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This Jesus Washes Feet of the Disciples Theme for preschool is based on John 13:1-17.
Jesus is the model servant in this passage.
He wrapped a towel around his waist, as the household servant would have done in his time, and did the job that a servant would do.
This passage serves as the opportunity to teach our children to be humble servants; to look to who we can serve in our own lives. If Jesus--God incarnate--is willing to serve, we should follow that example as well.
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Mud Painting
Materials needed: brown fingerpaint and fingerpaint paper
No explanation needed! You could add some sand or dirt to the paint as well.
Foot Trace & Paint
Materials Needed: white paper, washable markers, paint, brushes
Help the children to trace their feet---yes-barefoot, toes and all!
They then paint their traced feet.
Jesus' Footprints
Materials needed: premade stencil with the name "JESUS" on it (make several), Foot shaped paper*, sponges, paint in shallow trays.
*Precut the feet OR draw feet on paper and let them try their best to cut out the foot shape.
The children place a JESUS stencil on the foot shape.
They dip a small sponge into paint and press over the openings of the letters. Using sponge brushes may work better than sponges.
Footprints on a Map!
Place precut foot shapes--small ones--in your block area.
The children can build cities with blocks and then use the foot prints to show the route people can walk to get from city to city.
Circle Time is such a great time for children to learn the social skills of being together as a large group AND to learn more about your theme!
Bible Story
Materials needed: Children's Bible, a pair of sandals, a small dish of sand and/or dirt.
Introduce the biblical times reason for foot washing:
What is the first thing we do before we sit down to eat?
We wash our hands.
Our hands get very dirty, so we need to wash them before coming to the table.
What are some ways our hands get dirty?
In Jesus' time, people wore sandals all the time (show sandals) because of the weather. Back then, roads were dirt roads. (Sift some dirt or sand in a bin for the children to see). They were not paved like ours are now. People's feet got very sandy and dirty from walking around.
When they came into the house, they would wash their feet before walking through the house so they did not track dirt throughout the house.
Read John 13:1-17 to the children.
Jesus was their teacher--their leader, but he washed their feet. Why? As a way to show how to be a servant and serve others.
When Jesus served the meal, he talked to his disciples (another word for followers) about him becoming a servant for them again.
Think "Ours" Instead of "Mine"!
Bold goal for preschool, I know! For this circle time activity, bring some new sheets of stickers to circle (or a bucket of new chalk) and place them in front of you at circle. Pour it out of a bag very dramatically and excitedly!
"Look what I have for us!!!"
The children may get excited and begin taking one or more!
After a minute or so, remind the children that you brought these items in for ALL of us! Tell them,
"We get so excited to see new things that we like and want! The first thing we do is think 'I LOVE those--I want some' and take what we want. What we need to do is serve others, as Jesus taught his disciples.
Let's put all these items back into the bag for now. We'll play with them a little later."
Read the Bible story.
Talk about the story. Discuss what serving others means (thinking of what others need or want before what we need or want).
After discussion, ask "So, based on this story, what do you suppose Jesus would want you to do with all these (items) that I brought in for ALL of us?"
Hopefully one of your children says you should share with everyone!
Pass out the items, one at a time. Give one to the first child, and tell him to pass it to the next friend and so on until the last person in your circle has one.
Keep doing this until every child has one.
Discuss the importance of serving (helping and sharing) with others as Jesus wants us to do.
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Snack Recipe Ideas to Cook Up for Your Theme!
Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them to learn how to follow directions. It also allows for some great conversation! Ask many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask specific themed questions while making these fun snacks!
Footprint Cookies
Use your favorite cookie dough.
Allow the children time to shape the cookies into foot shapes.
Or, provide foot shaped cookie cutters.
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes!
In a large bin, provide a lot of shoes that lace (NO velcro or slip on shoes!).
Let the children try on different shoes. Encourage them to try to unlace, lace and tie!
Jesus Washes Feet Theme Ideas for your Easel--
More Than Just Painting (Although that is always THE favorite in our classroom!)
Foot Dazzle
I saw this on a Pinterest Page but used with a cross shape (I have added that picture to my pinterest page...see link at the bottom of this page).
This is a great fine motor skill but may be difficult for the children to set up. I would suggest making these in advance.
Cut out foot shapes from sturdy paper (cardstock).
Color ONLY around the edges with oil pastel crayons (this is the part that may be difficult for your kids to do). Use different colors all around the edges.
Attach one of these to a white piece of paper on the easel.
The child use their thumbs and fingers to rub the crayon from the foot shape to the paper.
When they are done, remove the foot shape and you will have a beautiful outline of a foot!
EXTENSION: Have children glue a printed copy of the footprint poem to it or a printed copy of the Bible story.
Preschool Twister!
Materials needed: A few Twister game mats or make your own by having many precut (large!) circles of different colors.
The goal is for the children to help/serve each other by working together to fit on a circle of the color you call out.
Foot Pop!
Tape bubble wrap on a large area. Have the children hop on it in different ways:
Hop on one foot 3 times.
Now the other 3 times.
Walk slooooowly taking 4 steps.
Shoe Sort
Have children take of their shoes. Have them hand you ONE of their shoes and hold their other shoe.
Place these shoes in a row at the other end of the room.
The children all place their one shoe on the floor in front of them and sit down.
Tell them when you tap their head, they should stand up.
Tap every other child's head.
Tell the children who are standing that they are going to serve one of their friends by finding their other shoe for them.
Now, help that child to take the child next to them's shoe in thier hand.
Instruct them to now go to the other side of the room and find the matching shoe of their friend and bring both shoes back to their friends.
They then help their friend to put their shoes on.
That friend now takes their shoe and finds the correct match and helps them to put their shoes on as well.
Jesus Washes Feet Theme Ideas for Your Library
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Jesus Washes Feet Theme Activities to Help Your Preschoolers Develop Their Math Skills and the Small Muscles in Their Hands!
Foot Lacing
In advance, cut out foot shapes. Laminate. Hole punch the edges.
Provide shoelaces for the children to learn to lace with!
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Jesus Washes Feet Theme Music and Movement Activities and Ideas to get your Preschoolers Movin' and Groovin'!
Hokey Pokey!
Change up the words to go with this Bible story.
You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in and let Jesus wash it off.
You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around.
Which king humbled himself for us? JESUS!
Jesus Washes Feet Theme Activities for Your Sand and Water Table!
This is just what it sounds like...footprints rather than handprints.
Materials needed: White paper, fingerpaint, brushes, plastic sheet for floor, bin of warm water, washcloths, dry towels, chair.
Paint (and let the children help!) the bottom of the child's foot or feet.
Have them walk on their paper.
Child sits down on the chair while you help them place their foot in the bin of water.
Wash the paint off and dry their feet.
Relate this to the story in your conversations.
Sand and Dust
Put play sand in your table. Add people, pebbles and rocks to make roads, toy donkeys, perhaps a few toy houses, paper towels (to wash the feet of the people).
NOTE: Spray the sand with water to make it just a little less dry. When playing with sand, it can make the room dusty. Spraying it lightly with water will help reduce the amount of dust.
Let's try it!
In your sand and water table, add water and some soap (small bars) as well as hand and foot brushes (you could use toy brushes used for brushing dolls hair). Add your baby dolls and towels.
The children wash the feet of the babies by dipping the brush in the water and then rubbing it on the bar of soap and then washing the babies.
Jesus Washes Feet Theme Science Activities--for your Preschool Scientists in Training!
Bath Bubbles
Materials needed: cleaned baby food jars (with labels off) and covers, spoons, clear shampoo, pitcher of water, foot stickers, ribbon, hole punch, small cards (cut from card stock or index cards), marker.
In advance, print "John 13:1-7 Jesus washes the Disciples feet" on the cards. Hole punch the card in a corner of the card. Make enough for each child to have one.
Have the children pour shampoo and water into the jars (equal amounts of each) and gently stir with the spoon. Rather than pour the amounts in, have them spoon amounts into the jar (great hand muscle/motor coordination activity)coarse salt, baking soda,epsom salts (adult handling only), food coloring and lightly scented perfume or body spray.
Cover jar. Have children lace a piece of ribbin through their hole-punched Scripture verse card.
Tie ribbon around the jar and send home.
New Soap!
Materials needed: many bars of different colored soap; bowls, cheese graters, warm water, metal forks or spoons
Help the children use the cheese graters to grate some soap, placing their grated soap into a bowl. (keep all the scrapings sorted by color)
Give each child a bowl and let them scoop some of the colors they want into their bowl.
The children add warm water to their bowl to moisten (not drown!) their shavings.
They use their hands to mix the shavings and water together to make almost a playdough consistency.
VARIATION: Use white soap to grate. Add warm water and a drop of food coloring. Let harden after mixed. Use as colored crayons!
Writing Activity Ideas for Your Jesus Washes Feet Theme!
Jesus Loves Me
Make cards or papers with the words Jesus Loves on them.
The children practice printing these words and printing their name at the end "Jesus Loves Joey".
VARIATION: Make cards that say Jesus Loves You! and deliver to a local nursing home, school staff or others!
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Part of cultivating a good life is remembering that no matter what, all will be well.
January just happens to be my birth month which is fortuitous since it's the traditional time to review what was and make plans for what is to be. I've come to very much enjoy taking a deep assessment of the hopes and intentions I have for the coming year. With that being said, I am typically someone who sees the glass as half full. What's more, I'm usually of the opinion the glass is never in any real danger of being empty because it can always be replenished. You might call it being an optimist or seeing the brighter side of life, but I like to refer to it by paraphrasing a line from the song "Below My Feet" by Mumford and Sons: all will be well.
The past few years though, that never-empty glass developed a pretty sizable crack. Most honest, I spent the end of 2015 and most of 2016 ensnared in a cycle of doubt, fear, and despair. The hits came early, with such relentless frequency, that I exhausted myself adding more water to the glass only to have it pour out again. Eventually I lost sight that it could even be refilled. I forgot that all will be well.
And so, as I begin my next revolution around the sun, I know I need to repair that crack. I have to find my way back to all will be well. I think it begins with doing more of the things that bring me joy and feed my soul: spending time with family and friends, reading, writing, traveling, learning new things, taking photos, and telling my stories. In time, all will be well once again. I just know it.
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Ward has been with Pratt & Whitney for 18 years, currently working as a staff engineer, weapon systems integration. Ward was deployed to Iraq in 2004 and 2009, each for 13 months. Throughout his military career Ward has gained many traits that have added to his success but the number one thing he believes in is always having a positive outlook."I believe in always having a positive outlook on life and at work because I've seen that there are worse places to be," said Ward. "However tough some days can be, you know that you are going to have a safe ride home where you don't have to worry about any firefights or looking for IEDs on the side of the road, so I smile every day and continue to keep that positive outlook on life."
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Customers Drive ICF Market
By Carole McMichael
Many contractors in the residential building industry are encountering clients who are asking for a concrete home. The power of "word of mouth" is undeniable: Many builders consider former customers, now happily living in concrete homes, their best marketing tool.
The first concrete house built by Joe Bailey's Polysteel of Austin is an excellent example of the power of word of mouth. The 3,500-square-foot house, costing about $150 per square foot, added about $15,000 to the upfront price in comparison to wood-frame construction, an increase of $67 a month in the mortgage payment. However, the owner is saving $100 a month on energy costs. And because he needed only one ton for every 1,000 square feet, the HVAC cost $4,500 less than it would have in a stick-built house. The upshot: The owner passes on that he is living in a better home and it is costing him less.
"The Austin market for ICFs is definitely on the rise," Bailey says. "One of the reasons is that we are hitting a lot of the shows and getting information to the homeowners, who are the primary beneficiaries of this technology. It appeals to the owners more than to the spec-home builders, because the builders don't know they have a sale until they have a contract. The market targets the custom-home customers and energy-conscious, educated consumers who go on the Internet."
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Joel B. Katz, president of Katz Builders Inc. in Austin, has been building and remodeling stick-frame houses for 20 years. Although he had seen concrete housing systems at builder shows, he was deterred by the price differential. Unless a customer asked for concrete, he wasn't going to take the chance – which, of course, is exactly what happened.
Because the homeowner's builder was comfortable with the Polysteel distributor, Katz soon met with Bailey to investigate the product. "We have a three-day, hands-on training program for builders and crews to become certified," says Bailey. (For more information about the program, visit masterbuilderhomes.com.)
For the first house, there is a learning curve," Katz says. "But like any project, the more of them you do, the more efficient your crew becomes, and the more comfortable with the system the trades are. So this brings the price down somewhat. All in all, [the first Polysteel experience] went very well."
Katz points to one specific area in which the concrete system was particularly useful and cost-effective: "From the architectural point of view, what I like about using the ICF is the thickness of the walls," he says. "A lot of the houses in this area are Old World-style, where you have 12-inch walls. In wood, that would require double framing; the ICF wall is thick to start with. I also like ICFs because they are sound-deadening and energy-efficient. It makes a strong wall."
Another place ICFs are more cost-effective than wood is below grade. "We can do the below-grade concrete walls cheaper than slab contractors can," Bailey says. "We have hundreds of walkouts done every year. The [slab contractors] use steel forms that have to be put up and torn down two weeks later. Then they have to waterproof. If you build that wall with our system, we are two to three dollars cheaper per wall surface area, and the electrical can be run right in the polystyrene, saving more time. The longest it has taken us so far is five days."
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The only subcontractor Katz had to find was for the Polysteel framing, and he turned to Bailey for help. At that point, Matt McCoy's South River Construction joined the team. Katz had worked with the other trades for years, and most of them had some experience with concrete block walls. Because they hadn't worked specifically in ICFs, however, he trained them in making attachments and doing the routing in foam with a chainsaw for the electrical. The only complaint he heard from the ICF crew was that in the bright summer sun, the white forms were blinding.
"None of the trades had a hiccup, and the house worked out well," Katz says, "but we had some challenges. One was that we were told the walls would be within 3/8-inch tolerance. Some weren't. A second challenge was that window openings needed to be bigger. Knowing what I know now, I would make openings at least 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch wider than called for so there is a little wiggle room.
"In the planning stage, we were on a restricted budget architecturally, so we had to find a plan that we could modify. The plan we found was for a house that had a stone veneer around it, so that made it easy to accommodate a 9 1/4-inch wall using Polysteel and stucco. With a typical plan, we would have had to add to the foundation.
"Once we modified the plan, we met with the key players: the stucco people, the electrician, the plumber, the HVAC guy, the sheet rocker, the trim carpenter and interior and shell framers. It is more cost-effective to have different framing subs. Originally, I wanted to go with just one. The Polysteel contractor was good to work with, and his crew was able to do the framing, but his price was more, so I got my own framer, who had done a concrete house prior to this and was familiar with some of the challenges we had. The reason for including all those subs in planning is that they have to interface with the Polysteel wall. If they know going in what is involved, they are in a better position to bid the job."
Building time
The total framing for the Polysteel project is 4,500 square feet, with an air-conditioned area of 3,372 square feet. It is a two-story home with stucco and some stone around the front entry and a portion of the three-car garage. It has a composition roof and vinyl windows. There are three bedrooms, a media room, an exercise room, a study and a storage room upstairs.
Erection began with a monolithic slab, pouring footings and slab together. The rebar comes out of the slab 24 inches on center vertically and is installed 32 inches on center horizontally. The Polysteel courses are stacked up to ceiling height – 10- and 11-foot ceilings on the main level and nine-foot ceilings upstairs. Using a pumper, the entire first floor is done in one pour. The stacking for this project took about two weeks. Katz noted that they ran behind a comparable conventionally framed house at this stage, but finished the house about a month ahead.
"We do the second wall right after we do the first wall," Katz says. "Typically, there is seven days before we do the second pour. It cures while the second wall is being stacked. Total building time was eight months.
"To attach the roof, we put in a wooden top plate on top of the blocks – a flat nailer. The rebar goes up through drill holes, using anchor bolts. The roof trusses are attached using special metal hangers. You have to be really careful because it is critical to get the proper height and position of these hangers."
Expanded foam insulation was installed wherever insulation was needed, including in between the rafters in the attic. This created a sealed attic, making it a conditioned area. This allowed the duct work to be installed in conditioned space, rather than in the grueling Texas heat. Between that and the ICF wall, the house required only one 3 1/2-ton HVAC unit; a wood-frame home of the same size would require at least two.
"The only unusual design feature in this house was the litter box that went through the wall," Katz says. "In the water heater closet, in the garage, adjacent to the utility room, they were able to block out a hole in the ICF wall to build a space for a litter box."
Floors of choice
"All the floors were stained and scored concrete," Katz says. "To install concrete floors, you pour the slab, and wait about seven days. When you come back, you score it, depending on the pattern. We have what I call the 'concrete policemen.' During the erection process, you don't want the crew to mark the slab or drop screws, etc., but you also don't want to cover it at this stage because there would be too much moisture building up. So you keep it uncovered and try to keep it clean. We have done it for so many years that we are comfortable with it.
"You have to score the foundation before you frame. The framer has to come in to layout the walls. After he snaps lines, the flooring people will come in and do their pattern with a handsaw with a special blade, and put the grooves in the concrete. I don't like to score concrete when it is hot, because it sets up a lot faster and has a tendency to shrink.
"We use a penetrating stain – a two-step process. Different concrete mixes absorb the color differently, so we don't use retarders in our mix because it affects the stain. The weather here usually doesn't get cold enough to affect the staining. It is put in right before the sheetrock, and then we cover the floor until the last weeks of doing the house. For that, we lay down a thermoply – 3/8-inch sheathing – but not all the way up to the studs. You don't want it under the sheetrock. It is lined with paper and lapped under the stud. When the sheetrock is installed, all we have to do is cut the paper, and keep our fingers crossed that when we pull it off, there is no serious damage. Concrete flooring is very energy-efficient and probably the most cost-effective hard surface, and it adds a lot of character to the floor."
Looking ahead
Will Katz be doing more ICF homes? "Yes," he says "you always need to add to your portfolio. The more things you can do, the more products you have to market. I imagine [the future ICF market ] is going to be good. It goes back to making people aware of the product. Innovation in home building needs to be consumer-driven. If someone comes to me to do it, no problem. It is duck soup."


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The importance of the informal economy in Africa
This article first appeared in my weekly column with the Business Daily on February 28, 2016
It is well known that in Africa there exist two types of economies: the formal and the informal. Often the general assumption is that the formal economy is the more important of the two, and often it is the formal sector which gains attention in terms of policy formulation, development strategies and funding inputs. However there exists a sizeable informal economy on which millions of Africans depend and which employs millions of Africans. In fact informal employment comprises 66 percent of non-agricultural employment in Sub-Saharan Africa (82 per cent in Mali and 76 per cent in Tanzania). The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) which uses slightly different delineations estimates that nine out of ten rural and urban workers are informally employed.
(source: http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/informal-economy.jpeg)
The global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) delineates two types of informal employment. The first is informal employment inside the informal sector made up of all employment in informal enterprises including employers, employees, own account workers, contributing family workers and members of co-operatives.
The second, as per WIEGO's delineations, is informal employment outside the informal sector which includes employees in formal enterprise not covered by social protection, employees in households (e.g. domestic workers) without social protection; and contributing family workers in formal enterprises. In Africa informal employment is a greater source of non-agricultural employment for women than for men: 74 per cent for women and 61 per cent for men in SSA. The percentages of women engaged in own account employment are higher than of men and trade is the most important branch of economic activity, accounting for 43 percent of SSA's non-agricultural informal employment. The AfDB estimates that the informal sector contributes about 55 per cent of Sub-Saharan Africa's GDP.
(source: http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B74Zm7sCMAAfKXD.jpg)
Analysts make the point that contrary to most assumptions, informal workers do not operate outside the state, informal workers interact with the state regularly. However the truth of the matter is that most informal workers are poor and most of the working poor are informally employed. Indeed AfDB makes the point that most informal workers are without secure income, employments benefits and social protection. Further, those informally employed tend to have lower education and rates of literacy and tend to work longer than those formally employed. Further, according to the ILO, wages are on average 44 percent lower in the informal sector. This explains why informality often overlaps with poverty. This factor is important to consider as the UNECA asserts that 93 percent of new jobs created in Africa during the 1990s were in the informal sector.
As it stands, most African governments have yet to design strategies to formalise the informal economy and design strategies to make the sector more productive in a poverty alleviating manner. Issues such as taxation and regulation currently act as disincentives for formalisation. Informal businesses are reluctant to be pulled into the tax net and complicated compliance requirements thereof. Further the long, complicated and often bureaucratic requirements for registration as well as licensing and inspection requirements are also barriers faced by the informal sector. Further, the informal sector struggles with raising capital to finance activities, are often unable to fully access or leverage technology and innovation and typically suffer poor infrastructure.
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Anzetse Were is a development economist; firstname.lastname@example.com
The problem with the supplementary budget
This article first appeared in my weekly column with the Business Daily on February 22, 2016
Earlier this month the government drafted a supplementary budget that indicated changes in budget allocations. The general direction of the change was in cutting expenditure significantly. Development expenditure will be cut by over KES 70 billion, recurrent expenditure by KES 23 billion, local borrowing by KES 53.2 billion and tax revenue by almost KES 47 billion. If you look at the structure of the supplementary budget there is one obvious and glaring problem. It is development expenditure that has been most aggressively reduced; by over three times the cut to recurrent expenditure. Treasury's argument is that as of December 2015 ministries had not spent KES 139.2 billion earmarked for development projects, therefore the cut is justified.
(source: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/image/view/-/3059718/medRes/1245956/-/maxw/600/-/iflpelz/-/THUGGE.jpg)
There are two core concerns: firstly with regards to government financing, it is the development docket of expenditure that can be most effectively leveraged to bolster economic growth and, of course, development. Therefore, cutting development expenditure so aggressively means that many potentially economically productive and pro-development projects that had been planned will not be financed. Government is essentially mutilating the ability of its financing to reap development dividends. If government is trying to signal that it is trying to go down the path of austerity, then the strategy is misinformed. What type of austerity so obviously favours recurrent expenditure which finances hefty salaries, benefits, foreign tips at the cost of development financing? What type of austerity is this? One assumes that austerity financing structures look at the items least needed and cuts those first. In such aggressive cutting of development spending is government stating that such financing is not necessary? The prudence of such a move is questionable as it will likely have a negative knock on effect on economic growth because the bulk of the budget will now be financing the recurrent docket which even government admits is non-productive.
Secondly, the fact that KES 139.2 billion of development financing has not been absorbed signals the presence of a serious problem. The response should not be to cut financing but to address the issue. Treasury itself acknowledges the fact that development funds have been left idle reflects an absorption issue and that ministries etc. have not been able to spend as much as anticipated.
I have long stated that Kenya has an absorptive capacity issue because year after year the story is the same; development funds are not used. Although Treasury asserts that mechanisms have been put in place to improve the absorption level; more detail is required here. The core questions Treasury should be asking are: why aren't development funds being absorbed? What of those factors are due to weaknesses within government and the bureaucracy of releasing funds for example? What factors are due to issues at Ministry or County level? Even my limited experience with county governments has made clear glaring weaknesses with regards to absorptive capacity. Firstly, planning capacity at county level is weak and perhaps this is a reflection of the fact that county governments are still in their infancy, appropriate human capital has not been identified and organisational structures and processes are not robust. But the lack of planning capacity means that either counties cannot effectively identify their needs, or if they can, are unable to develop coherent, pragmatic plans to address development issues. What do counties need to do to identify their development gaps, what technical skillsets are required to address those gaps, and how will those skills sets be identified and utilised so that development goals are realised?
(source: https://technopreneurship.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/absorptive-capacity.gif)
The bottom line is that the government cannot respond to poor absorptive capacity by slashing development budgets. Instead, government should create a unit to investigate this issue by going to Ministries, Departments and even County governments to identify bottlenecks and from there create a strategy to improve absorptive capacity.
Anzetse Were is a development economist; email@example.com
The implications of the digital revolution for Africa
This article first appeared in my weekly column with the Business Daily on February 14, 2016
Last week the World Bank released their World Development Report (WDR) that focused on the digital revolution and how it has allowed some to reap digital dividends. These dividends are growth for businesses, job creation for people and better service delivery by government. Further digital technologies have supported development by promoting innovation, efficiency and inclusion.
(source: http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/photos/780×439/2016/feb/ca-wdr-2016-780.jpg)
However, the report argues that there is a growing digital divide as 60 percent of the world's population is still offline and 2 billion people do not own a mobile phone. In addition the spread of digital technologies have spread unevenly; men are more likely to be connected than women, those in urban areas are more connected than rural areas and the young are more integrated than the old. In short, young males in urban areas are far better poised to reap digital dividends than old women in rural areas. Further, as digital technologies have spread, there are new risks that mitigate the spread of the benefits. These new risks include the fact that digital technologies are used by autocratic governments to control access to information in a manner deepens control rather than empowerment and inclusion. Digital technologies also create new regulatory uncertainties as new apps and tools are created that cross sectors. For example, should Uber, which is active in Kenya, be regulated as a transport service or as an ICT tool? Further, if the business environment is not open and competitive, digital technologies can create a concentration of market power and monopolies.
The report speaks of analogue components that have to be focused on as the digital revolution continues to unfold to ensure dividends rather than detriments preponderate. These are rules and regulations that promote competition and entry, skills that allow populations to leverage technology rather than be replaced by it, and institutions that are accountable to citizens.
Given this background, there key questions to be asked. The first is that jobs are being automated into extinction and this has two-fold negative implications for countries such as Kenya. The first is Kenya has a serious problem with unemployment, thus automation may exacerbate the unemployment problem. It must be asked whether the jobs created by digital technologies will grow at a rate faster than the job attrition it causes. Secondly, the types of jobs being replaced are low skilled jobs often occupied by the least educated members of society. If such people are to lose their jobs due to digital technologies, their future looks grim as they typically will not have the skills sets required for 'white collar' jobs less threatened by digital technologies. The low skilled segment of the population may find themselves competing for fewer jobs without the opportunity to re-skill and take on new roles.
Further, will the rise of digital technologies cause agrarian economies such as Kenya to by-pass industry all together? Advanced economies benefitted from the Industrial Revolution which employed millions of people and created the robust foundation of manufacturing and the export of goods. Africa has been undergoing premature deindustrialisation due to globalisation and trade which have hollowed out industry on the continent as other countries supply finished goods for African consumers. The uptake of digital technologies may exacerbate this as human labour cannot compete with cheaper technologies in terms of cost and efficiency. In fact some western companies have brought production back to automated factories by-passing the need to hunt for cheap labour. Will digital technologies therefore exacerbate the premature industrialisation Africa is already experiencing? The Financial Times surmises that in the absence of industrialisation as a path towards economic development, the best hope for developing and emerging economies is to train workers that are more highly skilled. Is this feasible in Kenya and Africa?
(source: https://centerforfinancialinclusionblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/samasource-3.jpg)
Therefore, although there are great benefits to be reaped by the digital revolution, new risks have to be managed. Momentum for the digital revolution is substantial. Therefore, governments ought to create policies that ensure an equitable spread of digital dividends, effort should be made to ensure all levels of private sector reap the benefits, and finally Kenya needs to rethink its education system to ensure labour is being skilled in a manner that functions effectively in the context of a digital economy.
Anzetse Were is a development economist; firstname.lastname@example.com
The potential abyss of county government borrowing in Kenya
This article first appeared in the Business Daily on February 7, 2016
The National Treasury has expressed concern over counties borrowing money domestically without permission from national government. In the 2014/15 Financial Year four counties borrowed a total of Sh1.9 billion, with Nairobi being the biggest borrower at Sh300 million. Technically, counties are only allowed to borrow from the domestic market to fund capital projects with high economic growth potential in line with the Public Finance Management Act. As a result, Treasury has instructed all bank and non-bank financial institutions to stop lending to counties and start recovery of un-guaranteed loans.
Counties however argue that they are being forced to borrow because government routinely fails to send money in on time to meet their financial obligations. In fact a county official with whom I talked to about this issue said that if government released funds on time, counties would have no need to seek commercial loans to finance their activities. The official further added that the process of government releasing county funds to county accounts is long, cumbersome and bureaucratic and thus counties always find themselves with pending payments they cannot meet thus pushing them to seek loans to meet their obligations. The Treasury argues that there is no need for counties to seek credit because counties have been leaving billions of shillings idle in their reserve fund accounts at the Central Bank of Kenya. The county official asserted that this is not the whole story; for example some counties have activities that need to funded such as arrears in bills left by previous county governments that need to be settled urgently, yet the procedures for applying for funds are so long and laborious that they have to borrow to meet short term costs. However, the real issue here is not the bickering between central and county government, the issue is uncovering the implications for the country in counties racking up debt in an unchecked manner.
(source: http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/Documents/farmdebtjpg.jpg)
Firstly, a real concern is that the rates at which counties are getting access to credit and whether these are sustainable and realistically serviceable. Indeed, if left unchecked county debt could create a scenario where money is siphoned away from required expenditure to meet debt obligations.
Linked to the point above, borrowing by counties does not seem to be informed by the ability of counties to generate independent revenue to not only finance local activities, but debt obligations as well. County revenue generation at county level in Kenya is anemic; in the financial year 2013/2014 county generated revenue accounted for a mere 25 percent of their budgets. Further, counties have been lazy in gunning for the tax option to raise revenue and the resistance they face on this means it may take time for counties to raise significant revenue locally. Yet counties have already started borrowing in a manner not necessarily informed by their revenue generation capacity. Thus, a scenario could unfold where counties have to seek bail outs from central government to meet their debt obligations.
Thirdly, the potential escalation of county government debt in the regions with little transparency is particularly problematic. Until county governments demonstrate a commitment to transparency and anti-corruption, county level indebtedness may not lead to development or economic growth. As a result county governments may find themselves servicing what has been essentially dead debt.
(source: http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/image/view/-/1722304/medRes/477466/-/maxw/600/-/41bid7/-/county.jpg)
Finally, county government debt accumulation may mean that the government as a whole becomes increasingly leveraged, the extent of which is uncertain. It is crucial that central government keeps track of total government debt divided between central and county governments. A threshold level of debt accrued by county governments has to be determined so that any county level borrowing does not cross an upper limit that could over leverage the country.
Anzetse Were is a development economist; firstname.lastname@example.com
The effect of politics on the economy
This article first appeared in my weekly column with the Business Daily on January 31, 2016
Politics in Kenya has a ripple effect on the economy. Due the post-election violence that followed 2007 election, the country's GDP growth fell from a high of 7 per cent to a low of 3 percent. Earnings from tourism halved and according to The Economist, post-election violence led to financial losses in economy of approximately £145 million, around 1% of Kenya's GDP. Further, studies estimate the post-election violence had long term effects and over the period 2007-2011 per capita GDP was reduced by an average of 86 USD per year, which is massive considering Kenya's per capita averaged about $980 over that period. Another study suggests that in 2009, per capita GDP in the Kenya was estimated to be about 6 percent lower than if the instability had not happened in the first place.
(source: https://nothingbutmyemotions.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/kenya-pev.jpg)
The World Bank is of the view that political risks to economic growth are ranked equally to growth risks posed by shocks in the global economy such as the debt crisis in the European markets. So what happens in Kenya's political arena has economic consequences. And the effects are not only related to GDP growth, other economic effects result from politics. The Eurobond debacle that started last year where government was accused of the mismanagement of the proceeds from the Eurobond is bound to make financing for the government more expensive. Yes there are other factors at work such as the recovery of the US economy which will make financing more expensive in general, but it would naïve to assume that the politicization of the Eurobond issue has not negatively affected perceptions of the credit worthiness of the government.
When one has a young economy juxtaposed with a young democracy, there are bound to have a relationship where activity in one affects the other. More mature economies tend to be more resilient to political instability and if politics does have effect it will tend to be more closely associated with changes in policy of economic import. In fact an analyst interviewed on Bloomberg stated that in the USA, the impact of politics on the economy, except when people really mess up, is overrated. This is partly due to the fact, that as studies have shown, economic institutions such as property rights, regulatory institutions, institutions for macroeconomic stabilization, institutions for social insurance, institutions for conflict management are more mature in older economies and these are major sources of economic growth across countries. A young economy has less mature economic institutions with practitioners still figuring out what institutions, regulations, rules, practices and standards can best bolster growth.
(source: http://www.dolfinwise.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Volatility-in-financial-markets-450×300.jpg)
In terms of democracy and politics, more mature democracies have a longer tradition of arbitration between political parties; they also tend to be defined by ideology which makes economic policy expectations more predictable. Compare this with Kenya which has a culture of personality and tribe driven politics where there is no clear idea of the economic ideology of political parties until that party comes into power. In addition, in Kenya it has often been informally observed that the tribes that constitute a certain political administration may have members that engage in opportunistic behaviour that favour their tribes while ostracizing others; there is bound to be economic fallout from such habits.
The effect on politics on economics is not unique to Kenya however; a study by the Brookings Institution found that political institutions matter greatly for incipient or young democracies, not for consolidated or mature democracies. Why? Well mature democracies have already internalized the effect of political institutions whereas new democracies need the felt presence of political institutions as part of the democratic experience. As a consequence, the impact of politics on economic performance is more visible. With this in mind, it is important that both government and opposition appreciate the import of their role and influence over the economic trajectory of the country.
Anzetse Were is a development economist; email@example.com


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We also offer private sessions. All of our personal training packages include customized meal plans and accountability forms, exclusive cardio express dvd and cardio accountability forms, exclusive Healthy Body Blueprint book, fitness assessments, training sessions, and e-mail and phone support.
Tonya has developed a method of training called "The Energize Method" that gets results for her clients quickly and safely.
An overview of some of our programs include the following: Weight Loss, Toning / Muscle Definition, basic and sport-specific flexibility, basic nutrition, sport-specific training (such as triathlon training), boxing, balance, core strength, rehabilitation type programs with people that have previous injuries (we have many of these types of clients) and home or travel exercise programs.
Clients are asked to arrive five or ten minutes before each session starts to warm-up and stretch. Sessions are either 30 minutes or one hour depending on type of program purchased and the client's goals. Session may consist of weight training, core strength development, cardio training, flexibility, etc.
One to four times per week. Clients that only see a trainer once a week are strongly encouraged to workout on their own at least one other day each week. The most common trainer visits are two per week.
There are plenty of athletes that complete entire marathons without the use of their legs or in a wheelchair. The point is, that if there is a will, there is a way! Our trainers are qualified and well versed in how to work around bad joints. There are many alternative exercises as well as joint strengthening programs to help tone and condition the affected areas.
Weight loss & Lean Body= at least 4 days of sprint training lasting 10 to 28 minutes. we call it cardio express and include an exclusive DVD that explains how this method works and give you the workout plan to utilize this method that gets RESULTS!
"Core" strength refers to the core muscles that make up your midsection consisting mainly of the abdominal muscles and the lower back. Having a strong core helps in daily activities such as lifting, walking up stairs, maintaining good posture, etc.
48 to 72 hours. However, you can work upper body (chest, back, biceps, shoulders, triceps) on Monday for example, and work lower body (quadriceps, hamstrings, gluteus maximus, calves) on Tuesday. Space your workouts evenly for best results and recovery between sessions.
Abs should have at least one day before working them again. "Flat abs start in the kitchen. "
Some soreness is normal. Most people have next day or second day soreness. This is referred to as delayed onset of muscle soreness (DOMS). This is because lactic acid has accumulated in the muscles and leaving some biproduct toxins with it. Cardiovascular exercise will help flush some of the lactic acid through your body. Drinking water and getting plenty of sleep help as well.
This depends on your schedule. Morning is the best time for individuals trying to lose weight. It gets your metabolism going and keeps you from procrastinating.
Here's the easiest and quickest answer.
(the numbers below are for people trying to lose weight):
Men: between 1400 and 1700 calories
Women: between 1300 and 1500 calories
Try to spread calories evenly throughout the day consuming 5 small meals/snacks every day.
Example: 1300 calories
Breakfast= 450
Snack (or first lunch)= 150
Lunch (or second lunch)= 250
Snack= 100
Dinner= 350
FACT: One pound of fat= 3,500 calories.
Consume between 70 and 90 grams everyday.
Example (one egg is 4 grams, 4 ounces of chicken is 25 grams)
For men the average is 16-20%
For women the average is 19-23%
Each year past the age of 25 we lose 1/2% of muscle. For this reason we are allowed more body fat as we age. We have charts that place each individual in an age group and give more specific and healthy ranges.
Divide your body weight in half. This is how many ounces of water you need every day. Add 4 ounces of water for every 15 minutes of exercise. The best water to consume is reverse osmosis (distilled) water. Pick good water quality to hydrate your body.
One to two pounds per week is healthy. Loosing more than that can result in loss of muscle mass.
Yes, if you want to accurately see what your daily/weekly food portions and habits are. Time of day, portion and where you eat are good things to write down. You can then pinpoint problem areas and make necessary changes. You might discover that every time you are in the kitchen you tend to eat without even knowing it. Also, if you are having to write in your food journal that late night binge you are much less likely to continue doing it.
Every 3 to 6 months depending on what you use them for. Shoes often where out internally before the soles where out. if you are waiting for the soles to where out, then you are way past due for new shoes. We suggest going to a running specialty store for getting fitted properly.
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…for EVERYONE that helped over these past few months. Without you Bill wouldn't have made it to the start line! Hopefully everyone is ready for BC2DAKAR 2013 😉
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Podcast #7: A Bad Man Goes To War
Another episode? So soon?
YES! E3's over for another year, but there has certainly been a few big reveals for gamers in the past week. The biggest of which was the unveiling of A virtual Disneyland game on Kinect… No, I'm kidding.
But seriously though: The Wii-U.
The new Nintendo game-changer is put under the microscope and given a good going over by the guys, to judge whether we think it'll be, well, ANY GOOD! The choice of name, the dinner plate they call a controller, and the stupidity of Nintendo are all discussed.
After the verbal assault on Nintendo, we move on to talk about Microsoft's conference, and how almost EVERY game they demoed or announced was for the Kinect. Some looking quite good, some just downright laughable (See: Disneyland game), the conference was hit and miss. We babble on about how much we love Halo games, after the announcement of both Halo 4 and Halo: CE Anniversary Edition. Sony's next generation portable,
the PSVita, gets a look in as well.
This extra long podcast is rounded off nicely by taking a trip down memory lane, mentioning the great games of yester-year, with special attention to the games of Rare. So listen in, folks! I'm sure there's something for everyone in this 'cast (Unless you're a Nintendo Fanboy), and be sure to tune in next time, which might be sooner than you think!
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A while back while on a prior version of cPanel I enabled a setting so that whenever a cron job ran on my Linux shared hosting I would receive an email with the execution output of the cron.
I have quite a few crons running now and my email is being flooded by these cron details.
How / where do I go to switch this off (or on)?
Thanks. I'd like to switch these on when I debug code, and off once things are running smoothly.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @rihallix. Thanks for being part of GoDaddy Community! The easiest thing to do (IMO) is to just remove your email address when you no longer want to receive cron emails. To do this, just go to the cron jobs page and click Update Email without entering an email address. You may see a pop-up message saying "Are you certain that you do NOT wish to receive emails when a cron job runs?" Click OK for that and it should remove your address. Hope that helps.
Thank you. That solved my problem


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2009 Vérité Winery, La Muse, Sonoma County, California
Red | Ready, but will improve | Verite Winery | Code: 16118 | 2009 | USA > California > Sonoma County | Cab.Sauvignon Blend | Full Bodied, Dry | 14.5 % alcohol
The Wine Advocate - The 2009 La Muse is a rich, sumptuous wine bursting with dark plums, black, cherries, graphite, espresso, spices and licorice. It shows gorgeous balance from start to finish. Persistent veins of minerality frame the long, beautifully articulate, creamy finish. This is a deceptively accessible wine today, but there is so much underlying power and sheer structure that I will not be surprised if it shuts down in the bottle. The 2009 is 86% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc and 5% Malbec.
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The Wine Advocate - The 2009 La Muse is a rich, sumptuous wine bursting with dark plums, black, cherries, graphite, espresso, spices and licorice. It shows gorgeous balance from start to finish. Persistent veins of minerality frame the long, beautifully articulate, creamy finish. This is a deceptively accessible wine today, but there is so much underlying power and sheer structure that I will not be surprised if it shuts down in the bottle. The 2009 is 86% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc and 5% Malbec.
Wine Advocate Feb 2012 - Antonio Galloni
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The Vérité estate is a vision created by the late Jess Jackson, a man who in Robert Parker's eyes "was one of the most extraordinary men in the wine world I have ever met." These wines always rate very highly (indeed, since 1998 seven have been awarded 100 Parker points) and the 2010 vintage is gaining great praise from the press and critics alike as a potential emergence of a new iconic wine from the United States.
The wines of Vérité, French for "truth," are the result of a combination of old world experience and new world fruit. The wine is a distinct blend of varietals harvested from small vineyard blocks, each cuvée culminating in a bespoke union of grape varieties, climate, soil expression and winemaking technique. Vigneron Pierre Seillan refers to this methodology as droit du sol: "right of the soil."
"The wines are elegant and complex, possessing superb concentration of flavor and color. These are wines meant to age over the next thirty years and will develop greater depth and character in your cellar." Pierre Seillan, winemaker
Other wines by this producer:
The Grape
Cabernet Sauvignon lends itself particularly well in blends with Merlot. This is actually the archetypal Bordeaux blend, though in different proportions in the sub-regions and sometimes topped up with Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.
In the Médoc and Graves the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend can range from 95% (Mouton-Rothschild) to as low as 40%. It is particularly suited to the dry, warm, free- draining, gravel-rich soils and is responsible for the redolent cassis characteristics as well as the depth of colour, tannic structure and pronounced acidity of Médoc wines. However 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wines can be slightly hollow-tasting in the middle palate and Merlot with its generous, fleshy fruit flavours acts as a perfect foil by filling in this cavity.
In St-Emilion and Pomerol, the blends are Merlot dominated as Cabernet Sauvignon can struggle to ripen there - when it is included, it adds structure and body to the wine. Sassicaia is the most famous Bordeaux blend in Italy and has spawned many imitations, whereby the blend is now firmly established in the New World and particularly in California and Australia.
The Region
North Coast's Sonoma County is California's largest AVA with 19,800 ha (2005) of vines. It has forever been the home of the meek and mild small grower as compared to the grandeur and might of neighbour Napa; more picturesque too, as much of the sandy, gravely loam land belonged to true orchards and fruit farms until the 1970s.
Sonoma Valley covers a small part of Sonoma County but its wines often outshine its illustrious neighbours in Napa County. Zinfandel, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Cabernet Sauvignon are cultivated here with much success. Sonoma Valley has long enjoyed a special place in the history of California wine. The first vineyards in the valley were planted by Franciscan monks in 1823. In 1857 Agoston Haraszthy, one of the founding fathers of California's commercial winemaking, opened here the highly successful Buena Vista Winery.
Closer to the coast are the region's top producing AVAs for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay: Russian River, Sonoma Coast and Green Valley, while the slightly warmer Dry Creek and Alexander Valleys have earned a reputation as a hotspot for Cabernet, and increasingly, Zinfandel and Merlot.
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Oasis has finally released all of the details on their upcoming sixth studio album. Earlier this month the Manchester quartet announced that the effort has been titled "Don't Believe The Truth" and will hit North American shelves on May 31st. This week the band proceeded to fill-in fans on the official track-listing of the record, which will feature 11 new songs.
The first single lifted from the record will be a track called "Lyla", which Noel Gallagher has described as "the Soundtrack of our Lives doing The Who on Skol in a psychedelic city in the sky (or something!)". Crazy.
The track-list of "Don't Believe The Truth" is:
"Turn up the Sun"
"Mucky Fingers"
"Love Like a Bomb"
"The Importance of Being Idle"
"The Meaning of Soul"
"Guess God Thinks I'm Abel"
"Part of the Queue"
"Keep the Dream Alive"
"A Bell Will Ring"
"Let There Be Love"
At the stage where they can put white noise to a record and people will still buy it, Oasis are promising something more on "Don't Believe The Truth". In January Noel told NME: "The finished album is my favourite one of the last four." All four members of Oasis shared song writing duties on the album, which is the follow-up to 2002's "Heathen Chemistry".
Oasis will tour the globe in support of their new record, even making their way to Canada. Unfortunately their June 17th date in Toronto is already sold out, but if anyone has loads of money lying around you could certainly use it to fly to Europe to see Oasis play one of the many festivals there; they're already confirmed for Germany's Hurricane and Southside Festivals, and Italy's Heineken Jammin' Festival.
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It starts! January 20, the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inauguration, passed with little comment, so far as I could judge. Then the public-sector unions of Wisconsin began demonstrating against Governor Walker's bill to cut back their collective-bargaining powers. Propagandists for the unions were keen to remind us that it was John F. Kennedy who granted full union rights to federal employees in 1962. (Some states and municipalities had jumped the gun.) Who but villains could oppose the spirit of an Executive Order signed by the martyred monarch of Camelot?
The semicentennial anniversary of the martyrdom itself is still two and a half years away, but we may as well brace ourselves for the commemorations. After that we shall no doubt be invited to relive the rest of the 1960s: the assassinations and riots; hippies and Yippies; teach-ins, sit-ins, and love-ins; black power, gay rights, and women's lib; and of course the war. Historian Richard Hofstadter described the 1960s (which he just barely outlived: he died in 1970) as the "age of rubbish." Rubbish it may have been, but I fear it was rubbish of the recyclable sort.
Centenaries, semicentenaries, sesquicentenaries, and the like are of course artificial events, with their origins in the biological accident of Homo sap. having ten fingers. If we'd had twelve, this year would be the "centenary" of Seward's acquiring Alaska 144 years ago. If we had stuck with the old Babylonian sexagesimal system we should now be in a.d. 33°31′, the "semicentenary" of the horrid Caracalla becoming Roman emperor . . . and so on. Artificial or not, though, a forward-looking nation with not much history to be conscious of will naturally lean on any mnemonic device that comes to hand, so here we are embarking on a commemoration of the Sixties.
And the Sixties began with JFK. I have been refreshing my own memory by reading James Piereson's fine book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism. That subtitle is surely correct: Piereson shows clearly how postwar American liberalism — bourgeois, managerial, meliorist — curdled into something far more radical and malign during the "age of rubbish." He gleefully points out most of the paradoxes arising therefrom: how the tax-cutting, proactively anti-Communist, civil-rights-shy JFK, who could have worn the neocon label very comfortably if born 20 years later, became transformed into a liberal icon; and how "many of those young people who filed in shocked grief past the president's coffin in 1963 would just a few years later embrace as political activists the very doctrines that drove Oswald to assassinate him."
(The similar posthumous reworking of Bobby Kennedy was even more audacious. It seems now to have been forgotten that this other liberal Kennedy martyr, who recently had a New York City bridge named after him, worked as counsel to Joe McCarthy's investigative committee, and was honored to accept McCarthy as godfather to his first child.)
#page#Until reading Piereson's book I had not realized how quickly the Camelot notion took hold, nor how instrumental Mrs. Kennedy was in promoting it. It was absurd, of course. The historical Arthur, supposing he even existed, was so little known to those who mythologized him centuries later that they could do their image-building with a clear conscience. JFK was sufficiently well known, even at the time of the assassination, that it is a wonder the idolization could "take." Victor Lasky's unflattering portrait J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth was still on the bestseller lists when JFK flew to Dallas. (It was pulled by the publisher thereafter.)
We need myths and heroes, though, no less than our ancestors did. It is not actually King Arthur I have been thinking of in the JFK context, but Agamemnon. This followed from my taking Piereson's book with me to read on the train into Manhattan one evening, an hour each way from the Straggler mansion. I was making the trip to see the Metropolitan Opera's production of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, with Plácido Domingo as Orestes. Agamemnon makes a brief non-singing appearance.
Riding the train home, my imagination somewhat unleashed by wine from the Met Guild lounge at the intermission, I wondered how the historical Agamemnon — there quite likely was one: Hittite inscriptions contain suggestive mentions — would appear to me if I could encounter him. As an unwashed savage, probably: a boor who scratched himself in public, ate with his fingers, peed in odd corners of the palace rooms, helped himself to slave girls, and took it for granted his gods would demand the occasional human sacrifice. Yet he glitters down majestically through the millennia — Homer, Euripides, Shakespeare, Yeats — to the stage of the Met, a flawed hero toiling to his doom through the tangles of divine and human justice.
(Customer shows torn pair of pants to Greek tailor. Tailor: "Euripides?" Customer: "Yes. Eumenides?" . . . Sorry, sorry.)
I doubt one could make that much of JFK. The doomed-family motif is mildly suggestive, but the misfortunes of Agamemnon and his kin were caused by the gross misbehavior of their forebears. (Come to think of it, surveying the character and business career of Joseph Kennedy Sr., the parallel is not completely absurd.) Nor does the JFK myth look good for a 3,300-year run. Indeed, to judge by the lackluster observations of January 20, its power may already be fading even among liberals.
Well, well: so much to look forward to as the echoes of the Sixties ripple out from our magazines and TV screens. Nor was the decade ours alone. Many things changed mightily beyond our shores: the Six-Day War, China's Cultural Revolution, men in space. Other things failed to change, most tragically the Prague Spring. They were interesting times, more than usually so.
But come, Mr. Straggler: why this obsessing over anniversaries and such — mere figments of numerological accident, as you yourself admit? It wouldn't, would it, be anything to do with this being the 100th column here under your byline?
Perish the thought! A straggler, by definition, could never be so vainglorious. Coincidence, pure coincidence, I assure you.