, does anyone believe low reps are the answer? I'm trying to sort this out. From what some of you said, low reps are harmful over the long haul.
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