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(1) From whence convertsHop to it, folks!
I was under the impression that in the US, at least, converts to Orthodoxy were high-church Protestants and Catholics -- who had felt that their own churches had become too corrupt or liberal. I was under this impression because of sites such as Lancelot Andrewes Press, connected with which is reprinting Neale's psalter and Monastic Diurnal and is connected with westernorthodox.com; or because of the interest among some Western Rite Orthodox in praying versions of the Divine Office (besides the Monastic Diurnal, there is extensive discussion of the use of the Anglican Breviary by Orthodox (including a review in an Orthodox publication listed on their front page), the existence of Benedictine Orthodox monasteries in the US (adding a whole second meaning to OSB), etc. Am I wrong -- is it Evangelicals primarily moving into Orthodoxy?
Study Bibles
As far as Study Bibles go, I think that Study Bibles have great potential -- for example, I am very interested in Study Bibles that address linguistic issues with the source text or reception history. Reading such commentary can substantially enhance one's appreciation for the text (although they are not a particularly good way to learn about a religion -- they can be a good way to learn how a particular religion reads Scripture.) Now I must say that a number of Evangelical Study Bibles are often little more than extended pericopes (explaining the "action" in the text as if the reader were too dim to grasp it) and usually error-ridden. It seems to me that the OSB NT was a bit like this (although the accompanying essays were more informative). Some recent Evangelical study Bibles read like magazines with colorful photos and brief little 100-200 word essays. Still, I don't find any inherent problem with the idea of a study Bible, just in the execution. (While one may disagree theologically with mainline, Catholic, and Jewish study Bibles, they are usually addressed to a more educated audience and present more sophisticated material than Evangelical study Bibles)
The challenge of pedagogy
Having said all this, I do think it is a fair pedagogical question of how best to teach members of faith community about issues dealing with Scripture, history, mysticism, theology, etc. And it is not clear to me that the Orthodox Church has shone in this area. If Evangelicals succeed in teaching, perhaps it is become they often seem to aim low (if you ever read popular Evangelical books, or watch Evangelical TV, or listen to Evangelical radio, you will know what I mean). But where are the great Orthodox success stories in outreach and education in the United States? For example, what fraction of Orthodox not born into Greek or Russian speaking households master Koine or Slavonic? I suspect at least among traditional observant Jewish communities, a larger fraction of the congregation learns Hebrew. I sometimes think that Orthodox aim very high, but most fall by the wayside and many treasures of the religion are esoteric to the majority of Christian Orthodox.
To put this in the form of a question, I ask all those who read this, how good a job do you think Orthodoxy is doing in educating a wide fraction of its population about Scripture or theology or history or mysticism? What could Orthodoxy do better?
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Cradle and Convert, V
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- Fr. John Whiteford said...
Some years back I heard Fr. Peter Gillquist say that the two mostly converts to Orthodoxy in America were disaffected Episcopalians, and Charismatics. In my neck of the woods, the converts I have seen have included a fair number of former Catholics, some former Episcopalians, some former Reformed, and lots of Baptists and Charismatics.
Also, while not disagreeing with most of what you say about the distinctions between cradle and convert Orthodox, the fact is that from a pastoral perspective you do tend to see different issues between the two groups. Also parishes that tend to be all one or the other in America tend to have imbalances that reflect those issues. I think it is especially important for converts from a heterodox faith to understand that they need to go through a process of re-learning and unlearning that takes time and effort. I talk about that a bit in this article:
- April 17, 2008 at 1:15 PM
- orrologion said...
The Orthodox Church, in practice, has a hard time just getting people to the services on time or apart from Sunday mornining much less educating them on the Scriptures beyond the Sunday pericopes, which are limited in scope and regularly repeated.
That being said, there is a wealth of information on the Orthodox view of Scripture available for the interested Orthodox Christian or inquirer.
Manley's "The Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox" is a wonderful resource combining (all?) pericopes for the various Orthodox services together with patristic comment. the only problem is its typesetting which is very difficult to read comfortably.
Theophylact's commentaries on the Gospels are in print.
Also, Catholic, Protestant and academic sources have made available a wealth of patristic commentary available, which is Orthodox. CCEL has Schaff's entire series available for free online, which is a great way to get answers to questions one might have on a particular Bible passage.
I have also found the ACCS series edited by Oden to be a very interesting look at how particular Bible passages were understood in the patristic age. (The only fault being the introductions to the sections, which are usually slanted to some degree on contentious issues and to the inclusion without note of writings by Fathers deemed heretical, e.g., Pelagius, Theodoret, Origen).
Personally, I would like to see translations of more recent, Orthodox commentaries of Scripture, e.g., I understand St. Theophan the Recluse wrote extensive biblical commentaries.
- April 17, 2008 at 5:05 PM
As far as educating the people, I have to be honest and say that the "cradles" in my parish are woefully ignorant about their faith. It is not simply that they can't quote chapter and verse like many "converts" of the evangelical ilk. They might not even know that there are two Testaments in the Bible, how many Gospels there are and who wrote them, often have little or no grasp of Church history, the councils, etc. Often the things that are most representative of their Orthodox faith are the local customs and traditions that they remember from childhood: pysanky eggs, Pascha baskets, etc. Often their faith borders on the superstitious. In other words, they tend to major in the minors.
Do not get me wrong: I am not downplaying these local traditions and customs nor poo-pooing them. But it is usually these "cradle" Orthodox folks who lack a basic understanding of the Scriptures, Church history, etc. who are the most secularized.
The irony is that the "cradle Orthodox" in America are much more likely to be relativistic, secularized, universalist, whatever-works-for-you Americans than the "converts" who have come to the Orthodox Church because they are fleeing all of that stuff and looking for The Church.
I grant readily that the "converts" have their own issues to deal with, and there are real problems there. I have come to believe that there is no solution but prolonged exposure to the Church as a living, practicing, liturgical community. (The real danger with converts is that they think if they have read 20 books they have it, all the while making excuses for skipping services, confession, etc.)
I am withholding my name so as not to offend any of my dear folks -- cradle and convert -- who might happen upon this site.
In Christ,
an anonymous Orthodox priest
Ps: Love the blog!
- April 17, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Do the Orthodox REALLY want to defend their theology and faith? I mean, I come from a denomination within Protestantism (Reformed Calvinism) in which it is highly admired to be a bulldog of a defender of the doctrines of the Reformed confessions (Westminster, Heidelberg, Belgic, Dordt, etc.). Nowhere in Orthodoxy (thus far) have I seen the same zeal for systematic bullet-point defending like I saw within Reformed circles. I just don't think it's part of Orthodoxy. Everywhere I turn to get a good summation of what the Orthodox hold to, it's always, "Well, this book isn't 'systematic' like you're used to," or some such line. So, I've just come to not expect much of a defense for Orthodox theology. Or, perhaps the defense I have seen just looks different from what I'm used to in the Reformed camp.
The poster is right in that most Evan-jelly-cal authors and books are aimed low and don't have much meat, but for a while there, when I was doing my first reading into Orthodoxy, there weren't many "scholarly" articles or books out there that I could find. I think the first real attractive writer I found was Florovsky. I read one of his articles on OCIC.com or whatever the site is and was finally assured that there are some scholarly Orthodox writers out there (and then of course later I started to read Schmemann and the like), but Florovsky was what seemed like my first introduction to real scholarly Orthodox writing. So, I think the argument can go both ways and that you get lower quality writing in both the Orthodox and Protestant.
And this is not meant to be a bash on either the Orthodox or Protestants; just something I've noticed.
- April 17, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- Kevin P. Edgecomb said...
I had been a lapsed Catholic (through sloth and youthful indifference, mostly, not outrage) for many years before coming to learn more about Orthodoxy. What I found interesting was that, as Fr Gregory Jensen mentioned in the other post's comments, was that I certainly experienced more of a recognition of Orthodoxy as a fuller expression of what I'd always believed, rather than a different and better one. Specifically, I didn't know various of the doctrinal differences that well at all as a Catholic, and came to find that in a couple of instances, my reading had revealed that I had an Orthodox understanding of them all along, which would've been categorized as misunderstandings in a Catholic context. This was about ten years ago, and I was happily received into the Church a couple years later.
I don't hold any rancour toward my Catholic upbringing at all. I'm still fond (as readers of my blog will have noticed) of some of the older pre-Vatican II expression of American Catholicism and Catholicism in general. "Modern" Catholicism seems quite different from that older kind that I'm more familiar with, because it's closer to what I grew up with, and it's also, frankly, much closer to Orthodoxy, in its expression, rigour, tenor, and in that indescribable flavor of it.
Tyler, there is still much out there. I'd recommend a subscription to ATLAS Full Text Plus, which'll give you access to the back catalogue of the Greek Orthodox Theological Review and Saint Vladimir's Theological Quarterly. In addition to Florovsky (whose Collected Works are inexplicably out of print), there is, of course, Lossky, though I think much of his work is still only in French. There is also Zizioulas, Louth, and Pelikan (the latter two converted). None of these are even close to fluffy. Fr John Chryssavgis too. There are quite a few such, though these come first to mind. I just don't think much of it is available online. Also, the more populist writers naturally gain more attention through being hawked more prominently. I'm sure others can contribute to such a list. But also it all comes back to the primary foundation of every one of these power-hitters: the Church Fathers are the base, the foundation of all that they write. Familiarity with them is absolutely paramount, as this is the key to Orthodox theology. And there are always more of them being translated. Happy reading!
- April 17, 2008 at 11:03 PM
- orrologion said...
...how good a job do you think Orthodoxy is doing in educating a wide fraction of its population about Scripture or theology or history or mysticism? What could Orthodoxy do better?
I often quip to the priest at my Greek church that Orthodox Sunday School is called Vespers and Matins. Lack of attendance at these services and their performance in tongues even foreign-born Orthodox usually understand little of means that we are educating the laity on how to not pay attention, let your mind wander and focus on the aethetics, the feel of a service, the quality of the chanter/choir, etc. No wonder everyone shows up late: standing around incomprehensibly for 2 hours doesn't seem a good use of time, might as well come in time for Communion and antidoron. Put that together with a laxening of requirements for communion and the other sacraments, positions of authority in the church, etc. and the knowledge and deep practice of the faith is killed by a thousand economias.
- April 17, 2008 at 11:33 PM
- Gina said...
Most of the converts I know personally are of evangelical or charismatic background. Lots of Baptists. Some make pitstops in Protestant liturgical churches on their way to Orthodoxy.
- April 18, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Yes, i've heard of Lossky and some of the others you've mentioned. Unfortunately school reading takes up most of my time during the school year, but I will look into those you've mentioned this summer. Thanks!
- April 18, 2008 at 2:04 AM
- Mac an t-Saoir said...
Forgive me all, because this is less of an answer and more of a concern.
As I'm watching this conversation unfold, there's something rather unsettling which seems to be at the root of a lot of this. By "this" I suppose I have in mind particularly the OSB and its stated project, and the now, ever-present call for the church to find new and improved methods of teaching and evangelizing. And let me be clear, this is coming from my own personal experience and isn't directed towards anyone in this conversation.
What I find so disturbing in all of it is that there seems to be a kind of unstated urgency to reformat or somehow refurbish the Church's teaching to make it more palatable for the contemporary Orthodox Christian or inquirer. I wonder if the the terms "cradle" and "convert" aren't somehow related to this project. It feels as if there may be a bit of "sizing-up" going on in oder for the Church's theology to be re-fit for the modern man.
I have to say, I admire the intention of the project. But what I don't understand is that if this is indeed the way it works, how can the Fathers of the Church be of any value to us Orthodox living in the present-day culture. Would a person reading any particular Father not simply get incredibly mired down in deciphering through the cultural lingo employed by the theologian. And for what purpose would one do it, if the value of the particular Saint was contained in how well he had managed to appropriate Orthodoxy to the culture in which he was immersed.
I think its clear that generalizations could, and even must, be made about the problems faced in any culture or subculture (I have in mind here 'cradle' and /or 'convert'). But isn't it the case that Christianity is primarily about the restoration of the particular person, within the context of a relationship to his Creator and his fellow human beings, and therefore to his culture?
What I'm very poorly trying to get at is that I think Orthodoxy is concerned with people, who just happen to be in some culture. I do not mean to downplay how important a part a culture plays in the life of an individual. But I think the Fathers of the Church spoke to real people, who struggled with real passions, in the real pursuit of virtue just as any one of us does today, however that may be expressed within the cultural context.
I guess I simply feel somewhat marginalized by things like the OSB and this revamping project I hear rumors of. I would like to think that I am simply another man who is struggling, by the grace of God, in his church just as every Orthodox Christian has for last two millennium.
All this to say, I don't think the Church's teaching or method of teaching (whatever that means) needs to be remodeled in order for me or any other person of this day to experience the full relevance or depth of it. I have a suspicion that what we're really looking for here is simply a living, modern Saint.
- April 18, 2008 at 5:26 AM
Dear Fr. "Anonymous",
While I would grant that some of what you say about the "cradles" in your parish is true, perhaps we need to step back from what one needs to be Orthodox. Let us take my grandfather for instance, who was born, lived, and died in a small Serbian village (apart from 1912-1918 when he was fighting). I would be willing to bet he could not tell you what the issues at each of the Ecumenical Councils was, he did not have a bookshelf groaning under the weight of patristic commentary, lives of the Saints, or the other various tomes most converts seem to think they need. I spite of all these gross handicaps, I would ask you, was there something keeping him from living as a faithful Orthodox Christian? God knows most of the villagers during that time were illiterate, did not owning or hearing the scriptures read outside of the services of the church make them not Orthodox?
I'm not advocating willful ignorance, but the BIGGEST problem I notice in most converts is a lack of obedience and trusting Christ's Church. Very simply, when a convert is told something, instead of accepting and obeying, they need to know why. So they immerse themselves in the theology of the matter, the history of the matter, the patristic commentary of the matter, when they would be better off simply doing as they are told and being obedient.
The best analogy I can use is a military one. Foot soldiers in the army are not expected to know strategy, and worry about things beyond their duty, they are given orders and enough training to carry them out, the why of it is not for them to worry about.
- April 18, 2008 at 5:59 AM
- orrologion said...
I wonder if your Grandfather could understand the Slavonic of the services. He may very well have if he grew up in the Church services from an early age, and perhaps Serbo-Croatian was yet closer to Slavonic (or has always been). So, he could hear the readings from the Bible and the Fathers, he could understand the hymns. This is the theology of the Church and he had a lifetime of graduate seminars - assuming he regularly attended services beyond simply Sunday morning Liturgy.
In America and the West we have a different problem since we have a mixing of peoples: those that grew up in the continuity of faith and those entering from a different paradigm. We also have a break in continuity within communities and families of people that have been Orthodox for centuries as they immigrated to non-Orthodox countries, lost the faith support of the community and had to learn how to 'choose' to be and act Orthodox in a very different way. Most important, they lose profiency in the language of their forebears, which offered them at least a rudimentary foundation from which to easily learn the liturgical language of their Church. Add to that the fact that a given Orthodox Christian may have settled in an area with no Orthodox churches or with an Orthodox Church that is trying to maintain their own local Orthodox traditions and language and you have a total breakdown in the process of Tradition.
My personal preference is for our services to look just like the services in a parish in a traditional Orthodox country in a community similar to whatever ours are here (urban, rural, affluent, suburban, poor, mixed ethnic, mixed religion, mixed race) - except in English. We should try to emulate the piety, emulate the stance, practices, etc. to swim in the very element of Orthodox with understanding. The fact that we are Americans, immigrants of children of immigrants, converts from nothing or something in particular will, of course, leave its stamp on how well we emulate our fathers in the faith. This was true of the Greeks accepting the faith from the Jews, the Bulgarians and Russians accepting it from the Greeks and the Aleuts and we modern-day, mongrel Americans accepting it from the Russians or the Greeks or the Arabs or... But we will have tried our best to be just like them in the practice of their (now our) faith. It is only by looking back or around that we can figure out whether and what the 'essentials' of the Faith might be, but our task is not to minimize and slide by but to fully, completely conform ourselves to living witnesses to and bearers of the Faith.
Trying to make the Church 'seeker friendly' by focusing on commonalities or luring them in with 2D caricatures of Orthodoxy is simply setting them up to leave the Faith once the evil one starts to attack, once we are confronted with Orthodoxy beyond our parish or jurisdiction or country, once we hear the services and read the Fathers. I think it is better people not convert, rather than convert to a mirage of Orthodoxy and later be tempted to apostatize.
That being said, I don't think any of us would demand that parish life be equated with monastic life. We all require, give and expect a certain degree of condecension. We don't demand babies earn their keep. What we are really all discussing is how much economia is too much economia, how much akrivia is too much akrivia, have we gone too far, have we not gone far enough, are we on the wrong track?
- April 18, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Glory to Jesus Christ!
The example of your grandfather highlights well my concern for the "cradle" Orthodox Christians in my parish and elsewhere in the diaspora. But first of all remember we were talking (or at least I was) about "cradles" in America and the diaspora, not those in their native Orthodox cultures. That is a different matter altogether. What I am talking about is the descendants of people like your grandfather who leave their homelands and who live now in a vastly different situation and culture from the village. Surrounded by everything from the hedonistic materialism of the modern west to the heterodox forms of "Christianity" that use many of the same words as the Orthodox Church but with differing shades of meaning, these Orthodox Christians most likely will not be able to maintain the same sort of simple "village" piety as their ancestors, a piety that can be quite holy. Literacy is no prerequisite for holiness, and our hymns often refer to the simple fishermen (the apostles) as the true theologians.
In the new context, however, the descendants of these simple believers will almost certainly need to be better educated about their faith in order to even maintain their faith in the new world. The big question is how best to educate. I, for one, think that there is no replacement for being steeped in the Liturgical life of the Church. But reading the Bible, the Fathers, attending good instructional "classes" with a knowledgeable priest or deacon (or a lay Christian who is truly instructed and not just well read) are also important.
I would hazard an opinion that this is not only true in America and the West but in Russia and Serbia, etc, since the end of the Soviet era. Like it or not (me: not), the likelihood of the return to the village is not very good anywhere in the internet age. I hope I am wrong.
In Christ,
Fr "Anon"
- April 18, 2008 at 7:24 PM
The above esteemed commentators all have raised excellent issues. I would care to address Felix Culpa's question, "how good a job do you think Orthodoxy is doing in educating a wide fraction of its population about Scripture or theology or history or mysticism? What could Orthodoxy do better?" in light of his second paragraph entitled, "From whence converts".
What Mr. Culpa is observing is the reluctant disconnect from the convert's heterodox past. This is especially true amongst the Western Rite Orthodox (note: there is at this time in history no such thing as "Western Orthodoxy" since its demise shortly after 1054). This observation is unfortunately reserved for the Antochians. I do not see in the Western Rite communities of either ROCOR or the Milan Synod a clinging to a heterodox past, at least to the dramatic degree demonstrated by Antiochian Western Rite Orthodox. They have been criticized elsewhere –and the hierarchy who have allowed this to occur—to being not true converts to genuine Orthodoxy but Episcopalians/Anglicans disgruntled by the direction of their heterodox community having found "safe haven" for their traditional Anglo-Catholicism in the Antiochian Archdiocese. There has been marginal efforts in restoring a pre-schism Western liturgical life; instead great condescension and allowance has been given to the Book of Common Prayer as their liturgical foundation towards what is ironically referred to, even if honorifically, as St. Tihkon's Liturgy. I give greater credit to those communities observing the Liturgical ordo (typikon) of St Gregory the Great. However, even here, many if not all have settled for the Tridentine version instead of utilizing scholarly labors to recover the pre-schism Orthodox ordo of St. Gregory. The Antiochians have watered down –hence compromised—Holy Orthodoxy by their acceptance and fellowship with the non-Chalcedonians (Oriental "Orthodox") and I believe the en masse conversions of the Society of Clerks Secular of St. Basil (SSB) communities and the Evangelical "Orthodox" communities have directly contributed. Look at the leadership of Antiochian Archdiocese's Department of Missions & Evangelism. One of their goals is specifically to "Cultivate relationships with independent (generally Protestant) communities which desire to become Orthodox" [ see here ].
The bottom-line here is in the quality of the Church's catechesis. How prepared are potential converts prior to their Baptism and Chrismation? And of those who wish to maintain a Western liturgical life: does their liturgical corpus adequately teach the ancient Faith as held and preserved by the Church Fathers? There are many more contributors to the compromising of the Faith by "world Orthodoxy": namely, political ecumenism, masonry, syncreticism, the application of papal authority to Orthodox Patriarchates and the heterodox mindset of thousands of "converts" who have yet to be catechetically transfigured.
Fr. Stavrophoremonk Symeon
Hermitage of St. John the Theologian
- April 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Orologian is right, it's about Matins and Vespers, and if folks can't or won't attend then they do lose out on Orthodox fundamentals.
In the past I'm sure there were very good Christians,like Radoje S's grandfather, who did not read about the saints ,patristics or even scripture, but I'm willing to bet that they paid attention to what was going on during church services and had knew much scripture and even the lives of the saints by heart from constant,attentive and frequent church attendance.
Nowadays we're blessed to be able to read and own bibles and learn more about the saints and Church Fathers,so why not as long as it aids us spiritually and isn't just accumulated knowledge taking up headspace.
After reading Mac an t-Saoir's comment I have to wonder if it is possible that Western Christians might be in danger of trying to westernize the Orthodox church? How do good,true cradle Orthodox Christians living in America get that way? Also, Radoje's comment that converts need to know the why to everything rather than simply obeying is an excellent point too. I explain some things to my children, but I do expect obedience at all times regardless of whether or not they understand my reasoning. In fact, in an emergency it's imperative that they simply trust me and do as i say.
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Friday, January 31, 2014
Robin Hood & Little John in Drag II
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question from the amateur: what kind of markers did they use to colour the hair and face in these concept drawings? Or was it watercolour? Or something else? Thank you.Replies
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I've gone ahead and migrated from the staged draft site[1] to the wiki, so you can see the official spec process here: http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Specification_Process Building on the last update I sent, I'm happy to report that the OpenSocial Foundation board of directors (and the associated legal team) have recently produced and approved the documents that "bookend" the updated intellectual property rights policy documented at: http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/opensocial-foundation-ipr.html[2]. To be clear on the process: 1) Contributors must submit the Contribution Licensing Agreement (CLA) prior to the community incorporating or even reviewing any spec proposals. 2) For each final version, anyone who contributed must submit the Non-Assert Agreement. (For those unfamiliar with the general non-assertion process, the non-assert ensures that contributors grant developers the necessary rights to implement the OpenSocial specifications) This means that a contributor to many versions of OpenSocial will sign one CLA upfront, and would then submit a non-assert for each final version that he or she contributed to. The official legal documents: * Contribution Licensing Agreement (CLA): http://www.opensocial.org/ <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialCLA.pdf>open <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialCLA.pdf>social-foundation/ <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialCLA.pdf>OpenSocialCL <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialCLA.pdf>A.pdf <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialCLA.pdf> o (Corporate version: http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialCCLA.pdf) * Non-assert Agreement: http://www.opensocial.org/ <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialNonAssert.pdf> <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialNonAssert.pdf>opensocial-foundation/ <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialNonAssert.pdf>OpenSocialNonAssert.pdf <http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation/OpenSocialNonAssert.pdf> In the case of OpenSocial v0.9, while we didn't have the CLA in place prior to starting the 0.9 draft, all contributors must still submit the non-assert for the 0.9 final specification. 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a short collection of data below. I believe top 5 fairly represents the results, but please feel free to add to data. This data has some confounding variables. I would guess that SS riders on average are more experienced than non SS riders; experience generally means faster, don't think it makes results that much less compelling.
source: 2013 Race Results (Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic - April 10-13, 2014)
singlespeed men (all ages) (44 racers)
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1:33 37
1:35 36
1:35 34
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Picture is from my hostel, third floor, looking out the window at the head of my bunk. I'm in a part of the city called Mapo-gu.
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Take up any one of our ordinary newspapers, and you will find a part devoted to the theater and music. In almost every number you will find a description of some art exhibition, or of some particular picture,
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Letting Go of Resentment After Psychological Abuse
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Resentment is a challenging obstacle to overcome after psychopathic abuse. Mostly any spiritual or psychological path will outline the reasons why resentment is unhealthy for the body, mind, and heart. Even years after the abuse has ended, a person can "move on" (never consciously thinking about the abuser anymore) while still carrying resentment in the body. This can start to manifest in numerous different ways: depression, anxiety, addiction, irritability, blood pressure problems, energy levels, etc.
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While psychopaths inevitably betray their chosen targets, a lot of this journey is actually about releasing the idea of betrayal from our own hearts, so that we can be free. Betrayal convinces us that we are being let down, and that our needs won't be met. Breaking beyond this belief (however true it might have been) allows us to live in the present moment again. This isn't about rewriting history, but rather finding joy and meaning in the process of opening of our own hearts.
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In fact, as we explore these underlying wounds, we're likely to start offering something new to ourselves:unconditional love. When we see someone in pain (including ourselves), this is our natural reaction. And so in this process, tight resentment around the heart is slowly replaced by true love and understanding.
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Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain said the proportional voting system used for one third of the seats in the assembly can produce unfair results.
He says it is wrong that would-be AMs are able to stand and lose in individual constituencies, only to re-emerge as elected AMs under the regional list system.
However, possible changes to the system are unpopular among opposition AMs.
Mr Hain said he will wait until the Richard Commission - set up to investigate effectiveness of the assembly - publishes its report before announcing whether an independent inquiry is needed.
Out of the 60 assembly members, 40 are elected from constituencies, in the same way as MPs are.
The remainder are chosen from regional party lists.
This can produce unusual results - in Clwyd West, three defeated candidates still won assembly seats.
"It doesn't seem to be a sensible way of proceeding," said Mr Hain.
"I don't want to change the system to make it unfair to other parties.
"The only changes that were brought in would have to have broad consent.
"What I am wanting to do is to reserve the right to review the operation of the election system."
But the Tory leader in the Welsh assembly Nick Bourne said changing the system was "a very dangerous road to go down".
"This is about politicians interfereing with electoral systems - I would remind Peter Hain one of the most distinguished regional members who got in on the list was Alun Michael."
Meanwhile, Eleanor Burnham, regional Lib Dem AM for north Wales, defended the regional set-up, saying that, if it did not exist, there would be no conservatives in the assembly.
"Is that fair for all the people who voted tory - I don't think so, and I'm not even a tory!," she said.
Scottish devolution
More than half the Welsh Labour MPs have called for changes.
Labour's Wrexham MP Ian Lucas agreed the current "flawed system" needed to be reviewed.
"Constituents of mine simply cannot understand how a loser in an election subsequently becomes a winner," he said.
He supported the idea that candidates could only stand either as a regional AM or a constituency AM.
The announcement mirrors a similar initiative in Scotland where the number of Scottish MPs at Westminster is being reduced due to devolution.
Mr Hain has made it clear that the number of Welsh MPs would remain the same.
In January, Mr Hain told a constitutional lecture in London members elected under the regional list system could face calls to cut their staffing and expenses.


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Lab Meeting Notes 9/23/13
- Alan Engelman Seminar tomorrow, please go and sign-up for lunch if you can
- Lab Jobs are going to be sent out
- Need to look into cleaning out/autoclaving the incubators, starting to get funky
Lab Meeting Notes 9/16/13
- Stay on top of seminars. This week's and next week's are ones we should attend. Welkin is also doing one in October (we should go) and the week after that is Ruth's (Welkin's guest).
- Lab Jobs are going to be reassigned. Mention of water baths and trays in T.C.
- Harvard Seminar Series has been moved to 4pm on Thursdays starting this week. See Alison for details.
Lab Meeting Notes 9/9/13
- Welkin is soliciting ideas for seminar series and landmark series speakers
- Reminder to thoroughly clean out the hoods after you finish using them. Bleach spray (10%), wiped down and then followed up with 70% Ethanol Spray and wiped down. UV treat the hoods (hold the button down for one beep, that will give you automatic shutoff after 15 mins!)
Lab Meeting Notes 8/26/13
- There is NO lab meeting next week (9/2…Labor Day Holiday)
- Everyone should be using the Google Calendar for absences, planned days off, and of course Tissue Culture Hood sign-ups. Any questions you should see Alison.
- Only required one-on-ones with Welkin are for Alison, Sergio, Kate and Anindita (please see Welkin to set up a time, preferably Mondays or Tuesdays)
- Everyone is required to submit weekly progress reports to Welkin by Monday Mornings (before 12:00 pm) or prior to your one-on-one.


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How much?
Packages are customizable and start at $3500+hst
How do I get my photos?
You will receive all of your digital edited full size photos on a custom wooden USB.
If you'd like to invest in some advanced print options I have lots of options (albums, canvas, metal prints, parent books, ect).
Should we have an engagement shoot?
Every wedding includes a complimentary engagement shoot (if you'd like it) so we can get to know each other before the wedding.
Do we need to give you a deposit to hold the date?
I do require a non-refundable 25% deposit to hold your date and have a contract for us both to sign so we are both taken care of.
When do we get our photos?
I like to get your edited photos to you within two weeks after your first kiss! Very little wait time at no extra cost.


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A staple in Vancouver's infamous polka punk scene, the Dreadnoughts have been around since sometime in 2006, at least that is according to lead singer Marco Bieri. Now, in 2014, five original members remain the core of this seven-piece polka punk group, an impressive feat considering the band's history of relentless touring. For those who are unacquainted with the Dreadnoughts, "punk" seems to be the all encompassing genre selected by media and fans alike to classify the band, although that is not what Bieri considers the band to be. Instead, the band uses the term "Cluster Folk". When questioned about their ties to punk Bieri states, "I'm not even sure what a punk band is. If it is a bunch of guys travelling the world independently, destroying stages with energetic, fun live shows, getting people to move – a hard concept for many bands," says Bieri under his breath, "then yes, we are punk."
Punk, polka, cluster folk, whatever; one thing is certain, the Dreadnoughts are all about having fun. That mantra, manifesto and brand has paid off big time for Bieri and the boys. Since their modest beginnings of swillin' beer and chasin' strange at local dive, the Yvanhoe, the band has become well known for their high-energy live shows.
Since their humble beginning, The Dreadnoughts have managed to orchestrate several Canadian and European tours, for a total of over 400 shows. To support this rigorous touring schedule, the band has three full-length records and two EPs under their belt. All of which have been released on labels of varying prestige, but most notably heavyweight Canadian punk/ska label Stomp Records, run by Matt Collyer of The Planet Smashers. It's an impressive one-sheet for anyone, but especially for purveyors of a relatively unmapped sub-genre.
Eight years in and still going strong, the Dreadnoughts show no signs of fatigue as they continue to work hard, play hard and have fun while doing it. Fresh off a nine-show European jaunt and booked to open for NOFX at an undisclosed festival in the U.K. this summer, the boys also seem to have honed a knack for the business end of being a punk band as they continue to operate on their own terms with a strong DIY work ethic.
"A perfect example is playing with Guttermouth," Bieri, co-promoter of the upcoming St. Punktrick's Day show at the Rickshaw, elaborates. "I saw them at the Biltmore last September and, of course, knew every word dating back to when I was 16," says Bieri, pausing for a moment. "Fuck, 16 years ago," he says with added emphasis, and continues, "I then went to Google and typed in 'Guttermouth booking,' sent two emails and BAM here they are."
The Dreadnoughts and Guttermouth co-headline St. Punktrick's Day at the Rickshaw on March 14th.
By Evan Wansbrough
Photo: Black Rose Photography


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Remember these poems are the original work of Skyla and any attempt to copy/ plagerise this work will result in a hefty lawsuit as the have been copyrighted!
Here and Home
I get so lonely sometimes
Can't get you off my mind
I just want you here with me
Here and home
The oasis is now a mirage
And it seems to be fading fast
I just want you here with me
Here and home
The Writer
Fiction is an addiction I can't contain
Maybe one day
I'll write something that matters
A story where the characters
Leap off the page
And into the human conciousness
Sucking at my blood
And blowing out my brains
The world will never be the same
Unicorn and pegasus
Do you exist?
Flying in on homemade wings
It's just an exaggerated thing
Love and hate are one and the same
Please tell me that story again
So kind
So pure
So selfless
I wish I were like you
Instead of this narcisistic
Mess of a person
So confident
So wholesome
So well loved
I wish I were like you
Instead of this open wound
Just waiting for the salt
Thought You Were Cute
Thought you were cute
'Til I saw you wearing sandals
Thought you were cute
'Til I heard you talk
Looks can be so deceiving
How do I look to you?
A goddess or a witch?
Thought you were cute
Yeah I thought..........
Crazy Old Me
A girl
You thought was your dream girl
A girl
Who was really good
Oh how wrong you was
Now you're stuck
With crazy old me
Obsessive to a fault
Could never
Look you in the eye
A girl
Who would change you life
Crazy old me
Changing you life for the worst
Waiting for you
To end up in a Hearse
A girl
Who became
Your nightmare
No it doesn't mean you've gone to hell
It can't be fixed, but you do it so well
This case can't be closed until it's all been gelled
Baby can't you see
It can't be captured
In all it's stillness
They say pictures take your soul
Lost forever with a pose
And a flash
The Angel
She came to save me
Yet she seemed so mean
I wanted to be lost forever
In this abyss
She said
I can't be demeaned
What can I redeem?
Oh she came to save me
Yet she seemed so clean
Too pure for words
Yet she had many
Oh girly girl just wait
Your time will come
And when it does
Be sure to remember me
Oh she came to save me
Yet she seemed to be
Just like me
Ms. Me
Scared I was going to say something political?
Little Ms. Me
Always the instigator
Ready to fight
Injustice at every corner
Scaring you to death
With my pretty little face and dangerous mind
Feminists don't come any more rampant
Than Ms. Me
Cosmic Rays
Back to Cosmic Rays


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"Sweet Girl"
I love to layer up my chipboard as well to give lots of depth and texture to my project. And using negative bits from the packs are awesome if you want to create a confetti look.
Chipboard: Garden Daisies - Large, Negatives from the Broken Rings set, Daisies Collage, Splattered Circles
My second project I was inspired by the richness of the papers in the Love Story Collection. The photo in this layout is of my late Grandmother who has been gone 30 years last year. I was only a 4 years old when she passed away and don't have any memories of her. I love that this photo is of her in her much loved rose garden and I was immediately drawn to the gorgeous floral pieces of chipboard to use in this layout.
"Forever in our Hearts"
The chipboard pieces are simply painted in some gold acrylic paint and then I randomly added some colour in different places for extra interest.
Paper Collection: Love Story
Chipboard Collection: Dresden Corsage, Gingers Poppies, Eclectic Hearts,
Thanks so much for stopping by today...happy crafting :)


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Margot Wolf's hunger for fresh ideas fuels her to create versatile jewelry that can traverse generations, both in design and quality of craftsmanship. With a belief that personal adornment has the potential to influence and inspire, she redefines the unexpected with experimental metalsmithing techniques and inimitable, distinct designs. Through bold yet simple forms, Margot evokes a truly unique aesthetic and sense of beauty that appeals to women and men from all walks of life.
In 2005, Margot graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles and began working in the industry as an Accessories Designer. After becoming captivated by the skill of metal manipulation, she decided to pursue her love of jewelry. Margot returned to her native Texas and settled in Austin ready to delve into the ancient art of metalsmithing. Seven years later, through classes, mentorships, and industry training, she has honed her skills and successfully launched her eponymous collection of jewelry. Each artifact continues to be made by hand, from the heart.


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Event Information
Purkinje cells are thought to control our movements by modulating their spiking activity, but the underlying code is not known. I will show that Purkinje cells in an eyeblink-related area of mouse cerebellar cortex learn to suppress their high spontaneous firing rate during the execution of a conditioned eyelid movement. To investigate if the transient suppression of Purkinje cell firing is causally linked to motor output, we inhibited Purkinje cells optogenetically and showed that we could evoke eyeblinks whose kinematic properties were precisely regulated according to the parameters of the optogenetic stimulation. Downstream neurons in the anterior interpositus nucleus showed substantial increases in firing rate during the optogenetic stimulation. These results demonstrate that a transient and synchronized suppression of Purkinje cell activity can generate movement directly, and may help sculpt the timing and kinematics of motor output via graded disinhibition of neurons in the deep cerebellar nuclei.


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An Odd Affair
by cricketjeff on July 22, 2011. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
It could not be any stranger than the day that I met you
There were ostriches and emus dancing polkas in the park
There were sulphur-chested sunbirds chasing shadows after dark
As the moon began eclipsing and the stars made night of day
You approached me eating ice-cream and the world was burnt away
If the King of Cotopaxi met a yeti in Nepal
He would could not be more dumbfounded than the day I took your call
I could hear hyenas laughing as your words caressed my ears
And the song of seven sky larks soon reduced your voice to tears
But before you started blubbing and you wept an inland sea
You made me a happy chappy when you said that you loved me
Now all owls in Oswaldtwistle give a hoot to hear the news
While alpacas and vicunas weave their wool and watch reviews
They're agog and tired of waiting for the telling of this tale
With a wave of expectation more enormous than a whale
But I haven't got an answer, I'm afraid I only know
That like cockatoos love cocktails I'm condemned to love you so
Author notes
Sometimes a silly phrase forms and refuses to go away, then it gets on the phone to its friends and a rally of silly phrases happens in my head, then they leak into my fingers and type themselves onto AP.
I can only apologise and plead insanity.


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Deliberate Exclusion
One of the puzzles I have been trying to sort out the entire time I have been back in Final Fantasy XIV is why exactly the community as a whole seems to be friendlier to other players. I've talked about the various literal "social engineering" missions that the development staff have made in order to spin things that would normally be a negative as a positive. When I see the new player bonus in a dungeon I actually get excited rather than frustration over having to potentially teach someone new mechanics. Quite honestly I am wondering if it is something far more simple than anything, a line in the sand that the folks running the game drew long ago and have since reinforced numerous times. In Final Fantasy XIV running a DPS log parser is not only unsupported by the game, but it is actually an actionable offense. This has had an interesting chilling effect on some of the elitism that you normally see in communities.
Since simply mentioning parsed logs in private free company chat can end up with a GM knocking down your door… it changes the way folks interact with the data gained from log parsers. That is to say people are still parsing the logs, but the first rule of "FFXIV-APP" is there is no "FFXIV-APP". This means that no one gets called out in the middle of a pug for having "weak dps" and no one is standing around in "trade chat" linking their latest boss kill. The players that do parse, do so quietly and in secret and I believe in the end this makes the "meters" less of a competition and more of a personal diagnostic tool. It seems that once you take this competition out of a community it has some pretty wide reaching trickle down effects. I've always thought of dps meters as a distraction, and back during Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, we had rules against mentioning them or linking them in raid chat. I largely just found the automated spam annoying, but it also seemed to cause players to focus on things that were less important than the mechanics of a fight.
Accidental Experiment
The problem is that meters are a double edged sword. Eons ago while the earth was still cooling I needed a add-on called Omen in World of Warcraft to let me know how I was doing on threat. Later on these features got rolled into Recount, and Skada and the rest of the meters. As a result I simply got used to running the meters all of the time, but after a point they were no longer needed. Tank threat became a non-issue with the introduction of Vengeance to help mitigate the lower damage that tanking characters generally had. Once introduced into my life I started feeling like I needed meters all the time to let me know how things were going. I became addicted to the metrics and numbers associated with raiding, and as such spent a good deal of my time staring at bars and percentages rather than actually playing the game. Some weeks back I talked about being frustrated with the current state of my mods, and actually went so far as to start installing several of the addons that I had been using.
One of the addons that ended up getting pulled was Recount, because I had this plan of switching over the Skada. The funny thing is that I got interrupted during the middle of what I happened to be doing, and while Recount absolutely got installed… I never went so far as to install another meter. The first time I noticed was during a raid a few weeks back, but since I was so used to NOT having meters in Final Fantasy XIV it didn't bother me terribly much. This combined with the fact that I knew someone in the raid was going to parse our logs anyways caused me to simply ignore the fact that they were not there any more. The end result was that I felt generally happier about my night of raiding. I spent more time in the moment of the game play rather than focusing on how I was doing versus this player or that in the meters. I decided to just go with this and run without meters for awhile to see if it improved my overall outlook on the raid.
Happier Without Meters
The funny thing is that I actually think it did. World of Warcraft stopped being a competition for me and more of an experience. Sure the fights are still nowhere near as engaging or enjoyable for me as the ones in Final Fantasy XIV but I am spending more time "in" the fight and less time worried about other non-important things. The funny thing about this is that apparently it had other effects on my game play as well. The constant concern about how I happened to be doing may have been actually holding me back from actually doing well. I figured I was still firmly in the middle of the pack dps wise, until after the Flamebender Ka'graz fight one of our mages said something that made me curious. He said something to the effect of "I can't believe I was beat by a protection warrior". To which point I confessed that I had installed my meters some time ago, and had no clue how I was actually doing anymore. To which my raid leader responded "Well, Bel, You Did Well" and linked me the url of the live parse.
There are a lot of mitigating factors behind my performance and I know this. For starters I recently got the four piece set bonus and for gladiators it essentially increases everything useful to us by 20%. More than that I think the absence of meters caused me to stop worrying about every button press and rely more on what I knew I should be doing when I should be doing it… instead of trying to second guess myself all of the time. In essence I stopped caring about my performance and just started playing the damned game, and while it most definitely improved my levels of happiness it also seems to have actually improved how I was performing. I am just not a hyper competitive person about most things, and accidentally eliminating that stimulus from my game experience seems to be a net positive for me. I know that there are always going to be meters tracking my performance but I also feel like so long as they are not in my face all of the time I can try and ignore them. Now I am not suggesting that you uninstall your meters, and that it is some new path to happiness. However for me it seems to have given me a new lease on a game I was starting to hate playing.


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After spending the month of Ramadan praying and fasting, Muslims around the world will celebrate with their biggest holiday party, Eid al-Fitr, which translates as the "break-the-fast feast."
Today in Houston, thousands of Muslims– including Houston Rockets legend Hakeem Olajuwon — stopped in the George R. Brown Convention Center to eat sweets, show off new clothes and pray together.
For Muslim kids, it's likened to Christmas, a day marked by gifts, decorations and special outfits. Grown ups also get to celebrate, but are able to find deeper meaning in the holiday, thanking God for his blessings and support through the month and praying that the spiritual lessons they learned will continue throughout the year.
For more coverage of Ramadan and Eid on chron.com:
Sheer Korma is a sweet tradition after a month of fasting


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Artist, writer, performer, education & creativity researcher.
Associate lecturer and tutor in Fine art, Drawing & Architecture at Newcastle University in the School of Arts and Cultures and the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Creativity workshops in a variety of community contexts.
Over 25 years experience in higher education, community arts facilitation, group work, collaborative praxis, cultural regeneration, event direction and production.
Founder and Director of the Arthouses Programme within Whitley Bay Film Festival since 2010.
Work is time, site and audience specific working across media boundaries and subject disciplines including drawing, video, painting, installation, book works and performance.
Blaming the Sea for its wildness. 4/10 2012
from current work on 'Ox herding' 1000 drawings series