7th Annual Gospel Extravaganza coming to Clarendon County in March 2020.
Put this date on your calendar for this benefit to be held at Weldon Auditorium in Manning, SC.
22.12.19
SAVE THE DATE: Gospel Extravaganza coming to Clarendon County
Put this date on your calendar for this benefit to be held at Weldon Auditorium in Manning, SC.
Looking For A Job Near Summerton, S.C. in 2020/21
Jobs 2020/21: Historic Summerton is
a small town in rural South Carolina that has become known as a
wonderful place to vacation, raise a family, run a business - or retire
to, when all is said and done. The deep spiritual commitment and sound
family values of its people are reflected in the many churches and
close-knit residential communities in Summerton and the surrounding area
on the shores of beautiful Lake Marion.
Are you looking for a job in Summerton, S.C., or the surrounding area? Unemployment has now dropped below 5%, but there are still quite a few jobs available nearby in Manning, Santee, Sumter, Orangeburg, etc. Check out the following links:
Summerton and the surrounding Santee Cooper Lake Country are well known across the South for offering a wide range of outdoor recreational activities like camping, hunting, fishing, hiking, kayaking, boating, and golfing to its many visitors. So, make sure you visit the Summerton SC: Nature & Outdoor Recreation web site.
Are you looking for a job in Summerton, S.C., or the surrounding area? Unemployment has now dropped below 5%, but there are still quite a few jobs available nearby in Manning, Santee, Sumter, Orangeburg, etc. Check out the following links:
- Hospital Jobs
- Indeed.Com
- Monster.Com
- USA Government Jobs
- SC State Government Jobs
- SC Works Online
- CareerBuilder
Summerton and the surrounding Santee Cooper Lake Country are well known across the South for offering a wide range of outdoor recreational activities like camping, hunting, fishing, hiking, kayaking, boating, and golfing to its many visitors. So, make sure you visit the Summerton SC: Nature & Outdoor Recreation web site.
16.12.19
Lake Marion Artisans Visit Florence County Art Museums
The latest educational field trip by the members of the Lake Marion Artisans in Summerton was to the Florence County Art Galleries and Museums. They were all impressed by what they saw. Florence County has truly made a significant public/private commitment to supporting the arts for the good of the community and local business.
Visit the following web sites to learn more about the art community and organizations in neighboring Florence County:
* If you are interested in the arts and would like to go on one of our monthly field trips, visit the Lake Marion Artisans Education & Training page on our web site.
Visit the following web sites to learn more about the art community and organizations in neighboring Florence County:
- Florence County Museum
- Francis Marion University Place Gallery
- Florence Regional Arts Alliance & Gallery
- SC Watermedia Society
* If you are interested in the arts and would like to go on one of our monthly field trips, visit the Lake Marion Artisans Education & Training page on our web site.
Summerton Primary Care Clinic Closing
Unfortunately, the Summerton Primary Care clinic run by Nurse Practitioner Dale Barwick is closing down as of December 20, 2019. The clinic has struggled to survive and turn a profit over the past three years, but finally lost the battle. This leaves the town without a healthcare clinic once again.
If you would like to continue to be cared by Dale Barwick, she will begin seeing patients in Sumter as of January 20,2020. She is joining Colonial Healthcare which has offices in Sumter and Manning. Call 803-773-5227 if you would like to receive care at one of the Colonial Healthcare facilities.
A letter providing more detail has been sent out to all Summerton Primary Care patients.
If you would like to continue to be cared by Dale Barwick, she will begin seeing patients in Sumter as of January 20,2020. She is joining Colonial Healthcare which has offices in Sumter and Manning. Call 803-773-5227 if you would like to receive care at one of the Colonial Healthcare facilities.
A letter providing more detail has been sent out to all Summerton Primary Care patients.
10.12.19
Musing About Personal Transportation Systems Over Time
I am so glad I don’t live back in the 1800’s. Imagine catching
and harnessing the horses to pull the wagon in order to drive for
hours or days to the nearest city or large town to pick up needed
supplies.
With all that said, I was driving from the rural Town of Summerton, where I live today, to the big city of Florence the other day in my 2015 auto on the 4 lane I-95 Interstate Highway and started thinking about what my grandkids are going to be saying 40-50 years from now. Think about it.
I can just hear my grandkids in 2050 talking about how we used to actually drive our own gasoline powered cars way back then on roads. They will talk about how their grandparents actually took a whole hour or two to get to the nearest big city just to go shopping. Can you imagine!
As they place a call
to Uber to get a self diving flying vehicle to make the short 15
minute trip from Summerton to Florence for some unusual purpose, they
will chuckle about why someone would even think about going shopping
in a store. When they tavel or shop, they will simply put on their
smart glasses, enter the virtual reality world of tomorrow, and do
their shopping online.
Oh! Also, they won’t
have to wait 1-2 days to get what they bought, it will arrive at
their doorstep in less than an hour. If it can be 3-D printed, it
will arrive electronically almost immediately and will be printed out right their in
your smart home of the future. Think about it! It may seem
farfetched, but it wasn’t so long ago that your great grandfather was
hitching up the horses to go to town.
Human Augmentation Technology and the Future Workforce
Bionics, genomics,
wearable technologies,
exoskeletons,
artificial intelligence, augmented
reality, implantable
technologies, IoT sensors, nanotechnologies, and many other new
technologies and solutions will
allow people to move, think, see, feel, hear and remember with
previously impossible power, speed and precision.
Human
Enhancement (HE) can be described as the natural, artificial,
or technological alteration of the human
body in order to enhance physical or mental capabilities. Many
different forms of human enhancing technologies are currently
being developed, tested and trialed.
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The
latest wave of emerging technologies promises to expand human
capability in ways that take us well beyond the current
natural limits of our
minds and bodies. Currently, the medical, rehabilitation,
manufacturing,
construction, and
defence sectors are at the cutting edge of advanced augmented
technologies.
Exoskeletons
are just one of example
of human augmentation technologies that allow
people to lift and move
heavy objects and
perform a greater
variety of tasks they
would otherwise be unable to do. In
the manufacturing and construction industry, the first generation of
exoskeletons are
already available for use by workers
enabling them to lift heavy
equipment and supplies, preventing
common injuries caused by such
hard physical labour.
The following are several recent news articles about augmented human technology you ought to read:
Sensemaking / How exoskeletons are shaping the future of health care
Gartner tech trends 2020: Augmented Humans
US Military Reports on “Augmented Human Beings”
Interested
in the topic of Human Augmentation technologies, visit the Futures
Centre and
Humanity+
web
sites. Those who will be a part of the workforce of the coming
decades need to know more about this topic.
5.12.19
Aviation, Aircraft and Avionics: Rocket Girls II in Summerton
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MAIN in the
Town
of Summerton, in
community partnership with Scott’s Branch High Alumni
Association, presents the International Women’s Air & Space
Museum Traveling Exhibition.
This public, indoor educational exhibition from Cleveland, Ohio
features 17 panels that tell the story of the first African-American
woman to receive her pilot’s license. Though her life was
short-lived, Bessie Coleman has inspired generations of
African-American female pilots and astronauts.
The
traveling exhibition will also be on display at the Harvin Clarendon
County Library. 4
Main will also feature aviation and aerospace fine art and
photography, model aircraft, and
for a second year, an exhibit from the South Carolina Military Museum
located in Columbia,
South Carolina.
The
Rocket
Girls II opening ceremony will be held on
Wednesday, January 8th,
2020
at 9:00 AM at
Scott’s Branch Middle/High School, 9253 Alex Harvin Hwy, Summerton,
SC. Guests speakers will be Master Sergeant Jessica Mann and Staff
Sergeant Athena R. Sanchez from Shaw Air Force Base 20th
Component
Maintenance Squadron.
The
opening
ceremony
will also include Summerton Mayor Mac Bagnal, Dana Smith and Jason
Wolfe from the Pittsburg Institute of Aeronautics located in Myrtle
Beach, SC who will offer information on aviation careers, PIA history
and what the school offers, and there will be an interactive exhibit
set-up for students.
This
free public event also features a presentation/exhibit by Women in
Aviation (WIA) Palmetto
Pride Chapter President Leslie Lane and Vice President Tiffania Ham
Fayall, and
Beatrice Rivers, Secretary of the South Carolina Chapter Scott’s
Branch High Alumni
Association will speak on the organizations history and its role in
the community.
For
more information please call the Town
of Summerton
- (803)
485-2525
4.12.19
'Open’ Art Movement
Collaboration,
Open Solutions, and Innovation (COSI) are key strategies
individuals and organizations ought to embrace in order to compete
and succeed in the 21st century. The adoption and application of
these strategies is spreading across most industries and fields of
study - including the Creative
Arts community.
When combined, these COSI strategies create a robust model for accelerating synergy, creativity, and continuous change. Collaborative development efforts to create innovative, 'open' software tools and applications for use in the Creative Arts is rapidly accelerating.
Many of the innovative 'open' solutions used in the Creative Arts are being released under one or more open source license arrangements that allow higher individuals and institutions to acquire and use these tools at little or no cost.
Coupled with the proliferation of 'open access' publications and training materials, open source and other 'open' solutions will have tremendous beneficial consequences for individuals and organizations around the world that face funding challenge.
Check out the following sections on the growing ‘Open’ Movement within the ‘Creative Arts’ that now includes Open Access, Open Data, Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Knowledge, Open Standards, Open...
Finally, check out some of the following examples of major Free and ‘Open Source’ Software (FOSS) for the Creative Arts:
The ‘Open Way’ is about sharing your process and challenges the entrenched approach that espouses the solitary nature of the truly creative artist. It allows for emergence of a stronger community of artists and creative worker to work together and more openly share ideas, if they choose.
When combined, these COSI strategies create a robust model for accelerating synergy, creativity, and continuous change. Collaborative development efforts to create innovative, 'open' software tools and applications for use in the Creative Arts is rapidly accelerating.
Creative
Arts encompasses the fields of visual and performing arts,
e.g. painting, sculpture, graphic design, printmaking,
photography, music, theatre, film, interactive media, and more.
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Many of the innovative 'open' solutions used in the Creative Arts are being released under one or more open source license arrangements that allow higher individuals and institutions to acquire and use these tools at little or no cost.
Coupled with the proliferation of 'open access' publications and training materials, open source and other 'open' solutions will have tremendous beneficial consequences for individuals and organizations around the world that face funding challenge.
The 'Open Way'The 'Open Source Way' is more than a software development model; it defines the characteristics of a thriving collaborative, sharing culture.
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Check out the following sections on the growing ‘Open’ Movement within the ‘Creative Arts’ that now includes Open Access, Open Data, Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Knowledge, Open Standards, Open...
Open
Access
By
‘Open
Access’,
we mean permitting any users to view, download, copy,
distribute, print, search, share, or link to artworks,
books, articles, music, or other materials in the public domain for
research, educational, or other lawful purposes.
Several variations of open access copyright licenses are
available from the Creative
Commons organization.
Check out the following links to open access sites:
Check out the following links to open access sites:
- Bestof Art History - Portal to art history web sites created by EdTechTeacher Inc.
- Europeana - Providing open access to digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
- Google Art Project - Providing online access to thousands of artworks from collections around the world.
- Incredible Art - Provides a comprehensive list of links to 'open source' and/or public domain free clip art, photos, images and other artworks.
- Library of Congress - Recognized as the national library of the U.S. Its collections comprise the world's most comprehensive record of American history, human creativity, and knowledge.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - Offering 'open access' to an online collection of over 400,000 works of art.
- Open Clip Art Library - An archive of clip art that can be used by anyone for free for any use.
- Open Music Library - Journal articles, videos and music scores from the world's best digital collections.
- ProjectGutenburg - Offering over 33,000 free eBooks that can be downloaded.
- Public Domain Clip Art - Images that are in the public domain, based on the laws of the U.S.
- WikiMediaCommons - An online repository of freely licensed, shareable educational photos and images available on the internet.
Open
Art Organizations
Check
out the following selected ‘Open Arts’ organizations:
- Blend - Collaboration network for music creators.
- Consortium of Community Colleges for Open Education Resources - Providing resources, support and opportunities for collaboration, learning, planning, and implementing successful open educational programs
- Creative Commons - A nonprofit organization dedicated to building a globally-accessible public commons of knowledge and culture.
- LibrePlanetArtists – A network of graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, videographers, animators, and musicians working to create free artwork using open source tools.
- Open Culture - Providing online access to free movies, books, artworks music, and much more.
- P2P Foundation: World of Free and Open Source Art – Focused on the world of free and open source art.
Finally, check out some of the following examples of major Free and ‘Open Source’ Software (FOSS) for the Creative Arts:
- Artof Illusion - A free and open source 3D modeling and rendering studio.
- Audacity - A free and open source, cross-platform software tool used for recording and editing sounds.
- Blender - A free and open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.
- DarkTable - An open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual light table and darkroom for photographers.
- GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) - A multi-platform photo and image manipulation tool. It is an open source alternative to Photoshop.
- GNOME Projects - Hundreds of free and open source GNOME applications are available a vast range of activities, including playing media and editing photos
- Inkscape - An open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw.
- Kaltura - A community developed free and open source video management platform and applications.
- Krita - A full-featured, open source sketching and painting application for digital artists
- MuseScore - Free and open source music composition and notation software.
- MyPaint - An open source graphics application for digital painters.
- Open Movie Editor - A free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities.
- Scribus - An open source desktop publishing system with and extensive graphics tools.
- Shape Collage - An open source tool that allows you to create picture collages in any imaginable shape or form.
- Synfig Studio - Free and open-source 2D animation software solution for creating film-quality animation using vector and bitmap artwork.
- TuxPaint - A free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12.
Visit osalt.com to find other open source alternatives to commercial software products.
The ‘Open Way’ is about sharing your process and challenges the entrenched approach that espouses the solitary nature of the truly creative artist. It allows for emergence of a stronger community of artists and creative worker to work together and more openly share ideas, if they choose.
Local High School Varsity Basketball Schedules, Scores and Stats - Winter 2019/20
The High School Basketball Season is wrapping up. Check
out the latest Winter 2019/20 Basketball news, schedule, scores, and
statistics on your favorite local Clarendon County high school teams at
MAXPREPS.Com Thanks to all supporters as the season comes to a close!
Clarendon Hall Saints - Varsity Boys Basketball Team
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Manning High Monarchs - Varsity Girls Basketball Team
Laurence Manning Swampcats - Varsity Boys Basketball Team
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East Clarendon Wolverines - Varsity Boys Basketball Team
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