Will your integrated video strategy scale to meet explosive demand?

Ian Heard | Client Strategy Director, Visual Communications | Dimension Data

By now, the potential benefits of visual communications are familiar to most large organisations. Many have already invested in the required hardware and infrastructure and, like some before them, have struggled with initially low utilisation rates. But these teething problems are gradually being solved by successful video adoption programmes, to such an extent that the opposite challenge is now beginning to rear its head. In some cases, there?s a sudden, explosive demand for video, which causes its own set of headaches. The answer lies in the cloud.

Even in the early days of convergence, it wasn?t hard to understand why visual communications had so much to offer. Attractive benefits such as enormous savings on airfares, lowered travel risk, a smaller carbon footprint, greater productivity and a better work-life balance soon turned videoconferencing into an organisational must-have, rather than a nice-to-have. Dispersed investments in video conferencing endpoints were the first step towards visual nirvana. But the initial mistake that many organisations made, and still make today, was to believe the old adage, ?Build it and they will come?. In most cases, employees didn?t just come, and after an initial buzz of excitement, the expensive video conferencing equipment soon began gathering dust, showing little return on investment and leaving the decision-makers to scratch their heads. It was time to call in the experts.

Low adoption
Human beings are fickle. Nowhere is this more evident than in the list of contributing factors causing the tardy adoption of video. Top of that list is ease of use. If it?s not immediately obvious how to use the equipment, the user experiences it as difficult, temperamental and frustrating, and avoids it as a matter of course. A key ease-of-use success factor we?ve identified is standardised meeting room hardware catalogues. This ensures that the equipment, the user interface and, by extension, the user experience is the same no matter in which room in the world the video call is made. Contact directories also play a key role. If these aren?t up-to-date and consistent among locations within the organisation, the placement of a video call to the right people is difficult for the user.

Deep integration
The next step in the progress of this technology is the deep integration offered by enterprise-grade convergence. Video conferencing is no longer confined to meeting rooms, or even offices, with clients now using video on a variety of mobile endpoints, including laptops or tablets. This advanced level of integration should also allow for immediate information-sharing and collaboration regardless of the device used.

Exploding demand
Quite recently, after a highly successful usage and adoption programme run by Dimension Data, one client experienced an incredible 600% increase in the use of its video conferencing facilities, which created an entirely new set of problems!

The danger is that, should the business not be able to scale its visual communications infrastructure and management over a short period, the user experience deteriorates and the associated frustrations may undo all the good that was done by the adoption programme. Slow scalability may put the organisation back to square one. What usually happens is that the infrastructure can?t handle the increased traffic, nor are the internal procurement processes agile enough to cater for the immediate up-scaling.

Cloudy prospects
We?re working with clients to solve this problem by creating private clouds that make up-scaling easier and faster. Private clouds don?t need the change control and management procedures as required when building the expanded facility into the client?s existing network. This means IT operations can scale the back-end infrastructure in line with the rising demand for endpoints. Connected to this is the up-scaling of the management of the video conferencing estate, which is why there?s such a fast-growing demand in the market for remote managed services, such as our Managed Service for Visual Communications.

It is important that organisations partner with service providers who have experience in, and can offer, the full spectrum of visual communications services: from initial assessment, consulting and professional services, through to outsourcing and cloud. Service providers should be able to offer ?as-a-service? bundling. Watch the VaaS video: www.videoconferencingbrochure.com.

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Three percent of US executions since 1900 were botched, study finds

ScienceDaily (May 29, 2012) ? Since the beginning of the 20th century, an estimated 3 percent of all executions in the United States were "botched," according to Amherst College Professor Austin Sarat and a team of undergraduate researchers. The group found that, of approximately 9,000 capital punishments that took place in the country from 1900 to 2011, 270 of them involved some problem in carrying out the death penalty.

"Given the gravity of the decision to put someone to death and the constitutional prohibition of cruel punishment," said Sarat, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, "the fact that 3 out of every 100 executions are messed up should be a cause of serious concern to all Americans."

By culling through detailed and often grisly newspaper accounts of capital punishments that occurred over the past 111 years, Sarat and his team created a database -- the only one of its kind, said Sarat -- of all of the mentions of what he describes as "departures from the protocol of killing someone sentenced to death." He explained that such departures included, among other things, instances in which inmates caught fire while being electrocuted, were strangled during hangings (instead of having their necks broken) or were administered the wrong dosages of specific drugs for lethal injections.

"What was particularly interesting was the way the media represented these events in the early part of the 1900s," said Sarat. He and his team published a paper about this aspect of their work -- the cultural reception of botched executions from 1890 to 1920 -- in the current issue of the British Journal of American Legal Studies and also discussed it at the meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities in Fort Worth, Texas, this past March. "In the vast majority of the stories about the botched executions, the narratives were both sensational and what we called 'recuperative' -- reporters consistently made the point that, despite the gruesomeness of the proceedings, the inmates didn't suffer, that justice was done. There was very little criticism of the process or questioning of the death penalty itself. The stories were used to sell newspapers and nothing else."

Sarat also noted that the group's analysis revealed that while the American penal system has gotten better at administering the death penalty, modern society demands more of the process -- that the killing not be more painful than necessary, in particular -- so that the acceptable margin of error is smaller today than it ever has been. As a result, capital punishments gone wrong are as much an issue in the 21st century as they were in the 20th.

Sarat cited the case of Romell Broom in Ohio in September of 2009 as one recent example of a botched execution. Efforts to find a suitable vein through which prison officials could inject a lethal dose of drugs were terminated after more than two hours of trying. Broom repeatedly grimaced in pain throughout the excruciating process and even attempted, at points, to help his executioners find a vein. Finally, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland put a halt to the execution and ordered a one-week reprieve.

"In my view, no procedure like the one Romell Broom experienced can comport with our constitutional commitment to avoid cruelty in punishment," said Sarat.

What struck student researcher Heather Richard the most was the fact that, in the early 1900s, newspapers didn't just publish articles about executions in vivid, morbid detail; they often made accounts more shocking by deliberately changing the facts. One Associated Press wire piece in 1922, for example, described the electrocution of James Wells on March 10 after 11 unsuccessful attempts. In the original story, Richard noted, the reporter wrote that "fully twenty minutes were consumed in putting him to death" and that the punishment was carried out by an "inexperienced executioner." The Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner ran the piece but edited the first phrase to read "few minutes were consumed in putting him to death" and described the executioner as "experienced." This was just one of many instances in which particular papers were loose with the facts, said Richard.

"We all found it fascinating that these editors and reporters took what is already an incredibly sensational event -- a botched execution -- and made it even more sensational by changing the details," she said. "And on top of that, the institution of capital punishment was not really examined or critiqued. It certainly says something about the newspapers and their readers."

Sarat agreed. "How a society punishes, and then talks about it, reveals its true character," he said. "Punishment tells us who we are. The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, its understandings of mercy and forgiveness and its particular ways of responding to evil."

"Sadly," he said, "our attachment to the death penalty reveals an unpleasant, unseemly side of American character."

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Global Update: Spread of Chagas Is Called ?The New AIDS of the Americas?

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Like AIDS, the authors of an editorial argue, Chagas disease is stigmatizing, has a long incubation time and is hard or impossible to cure.

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Google report details publisher trends in display ad business ...

As report after report shows us, Google controls nearly half of the global online advertising market. So you can imagine that it has reams of data from which to extract insights.

To give publishers a window into those vast stores of data, the tech giant today released the first of what it says will be a series of publications that mine information collected from across its display advertising properties, including DoubleClick for publishers, the DoubleClick ad exchange and the Google adsense network.

Using data sets containing tens of billions of impressions served by publishers around the world, the report ranks content verticals by ad impressions and CPM. It also looks at trends in mobile Web and video ad impressions, as well as geographic patterns.

For example, Google found that, in 2011, Arts & Entertainment was the top vertical in monetized impressions across AdSense and the Ad Exchange, followed by Online Communities and Games. However, Shopping, Sports, Pets & Animals and Auto & Vehicle sites were among the verticals to experience the fastest year-on-year growth. Despite its high impression ranking, Online Communities saw a double-digit decline, as did the Business & Industrial and Reference verticals.

Looking at content verticals by CPM (defined by Google as the amount a publisher earns for delivering a thousand impressions through a single ad unit), Google found that Health came out on top, followed by Business & Industrial and Jobs & Education.

As for mobile Web impressions, Google said publishers in all verticals except travel saw double-digit growth in the fourth quarter of 2011. The strongest vertical in mobile usage was Shopping, followed by Food & Drink and People & Society.

Other interesting findings include:

• Indicating the boom in mobile, Google said mobile Web impressions on the Ad Exchange and AdSense platforms climbed 250 percent from the third to ?fourth quarter in 2011.
• Video is also growing, with video ad impressions increasing almost 70 percent across the DoubleClick for publishers platform, between the third and fourth quarters of 2011.
• North America and Western Europe continue to be ?powerhouses? of online content, but some smaller pockets of the world are posting very high growth rates in ad impressions, including Palau (1106 percent), Equatorial Guinea (4635 percent) and Laos (382 percent). The United States has the highest percentage of ad impressions (24.7 percent), followed by China (10.5 percent) and Japan (5.7 percent).

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Guar gum originates from the guar bean, a legume. American diets are woefully without legumes, but they will be the only food type across different cultures which is related to longevity. This fact alone makes guar gum a great fiber choice.

Technically, guar gum is galactomannan gum, a glyconutrient using a mannose backbone and galactose branches. Special water-utilizing production processes (no chemicals) now enable a partially hydrolyzed guar gum. This extremely unique fiber dissolves completely in water and has no taste, which makes it super easy to eat.

There are a variety of different ways that guar gum soluble fiber will help you manage unwanted weight. Included in this are decrease in appetite with a corresponding lower intake of calories, improvement in blood sugar metabolic process and triglyceride levels, and improved friendly flora inside your digestive system that supports healthier metabolic signaling.

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By slowing this process (slowing gastric emptying) there is a lowering of the rise of blood glucose following a guar gum- containing meal. In the study with obese individuals it was found out that guar gum could reduce glucose levels by 10percent, thus improving insulin function. Participants within this study lost significant weight without changing other areas of their diet, in addition to experiencing a visible decrease in hunger.

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A 90-day study of type II diabetics, taking 5 grams of soluble fiber before every meal, including guar gum, was consideration to improve blood sugar metabolic process lower HbA1c by 10percent. Triglycerides were lowered 14percent, total cholesterol by 14percent, LDL cholesterol by 28percent, and HDL was boosted by 28percent. Many studies have reported that guar gum lowers cholesterol by 10percent to 15percent. These types of research has led researchers to claim that guar gum is a miracle therapy for hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycemia and obesity.

The friendly flora inside your digestive tract use dietary fiber like guar gum as a fermenting base which enables them to reproduce and boost their numbers, helping to offset the signs of irritable bowel. Partially hydrolyzed guar gum has been shown to improve the levels of friendly bifidobacteria and Lactobacillis acidophilus. New science implies that deficiencies in friendly flora is linked to obesity risk. Hostile digestive contents create inflammatory signals that clog metabolism.

Guar Gum Uses - Partially hydrolyzed guar gum will not restrict mineral absorption, nor can it reduce the absorption of any type of calorie. It will help regularity with the help of bulk for your stools, by means of increased bacterial and water content. It is often proven to reduce diarrhea and it is supportive of improved digestive immune function (boosting antibody production in GI lymph tissue). Just like any fiber, increase intake gradually to prevent excess gas formation from its normal lower colon boost in fermentation. Numerous studies reveal that partially hydrolyzed guar gum is not only effective, but highly liked by patients because of its easy mixing with no taste. It's a potent tool to aid metabolic and digestive health.

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Hey Kids, Get Off My Lawn: The Once And Future Visual Programming Environment

When I was a graduate student at the?MIT Media Lab?fifteen years ago, my research group went on a retreat every year with Famous Computer Scientists from?Xerox PARC. I greatly admired these people and their work. But I was young and in a hurry to get where I thought I was going. And it sometimes seemed that every time us young folks talked about our research, or showed a demo, someone would say something like, "oh, that's very nice, when we did that at PARC ...." Fast forward to the present. For the last few years, every time I see a new piece of small, open, hackable, networked hardware, or a new reputation engine, or a generative art piece, or a product built around location tracking plus real-time information push, or ? well, you get the idea ? I have to bite my tongue and think of the PARC folks to keep myself from saying, "oh, that's very nice, when we did that at the Media Lab ...." All of which just proves that the wheel of history revolves. New work is always new, by definition, even if it's not entirely new (which nothing can ever be).

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The loan seekers should assess what amount of finance they do require and for what purpose they would secure the finance. They can make use of the loans for purposes like debt consolidation, education of their children, medical treatment, wedding festival etc. An amount within 1000-25000 can be availed towards no credit check tenant loans. It is also a fact that the finance providers will finally fix the payable amount. The loan seekers will be allowed the tenure for repayment within 1 to 10 years. As the loan amount is offered in unsecured form, interest is charged at rates higher than usual. The borrowers must be responsible in obeying the repayment schedule; otherwise, they will be charged with fines and penalties.

The applicants must be over 18 and they must be citizens of United Kingdom to be eligible for no credit check tenant loans. The payment is made through the bank transfer mode. Hence, the borrowers must have an active checking account. It is important that the borrowers have capacity for paying back the amount secured. They must be employed in an authorized establishment and they must have substantial monthly income.

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Southeast braces for heavy rain, winds from Beryl

Tropical Storm Beryl has residents in Georgia and Florida bracing for drenching rains and driving winds. The Weather Channel Mike Seidel reports.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

Updated at 2:33 p.m. ET: Tropical Storm Beryl already was wrecking some Memorial Day weekend plans on Sunday, sending shoreline campers packing to head inland and canceling some events in the southeastern United States.

The storm is due to make landfall later tonight, from Jacksonville, Fla. to Georgia.

Beryl was still well offshore, but officials in Georgia and Florida were already bracing for drenching rains and driving winds. Campers at Cumberland Island, which is reachable only by boat, were told to leave by 4:45 p.m. The island has a number of undeveloped beaches and forests popular with campers.

Many people, however, seemed determined to make the best of the soggy forecast.

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At Greyfield Inn, a 19th-century mansion and the only private inn on Cumberland Island, the rooms were nearly full Sunday; all guests were planning to stay put through the wet weather, said Dawn Drake, who answered the phone at the inn's office on the Florida coast.

In Jacksonville, Fla., Mayor Alvin Brown ordered a state of emergency, ending the Jazz Festival early and urging people to stay out of the water and off the streets, News4JAX.com reported. Workers are also out clearing tree limbs and debris that could be tossed about by the storm's winds.

"We are encouraging all residents to stay indoors," Brown said at a Sunday morning news conference at the Emergency Operations Center.?

But business was booming at Red Dog Surf Shop in New Smyrna Beach where customers flocked to buy boards and wax in anticipation of the storm's high waves. Officials all along the coast warned of rip currents, waves and high tides ? all of which can be dangerous but also tend to attract adventurous surfers.

Joe Murphy, a spokesman for the Ritz Carlton in Amelia Island, said he was not seeing a flood of checkouts or people trying to get off the island. The hotel expected about 140 checkouts out of 466 rooms, he said.

Outdoor dining had been moved inside and the hotel set up movies and family game activities, but the hotel had no plans to board up or move patio furniture inside.

"So far it's kind of business as usual, but with that sort of anticipation of what does the storm mean," Murphy said.

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Beryl was upgraded from a subtropical storm on Sunday afternoon. It was centered about 110 miles (175 kilometers) east of Jacksonville, Fla., and about 120 miles (195 km) east-southeast of Brunswick, Ga. Forecasters said the system had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) and was moving west at 10 mph (17 kph).

Beryl?was projected to make landfall late Sunday or early Monday, though tropical storm conditions -- meaning maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) --?were expected to reach the U.S. coast hours before that. Once it makes landfall, Beryl will continue dumping rain over parts of Florida and Georgia before slowly moving back out to sea.

Tropical storm warnings were in effect for the entire Georgia coastline, as well as parts of Florida and South Carolina, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Beryl was expected to weaken to a depression Monday once it came ashore, the center said.

On Tybee Island, a barrier island not far from Savannah, water off the beaches was closed for swimming Sunday morning. Tybee Island fire Chief C.L. Sasser said winds of up to 42 mph were creating "horrendous water currents." Only people with flotation devices strapped or tethered to their bodies were being allowed into the water, and they were being cautioned to not venture in farther than knee deep.

"Even if you're standing in waist-deep water, the current can sweep you out quickly," he said.

His ocean rescue team pulled a total of 48 people from the water on Saturday, he said, including about 27 that were considered to be in life-threatening conditions. One man who was sucked under the water was rescued by friends and onlookers and was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

A band of showers soaked the beaches late Sunday morning, causing crowds to thin, Sasser said. With alternating rainy and sunny weather forecast throughout the day, he said he expected the crowds on the sands to ebb and flow.

In South Carolina, Janice Keith with the Myrtle Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau said the office hadn't fielded any calls from concerned tourists.

In Beaufort County, emergency management deputy director David Zeoli said officials were continuing to monitor the storm and encourage people to have a plan in case conditions get worse.

Zeoli said winds had kicked up in the area that includes Hilton Head Island, a popular golf and beach destination. "It's just a wet day here," he said.

Msnbc.com's James Eng contributed to this report from The Associated Press.

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What exactly is Currency trading?

FOREX stands for the FOReign EXchange market, that is a worldwide financial market where foreign currencies tend to be dealt. The foreign exchange market commenced inside Seventies and is the greatest fiscal market place on earth, with the common every day revenues of US$1.Nine billion. Which is 25 periods how much daily exercise upon each of the Us all stock markets.

Each Foreign exchange trade requires together buying one forex along with marketing an additional. By way of example, if you feel the Dollar may climb in accordance with the particular dollar, youll position any Euro/Dollar trade. Your foreign exchange technique might then buy the Dinar and then sell a similar quantity of the Buck. Next, when you need to close your position, youd probably place the Dollar/Euro industry. This could find the Dollar and sell the Euro. In the event the Pound got increased up against the Money, youd probably make a profit, but if the idea experienced decreased in accordance with the actual Greenback youd probably create a decline.

What foreign currencies are dealt?

Most of the earths stock markets are available to industry, nevertheless the majority of marketplace action requires a gaggle of main values, including the People Buck, the Dinar, the Yen, the actual Switzerland Franc and also Sterling.

Wheres the Forex market situated?

In contrast to many financial markets worldwide, Forex trading just isnt centralized with an swap. Alternatively that operates on a basis known as the interbank market or older the Counter (Over the counter). As every single Forex trading involves two reciprocal deals (buy one forex and then sell another), these are carried out electronically with any kind of dealer who is willing to recognize your industry.

Who is able to buy and sell within the Foreign exchange?

Typically, entry to currency trading had been restricted to banking organisations, such as main finance institutions, industrial financial institutions along with purchase finance institutions. For this reason this is run on something referred to as the interbank marketplace.

Even so, the quantity of neo financial institution members inside Forex market, such as international businesses, cash supervisors, funds brokers and private speculators, is increasing quickly. And thanks to the actual fairly little bit of funds forced to open up an investing consideration (usually $500) Foreign exchange will be checking in order to a lot more people continuously. In case you are above Eighteen, get internet connection your enough cash to open a trading account, the field of Currency trading will be accessible to you.

Just when was forex available for investing?

While Forex doesnt exist inside a standard exchange, its the only Round-the-clock monetary market place in the world. Currency trading will begin every single day in Modern australia then goes worldwide since the significant global real estate markets inside Tokyo, Birmingham as well as The big apple available.

To put it differently, theres always traders someplace on the planet who will be make an effort to investing foreign currencies. Which means you will make positions and reply to significant interpersonal, financial along with political events day and nite. Nevertheless, you will find theres brief sleep period coming from close up regarding trading for the United states fiscal marketplace on Friday till investing will begin around australia on Mon morning hours. Nonetheless, due to the time variances around the globe, this era just can last for about 48 hours.

What is a trading margin?

Forex trading investments come in plenty of $100,500. When you present that amount of money to hide your situation prior to deciding to can industry, the market industry would always once again always be restricted to banking institutions and other institutional people. So brokerages established the principle associated with perimeter trading. Essentially they allow visitors to buy and sell $100,Thousand hindrances of currency exchange whether they can provide an component of security towards possible deficits.

As an example, they will often allow individuals to industry over a margin involving 1% (compared, standard stock agents usually have to have a 50% perimeter). This means that they can trade $100,000 blocks, furnished their account consists of at least $100,1000 by 1% = $1000. One thousand dollars will safeguard the dealer in opposition to any potential deficits that their client can make (forex values rarely go up and down by simply a lot more than 1% within a morning). If your companys accounts can be reduced through losses (i.e. lowering the brokers protection down below appropriate ranges), your dealer can near just about all investments and also demand one more put in just before even more deals can be produced.

Exchanging margin lets people to regulate huge amounts of foreign currency wiith fairly small quantities of capital (often 50, Hundred as well as 200 occasions the quantity of funds they have expended). This may lead to substantial benefits, yet boosts the likelihood of shedding the majority of or perhaps your growth capital.

Simply how much will it charge?

Due to the exchanging margin provided by most Foreign exchange brokers, its possible to open up a forex account and acquire began buying and selling using a comparatively small amount of money.

Currency trading trades are made in lots of $100,Thousand. Nonetheless, most Forexs brokes will provide you with an influence percentage all the way to 100:A single, so that you will find the ability to management any $100,1000 have business dealings with as low as $1000 with your consideration. A few brokerages will provide influence associated with 2 hundred:A single or perhaps 500:1, that allows you to definitely commence with as low as $500 or perhaps $250 in your consideration.

Nonetheless, remember to remember that despite the fact that increased control enables you to improve your profit potential, it also enhances the danger issue. The larger the control ratio, smaller exchanging variation that will be forced to eliminate your current buying and selling capital. So pick the level of power that you employ wisely.
For brand new dealers, it could be safer to begin with power of Twenty:One or even 55:1. This will increase the amount youll want to available a forex account, however it will certainly decrease the probability of seeing all your exchanging funds go away because of a little change in the price of the currency exchange.

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Albert Pujols is starting to show signs of life after a woeful start to his career with the L.A. Angels.

A Series of Unfortunate Events. For those that don?t know, it?s a quite popular children?s book series that, frankly, I never liked. So popular, they made a movie starring Jim Carrey after the books? success. The premise is quite reflective of the title ? it circles around three siblings, who can?t catch a break. Not once. Nothing goes their way.

But as I said, I didn?t like the books. I only read a couple of them, but I distinctly remember having no desire to continue on with the series. It just seemed preposterous that everything could go wrong for them. I know it?s fiction and that?s the point ? but I?m too stubborn to believe that that can happen.

It?s not that an unfortunate event makes the next one more likely to be fortunate, but that each event has an equal chance of going either way, and for hundreds to break in a single direction is against all odds.

I feel the same way about baseball players and their fantasy prospects. It can?t all go wrong. And since the only stats we pursue in fantasy are those from this day forward, ignoring the short term past is often one of the best ways to predict the long term future. That is precisely why the following list are all buy-low players I am currently looking to snag. Without further ado, A Series of Unfortunate Players:

Albert Pujols, 1B

Why not start with the best of the best? His .232 BABIP doesn?t look the slightest bit legitimate against a .309 career average and a 21.3% line drive rate. Fools will say Pujols is old and washed up, but in reality, he?s a top-10 fantasy option with a top-20 price tag. Hitting three homers in his last four games through Friday doesn?t hurt, either.

Josh Johnson, SP

I refuse to give up on this one. Completely and utterly refuse. In his latest start as of this writing (5/20 at Cleveland) he displayed his highest average velocity yet. He has the third-highest difference between his ERA and FIP, and nothing suggests he should be giving up as many runs as he has.

Jemile Weeks, 2B

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24 May 2012

June 2010

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Dear family and friends,

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Greeting from Lima! We hope that all of you are well and experiencing God?s care for you.? Thank you for loving us, and for taking the time to catch up on what?s going on in our family and in the WMF community in Lima by reading this letter.? As you know, 3 of our family have birthdays in May and so we have been either planning or celebrating pretty much the whole month on and off.? The WMF community allowed us to use the ministry center for a joint birthday party (pictured above) which was a lot of fun; both Isa and Tali had a great time.? We celebrated Brian?s birthday with a nice breakfast at home, then accompanied the community on a daytrip outside of Lima with 15 young mothers and their 20 (ish) children to celebrate a belated Mother?s Day.? They just couldn?t pass up the opportunity to also show Brian some traditional birthday love by breaking an egg over his head (above).? Isa and Tali participated in events at school last month.? Tali was in the Mother?s Day program (above); dressed to the tee, shaking her salsa hips in a cute blue dress. ?She had the needle pegged on the sass-o-meter.? Isa performed a beautiful solo in the Living Inside Out musical at her school (above).

The community in Lima is still in the middle of staff transitions.? Linsey Higgins just went back to the US after serving in Lima for almost 4 years.? She is already dearly missed.? Also in May, we welcomed Esperanza Gual as staff; she is an amazing Peruvian woman who has been part of our volunteer community for many years. She has been formally trained in early childhood education; we are looking forward to working with her as we have many hopes and plans about expanding our work with former street families and their children.? The Ingrum family have been in Lima since February studying Spanish and adjusting to life.? Pray about their transition into? the ministry structure and programs in August.? Also, Amy Lahey is still waiting on God?s timing for her departure for Lima as her house in Atlanta is still not selling.

Thank you for continuing to remember our family?s financial situation.? Our support account has been slowly reaching into the positive for 5 months now as you have responded to our $10,000 challenge.? Here is where we are at currently:

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Thank you for your support and commitment to our family, and the ministry of WMF in Lima, Peru.? God willing, we?ll see you soon!

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the Langleys (Brian, Rachel, Isabel, Natalia)

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COMINGLE FUNDS- Make sure you mix your business money and your personal money.? This will allow you to be clueless as to where your money is going and what type of return you are getting on your investments!

MAKE A FREE WEBSITE- Go to one of those free website .com?s and sign up.? Use their template and slap up your website!? Don?t worry about your placement in search engines. ?Don?t worry about how your site functions or whether your site is consistent with your brand image or not.? ?People will find your website after you reach them through something like a business card or another marketing item that costs you more money. ??That way, instead of new prospects finding you on the web, your website can serve as supplemental information for people you have already marketed to.? FREE WEBSITES SAVE YOU MONEY IN THE LONG RUN ANYWAY.? Why pay someone to build your website and market your brand correctly online?? Just throw caution to the wind and see what sticks.

MAKE YOUR OWN LOGO ON YOUR COMPUTER ? You know how you want your business to come across!? Even though there are 100?s of books on branding and logo design and entire college courses on the topic, a logo can be slapped together by anyone!? Just go buy a $9 program that comes with templates.? Better yet, look up FREE LOGO on Google and use one of those services.? You are a design pro!? You got this!

ORDER FREE BUSINESS CARDS- Don?t worry about staying consistent with your brand.? Don?t pay a designer who understands brand consistency and marketing.? It is fine if all of your marketing materials look completely different.?? They have your contact information on them and that is all that is important. Right?? You are just going to use your FREE business cards to send people to your FREE website anyway!

DO YOUR OWN MARKETING ? You can?t afford to pay a marketing company right now because you are still doing free work for family and friends.? You are selling your product at cost to invest in the word of mouth advertising that will get you where you need to be in the long run.? Market yourself instead of hiring an expert.? Surely you have friends who own businesses and know how to market that can give you advice.? Slap up a craigslist text-only ad.? Marketing is marketing . The target demographic doesn?t matter; neither does market research.? What works for a car lot also works for marketing a movie theater right?? The investment probably won?t pay for itself anyway.

DON?T FORMALIZE YOUR PLAN-? You know in your head what you need to do.? Don?t waste time writing it down and organizing the information.? That just takes time away from work that you could be doing!? Also, if you do formalize your plan, you only need to do it once.? One time and you are good to go forever!? No need to revisit and adjust.? You can do all that in your head.

DO SERVICE WORK FOR FREE OR SELL YOUR PRODUCT AT COST TO GET STARTED-? This one is great when starting out.? Provide your services for friends and family for free.? You are not worth any money yet anyway.? Your time is not worth money.? You need to invest time into growing your business by doing work for free.? The word of mouth advertising will get you to the paying clients.? If you sell a product, make sure you make hardly any profit off of it in the beginning.? You need to keep prices low so you can sell it to family and friends.? Again, the word of mouth advertising will get you to the paying customers.

DON?T WORRY ABOUT YOUR PROCESSES ? Clients don?t care how easy it is to do business with you.? They only care about the price.? Your processes can be as tedious and disorganized as they need to be as long as prices are LOW!? Price is really all the people care about anyway.

These 8 steps will guarantee your failure in business.

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How to succeed?

While some are more obvious than others, take your time when planning.? Make sure you surround yourself with people more intelligent than you when it comes to business.? Don?t try to do everything yourself; it will actually COST YOU MORE MONEY AND TIME IN THE LONG RUN TO TRY TO DO IT ALL YOURSELF!? Hire the best Attorneys, Accountants, Marketers, etc. you can afford.? We completely understand that many times businesses do not have the budget to do all of this at once.? You have to do the best you can with what you have.? Just remember, you always have a bartering tool so you don?t necessarily need money.? Offer a trade of products or services to others when you don?t have the capital to afford paying them.? Are you an Auto Detailing company that needs an Attorney to draw up some contracts and forms?? Find the best attorney you can find and offer to detail his/her vehicles for free in exchange for him/her to draw up your contracts and forms.? Negotiate how many times you are willing to detail his/her car vs. what contracts and forms you need created.

In summation, if you do the opposite of the 8 steps, you are all but destined for greatness in the shark-infested waters of turning your passion into a business.

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