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From Geoffrey to you: Not in Vain
Friday May 22, 2009
Not in vain
Does the AIDS epidemic ever seem like a black hole to you? It kind of seems like one of those issues that will never change. We feel empathy and pity for the children we know are suffering but so many fail to feel enough compassion for them to actually do something in response because any contribution seems futile. So many people see it as a lost cause and would rather put their money and resources towards a cause where there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't hopeless like the AIDS epidemic.
"We can do no great things, just small things with great love. It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into it."
– Mother Theresa
The truth is that I am only going to be able to touch the lives of a few people and the same is true for you. Sure maybe you are going to take a trip to a third world country at some point and even if you stay for six months like myself, but the truth is that you are only going to be able to reach a few people, perhaps a dozen or a few hundred, but in comparison to the millions suffering that dozen or few hundred people are insignificant. An aphorism I have tried to intertwine into my daily life is "I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do I ought to do. And what I ought to do by the grace of God I will do." I know and understand that I wont be able to help each and every starving child in the world and organizations like Tumaini, World Vision, Feed the Children and World Hope all realize that as well, but is that any reason to not try? Though there are millions and millions in need, we need to remember that each one of those numbers represents a person and if I have the ability and resources to help even just one you can believe that I am going to do it. You never know the potential of the people you help and you never know in what ways your actions or words can act as a catalyst to empower them to impact their community, country, or world. I bet those who spoke into my life six years ago never imagined that their encouragement would empower me to start a homeless ministry and work as a missionary in Kenya, but they realized that even though I was just another statistic that I was a person and that I had potential. That is why you all volunteer, contribute and work towards those issues most dear to your heart, because you believe that somehow the pennies you contribute and the hours you put in will in one way or another touch someone's life. I know that we are united in this heart.
Adoniram Judson was the first Western Mission in Myanmar (Burma) about two hundred years ago. He went to Myanmar to translate the bible and hoped that somehow he would be able to touch the lives of the citizens of Burma and share the gospel with them. There were no Christians at this point and time; Buddhism and Animism were the only known religions. He translated the bible into their language and tried to introduce as many as he could to the Christian faith. It took two years before he even had an opportunity to witness to someone, then it took six years before he saw his first convert. He had buried two of his sons. During the civil war he was taken prisoner and hung by his feet ever night. Later on two more of his children died. His wife got sick and died. He was clinically depressed after the death of his loved ones. He eventually remarried and then tragically buried two more children followed by the burial of his second wife. When he reached the mid-fifties he developed tuberculosis and died. At the time of his death there were less than a dozen converts.
I would consider this situation a black hole wouldn't you? It seemed more like a failed attempt than a success. Was it really worth it? If he could do it all over again do you think he would do it again? If you were in his shoes would you have left or stayed? I wonder what all of his friends and family back at home were saying and how insane they reckoned he was to continue his work with so few results.
I think that he continued to press on and work towards what he believed in because he realized that whether he was able to help a dozen or a million that it was worth it. Those dozen that he helped were just as important as any other amount of people. He realized that those dozen weren't just statistics, but that they were breathing and living people. He had no idea what the potential of each of those people possessed, but figured they deserved a fair chance like us all. I don't feel that those hours he spent slaving away towards translating bibles and preaching were in vain. Today over six million Christians reside in Myanmar and each one of them can trace their faith back to Judson.
My reason for telling you this story is to give you encouragement. I know most of you do philanthropic work and have dreams of helping others. Whether your front is the AIDS epidemic, homelessness, underprivileged children, at risk youth, orphans in Mexico or whatever field your interests may lay know that they aren't black holes and that in every dark tunnel there is a light at the end of it. The hours you have spent slaving away towards your goals, dreams and areas of need, they aren't in vain. Whether you reach a dozen people or six million, you have touched lives, made a difference, and you never know the potential of those people.
Though many believe that we have poured millions and billions of dollars into the black hole of AIDS and have seen little to no effect I would have to beg to disagree.
Like the story of the Good Samaritan, many people have seen this epidemic and walked past, but a plethora of people have taken a stand and decided to contribute. Antiretroviral Drugs (ARVs) are the drugs that extend the lives of those with AIDS. In 2002 a year's supply could cost as much as ten thousands dollars. In 2003 a coalition of activists persuaded four manufacturers to make them available to developing countries for under a hundred and fifty dollars each year. In 2002 only one perfect of those who needed ARVs had them, today over twenty-eight-percent of those in need are getting them. The infection rate in Uganda has reduced from thirty percent to ten percent. Two-thirds has cut the AIDS prevalence among pregnant mothers visiting Uganda's prenatal clinics. In Rwanda the percentage of its population infected with AIDS have been reduced from twenty one percent to three percent, unfortunately that was partially due to the genocide. There have been immense reductions in the spreading of AIDS and the provisions for those living with the disease. Programs through our government have been developed and put into place. Companies have taken a stand and made a coalition for the RED campaign. Celebrities and Americans have joined forces in the One Campaign. Churches have rallies and take special offerings. People put on benefit concerts, shows, and campaigns. The hearts of so many have been touched by this cause and have decided to take a stand to work towards the end of AIDS. The dollars you have contributed and hours you have spent volunteering weren't for nothing they are making a difference and lives have been changed and saved through your efforts. Even though we have seen a light at the end of the tunnel that doesn't mean that our fight is over.
To this day many people are still suffering and onlookers continue to walk past without hesitation. Malaria still kills over 3,000 children each day and remains to be the number one killer of children under the age of five in Africa. Two million children die each year because of lack of access to vaccines. Ninety-percent of the Lords Resistance Army is made of young children that have been abducted from their homes. In Zambia the life expectancy is thirty-eight. Malnutrition causes more than fifty five percent of child deaths in our world and yet the earth can produce enough food for every person to take in two thousand seven hundred and twenty calories per day. Thirty percent of the world lacks clean water. Twenty percent of the world lives off of one percent of the world's total income. Twenty-percent of Rwandan children die before the age of five and over seventy percent of the country is illiterate. AIDS has orphaned Fifteen million children. Twenty eight million people have died from AIDS and forty-two million people are living with AIDS right now.
May God bless you for the hearts of compassion you have for those suffering throughout the world. I encourage you to keep on keeping on in whatever front you have decided to fight. If you have yet to find something worth fighting for or a cause near and dear to your heart, join Tumaini and change a life.
Asante Sana,
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Carro had a tube implanted into her head that goes down to her stomach. It drains any fluids into her stomach. I think they call it a shunt or something like that. Well my dad helped work on that device with the doctor that invented it many years ago. His name is listed in the books for helping to make it.
It looks like I am going to be able to make a trip to Mombassa before it leave. From what I hear, it is a tropical paradise. I have a few friends I am hopefully going to go there with and there are a few different relatives they have that live there… so it will be an almost free trip… woot woot
I bought a jar of mayonnaise… it doesn't say to refrigerate after opening, but I seem to recall that you are supposed to. So I am waiting for a special occasion to crack open that bad boy and to make as many things as I can with it because I don't have a fridge to put it in.
Each time I flush the toilet I notice there is a bunch of oil in there… I dunno if I have been eating too much oil or it there is something in the water
Last night I put on my mosquito net and apparently I trapped a mosquito in there with me.. not a smart thing to do
Apparently mosquitoes with malaria only bite about thirty minutes before dusk… random
Everyone is amazed by my ipod, my friends tell me that I have the funniest devices that they have ever seen
The way they pronounce words and spell words seem completely different
Omena (not sure if that is how you spell it)
It is this nasty type of food made from little fish that look like sardines
They should call it omana (oh man uh) because whenever I hear that people are eating that I normally say OH MAN!
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I've planted three rhubarb roots that I found as we were walking through the local Tractor Supply store the other day. Well, why not? I might as well give them a try. These are perennials, so they might make a good addition to the fruit on the property.
(Since this blog is also my garden journal, I'm including this care information card.)
Signs of life on the orient pear tree!
John's been working on the vineyard. He added three more half rows which will include another 15 grapes. He's busy working on the automatic watering system there.
He's also fencing in the vegetable garden so that it will be rabbit proof (and chicken proof, and turkey proof, and dog proof!) Hopefully the final fence we'll have to build in that area.
It's been so warm here, and the winter was so mild. We're praying for rain right now, and it's teased us - but nothing worthwhile yet. We keep hoping!

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Scunthorpe have agreed a deal to bring striker Paul Hayes back to Glanford Park until the end of the season.
The 30-year-old left Brentford earlier this month and did enough during a training game for the Iron to earn a short-term contract, which will begin on January 1.
It will be Hayes' third spell at a club where he has scored 74 goals in over 250 appearances. He has spent time with Preston, Barnsley, Charlton and Wycombe since leaving Scunthorpe for the second time in 2010.
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"Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give." Unknown
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Bengaluru, Oct 10: With November 3 by-election to Ramanagara Assembly seat is nearing, the BJP received a boost as Congress leader Chandrasekhar, son of Congress Karnataka Legislative Council member C M Lingappa joined the saffron party.
Mr Chandrasekhar was welcomed to the party fold by Opposition leader in the Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who is also the BJP State President, by handing over the party flag. Former Minister C P Yogishwar, who had joined BJP after quitting Congress before the Assembly election was also present.
Mr Chandrasekhar clarified that he is not joining with any demand for ticket or for any position in the BJP but said his father remaining in Congress and be its Legislative Council member was a different issue.
Speaking to newsmen, Mr Yeddyurappa said that Mr Chandrasekhar joining the party had brought additional strength to the party in the district.
BJP gets shot in the arm ahead of by-poll as Ramanagara Cong leader joins saffron party
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers' baby son stole show during an interview today when he crashed the set to say hi to his dad.
Little Wolf (15 months) was backstage with his mother, Meyers' wife Mara Lane, while the Irish actor was appearing on Good Morning Britain to promote his new film, political thriller Damascus Cover.
While cameras were quick to cut to the toddler occupying himself backstage before he made his way to the set to inspect what his father was up to.
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Employers have reacted to the trend by offering lower-cost plans, including health maintenance organization plans, consumer-driven health plans and health savings accounts. Twenty-nine percent of employers surveyed offer HMOs, 20 percent offer consumer-driven health plans, 52 percent offer health savings accounts, and a whopping 77 percent offer health reimbursement accounts.
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This is an excellent show, very much worth a full listen on archive.org. Including "Seastones," it's 3.5 hours long, with very few lame spots. This mix just brings together some improvisational highlights.
(Update: You can get four fantastic first set songs here.)
There are two portions that strike me as particularly notable:
1) A subtle "Truckin'" jam gradually finds its way to an unorthodox start to "Eyes," and then the "Eyes" jam is one of those lower-key noodly ones, but it still manages to hit the synchronized riff climaxes accurately and sail out of them with great propulsion. It then proceeds into a wonderful, mostly-minimalist space led by a Garcia solo.
2) The "Not Fade Away" jam goes to places that are unfamiliar to me. The riff and rhythm are bent completely out of shape by the end.
The "Scarlet Begonias" doesn't hold any unique revelations, but it's from the first month that the song was expanded to include several minutes of jamming, and it's delightful.
Again, this show is worth listening to in full, but if you particularly want to spend time with some high-level improvisation, this highlights reel should please you.
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Hunter: Kasey Morgan
Animal: Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE Stealth Carbon Air
Which is why Kasey intentionally opted to pass on bucks with bigger racks and instead, took a seven-and-a-half year old buck aptly nicknamed "Old School." While not an aesthetic trophy, the buck is a testament to Kasey's commitment to herd health.
He and DOD team member Greg Glesinger were hunting Greg's Kansas property in a blind overlooking a brassica field on November 7th. All ages of bucks filtered in and out of the field scent checking the does feeding there to see which were coming into estrus.
Old School made his way in later that evening to do the same doe inventory. On his rounds, he made the mistake of walking past the blind where Kasey and Greg were waiting and watching.
Walking broadside from left to right, Old School needed to be stopped before Kasey would take the shot. He held at full draw until the buck finally paused and looked directly at them. In that instant, Kasey executed the shot sending a complete pass through arrow in and out of both lungs.
Old School turned and ran directly away from them and into the CRP. He fell over on camera just before entering the privacy of the timber.
Kasey's first Kansas buck won't likely win any beauty contests, but Old School was an old buck with genetics that needed to be removed from the herd. Kasey was just the guy to get that done.
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Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
-Ann Richards
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. -Rita Rudner
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ~ English Professor, Ohio University
I've learned that wherever I go, the world's worst drivers have followed me there. ~ Anon.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ~ Lily Tomlin
Life is like a camel; you can make it do anything except back up. ~ Marcelene Cox
If you drink like a fish, don't drive. Swim. ~ Joe E. Louis
You're a good example of why some animals eat their young. ~ Jim Samuels
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ~ Lily Tomlin
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets. ~ Anon.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~ Winston Churchill
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ~Albert Einstein
My mother buried three husbands ... and two of them were only napping. ~ Rita Rudner
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2009, at Apple Valley Nursing Center in Ayer, MA, following an extended illness.
She was born March 15, 1926 in Watertown, MA, to Robert Raynor and Jamesina Skinner Masterton. Dorothy graduated from Watertown High School where she was a member of the National Honor Society and received awards for her singing ability. Following high school, she attended Mt. Auburn Hospital School of Nursing.
In 1949 Dorothy married James A. Murray of Newton, MA, and they settled in Framingham, MA. Dorothy was a devoted and loving mother to her three sons, David, Mark and Scott. Her marriage ended in 1967. A few years later, while working as an administrative assistant at Framingham Union Hospital, she met the love of her life, Roger Hickler, MD and they were married in 1974. Following Roger's appointment to chair the Department of Medicine at the new UMass Medical School, they moved to an old farmhouse in Sutton where they spent many happy years. Dorothy remained involved in the Worcester community working in administrative positions both at UMass and Clark University and volunteering with the Worcester Museum of Art and the United Way.
Following their marriage, with the help of her sons, Dorothy and Roger built a camp at Roger's family compound at Little Moose Pond in South Waterford, Maine. Among Dorothy's greatest delights were the times spent at "the pond" where she and her children were welcomed and enjoyed many wonderful times with Roger and his extended family.
Dorothy was predeceased in 1988 by a brother, Robert Masterton of Cape Elizabeth. She is survived by her devoted husband Roger; a sister-in-law, Nancy Masterton of Cape Elizabeth; son David and wife Peggy of Falmouth, ME, their children, Travis of Arlington, MA, Lesley Elkin and husband Brian of Shanghai, China and Dallas of Billings, MT; son Mark and his children Seth and Nina of Brunswick, ME; son Scott and wife Laureen LaBar of Richmond, ME, niece Laurie Tuchman of Southwest Ranches, FL, and nephew Peter Masterton of Windham, ME.
Private services will be conducted at a later date.
Those wishing to honor Dorothy's memory are encouraged to make a donation in her name to your local Alzheimer's Association.


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YG, 2 Chainz, Big Sean, and Nicki Minaj ball hard in the official video for "Big Bank," YG's new DJ Mustard-produced single.
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Its time again to state my monthly goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes.
I'm down to the wire on posting about my goal because
I forgot all about it and I really didn't know what it would be until about an hour ago.
I have several projects I need to tend to this month.
This month's goal is a little baseball backpack for a new little guy due to be born shortly.
His parents love baseball and I'm making it for someone else to give to them as a gift.
I've made several backpacks using this wonderful pattern, making a
few changes along the way and will repeat the changes with this one.
The pink fabric is for another backpack, most likely using another backpack pattern.
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It's July and everyone is buzzing about hospital safety! Well they are right; it's not simply an urban legend! July really is the worse time of year to end up in the hospital and/or the ER. It's a time of change with new interns and residences coming in and starting work in an already chaotic atmosphere.
Here's an example that happened to me last week. I ended up in the ER with an elderly client. We went through his medical history and shared the fact that he was allergic to penicillin. The admitting nurse noted the allergy in his chart and then proceeded to put a big red bracelet that said allergies in bold letters on his wrist. I thought it was noticeable, the patient thought it was noticeable, but apparently the doc? To him, not so noticable. He must have missed it in the chart as well! Long story short, the nurse comes in with the IV antibiotic and I remind her he is allergic to penicillin. In her surprise she responded "how allergic?" After I picked my jaw up from the floor, I told the nurse that today wasn't the day we were going to find out. They ALL missed the bracelet. The bracelet with BIG BOLD LETTERS! Always ask always question, NEVER navigate the health care system alone!
For more information about patient safety in July click over to Trisha Torrey's MSNBC interview yesterday.
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Hello world… there are a million reasons to blog but for me there is just two, so far:
To write.
To read what others are writing.
I endeavor to have people connect with me and what I have to say and share;
but even more the hope is to connect with what other people have to say.
An inspiration cycle.
As for "About Me"… I'm a writer so I guess I'll get to writing. I'd actually like to see you try to stop me.
My story is a long and detailed one that I'll write one day but this is how it starts.
Once upon a time, a beautiful little girl was born on an Air Force base in the deserts of California to an alcoholic, drug using, abusive dad and a naïve and delusional mom. One day that daddy threw his one year old princess against the wall for crying too much and as the naïve mom watched the blood pour down her baby girls face she wizened up real fast and cracked that man in the head with an iron cast skillet. She picked up her bleeding princess and her three year old prince and left that man, never to return. Thus begins the story of me, the woman with the scar on her face and a cycle to break…
… After almost 20 years working my way up in an administrative support career I most recently was employed as an Executive Assistant at one of the most notorious banks in America. I resigned when working there, for the person I had been assigned to, literally started to hurt my soul and I've been at home for over two years now with my babies who at the time of this writing were 1 year old, 3 ½ years old and my first born 17 year old high school junior. I do it all, and gladly.
My priority is and always has been being a great mom. Not the most fun mom, or the hottest mom, or award-winning/nationally-recognized mom. Just a great mom; loving, teaching, sheltering and nurturing these freakishly amazing kids on their path to become world-changing, god-fearing adults. And this stay at home stuff is no joke as you can tell by the job description on my SAHM Resume page in the header.
My loves are my kids, my husband, the Raiders, reading, and COOKING. I really, really like helping people, getting a great sale price, almost all animals (but especially dogs) and watching people enjoy food I cooked. And I also enjoy watching UFC/MMA, my one month at Uriah Fabers Ultimate Fitness (doing kickboxing was a great release for me), traveling, driving fast, horseback riding and shopping but way less of any of those is happening after the second kid.
To the point of all this: My PASSION is writing. And I've come to a point in my life where I'm demanding of myself that I find time to do that. As much time as I can. And if I'm smart I'll find a way to combine my loves and my passions and life will be sweet harmony. In that vein you can visit my cooking blog at ****www.MakeItTastyBlog.wordpress.com**** where I get to WRITE about COOKING… harmony!
You'll find me opinionated, kind-hearted and full of life-wisdom so I'd love to connect with anyone. I'm not one to suffer fools (as in I will ignore pointless or negative interactions) but I love a good debate more than most and truly enjoy seeing how people express their feelings about things they are passionate about. Please note that you will also find me completely illiterate in any technical aspect of computers or programming; so don't ever ask me about that unless you want an answer you could get yourself from Bing. But I have a pretty broad base of knowledge otherwise.


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Our consulting services are built upon a fundamental business philosophy based upon three essential pillars that are at the heart of any successful business enterprise.
An effective marketing strategy can drive the full economic potential of a business, by profitably connecting the business to its market. Naturally easier said than done, the marketing strategy is essentially concerned with; helping a business improve its positioning, identifying emerging market opportunities, increasing its competitive advantage and intimately understanding its customers to deliver increased value. Before developing the marketing strategy, having a clear organisational wide consensus around the purpose of marketing and marketing strategy in your business will lay the foundation for strategy success. From there, developing a marketing strategy that encompasses smart thinking, goal clarity, accurate market insights, and creative implementation will provide the roadmap for driving the full economic potential of your business.
Getting it clear – what is Marketing Strategy?
Marketing strategy is a term that has been overused and misrepresented in terms of what it means, and what is should be doing for a business. Too often marketing strategy has been confused with marketing tactics, such as implementing a new CRM system, targeting more profitable customer segments or launching a social media presence. These tactical activities are important and are no doubt part of marketing strategy, however they are more concerned with 'how we will do it' rather than 'what we will do'.
There are many definitions of both 'marketing' and 'marketing strategy' – and from a practical perspective, the various definitions only add to the ever increasing abundance of jargon that can easily encapsulate the real life practitioner or manager, and render their day to day efforts to achieve business goals ineffective.
For the purpose of removing ambiguity, let's briefly define what marketing and marketing strategy are for the purpose of building internal consensus within your organisation.
What is Marketing?
The fundamental role of marketing is to connect a business with a market. A business does not exist without a market of customers who want/need its products or services, and likewise a market does not exist without a business to provide for its wants/needs. Therefore the role of marketing in its most basic form is to connect a businesses products or services with the market (or markets) that want/need those products and services.
What is Marketing Strategy?
Marketing strategy is essentially concerned with profitably connecting a business with its market. In alignment with strategic business goals, it is the purpose of a marketing strategy to translate these business goals into reality where markets and customers are concerned. This raises an interesting question about the role of marketing today – what role should marketing play in achieving strategic business goals where markets and customers are concerned? Considering the vital importance of both markets and customers to a business, one could easily assume all business goals are market and customer related, however this is not the case. Marketing should however, be a significant influencer on how business goals are achieved - yet marketing has too often been relegated to only tactical campaign activities.
What should marketing strategy be doing?
A marketing strategy should be a clear plan that states where the business is, where it wants to be, and how it will get there in terms of its market and customers. It is an ongoing, ever-evolving plan which all of the management team should at least be aware of, and possibly contribute to.
A marketing strategy focussed on driving the full economic potential of a business will answer the following questions:
> Where is our business currently positioned in terms of our customers & competitors?
> Where do we want our business to be positioned in the future?
> What emerging market opportunities can we identify and capitalise on?
> What steps can we take to strengthen our competitive advantage?
> What can we learn from our customers to ensure we're deeply connected to their wants/needs?
> How do we translate our marketing strategy into an implementable tactical plan?
> How can we ensure profitable return on investment from our marketing activities?
There are no right or wrong answers within a marketing strategy, which means that many businesses will be investing considerable resources into poorly thought out marketing strategy, and as a result deriving little or no competitive advantage or return on investment from it.
With that being said, the rapid pace of change in the world and in customer wants/needs today, means there are new opportunities constantly emerging. Marketing strategy that encompasses smart thinking, goal clarity, accurate market insights, and creative marketing implementation will win the day – in terms of driving the full economic potential of a business.
Tough questions to consider
Do we know where our business is positioned in terms of our customers and competitors? Has our position altered for better or worse over the last 3 years, and in both cases, what have we done about our changed position?
Where do we see our business positioned in the future? What customer and competitor forces have effected us during the past 3 years? What is a realistic ideal future position for our business considering our resources, our customers and our competitors?
What emerging market opportunities can we identify and capitalise on? What macro trends are at play in our markets/industry? What trends do we see in the wants/needs of our customers? What level of acceptance or appetite does our organisation have for risk?
> What steps can we take to strengthen our competitive advantage? How compelling are our businesses points of differentiation? Have we gained or lost market share over the past 3 years? What are our competitors doing in terms of product/service innovation?
> What can we learn from our customers to ensure we're deeply connected to their wants/needs? Have the wants/needs of our customers changed since we last examined them? How deeply do we understand the wants/needs of our customers? Are there emerging wants/needs we can anticipate and provide for?
> How do we translate our marketing strategy into an implementable tactical plan? Does our management team all have clear understanding of our business and marketing goals? Are our departments such as Finance/Human Resources/Operations working in collaboration or competition to achieve our business goals?
> How can we ensure profitable return on investment from our marketing activities? What role does the marketing function play in the attainment of strategic business goals? What metrics can we use to measure marketing performance and return on investment? What tactical marketing activities will give the best results for our business?
1) Build internal consensus – Ensure that the management team are all in agreement as to what marketing strategy is and does for your business. Encourage organisation-wide collaboration in the ongoing development and evolution of your marketing strategy.
2) Conduct an honest appraisal – Look at previous marketing strategy, firstly determining if it exists or not, and if so, looking at how effective is has been in contributing to strategic business goals. What benefits and return on investment have previously been derived? If this can be improved, allocate internal/external talent to develop your marketing strategy.
3) Prioritise key marketing threats/challenges – Be aware of key marketing threats that must be responded to decisively such as; subsiding market share, proliferation of competitors and rapidly changing customer wants/needs. Also prioritise emerging marketing challenges such as; inability to measure marketing return on investment, the growth of new channels/social media, and the explosion of data from online marketing.


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The witchfinder found
by cricketjeff on May 27, 2008. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
The crows will keep her company until her trial begins
The village wives all want her dead they won't forgive her sins
They keep her chained away from light and further from their men
This devil child has run them wild she won't go free again
Her dreadful deeds they document and plan how she will die
She charmed each man, and took his strength, she has the evil eye
The crows of course do not feel fear and neither does our maid
These foolish folk can't keep her here their acts will be repaid
For all around her sisters fly tonight the coven meets
The witchfinder, the coven's head, keeps mortals off the streets
His dreadful deeds they don't suspect no actual witch will die
He stalks the land, protects his flock, the apples of his eye
A cow runs dry, a horse goes lame, the fish won't rise for bait
He blames the old, the poor and weak, decides their gruesome fate
But gorgeous girls, with magic powers, and eyes to drown a heart
They're never blamed, just join his band, and there perfect their art
Their dreadful deeds are all for him, he aims to never die
He weaves vile charms and speaks darks spells to find the devil's eye
This latest maid, has other aims, she is the whitest witch
Her two black crows are witches too their powers are old and rich
The witchfinder will end his reign condemned in wiccan courts
The new white Queen, has all the power, most witches don't have warts!
The dreadful deeds will be undone no innocents must die
Restore the land and make it whole protected by her eye!
Author notes
OK so I had fun writing a little story
The inspiration is
witchfinder generals parlour by wildlifehoodoo


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You get to fill in the blank in the above exclamation. For fun, here are some of the ways I've seen it filled in:
You're richer than you think!
This is hilarious or ridiculous depending on your philosophy. If you think you're richer than you think, do you have to think again, or have you already done that? Will you keep getting richer as your brain continues in this loop?
It's easier than you think!
This is just about as misleading as the previous, imho. Generally said about exercising or dieting. By sales people. Or said about something really tricky, like a new programming tool or hobby machine.
It's closer than you think!
Generally said about somewhere you're driving to, when you already know it's too darn far. I think a leather place tried this line a couple of years back.
If you believe any of the above, you're dumber than you think. {8;^<}


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The question posed to me was whether there's cause to be optimistic about AI. My answer is that that's an oversimplification almost to the point of farce.
To be clear, I'm not anti-AI. It really does have the potential to make life better for everybody. And anyway, as with genetic modification (of both food and humans), you couldn't stop it even if you wanted to. The issue, really, is that there's not going to be a straight line from here to there, and history suggests things will probably get worse — potentially, A LOT worse — before that end state, if it even comes.
So I'm not a pessimist. I believe problems in life are both inevitable and solvable, which means we shouldn't fret unnecessarily when a new one appears. But we do need to understand the typical course:
~A new invention or discovery
~Optimists (typically liberals) foresee what we CAN do with it and assume therefore we will
~We do that a little, but we also do lots more bad shit than anything else — often completely unanticipated shit. For example, the internet facilitates commentary like this, but measured by weight it's mostly porn. By far. After that, it's gambling, cat pictures, selfies, scams, misinformation, and organized crime, both private and public.
~Things get better for elites but typically a little worse overall and the novelty is soberly re-examined for what it really is versus what we wanted it to be. We're at this stage now with social media/big data.
~Bans and prohibitions are enacted, addressing symptom rather than cause
~The wealthy quickly claim beneficial exceptions, often in isolated "walled gardens" separate from the rest of us
~Generations of inequality and/or outright suffering follow, such as after the invention of the steam engine, which ripped limbs from children for decades before anyone did anything about it
~Some time later, people start to contemplate the responsible governance they should have been considering at the point of irrational exuberance
~Changes are introduced gradually, through trial and error and over the objection of political conservatives, which improve life gradually for everyone but the poor, who are pretty much ignored by the mainstream Right and Left alike
For me, the problem with AI isn't just that it introduces another asymmetry, such like what we've seen repeatedly in history going all the way back to the invention of agriculture, but that it introduces the ULTIMATE asymmetry. In the past, the wealthy and powerful were always — at some point, once you got far enough down — dependent on the poor and working classes: to grow food, to staff factories, to fill armies, to clean house, etc. That meant there was a floor to human suffering. Things could only get so bad before workers went on strike en masse or the population rebelled, and so introduced a correction. This is the fodder of history, the dates and conflicts you were forced to memorize in school.
Side Note: For those who want a really great overview of those kinds of forces across the span of human history, read William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples. Pay particular attention to his discussion of the two kinds of parasitism on society's producers: microparasitism (disease) and macroparasitism (the ruling class).
Artificial intelligence — particularly true AI, in the classic sense, which is different than the kinds of algorithmic "intelligence" that get the label these days — has the genuine potential to render the great mass of people not just superfluous but an outright burden. There will be no reason, in a politico-economic sense, for most of them to exist since neither their labor nor their vote will empower the ruling class. There will no longer be anything to stop the powers-that-be from reproducing and extending the "solutions" that have repeatedly occurred throughout human history across many times and circumstances: from Stalinist Russia to the pogroms of medieval Europe to the Khmer Rouge to the Rwandan genocide and on and on right up to what's going on in Myanmar right now.
Wherever we go, there we are. With whatever tools we invent, the hand that holds them is still a human one.
Now, AI might eventually reach such ubiquity that all (or most) humans alive will benefit. That's definitely possible. But as I said, there's not a straight line from here to there. It's like traveling back in time to the year 1900 and telling a group of people:
"Okay, look… I gotta be honest. Things are gonna be bad. Really bad. There's gonna be a horrible global war in a few years that will kill unprecedented numbers of people, not just through violence but also famine and disease. After that, a massive economic depression will put huge chunks of you out of work and force you to move from your homes. Many will get sick and die. That will only end because of another world war, this one even larger and more devastating than the first, if you can believe it, and which will see the invention and use of weapons capable of wiping out the entire planet. In the aftermath, the European colonial empires will retract, which sounds great, but they'll leave a power vacuum, and the developing world, from South America to Africa to Asia, will experience repeated waves of civil war, ethnic cleansing, and famine — often with a great deal of external meddling. The end result of all that is: many of you will die, and even if not, your family lines probably will. BUT… there's a silver lining! For those who survive, things will actually get better than they are now. Democracy will spread. Basic social safety nets will be introduced. There'll be a minimum wage. Women will get the vote and racial integration will be the law of the land, if not always the practice. Health care will improve as well as opportunities for education and home ownership. So chin up! Smile on your faces! And back to work!"
Those who made it through all that — us — look back and say "gee, that must've sucked," but we didn't have to live through any of it. We're the beneficiaries. It's just something bad that happened, like the Inquisition.
The question before us is, is there reason to be optimistic about AI? I dunno. Do those people in 1900, knowing what you told them, have reason to be optimistic?
It's great to say "We're gonna have universal basic income," except we're probably not — not anytime soon anyway. Maybe one day, who knows? But right now there's zero political will. We couldn't even get universal health care coverage in this country under a nominally Democratic administration. The tax bill under consideration in Congress at this very moment tilts the complete opposite way. So good luck with that.
Maybe eventually, after we go through all the pain, people will realize something like UBI is a good idea and enact it. If so, that will be great for the people alive then. But as a practical solution, those high hopes don't really address what's coming.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Violin Memory (VMEM) was rising 8.92% to $4.03 on Tuesday afternoon after a report from The Deal said buyout interest around the computer data storage manufacturer has increased.
The Deal reported that Violin Memory "had suitors knocking at the door prior to its September IPO," and that interest has only increased since the company fired former CEO and founder Donald Basile and brought on his replacement, Kevin DeNuccio.
Some of the suitors reportedly interested in Violin Memory include IBM (IBM - Get Report), Seagate (STX - Get Report), Samsung, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ - Get Report) and EMC EMC, the report said.
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Our clients include victims and their families, who have been injured, and businesses that have been sued and their insurance companies. Our diverse practice of representing plaintiffs, defendants, subrogees and subrogors enables us to better represent our clients and to understand and anticipate the strategies of opposition counsel. Our cases have involved personal injuries, property damage, torts, fire, toxic wastes, and other chemical products. We also have expertise in both asserting and defending claims for chemical carcinogenicity and chronic diseases. Elliott Greenleaf has achieved multi-million dollar verdicts, and successfully defended against multi-million dollar claims.
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Characters/Pairings: Ryan/Becker, Ryan/Matt, Ethan (Patrick)
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Genre: Angst, slash.
Rating: U
Summary: They were orders, but that explanation doesn't seem right.
Author's Note: I can't believe it's now Day 41! It's gone by so quickly! Anyways, a little more back story that will eventually be explored in more detail at some point. I know I say it a lot, but I mean it, thank you everyone. Thank you fififolle for your beta and deinonychus_1 that really is an awesome icon. Totally sorted. Enjoy.
Tom had been given orders to find Ethan and to help Danny bring his brother back. The joint operation between the Tribe and Special Forces had been going on for years, spanning over different eras to apprehend Patrick Quinn.
The lost boy caused a lot of trouble. He'd influenced too many people and had to be stopped.
Helen. Christine. Burton. Langridge. Patrick had done too much.
Ryan had to remain dead because if Ethan found out about Becker… or Matt?
Was that any kind of excuse to abandon the man… men you loved?
No wonder Becker was angry at him.
Forty Forty Two
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The ESA's GOCE satellite was launched on 17 March 2009. It had a dry mass of 1002 kg and a roughly cylindrical shape of 1 m diameter and 5.3 m length, with wing-shaped fins spanning 2 m. After mapping the geopotential with unrivalled accuracy and detail for four years from an extremely low circular polar orbit, on 21 October 2013 the low thrust ion propulsion motor used to contrast the atmospheric drag was automatically shut down when the pressure in the xenon propellant tank dropped below a critical threshold. Then the satellite entered in "fine-pointing mode", a phase of orbital altitude decay with active fine attitude control carried out by a set of magnetotorquers. According to the pre-launch specifications, the attitude control system was expected to compensate the gravity gradient and the aerodynamic torques up to an average drag force along the orbit of 20 mN. However the system proved itself much more robust than envisaged, remaining operational until reentry, with drag forces exceeding 2000 mN.
According to an ESA sponsored pre-launch analysis, during the uncontrolled atmospheric reentry GOCE should have fragmented between 95 and 35 km of height, producing 43 macroscopic pieces, totaling approximately 270 kg, able to hit the ground along a 900 km footprint during a 17 minutes time interval. The most massive fragment should have had a mass just below 95 kg. Considering the orbital inclination of the satellite, all the places between 83.5° south and north were overflown. This corresponded to more than 99% of the Earth surface, excluding only two small spherical segments around the north and south poles. The global casualty expectancy associated with this reentry was 1/5000, i.e. slightly more than the internationally recognized alert threshold of 1/10000.
The uncommon nature of the GOCE reentry campaign, sharing an uncontrolled orbital decay with a finely controlled attitude along the atmospheric drag direction, made the reentry predictions for this satellite an interesting case study, in particular because nobody was able to say a priori if and when the attitude control would have failed, leading to an unrestrained tumbling and a sudden variation of the orbital decay rate. As in previous cases, ISTI/CNR was in charge of reentry predictions for the Italian Space Agency and civil protection authorities, cooperating and exchanging information with the other space agencies belonging to the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC). Considering the peculiar nature of the GOCE reentry, the definition of reliable uncertainty windows was not easy, in particular taking into account the critical use of this information for civil protection evaluations. However, after an initial period of test and analysis, reasonably conservative criteria were elaborated and applied, with good and consistent results through the end of the reentry prediction campaign.
Being the attention of the Italian civil protection authorities focused on the national territory, during the last three days of satellite residual lifetime, reentries where simulated over Italy to obtain quite accurate ground tracks, debris swaths and air space crossing time windows associated with the critical passes over the national territory still included in the current uncertainty windows. 61 hours before reentry there were still 6 possible reentry opportunities over Italy, progressively reduced to 4 at minus 56 hours, 3 at minus 40 hours and 2 at minus 25 hours. Only 14 hours before reentry it was possible to exclude any residual risk of debris fall on the Italian territory and at minus 4 hours the final global ground track associated with the last reentry prediction uncertainty was issued to IADC. The GOCE fragments eventually plunged into the Southern Atlantic Ocean, between the Falkland Islands and the coast of Argentina, on 11 November 2013, between 00:24 and 00:40 UTC.


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Lenovo is held in Beijing TechWorld, which demonstrates their achievements and share plans for the future. One of the most interesting was the concept of Smart Cast, which uses a pico projector, and not just for show – such Soup we have seen – it is aligned with the projection keyboard (there is also a more than one year). It would seem that there is new? In fact, nothing but Lenovo, it seems, were able to solve a matter of convenience of this design.
Smart Cast goes against the system: smartphone concept presented in a thick, it can not be confused with a rectangular bar as well as a form of asymmetric devaysa, and still he has several moving parts, the most outstanding of which is the massive lower part. It hides the projector and projection keyboard. A complex system of mirrors makes it possible to use the gadget the same position as the projector upside down and then you can turn on the keyboard.
The projection area is not limited to a set of text – Lenovo offers a way to emulate the piano keys or midi-keyboard, even play games. The surface, as claimed by Lenovo, stands usual smartphone screen (only much larger area) and supports the usual gestures, clicks, slides and even multitouch.
Stability gadget upside provided stand, which is part of the body, and asks that in the vast PHABLET, is gaining popularity. On the whole, the device looks very interesting in terms of technology – is not just capacity GHz or pixels on the screen.
Of course, to the Smart Cast have a lot of questions, the most important of which is its autonomy. Actual development of the battery is unlikely to provide any significant numbers, so that Lenovo should consider buying some team working on a new type of battery. No less important is the question of the ultimate cost of the machine.
What do you think, will the future of smartphones is such harvesters or we all stop using this kind of gadgets in the next ten or twenty years? Or maybe Google today during a conference for developers revolutionize the market with its innovations smartfonostroeniya and Android M?


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Thursday, February 16, 2012
No need...
This past weekend, Andrew and I went to Edmonton for some 'us' time and for some retail therapy. As we were leaving our hotel and were stopped at an intersection, I noticed a white sign on the street corner:
Claire Estates A Senior's Residence.
I quickly pulled out my phone to take a pic! (It wasn't until this morning that I noticed the more obvious huge letters running down the side of the building! Duh?!)
An instant smile on my face,
and almost instantly equal devastated sadness in my heart...
Claire will never grow up,
become a mother,
an aunt,
grow old,
become a grandmother...
therefore will never need to live in a senior's residence.
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In the past, a complex special purpose software program like church management software would require all of the following on the church premises: adequate hardware, experts to install and manage the software, training for users, networked computers, centralized storage, user licenses, software maintenance fees, failover, and data backup. If the church does not have all of the equipment and expertise "in house", is there a simple way to outsource the complex software needs of the church? The good news is that cloud computing is maturing into the outsourcing solution that makes sense for small, medium, and large churches.
Cloud computing is a popular concept in technology today, and although the underlying ideas have been around for a while in various forms, the term was not coined until 2007. Cloud computing is growing and has a bright future. In general, cloud computing allows a variety of client devices to share information and software services over the Internet. The client devices do not know the details about how the information is manipulated and stored in the cloud. This article takes a closer look at a form of cloud computing called "software as a service" (SaaS), such as online church management software.
With SaaS, users access a web application in a web browser running on a variety of computing platforms such as mobile devices, Windows computers, and Apple computers. The web application interacts with web services running on a web server in a secure data center using standard Internet protocols such as HTTP, ASP, PHP and CGI. The web services manage client data stored in a database on the web server. The data center and the web servers provide service level agreements (SLAs) that guarantee access in spite of power outages, system upgrades, and hardware failures.
The benefits of a cloud computing solution such as online church management software include:
- No initial costly software purchase. Just pay a monthly subscription for the use of the software.
- No risk of data loss due to a hard drive crash on the church computer.
- Multiple users can share the same data.
- Data can be accessed and modified from anywhere.
- Application upgrades are performed on the web server rather than the client computer.
- Data is stored in a secure data center rather than on a vulnerable computer in a church office.
- No licensing fees for additional users. Subscription is for the entire church.
- No training or ramp-up time for new users. Web application takes advantage of the fact that everyone knows how to use a web browser. Online support and extensive knowledge base address user questions.
Shining Light Technologies provides a cloud computing software application that manages church data, including directory, groups and attendance, outreach, giving, missions, and resources.


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