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- Total Population62,832
- Male Population(48.8 %) 30,655
- Female Population(51.2 %) 32,177
- Median Age34.20
There are currently 62,832 people living in Waltham. Out of the total population number, 30,655 are men and 32,177 are women. The median age for Waltham dwellers is 34.20.
- White Collar32,270
- Blue Collar4,164
There are currently 32,270 white-collar jobs and 4,164 blue-collar jobs in Waltham.
- Total Households23,722
- Family Households12,907
- Non-family Households10,815
- Households With Children5,293
- Households Without Children18,429
- Average People Per Household2.33
There are currently 23,722 households in Waltham. Out of this total, 12,907 are family households, 10,815 are non-family households, 5,293 are households with children and 18,429 are households without children. The average number of people per household in Waltham is 2.33.
Education(Number of people who have achieved the following levels of education)
- No High School2,133
- Some High School13,708
- Some College8,213
- Associate Degree2,685
- Bachelors Degree13,605
- Graduate Degree10,217
There are 2,133 people living in Waltham without a high school degree, 13,708 people with some high school degree and 8,213 people with a college degree. 2,685 people have an associate degree, 13,605 hold a bachelor’s degree, while 10,217 boast a graduate degree.
Marital Status(Number of people who have the following marital status)
- Never Married25,572
25,572 of the people living in Waltham have never been married, while 22,960 are married and 677 are separated. A total of 2,447 people are widowed and 4,279 people are divorced.
- Average Household Income$99,623
- Median Household Income$83,249
- Median Income Under 25$48,917
- Median Income 25-44$98,596
- Median Income 45-64$91,056
- Median Income Over 65$47,724
The average household income for people living in Waltham is $99,623, while the median household income is $83,249. The median income in Waltham is $48,917 for those under 25, $98,596 for those aged 25 to 44, $91,056 for those aged 45 to 64, and $47,724 for those over the age of 65.
Demographic information is extracted from the Unites States Census Bureau and is deemed reliable, however, COMMERCIALCafé can offer no guarantee of the
accuracy or completeness of information modified or aggregated for specific neighborhoods.
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This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission.
When I first gave birth and brought my baby girl home, I aspired to be the ultimate earth-mother-Gaia-worshipping-priestess from another dimension. Those first few weeks with my child I thought I had transcended all trivialities and was officially crowned the “New Age Queen of the Now.” I was so present in the moment, I put Buddhist monks to shame. Absolutely enthralled by my child, I watched her sleep for hours, finding peace in the sound of her breath. I avoided my phone and computer, and arrogantly decided everyone else was merely living a devastating life of distraction. The rest of humanity could be consumed with their technology and gadgets, but I had moved on.
A few weeks later, however, I discovered something no one ever warned me about: Babies are pretty freaking boring.
Despite my initial moral superiority, I looked longingly at my phone across the room, yearning to caress it. I was afraid that exposure to my phone&mmp;rsquo;s evil waves would seep into my baby’s brain (even though men have them nestled in their pockets next to their precious packages all day), but the idea of interacting with my phone became more compelling by the day. There’s a whole universe inside there. Articles to read, seeing how many people liked my status update, friends to talk to, one more time with that status update, and Twitter feeds from celebrities to make me feel inadequate. Parenting can be isolating, and monotonous, and lonely, and monotonous. My phone is my connection to the outside world, and it was too hard to abandon.
Eventually I caved, and my relationship with my phone became a part of my relationship with my child. When breast-feeding the milk-sucking vampire indefinitely suctioned to my nipple for hours, I looked at pictures of my ex getting chubby and bald. After two jaded hours of pushing her on the stupid swing, and saying “yes, that is a plane” and “the birdies do fly,” I also listened to podcasts deluding me into feeling that I was part of an actual adult conversation. While endlessly rocking her to sleep, I could listen to Radiohead and drown out the gut-wrenching soulless rendition of “Wheels on the Bus”—the lullaby version. At any moment I could take 10,000 pictures of her and of course a few selfies of me because my hair has been looking good lately.
When my baby became a talking toddler, I learned the next rule the parenting books neglected to mention: Toddlers are really annoying. They are unreasonable, demanding, and relentless, and once they start talking, they never shut up. They also have no sense of time. My phone allowed me to get lost in some article about Girls and Lena Dunham’s body, helping kill the urge to throw myself against a wall every time my kid takes 25 minutes to walk 10 feet.
But then I did the unthinkable: I let my daughter into the world of my phone. I remember once being judgmental of parents who let their kids watch movies in the car. I wondered, “Why can’t those kids just stare out the window and imagine like I did as a child?” But now I get it. It’s just easier to give your screaming kid a cartoon to watch, or gently push your phone in their face when they are being obnoxious at a restaurant (somehow she always ends up on the video of an Indonesian baby smoking cigarettes, but at least she is quiet).
The phone serves as both a diversion from my boredom, and a babysitter for my kid when I don’t want to deal. Does this mean that I am a lazier, more impatient parent than my mother who didn’t have an iPhone as pacifier? Yeah. It probably does. Yet I am also pretty convinced that if cavemen had iPhones, they wouldn’t have been so “one with nature” either. The seduction of the phone is hard to resist; our digital culture is one of immediacy and constant technological stimulus. The phone taps into, and superficially satisfies, very primal needs in all of us. The desire to feel connected to others and the fear of dealing with the chatter of our own thoughts. I can’t remember the last time I took a dump, or waited in line for more than two minutes and wasn’t scrolling through my newsfeed just to avoid seeing where my mind will wander.
And so, I implemented a phone curfew. There are specific times, no matter what, when my phone is put away on silent. I am fully aware of the modern conundrum in even having to do that. The reality is that I will never get back these fleeting moments with my daughter, who is quite delightful even though she can’t tell the difference between a rhinoceros and hippopotamus. (I mean, come on, kid, one has a horn.) But addressing this addiction to my phone isn’t just about spending quality time with my child. It’s also about quality time with myself by developing a relationship with my phone that honors it as tool, but is not controlled by its temptress ways. Unless the future turns out to be a Zombie Apocalypse, humanity is only going to create a deeper reliance on technology, new media, and social networking. Exposing my child to these elements of culture can’t be avoided, but I realize must be done with care and intentionality. Being a parent doesn’t mean shutting out the world; it means teaching your children to navigate within it. Even if that results in your kid becoming a narcissist from looking at too many videos of themselves.
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Julia Coronado is Chief Economist for Graham Capital Management where she develops market views based on the outlook for the global economy and monetary policy. She also serves as a member of the Investment and Risk Committees at Graham. Prior to joining Graham Julia was formerly Chief Economist for North America at BNP Paribas and Senior U.S. Economist at Barclays Capital in New York. After receiving a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas Julia worked as an Economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. for eight years. Julia has deep expertise in aging and pension issues; she was formerly a trustee of Barclays Capital’s pension fund and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School. Julia is a member of the Treasury Market Practices Group, a group of senior finance industry professionals sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that develops best practices guidelines for Treasury and mortgage markets. She is also a member of the Economic Advisory Panel at the New York Fed, the Economic Studies Council at the Brookings Institution and serves on the Board of the National Association of Business Economists.
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Adam: How did you become an influencer? What’s the inside story?
Steve: The key to becoming an influencer is giving a certain audience some kind of value. Fashion
influencers will give a community of young men or women advice on what to wear and how
to wear it, meaning that all of their content will be bringing value to that community. I do this
by leveraging my own personal story and the value within it. I take my journey of being an
18 year old kid who is now a 25 year old entrepreneur and I produce content that caters to
an audience who are interested in replicating this journey using their own passions or
stories. I capitalize on social media and the ever-changing possibilities within this to do so.
Adam: What advice do you have for those interested in working with influencers? How do you
decide who to work with?
Steve: When working with influencers, ensure that you don’t get sucked into the trap of believing
followers equal return. The metrics that matter most are the ones that allude to the fact that
an influencer can cause action. These can include comments and more meaningful types
of engagement as they are better litmus tests for an influencer to distinguish whether you
can get a an audience to buy into your product. I would also advise working with certain
influencers on a long-term basis instead of considering it to be a campaign or a one-off
post. You’re looking for brand ambassadors who will provide a greater return as the
audience will be more likely to believe that it isn’t just a paid partnership and that the
influencer has a genuine interest in the product or service, outside of being paid.
Adam: What advice do you have for those interested in becoming influencers?
Steve: If you’re interested in becoming an influencer, the first thing you need to do is identify
where you value is. You might be an artist, amazing at making videos or really funny and
you need to have the self awareness to understand what you’re unique value is. You then
need to understand which platforms or ‘stage’ is best to tell your story.
Adam: What is the biggest misconception about the influencer world and life as an influencer?
Steve: The biggest misconception around being an influencer is that it’s inherently easy.
Producing content on platforms that reward creators for producing every single day is a
challenging job. As an influencer, you can’t have a day off. Although there are great
rewards, it is very much a 24/7 job. Platforms are constantly changing and you have to be
on top of these changes. If you don’t adapt you can become irrelevant fairly quickly. It’s like
having a steam train and consistently filling the engine with coal. If you don’t, the
momentum will stop.
Adam: What has being an influencer taught you about branding and marketing?
Steve: Being an influencer has taught me that people buy from people. The strongest connection
you can have isn’t to a brand, it is to a person. People connections are significantly stronger
than brand connections. This is essentially what influencer marketing is: it’s a person
becoming a brand and telling you the story of their product. This is why it’s so powerful.
Adam: What are your hobbies and how have they shaped you?
Steve: I enjoy watching documentaries and playing football and I feel that these play a big part in
encouraging my natural competitive nature. I would however say that my biggest hobby is
my work. My truth is that I work 7 days a week, virtually every waking hour and I don’t
switch off. I believe in the concept of life-life balance, which breaks the traditional construct
of work. I am currently able to dedicate my time to my ‘work’ 24/7 and if I am in the position
where I can indulge in my passion, be successful and make money from it – why would I
Adam: Who have been the biggest influences in your life and how do you pay it forward?
Steve: I think we are constantly influenced by what we consume. It could be a person who I
interview for my podcast, The Diary of a CEO, or it could be a book I read. Each of these
outlets are always giving me a different perspective on something and offering alternative
ideas that effect how I live and work. I think it’s always important to share these new
learnings with the people around you, whether that be in passing conversation, in a
meeting or on social media.
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In early July, Burbank, CA-based entertainment company Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), settled charges which were brought against it by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for deceptive marketing practices. The FTC’s order affects Warner Bros.’ activities regarding influencer campaigns promoting products and services offered by the company.
Warner Bros. has been under fire from the FTC over its activities related to marketing one of its video games, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. This open world action-adventure game was released for video game consoles during the fall of 2014 and is set in a world designed to mimic the Lord of the Rings universe developed by fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien.
The FTC filed a complaint against Warner Bros. for violating provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act by making payments to prominent members of YouTube for positive reviews of its video game without publicly disclosing those payments. The FTC focused on the activities of an advertising agency known as Plaid Social Labs which was contracted by Warner Bros. in 2014 to coordinate a YouTube influencer campaign which marketed Shadow of Mordor.
The FTC complaint listed two counts against Warner Bros., specifically one count for false claims of independent reviews and another count for deceptive failure to disclose material connection between endorsers and sellers. Technically, the YouTube video content did contain disclosures of material connection to Warner Bros., but those disclosures were made in the description box published below the video. Viewers would only see the disclosure if they clicked “Show More” link in that description box, effectively hiding the information from most casual users.
Individuals identified as YouTube influencers were offered advance copies of the game as well as cash payments ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars to create video content on YouTube. To earn this compensation, Plaid Social required that videos created by YouTube influencers would feature Shadow of Mordor gameplay, provide positive feedback about the game and include a strong call-to-action for viewers to visit the game’s official website. Plaid Social also required influencers to post a link of the video content to social media networks Facebook or Twitter. According to the FTC, the marketing campaign created nearly 30 sponsored videos which were viewed more than 5.5 million times. One such influencer contracted by Plaid Social was PewDiePie, a video game reviewer whose YouTube videos regularly receive millions of views; PewDiePie’s video received 3.7 million views according to the FTC’s press release regarding the Warner Bros. settlement.
Under the terms of the FTC’s settlement, Warner Bros. will have to clearly identify its sponsorship of marketing videos published on YouTube in the future. The FTC order mandates that Warner Bros. will disclose material connections between itself and influencers and will not misrepresent such influencers as independent users in the future. Warner Bros. will be responsible for informing influencers that they must disclose material connections in their video reviews and establishing a system to monitor video content and social media posts for such disclosures. The order will remain in place for 20 years or longer if the FTC files a new complaint alleging violation of its order.
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By Liz Premo, Alantic News Staff Writer
Atlantic News, Friday, July 27, 2007
[The following article is courtesy of Atlantic News]
[Atlantic News Photo by Liz Premo]
HAMPTON -- A spirited basketball game at Hampton Academy was the precursor for last Friday's energized campaign stop in Hampton by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Illinois senator shared some early morning court action with a group that included local firefighters, as well as David O'Connor, principal of Marston School where the candidate held a town hall meeting an hour or so later.
According to campaign staffers, approximately 600 people were in attendance at the event. The standing-room-only crowd was about five deep near the back of the school gymnasium, where folding chairs and bleachers were quickly filled to capacity.
The now-familiar basket-toting Cookie Mom and "I'm a Health Care Voter" folks worked the crowd as Secret Service agents kept careful watch over the surroundings. An earlier security sweep and inspection by bomb-sniffing dogs assured that everything was in order.
When Sen. Obama's name was announced, the audience welcomed him with a standing ovation to the "freedom" chorus from Aretha Franklin's empowerment anthem, "Think." A personalized introduction by NH State Sen. Jane Kelley followed.
"This is the biggest thrill of my life, to introduce the next president of the United States!" exclaimed Kelley, pointing out that "if anyone wants a woman in the White House, make it Michelle Obama," referring to the candidate's wife.
Kelley praised Obama for his "integrity" and for his "courage to come out against the war [in Iraq] when no one else did." She added, "His politics don't come from his head; [they] come from the heart."
Delivering his comments prior to a question-and-answer exchange with the audience, Sen. Obama swiftly addressed a number of familiar campaign issues, including healthcare, education, energy and the environment, the war, and government in general.
Of the latter he observed that "people are a little fed up and are paying attention to the fact [that the government] is broken." The Bush Administration's education policy is, he said, "leaving millions of children behind," and he bemoaned the opinion that there is "no energy policy in this country."
"Then we've got a war that should never have been waged, should never have been authorized," he noted.
The public is paying attention to current issues, the senator observed, because "they are desperately hoping for something new … they want to feel good about this country."
He also revealed he has been described by various entities as "a hope peddler or a hope-monger — but that's OK," he acknowledged, to vigorous applause.
Observing that the war in Iraq is "leaving us with no good options," the senator said made a case for pulling out the troops, saying "I believe we can still act responsibly [and] be as careful going out as careless as we were going in."
The United States, he said, "should not have to expect our men and women to police a civil war" in Iraq. "We need a timetable." He also stressed a desire to "close Guantanamo" and "restore habeas corpus" in dealing with the detention facility currently housing prisoners taken into custody in the War on Terror.
"If we put our shoulder against the wheel," he added, "we're going to be able to move history."
Following his comments, Sen. Obama dressed down to his shirtsleeves in preparation for what he humorously predicted to be "some tough questions" from the audience.
The first question asked whether the United States should consider withdrawing from Afghanistan, where troops have been deployed since just after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
"I do not believe we can get out of Afghanistan right now," Obama replied, noting that "we haven't handled Afghanistan well because we got distracted" by Iraq. "We've got to focus our attention there [to help the] Karzai government [and] stop al Qaeda" and keep Pakistan from falling into the hands of extremists.
Regarding global warming, the candidate claimed that "for the past six years we've been told it's a hoax" by skeptics, and that "every scientist outside the White House acknowledges that global warming is real." He reminded his audience that he is "a co-sponsor of the toughest climate change bill in the Senate right now."
When questioned about whether he will "be doing something to impeach President Bush," Sen. Obama firmly replied, "No," adding that it's "very important to not to get into the habit [of impeaching] every president."
Additionally, he said, to pursue impeachment "would be an enormous distraction," and he would prefer to dedicate his efforts to "undo the encroachments" upon Americans' civil rights rather than begin any sort of impeachment proceedings.
Prior to extensively addressing questions regarding education, federal housing and fair trade, Sen. Obama told his listeners that if elected president, "I will appoint people who are competent" and "people with integrity," which appeared to be welcomed as another crowd-pleasing comment.
As the event concluded, Sen. Obama took the opportunity to shake hands and greet his supporters, before leaving Hampton for a similar gathering in Manchester that evening. His trip to the Granite State took place just days before his participation in Monday night's unique CNN Democratic "debate" using videotaped questions selected from YouTube submissions. Depending upon the various polls, early results indicated that the senator had scored fairly well against his fellow candidates.
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About this book
This book synthesizes the most current evidence-based research and practices on prevention, assessment, intervention, and treatment of pediatric intellectual developmental disabilities. It provides a broad empirical framework for innovative practices and discusses their possible impact on children’s future development, ability to learn, social skills, and quality of life. The book highlights important findings in cognitive and behavioral development for children with such disorders as 22q13 Deletion syndrome (i.e., Phelan McDermid syndrome), Prader-Willi syndrome, Williams syndrome, and sex chromosome disorders (e.g., Klinefelter syndrome) – children often considered untestable, unteachable, and unknowable. In addition, the book includes case studies that emphasize a team approach with physicians, families, school psychologists, and teachers for providing quality research-based psychological, educational, and mental health services.
Topics featured in this book include:
- Up-to-date findings on the causes and symptoms of intellectual disability disorders.
- Common medical treatments for children with intellectual disabilities.
- Therapeutic interventions for children with intellectual disabilities.
- Psychoeducational assessment practices for children requiring special education assistance.
- Future directions to support people with intellectual disabilities.
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02992-0
- Copyright Information Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
- Publisher Name Springer, Cham
- eBook Packages Behavioral Science and Psychology
- Print ISBN 978-3-030-02990-6
- Online ISBN 978-3-030-02992-0
- Series Print ISSN 2524-8278
- Series Online ISSN 2524-8286
- Buy this book on publisher's site
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The citizens of Florence have an exceptional reason to celebrate today, as one of the city’s most treasured artworks has been restored and is back on display. Hidden from view for the past 50 years to the day, The Last Supper (1546) by Giorgio Vasari has returned to the Museum of the Opera of Santa Croce in Florence after a decade-long conservation project.
Painted on five large panels, each constructed of several planks, and measuring over 8 by 21 feet, the painting was damaged in the disastrous Florentine flood of 1966 and considered beyond repair. Or, at least, that was the opinion of experts up until ten years ago. With the support of a grant from the Getty Foundation’s Panel Paintings Initiative, a team of experts at one of the foremost conservation centers in the world, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD) in Florence, have brought Vasari’s artwork back to life.
A Miraculous 470-Year History
I am a firm believer in miracles, but not of the kind shrouded in mystery with billowing smoke and flickering lights. I believe in miracles that happen because of human ingenuity and resilience, such as the rescue and restoration of The Last Supper. Vasari started the work in 1546 and painted it over a six-month period for the Murate Convent, located only a few blocks from the Basilica of Santa Croce.
The convent and church are located in one of the lowest parts of Florence, so the painting has been subjected to no less than seven major floods in its 470-year lifespan. The first happened shortly after the artwork was finished, when the Arno River spilled over its banks in 1547. After 1845, the Murate Convent was repurposed as a prison, so The Last Supper was moved to the Santa Croce, where it continued to remain vulnerable to the Arno.
The most disastrous Florentine flood of modern times occurred on November 4, 1966. After heavy rainfall in Tuscany in October and early November, a flood wave burst into the city, covering more than 7,000 acres with water and sewage, and depositing 600,000 tons of mud and debris. The water reached heights of over 22 feet in the lowest parts of town, including the area of Santa Croce. Inside the basilica and adjacent museum, it swelled to well over 8 feet high, damaging many irreplaceable artworks.
During the flood, The Last Supper was submerged in a slurry of water, mud, and heating oil for over twelve hours, which softened the paint and saturated the wooden support structure. When the sludge receded, some of the paint and gesso migrated with it toward the bottom of the painting.
A heroic effort to save the artwork by a team of conservators and volunteers ensued. The rescuers tried to protect the painted surface by covering it with conservation-grade paper and, when that ran out, any type of tissue paper they could get their hands on. The sheets of paper prevented the paint from peeling off and sliding down.
But this was just a first emergency response. The panels were drenched and needed to slowly dry out in a controlled environment to avoid warping and splitting. Conservators also had to carefully monitor humidity levels to avoid mold growth, which would have been disastrous. Faced with this monumental challenge, the painting’s five panels were put in storage, where they lay dormant for decades. Vasari’s artwork was almost given up as a casualty of the flood.
Given this history, it is a miracle that The Last Supper still exists. Equally astounding is the level to which it has now been restored. Not only is the painting back on display, but for the first time scholars can see color images of it; before 1966, the artwork had only been documented in black-and-white photographs.
Modern-Day “Mud Angels”
As the flood water receded, Florentines, experts from neighboring cities, and a large number of volunteers from all over the world—nicknamed “mud angels”—descended on the city to rescue and perform first-aid measures to artworks, books, and historic materials. Among them was a young carpenter by the name of Ciro Castelli. His skills were desperately needed to build gurneys and crates to protect works of art as they were moved to safety.
Due to the massive support and attention the city received, I think that it is safe to say that the 1966 flood put the conservation profession solidly on the map, and Castelli found his calling. At the OPD, he became a specialist in the structural conservation of panel paintings, and he is now one of the most revered experts in the world.
In 1986, when I was still at the beginning of my career in conservation, I visited the OPD, and I clearly remember my awe for the professionalism and skills of the conservators. Since then, I have returned many times, and my respect for the institution has only deepened.
When the Getty Foundation, together with colleagues from the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, began developing the Panel Paintings Initiative in 2008, it was considered paramount to ally with the OPD. As a premier conservation laboratory and training institution, the OPD was the ideal partner, as it represents over 50 years of experience in the structural conservation of panel paintings. The Getty Foundation was fortunate to have the Soprintendente of the OPD, Dr. Marco Ciatti, serve on the initiative’s international advisory committee.
The main focus of the Panel Paintings Initiative is to advance the knowledge of current experts and to bring a younger generation of experts into the field. To achieve these goals, the Getty Foundation partners with leading art institutions in the western hemisphere and supports side-by-side training residencies.
In 2010, the OPD received a three-year grant for the structural conservation of Vasari’s painting. For the first time since the flood, conservators felt ready to face the challenge of The Last Supper’s conservation. The painting was still in bad shape. The intense water saturation caused the wood to soften and expand, in turn stressing the painted surface and causing dramatic cracks and breaks. Wooden supports on the back of the artwork that kept the multi-panel object structurally sound also failed, leaving the painting in pieces.
The Last Supper was ideally suited to the initiative, given its large size and structural complexity, as well as the extent of the damage caused by the flood. Its conservation treatment offered training opportunities for both mid-career and advanced-level conservators. During the course of the project, three additional outside panel experts consulted with the OPD team, allowing the trainees to observe peer-to-peer decision making at the highest level.
Castelli, a respected and beloved teacher, led the training residencies at the OPD. Without a doubt, he has advanced the knowledge of a new generation of structural panel paintings conservators. He was ably assisted by Mauro Parri and Andrea Santacesaria, who benefitted from the initiative’s international collaboration with conservation experts in Brussels, Madrid, London, and New York.
Seven conservators from England, Hungary, Italy, and the United States—including the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Sue Ann Chui—completed training at all phases of the painting’s complex structural treatment.
Take a moment to imagine what it is like to handle a painting of such an enormous size—8 by 21 feet total; composed of five panels with a total of 12 thick poplar planks. How many people does it take to maneuver these large components around? During structural conservation, how can you assure that an intervention at the back gives the desired effect at the front? Asking these questions may help you begin to grasp the complexity of this conservation project.
There are many details to consider and problems to be solved, but to give you an idea of just one, consider this quote from Parri:
The treatment steps became more complicated from a technical point of view as we encountered a significant gap between the panels and the impossibility of bringing them closer due to the paint layer bridging them. After some brainstorming, we decided to apply wedge-shaped inserts along the previously prepared channels with the point facing down, as wide as the gap, to recreate the foundation on which to later set down and re-adhere the paint layers.
In 2013, the stabilization of the wood substrate was complete, and The Last Supper‘s five panels were reconnected for the first time in 47 years. It was a momentous occasion. The team’s solution was based on the support system originally devised by Vasari himself, which has stabilized the painting while also allowing the wooden panels to move naturally with standard temperature and humidity fluctuations.
Work on the final conservation of the painted surface was completed with the generous support of the Prada Foundation. A conservation team led by OPD conservator Roberto Bellucci was able to recover an unanticipated amount of the original painted surface, revealing the artist’s hand in surprising detail. The most talented conservators in the field skillfully saved a significant painting that was deemed beyond repair. Allora, many congratulations to the OPD on this remarkable achievement; now it’s time to celebrate!
With the Arno still flowing nearby, there is always the looming threat of another major flood, despite the water management dams that have been constructed upstream. As an extra safety precaution, a high-tech yet simple device was installed. If The Last Supper is in danger of another flood, a simple press of a button engages two winches, and the entire painting is miraculously hoisted toward the ceiling out of harm’s way!
Learn more: The Getty Foundation’s Panel Paintings Initiative project for the conservation of Giorgio Vasari’s The Last Supper (1526) was featured in the PBS NewsHour’s Culture at Risk series in October 2015. The episode focused on the work of the OPD, which the NewsHour host Jeff Brown described as “part museum, part workshop, part hospital for threatened treasures.” Watch the episode online.
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These three beauties are newcomers to the Humane Society of Noble County and are waiting for their forever homes. They are all up-to-date on vaccinations.
Kiara is a short-haired gray female with a lot of peach and tan coloring. She is 2-4 years old and has been at the shelter since mid-April. She is a little shy, but wants to be friendly and seems like a very nice girl!
Destiny is a medium-haired calico who is 3-4 years old and has only been at the shelter for about a week. She has extremely soft fur, which you can almost see in the picture. She is also a little shy, but friendly and loves attention!
Sweetie is a short-haired black and tan tabby with a white chest and belly and 4 white feet. She is 1-2 years old and has been at the shelter for about a week. She is a very calm, loving, and sweet cat - thus her name!
Please come to the shelter to visit all of the animals and see which one you want to go home with you!
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A Great Loss for St. Jude, Fundraising Community as a Whole
I didn't have the honor of personally knowing Dave McKee, the senior executive vice president and chief operating officer at ALSAC, the fundraising organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, who died last week from injuries sustained in a tragic automobile accident.
But I knew of his work, and of his dedication to St. Jude and its mission. And I knew how much his staff valued and appreciated him.
We were happy to give Dave the Lifetime Achievement Award in our 2011 Fundraising Profesionals of the Year Awards. You can read about his accomplishments here.
We at FundRaising Success offer our thoughts and prayers of comfort and condolences to Dave's family and friends, and to the many people who have worked with him and for him over the years who are now dealing with this loss.
Godspeed, Dave. Your dedication will be missed; your spirit will live on in those you have mentored over the years and in the continued good works of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. From the fundraising community and all of the children and familes your work has helped, thank you.
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“Nothing is More Beautiful” is the motto inscribed in the stunning oriental decorations found in the exotic Sammezzano Castle only 30kms from Florence and just a hop skip and jump from my place. Perched high among its secular tree park and oblivious to the thousands of tourists that visit The Mall shopping outlet below, it is something of a tragic icon.
The inspiration of the Marchese – Ferdinand Panciatichi Ximenes of Aragon who transformed and extended the existing building in 1843-1889 into the Oriental paradise that we know today. An architect, engineer, artisan, disillusioned politician, a visionary and lover of Art and History, a man who donated significantly to our famous Art Galleries – Uffizi, Accademia, Bargello – financing the 18 statues in the niches of the courtyard of Uffizi, yet would die alone in serious debt over the Sammezzano Castle project.
A step inside and the explosion of colours takes your breath away, it’s truly amazing, overwhelmingly exotic, bizarre, beautiful beyond words! Like walking into a film set of ‘Arabian nights’ , each room unique and enchantingly named – Room of Stars, Lovers Room, Room of Butterflies, Lily Room, and the famous Peacock room and more….
All Photo credits to Save Sammezzano members
Despite the obvious Arab Spanish influence Ferdinando Panciatichi had never been to Spain, Egypt or Turkey and the workers on site were all local Italians even less likely to have ever travelled outside of the country. Yet the decorations reflect his passion for the mysterious and rather outlandish styles (for the period) and his vision of creating something entirely different.
Every decoration, from floor to ceiling done to exquisite perfection and each room designed to utilise the sunlight to reflect on the elaborate patterns and mirror fragments for illumination.
The eccentricity of Ferdinando Panciatichi is shown in many of the Latin inscriptions incorporated in the decorations, one in particular showing his disillusionment with politics and on his resignation in 1870 inscribed- ‘Italy is in the hands of thieves, tax collectors, prostitutes and middlemen who control it and devour it. But not for this I grieve, but for the fact that we deserve them.’ !
After his death the Sammezzano Castle was kept in the family until the 1970’s when it was bought by the Palmerston Hotel group and converted into a luxury Hotel which remained in operation until 1990. It was during this period that I was fortunate to make a visit with my parents on the pretext we were interested in making a booking!
In the 1990’s the Castle was bought by an Italo-English Company – Castle Sammezzano SRL – who initially intended to expand the complex with a golf course, pool and tennis courts as the Castle is surrounded by around 250 acres of parkland, 100 acres of which are woodlands with secular native and foreign trees personally selected by Ferdinando.
But the project was put aside and the company has done nothing to the site since they bought it. So the Castle is in a state of abandonment, left open to vandals who have defaced some of the decorations and stolen various pieces of furniture and statues. In 2015 the company agreed to place the Castle up for auction but there were no buyers. At a hefty cost of €15 million plus the cost of renovations that would be required it is not that enticing, nor do the present owners feel any responsibility to preserve what is a truly exceptional building and parkland.
Two voluntary associations – Comitato FPXA and Save Sammezzano have been created to take up the cause, putting pressure on the Government to buy the building (but they declined), and even tried via a crowdfunding project to raise money for its protection and upkeep but were unsuccessful. On occasions the Comitato has been allowed to take visitors through.
A beautiful video on the Castle on the Castle was created by Francesco Esposito for the Kickstarter project.
The two histrionic lion statues that guarded the façade have been stolen, the last one only recently on1st April 2016. The only recompense for their disappearance will be the curse that is said to now go onto the thieves – who will die a long slow death by paralysis as did the owner of the house – Ferdinando Panciatichi of Aragon
If anyone is interested the next auction is on the 24th May, 2016 so start saving!!!
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“Collateral Murder” created a media sensation in 2010 and led to Chelsea Manning’s imprisonment and to a DOJ investigation of Julian Assange, reports Elizabeth Vos. But the war crimes the video exposed got no one else in trouble.
Consortium News today begins a series of articles, “The Revelations of WikiLeaks,” that will look back on the major works of the publication that have altered the world since its founding in 2006. This series is an effort to counter mainstream media coverage, which is ignoring WikiLeaks’ work, and instead is focusing on Julian Assange’s personality. It is the uncovering by WikiLeaks of governments’ crimes and corruption that set the U.S. after Assange and which ultimately led to his arrest on April 11. The “Collateral Murder” video was just the first of many major WikiLeaks revelations that made the journalist one of the world’s most wanted men, simply for the act of publishing.
The Video that Put Julian Assange
in the Crosshairs of the United States
By Elizabeth Vos
Special to Consortium News
WikiLeaks was founded in 2006, but it was the April 5, 2010, publication of “Collateral Murder” that made the whistleblower-publisher a world-wide phenomenon, attracting admirers and enemies.
WikiLeaks wrote of the film: “The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.”
WikiLeaks noted that Reuters had unsuccessfully attempted to gain access to the video through the Freedom of Information Act in the years after the strike.
The day after the release of the footage, The New York Times described WikiLeaks as a once-fringe website that had moved into the big time. “The site has become a thorn in the side of authorities in the United States and abroad,” it said. “With the Iraq attack video, the clearinghouse for sensitive documents is edging closer toward a form of investigative journalism and to advocacy.”
Before 2010 WikiLeaks received a few high-profile journalism awards. But in the years since the publication of the video, it has received a slew of honors, including The Sam Adams Award for Integrity.
On April 16, WikiLeaks announced a fresh award for its founder, Julian Assange, even as he remains isolated in a London prison.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 16, 2019
“Collateral Murder” was one of the most prominent releases sourced from then-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served seven years in a military prison as a result.
Manning, who had access to the video, having a Top Secret clearance, first offered the video to The New York Times and The Washington Post, which both turned her down. Manning then turned to WikiLeaks.
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Manning described the events that led up to her decision to submit the footage to the press in leaked audio of her testimony during her 2013 court-martial.
She said Reuters’ inability to get the footage via a freedom-of-information request contributed to her decision to leak it. “The most alarming aspect of the video for me, was the seemingly delight of bloodlust they [the pilots] appeared to have. They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging with, and seemed to not value human life in referring to them as ‘dead bastards,’ and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers.”
Marjorie Cohn, a legal analyst, is one of those who has described the contents of the footage as evidence of U.S. war crimes. As such she argues that Manning was legally obligated to expose such information. In a 2013 column for Truthout, she cites the Geneva Conventions, the Army Field Manual and the Uniform Code of Military Justice as all setting forth the duty of a service member to disobey unlawful orders.
None of the pilots, military officials nor policy-makers have ever been charged or otherwise held responsible for the events shown in the video.
U.S. Army 2007 Apache Helicopter Attack
The film depicts the July 12, 2007, shooting of over a dozen Iraqis by U.S. Army Apache helicopters armed with 30mm cannons in the Al-Amin al-Thaniyah neighborhood of New Baghdad, a district of Iraq’s capital city. The dead included Reuters’ photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and his assistant, Saeed Chmagh. WikiLeaks has said as many as 25 people were killed as a result of the incident.
After the initial attack, the helicopters fired on and killed people who stopped to try to rescue the wounded. A U.S. tank reportedly drove over a body, cutting it in half. Assange identified the individual run over by the tank as Namir Noor-Eldeen in an interview with Al Jazeera days after the publication of “Collateral Murder.”
Kristinn Hrafnsson, who now serves as editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, went to Iraq as an investigative journalist to locate victims’ families and confirm details of the event prior to the film’s publication. The New Yorker reported:
“He [Hrafnsson] claims to have found the owner of the building, an old man named Jabbar Abid Rady, born in 1941, a retired English teacher. Abid Rady told Hrafnsson that his wife and daughter had died in the attack. He said that five other people who had been living in the building died, too. Buildings under construction often serve as housing in war-ravaged places; people live in the lower floors, which are often built first and are inhabitable before construction ends. Abid Rady told Hrafnsson that three families had been living in this particular structure.”
Assange noted how the moving images had stirred public attention far more than any printed matter. “It’s very easy for people to see what’s going on,” he is quoted as saying in the April 2010 video interview with Al Jazeera. “It’s not too complex, there’s no language barriers with visual material. We released the policies behind this material as far back as 2007, classified US military policies.”
At one point in the video, American personnel can be heard laughing, saying: “The tank just drove over a body.” Assange commented on that, saying, “That was Namir’s body.”
Shortly after the 2007 killings — and three years before the video was released — the U.S. military was quoted as underreporting the death toll and context of the incident.
Assange argued that the military’s reports of a “firefight” preceding the events shown on tape had been misrepresented in order to justify the killings.
After WikiLeaks’ release of “Collateral Murder,” the Pentagon acknowledged the authenticity of the video but said it did not contradict the official finding that the helicopters’ crew acted within the rules of engagement,” The Daily Telegraph reported.
The U.S. military rejected calls to discipline the crew for the deaths of the Reuters journalists because it said the men could not be distinguished from suspected insurgents. “The RPG in the video is real,” The Telegraph quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying. “We had insurgents and reporters in an area where U.S. forces were about to be ambushed. At the time we weren’t able to discern whether (Reuters employees) were carrying cameras or weapons.”
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Chris Walach, commander of the Apache helicopter pilots, in 2013, spoke with Democracy Now about the footage. “In Iraq, you can’t put pink gloves on Apache helicopter pilots and send them into the Ultimate Fighting ring and ask them to take a knee,” he said. “These are attack pilots wearing gloves of steel, and they go into the ring throwing powerful punches of explosive steel. They are there to win, and they will win.”
Shortly after “Collateral Murder’s” publication, Assange appeared on the “Colbert Report.” At one point, host Stephen Colbert joked that Assange is “a dead man.” Colbert asked Assange about allegations of a firefight preceding the events shown on the tape. “That’s a lie,” Assange responded. [05.20/11:39] He said that 28 minutes earlier there had been a report of small arms fire and that the Apache helicopters circling New Baghdad “came across these men and killed them.”
The Politicians React
On April 11, 2019, the day Assange was arrested, Reuters’ reporter Alistair Smout wrote in hindsight: “WikiLeaks incensed Washington by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, and in 2010 a classified U.S. military video showing a helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007 that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff.”
Within days of the publication of “Collateral Murder,” Obama Whitehouse Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered questions from reporters on the contents of the video. When asked whether the actions of the U.S. personnel were “appropriate,” Gibbs said that he was not sure whether then-President Barack Obama had seen the video, adding:
“Many of you all have traveled with the President – this President or other Presidents in war zones. Many of you know colleagues that have reported from exceedingly dangerous places in the world. Our military will take every precaution necessary to ensure the safety and security of civilians, and particularly those that report in those dangerous places on behalf of news organizations. I honestly do not know enough about what was done previous, which is why I’d point you to the Department of Defense.”
Then U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates blasted WikiLeaks for not providing context for the video. “These people can put out anything they want, and they’re never held accountable for it. There’s no before and there’s no after,” Gates said, likening the video as seeing warfare “through a soda straw.”
Gates said: “They’re in a combat situation. The video doesn’t show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. It’s obviously a hard thing to see. It’s painful to see, especially when you learn after the fact what was going on. But you—you talked about the fog of war. These people were operating in split second situations.”
The strongest response to the video came in the form of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation of Assange, by at most six months after “Collateral Murder,” and subsequent releases of the Afghan and Iraq War Logs, the next subject of CN’s series, that ultimately culminated in his arrest on April 11, 2019.
“The investigation has been quietly gathering material since at least October 2010, six months after the arrest of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the army enlistee who is accused of providing the bulk of the leaks,” The New York Times reported in June 2013.
The FBI had begun investigating Assange and WikiLeaks as early as 2009, according to an affidavit given by Assange in September 2013.
While the Obama DOJ stopped short of crossing a red line to criminalize journalism, the Trump DOJ has stomped over it using the same evidence abandoned by the previous administration.
“Collateral Murder” was unveiled at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington on April 5, 2010. The New York Times reported:
“’There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,” Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a spokesman for the multinational forces in Baghdad, said then.
But the video does not show hostile action. Instead, it begins with a group of people milling around on a street, among them, according to WikiLeaks, Mr. Noor-Eldeen and Mr. Chmagh. The pilots believe them to be insurgents, and mistake Mr. Noor-Eldeen’s camera for a weapon. They aim and fire at the group, then revel in their kills.”
The media’s reaction to the video’s release was mixed. The day after it was published, the Times ran a report, titled: “Iraq Video Brings Notice to a Web Site.” It described criticism WikiLeaks received for publishing an edited version of the footage:
“Critics contend that the shorter video was misleading because it did not make clear that the attacks took place amid clashes in the neighborhood and that one of the men was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade.”
Within months of the video’s release, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation noted the sentiments of journalist David Finkel of The Washington Post: “They [WikiLeaks] provided artificial agenda driven context. There was an operation underway in reaction to an ongoing war. Not that apache helicopters were circling looking for a bunch of guys to just shoot up and kill.” Finkel was stationed in Iraq in 2007 when the incident occured and included the event in his book, “The Good Soldiers.“
In response to such criticism, Assange told Al Jazeera that the decision to give the film its title hinged on the moment where the Apache helicopter pilots shot at the van and individuals who had stopped to aid the wounded. He said:
“This is why we called it ‘Collateral Murder.’ In the first example, maybe it’s a collateral exaggeration or incompetence, when they strafe this initial gathering. This was recklessness bordering on murder, but we couldn’t say for sure that was murder. But this particular event, this is clearly murder.”
Media that have since turned on Assange, at the time praised him and WikiLeaks.
On the day the video was released, The Guardian, which has lately been on an anti-Assange campaign, was quick to write an article that referred to the problems the video posed for military authorities: “The release of the video from Baghdad also comes shortly after the US military admitted that its special forces attempted to cover up the killings of three Afghan women in a raid in February by digging the bullets out of their bodies.”
Two days after “Collateral Murder’s” publication, The Guardian, then under editor Alan Rusbridger, published an opinion piece saying the footage was “heralded by some as the most important revelation since Abu Ghraib, and challenges not only the effectiveness of the US military’s rules of engagement policy, but also the integrity of the mainstream media’s coverage of similar incidents.”
James Fallows of The Atlantic called “Collateral Murder” the “most damaging documentation of abuse since the Abu Ghraib prison-torture photos” 12 hours after the video’s release.
“The Collateral Murder video is one of the best known and most widely recognized results of the ongoing WikiLeaks project,” Christian Christensen, a University of Stockholm journalism professor wrote in 2014. “These particular images were, in many ways, the crystallization of the horrors of war.”
Within days of the video’s publication, Haifa Zangana, a novelist and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime, wrote an op-ed for The Guardian, saying her family lived in the area where the events took place, which she described as having previously been “safe for children to play outdoors.”
“Witnesses to the slaughter reported the harrowing details in 2007, but they had to wait for a western whistleblower to hand over a video before anyone listened. Watching the video, my first impression was, I have no impression. But the total numbness gradually grows into a now familiar anger. I listen to the excited voices of death coming from the sky, enjoying the chase and killing. I whisper: do they think they are God?”
Elizabeth Vos is a freelance reporter and regular contributor to Consortium News. She co-hosts the #Unity4J online vigil.
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I am an Auburn Fan.
If you have read any of my previous pieces (articles? blogs? posts? What do you call these things, anyway? “Pieces” makes them sound like works of art. Which, of course, they are. I am way too humble to point out this obvious fact, yet there it is. But I digress…), you would certainly know that. My Auburn fandom is hereditary. It is in my DNA, my genes. Just as I got my ears and nose from my dad, so too did I receive from him my allegiance to what I firmly believe is the greatest institute of higher learning on the planet. That allegiance is unwavering. It is non-negotiable. I can no more turn it off or separate myself from it than I can make hair grow on my head (full disclosure: I can’t). This can, from time to time, cause a problem. Well, not so much a problem as a sizable challenge.
You see, for a living, I cover and talk about sports. Predominantly Auburn sports. And here, as they say, is the rub.
On one hand, my job is perfect! I love sports. I love Auburn. What could be the problem?
Just a little thing called “professionalism”, that’s all.
You see, for many in my business, what sport you cover, or what team, is a matter of pure business. You work for a paper and you get the Auburn beat. You work at a radio station in Atlanta and cover the Falcons. It’s a job. And if a better opportunity springs up in Ann Arbor or Austin, you pick up and move. No problem. And there is nothing wrong with this. Almost all of the most amazing writers and commentators do this. It is their profession. And that is part of what makes them so good. That objectivity. I really admire that. I admire it but I do not share it.
I have tried to come up with scenarios, or magic numbers, that would entice me to pick up and move to cover another team. I just can’t imagine one. It’s like trying to imagine what it would be like if everyone on the planet spoke Whale. It’s just so outside the realm of possibility that I cannot conceive what it might look like.
So why does this pose a problem? Well, the standard norms of professionalism (think MLB’s “unwritten rules”) dictate certain behavior in certain places. For the most part, they don’t really affect me. Not because I’m unprofessional (I am) but because what I do falls outside journalism into a gray area called “commentary”. I don’t so much report, as talk about what has been reported. But to do my job, I need to see as many as possible of the events that I will be talking about. Which means rubbing elbows and following the leads of those a fore mentioned professionals.
Nowhere is this more difficult than inside the press box at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Allow me to give you an example or two.
You know when you and your friends are at a bar having drinks, watching the game? And something good happens? A huge catch, a scorching run, a goal line stand? And you turn to your friend and give a “YES!” along with a high five? Or when something bad happens? A blown call by a blind ref (looking at you, Big 12), a missed tackle, an interception? And you slam your fist on the bar or table and yell “NO!”
Not in the press box. Can’t happen.
Please don’t misunderstand. I am not complaining! I understand and completely agree with the rules! It just that…well…it’s hard sometimes!
Think back to some of the best plays over the last 3-1/2 years in Auburn football alone. Imagine sitting on your hands and biting your tongue until it bleeds so you don’t yell out it agony or ecstasy. Imagine sitting next to one of your close friends and all you can do is share a smile and a raised eyebrow. Tough, huh?
But man… it is totally worth it! To be in the press box of every home game, to be around all those men and women who are so good at their jobs. To witness that wonderful machine operate the way it does. To experience on such a level that thing that you love so much. It really is amazing. And you would think that being so close to something you love might take the luster off a bit; reveal some warts. Not to me. If anything this closeness has deepened my affection for my alma mater.
My friends who have left Auburn for the suburbs are somewhat in awe of what I do for a living. And frankly, so am I. I will never get wealthy doing what I do. I make a living, thanks to a great employer, but this is a small market and I get an appropriately sized paycheck. But man… the perks!
And so, each Saturday I sit in the press box with all the professionals and I cheer. I cheer loudly. In my head.
After all, I am an Auburn fan.
Rich Perkins hosts The Drive, a weekday sports call-in show heard in Auburn on ESPN 106.5 and around the universe at espnau.com. He also has a little blog he occasionally updates with things that mostly amuse only him. Also, he thinks the movie Diner is one of the greatest movies of all time. Don’t ask.
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Today’s games are listed below.
Foxboro, 1 @ Attleboro, 2 – Final – Ryan Morry and Jake Parker each scored once to help the Bombardiers earn their first win of the season, a non-league victory over Foxboro. Warriors freshman Kirk Leach scored his first career goal for Foxboro in the loss.
King Philip, 3 @ Bridgewater-Raynham, 0 – Final – King Philip bounced back from its season-opening loss with a strong win on the road against the Trojans. The Warriors scored once in each period while junior James Lewis made 15 saves in his first varsity start to earn the win. Mike Curtin opened the scoring in the first off of assists from Garrett Maxwell and Collin Cooke. The Warriors made it 2-0 when Luke D’Amico converted off of a feed from Curtin. In the third, Cooke buried an unassisted goal into an empty net to secure the win.
Mansfield, 1 @ North Attleboro, 4 – Final – North Attleboro opened its season in style, scoring the opening goal just 21 seconds into the game and never looking back against the Hornets. Drew Wissler opened the scoring off of an assist from Anthony Zamiello, and then returned the favor to Zamiello later in the period to give Big Red a 2-0 lead after a period. Mansfield senior Cullin Anastasia scored a short-handed goal to bring the Hornets within one but Jeff Baker restored the two-goal lead for North within a minute to make it 3-1. Wissler scored an empty-netter in the third period to ice the game.
Stoughton, 2 vs. St. John Paul II, 5 – Final – Brendan Campbell and Sean Doherty each scored a goal for Stoughton.
Canton, 1 @ Falmouth, 1 – Final – Canton peppered Falmouth with 41 shots but only broke through once to earn a point on the road. Andrea McNeil found the back of the net for the Bulldogs in the first period while Colleen Kelleher finished with 30 saves.
Mansfield/Oliver, 2 Ames @ Franklin, 2 – Final – Click here for a recap and photo gallery from this game.
Stoughton, 0 @ King Philip, 7 – Final
Marlboro Early Bird (Canton) – Canton placed fifth overall among 16 teams. Sophomore Eddie Marinilli won the 138 bracket for the Bulldogs.
Mike Melish Duals (Foxboro, Sharon), 9:00AM
St. John’s Prep Quad (Franklin) – Franklin had the best team at the meeting, sweeping all three opponents. The Panthers opened with a dominant 45-18 win over Lawrence, earned a hard-fought victory over the hosts St. John Prep (31-21) and finished the day with a 58-16 win over Salem (NH). Jordan Carlucci went 3-0 on the day with three pins.
King Philip @ Milford, 10:00AM
Brockton Tri-meet (Mansfield) – Mansfield rallied for a win over host Brockton to pick up its second win of the day. The Hornets beat Barnstable (60-18) before coming back to beat the Boxers (39-31). Sam Isaacson (126), Ethan Nirenberg (195), and Sam Hutton (220) all picked up huge wins for the Hornets to help complete the comeback against Brockton.
North Attleboro Quad (North Attleboro) – North Attleboro picked up three wins on the day, including over one of the state’s best programs in Norton. Big Red beat Hope (RI) 53-22, took down Chariho (RI) 39-22 and picked up a win over Norton, 45-30. Seniors Jake Direnzo, Brady Folan, Zack Gould, Adam Eberle, and Brad White all went 3-0 for the day.
Marshfield Quad (Oliver Ames) – Oliver Ames dominated the day, picking up four wins to move to 5-0 on the season. The Tigers beat Whitman-Hanson (53-15), Pembroke (47-24), Toll Gate (57-24) and host Marshfield (51-27). Freshman Remy Creighton (106), junior Nick McGovern (113), senior Brandon Belleton (138, three pins), junior Anthony Berksza (145, four pins) and junior Dean Pacini (195, three pins) all went 4-0 on the day for Oliver Ames.
Sandwich Early Bird (Taunton) – Taunton had a successful day at the Sandwich Early Bird tournament with seven wrestlers finishing first, second or third. Josh Grasso (132), Alex Simon (195) and Woudanly Danger (220) emerged victorious from their respective weight classes while Candido Santos (160) and Mason Frank (285) finished second and Tyler Kennedy (152) and Jordan Manning (285) each finished third.
Boys Indoor Track (@ Reggie Lewis)
Attleboro, 29 vs. Oliver Ames, 70 – Final
Canton, 25 vs. Sharon, 75 – Final
Foxboro, 23 vs. North Attleboro, 77 – Final
Franklin, 61 vs. King Philip, 39 – Final
Mansfield, 76 vs. Taunton, 24 – Final
Milford, 46 vs. Stoughton, 50 – Final
Girls Indoor Track (@ Reggie Lewis)
Attleboro, 31 vs. Oliver Ames, 69 – Final
Canton, 17.66 vs. Sharon, 82.33 – Final
Foxboro, 23 vs. North Attleboro, 68 – Final
Franklin, 77 vs. King Philip, 23 – Final
Mansfield, 43.50 vs. Taunton, 56.50 – Final
Milford, 71 vs. Stoughton, 29 – Final
Taunton, 124.1 @ Attleboro, 134.65 – Final
North Attleboro, 136.15 @ Canton, 103.35 – Final – North Attleboro had four different individuals each win a single event in a victory over Canton. Kaleigh DeMarco won the vault (9.1), Caroline Szajda won the bars (8.4), Lindsay Robinson was first on the beam (8.7) and Paige Moore was victorious on the floor (8.8).
King Philip @ Canton, 7:00
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Government Greed Axes the Golden Goose
Stephen Michael MacLean condemns economic illiteracy
President Barack Obama mounted the bully pulpit last month, to decry the practice of ‘tax inversion’ and those corporations with the effrontery to believe in private property and the profit motive, thus escaping exorbitant tax bills by moving operations out of the United States for the welcoming low-tax jurisdictions of foreign lands.
According to an AP News report:
“Obama called it ‘one of the most insidious tax loopholes out there’ because it shortchanges the country. He said less tax revenue means the government can’t fully spend on schools, transportation networks and other things to keep the economy strong. He said the practice also hurts middle-class Americans because ‘that lost revenue has to be made up somewhere.'”
Oh, dear! Where does one begin to enumerate President Obama’s recurring penchant for economic (and constitutional) illiteracy?
A cursory critique would note the President’s assumption that personal earnings belong to the State, whose beneficence allows earners a share — but not more than their fair share.
Also notable is that this reputed constitutional scholar is more than a bit rusty on the actual text of the U.S. Constitution, which nowhere grants to the Executive authority responsibility for the quaint sobriquet of ‘internal improvements’; moreover, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments specifically reserved such public goods to private citizens and the States.
Yet it is on the economic front that President Obama’s jeremiad — sadly shared by most politicians — is most alarming.
Middle-class Americans would be among those most hurt by Washington’s tax grab, as it is corporate revenue that funds capital accumulation, innovation, and economic growth. Tax away profit, and you tax away employment opportunities.
“The old truth still holds,” Margaret Thatcher once told a Conservative conference: “there is much harm and only modest good that governments can do to promote a successful economy. And the more sophisticated the global economy becomes, the truer that will be.”
Moreover, to denote a ‘middle’ implies two opposites; within the political context, the ‘poor’ and the ‘wealthy’. State redistribution affects the three classes disproportionately: Wealth can take care of itself — as in the case of inversion, moving off-shore to escape punitive U.S. tax law … the poor, the dependent clientele of politicians, are taken care of through welfare schemes … while the middle class is left to its own devices. Yale sociologist W.G. Sumner skewered this phenomenon:
“All taxation has the same effect. It presses hardest on those who, under the conditions of their position in life and the demands which are made upon them, are trying to save capital and improve their circumstances. The heavier it becomes, the faster it crushes out this class of persons — that is, all the great middle class…”
The case against the folly of tax-greed was made a century earlier by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations. “Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the publick treasury of the state.”
Furthermore, “a tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the publick treasury,” Smith wrote. This is the essence of Laffer Curve analysis that proves that taxing beyond a certain point results in less tax collected.
If President Obama were truly interested in American economic well-being, he would be receptive to the reality that high taxes not only depress tax revenues, but starve entrepreneurial innovation of its necessary capital structure. Smith, too, foresaw this tax perversion:
“It may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance and employment to great multitudes. While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or perhaps destroy some of the funds, which might enable them more easily to do so.”
But ideology blinds many of the Washington élite. Not content to tax within the bounds of justice, governments have become gluttonous tax-eaters, feasting upon the sustenance of individual and corporate tax-payers. Like the greedy farmer who axed the goose that laid golden eggs, parasitic states will tax their host-citizens to financial death.
Stephen Michael MacLean is a freelance researcher, residing in Canada. He blogs as the Organic Tory at the Disraeli-Macdonald Institute
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1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The development of soil erosion began when man settled down and started turning pasture land into farmland. The intensive exploitation of the land disturbed the natural soil vegetative cover and exposed its, surface to the effect of erosive agents and to introduce such forms of agriculture that did not destroy the land the devastation of land by erosion often led to the down fall of civilization e.g in Mesopotamia Syria, China and else where.
According to Robert. M. (1984), Erosion is manifested by the determination of soil surface effected by exogenous forces, especially water. Ice wind and, man as the significant anthropogenic factor. The disturbance of soil surface is accompanied by the removal of the detached soil particles by the force of kinetic energy of some of the erosion agents, namely water and wind and the deposition of this matter with a decrease in this energy. Erosion is caused by surface num off and result complex natural process. Water erosion is caused by precipitation. Areas with a low precipitation usually have a small surface num off because precipitation water infiltrates into the soil is consumed by vegetation erosion which may also be broadly cause by a natural factor organ.
It can also be carried by improper channeling neglect of natural sewage systems and obstruction of naturally sewage by buildings. Form land and other unplanned structure causes a great deal of damage.
Although the nature of soil within the area under consideration is mostly sandy with a very low water storage capabilities. Practical observation orchestrated form visit to those site prone to erosion have shown that their may be possibility of erosion if the nun off water is not properly channel e.g the nature of the soil. In sandy soil they can form a very good soil material but danger exist if the water table is near or surface nun off is not adequately channeled. The sandy easily eroded a way from it position their by causing or may lead to fully erosion.
Furthermore, erosion is seen as one of the most serious defects in contemporary residential buildings, it is observed here that apart form it causing rapid destruction of structure / buildings, it also result to severe damage to the soil and in severe case it adversely affect the health of the occupants.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
A certain condition or factor can make a soil or structure / building to loose their Sharpe effectively or ineffectively attain their maximum structural physical and economic life span. It has been seen that a number of fact observed to be responsible for the in-adequate or in-appropriate functioning channeling of sewage surface nun off water at the due time. These in turn expose the building site to the danger of erosion which accelerate their dilapidation. Among the factors or improper channeling / neglect of natural sewage system and obstruction of natural sewage by building without following the local authorities rules dropping of refuse in the drainage ways. Erosion plays a critical role in dilapidation of building and visible in construction industry as one of the most serious defect in contemporary residential buildings. All soils can suffer erosion but some are more vulnerable than others. Soils with dispersible subsoils, for example, are subject to serious erosion by funneling and gully formation.
1.3 RESEARCH AIMS AND OBJECTIVE
The major purpose of this study is to determine. The effective way of controlling erosion in a construction site prone to erosion problem.
1) Identity the various causes of erosion in building sites.
2) Examine the appropriate materials and (new and old) used in controlling the erosion.
3) Determine the most appropriate materials and techniques required for the controlling it.
4) To recommend measure if implemented will lead to effective control of erosion in a construction
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The study sought to answer the following research questions
1) What are nature and various causes of erosion in building sites
2) What are the process to be applied in erosion control.
3) What are the various types of materials to be used in controlling erosion
4) If implemented will lead to effective control of erosion in an erosion prone site
1.5 SIGNIFICANT OF THE STUDY
The significance of this study shall include the follow:
1) Contractors and engineers shall know how to control erosion in an erosion prone site.
2) The engineers and the general public will because more aware on the importance of erosion control in a site.
3) Lecturers, students consultants and other stakeholders in the construction industry will be theoretically & technically equipped on how to control erosion in an erosion prone construction site.
1.6 STUDY OF AREA
This study was delimited to the problem of erosion in a site prone to erosion. It focused on the type and magnitude of erosion at site in Anambra state and also looked at the specific remedial techniques to that building site will function effectively and efficiently. Attempt should be made to look into laboratory experimentation of the material used for effective control of erosion in building site prone to erosion. Ekwulobia erosion is gully erosion-gully erosion is of concern due to periodically intense rainfall and a large average of erodible soils. Effective design of gully control system must consider the gully network as a whole and be based on geomorphologic indicators such as type of network, order and stage of development.
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
According to Grolie (1990). Erosion is the wearing away of the earth surface by the action of water.
According to Milos Holy (1987). Building is permanent or temporary structure enclosed within exterior walls and a roof and including all attached apparatus. Equipment and fixtures that cannot be removed without cutting into ceiling floors or walls. In the year 1960 Bernard Huss define soil as the top layer of the earths surface in which plants an grow consisting of rock and mineral particles mixed with decayed organic matter and having the capability of retaining water.
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In 1982 a small group of women came together to sing four part, unaccompanied harmony in 'barbershop' style. Thirty-plus years on, and Cambridge
Harmony Chorus now has a membership of around 30 ladies, and we regularly sing at events and venues in and around Cambridge.
We rehearse on Monday evenings throughout the year. Each rehearsal includes physical and vocal warm-ups, singing craft-work, revision of
repertoire songs and work on a new song. Rehearsals are relaxed and friendly, but we work hard as well as enjoying ourselves.
Occasionally we put on a Show – which involves lots of hard work as we have a long and varied programme of songs to entertain an audience for a
whole evening. And every year we do lots of ‘sing-outs’; performing to a wide range of audiences in assorted venues including shopping centres, university halls, village halls, churches and residential homes.
Cambridge Harmony Chorus gained charitable status in 2013 due to our commitment to music excellence and education, and public benefit through
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The Chorus is run by a Management Team elected from the membership and including the Musical Director.
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Alterna is focused on alternative risk solutions, captive management, and services within the health care industry that maximize any and all insurance-related benefits. Our team of industry experts combines deep medical professional liability insurance expertise with proven hands-on experience in analyzing, developing, and managing group, captive, risk retention group, and other insurance facilities.
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In many cases, captives and RRGs have multiple vendors supporting them. With Alterna, we provide—through one company—the needed expertise and services you need to effectively manage your risk.
Medical professionals typically believe they get better service and outcomes from a company they own, rather than from a giant, national firm owned by stockholders. But they also want the big ideas, the expertise of national leaders, and the financial strength of an established company. Alterna provides physicians and groups looking for alternative risk financing the best of both worlds-ownership, focused expertise, and creative solutions to managing risk.
Kristin Kenny is responsible for leadership and management of Alterna. She is actively involved in industry associations such as the Physician Insurers Association of America and participates as well as in local and regional forums. She holds a CPA designation and earned a BBA degree at Gonzaga University.
Jonathan McKenzie has more than 15 years of experience in the captive industry, initially with Marsh and more recently with Willis. He has formed and managed multiple forms of captives and traditionally licensed insurance companies in all of the major domiciles, including the District of Columbia, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, and Vermont.
Dr. Tobey Williams spent the last 16 years directly working with physicians to build and manage alternative market companies. He began his career in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, where during his residency he was selected as the program's chief resident by the facility and his peers. In 2003 he cofounded Emergency Medicine Professional Assurance Company Risk Retention Group to provide emergency medicine physicians with a viable, long-term insurance solution to the traditional marketplace. Later in 2007 he cofounded SCRUBS Mutual Assurance Company Risk Retention Group, a urology-focused alternative risk vehicle.
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Light Up Her Life
You do not necessarily need to spend a fortune in order to impress the woman that you love. When you are choosing Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend it truly is the thought that counts. Give a gift that reflects her personality and what you know about her hobbies and preferences. If you do this you really can't go wrong.If you are a student or on a very limited budget there are still many wonderful gift options for you to choose from.
More Important Things You Need To Consider
When you decide how much to spend on a gift it's also important for you to consider what stage your relationship is at. Your girlfriend may be overwhelmed if you buy her something very expensive when you have not been together for more than a few months. If you are in a long term relationship and you share finances then it may not be a great choice to give something that cost less than what she knows you can afford to spend.
Narrow It Down
Once you decide how much you would like to spend then decide on a general theme for the gift. You can get ideas for this by thinking about personality and hobbies as was mentioned already. You can also base it on things that she likes in general such as a favorite color or a favorite animal. Also do consider the type of work she does. You can buy something for the office for example.
Get it here - Umbra Zoola Ring Holder, Fox
Choosing Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend is fun when you can find cute little ideas like this to brighten up the holiday season. A sweet gift idea on it's own or you can give it as an accompaniment to that special ring that you know she really deserves!
Get it here -The Experimenter Bath Bomb 6.3 oz by LUSH
Giving personal gifts such as luxury toiletries is always appreciated because it's such a thoughtful thing to do. Lush makes premium bath bombs and this one is a great choice. You can give it alone as a stocking stuffer or you can give it with other premium beauty or bath products.
She will love this rockabilly style red dress, it's the perfect color for the holiday season. When you give clothing as a gift be sure to check that the size is correct. Also think about the things she usually wears so that you can give something she will enjoy.
Cute Stocking Stuffers
These cute notecards are perfect as a stocking stuffer. She will love the designs and be able to use them all year round.
Your cat lover girlfriend will adore this gorgeous music box.
These earrings are inexpensive so you can afford to buy a pair for every woman in your life.
This is another lovely idea to put in her Christmas stocking.
Get this set here - Sankuwen 15PCs Wool Makeup Brush Set Tools Toiletry Kit
You will give something very useful when this lovely set of make up brushes is under your tree.
Jewellery Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend
Jewellry doesn't always have to be expensive in order to be a special gift. You can give something special even if you do not have a lot of funds available. This beautiful leaf necklace is perfect if you are looking for Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend who loves nature.
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A lovely pair of earrings featuring a semi precious peridot stones. It is crafted from High-Quality Lead Free 925 Sterling Silver. The contemporary and distinctive design guarantees that these Peridot gemstone earrings are sure to be a great addition to any jewelry collection.
Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend Who Loves Pandas
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Anyone who has a favorite animal will love a gift that features the animal these are also available featuring other animals. These super cute panda nesting dolls are sure to be adored.
You may think this is more of a childs gift but not necessarily. Adorable stuffed toys can also make adorable gifts for adults. Something to cuddle when you are not there is always a super cute gift idea for someone you love.
Unique and Beautiful
You can get her something for the office that is decorative and also useful by giving this gorgeous floral paper weight. Each one of these paperweights is unique and each one also contains a real dandelion. Every dandelion is handpicked and the paperweights are individually hand made.
Most people love music and if the woman you love does not already have a portable speaker then something like this is worth considering when you are choosing Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend . Also a good gift choice for someone who loves to take music everywhere they go. You will love this one yourself too!
Get it online here - The Sojourner Keyboard
Give an amazing office gift with this stunning steampunk keyboard. A handmade item that is creative and so cool! Every one of these premium designer keyboards is made from beautiful aged brass. Also features a unique parchment Elizabethan typeface that complimets the overall design of the keyboard.
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You can be sure that your girlfriend will love this beautiful lamp. If you are looking for Gifts To Give Your Girlfriend who is houseproud or who is very creative then this is a wonderful choice. The beautiful design and colors featured in the shade are sure to impress.
You can get this here - 0.7 3/4 Carat 14K White Gold Pear Diamond Solitaire Pendant Necklace E Color SI2 Clarity
When you want to give a gift to truly impress then this one is a great gift for you to choose. There is a sixteen inch gold chain included so that she can wear this beautiful diamond right away. You will receive a diamond that is untreated and also 100% conflict free. The stone weighs 0.70 carats.
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You can give a gift that ill be adored by your house proud girlfriend by selecting one or more cute cushion covers. Always think carefully about the color or theme she has featured in the home. You have to give something that suits so that it will be useable in her home.
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Here are the forthcoming local government byelections:
27 June (a Friday poll)
The Conservatives have vacancies on Ipswich borough council, Castle Hill ward, after the death of Harry Davies; on Lincolnshire county council, Louth wolds division after the death of Sheila Roy, and on Shrewsbury and Atcham borough council, Pimhill ward, after the death of Brian Rees.
My Westminster City Council colleague Tony Mothersdale, a Labour councillor for Church Street ward since a byelection in May 2000, died last week after a short illness. Tony was an extremely warm-hearted and generous man to work with, and made a real difference in the community where he lived and served.
There are Labour seats vacant in Barking and Dagenham borough council, Chadwell Heath ward, after the resignation of Sarah Baillie, on Hillingdon borough council, Townfield ward, following the death of Norman Nunn-Price, and on Wigan borough council, Wigan West ward, after the death of Michael Baines.
The Liberal Democrats have vacancies on Gateshead borough council, Whickham South and Sunniside ward, after the death of Alan Ord, and on Oadby and Wigston borough council, Oadby Uplands ward, caused by the resignation of one of the ward’s two councillors.
Sedgefield district council‘s Sedgefield ward has a vacancy after the death of Independent councillor Jim Wayman.
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Gardai in Boyle are seeking witnesses to a crash which led to the death of Longford man, Patrick McLoughlin at the weekend on the N4 outside Carrick-on-Shannon.
Senior investigators are investigating the death of Mr McLoughlin, who was just 26 years old, after he was struck by a Mercedes van while walking on the busy carriageway at around 4:30am on Saturday morning.
Last night (Tuesday), a spokesperson from Boyle Gardai said inquiries into the crash were still ongoing and members of the public who may have been travelling between Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon between 4:30am and 5am on Saturday morning have been asked to come forward.
The crash occurred in the townland of Farranagallaigh, Cootehall, Boyle, just four miles outside Carrick on Shannon.
Meanwhile, tributes to the former St Mel’s student have been flooding in since news of the tragedy broke on Saturday.
A son of Patrick (Pat) and Carolyn of St Emer’s in Longford town, Mr McLoughlin was well known around the town for his friendly smile and outgoing manner. He worked in Homebase in the N4 Axis Centre and was described as a model employee.
A keen sportsman, Mr McLoughlin formed a key part of the DIY supplier’s football team, more recently becoming its captain. As a mark of respect the store was closed for a period of time on Monday evening.
Though an avid Celtic follower, he regularly made the trek across to Manchester Utd’s home ground of Old Trafford along with his brother, Gerard.
Noted for his guitar playing, Mr McLoughlin also experienced personal delight as recently as eight months ago with the birth of his nephew Dillon.
Speaking to the Leader on Monday, frieds of the former Sligo Institute of Technology student said his untimely death was their “worst nightmare”.
Mr McLoughlin was laid to rest yesterday (Tuesday) inside the grounds of Ballymacormack Cemetery following Funeral Mass at St Mary’s Church, Newtownforbes.
He is survived by his parents Pat and Carolyn, brother Gerard, extended family and a wide circle of friends.
Patrick’s colleagues and friends this week paid tribute to their friend, by speaking about the young man they knew and writing a poem in his memory.
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As part of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology’s (JKUAT) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the University has donated books worth Kshs 5.4 Million to nine institutions from three different counties in the Coast region of Kenya.
The institutions, drawn from Kilifi, Kwale and Mombasa counties are: Amani Primary, Ushindi Baptist Child Development Centre, Likoni, Miyani Secondary School, Gotani, Kajembe High School, Kadzondzo Girls Secondary School, Makomboani Secondary School, Women and Girls Empowerment Programme, St. George’s High School, Kaloleni Giriama, and Kizurini Secondary School. Each school was presented with books worth Kshs 600,000.
While presenting the books to the school heads and their students at a colourful ceremony held at JKUAT’s Mombasa CBD Campus, JKUAT Vice Chancellor Prof. Mabel Imbuga, said it was her University’s desire to ensure that there is equity in distribution of knowledge to all counties for the good of national development, a reason why her University was reaching out to complement training in areas that may be considered remote.
Prof. Imbuga said JKUAT was rolling out a programme to send out career guidance personnel to such schools in order to enlighten students on available courses offered at the university.
“It is our desire to bring all schools up to speed with the developments taking place in our university as interested stakeholders. We are aware that development can easily be achieved if everyone made a contribution towards our national goal,” she told the elated crowd.
Prof. Imbuga who was flanked by the JKUAT Mombasa Campus Director Dr. Frida Simba and the University’s Head, Corporate Communications Dr. Hindzano Ngonyo, pointed out that her University was trying to create capacity through the introduction of new and market driven courses such as Marine Engineering, Mining and Mineral Processing courses, among others.
The Vice Chancellor said, it was time the country started utilizing local expertise for the jobs that are awarded to expatriates since the local professional had come of age. Kenya, she pointed out, has the best and advanced ICT knowledge, creative and innovative population whose output has made tremendous impact globally. She advised the students to develop a reading culture, be responsible, remain focused and desist from any acts that could compromise their studies. She urged the students to ensure their performance in form four earned them government admission in public universities.
Addressing the same gathering, Mr. Edwin Okoth, an Assistant County Commissioner for Mwanamwing in Gotani location, hailed the gesture by JKUAT terming it a new trend in the academic sector. He said, the University had already become a household name in the region because what it offered at the University and its extension services had touched many hearts not only in the Coast region but also nationally.
While appreciating the donation made to his school, the Principal of Makomboani Secondary School, Mr. Moses Olenyo characterized JKUAT as an institution that was focused on supporting education in the country. He urged other Universities to emulate JKUAT’s gesture.
The Vice Chancellor also presented certificates to students who underwent the CISCO short courses training at the Campus.
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September 1st saw the last of our Wake Daze events at Club Wake Park for the season, and was it a great event! As usually we had a totally mixed bunch of abilities and three repeat customers (which we loooove and we’re very pleased to say this has happened multiple times over the past two summers!).
On this event, we had five boat riders, one beginner and two complete – had never looked at a wakeboard – beginners, one of which had a fear of water (which was smashed after her first couple of minutes!!). The best part is that everyone stood up, got riding and started tackling the corners by the end of the day. And all of the boat riders were working on their first feature, being the wedge! We literally couldn’t have been more happy with how everyone progressed!
We had excellent weather on the 1st September, not a breath of wind around and sun was shining. After a quick cuppa and a chat, we kicked off the day with a yoga session right on the dock. The yoga was lead by the lovely Parker Rose, who always manages to cater for everyones ability. We usually get people who have never done any yoga, or that have done it a couple of times a few years ago, and then people who practice regularly & also instructors! So a real mixed bag. We love that people are willing to get involved and try out some yoga as we believe it aids your wakeboarding, but thats another blog post. Parker leads everyone through a great set of stretches and warm ups, with more challenging options of the more advanced yogis, which gets everyone ready for their wake sets.
Following a very nice hour long energising yet relaxing yoga session, fuel was needed to get everyone stocked up for wakeboarding. Which we did with some tea and cake, and also a more healthy option of coconut water and a selection of fruit and vegan energy bars. The cake always goes down well.
We went through the first sets where everyone got used to the cable, started progressing on their goals for the day. This was mostly the wedge; to either hit it for the first time, or to get more comfortable hitting it along with 180’s. And over on the non park cable we had the beginners up riding and getting used to corners, and the total beginners standing up and riding for the first time ever!
Fuel was needed so we broke for lunch, and just to let the lunch settle, we did a bit of Nalu Bead braiding.
The second sets started and the women were on fire! New tricks being thrown, most of them being landed, some epic edges were caught as well. Lots of grab variations going on, 180’s being claimed and some being claimed by the 180’s. The big kicker was even hit, and again, some stacks were had as well as it being mastered. Then over on the non park cable, all the beginners were mastering their board skills. They were all standing up and riding the entire length of the cable, starting to transfer their weight to start turns, and also started work on the corners! So much was thrown down! After all the riding, the hot tub was calling for a little soak and a round up of the day, and everyone was stoked on what they had learnt.
We have loved meeting all of the new Wake Daze’ers on our last WD event of the season, and throughout the entire summer! We have thoroughly enjoyed coaching each and every one of you and helped you progress in one way, shape of form. We will be working away over the winter to bring you more of what you love next year! Keep shredding all you Wake Daze Babes and we will see you soon!
And just one more huge shoutout to everyone who made this season happen! Toby & Janni at Club Wake Park! And thank you for letting us take over the lake to create the best day possible! To Coach Lex who helped each and every one of you progress this summer. And to Nalu Beads for always stocking our swag bags!
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New Committee / Boat Auction
Post date: Oct 3, 2011 10:39:03 AM
I hope your training for Fish went as well as expected and I wish everyone a safe trip to Cradock and back and a successful race.
Congratulations to all the prize winners for the 2010 – 2011 season and thank you to everyone who attended the Prize giving held at the club on Tuesday 20th September.
Please find attached a list of the prize winners.
Please also see herewith the Stella Canoe Club committee for the 2011 – 2012 season:
Chairman – Neels Meyer ( email@example.com )
Vice Chairman – Greg Glossop ( firstname.lastname@example.org )
Secretary / Admin – Martin Dovey ( email@example.com )
Treasurer - Lauren Glossop ( firstname.lastname@example.org )
Property Manager – John Dives ( email@example.com )
IT support – Bob Opperman (firstname.lastname@example.org )
As discussed in the last newsletter, we have decided to move the boat auction out to after Fish and the date earmarked for this is Sat 22 October at 11am.
The boat auction will be preceded breakfast at the club and a paddle for those interested.
Breakfast will be sold at R20.00 per person.
Please make a note of this date, which will also be circulated through the KNCU Newsletter.
At the AGM we discussed a number of fundraising events, so please watch this space for more info.
See you at the club.
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aaron • February 22, 2020 • Comments Off on The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities
A fascinating look at the world of Christian women celebrities from the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
Considering that the 1970s, an essential brand new figure has showed up from the center phase of American evangelicalism—the celebrity preacher’s wife. Although many evangelical traditions bar females from ordained ministry, a lot of women have actually carved down unofficial roles of energy inside their husbands’ spiritual empires or their very own ministries. The largest stars—such as Beth Moore, Joyce Meyer, and Victoria Osteen—write bestselling publications, grab high ranks on Christian russian brides tv, and also preach. An acclaimed historian of religion and the author of the bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved, offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths in this engaging book, Kate Bowler.
Whether standing alone or close to their husbands, the key females of megaministry play numerous parts: the preacher, the homemaker, the skill, the therapist, and also the beauty. Boxed in by the high objectives of contemporary Christian womanhood, they follow and periodically subvert the visible and hidden rules that govern the everyday lives of evangelical ladies, earning handsome benefits or incurring penalties that are harsh. They have to be pretty, not immodest; exceptional, although not fake; susceptible to sin, although not deviant. And celebrity that is black’ wives carry a special burden of respectability. But despite their impact and wide range, these women can be rejected the essential symbol that is important of power—the pulpit.
The storyline of females whom most frequently began as somebody’s spouse and wound up as everyone’s almost-pastor, The Preacher’s Wife is really a compelling account of women’s look for religious authority into the chronilogical age of celebrity.
“Bowler (Everything Happens for the explanation), teacher during the Duke Divinity class, explains in this exceptional analysis just how some evangelical females have actually been able to be mega-ministry a-listers by changing the restricted functions allotted to ladies in evangelical tradition into jobs of energy. Framing these females’s act as compared to spouses, moms, homemakers, and teachers—rather than pastors or company leaders—Bowler reveals exactly exactly how numbers including Joyce Meyer, Beth Moore, and Victoria Osteen wield enormous power in their husbands’ ministries, both on phase and behind the scenes…. This wonderful work provocatively considers exactly just exactly what women gain and lose in becoming ‘market-ready’ for evangelical communities. “—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Bowler, the writer of this everything that is wildly popular for the explanation: as well as other Lies I’ve Loved, is an intensive researcher and witty author. “—LaVonne Neff, Christian Century
“we cannot overstate the result this guide had on me personally. Whether you’re a pupil of US religious history, a follower of popular Christian tradition, or anyone who has never thought twice concerning the ladies who grant legitimacy towards the powerful males they marry, Kate Bowler will need you places you might not need gone by yourself. She’s a scholar that knows just how to inform a whole tale, a theologian who is able to prompt you to laugh away noisy, plus the type of listener whom earns the trust of her topics and visitors alike. She won’t let you know things to think, but she will familiarizes you with individuals you are going to forget, and never you’re going to be the greater for this. “—Barbara Brown Taylor, nyc Times bestselling composer of understanding how to Walk at night
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“The Preacher’s Wife is a good, thought-provoking account of modern feamales in megaministry, but it is additionally a novel in regards to the extraordinary pressures faced by all females, religious or perhaps not, today. With empathy and humor, Kate Bowler paints a memorable portrait of the fascinating selection of evangelical females. “—Catherine Brekus, author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845
“Using The precision of a historian, the understanding of the scholar, plus the heart of the Christian frontrunner, Kate Bowler explores a phenomenon that is influential Christianity in this challenge to today’s church leaders. Visitors of Bowler’s past publications won’t be disappointed. “—Phil and Debbie Waldrep, founders associated with Females of Joy ministry
Kate Bowler’s account demonstrates, with great understanding, the difficult stability megachurch ladies must constantly keep, stepping in to the spotlight but never ever showing up to monopolize it. The guide advances our knowledge of evangelicalism and ladies’ part in contemporary religion this is certainly american”—Margaret Bendroth, writer of the past Puritans: Mainline Protestants additionally the energy regarding the last
“Kate Bowler has a portrait that is extraordinarily rich of feminine a-listers who’re breaking church obstacles on ladies’ functions even while they uphold a very very carefully crafted stance of holy obedience. These women in all their intricacy as they manage beauty, sexuality, family life, and money on a public stage with generosity, perceptiveness, and wit, Bowler analyzes. A really splendid guide. “—R. Marie Griffith, composer of Moral eliminate: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
“Fascinating, insightful, and utterly illuminating, this guide shows why historians must be associated with most of our conversations that are theological. Kate Bowler tosses the lights on, bringing us a desperately required viewpoint from the hidden guidelines regulating just just how, whenever, and which females lead within the spiritual market. As a female in public places ministry, i am grateful for the challenge and clarity of Bowler’s findings also her kindness, camaraderie, and knowledge. I will not see could work the way that is same. “—Sarah Bessey, composer of Jesus Feminist and Miracles and Other things that are reasonable
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This is a game for upper-intermediate and advanced students. It was designed as a speaking game and serves as a revision tool for two lexical sets: professions and personality adjectives. The main focus is a better understanding of the subtleties of personality adjectives through group discussion.
This is a game developed using a format I outlined in a previous post – Apples to apples – adapting-games. There are two sets of cards: professions and personality adjectives. The game is played in groups of four to six students. There are 60 profession cards and 40 personality cards.
Each player is dealt six cards from the professions deck. A starting player is chosen, who will be judge for the round, and that player takes a card from the personality deck. They reveal the card to the other players, who then each choose a profession card in their hand which best matches the personality adjective. Then, players take turns explaining why their profession card is the best match to the judge’s personality card. After everyone has had time to explain their reasoning (including a degree of debate) the judge picks a winner.
Here is an example round of the game: There are five players, four players who are competing and one judge. The Judge’s card is ‘wise’.
The four players select professions which fit this criteria and reveal their cards. The four cards the judge has to choose between are surgeon, newspaper editor, lawyer and diplomat. Each player gives their reasons for their selection and the judge asks a few follow up questions. After a short discussion the judge then picks a winner (the judge’s decision is final).
The winner is given the personality card to show they won the round. Then the role of judge moves clockwise and the next judge picks up a personality card. Each player draws profession cards until they have a full hand of six cards (players sometimes miss this step so will occasionally need to be reminded). The game continues until a player has won three rounds.
The game is very simple to follow and generates interesting conversations and unusual arguments. The great variety of jobs and personalities in the game means that the game will be different every time. Students are encouraged to rationalise and justify their card any way they can, which means that they can try to gain the judge’s favour by being the funniest or most inventive. This gently competitive edge pushes students to think creatively and means they are more inclined to generate less conventional ideas. Players don’t win by having the right card, they win because they give the best or most interesting explanation.
The cards are available for download [Here]. The card sets include some tongue in cheek professions like drug dealer, queen and magician. This creates a lot of fun combinations and unexpected debates.
Thanks for reading!
Check out the front page, or use the search bar, to find dozens of games and activities on the site.
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Full Stack Web & App Development Course
This Full Stack Project Based Web & App Development Course is a part of the Concept Learner Coding Wizards Program which includes both front end and back end development. Both Offline and Online Classes are conducted in this program. You will be guided throughout by working professionals who have 5+ years of experience in industry. No matter if you are a beginner or already have some prior coding knowledge, this all in one web development course will make you a pro web developer. The projects that you will be completing throughout this course will be help you create a strong portfolio for your job or even if you want to start as a freelancer. By the end of this course, you will be fluently programming and be ready to make any website you can dream of. If you want to learn to code through building fun and useful projects, then take this course.
What You Will Learn ?
This Course is divided into three part : Frontend Web Development , Backend Web Development & App Development
Front End Web Development:
- Introduction To Web and its Functionalities
- Web Designing Projects
Back End Web Development
- Introduction to Back End Functionalities
- Installation of Development Environment
- Introduction to PHP with Laravel Structure
- Understanding of Laravel
- Backend Development with Laravel
- Web Development Projects
Android App Development
- Introduction to Android Studio
- Understanding Project Structure and Activity Life Cycle
- Understanding the design pattern using XML
- Introduction to backend functionalities using JAVA
- Android App Development Projects
Tools & Technologies That You Will Learn Throughout This Course
- PHP, Laravel
- Text Editors
- Local Server
- How To Use FTP
- Hosting Tools
- Command Line
What You Will Take From This Course ?
- Job-ready skills
- In-depth knowledge about programming
- Personal Laptop
6 Months (Phase I – 4 months, Phase II – 2 months)
During Phase I, the student will be guided to become a well-skilled developer so that he/she can build any kind of app or website using the basic knowledge that has been given in Concept Learner Coding Wizards program. After the completion of Phase I, the student will be taught about further advanced programming like server side handle in Phase II.
After the completion of Phase I, the student may decide to take part in Phase II if interested in further advanced programming or he/she may leave the course after the completion of Phase I.
Phase I : Rs 9000
Phase II : Rs 6000
Total Course Fees : Rs
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One of the best things about living in the age that we do is the simple joy of indoor plumbing. Most people take for granted the fact that they can turn on the tap and have clean water come out. Since it is available, and easy to use, we all find our daily lives need it. But it does come with a price tag. The more water you use, the more you are charged (most water service providers charge the lowest rate for the first 3 units of water, if you go over that, you get charged more per unit). There are ways to lower your water bill, and it does not take much sacrifice to do so.
No matter where you live there are certain plants that have become adapted to the environment. Almost every climate on earth has trees, flowers, shrubs, and a form of grass. These plants are well adapted to the amount of rainfall that naturally falls in the area. If you are just building a house, remodeling, or looking for a change, consider xeriscaping your yard. By using local native plants you will have to do minimal watering if any at all. For those plants that do need a little extra during the hot dry spells of summer, install drip lines. You will water just the plant, and will not lose as much to evaporation.
One thing that has become more prevalent in recent years is our desire to be clean. While showering every other day is in no way bad hygiene, most people find it a good start to the day to clean themselves up. If you cannot make it a day without taking a shower, aim for taking shorter showers. Less time spent in the shower (try for 3 minute showers) and you will not only save water, but also electricity (for the fan and lights) and gas (for heating the water). Whatever you do, avoid taking a bath. Showers are always more economical.
Use the Dishwasher
Do you hate getting your hands greasy when it comes time for dishes? Well the best way to save water is to use your dishwasher. You can keep yourself clean, save time, and get your dishes cleaner than washing them by hand. If you make sure to load your dishwasher completely (do not overfill, that could cause your dishes to be blocked and not get clean) you will use less water than if you were to wash dishes by hand. Remember, this only works if you have a relatively new dishwasher. Older machines waste a lot of water.
Install Low Flow Fixtures
Any showerhead manufactured after 1992 must use a maximum of 2.5 gallons per minute. If you have older fixtures, yours could be dumping 5.5 gallons per minute. For as little as $10 and about 20 minutes of work you can update your shower to use minimal water. Toilets, on the other hand, are a little harder to install, but will save you more water. A toilet from before 1982 will use between 5 and 7 gallons per flush, whereas a modern equivalent uses only 1.6 gallons.
Turn Off the Water
I am always surprised by those who just let the water run while they brush their teeth, comb their hair, or do other bathroom activities. It is easy to turn the tap off while brushing, and you can save yourself several gallons of water per day. If you want to take it to extremes, turn the shower off between lathering and rinsing. You could save a few more gallons by only having the water running for about a minute during the whole shower.
Saving water isn’t just better on your wallet, it is also easier on the environment. If everyone went to extremes to save water, there would never be any water shortages. More water available means that the price will not climb as rapidly. So by saving water now, you are helping to save money later. If nothing else, conserving natural resources is always a good idea.
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David Leach, a Fundamentalist Calvinist from Texas, recently left the following comment on a post titled Gone but Not Forgotten: 22 Years Later San Antonio Calvinists Still Preaching Against Bruce Gerencser:
That you consider me an “ill-informed judgmental ass” will not be keeping me up nights. The moral and spiritual assessments of reprobate, morally bankrupt, angry men never moves me much. You hate Christ, why would I expect better than abuse from you? In fact, I do not. The ugliness and darkness you hid as you feigned Christian faith is no longer concealed. You dropped your disguise when via some dark inner prompting, or preference you decided to quit pretending. So, you are free (for a season) to spew your absurd and putrid nonsense as pleases you.
You say ” I want the telling of my story to be a warning,” In a small, sad way your wish is granted. You do serve as a warning. Your departure is a grim reminder of the veracity of I John 2:19. You are a warning against spiritual smugness, pretentiousness and presumption. You are an object lesson of reprobation. I shall seize on your example, as God gives opportunity – of how deceived the human heart is capable of being. This is not gloating or some childish tit-for-tat – indeed, I am grieved for you, for your family, for the sin and destruction you leave in your unholy wake. Yours is a sad, tragic story. No matter how bitter, and mean-spirited and nasty you are – I am indeed sorry for you. How dreadful will eternity be for you.
Finally, you indicate you and your Jesus (whoever that “Jesus” might be) got a “divorce.” Well friend, it seems to me that you and the true Jesus were never married….no matter your complaint, objection and obfuscation to the contrary.
Now know I will not again reply. I will never again visit this creepy little anti-Christian, anti-God blog. Rail against me as pleases you. Mock me among your equally pathetic God-hating companions. It’s of no consequence.
The Lord have mercy on your blighted soul.
In 1994, I moved from Ohio to Texas to become the co-pastor of Community Baptist Church. You can read about my experiences at Community in the series titled I Am a Publican and a Heathen. Pat Horner, the founder of Community, was my fellow pastor. Joe Maldonado, a former member of Community, pastored nearby at Hillburn Drive Grace Baptist Church. Through Pat, I became friends with Joe. Tim Conway, a man who hailed from Michigan, was a fairly new member of Community. Tim, along with his fiancée Ruby, helped me start new churches in Floresville and Stockdale, Texas. I also encouraged Tim to start preaching. Tim is now the pastor of Community Baptist Church in San Antonio.
David Leach is friends with the aforementioned pastors. Evidently, he is greatly offended by me daring to tell my story; daring to write about my experiences with Community Baptist Church, Pat Horner, Joe Maldonado, and Tim Conway. Leach also doesn’t like that I labeled him an “ill-informed judgmental ass.” I stand by my comment. Leach has made no effort to read my story or attempt to understand how someone such as myself might end up where I am today. Instead, Leach has taken the few facts he thinks “knows” about me and my time at Community and has judged me wanting. As Fundamentalists are wont to do, Leach takes his rigid theological dogma, adds what he has “heard” about me, sprinkles in a few posts on this site he has bothered to read, and out of the oven comes the bullshit pie comment above.
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This year marks the 130th celebration of the annual Heiva I Tahiti, a spectacular month-long celebration of Polynesian culture. It’s the largest and most popular festival of its kind in French Polynesia, showcasing the very best in traditional dancing, artistry and athleticism. While preparation is already underway, the month of July is the best time to visit Tahiti and witness this celebration in full force. The event is held at the beautiful To’ata Square in Papeete, Tahiti, and we’ve got your exclusive tickets to the festivities!
The Celebration of Life
In Tahitian, hei means “to assemble” and va means “community,” so the word heiva refers to any organized activity or gathering in French Polynesia. However, the proper Heiva I Tahiti has become known as “The Celebration of Life” because it is the symbol of Polynesian culture. It serves as an iconic event for a group of people that are especially proud of their unique heritage.
The History of Heiva
Music and dance have always been a central part of Polynesian culture. Tahitian dance, or “Ori Tahiti,” is one of the most sophisticated and ritualized art forms of all time. However, it was not always practiced as freely in Tahiti as it is today. When European Protestant missionaries arrived in the 19th century, they found such “erotic” displays to be offensive and King Pomare II legally banned the tradition in 1819. Thankfully, the Tahitian people found a way to keep dance alive, practicing the ritual in secret and passing on the tradition in anticipation for its revival.
After Tahiti was annexed by France in 1881, the Heiva festival began to take shape. At that time, the event was called Tiurai – a derivation of the word July. It was meant to coincide with France’s national holiday known as Bastille Day, which is still celebrated every year on July 14th. On this one day, France allowed Polynesians to partake in their traditional celebrations. The first festival included games, entertainment and singing, but dance was still somewhat restricted, forcing them to perform a much more “sanitized” version of Tahitian dance.
It wasn’t until 1956 that Madeleine Moua, a high school principal from Papeete, spearheaded the full revival of Tahitian dance by forming the dance troupe Heiva Tahiti. Soon after, traditional dance resumed its rightful place as a vibrant part of Tahitian culture. Then in 1985, Tahiti obtained greater political autonomy from France and they renamed the festival Heiva I Tahiti.
The Heiva Experience
Each dance performance is a unique creation. The music and choreography reflect a historical and legendary theme, highlighting the drama of the opera and the distinct influence of Tahiti’s ancestral traditions. The dancers rigorously train for six or more months, and their costumes are handcrafted from materials indigenous to the area. The live orchestras are made up of five to fifty musicians using traditional instruments such as the nasal flute or “vivo,” marine shells or “pu,” and the ukulele.
Beyond the dancing, the Heiva I Tahiti is also a traditional sports competition. The sporting events are based on ancient athletic activities and include heavy stone lifting, javelin throwing, outrigger canoe races, and a fruit carrying competition in which men sprint carrying large bunches of bananas tied to poles.
Here’s a fantastic article about experiencing the Heiva I Tahiti and below is an entertaining video that captures a dance performance from last year’s festival. The 2012 edition promises to be an incredible show with record-breaking participation of over 3,500 artists and 38 professional groups singing and dancing on stage. Both Moorea and Bora Bora also have their own versions of the Heiva. Moorea’s will be held from June 16 to July 14 in the Afareaitu District, while the festivities in Bora Bora will take place from June 22 to July 29 at Moto’i Place in Vaitape.
If you ask us, this is an event that you have to experience for yourself. We’ve put together a very special 2012 Heiva Tahiti package including free daily breakfasts, a circle island tour, and a 7-night stay at the Sofitel Tahiti Maeva Beach Resort. Once you book your travel with us, we can arrange to purchase your Heiva tickets ahead of time so they’ll be ready when you arrive. Just ask your reservation specialist for more information. We hope to see you there!
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Here is a summary of some of the work our office is doing during shelter in place.
Fire & Resiliency
UCCE Sonoma is building on the foundational work of other county departments such as Sonoma Water and Permit Sonoma, by providing outreach to private landowners to address forest health, vegetation management and fire fuel reduction.
Lake Sonoma Decision Support System: Development of an online geo spatial reporting tool to help landowners assess:
Match.Graze: development of an online database that connects land owners and grazers.
- Filmed educational videos
- Creating website
- Current status: roll out in early June.
Good Fire Alliance: partnership with Audubon Canyon Ranch to assist landowners in managing fire fuels through prescribed burning on private and publicly owned lands. The following prescribed fires are in the active planning stage:
- 100+ acre burn unit at Cooley Ranch near Lake Sonoma; late May.
- Sonoma Ecology Center is planning a burn at Van Hoosear Wildflower Preserve; late May - early June.
- Bodega Pastures spanning several weekends in October/November.
Resilient Landscapes: Master Gardener collaborative project to:
- Host Firewise webinars
- Develop materials for Fire Safe Sonoma's Living with Fire brochure and webpage resource.
- Post Fire Survival/Mortality: research project to develop a quick and simple post-fire tree survival reference tool to aid with triage of burned landscapes.
- Working with local fire departments to homogenize fire-resilient landscape standards.
Oak Tree Health: organized, hosted and presented:
- California Oak Workshop with science based oak health information. Over 500 participants.
- Sudden Oak Death Blitz pivoted to online, educating and distributing 93 test kits to the public.
Food Systems & Security
- “Stay Home Grow Food” series has reached over 350 people with videos plus resources via an extensive social media campaign.
- Gardener Sense program delivered by video conference to help homeowners reduce water use.
- Master Gardener's are pivoting their classes to webinars.
The value of a strong, connected local food system to sustain the resiliency of our communities has never been more clear.
Coordinating with Sonoma County Food System Alliance and strategizing for a series of video conferences on longer term emergency food response planning & strengthening the local food supply chain looking to local production & distribution as part of meeting food need.
- Meeting on March 23 with over 50 emergency food responders to strategize on coronavirus response.
- Chairing the Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) Food group. Continue to collaborate with the group to meet the needs of emergency food organizations.
- Sonoma County Food Recovery Coalition
UCCE used connections to secure donations of over 12,000 wine boxes to
Redwood Empire Food Bank for boxing and distributing food.
Local Meat Supplies: Mobile Slaughter Unit (MSU)
UCCE is working with local livestock producers in Marin/Sonoma to create a business plan for an MSU which can assist local livestock producers with a local, safe option for processing livestock.
- Applying for USDA grant to assist these producers to determine the functionality of keeping it in production.
- Will develop educational and management strategies to ensure economic security for small-scale livestock producers.
Integrated Pest Management
- Collaborating with UC Davis researchers to continue projects that address soil and fungal pests that shorten the lifespan of vineyards.
Critical research on the newly detected invasive Mediterranean oak borer (pictured) found in valley oak in eastern Sonoma County. Collaborators include Cal Fire, US Forest Service, and CDFA.
4-H youth educational programs have continued to engage youth and adults with online technologies.
- Developed fact sheets to support volunteer educators in delivering online programs available at Youth Development Resources
- Short-term educational programs have been implemented reaching elementary-aged children with science and art content.
- Ongoing programming has been transitioning online focused for teens around college and career readiness (Juntos 4-H) and youth participatory action research.
Annual Sonoma 4-H Open House and ChickenQue transitioned from a full-day chicken BBQ lunch fundraiser to a radiothon.
- Partnered with local radio The Bull 93.7 to do a radiothon.
- The station promoted 4-H with interviews of staff, volunteers, and youth.
- The event also served as a public awareness campaign showcasing the program's legacy helping youth reach their full potential.
Working with local dairy and livestock producers to apply for grants from CDFA to reduce greenhouse gases:
- Alternative Manure Management Program
- Healthy Solis Program
If funded, these grants would bring over $5 million to reduce GHG by 4,154 MTeCO2
Support Local Producers
- Working with local creameries and FEED Sonoma, to develop a dairy CSA box option.
- Revisit the County Lands for Food Production program initiated by UCCE to increase the availability of county owned land to communities, farmers and ranchers.
- Find Local Food & Aid the Community
Providing information and updates.
Coronavirus Resources webpages provides information for agricultural enterprises focusing on financial resources, Ag worker safety and food safety and includes resources for where to find food from local farms and for opportunities to volunteer.
Sonoma county residents love their oak trees, and with good reason: Oak woodlands are a source of immense value not just to the more than 330 types of animals and hundreds of other organisms they support, but also to the cultural, economic, and social fabric of our society. Sudden oak death (SOD) threatens to unhinge these systems, imperil biodiversity, create hazard trees or fuel for fires, and potentially infect agriculturally or horticulturally important plants. So whether it means adapting educational events to virtual spaces, delivering materials by mail, training online, answering home phones instead of staffing the Master Gardener desk, or collecting leaves for the SOD blitz by bicycle while wearing a mask and social distancing, the UCCE Sonoma SOD Program is not letting COVID-19 slow us down.
A key endeavor of this group is the yearly Sudden Oak Death Blitz in partnership with UC Berkeley's Forest Pathology and Mycology Lab. This state-wide citizen science project allows landowners to receive free testing of California bay laurel and tanoak leaves, contribute to long-term scientific research, and update the SOD Map Mobile app used by landowners and professionals to assess disease risk in their area. As SOD Blitz creator Dr. Matteo Garbelotto wrote in a letter addressed to all Californians about this year's program,
“The SOD Blitzes have become a tradition for many, while providing key information to help us save our oaks from a devastating disease.”
UCCE Sonoma hosts six blitz events annually whereas most counties hold just one, and we were eager to test new areas of tree mortality that were discovered after last-year's blitz had already passed. Here's how we made it work:
- Training took place online.
- Three Zoom sessions were set up with SOD team members for participant questions.
- Collection packets were mailed to most participants, and the rest picked up following strict safety guidelines supervised by staff.
- Leaves were collected at homes and on public land by walkers, cyclists, and others engaging in outdoor exercise.
- Kashia Pomo staff continued to sample on their land.
- In collaboration with SSU's Center for Environmental Inquiry, we hosted the only SOD blitz in the state that was fully bilingual in Spanish and English.
Despite limitations posed by COVID-19 regarding how to train volunteers, access areas where leaves could be sampled, and safely pass materials and samples between participants and blitz organizers, this year's campaign is on track to be even more successful than 2019. Returning leaves by mail instead of in-person allowed residents on the coast and other remote areas to participate easily, leading to a better geographic distribution of sampling. Online trainings and Q&A sessions, though less personal and lacking physical demonstrations, encouraged people with schedule constraints to give the blitz a try. One participant with extra time on his hands reported that he thought this was a great way to give back to the community in a time of need. Based on the number of participants and collection packets requested, we estimate a 15% increase in sampling from last year, including all major areas of Sonoma county and most of Mendocino county.
And things are just getting started. Though a SOD-themed Plant Walk with the local Milo Baker chapter of the California Native Plant Society was postponed, discussions are underway about creating a live virtual field trip in its place, complete with 360 degree photos of highlighted spots along the trail. Similarly, SOD Specialist Master Gardeners have been presenting at public library series' for years, and are now hoping to create a recorded version to be posted on UCCE Sonoma's Sudden Oak Death webpage. Check back for announcements on these and other happenings.
Our gratitude goes out to every volunteer who has invested their time in staying educated, spreading the word, and participating in citizen science with us over the years, especially during the current shelter-in-place, with special recognition for our dedicated team of SOD Specialist Master Gardeners. We couldn't help our oaks without you!
- Author: Lisa A Blecker, coordinator for the UC Pesticide Safety Education Program and Office of Pesticide Information and Coordination
- Author: Whitney Brim-DeForest, UC Cooperative Extension rice advisor in Sutter and Yuba counties
- Author: Katrina Hunter, UC Integrated Pest Management Program pesticide safety writer
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice, UC ANR Assistant Director, News and Information Outreach
While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.
With increased demand for personal protective equipment, or PPE, to protect against COVID-19, these essential workers are facing shortages. Agricultural commissioners in 28 counties are hearing from farmers who are having trouble getting PPE for their employees and farmers in another 11 counties who are worried about running out of PPE in the next month or twoaccording to a California Department of Pesticide Regulation survey.
To reduce the spread of COVID-19, workers may wear homemade face coverings, but for applying pesticides, they must wear respirators specified on the pesticide product label, said Whitney Brim-DeForest, UC Cooperative Extension rice advisor.
Pesticide applicators may use gear that is more protective than required by the product label and regulations.
“Although this could change in the days ahead, half-mask and full-mask respirators are more available than disposable N95 respirators for now,” said Lisa Blecker, coordinator for the UC Pesticide Safety Education Program.
Before the pandemic, 10% of N95 respirators from 3M went to health care, but that number is now 90%, the company said in a letter to distributors. This has led to significant backorders of PPE supplies for distributors.
Carl Atwell, president of Gempler's, an online distributor of worker supplies, said that before the crisis, normal lead times for PPE was up to 10 days. He estimated disposable respirators will become available in the fall and other PPE supplies in August.
In the meantime, there is alternative PPE that agricultural professionals can use during the shortage.
Atwell suggests looking for lesser known brands of PPE as opposed to the first tier of choice: “It's sort of like searching for Purell hand sanitizer. Purell brand might be out of stock, but can you find a different disinfectant?
On Gempler's website, the more recognizable Tyvek coverall from Dupont is sold out, however disposable protective clothing is available from other brands. Reusable chemical-resistant clothing is also available as opposed to their disposable counterparts. Supplies in high demand are reusable and disposable nitrile gloves, protective clothing, disposable respirators and certain protective eyewear, such as goggles and face shields.
For workers who will be applying pesticides, Blecker and Brim-DeForest offered some guidelines on how to meet PPE requirements as the shortage continues.
General PPE requirements: “Remember, the label is the law,” said Brim-DeForest. “PPE requirements for agriculture are not being loosened.” The UCCE advisor recommends purchasing only what you need for the season and choosing reusable PPE whenever possible. Growers who have excess supplies of PPE can coordinate with their county agricultural commissioner or UCCE advisor to help other producers in their area.
Respirators: If you can't find the respirator required on the label, Blecker said, “Use an alternative, more-protective respirator. For example, if an N95 is required, you can use a half-mask with N95 particulate filters; these can be stand-alone filters or ones that attach to an organic vapor cartridge. You could also use a different pesticide that doesn't require a respirator. Consult with your PCA (pest control adviser) for options.”
Gloves: Chemical-resistant gloves, usually 14 mil or more in thickness are required for most California pesticide applications and should be worn by mixers, handlers and applicators. If nitrile gloves are not available, viton and laminate gloves are universal chemical-resistant materials for most pesticide labels. If the glove material is specified on the label, that instruction must be followed.
“Disposable gloves less than 14 mil can be worn, but not for more than 15 minutes at a time,” Blecker said. “Farmers should also note that thinner gloves cannot be layered on top of one another.”
Coveralls: Coveralls should be worn when required by the pesticide label or when the signal word is “WARNING” or “DANGER,” or when applying by backpack or airblast. “Coveralls can be made out of high-density polyethylene fibers (Tyvek and other brands), which are disposable, or cotton, which are reusable,” Brim-DeForest said. “If reusable coveralls are worn, the employer must ensure employees are provided clean coveralls.”
Goggles/face shields: Face shields are required for mixing and loading pesticides only if it's stated on the label. “If a face shield is unavailable, a full-face respirator can be used,” Blecker said. “Goggles or protective eyewear should always be worn in California when handling pesticides, regardless of what the label says. The face shield, goggles or safety glasses must provide front, side and brow protection and meet the American National Standards Institute Z87.1 standard for impact resistance.
For more information about PPE, contact your county agricultural commissioner or see the California Department of Pesticide Regulation's posters:
4-H families have been working hard sewing cotton masks for nurses, essential workers, and friends and family!
Now that home sewn fabric masks are required in Sonoma County, and N95 masks are reserved for first responders, we are busy sewing up a storm. It has been a challenge with fabric stores closed for regular shopping so it is a good thing that sewists (sewing artists) tend to have extra supplies on hand!
The count thus far is 277 masks sewn by 7 families and that is just the start! They were donated to hospitals, nurses, mental health workers, medical offices, Senior Center, to essential workers that must stay on the job and some to friends and other families in need.
Way to go 4-Hers, learning and helping is a beautiful thing!
A big thank you to Xobon Magazine for posting instructions:
Questions? Contact Diana Hampton at email@example.com.
Golden Hills 4-H club volunteer project leader, Jemetha Cosgrove, and her two children, aged 12 and 7, repurposed their 3D printing equipment – part of a 4-H AgTech project – to make face shields to help in the COVID-19 pandemic. As of April 13, they've made around 120 and are donating them to medical and other essential workers in the North Bay.
They are using a Prusa MK3 printer. Prusa popularized the home face shield 3D printing movement from its headquarters in Europe and it has continued to spread around the world. Their shield design and others are being widely used by health care workers during the pandemic. The Cosgroves have been printing a design approved for use in hospitals by the U.S. National Institute of Health.
Each print takes about 2.5 hours and can take longer or shorter depending on the shield design. They are also printing bias tape makers, used to make mask ties, to support the cloth mask sewing efforts. They invite others who own 3D printers to join the effort.
Those interested in making masks can connect on the Facebook page:
Making a Difference Sonoma County.
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Endsleigh was founded by the Nation Union of Students (NUS) in 1965 to provide affordable car insurance for drivers in full-time education. Today it is a leading insurer for young drivers, students and graduates. Young motorists typically face the highest premiums of any drivers. Endsleigh tries to minimise these costs and provide policies tailored to the needs of young and student drivers. Its student car insurance therefore sometimes come with 10% discounts on servicing and 20% on MOTs.
And Endsleigh isn’t just for students. It’s also used by many professionals, including older people, and is the preferred insurer for several unions and professional associations, including the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, the Association of University Teachers and the Association of Optometrists.
What types of cover does Endsleigh offer?
Endsleigh offers three levels of car insurance: comprehensive; third party, fire and theft (TPFT) and third party only. These tiers are available on a range of insurance products:
- Student driver insurance: policies for college and university students and recent graduates; students at some universities receive discounts on premiums. These policies also give you 10% off servicing and 20% off MOT costs. Comprehensive student driver policies come with courtesy car cover as standard, and all policies can be topped up with legal cover for £4.99.
- Young driver insurance: policies for drivers under 25 who aren’t students. These policies come with 90 days of European cover and comprehensive policies with £100 of cover for personal possessions in the car and windscreen cover.
- Car insurance: policies available to those who aren’t students, including older drivers. Comprehensive policies include courtesy car cover and 24-hour windscreen and glass cover.
- Black box insurance: policies offered through ingenie which install a black box in your vehicle to record your driving behaviour. Your driving performance is assessed after three months and then two other times in a policy year and can give you discounts on your premiums of up to 21%.
- Learner driver insurance: short-term insurance for provisional drivers between the ages of 17 and 34, using someone else’s vehicle to learn to drive. These policies are offered in partnership Marmalade. Learner drivers can start accumulating a no-claims bonus with these policies which can be transferred to their permanent policies when they pass their driving test.
- Temporary student driver insurance: covers college and university students on a borrowed vehicle for a period of seven, 14, 21 or 28 days. These policies are ideal for students who want to drive their parent’s vehicle during holidays.
Why choose Endsleigh?
- Discounts on servicing: including 10% off servicing and 20% off MOT fees.
- Tailored for students: including coverage ideal for holidays between terms and discounts negotiated with certain universities
- No-claims bonuses for learner drivers: allows learner drivers to start accumulating a no-claims bonus before they even earn their licence
- No-claims bonus accelerator scheme: allows new drivers to reap the benefits of a no-claims bonus in just six months, rather than a year
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Courtney Boyd Camps
Who is Courtney Boyd?
Courtney Boyd enters her third season as Head Women's Coach at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa.
Clarke broke the program record for wins in a season in the '18-'19 season, finishing 23-12, and made its first-ever NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Championship appearance. The Pride advanced to the Quarterfinal Round after posting wins over No. 1 seed and third-ranked Columbia (Mo.) and No. 4 seed and fourteenth-ranked Shawnee State. Boyd's team was recognized with three Heart of America Athletic Conference All-Conference selection and one NAIA second-team All-American. The Pride boasted a 3.32 team grade point average.
A native of Keokuk, Iowa, Boyd came to Clarke from UW-Parkside, where she spent two years as associate head women’s basketball coach and was involved in all phases of the program.
Boyd received the WBCA Thirty Under 30 award at the conclusion of the 2016-17 season. The WBCA Thirty Under 30 presented by Marriott Rewards® program was created to recognize 30 up-and-coming women’s basketball coaches age 30 and under at all levels of the game. Each honoree has exemplified their involvement in community service, mentorship and impact on others, professional manner, and attitude and professional association involvement.
Boyd started her collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, helping the Vikings to a Midwest Collegiate Conference Championship and a trip to the NAIA Elite Eight, finishing the season 30-6 overall.
As a player, Boyd spent two seasons at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, leading the Eagles to a runner-up finish at the NJCAA Championships in 2006 before hoisting the national title in 2007. She finished her Kirkwood career with a 67-4 record before continuing her playing career at Division II Dixie State University in Saint George, Utah. At Dixie State, Boyd was named Newcomer of the Year and Honorable Mention All-Pacific West Conference in 2008 while setting a school record for most three-pointers in a game and landing second-team All-Pac West accolades in 2009.
Boyd received her bachelor's degree in elementary education with an ESL endorsement from Dixie State and her master of education degree from Augusta University.
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A week ago my comics shop, Comics Conspiracy, was setting up to do curbside pickup of comic books during the COVID-19 shutdown (or “The Pause” as a few people have been calling it), but a wrench was thrown into their plans with the announcement that the main comics distributor, Diamond, was shutting down for the duration, and apparently the major printers have shut down too. As a result, yesterday was the last regular Wednesday for new comic books for the foreseeable future.
I’ve been buying comics regularly since, oh, the late 1970s. I think I used to go more-or-less monthly to The Million Year Picnic in Cambridge, MA when my Dad and I would go to Harvard Square for haircuts. But sometime – probably around 1983 – we discovered New England Comics, which had a store on Allston Street in Brighton. NEC was less bohemian than MYP and other stores of the previous decade, brightly lit and well-organized. It became my regular comics shop, and through most of high school I went there for new comics every Friday. I became friendly with a bunch of the staff, first a couple of women (girls? I honestly am not sure how old they were, but older than I was) named Jen and Delana, and later a couple of guys named Vijay and Matt. (Those two ended up founding Comicopia in Kenmore Square, which Matt still owns. It’s been at least a decade since I’ve visited, though.) A few of my high school friends would sometimes come with me for the train ride in and back to pick up the week’s haul.
During college I bought comics via mail order from Westfield Comics because there was not a good, accessible comics shop for much of my time in New Orleans. But when I lived in Madison, WI I went to Capital City Comics. During this time, new comics day got moved back to Thursday, and then to Wednesday, where it’s been ever since. Rather than moving even earlier, recent changes to the distribution system have made Wednesdays a much more reliable day, never getting pushed back for holidays on the Monday or Tuesday before.
Since I started going to NEC, I’ve had a subscription (or saver, or pull box, or whatever each store called it), which usually came with a discount, often 20%. The realities of the market have pushed discounts into history (unless your shop owner happens to grandfather you in), but they’ve also made it desirable to have a pull box and to pre-order comics because it’s the best way to ensure the store will get a book in at all.
Since we moved into our current house in 2011, comic book night has entailed coming home and sitting on the living room couch. Our cat Roulette would almost always sit with me, at first because she really liked the couch we had in that room, and later just because she liked some quiet time with me. The other two cats come in sometimes, especially if the fireplace is on, but mostly it’s just been some quiet reading time.
So last night I paid for my order online, then drove down and saw Brock, one of the owner Ryan’s employees, who was carrying the books out to people. Physical distancing! We chatted for about ten minutes, but of course no one knows what’s going to happen next. Maybe the comics companies will distribute online and provide a portal for retail stores to sell to their customers. We’ll see. But for now, the weekly trips to the comics shop have come to an end.
Ironically, my haul last night included the last issue of one mini-series, and the next-to-last issues of two others. Even more ironically, it included the new monthly catalog for upcoming releases.
So I’ll place my order from the catalog this weekend as I always do. And hope that in a few weeks or months there will be some new books for me to go pick up.
I hope, I hope.
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As I try to find more and more ways to amp up my outfits without depleting my bank account, I find that my answer is literally right at my fingertips. No matter what a fashionista is wearing, no outfit feels complete without that perfect color of nail polish. This season's nudes and grays are the perfect complement to any ensemble, and I've found some of the best colors at a most reasonable price. Borghese nail polishes are about $8 and come in the most sought-after shades, including my new stand-by color, Biscotto Beige. It screams ultra chic without saying a word.
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TORQ Breakout XC endurance - August Bank Holiday weekend
by Jane Lucas, 24 Jun 20.
We hope that you and your family are well and that lockdown hasn't been too tough.
Although we are still awaiting the Government's announcement about sporting events which is expected in early July, the Club has spent the past week making logistical enquiries and discussing whether it would be possible to run such a large scale event as TORQ in your Sleep to the high standard that we have in previous years. Sadly, we have decided that it is unlikely.
We've therefore decided to run a more bespoke XC endurance event - TORQ Breakout - at our Area 51, Highlands Farm venue instead, rigorously risk assessed for smaller numbers of riders with social distancing to the fore:
Saturday 29 August
- From 9am – 2 hours riding, max 50 riders with cats 16-39, Over 40 and Female
- From Noon – 4 hours riding, max 50 riders with cats 16-39, Over 40 and Female
Sunday 30 August
- From 9am – 8 hours riding – max 50 riders with cats 16-39, Over 40 and Female (this category includes free camping at the lovely venue)
- From 10am – 6 hours riding – max 50 riders with cats 16-39, Over 40 and Female
We've a great XC endurance course ready for you now – recent video of it will be uploaded to our facebook page soon. All entrants to TORQ in your Sleep have already been contacted and given the choice of changing their entry to TORQ Breakout, so please check your inbox if this applies to you.
Sorry, but entry to TORQ Breakout will have to be strictly by pre-entry only which will open at 10am this coming Tuesday 23 June. All entrants will then receive a pre-event info email in August and, in the meantime, can check out any updates on our facebook page.
Many thanks for your support and take care,
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Pivotal Software and VMware launch new container service
@Pivotal Software Inc. and its @DellTechnologies Inc. sibling @VMware Inc. today announced the general availability of their @Kubernetes-based Pivotal #Container Service following an initial beta release last year. #PKS, as the service is called, is designed to enable companies easily create software containers, which bundle software applications together in a way that they can be run anywhere, and deploy them across both public and private clouds. The service also makes use of Kubernetes, the #opensource #container #orchestration service first developed by @Google Inc., to manage those containers. The main idea behind PKS is to help companies migrate their apps to Google’s #CloudPlatform and @VMware’s #vSphere #virtualization platform, which emulates a computer system in order to use corporate data center servers more efficiently. “As you evaluate your enterprise software portfolio, you’re going to have app platforms, containers, and functions,” Pivotal’s team wrote in a blog post. “So of course you’re going to have plenty of Kubernetes clusters in the mix. Your job now is to give your team a rock-solid, secure Kubernetes ‘dial tone.’” PKS is essentially a commercial version of the open-source Kubo project that was developed by Google and Pivotal last year, and enables developers to run Kubernetes at large scale in production scenarios. One of the main advantages of the new service is it allows users to create containers quickly and easily instead of having to provision physical servers for them in a data center. Another key benefit for VMware customers is it allows them to run containerized applications on-premises, using their existing infrastructure, said Holger Mueller, principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research Inc. But looking beyond Pivotal and VMware’s pitch, the release of PKS is really just an acknowledgment from those companies that Kubernetes has won the battle to become the industry-standard orchestration software for containers, Mueller added. “Amazon Web Services did the same at re:Invent last year,” Mueller said, referring to the launch of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes in December. “Enterprises want load portability and so everyone needs to support Kubernetes.” PKS 1.0 comes with multicloud capabilities, support for vSphere and Google Cloud Platform, as well as the latest Kubernetes 1.9.2 release. The platform also features advanced container networking capabilities, multitenancy with cluster-level security, and is certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the companies said. Other features of PKS include on-demand provisioning, an enterprise container registry, NSX-T network virtualization and fully automated operations.
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He Will Fulfill His Oaths!
The Earth is so full of life that you can look virtually anywhere on the planet and find some. Travel to the far north and look beneath many feet of snow, look under the sand in the hottest desert, scrape rocks on the tallest mountains, send a probe into the depths of the ocean; everywhere you look, you will find life.
Similarly, the Word is so full of the good news of God that it can be found in even the strangest places. For instance, consider the following sad passage of scripture found in the Gospel of Mark. We know Herod executed John the Baptist because his wife hated John. She waited patiently for a chance to kill him...
21 Finally the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for his high officials and military commanders
and the leading men of Galilee. 22 When the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests.
The king said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I'll give it to you." 23 And he promised her with an oath,
"Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom."
How can the good news of God be found here? Look again at verse 26 above. King Herod had made a public oath in front of "his high officials" and "the leading men of Galilee". He felt bound by his oath and compelled to keep it.
If Herod, being evil, fulfilled his word, how much more shall our Heavenly Father fulfill His oaths? If Herod felt the pressure of the presence of his guests - probably many of whom were scoundrels like him, how much more does God Almighty desire to make good His word before the holy angels and that great cloud of witnesses that shout His praises?
"Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands!" (De 7:9) Do you know this? Moses knew God was true to His word; he found Him so in his experience. So did Abraham and David and Elisha and Paul.
We need to humble ourselves and admit the truth: nothing has come upon us that isn't common to mankind. What makes us so special that God will let us down? What makes our situation so terrible that God will fail us?
This is why it is essential that we know the Word. More specifically, this is why we must know the promises of God, made to us by way of a solemn covenant sealed with His own Son's blood. Don't you remember that the Word states, "For no matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes' in Christ"? (2Cor 1:20a) Ah, but the verse doesn't end there; it goes on to declare our ministry before God: "And so through him the 'Amen' is spoken by us to the glory of God." (2Cor 1:20b)
What is Paul saying? God has made many great and precious promises, but it is only as they are fulfilled in our lives - as we lean on Christ in our daily experiences and as we call on Him - that we can cry "Amen! God's word is wonderful and He is even more wonderful than His word!" Perhaps this is why angels long to look into the unfolding of the Christian Age: they are watching the fulfillment of the oaths and boasts of God. As it is written, "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory..." (Jn 1:9) First, it was in the flesh of the man Jesus; now it is in our flesh, for we are His body.
Many things sound good in theory - communism, for instance. If you asked the man on the street who was it that said "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", he would be just as likely to answer Jesus or Paul as he would Karl Marx. Communism sounds good in theory but it is an abysmal failure in practice. We must be jealous for our Father in Heaven, that it be demonstrated for all to see that God's Word is powerful, effective and relevant. Don't tell me He is an ever-present help in time of need, show me. As it is written, "I will show you my faith by what I do." (Jam 2:18b) For "wisdom is proved right by her actions" (Mt 11:19)
"As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." (Is 55:10-11) Yet, without a demonstration of the power of His word, this would just be an empty boast. Cassius Clay is not famous because he made great boasts before his fights; he is famous because, after making great boasts, he fulfilled them in the ring.
I know we have truthful accounts of the faithfulness of God in scripture. These are certainly inspiring and encouraging. But, what now, now that we are inspired? What shall we do with our newfound courage? Besides, the Word characterizes all the mighty acts of Jesus found in the Gospels as merely "all that Jesus began to do and to teach" (Acts 1:1). He remained active throughout the book of Acts. And, it is still true today what Jesus said two thousand years ago: "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working" (Jn 5:17)
Therefore, since "the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him" (2Chr 16:9), let us remain true and steadfast. Let us not only leave room for God, let us also make room for God. The young Israelite girl kidnapped by Naaman the Syrian general and his army did not merely witness the goodness and greatness of God when He had mercy on Naaman by healing him of leprosy; she instigated it! (2Kg 5)
Again, Jonathan and his armor bearer did not merely wait for God to move first - they took it in hand to advance against the enemy of God, though they were vastly outnumbered. The outcome? They precipitated a great victory. (1Sam 14:2)
To be godly means "to be like God"; I have good news for you - our God is not passive, nor is He tentative. Abram was an idol worshipper like all his neighbors when God invaded enemy territory to call him out. Jesus characterized His ministry as entering a strong man's home, binding him, and robbing him. Or, did you forget that we were all sold as slaves of sin and lay in the lap of the Evil One? How do you think you were rescued? Do you think God asked nicely? No, God rescued us like Abraham rescued Lot - by force of war.
Well, what about us? Jesus declared "the gates of Hell shall not prevail against" us (Mt 16:18). This shows us on the offensive. He is alluding to Joshua attacking Jericho, not Gideon hiding in a cave! While Joshua was promised all the land from the Sea to the River, yet, more precisely, he was promised the land that he actually walked upon. Likewise, we do not own the promises we have merely read; we own the promises we have tread!
We all know the Holy Spirit commanded the church in Antioch to "set apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them" (Acts 13:2) Here we see men waiting on God and only moving when He speaks - a deeper life scene if ever there was one! Yet this was not the first time Barnabas and Saul had ministered together. Earlier, in chapter 11, it was "the church in Jerusalem" that sent Barnabas to Antioch to minister there. And, it was Barnabas who decided to look for Saul to ask for his help. Together, they taught the people of Antioch for a whole year, to the benefit of the people as well as the Kingdom of God.
While there, a prophet of God predicted a famine, so they gathered a large gift for the brothers in Judea. It was only upon their return from delivering that gift that God called Barnabas and Paul out for further work. In most professions, that would be considered a promotion following a demonstration of worthiness.
How about you? Can God consider you worthy of promotion? Have you been faithful with little that you might be entrusted with much? The need is great - not man's need to be helped, but God's need to be vindicated. As it is written, "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge" (Rom 3:4, quoting Ps 51:4)
Don't you know that it is the children of the blessed man who contend with the enemy in the public arena? (Ps 127:5) Therefore, the Father sent His Son. We know how He prevailed in the face of great opposition from evil men. Yet, the Son Himself is called "Everlasting Father" and is most certainly blessed above all other men. He has declared, "Here am I and the children God has given me. We are for signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts!" (Is 8:18) Further, it is written that we are "created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." (Eph 2:10)
You there, sitting in the bleachers! Come down into the arena. "The LORD is with you mighty warrior." (Judg 6:12) Therefore, "go in the strength you have and save" (Judg 6:14). And when you ask, like Gideon did, "How can I save when I am so weak?" remember God's answer: "I will be with you." (Judg 6:16, Mt 28:20)
"With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall... It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great. You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn. I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed." (Ps 18:29, 32-37)
(To read another article on the gospel truth of the faithfulness of God, click here)
© Matthew Schilling 2005
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