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St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College:
Recruiting a new Dean, building up the faculty, equipping students for ministry
Standing on the Rock
We were recently in Kenya, exploring partnerships with the Kenyan church and looking for a new dean for our St. Frumentius' Anglican Theological College. The Diocese of Marsabat, Northern Kenya, under Bishop Daniel Qampicha Wario, has been reaching out to those who have not heard of Christ in the south of Ethiopia. We visited the diocese to encourage this work and to teach on mission and healing prayer. In the photo above, Grant and Qampicha are standing on the 'pulpit' of the first church in Elabor, Northern Kenya, during an outreach to the people of this area.
Area Assembly, Nov 24th & 25th, 2016
This is a photo of our St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College Chapel, during our recent, "Area Assembly" the yearly synod-like gathering of our Episcopal Area. At Area Assembly, I received this letter carried by Rev Isaac Pur. It is from the Jum-jum people. There are now only about 200 Jum-jum Christians in the world. Isaac Momma, our Mabaan-speaking priest and the regional dean of the churches in the Assosa region of Ethiopia, is now a full time student at St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College. He reached out to the Jum-jum who were in Sherkole Refugee Camp, Assosa. This work has been continued by Isaac Pur, now acting Regional Dean during Isaac Momma's time as a student. Here is the letter they sent; unedited, yet elegant in its cry for the need for theological education.
"Our Dear Father,
As a Jum-jum congregation, we are here, ready to make our own church. But the problem is the lack of the preacher or we don't have anyone who is well trained to preach the gospel. Therefore please we need you to help us by giving us the chances when there is second round for the theology or college.
We join the Anglican church from 2011 up to 2016 but there is no any improvement or any changes. But when you appeared, also our names appeared. Therefore we became happy and happy. And we hope everything will continuous like in this way.
So you know even in our home land we have more than 200 Christian within our tribes without any pastor or even not deacon (preacher). Therefore when you will help us we will be strong and lead our people as our heavenly Father want us to do.
Our main problem is this. Now we have those who know how to preach like Pastor Isaac Momma and Pastor Isaac Pur and so on. But maybe after the short period of time we will go back to our home land (North Sudan) and Pastor Momma will go back to his home land (South Sudan) and what will we do when we still have no pastor? We will remain as it is like before. For example, as you know, when there is no shepherd, the hyena can do what they want. And we hope you will help us to report all this to Bishop.
Second example: The son can make a lot of mistake when the father didn't teach him properly.
by Jum-jum congregation"
~ Please Pray with us ~
~ With thanksgiving for the ordination of three priests and five deacons at Area Assembly Nov 24, 2016
~ For a new Dean of St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College and for Bishop Grant as he functions as Acting Dean
~ For Egypt, especially as the church has to endure more suffering at the hands of terrorists
~ For the Reverend Sammy Shehata, bishop elect for North Africa (Algeria ,Tunisia and Libya) as he prepares for his consecration February
~ For a new congregation which is developing among the Tama-Koi people and for representatives to the Koma and Shurma people expressing interest in the gospel.
~with thanksgiving for new partnerships developing with the church in Kenya and Djibouti
~ For the Mothers' Union as they move towards a fully African-led Leadership Training Program
~ For peace and stability in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
Peter Tut Chol
Peter Tut Chol will be Priest in charge of Holy Comforter Anglican Church, in the Pilwal Mission Centre, supervised by the Rev Peter Ghak
Simon Taidor
Simon Taidor will be Priest in charge of the All Saints Anglican Church Mission Centre in Nininyang with its eight churches
Stephen Munye
Stephen Munye will be Priest in charge of The Bethlehem Anglican Mission Centre, Pinyudu Refugee Camp with its four churches
Omot Ogud
Omot Ogud, will serve as the Deacon in charge of the Bethlehem Anglican Mission Centre in Abobo with its seven churches
Stephen Choul, will serve as the Deacon in charge of St Peter's Anglican Church Mission Centre in Matar with its ten churches
Stephen Choul
Daniel Wuor Tap
Daniel Wuor Tap will serve as Deacon in charge of the five churches of Jewi the refugee camp, supervised by the Rev Peter Kuel of St Luke's, Gambella
Joseph Khon will serve as the Deacon in charge of New Life Anglican Church in the Lare Mission Centre, supervised by the the Rev Simon Ker of St Paul's Anglican Church
Joseph Khon
Gabriel Tut Puok will serve as Deacon in charge of Church of Christ Anglican Church in the Pinyudu refugee camp, supervised by the Rev Paul Pouk of Jesus Light of the World Anglican Church
Gabriel Tut Puok
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Unity in a divided world
Darash, our Anuak priest for St Barnabas Church Gambella, is a good story-teller.
Recently, his sermon focused on a story of three bulls; One red, one black and one white. "They loved each other as brothers, and together were strong. When the enemy looked at them, he knew that he could not prevail against them. So when night came, he secretly went to the black and to the red one. He told them that the white bull was the problem. He told them that if they stayed together with the white bull, then an enemy might see them and might attack. They must reject the white bull in order to be safe. They listened to fear and drove the white bull away. When the enemy saw the white bull alone and vulnerable, he came and killed it, and ate. After a while, the enemy became hungry for more. He went to the black bull and said, 'You are the good one, but the red is not. If you stay with the red bull, an enemy might see you and attack. You must reject the red bull.' The black bull drove the red bull away, thinking, 'now I will be safe.' When the enemy saw the red bull alone, he came and killed it and ate. And then he did the same with the black."
Darash concluded with a prayer for unity. "If we pray for peace, then we will have peace. If we love one another, we will have peace. We are to love Nuer and Anuak, Opo and Mezhenger, Mabaan and Highlander. As we love one another, we show the love of Jesus to the world around us."
Darash's sermon on unity points to the sad reality that our world is full of division - politically, culturally, ethnically, linguistically. We more often see our differences as curses instead of blessings, as reasons to fight rather than as opportunities to learn.
This is true as much in the church as anywhere else. Christians are divided. Some divisions have long and complex histories. Many stem from a right desire to honour and live the truth. Others are just petty. Sorting out which is which is no easy task. I have recently been given the opportunity to be involved in two initiatives which seek to find common ground between Christians and to learn to live and work together.
The first is called IARCCUM - the International Anglican Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission. IARCCUM's task was not to hold another theological forum to sort out what issues unite or divide us but rather to explore how we could witness to Christ together; to point to the love God seen in the saving work of Christ, proclaimed and lived by the church in the power of the Spirit.
There were many profound and moving moments at the IARCCUM meetings but none more meaningful perhaps than at the vespers service at the church of St Gregory in Rome. (Gregory, by the way, was the Pope who send St Augustine of Canterbury to evangelise the British Isles.) During this service Pope Francis and Archbishop Justin blessed and commissioned the nineteen pairs of bishops to go out into the world together to witness and live for Christ.
At the moment of commissioning we were each given a cross. These were no ordinary crosses - they were Lampedusa crosses. Lampedusa is an island belonging to Italy, the closest bit of Europe to the African continent. Small boats filled (or overfilled) with refugees leave Tunisia or Libya and head for Lampedusa. Many of these boats don't make it. Many refugees, most from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan, drown attempting the voyage. Moved by the plight of these migrants a Lampedusa carpenter began fashioning crosses from the wood of refugee boats that washed up on the beaches of the island. Each of the IARCCUM bishops received one of these simple, rough crosses, most still covered in the cracked paint or bits of grease which betrayed their origins. These gifts emphasised for us that our ecumenism is not simply a matter of doctrine - no matter how important theological truth is - our ecumenism is an ecumenism of bearing witness to the cross of Jesus and walking in his way with those who suffer in this world.
Back in Addis, I was then privileged to be a part of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative, a dialogue between Orthodox and evangelical Christians. The presence of Ethiopian Orthodox at this gathering was extremely significant as both Orthodox and protestants acknowledged and looked beyond past prejudices to focus on the abundant opportunities for our different churches to pray and work together.
For me these events were signs of hope in the midst of the mistrust, despair, fear and violence of a world which seems more and more divided.
+Grant
Mothers' Union together across cultures
Anuak and Nuer Embrace
"I am thankful for the opportunity to get to know Nuer sisters; sisters in Lare; sisters in Jikwo…Now I have many Nuer sisters who I love, and it is very good. When I was sent to Dimma, I was scared to go, and I didn't know anyone. But now… I have many sisters there too. Every Saturday is dedicated to the health program… We taught clean water, Moringa, clean dishes: this is a very big change in our community. Before the teaching, we were sleeping with mosquitos, and with skin diseases. Now this has changed. It remains to go to the people and ask them to open their hearts. You have created many teachers who will go out and teach the community…"
Achua Obang, Anuak, Gambella
For the past three years, it has been a privilege to teach women how to teach one another biblical truth, prayer, and health - both prevention and treatment. We held our last 'Gambella Anglican Centre'-d training session in September, and began the transition into a fully African-led "Local Training Program". Here is what the women had to say at the final session of the "Leadership Training Program (Phase I):
"Through this program we feel like we have come alive… We were living with many difficulties, suffering a lot, with many sicknesses in our communities. Many children were dying because of these sicknesses, and people were wondering, "why these diseases?" We came here and got teaching. We never thought such a big change would come. Now we go to villages and take the teachings to the community and we are well received. People like it very much."
Cham Ojur Pur, Anuak, Gambella
"We have learned how to make clean water, and how to teach the mothers good 'life skills'. We put this into practice in our own families. When we are visiting …we share with others what we have learned. More and more women are learning. We know how to care for ourselves and we feel pride. This is the first opportunity to learn that has come to our area."
Sarah Nyabuony, Nuer, Gambella
"The love of God has made us willing to speak with white people, even though we have no language with them! Before in the villages, there were no toilets, and no place to shower. Now we shower, and toilets have been made - not just going behind the house. Moringa: people were not aware of it, but people now use, even it is added to porridge for the young children. Now if we have diarrhea, we give Moringa tea, and we see that the time to healing is made short.The children with wounds on their legs - they took a long time to heal. Now we are taught how to clean the wounds. Now we are not seeing so many wounds. We know how to make healing ointment out of oil and candles. And now we are using this for shampoo as well as for soothing skin. The women are happy because this saves money. We no longer have to go to the market to buy shampoo! …We give thanks in the name of Jesus for bringing together Anuak, Nuer and Opo."
Sarah Nyadeng, Nuer, Lare
"We are building people up… and it is like giving sight to the blind. Now we know how to take care of burns by putting into cool water. We had no previous knowledge of this. It is very helpful to the community. We have learned about safe cooking fires. We keep them away from children, not to easily reach. Now we have lots of learning tools to help each other, for example, applying papaya fruit to burns. Thank you for caring for us."
Mary Nyabiel, Nuer, Pinyudu
"Sharing of knowledge is the best thing. In the beginning it was only Awilli from Abobo who was teaching there, going to seven different churches. One church was 2 days journey on foot. Now are many who teach in Abobo. With Moringa we have seen very big miracles. Two young children were about to die from diarrhea. Moringa tea was given to them. They were saved. When I would go to Thenyi, there was an old man who had a very big wound for several years. We put Papaya on the wound, and it was healed. In Abobo town, one person was burned. He was going to the clinic, but it was only getting worse. We made the healing ointment … and put it on the wound twice a day. It was healed. When we go to different villages we see people getting water from the pump. They were washing clothes and emptying the water right by it. They did not use a toilet but would go near the pump. We taught that it was not good to have dirty washing water and waste products near to the hand pump. Now the area around the pump is kept very clean."
Awilli Aballa, Anuak, Abobo
Mothers' Union Graduate
"It was a very big and great plan from God who brought people from far away to live and learn together. Most of the points said by my sisters are all correct and I agree. Especially Moringa. Every home has Moringa - no one has to go to borrow. I ask all my sisters and brothers to pray for all my people. Now children are healthy. We know how to protect them from many different diseases".
Mary Nyalam, Opo, Wonkay
"I have shared with others what I have learned. Now we have become God's doctors for the community. The teaching helps the community - the children, the elders, everyone… Now we can help with the needs there. We have learned to put Neem twigs in the cooking fire, and rub Neem leaves into the skin. This keeps the mosquitos away."
Apap Oman, Anuak, Gambella
"Let one help carry the bundle of the other. We have learned many good things which have helped to decrease infection. In South Sudan, there are very big problems. I beg your prayers for South Sudan, that God could make a way to bring people back."
Mary Nyakong, Nuer, Akule 2 Refugee Camp
for Johann and Louise
We give thanks
We give thanks for Johann and Louise Van er Bijl, now leaving Gambella for medical reasons. Johann told us of their farewell gift from St Barnabas Church. Apparently there was much discussion about this. Finally it was settled that they would receive an Ostrich egg. This, they were told, was because Johann was like the Ostrich. What was it? It could not fly. It looks like a bird, but it acts like an animal. Now Johann "looks like a white person, but he acts like an African!!"
Prayers of Thanksgiving:
For the new deacons and priest to be ordained at the Area Assembly November 24th, 2016
For Archbishop Mouneer and the diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa, that it will be allowed to keep their property and churches
For the Mothers' Union as they begin a new phase of ministry in the Local Training Program and especially for Rebecca Nyater, our new MU coordinator for the Nuer
For those who gave towards the new bicycles given to our pastors
Rev Simon Kerr with his new bicycle.
Please pray with us
For God's blessing on the choice of a new dean for St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College
With thanksgiving as we explore new partnerships in Kenya and in Djibouti
For open doors to ministry in Southern Ethiopia, Djibouti, Addis, and Somaliland
For the new refugees that continue to flood into the Gambella region (60,000 per month)
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Gambella Moments
Peter's Story:
"I came to Jesus through a dream," Peter said. I leaned forward to listen, thankful for the privilege of hearing the life stories of those who had come to our Discernment Conference. Peter Ojulu is a lay pastor from Akobo, seeking to discern a call to ordained ministry.This is his story:
"Someone came to me in a dream, and told me to go to church," he said. "I woke up. It was Sunday morning. I went to church and found that they were having a conference. At the conference they read Matthew 11:28, "Come to me all who labour and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest." I felt like God was talking to me. The words entered into my heart like dew. I decided to follow Jesus. Later I had another dream. In my dream, I saw God giving me medicine. When I decided to follow Jesus, I gave up going to witch doctors. For eight years I had been going to witch doctors, trying to get help for the pain in my legs [knees]. Nothing had helped. After my dream, the pain stopped. Not all at once, but slowly by slowly."
Discernment Conference Gambella, June 30th-July 2nd
Here's another story I heard that week, not from a perspective ordinand, but from one of those interviewing:
"We were having an amazing time of healing prayer during the service. All of a sudden a scream tore through the worship. The depth and the agony was unlike anything I had heard before. It seemed to come from something deeper than the woman herself. She went completely rigid and still. I went over thinking, 'I'd better pray for deliverance.' On my way, to my surprise, these words came to mind with quiet clarity, 'This is the cry of the ancestor's blood.' Since the beginning of the ethnic violence in Gambella we had been teaching from the book of Hebrews, "The blood of Jesus speaks a louder word than the blood of Abel." [Hebrews 12:24] In a culture where blood and honour cry out for revenge, there is a better word. The cry of anguish and pain that once gave rise to a cry for revenge, was now taken up into the compassion and forgiving love of a Saviour. So as I went up to the woman, I just quietly prayed that the blood of Jesus would cover her and bless her. Peace came. Later in the service I saw her dancing. Her face was radiant."
This past Sunday [August 14th] we set out for the village of Abari. With Darash, our Anuak priest and Regional Dean, we were going to visit the first church of the Mezhenger people, planted by the Anuak congregation of Abobo. The road presented us with a few challenges. About half way there, we were challenged by a young male lion who stood determinedly in the middle of the road. He was not going to yield his territory! We stopped to take a photo while he stood there in majestic defiance. It was only as we restarted the car, as the engine roared back to life, and we began to move towards him, that he must have decided that discretion was the better part of valour, and loped away ahead of us until disappearing into the impenetrable grass growing alongside the road.
You...shall...NOT...Pass!
I think the lion thought our car roared at him when we restarted our engines
Here and there baboons sauntered lazily off the road, birds flashed by - scarlet, blue, yellow, glossy black. We drove by a couple of crowned cranes, their crowns glinting golden in the sun. It was a very African drive. The road grew narrower and narrower. Finally we were snaking along in the mud, brushing through eight foot high elephant grass on either side of us, the raindrops on the grass glistening in the early morning sun, until it was as if we were driving through some sort of eco car wash.
Eventually, the mud got the better of us, and the car, sinking down to its axels, became stuck fast. When efforts at digging us out seemed to fail, we decided to continue on foot. After all, the church 'was only five minutes away'. Of course, it was an Anuak five minutes. Walking along, enjoying the wild beauty of our surroundings, I began to feel very African. Half an hour later, we came upon the incongruous sight of a cell tower. Undaunted, I continued on in my African safari mode, senses stretched out and attuned to the sights and sounds of what now seemed a sun-drenched jungle. Ahead, Darash stopped. "The vehicle is coming!" he said. He had heard it. Alas, my finely-tuned senses not withstanding, I didn't hear a thing. Apparently my hearing was not as African as I had fondly imagined. Muddy but triumphant, our car pulled up, and once back inside, we drove the rest of the (let's face it, a lot more than) five minute journey to the Mezhenger church.
Mezhenger church and home-made pulpit
Quickly learning the Mezhenger greeting, "Digoya bongeh!" we greeted the people. Malchias, our Mezhenger lay pastor, took out a lute-like stringed instrument, and, and for the first time, we joined the Mezhenger in worship. Their beautiful lilting melodies, sung in the African five tone scale, were truly delightful. They were just as delighted at the deeper, more rhythmic Anuak hymns sung by Darash and Omot (the lay pastor of Abobo who had joined us on the way).
Mezhenger Worship
After a simple service, we drove back through swirling clouds of butterflies and stopped and briefly joined in the worship at the Anuak church of Tiersiru, one of the satellite churches of the Abobo Mission Centre. There is was Grant's privilege to give the church a name, "St Mark's Anglican Church" of Tiersiru. After questioning the St Frumentius' students about the apostle Mark during their examinations for the African Early Church History intensive, St Mark seemed an appropriate name!
Our final stop of the morning was in Abobo town, and there a lunch of freshly caught nile perch, roasted over charcoal, awaited us, lovingly prepared by Awilli, one of our Mothers' Union leaders, together with the women of Bethlehem Church, Abobo. It was a good morning!
First day in Addis.
We are delighted to welcome theologians Chris and Suzy Wilson as our newest faculty members of St Frumentius' ATC, together with their children Abigail and Matthew. Please join us in praying for God's blessing on their settling into life in Gambella.
Please pray for the first year and second year students of St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College.
Please pray for Johann Vanderbijl, our beloved dean, and for Louise, our librarian.
Please pray for continuing peace and unity among the peoples of the Gambella region.
Please pray for peace and unity among the Amhara, Oroma and Tigray peoples of Ethiopia.
Thank you to all who responded to the needs generated by the recent crisis of ethnic violence in Gambella. Those who wish to contribute to these ongoing needs, please see donate now link above.
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Journey to Peace
"I had a dream," she explained. The lovely Anuak woman stood before UN officials asking for permission to go to the Nuer in Pinyudu Refugee Camp. Denied permission, she went home and that night dreamt again, dreaming that God told her to go and speak peace to the Nuer. The next day she was not to be denied by any human force and, once in the camp, made her way to one of our 12 Nuer Anglican churches. There she was warmly welcomed. She is one of a growing number in Gambella who are saying, "In God's eyes, we are all brothers and sisters." In the aftermath of ethnic violence, peace between Nuer, Anuak and Highlanders is a journey of courage and obedience.
Early in the morning of April 15th, Murle cattle raiders from South Sudan crossed into the Gambella region of Ethiopia. They killed over 200 people, mostly the mothers of young children, and abducted between 100 to 150 children as well as a few young women and thousands of cattle. Cooperation between the Ethiopian army, the South Sudanese government and a Murle chief of South Sudan has been responsible for the recovery of many of these children. Our Mothers' Union Coordinator, Sarah Nyabuony is now part of the team in Gambella living with and caring for the rescued children. To date, more than 70 children have been found and returned, staying first in Gambella's Presidential guest house before being returned to extended family and neighbors in the surrounding villages.
"Slowly by slowly" peace is returning. Our 'town' priests Darash (Anuak) and Peter (Nuer) together went to the Gambella Hospital to visit the victims of Murle violence. In response to a government request for donations for the victims, Darash and Peter brought some money to give away. They also brought prayer. Most just wanted the prayer.
Some weeks ago a group of young Nuer high school students were walking from Pinyudu to Gambella to write their high school exams (buses were not running because of the violence). They were beaten and waylaid by a group of highlanders. A week later another group of young Nuer walking to write exams in Gambella town experienced a different reception. They were welcomed part way through their journey by some Anuak in Abobo town who fed them, gave them something to drink and saw them safely on their way.
When the violence began in Gambella town, it was some highlanders who were the ones to offer shelter and help. Wilson, one of our Anuak priests, while running to find and rescue his family, himself ran into danger and was taken into safety by highlanders. Like shafts of sunlight breaking through the clouds, we are seeing acts of kindness bring light and warmth to the relationships in this area.
Witnessing the reunion of our Anuak and Nuer staff and clergy at the Gambella Anglican Centre brought us a joy that was almost painful. Yesterday, our 3 Mothers' Union coordinators Achua, Sarah and Sarah together with facilitators Isaac and Darash, met on our compound for the first time since January. Their eyes were bright with joy and with tears. For two weeks our Nuer staff have been driven through Anuak territory to bring them to work. Now a couple of them have dared to walk here on their own. "Slowly by slowly" hope is growing.
Our churches have begun the process of assessing and responding to the needs of those affected by the recent violence. The first load of donated clothes has been brought to Lare where many of the victims of the Murle raid are located. Throughout the whole Gambella region, our clergy and lay readers have been collecting the names of those whose houses were burned or looted. Help is now being channeled to those most in need, especially to those in need of food and clothing. Thank you to all those whose prayers and contributions to our Samaritan Fund have made it possible to bless those so desperately in need of hope and restoration.
Peace in Gambella is a journey undergirded by prayer. Even in the midst of all the turmoil, we continue to see the growth of new congregations. This week I learned of a new Mabaan church in Tongo as well as a new church in Jewi Refugee camp. Darash, our Anuak Regional Dean, recently baptized 153 people in Dimma. There he learned that there are Murle who are asking to become Anglicans!
We thank God for the peoples of the Gambella Region whose rich ethnic diversity will one day be a part of the 'treasures brought by the nations' to the New Jerusalem. (Rev. 21:24; NAB)
Woman of Peace
Peace in the Gambella People's Region remains fragile. Please pray for the witness of forgiveness, respect and compassion to continue to grow in our churches and communities.
Please pray for our ordination discernment conference to be held June 30th
Please pray for the selection of our new incoming class for St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College, and for God's blessings on our 2nd year students
Please pray for Johann and Louise Van der Bijl. Johann is dean of St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College.
We give thanks for Karen Salmon, our wonderful professor of biblical studies who is leaving us to pursue ordination in the Anglican Church of Ireland.
Please pray for Chris and Suzie Wilson who will be joining us as new faculty for St Frumentius Anglican Theological College in September.
Please pray for Jeremiah Maet Paul, our Nuer professor of African Traditional Religion and Islamic studies.
We give thanks for the completion of 2 new faculty houses, the completion of the St Frumentius chapel, and the ongoing work of construction including the building of a new classroom and the completion of the security wall
Please pray for "good rain" and a cessation of the flooding now occurring in the beginning of rainy season
Clothes on their way to Lar
More Sorrow
As I drove through the town of Itang, little seemed amiss. Luke, our deacon in this area, asked me to stop. "We can walk from here," he said. As I got out of the vehicle the smell of burnt wood struck me. A hundred feet or so past where we parked we came around a corner - nothing but charred wood and ashes - more than 200 homes gone in one night. Our Anglican church was still standing - perhaps the attackers here had a sense of the fear of God that led them to spare that one building. If only they knew that the people they attacked were made in God's image and more precious to Him than any building.
2016 has been a difficult year for Gambella - and it is only April.
Two years of civil war in South Sudan has brought 300,000 refugees into Gambella, roughly doubling the population of the region. The increased population has resulted in many stresses on the resources of an already fragile social system. Water, electricity, internet service have all been in short supply. Although Gambella is not densely populated, access to arable land and to river water for the needs of agriculture, animals and humans is becoming more and more contested.
The Anuak-Nuer conflict
Perhaps the most important challenge, however, has been the change in the ethnic make up of the region. The Anuak, for generations the majority people group in Gambella, are now vastly outnumbered due to the influx of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighbouring South Sudan, almost all of whom are Nuer. Tension resulting from different views and uses of land has once more sparked conflict. The Anuak, as well as hunting and fishing, are more settled in the land, planting crops and having a sense of ownership of the land they till. The Nuer, are traditionally nomadic cattle herders who drive their cattle through all land; the land that they believe belongs to God and is therefore free for their use.
At the end of January this tension became violent. The details of the fighting are vague and under-reported, but the short version is that a few dozen people were killed, many injured, and hundreds of homes burned and looted. Some of the Nuer and Anuak youth actually looted the villages of their own people who fled from fear of violence. The town and region are still filled with anxiety two months later. Nuer cannot safely travel into Anuak areas and Anuak are afraid to enter Nuer enclaves. The Federal Police and Army are seeking to keep order, but violence has flared up in several places.
Our church life has been deeply affected. Our theological students (five Nuer and five Anuak) must have classes in separate places for now. Travel to some places is too dangerous and many people are stranded away from home and are being cared for by church members and family. Some are running out of food or the ability to purchase more.
If these troubles weren't devastating enough, bad turned to worse in mid-April.
The Murle attacks
Early on the morning of April 15th, large, heavily armed groups of Murle people crossed into Ethiopia from South Sudan. The Murle have had a long history of raiding the cattle of neighbouring ethnic groups, killing any who stand in their way (or happen to be in the wrong place) and kidnapping children who are then assimilated into their people. The reports were truly horrific. Young Murle men with automatic weapons killing indiscriminately in the areas of Lare, Jikwao and Nininyang - all places where we have Anglican churches. The first reports said 140 Nuer people, mostly women and children, were dead. The death toll went up steadily - 160, 182. It is now being reported that 208 have died, at least 82 treated for bullet wounds in the Gambella hospital (others have been moved to hospitals in Metu and Jimma), as many as 108 women and children have been abducted.
David Yao Yao, a former Murle politician turned cattle rider has denied responsibility. He did claim (truly enough) that the war in South Sudan (mostly between Dinka and Nuer, although this is an over-simplification) has so destabilized the eastern regions of South Sudan that the area is virtually lawless. It seems that it was only a matter of time before the chaos ensued. The Ethiopian government and the South Sudan government have said they will work together to track down the perpetrators of this brutality and rescue those abducted. We will see. The Prime Minister of Ethiopia declared two days of mourning.
The only good news is that the rains have started - it is harder to raid cattle in the rain, so this event might not be repeated (this year).
These overlapping tragedies of civil war and the massive influx of refugees, the ethnic violence over land between the Anuak and Nuer, and now these appalling Murle raids have left our people feeling raw and fearful.
Jewi camp
Just a couple of days after the Murle attacks, a truck owned by an NGO and driven by a "highlander" drove into Jewi Refugee camp just a few miles outside of Gambella town. 'Highlander' is the name given to non-Gambellan Ethiopians - Amharas, Tigrayans, Oromos and others - who are lighter skinned and quite different culturally from those groups native to Gambella. The truck struck and killed two Nuer children. Enraged refugees, no doubt already tense and on edge, responded with vengeance killing at least nine (perhaps more, reports are conflicting) highlanders. Vengeance leads to vengeance. Highlanders in Gambella began a march to the camp to kill Nuer. A highlander mob tried to attack Newlands, the Nuer part of Gambella town. Many were praying. Thankfully, perhaps miraculously, highlander retaliation was turned back by the Ethiopian (highlander) army. Although cars were burned in the centre of town, blocking the roads, and gunfire was heard sporadically throughout the day (warning shots thankfully), fewer casualties than expected were reported. As of April 25th, Gambella remains in simmering, tangible fear and anger.
The Anglican situation
Information has been hard to obtain from the villages and refugee camps. The internet has functioned only part of the time. Quite a number of relatives of our church members were killed during the Anuak-Nuer clashes. Many members were looted or had their houses burned. We have so far learned that, during the Murle raids, three members of our Anglican congregation in Kowkow (near Lare) were killed and 1 child abducted. The sister of one of our clergy was also killed in another village and her child abducted. I have little doubt that we will hear similar details from other villages. Pray for our clergy and lay readers seeking to bring comfort to those who mourn and practical aid to many in need.
Thanks for asking
Many have been asking us, how they can help respond to the suffering in Gambella, and the needs of those who have lost loved ones, whose houses have been burned or looted, who need food, clothing and shelter. As one of our people told us, "There are many who are very suffering". Some have been directly hit, others have been stranded without means for food, unable to return to their home area. The simplest and quickest way to help would be through a donation to our 'Samaritan Fund'. See below for donation links, but please specify that the gift is to be given to "Ethiopia - Samaritan Fund".
For those wishing to make a contribution in response to this crisis, please click on this link for "The Friends of the Anglican Diocese of Egypt":
http://www.friendsanglicandioceseegypt.org/contribute.html
Funds can be donated online or by cheque. Please specify:
Ethiopia - Samaritan Fund.
We are very suffering here
There is a wonderful
African saying,
"I am because We are".
Identity is known in relationship;
in belonging
to your community.
This can be unfortunate
in places that
have a tradition
in which
are blood covenanted
at birth
to the revenge
of their grandfather's enemies.
Grief in Gambella
The revenge of family
and community
can be a part of identity.
It is very hard,
especially for a young man,
to say,
"No. I will not join in the fighting".
Now our churches have a saying,
"One Lord, one family, one blood".
speaks a stronger word,
than the blood of Abel;
the blood that cries out for revenge.
Heb 12:25
Please pray for Peace in Gambella and in South Sudan
Pray for a functioning government in the eastern regions of South Sudan.
Pray for evangelists to reach out to the Murle people so that their society can be transformed by the saving and healing love of Christ.
Pray for comfort for those who mourn and for wisdom for those bringing comfort.
Pray for an end to the culture of vengeance.
Sarah Kuel,
whose life was changed a few years ago.
A stray bullet from Merle cattle raiders
hit her leg,
crippling her until,
through the Samaritan fund,
and through volunteer pro bono surgery,
she was able once again,
to live the life of a normal young girl,
walking and running without assistance.
Children from Ninninyang,
one of the villages
recently raided by the Merle.
This photo was taken
a few years before the current crisis.
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War...and Rumours of War
Jesus, the Prince of Peace
The phone rang. I looked at it apprehensively. The screen read, "Peter from Tongo."
"Are you fine?", Peter asked.
"Yes, we are fine," I answered.
"You are all fine?" He sounded surprised. "There is war in Gambella!"
"Yes, it is difficult in Gambella now. Pray for us…."
War? Maybe. And much worse - rumours of war.
"The tongue is a small thing, yet, …how great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!" (James 3:5)
At first the chatter was impersonal: "A bomb was thrown." "This one was killed." Then it became personal. "My brother was killed." "My uncle." "My nephew." "My wife's mother." Always the 'other' group the aggressor, and 'our' group the only victims mentioned. Incendiary rumours taken as fact, whipping up emotions and anger. Hardening hearts and faces.
I'll let Grant describe the situation.
From Visitors to Violence
January has been hectic. It was a joy to welcome visitors here in the Gambella Centre from Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Toronto, Ireland, and from Addis Ababa. Some taught, some painted, some did carpentry, some catalogued books in the library, some preached in our churches, or taught groups of clergy and lay readers, Others taught Sunday School teachers in several different locations. All were a joy to work with, and all contributed to the life of the church here.
But as the last guests were leaving, life in Gambella began to unravel.
It started as a dispute between two local Gambella officials. Well, apparently that's how it started. Accurate 'news' is hard to come by here at the moment. Innuendo and rumour substitute for anything close to 'fact' or 'reality.' In any event, the two officials were from differing ethnic groups. The Anuak and the Nuer have always lived in a very uneasy tension in Gambella, tension which can flare up quickly.
The two officials and/or their representatives had guns. Guns were fired and at least one person was injured. In apparent retaliation, a pregnant women from the other group was beaten. Two days later she and her unborn child died of their injuries. Then came the explosion - literally. At a local college someone let off a bomb. Rumours as to the nature of the explosion include that it was a grenade, a landmine, or some more improvised device. Students from one group began throwing rocks at students of the other group. Police came and began firing in the air, or perhaps lower ... panic set in all over Gambella town and other towns in the region. Everyone's cell phone was buzzing with so-called information, or at least with hearsay about what had happened to 'their people'.
My clergy began phoning me and texting me. Much of the 'news' was inaccurate, although it was clear that death and injury on both sides was mounting up. Some accurate reporting was mixed in with the speculation. Our theological students, both Nuer and Anuak, lost family members. On the night of Jan 29th much shooting was heard from the centre of town. Worries were that there was a gun battle in the streets. It seems now that the suddenly over-crowded prison experienced a mass jail break. A woman who cooks for groups on our compound lost a nephew in that violence. Doubtless we will learn of more deaths in the coming days. No one knows the number of casualties from this whole event. Or, if they do, they aren't telling. Twenty seems to be the best guess.
On Jan. 30th, the Gambella Centre, received an unexpected influx of local 'refugees.' About 70 women and children from the small community nearby our compound suddenly walked through the gate. I'll let Wendy describe their visit.
As they entered our compound, they reminded me of of the lines of refugees we saw heading into Akule refugee camp two years ago: women with their meager belongings on the heads, little babies in their arms, and children, silent, stoney faced, walking alongside. One difference - razor sharp spears and deadly pangas (machetes) were carried by a few of them, mostly boys, 8 or 9 years old. They had heard that 'people were coming to kill them', and they fled to us for refuge.
"What can we do?", I wondered. "We have no stores of food and no means of defending them." Inwardly I stepped back into Peace, and greeted each with a smile. I looked into the dull eyes and hardened faces. The sun beat down. "Water," I thought. "Give each a cup of water." As I gave each a cup of water, I looked into their eyes. It was the children who softened first. Slowly, shy smiles answered mine. Eyes began to brighten. It was lunch time. "They must be hungry," I thought. I remembered yesterday, when the lunch prepared for 10 people stretched to amply feed almost 30. I had bread and 'Injera' enough for ten. But what was that with such a crowd? "Test Me in this," the thought seemed to come. Grant went to get some peanut butter crackers left by our visiting team from South Carolina. Everyone had at least 4 or 5 pieces of the bread, injera and crackers ("biscotti"). Some of our Anuak students were with us. They and Grant led us in prayer. Johann, who had been driving various ones to safety, reported that the roads were empty of invaders. Federal troops lined the now too-quiet streets. Our neighbors relaxed, and leaving their precious bundles of possession temporarily in our care they left for home, with thanks and with blessings on their lips.
Grant again:
After convincing our 'visitors' to sit and give up their weapons we heard their worries. They had been informed that the other ethnic group were coming to kill them. We made some calls and ascertained that there was no hostile group on the way. We gave them water and whatever we could find to feed them - and most importantly we prayed with them - and after a few hours they relaxed and began to head back to their homes. I was grateful that they decided that our compound was the safest place to be in a crisis - even though our dilapidated barbed wire fence wouldn't really keep anyone out (a cow walked through one section a couple of days ago!).
The army has moved in to restore order - we pray that the soldiers may not over-react and may act wisely in a chaotic situation. Their task will not be easy. It is clear that the town is over-crowded. Shortages of power, water and many other things have left people on edge for months now. One group blames another for the problems.
We don't know the future for the Gambella region. At the moment hatred, anger, grief and fear are ruling the hearts and minds of many; in the short term, instability, insecurity, and suspicion may remain for some time. Our prayer is that our churches and our pastors will be calm, will preach forgiveness, will welcome and advocate for people whose language and culture is other than their own.
(Ps 112: 1,7) "Blessed is the man who fears the Lord…he is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord."
I'll let Wendy finish:
Last night Cham, our cook for visiting teams, came to us. "Many are wounded now," she said. My nephew was killed last night, and I am afraid. Can my daughters and I come and sleep in the kitchen?
The Gambella Anglican Center has become a place of refuge and prayer. Please join us in praying for these dear people, caught in a long legacy of suffering and revenge. We, the 'Ferenge/Engelize/Kawaja', now each have a bag packed and ready. We do not want to leave.
Amazing prayers at each of our Gambella churches this morning. On both sides of the conflict, there were gracious prayers for each other. Prayers affirming the worth of all people. "Let the hatred end with this generation."
As of February 5, 2016
Many troops remain in the town and fear is still evident. Nuer and Anuak are not crossing into each others' parts of town. Our theological college is running classes in two separate places. But life is slowly getting back to normal. Buses have started running, banks and shops are open again. Thank you all for your continued prayers.
+ Grant
Pray for the children
~ For peace, for unity, and for the grace of forgiveness to be known in Gambella
~ For the students and faculty of the St Frumentius' Anglican Theological College. We are now holding classes in 2 different locations - one for Nuer and one for Anuak. Pray that we may again be united in one place, bearing witness to "One Lord, one faith, one blood."
St Frumentius students with Grant and faculty member Jeremiah Maet, taken the day before the trouble began.
~ Pray for our wisdom and discernment regarding the safety and well-being of our staff and faculty.
~ Pray for our Mothers' Union as we plan and prepare for the next phase of their teaching and ministry under entirely indigenous leadership
"Mosquito" used in our Mothers' Union teaching on Malaria, during the dramatic presentation of "Helping Each Other when Little Things cause Big Problems"
~ Pray our congregations as they reach out to the communities of the wider Gambella Peoples Region, for peace and unity
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Siitupe Marcus "Tupe" Peko, (born September 19, 1978) is a former American Football offensive guard. Peko attended La Serna High School and first played at the collegiate level at Cerritos College before transferring to Michigan State University. He played in the NFL for 4 years, at first primarily as a backup and started in 11 games including playoffs before injuries plagued Peko. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He has played for the New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts, and Green Bay Packers. Peko is married to Valerie Peko and has 3 sons. Currently Peko works as a police officer with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

He is the older brother of Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Domata Peko. He is also a cousin of football player Fou Fonoti.

References

External links
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Living people
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Living Well: Healing by using psychotherapy,…
Living Well: Healing by using psychotherapy, yoga and meditation
Caroline Culverhouse-Neithamer
By Caroline Culverhouse |
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2018 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2021 at 2:56 a.m.
My endless passion for women's healing began on day 31 of my stay at the Caron Foundation during 2007, when I was not sent back to New York City to continue my doctoral studies in clinical psychology as planned, but rather transferred to the Rose Kearney House, Caron's "women's extended stay."
With women, and for women and because of women, I lived, breathed, screamed, cried and shook as I began to authentically work through yet-unprocessed childhood traumas.
And for the first time since I was a young girl, I played and laughed often. I had so much work to do that I stayed for two months past the normal three months required for extended stay. (Yep. That's right. Many months in rehab.)
It was through the love and devotion of all the women staff and patients that I began to understand for the first time in perhaps forever that "I am a good person."
This newfound goodness kept my feet planted here in Berks County. What felt like a passing respite from the fast pace of the city – big trees, endless fields and quiet starry nights – I soon realized would be the fertile ground for my continued transformation.
In addition to going back to graduate school, this past decade has been spent in almost continuous training and personal development, much of it specific to working with trauma, the mind-body-spirit connect and women.
I began leading retreats in 2010 and opened my private practice in 2012. My husband, Christopher, and I officially opened the doors to our center in 2014.
My greatest desire is to continue to give the gift that was given to me to all women and all people who come to us: the restoration of belief in one's own goodness and the knowing that wherever we go and whatever we do, we are always "hOMe" within our highest selves.
Caroline Culverhouse-Neithamer is the co-founder of hOMe Psychotherapy, Yoga and Meditation, a holistic healing center in Alsace Township. See www.homepym.com.
Caroline Culverhouse
Blood supply no longer critical, but donors still needed in southeast Pa.
Daily docket: January 30, 2023
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NewTek Discussions > LightWave 3D Support > LW - Mac > Parasolid 3D Modeling Engine Comes to MacOS X!
View Full Version : Parasolid 3D Modeling Engine Comes to MacOS X!
I figured some of you might be interested in this bit of news... As we can see, Apple seems to be making some headway in the right areas. I don't know about any of you, but I find this new to be extremely significant. Any thoughts? Ted, Beam, Scot, anyone?
Thanks for pointing out the news. Thats definitly good news, so maybe we will even see MicroStation back on the Mac ?
Hopefully it will spur the development of high-end 3D cards for OSX.


Sorry for the late post, it's been such a hectic week!
Monday/Tuesday: I was focused on my presentation for Friday so I didn't get much time to do anything else!
Wednesday: Tonight, I did Tuesday's ab routine as well as today's Mermaid routine and Pink Flamingo workout. I did each of these routines once through as I was a bit strapped for time!
Thursday: I had a chill out day and just went for a 20-minute walk with my mum to go vote!
Friday: After my presentation in the morning, I spent the next hour or so at the gym; I actually did yesterday's workout of the HIITy Bitty Bikini workout as well as the Itty Btty Bikini Abs. I also added Bikini Abs because this is the area that I want to work on the most.
Saturday/Sunday: Fitness was the last thing on my mind this weekend so I let those be my main focus.


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Mitie home Media centre News Releases Mitie named 'Fleet of the Year' at Green Fleet Awards
Mitie named 'Fleet of the Year' at Green Fleet Awards
Mitie has won the 'Private Sector Fleet of the Year (Medium to Large)' category at the Green Fleet Awards 2020
The award recognised Mitie's progress in transitioning its entire fleet to electric vehicles, with over 800 already in its fleet
Mitie has been named 'Private Sector Fleet of the Year (Medium to Large)' at this year's Green Fleet Awards. This is the second award Mitie has won in the past two months for its ambitious electric vehicle (EV) commitment, having also been named 'Green Fleet of the Year' at the Business Car Awards in October.
The Green Fleet Awards recognise companies that have taken steps to cut down the carbon emissions of their fleets, going above and beyond to reach net zero carbon emissions and help improve the UK's air quality. Mitie beat tough competition to be named Private Sector Fleet of the Year, with big brands, such as the Ocado Group and Sainsbury's & Argos, among those on the shortlist.
In December 2018, Mitie became the first major UK FM company to launch an EV fleet, pledging to switch its entire fleet* of 5,500 vehicles to electric by 2025. In October 2020, Mitie announced that it had already met its target of switching 20% of its car and small van fleet to electric – two months ahead of schedule. Mitie is adding around 25 new EVs to its fleet every week and expects to have around 900 electric vehicles in its fleet by the end of the year.
Alongside its EV rollout, Mitie has also implemented a number of initiatives to reduce the emissions from its diesel vehicles that are still on the road. This includes a widespread employee education programme, explaining how colleagues can drive their vehicles most efficiently and installing speed limiters to encourage the most fuel-efficient driving.
With its EV objectives on-track, Mitie is now supporting other organisations looking to slash their carbon emissions from transport. This year, Mitie launched its Plan Zero Fleet Transition service to share its first-hand experience transitioning its own fleet to help its clients switch to electric. Mitie has also been appointed as a supplier in the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Solutions (VCIS) agreement to help public sector organisations roll-out the charge point infrastructure needed to support the UK's move to electric.
Simon King, Director of Sustainability and Social Value, Mitie, said:
"We're very proud to see our efforts to reach net zero continue recognised by being named the UK's leading electric vehicle fleet for a second time in just two months. We're making significant progress in making our fleet net zero, but we want to go further, faster. We're committed to using our first-hand experience to support other organisations switch to electric and bring the UK one step closer to net zero."
*Subject to an appropriate zero emission model being available on the market
About Mitie
Founded in 1987, Mitie is one of the UK's leading facilities management (FM) and professional services companies. We offer a range of services to Central Government and Defence, Communities (Hospitals, PFI schools and Local Authorities); and Technical Services (Engineering Services, Energy, Water and Real Estate Services) and Business Services (Security, Cleaning and Office Services) to Private Sector clients in Financial Services, Manufacturing, Transport, Retail and Telecoms; and Specialist Services (Care & Custody, Landscapes and Waste Management).
Mitie, which acquired Interserve's FM business in December 2020, employs 77,500 people and is the champion of the 'Front-Line Heroes' who have kept Britain running during the COVID-19 pandemic. We take care of our customers' people and buildings, by delivering essential services and deploying industry leading technology to create safe and effective workspaces.
The business continues to execute its technology-led strategy and in the past six months has received multiple awards.
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News, Pollution
Taste, not appearance, drives corals to eat plastics
"When plastic ingestion occurs, it blocks the digestive tract, gets lodged in animals windpipes cutting airflow causing suffocation, or fills the stomach, resulting in malnutrition, starvation and potentially death. Indeed, it is found that debris often accumulates in the animals' gut and give a false sense of fullness, causing the animal to stop eating and slowly starve to death." —Captions and Photo: © SAF — Coastal Care
Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because the tiny bits of floating plastic might look like prey.
But a new Duke University study of plastic ingestion by corals suggests there may be an additional reason for the potentially harmful behavior. Visual cues, such as a resemblance to prey, don't factor into the appeal, the researchers noted, because corals have no eyes.
The plastic just plain tastes good.
Corals in our experiments ate all types of plastics but preferred unfouled microplastics by a threefold difference over microplastics covered in bacteria," said Austin S. Allen, a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment. "This suggests the plastic itself contains something that makes it tasty."
"Ultimately, the hope is that if we can manufacture plastic so it unintentionally tastes good to these animals, we might also be able to manufacture it so it intentionally tastes bad," Seymour said. "That could significantly help reduce the threat these microplastics pose…"
Read Full Article; Duke University (10-24-2017)
Video captures moment plastic enters food chain, BBC News (03-11-2017)
A scientist has filmed the moment plastic microfibre is ingested by plankton, illustrating how the material is affecting life beneath the waves. The footage shows one way that plastic waste could be entering the marine and global food chain…
Brain damage in fish from plastic nanoparticles in water, Science Daily (09-25-2017)
A new study shows that plastic particles in water may end up inside fish brains. The plastic can cause brain damage, which is the likely cause of behavioral disorders observed in the fish…
New UN report finds marine debris harming more than 800 species, costing countries millions; United Nations (12-05-2016)
Marine debris is negatively affecting more than 800 animal species and causing serious losses to many countries' economies, according to a United Nations report launched December 5th, 2016…
The Plastic Found In a Single Turtle's Stomach, Independent UK (03-24-2011)
Whale found dying off coast of Norway with 30 plastic bags in its stomach; Telegraph UK (02-03-2017)
90 Percent of Seabirds Have Plastic in Their Stomachs, Newsweek (09-01-2015)
By 2050, nearly all seabirds will have plastic in their stomachs. Already, 9 out of 10 of the birds have some of the substance in their digestive tracts. Such are the sobering conclusions of a study published August 31 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
Kenya: Marine debris threaten to suffocate sea animals; The Star Kenya (01-24-2017)
Marine researchers spotted a dolphin suffocating in a plastic bag last week in Watamu, Kenya. The incident, the first to be witnessed there, has raised concern on the safety of the millions of sea animals in the Indian Ocean waters due to the increased cases of plastic waste.
60% of Loggerhead Turtles Stranded on Beaches in South Africa Had Ingested Plastic; EcoWatch (05-031-2016)
"Midway." A Love Story for our Time from the Heart of the Pacific"—By Chris Jordan, Midway Film; (04-01-2015)
A shocking film from Midway Island in the North Pacific Ocean, by Midway Film.
Plastic Pollution / When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide, Coastal Care ©-2009.
"The unprecedented plastic waste tide plaguing our oceans and shores, can become as limited as our chosen relationship with plastics, which involves a dramatic behavioral change on our part…"
UN Declares War on Ocean Plastic, UNEP (02-23-2017)


June 2015 – Sig Nordal, Jr.
After a recent run in with a rogue wave on the Oregon coast, I was left cameraless for nearly a month and a half. Luckily, friends were gracious enough to allow me to have some camera time. Thanks Mike Pitts for your generosity.
This photo is once again from Lower Lewis Falls in WA. You could spend days there shooting and come up with different angles. It is such a photogenic waterfall. I hope you enjoy.


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Q: How to calculate longest period between two specific dates in SQL? I have problem with the task which looks like that I have a table Warehouse containing a list of items that a company has on stock. This
table contains the columns ItemID, ItemTypeID, InTime and OutTime, where InTime (OutTime)
specifies the point in time where a respective item has entered (left) the warehouse. I have to calculate the longest period that the company has gone without an item entering or leaving the warehouse. I am trying to resolve it this way:
select MAX(OutTime-InTime) from Warehouse where OutTime is not null

Is my understanding correct? Because I believe that it is not ;)

A: You want the greatest gap between any two consecutive actions (item entering or leaving the warehouse). One method is to unpivot the in and out times to rows, then use lag() to get the date of the "previous" action. The final step is aggregation:
select max(x_time - lag_x_time) max_time_diff
from warehouse w
cross apply (
    select x_time, lag(x.x_time) over(order by x.x_time) lag_x_time
    from (
        select w.in_time as x_time from dual
        union all select w.out_time from dual
    ) x
) x

A: You can directly perform date calculation in oracle.
The result is calculated in days.
If you want to do it in hours, multiply the result by 24.
To calculate the duration in [day], and check all the information in the table:
SELECT round((OutTime - InTime)) as periodDay, Warehouse .*
FROM Warehouse
WHERE OutTime is not null
ORDER BY periodDay DESC

To calculate the duration in [hour]:
SELECT round((OutTime - InTime)*24) AS periodHour, Warehouse .*
FROM Warehouse
WHERE OutTime is not null
ORDER periodHour DESC

round() is used to remove the digits.
Select only the record with maximum period.
SELECT *
FROM Warehouse
WHERE (OutTime - InTime) =
( SELECT MAX(OutTime - InTime) FROM Warehouse)

Select only the record with maximum period, with the period indicated.
SELECT (OutTime - InTime) AS period, Warehouse.*
FROM Warehouse
WHERE (OutTime - InTime) =
( SELECT MAX(OutTime - InTime) FROM Warehouse)

When finding the longest period, the condition where OutTime is null is not needed.

A: SQL Server has DateDiff, Oracle you can just take one date away from the other.
The code looks ok. Oracle has a live SQL tool where you can test out queries in your browser that should help you.
https://livesql.oracle.com/

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Q: Make video fill screen and keep aspect ratio Java and C# (Xamarin.Android) accepted

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*I have a MediaRecorder that streams the cameraframes onto a TextureView (basic camera2 approach)

*the TextureView fills my screen.

I want the video to fill the screen but keep the aspect ratio.
I know I have to eventually cut of either left/right or top/bottom parts of the video, to keep the aspect ratio.
How can I make the video fit the TextureView and "zoom in" until the whole screen is filled? I don't want "black bars" that compromise for the ratio to be kept.
I guess this has to be accomplished through overriding the OnMeasure of the TextureView
C# extended TextureView
//Called by my MediaRecorder Implementation, when I set the video dimensions (mostly width = 1280, height = 720)
public void SetAspectRatio(int width, int height)
        {
            if (width == 0 || height == 0)
                throw new ArgumentException("Size cannot be negative.");
            mRatioWidth = width;
            mRatioHeight = height;
            RequestLayout();
        }

        protected override void OnMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
        {
            base.OnMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
            int width = MeasureSpec.GetSize(widthMeasureSpec);
            int height = MeasureSpec.GetSize(heightMeasureSpec);
            if (0 == mRatioWidth || 0 == mRatioHeight)
            {
                SetMeasuredDimension(width, height);
            }
            else
            {
                if (width > (float)height * mRatioWidth / (float)mRatioHeight)
                {
                    SetMeasuredDimension(width, width * mRatioHeight / mRatioWidth);
                }
                else
                {
                    SetMeasuredDimension(height * mRatioWidth / mRatioHeight, height);
                }
            }
        }

A: I have found the answer, thanks to this comment from this post.
C# Xamarin.Android:
I call the following method when my surface texture size changes (OnSurfaceSizeTextureChanged callback in SurfaceTextureListener)
public void ConfigureTransform(int viewWidth, int viewHeight)
{
    int rotation = (int)ThisActivity.WindowManager.DefaultDisplay.Rotation;
    var matrix = new Matrix();
    var viewRect = new RectF(0, 0, viewWidth, viewHeight);
    var bufferRect = new RectF(0, 0, previewSize.Height, previewSize.Width);
    float centerX = viewRect.CenterX();
    float centerY = viewRect.CenterY();

    //Set the scale accordingly, to have the preview texture view fill the whole screen with cutting of the least amount of the preview as possible
    //(but this way we keep the aspect ratio -> no preview distortion)
    bool isLandscape = ((int)SurfaceOrientation.Rotation90 == rotation || (int)SurfaceOrientation.Rotation270 == rotation);
    float scale;

    if (isLandscape)
    {
        scale = System.Math.Max(
            (float)viewWidth / previewSize.Height,
            (float)viewWidth / previewSize.Width);
    }
    else
    {
         scale = System.Math.Max(
            (float)viewHeight / previewSize.Height,
            (float)viewHeight / previewSize.Width);
    }

    if ((int)SurfaceOrientation.Rotation90 == rotation || (int)SurfaceOrientation.Rotation270 == rotation || (int)SurfaceOrientation.Rotation180 == rotation)
    {
        bufferRect.Offset((centerX - bufferRect.CenterX()), (centerY - bufferRect.CenterY()));
        matrix.SetRectToRect(viewRect, bufferRect, Matrix.ScaleToFit.Fill);
        matrix.PostScale(scale, scale, centerX, centerY);

        //Small check if orientation is Reverse Portrait -> dont substract 2 from rotation, otherwise the preview is flipped by 180°
        if ((int)SurfaceOrientation.Rotation180 == rotation)
            matrix.PostRotate(90 * rotation, centerX, centerY);
        else
            matrix.PostRotate(90 * (rotation - 2), centerX, centerY);
    }
    TextureView.SetTransform(matrix);
}


The question Moe Green poses about the absence of compositions of Jelly Roll Morton in the repertoire of the performing bands is one that has interested me from time to time.
Let me say that I have a great admiration for both Jelly Roll Morton and his bands - particularly The Red Hot Peppers. Also too the musicians he employed. They where individuals at the top of their league. For example George Mitchell on cornet - superb. This was carefully arranged music of great sophistication. Without in any way denigrating enthusiastic revivalist musicians the truth is that not many had - or maybe still do not have - the level of musical facility needed to play in a convincing manner Hot Peppers style arrangements.
Great damage was done to many aspiring musicians development by the totally fallacious notion - much touted at one time - that the acquisition of a developed instrumental technique somehow diluted the purity of the music. Even worse that somehow by some osmotic process New Orleans musicians - and beyond - achieved their mastery without having to woodshed.
I listened recently to an interview with Charlie Parker and the interviewer - who really should have known better - touted the same myth that Parker's virtuosity somehow - just fell out of the sky. Parker soon put him right with an outline of his fifteen hour a day practice routines.
I for one would really love to hear a contemporary band playing Jelly Roll Morton arrangement and compositions - correct me if I am wrong but I cannot recall any band that has made the necessary effort in this direction.


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The star of the show must be Keukenhof, one of the best and biggest flower gardens in the world, with 7 million bulbs and 800 varieties of tulip creating a kaleidoscope of colour.
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Here is a video showing how to open the sheds on a warp wider than that which is usually used for bands.
This warp yarn is mercerized cotton and is smooth and friendly. The sheds open easily.
When weaving even wider pieces with finer and not-so-friendly yarns, other methods are used to help ease open the heddle shed.
The following video shows a couple of methods for opening the heddle shed on wide and sticky warps. It also shows how to open heddles when two are in use, for example, when weaving Andean pebble weave.
And what about the shed rod shed? That shed can be hard to clear too particularly when you are working with wool or very fine warps. The following video shows how I strum my warps to loosen and separate them just enough to be able to open the shed. After the first video segment there is a small clip of Felicia in Candelaria which shows how she strums her warp threads with the point of her wooden tool. She is working on an oblique loom.
I have a new video on Operating a Backstrap Loom which is available for streaming or as a dvd from Taproot Video. View the preview here.
Laverne, I just wanted to tell you that your videos on sticky warps were tremendously helpful. I had an awful time on a band, and I think it was one specific color that threw off so much fiber. Anyway, thank you!!!
You are welcome, Kim! You almost need a different shed-opening strategy for each kind of yarn. It's nice to have a few different tricks up the sleeve.


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The third edition of UL 60335-2-24, the Standard for Household and Similar Electrical Appliances – Safety – Part 2-24: Particular Requirements for Refrigerating Appliances, Ice-Cream Appliances and Ice-Makers, was published on July 29.
The third edition works in conjunction with the sixth edition of UL 60335-1, the Standard for Safety of Household and Similar Appliances, Part 1: General Requirements, dated Oct. 31, 2016.
As a safety science leader, UL Solutions facilitates the development of standards such as UL 60335-2-24, which establishes requirements for protection against a variety of hazards that can result from normal use — electrical, mechanical, thermal, fire, radiation — as well as certain abnormal situations that might also occur. Establishing consistent requirements to address current hazards plays an important role in supporting safer products in the marketplace.
The updated version of UL 60335-2-24 includes several key changes:
Moisture resistance – Two new spillage tests were added to assess the potential for egress of moisture into the appliance. Both involve volumes of liquid, including a rinse agent spilled in the refrigerated cabinet and onto the exterior top of the appliance. The tests assess the potential effect on electrical insulation, which, when defeated or disrupted, can lead to electric shock incidents. Adding the rinse agent into the test simulates various cleaning mixtures used in practice. It is more aggressive than water alone, allowing the solution to access smaller areas around electrical insulation.
Abnormal operation – New tests were added for ice makers and ice cream appliances. These tests are intended to limit hazards resulting from potential faults that can occur during normal use. Examples include timer stop, magnetic valve failure, operation with an empty container, and open-circuited or short-circuited components.
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Imagined Dances
for flute, violin and guitar
Composer: David Hamilton
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This set of pieces follows on from two previous works written for groups of students at New Plymouth Boys' High School (occasionally joined by students from the city's Girls' High School). The previous works were Undercurrent (2008) and Kristallnacht (2009). In each case the works were tailored to a specific group of students, for performance in the national chamber music competition.
Imagined Dances is a set of four pieces using traditional dance forms. The first is the slow and stately sarabands from the Baroque period. This dance form has a tendency to accentuate the second beat of the bar, and in this sarabande there is a constant shift from major to minor and back again. The second dance is Argentina's tango - a seductive and sensual dance with its distinctive accompaniment rhythm heard first in the guitar. The third dance is a fast waltz, although in the middle the energy slackens off a little for a while before resuming its hectic pace through to the last bar.
The final piece of the set is titled Mexicana and doesn't use any specific dance form, but does use rhythms typical of Mexican folk music and dances, especially the huapango with tis mix of duple and triple rhythms. It is lively and repetitive piece which dashes to the end of the cycle at top speed.
Imagined Dances was written for, and is dedicated to, Jocelyn Beath who retired as Head of Music at New Plymouth Boys' High School at the end of 2009.
It was previously been performed in the Schools' Chamber Music Contest.
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Written for and dedicated to Jocelyn Beath
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A Treble-Voice Liturgy
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Carol of the Flowers
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Come sleep. Oh sleep.
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Three Spirituals
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Q: how to get html content of a div element using jquery I have a dynamically created html table so I need to get some of the cell values in to jquery variables I tried next() nextAll() cosesst() but nothing work for me.
this is my table created using php
if ($result = $hongcon->query($query)) {
                                while ($row = $result->fetch_object()) {
                                    echo "
";
                                    echo "
id)\">Delete
	";
                                    echo "
$row->id
	";
                                    echo "
$row->itemName
	";
                                    echo "
$row->iId
	";
                                    echo "
$row->pId
	";
                                    echo "
$row->itemImage
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                                    echo "
$row->itemDescription
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                                    echo "
$row->pdfOne
	";
                                    echo "
$row->pdfTwo
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                                    echo "
$row->pdfThree
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                                    echo "
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                                };

and I have following jquery function in my head section. this code is for testing. always it gives me undefined.
iid, pid, desc are the id that I want to get the values to variables.
$(document).ready(function() {
                $("div.edite").on("dblclick", function() {
                    OriginalText = $(this).html();
                    $id = $(this).next("td div").find("#iid").html();
                    alert($id);
      });
            });

A: You have a bad mistake in your code:
You assign an ID for each row in the table. So your IDs are NOT unique but they should.
So try to make a difference: Use css-classes instead of IDs. Possible:

     ...
     ...

That design has two advantages:

*

*You can "hide" your padding in the class mytable-td

*You can get the values via jQuery by calling $('mytable tr').get(rowIndex).find('.mytable-col-iid').html()

A: You have this:
$id = $(this).next("td div").find("#iid").html();

But that won't work because there is no td that is next from the div.edite. And also, you won't be able to find the div#iid inside the next td div because it is that div already. Finally, you should avoid using IDs in this code because you will end up with duplicates which won't work. Change the above line to this and it should work:
$id = $(this).closest("TR").next("td div").html();

A: ids should be unique within the entire document.
I think you should change the code a bit adding a suffix to each id (p.j. the number of the row)
Anyway, you could select those values with a something like
 $(this).parent().parent().find("#iid").html();

A: Instead of this
$id = $(this).next("td div").find("#iid").html();

Use like this
$id = $(this).parent().siblings().find("#iid").html();

A: You should change your php code in order to generate table rows with unique numeric identifier
<?php
if ($result = $hongcon->query($query)) {
while ($row = $result->fetch_object()) {
    echo "
";
    echo "
id)\">Delete
	";
    echo "
id\" style=\"padding: 10px; \">$row->id
	";
    echo "
id\">$row->itemName
	";
    echo "
id\" style=\"padding: 10px;\">$row->iId
	";
    echo "
id\" style=\"padding: 10px;\">$row->pId
	";
    echo "
id\" style=\"padding: 10px;\">$row->itemImage
	";
    echo "
id\" style=\"padding: 10px;\">$row->itemDescription
	";
    echo "
id\" style=\"padding: 10px;\">$row->pdfOne
	";
    echo "
id\" style=\"padding: 10px;\">$row->pdfTwo
	";
    echo "
id\" style=\"padding: 10px;\">$row->pdfThree
	";
    echo "
";
};
?>

JQUERY:
$(document).ready(function() {

            $("div.edite").on("dblclick",function() {
                $iid = "iid_"+$(this).attr('editId');
                OriginalText = $(this).html();
                $id = $("#"+$iid).html();
                alert($id);
            });
});

A: Use this instead:
$id = $(this).parent("td div").find("#iid").html();

Because in your current code you have:
$id = $(this).next("td div").find("#iid").html();

And that wouldn't work because there is no td next to the div. Due to that, you won't be able to find div#iid inside the next td div.


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Helmut Wilsdorf (* 9. Mai 1912 in Berlin; † 16. November 1996 in Dresden) war ein deutscher Pädagoge und Montanethnograph.

Leben und Wirken

Wilsdorf studierte 1931 bis 1932 an den Universitäten Bonn und London Orientalistik und anschließend bis 1939 an der Universität Leipzig Geschichte. Von 1939 bis 1946 war er als Verlagslektor im Pam-Verlag der Kant-Gesellschaft in Leipzig tätig und leistete von 1940 bis 1945 seinen Militärdienst bei einer Dolmetscher-Ausbildungsabteilung ab. Von 1946 bis 1952 war er als Studienassessor bzw. Studienrat an der Erweiterten Oberschule Geschwister Scholl und anschließend bis 1959 an der Vorstudienanstalt der Bergakademie in Freiberg tätig. 1948 legte er sein Staatsexamen für Geschichte, Griechisch und Deutsch ab.

Als Ethnologe wurde Wilsdorf 1959 Oberassistent und 1961 Abteilungsleiter am Institut für Volkskunde der TU Dresden, wo er bis zu seinem Eintritt in den Ruhestand 1977 tätig blieb. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Bücher und Beiträge zur bergmännischen Volkskunde. Er war maßgeblich an der Agricola-Gedenkausgabe (AGA) beteiligt.

Seit 1931 war Wilsdorf Mitglied der Burschenschaft Marchia Bonn, der er bis zu seinem Tode angehörte.

Ehrungen

 1966 Tragbare Medaille in Silber als "Bestarbeiter des Uranbergbaus" in Jáchymov
 1982 Johannes-R.-Becher-Medaille
 1986 Winckelmann-Medaille
 1988 Leibniz-Medaille der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR in Silber
 Medaille des Technischen Museums Prag

Werke
 Bergleute und Hüttenmänner im Altertum bis zum Ausgang der Römischen Republik: Ihre wirtschaftliche, soziale und juristische Lage. In: Freiberger Forschungshefte, Reihe D, H1, Akademie, Berlin 1952 (Dissertation, 1953) (Digitalisat)
 Georg Agricola und seine Zeit., Berlin 1956 (=Band 1 der Agricola-Gedenkausgabe)
 Bergbau, Wald, Flöße: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Flößerei im Dienste des Montanwesens und zum montanen Transportproblem. Mit Walther Herrmann und Kurt Löffler, Akademie, Berlin 1960, In: Freiberger Forschungshefte, 28 (Digitalisat)
 Bergleute und Hüttenmänner in deutschsprachigen Untersuchungen von 1945 bis 1964: eine montanethnographische Bibliographie. Mit Herta Uhlrich, Akademie, Berlin 1966, In: Montanethnographische Forschungen, Bd. 1, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsche Volkskunde; Bd. 40
 Bergwerke und Hüttenanlagen der Agricola-Zeit. Mit Werner Quellmalz, In: Georg Agricola: Ausgewählte Werke., Erg.-Bd. 1, Hüthig, Heidelberg 1971
 Dokumente zur Geschichte des Steinkohlenabbaus im Haus der Heimat., Freital 1976
 Zur Geschichte der erzgebirgischen Bergbrüderschaften und Bergknappschaften. In: Glückauf, H. 23/24, Folklorezentrum Erzgebirge/Vogtland, Schneeberg 1986
 Montanwesen – eine Kulturgeschichte. Leipzig: Edition Leipzig 1987 (=Kulturgeschichte des Bergbaus, Glückauf, Essen 1987)
 Das historische erzgebirgische Bergmannshabit. In: Glückauf, H. 33/35, Folklorezentrum Erzgebirge/Vogtland, Schneeberg 1988
 Die letzte Schicht: bergmännische Grabgebräuche. Mit Steffen Brock, herausgegeben von Götz Altmann, Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 1994

Literatur
 Helmut Wilsdorf, Franz Kirnbauer: Helmut Wilsdorf – Montangeschichte und Montanethnographie; eine Bibliographie zu seinem 65. Geburtstag. Montan-Verlag, 1977
 Michael Martischnig: Volkskundler in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik heute. (= Mitteilungen des Instituts für Gegenwartsvolkskunde, Sonderband 4) Selbstverlag des österreichischen Museums für Volkskunde, Wien 1990, S. 26–28 ISBN 3-900359-46-6
 Götz Altmann: Dr. Helmut Wilsdorf – ein Altertums- und Montanethnograph des 20. Jahrhunderts. In: Michael Simon u. a. (Hrsg.): Zur Geschichte der Volkskunde. Personen – Programme – Positionen. Dresden 2002, S. 277–289. ISBN 3-935712-05-7

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Home College of Business Center for Business Ethics Jim Cooper, Stewart Clifton Speak on Integrity in Politics
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Jim Cooper, Stewart Clifton Speak on Integrity in Politics
Dr. Pat Raines, dean for the College of Business Administration and interim provost, moderated a panel discussion last Friday about ethical issues in today's political environment. Panelists included Congressman Jim Cooper, D-5th district, and lobbyist Stewart Clifton. Clifton is an attorney and lobbyist for such groups as the League of Women Voters, the Alzheimer's Association and National Association of Social Workers. U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn, R-7th district, was supposed to participate; however, she had to attend a press conference in Spring Hill announcing the re-opening of the area's GM plant.
During their opening statements, both Cooper and Clifton stressed the importance of integrity in politics. Cooper opened by announcing, "Well, if I had 400 jobs to announce in my district, I'd probably miss this, too," addressing Blackburn's absence. Cooper went on to lament the "cocooning effect of news" and stress the importance of informed voting. Clifton, on the other hand, used his opening address to make general observations on the role of integrity in politics. He noted that "to make any impact on the political process requires relationships. There are no lone ranger success stories in public policy."
Before starting the question-and-answer session, Dean Raines said, "Ethics in politics should not be an oxymoron." The panel brought out several interesting observations from Cooper and Clifton. Both panelists agreed that political figures are held to a higher standard—but that's a good thing. While referring to figures such as Mark Twain, Will Rogers and Jon Stewart, Cooper said, "Thank goodness we have those folks because it shines a spotlight on the ridiculous." Clifton said, "I don't think public officials have a monopoly on bad behavior… but no one gets scrutinized quite like public officials."
When asked about the current state of news, both Cooper and Clifton drew a line between journalism and entertainment and agreed most televised news falls into the entertainment category. Cooper said, "The news gatherers, the truth tellers, are in short supply." He blames the lack of truly well-educated journalists. Clifton said we still have legitimate journalism, but he said, "It is sad to see the failure of a general shared body of information… There are just separate realities out there created by media."
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