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- (in The Monash Report) Operational and strategic issues for IBM
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MariaDB and MaxScale
I chatted with the MariaDB folks on Tuesday. Let me start by noting:
- MariaDB, the product, is a MySQL fork.
- MariaDB, product and company alike, are essentially a reaction to Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. A lot of the key players are previously from MySQL.
- MariaDB, the company, is the former SkySQL …
- … which acquired or is the surviving entity of a merger with The Monty Program, which originated MariaDB. According to Wikipedia, something called the MariaDB Foundation is also in the mix.
- I get the impression SkySQL mainly provided services around MySQL, especially remote DBA.
- It appears that a lot of MariaDB's technical differentiation going forward is planned to be in a companion product called MaxScale, which was released into Version 1.0 general availability earlier this year.
The numbers around MariaDB are a little vague. I was given the figure that there were ~500 customers total, but I couldn't figure out what they were customers for. Remote DBA services? MariaDB support subscriptions? Something else? I presume there are some customers in each category, but I don't know the mix. Other notes on MariaDB the company are:
- ~80 people in ~15 countries.
- 20-25 engineers, which hopefully doesn't count a few field support people.
- "Tiny" headquarters in Helsinki.
- Business leadership growing in the US and especially the SF area.
MariaDB, the company, also has an OEM business. Part of their pitch is licensing for connectors — specifically LGPL — that hopefully gets around some of the legal headaches for MySQL engine suppliers.
MaxScale is a proxy, which starts out by intercepting and parsing MariaDB queries. Read more
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Hadoop: And then there were three
Hortonworks, IBM, EMC Pivotal and others have announced a project called "Open Data Platform" to do … well, I'm not exactly sure what. Mainly, it sounds like:
- An attempt to minimize the importance of any technical advantages Cloudera or MapR might have.
- A face-saving way to admit that IBM's and Pivotal's insistence on having their own Hadoop distributions has been silly.
- An excuse for press releases.
- A source of an extra logo graphic to put on marketing slides.
Edit: Now there's a press report saying explicitly that Hortonworks is taking over Pivotal's Hadoop distro customers (which basically would mean taking over the support contracts and then working to migrate them to Hortonworks' distro).
The claim is being made that this announcement solves some kind of problem about developing to multiple versions of the Hadoop platform, but to my knowledge that's a problem rarely encountered in real life. When you already have a multi-enterprise open source community agreeing on APIs (Application Programming interfaces), what API inconsistency remains for a vendor consortium to painstakingly resolve?
Anyhow, it now seems clear that if you want to use a Hadoop distribution, there are three main choices:
- Cloudera's flavor, whether as software (from Cloudera) or in an appliance (e.g. from Oracle).
- MapR's flavor, as software from MapR.
- Hortonworks' flavor, from a number of vendors, including Hortonworks, IBM, Pivotal, Teradata et al.
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Thoughts and notes, Thanksgiving weekend 2014
I'm taking a few weeks defocused from work, as a kind of grandpaternity leave. That said, the venue for my Dances of Infant Calming is a small-but-nice apartment in San Francisco, so a certain amount of thinking about tech industries is inevitable. I even found time last Tuesday to meet or speak with my clients at WibiData, MemSQL, Cloudera, Citus Data, and MongoDB. And thus:
1. I've been sloppy in my terminology around "geo-distribution", in that I don't always make it easy to distinguish between:
- Storing different parts of a database in different geographies, often for reasons of data privacy regulatory compliance.
- Replicating an entire database into different geographies, often for reasons of latency and/or availability/ disaster recovery,
The latter case can be subdivided further depending on whether multiple copies of the data can accept first writes (aka active-active, multi-master, or multi-active), or whether there's a clear single master for each part of the database.
What made me think of this was a phone call with MongoDB in which I learned that the limit on number of replicas had been raised from 12 to 50, to support the full-replication/latency-reduction use case.
2. Three years ago I posted about agile (predictive) analytics. One of the points was:
… if you change your offers, prices, ad placement, ad text, ad appearance, call center scripts, or anything else, you immediately gain new information that isn't well-reflected in your previous models.
Subsequently I've been hearing more about predictive experimentation such as bandit testing. WibiData, whose views are influenced by a couple of Very Famous Department Store clients (one of which is Macy's), thinks experimentation is quite important. And it could be argued that experimentation is one of the simplest and most direct ways to increase the value of your data.
3. I'd further say that a number of developments, trends or possibilities I'm seeing are or could be connected. These include agile and experimental predictive analytics in general, as noted in the previous point, along with: Read more
An idealized log management and analysis system — from whom?
I've talked with many companies recently that believe they are:
- Focused on building a great data management and analytic stack for log management …
- … unlike all the other companies that might be saying the same thing …
- … and certainly unlike expensive, poorly-scalable Splunk …
- … and also unlike less-focused vendors of analytic RDBMS (which are also expensive) and/or Hadoop distributions.
At best, I think such competitive claims are overwrought. Still, it's a genuinely important subject and opportunity, so let's consider what a great log management and analysis system might look like.
Much of this discussion could apply to machine-generated data in general. But right now I think more players are doing product management with an explicit conception either of log management or event-series analytics, so for this post I'll share that focus too.
A short answer might be "Splunk, but with more analytic functionality and more scalable performance, at lower cost, plus numerous coupons for free pizza." A more constructive and bottoms-up approach might start with: Read more
Data integration as a business opportunity
A significant fraction of IT professional services industry revenue comes from data integration. But as a software business, data integration has been more problematic. Informatica, the largest independent data integration software vendor, does $1 billion in revenue. INFA's enterprise value (market capitalization after adjusting for cash and debt) is $3 billion, which puts it way short of other category leaders such as VMware, and even sits behind Tableau.* When I talk with data integration startups, I ask questions such as "What fraction of Informatica's revenue are you shooting for?" and, as a follow-up, "Why would that be grounds for excitement?"
*If you believe that Splunk is a data integration company, that changes these observations only a little.
On the other hand, several successful software categories have, at particular points in their history, been focused on data integration. One of the major benefits of 1990s business intelligence was "Combines data from multiple sources on the same screen" and, in some cases, even "Joins data from multiple sources in a single view". The last few years before application servers were commoditized, data integration was one of their chief benefits. Data warehousing and Hadoop both of course have a "collect all your data in one place" part to their stories — which I call data mustering — and Hadoop is a data transformation tool as well.
21st Century DBMS success and failure
As part of my series on the keys to and likelihood of success, I outlined some examples from the DBMS industry. The list turned out too long for a single post, so I split it up by millennia. The part on 20th Century DBMS success and failure went up Friday; in this one I'll cover more recent events, organized in line with the original overview post. Categories addressed will include analytic RDBMS (including data warehouse appliances), NoSQL/non-SQL short-request DBMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NewSQL and Hadoop.
DBMS rarely have trouble with the criterion "Is there an identifiable buying process?" If an enterprise is doing application development projects, a DBMS is generally chosen for each one. And so the organization will generally have a process in place for buying DBMS, or accepting them for free. Central IT, departments, and — at least in the case of free open source stuff — developers all commonly have the capacity for DBMS acquisition.
In particular, at many enterprises either departments have the ability to buy their own analytic technology, or else IT will willingly buy and administer things for a single department. This dynamic fueled much of the early rise of analytic RDBMS.
Buyer inertia is a greater concern.
- A significant minority of enterprises are highly committed to their enterprise DBMS standards.
- Another significant minority aren't quite as committed, but set pretty high bars for new DBMS products to cross nonetheless.
- FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) about new DBMS is often justifiable, about stability and consistent performance alike.
A particularly complex version of this dynamic has played out in the market for analytic RDBMS/appliances.
- First the newer products (from Netezza onwards) were sold to organizations who knew they wanted great performance or price/performance.
- Then it became more about selling "business value" to organizations who needed more convincing about the benefits of great price/performance.
- Then the behemoth vendors became more competitive, as Teradata introduced lower-price models, Oracle introduced Exadata, Sybase got more aggressive with Sybase IQ, IBM bought Netezza, EMC bought Greenplum, HP bought Vertica and so on. It is now hard for a non-behemoth analytic RDBMS vendor to make headway at large enterprise accounts.
- Meanwhile, Hadoop has emerged as serious competitor for at least some analytic data management, especially but not only at internet companies.
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More on public policy
Occasionally I take my public policy experience out for some exercise. Last week I wrote about privacy and network neutrality. In this post I'll survey a few more subjects.
1. Censorship worries me, a lot. A classic example is Vietnam, which basically has outlawed online political discussion.
And such laws can have teeth. It's hard to conceal your internet usage from an inquisitive government.
2. Software and software related patents are back in the news. Google, which said it was paying $5.5 billion or so for a bunch of Motorola patents, turns out to really have paid $7 billion or more. Twitter and IBM did a patent deal as well. Big numbers, and good for certain shareholders. But this all benefits the wider world — how?
The purpose of legal intellectual property protections, simply put, is to help make it a good decision to create something. …
Why does "securing … exclusive Right[s]" to the creators of things that are patented, copyrighted, or trademarked help make it a good decision for them to create stuff? Because it averts competition from copiers, thus making the creator a monopolist in what s/he has created, allowing her to at least somewhat value-price her creation.
I.e., the core point of intellectual property rights is to prevent copying-based competition. By way of contrast, any other kind of intellectual property "right" should be viewed with great suspicion.
That Constitutionally-based principle makes as much sense to me now as it did then. By way of contrast, "Let's give more intellectual property rights to big corporations to protect middle-managers' jobs" is — well, it's an argument I view with great suspicion.
But I find it extremely hard to think of a technology industry example in which development was stimulated by the possibility of patent protection. Yes, the situation may be different in pharmaceuticals, or for gadgeteering home inventors, but I can think of no case in which technology has been better, or faster to come to market, because of the possibility of a patent-law monopoly. So if software and business-method patents were abolished entirely – even the ones that I think could be realistically adjudicated — I'd be pleased.
3. In November, 2008 I offered IT policy suggestions for the incoming Obama Administration, especially: Read more
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The games of Watson
IBM excels at game technology, most famously in Deep Blue (chess) and Watson (Jeopardy!). But except at the chip level — PowerPC — IBM hasn't accomplished much at game/real world crossover. And so I suspect the Watson hype is far overblown.
I believe that for two main reasons. First, whenever IBM talks about big initiatives like Watson, it winds up bundling a bunch of dissimilar things together and claiming they're a seamless whole. Second, some core Watson claims are eerily similar to artificial intelligence (AI) over-hype three or more decades past. For example, the leukemia treatment advisor that is being hopefully built in Watson now sounds a lot like MYCIN from the early 1970s, and the idea of collecting a lot of tidbits of information sounds a lot like the Cyc project. And by the way:
- MYCIN led to E-MYCIN, which led to the company Teknowledge, which raised a lot of money* but now has almost faded from memory.
- Cyc is connected to the computer science community's standard unit of bogosity.
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RDBMS and their bundle-mates
Relational DBMS used to be fairly straightforward product suites, which boiled down to:
- A big SQL interpreter.
- A bunch of administrative and operational tools.
- Some very optional add-ons, often including an application development tool.
Now, however, most RDBMS are sold as part of something bigger.
- Oracle has hugely thickened its stack, as part of an Innovator's Solution strategy — hardware, middleware, applications, business intelligence, and more.
- IBM has moved aggressively to a bundled "appliance" strategy. Even before that, IBM DB2 long sold much better to committed IBM accounts than as a software-only offering.
- Microsoft SQL Server is part of a stack, starting with the Windows operating system.
- Sybase was an exception to this rule, with thin(ner) stacks for both Adaptive Server Enterprise and Sybase IQ. But Sybase is now owned by SAP, and increasingly integrated as a business with …
- … SAP HANA, which is closely associated with SAP's applications.
- Teradata has always been a hardware/software vendor. The most successful of its analytic DBMS rivals, in some order, are:
- Netezza, a pure appliance vendor, now part of IBM.
- Greenplum, an appliance-mainly vendor for most (not all) of its existence, and in particular now as a part of EMC Pivotal.
- Vertica, more of a software-only vendor than the others, but now owned by and increasingly mainstreamed into hardware vendor HP.
- MySQL's glory years were as part of the "LAMP" stack.
- Various thin-stack RDBMS that once were or could have been important market players … aren't. Examples include Progress OpenEdge, IBM Informix, and the various strays adopted by Actian.
Comments on the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems
The 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems is out. "Operational" seems to be Gartner's term for what I call short-request, in each case the point being that OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) is a dubious term when systems omit strict consistency, and when even strictly consistent systems may lack full transactional semantics. As is usually the case with Gartner Magic Quadrants:
- I admire the raw research.
- The opinions contained are generally reasonable (especially since Merv Adrian joined the Gartner team).
- Some of the details are questionable.
- There's generally an excessive focus on Gartner's perception of vendors' business skills, and on vendors' willingness to parrot all the buzzphrases Gartner wants to hear.
- The trends Gartner highlights are similar to those I see, although our emphasis may be different, and they may leave some important ones out. (Big omission — support for lightweight analytics integrated into operational applications, one of the more genuine forms of real-time analytics.)
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I think it's a bit different for everyone. I had pitocin so my contractions were one on top of another. . . no break between contraction. They felt like a bad period cramp in the front, like someone was stabbing me in the back (had back labor), plus there was lots of tightening and pressure everywhere in my midsection. My adrenelin was pumping too so my legs and arms shook uncontrollably. Overall the pain was the worst I've ever felt in my life but I was able to use concentration, relaxation, and breathing techniques to get through the contractions. I didn't get an epidural :) If you're not sure if you want an epidural that's fine. Go into the hospital with an open mind. For me, they started an IV but let me dictate my labor. The IV was a prep in case I wanted an epidural. I'm planning on doing the same thing this time (hopefully without pitocin if possible though).
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WALLA WALLA — Kennewick escaped Wa-Hi 4-3 Tuesday afternoon at the Walla Walla Country club in a closely contested Mid-Columbia Conference girls tennis match to open the 2013 season.
Two of the four singles matches were decided in three sets and two of the three doubles matches went the distance.
"The first match of the season is always a good opportunity to see how the girls perform in a match situation," Wa-Hi coach Keven Peck said. "As usual, they didn't disappoint in the effort category.
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The Lions' Stephanie Buckingham was victorious at first singles with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Wa-Hi's Allison Mehn. Rachel Schueller provided Wa-Hi's singles point with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over MyAnn Harris, and Blue Devils Jaime Quaresma and Lexi Swenson battled into a third set before succumbing.
Tobin and Arceo defeated the Kennewick duo of Gaby Garcia and Crystal Mejia 2-6, 6-0, 7-5 at first doubles, and Bautista and Duran prevailed 6-3, 6-2 at third doubles. Wa-Hi's Hailey Lewis and Danielle Thongdy were defeated in three sets in the No. 2 doubles match.
"I couldn't ask for a better effort from the girls," Peck said. "They work hard every day to get better and they battle hard to the last point in every match. With that type of work ethic, winning will take care of itself."
The Blue Devils return to action Thursday when they travel to Richland to face the Bombers in a 2 p.m. match.
Kennewick 4, Wa-Hi 3
SINGLES — Stephanie Buckingham, Ken, def Allison Mehn, WW, 6-1, 6-0; Rachel Schueller, WW, def MyAnn Harris, Ken, 6-1, 6-2; Hanoor Mahal, Ken, def Jaime Quaresma, WW, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Ester Marin, Ken, def Lexi Swenson, WW, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
DOUBLES — Rosa Tobin-Mari Arceo, WW, def Gaby Garcia-Crystal Mejia, Ken, 2-6, 6-0, 7-5; Dailee Singer-Ashlyn Oshurn, Ken, def Hailey Lewis-Danielle Thongdy, WW, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; Jennifer Bautista-Jazmin Duran, WW, def Nadine Bare-Dominique Martinez, Ken, 6-3, 6-2.
Team Scores — Kennewick 4, Wa-Hi 3.
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Q2 2008 Earnings Call
August 8, 2008 10:30 am ET
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This conference is being recorded today, Friday, August 8, 2008, and at this time I'd like to turn the conference over to Ken Dennard of DRG&E. Please go ahead, sir.
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Thanks, [Francia], and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us for Carriage Services conference call to discuss second quarter 2008 results.
Before I turn the call over to management I have the normal housekeeping details to run through. If you'd like to be on the e-mail distribution list, fax list for future Carriage Services releases or if you had technical problems and didn't receive your copy yesterday afternoon, please call our offices at DRG&E and we'll be happy to assist you. That number's 713-529-6600.
Additionally, due to the fact the financial tables are very long and are wide for formatting for the wire services to have it one page or formatted correctly, we recommend that you download the *.pdf of the table that is on the Carriage website or it could be on my e-mail that I sent you yesterday.
If you'd like to listen to a replay of today's call, one will be available via webcast by going to Carriage's website at www.CarriageServices.com.
Additionally, in a few hours there will be a telephonic instant replay that'll be available 24 hours a day for the next week. The replay and access code are in the release yesterday afternoon.
Please note that information reported on this call speaks only as of today, August 8, 2008, and therefore you are advised that any time-sensitive information may not be accurate as of the time of any replay listing.
Also, as you know, certain statements made today on the conference call or elsewhere by or on behalf of the company that are not historical facts are intended to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended.
These statements are based upon assumptions that the company believes are reasonable, however many factors that are discussed under forward-looking statements and cautionary statements in the company's annual report on Form 10K for the year ended December 31, 2007 and any subsequent SEC filings could cause the company's results in the future to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made today or in other documents or oral presentations made by or on behalf of the company.
A copy of the company's Form 10-K and 10-Q, news releases and other information are available for free on the Carriage Services website.
Now with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Mel Payne, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
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Thank you, Ken.
I would characterize our second quarter as the perfect storm of reported underperformance. And once again I find that perfect storms are very interesting. You don't know how bad they are until they're past, but that's my main point. This perfect storm has passed and will not be repeated.
After six straight quarters of excellent year-over-year performance, starting with the fourth quarter of 2006, we had a very weak quarter, with zero earnings per share. This underperformance was broad across our portfolio and reflected poor execution of our standards operating model in too many businesses in our portfolio, but also a difficult economic environment.
Some of the issues related to our underperformance were controllable, for example, salaries and benefits weren't managed to the actual weaker revenue, and some of the issues were not, for example, the spike in cremation rate. We are moving fast to take specific action to improve performance and have total confidence that our performance will improve sequentially in the third and fourth quarter and position 2009 for a return to positive revenue and margin trends.
Because of the weakness in the second quarter, however, we have lowered our rolling four-quarter outlook ending June 30, 2009 to reflect a reduction of $0.10 a share in the EPS range to $0.38 to $0.42 from $0.48 to $0.52 and a reduction of about $3 million in the consolidated EBITDA range to $39.5 million to $42.5 million from $43 to $45 million.
However, I want to emphasize that within the next 12 to 18 months we fully expect our performance to improve to a degree that our rolling four-quarter outlook will return to the $0.48 to $0.52 per share and the $43 to $45 million consolidated EBITDA.
Let me now walk you through some details of our trend reports to give a little more color. While I think we adequately cover the details of the quarter in the press release, what I would prefer to cover is the recent performance using the annual trend reports so that I can crystallize the path of improved performance expectations over the next 12 to 18 months much more specifically.
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Jack McElroy: Maybe nun should bill government
What did the fish say when it ran into a concrete wall?
OK, it's a stupid joke, and maybe a tad inappropriate for Sunday morning.
But somehow it sprang to mind when I read about the government charging the Plowshares protesters with "injuring national-defense premises" under the federal Sabotage Act.
Sister Megan Rice and her squad of saboteurs did about as much damage to the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant as that fish did to that dam when they sneaked up to the storehouse of bomb-grade uranium, smacked it with a hammer, spray-painted peace messages and dumped on human blood.
The gesture was more like counting coup than a commando attack.
In truth, the incursion did a real service to the nation by exposing the absurd vulnerability of a fortress that should have been among America's most impregnable.
A deputy Energy secretary called the incident "an important wake-up call," and U.S. Joe Barton of Texas asked 82-year-old Sister Megan to stand during a congressional hearing and be thanked.
Just imagine how much a contractor would have charged the government to conduct a test of Y-12 security like the one the nun's gang did for free. Keep in mind that the treasury already was being tapped for $150 million in Y-12 security upgrades this year.
So now Sister Megan, Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli face up to 35 years in prison if convicted of the additional charges.
The protesters say the government earlier had threatened to pile on charges if they didn't plead guilty. Originally, they were charged with trespassing and malicious destruction of property. In August, the more serious charge of "depredation" was added. It carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Now the Sabotage Act is invoked.
The Plowshares group insists it wants a jury trial and will not plea bargain.
I suspect they're not going to back down.
Soon after her arrest, Sister Megan, explained the protest by saying: "We felt called, as children of God, to act on behalf of all God's children, including and especially those who are threatened daily by the machines of war and the power of empire."
People who believe they are on a divine mission are not likely to be cowed.
And why should they?
If Plowshares' actions did any harm, it pales beside scores of transgressions that parade through our courtrooms every day.
This, after all, was just a peace protest.
Agree or disagree with Plowshares' views on disarmament — and nobody thinks nuclear holocaust would be a really good idea — the July 28 incursion was in no way an actual act of sabotage.
Rather, it was classic civil disobedience taken straight from the schools of Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Prosecutors would do well, in fact, to remember the famous quote attributed to Gandhi about the steps that occur in the practice he called Satyagraha:
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win."
In this case, the final phase of the process may be approaching.
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is she really pregnant?
I know it's wrong of me to question my friend but she is 14 weeks... has never heard the babies heartbeat... had 2 ultrasounds and has went to 4 dr appointments for baby... the picture she sent me of the test looked as though it was pulled off the net but idk... what do i think??? what would you think?
I guess she can they say it's ok... BS
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The Wi$dom Path: Money, Spirit, and Life
A Tapestry of Faith Program for Adults
About the Authors
Patricia Infante and David H. Messner; Developmental Editor: Gail Forsyth-Vail
Patricia Hall Infante is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist who grew up in a large New York City congregation. Her first career as a contract negotiator was put on hold while she took the job of full-time mother to two wonderful boys (an investment that continues to pay dividends). After a workshop at the Unitarian Universalist Association 1994 General Assembly about the book Your Money or Your Life, Pat began to act with greater intention to bring her work life and consumption into alignment with her UU values. In 1997 her heart led her to begin a career in religious education and she currently serves the Central East Regional Group as the Faith Development Consultant. She and her partner of 30 years live a life of deep gratitude and rich abundance in New Jersey.
The Reverend David H. Messner, born and raised Unitarian Universalist, was ordained by the First Unitarian Church of Rochester in 2012 and now serves as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, Georgia. He earned a Master of Divinity from the University of Chicago with an emphasis on theology and religious ethics, a Master of Business Administration from Yale University, and an undergraduate degree in psychology from Reed College. David previously worked in corporate strategic planning and partnership development. David, his wife, Jennifer, and their two children live in Savannah.
We gratefully acknowledge:
- the generosity of the members of the UUA President's Council, which made this program possible.
- the members of the President's Council Task Force whose worked shaped the vision for the project:
- Dan Boyce, co-chair
- Rev. Makanah Morriss, co-chair
- Laurel Amabile
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- Todd Hess
- John Hooper
- Rev. Ginger Luke
- Tom Neel
- Les Polgar
- Sam Schaal
- Rev. Jim Sherblom
- Tom Stapleford
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- Rev. Terry Sweetser
- the UUA Congregational Stewardship Consultants, who reviewed this program and offered helpful suggestions:
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- Bill Clontz
- Kay Crider
- Mark Ewert
- Barry Finkelstein
- Mary Gleason
- Rev. Tricia Hart
- Joan Priest
- Larry Wheeler
- the more than forty congregations that participated in the field test of the Wi$dom Path program.
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- Judith A. Frediani, Curriculum Director, Tapestry Project Director
- Adrianne Ross, Project Manager
- Susan Dana Lawrence, Managing Editor
- Jessica York, Youth Programs Director
- Gail Forsyth-Vail, Adult Programs Director
- Pat Kahn, Children and Family Programs Director
- Alicia LeBlanc, Administrative and Editorial Assistant
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- Sarah Gibb Millspaugh
- Aisha Hauser
- Pat Hoertdoerfer
- Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
The Wi$dom Path: Money, Spirit, and Life began as an idea shared by members of the Unitarian Universalist Association President's Council. Council members believe strongly that Unitarian Universalist individuals and congregations are longing for structured opportunities to talk about money and the way it intersects with our spiritual and ethical values. They conceived of a program that would go far beyond "Financial Literacy 101" to include such topics as personal and cultural money stories, economic justice, classism, and the impact of our financial decision making on our ability to live lives of meaning and purpose. Their hope was that such a program would free congregations, families, and individuals to speak openly about a subject that is often fraught with unstated presumptions and unacknowledged tensions and would allow the creation of spiritually healthy approaches to money, generosity, economic justice, investment, and stewardship.
Because the President's Council perceived this as a faith development initiative for adults of all ages and life stages, they partnered with the Faith Development Office of the Unitarian Universalist Association to develop this ground-breaking program as a component of the Tapestry of Faith series of lifespan faith development programs. The program follows the Tapestry of Faith model: it uses narrative to engage participants and provides justice-making and community-building activities every step of the way, while nurturing, supporting, and deepening lived Unitarian Universalist faith among participants. We are thrilled to invite you to experience The Wi$dom Path: Money, Spirit, and Life! May your engagement with this program create opportunities and pathways for a spiritually and ethically healthy relationship with money, in all the ways it touches our lives.


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November 29, 2015
Jurors in the corporate fraud trial of fired HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy got an unexpected day off Friday as lawyers and the judge discussed evidence in private.
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Bowdre said the trial would resume Monday morning, but testimony will only be heard two days next week because jurors were given three days off for spring break.
Scrushy has been on trial since Jan. 25 in the first test of a federal corporate reporting law against a chief executive officer. He's also accused of conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, obstructing justice and perjury.
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MdM is implementing health programmes in the Northern West Bank since 1999 and in the Gaza strip since 2002. The increasingly recurrent violent acts of settlers in the West Bank and Israeli military operations such as the current "Protective Edge" operation continues to negatively impact the well-being of Palestinian populations. Therefore, in 2014, MdM remains committed to strengthen emergency response capacities and to improve mental health care for Palestinians
Present in the West Bank since 1999, MdM puts in place programmes aiming to improve access to mental health services for Palestinians living in Nablus governorate and the Northern West Bank, as well as limiting the impact of settlers' violence on the well-being of the population.
Mental health as part of national services to Palestinians
The Palestinian health system is performant. However, mental health is insufficiently developed. Indeed, there are not many health structures that provide mental health services and medical staff is little informed on what mental health is and not sufficiently trained to identify people in need of such services.
From 2010 to 2012, MdM worked to integrate mental health services into 10 primary health care centres in Nablus governorate. Following this first initiative, MdM France (MdM F) and MdM Switzerland (MdM CH) elaborated a three-year project in close collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, and with a local partner, the Palestinian Counseling Center (PCC), to improve the access and the quality of mental health services to the population of Nablus governorate, with a special focus on children and teenagers.
In this regard, several activities take place:
Preventing and limiting the consequences of settlers' violence on Palestinians' psychosocial well-being
In 2013, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported Nablus governorate as one of the areas most prone to settlers' violence, as this governorate concentrates a high number of Israeli settlements. These acts of violence, whose number has increased over the past 3 years, have strong material, human and psychological consequences for the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages.
MdM works in 27 villages in the Northern West Bank that are particularly exposed to settler's violence. The project that is being put in place aims to prevent and limit the impact of settler's violence on Palestinians psychosocial well-being. In this regard, different activities are being carried out:
Group support sessions are organized in local communities to help Palestinians deal with situations of violence and stress;
Since its creation in 1948, the Gaza strip has faced many phases of instability: occupation, wars and a continuous blockade since 2006. The recurrent wars combined to a permanent crisis have impacted the population and the infrastructures. Today, the Gaza strip has been the scene of another Israeli operation entitled "Protective Edge". Since July 8, 2014 more than 2,000 people were killed, more than 11,000 were injured and over 300,000 were displaced.
Present in the Gaza strip since 2002 and with the experience the organization has both internationally and in France, MdM has set up programmes aiming to improve the quality and access of health services for Palestinians and limit the impact of the conflict on their health.
MdM supports local health structures. In 2009, emergency rooms were created in 11 primary health care structures and drugs have been supplied and upgraded until the beginning of the war in July 7th, 2014. As it was the aim of this previous MdM programme, these emergency rooms have been receiving an increasing number of emergency cases, thus reducing the overload in hospitals. From January 2013 to May 2014, more than 81,000 patients were treated including 123 critical cases. In these facilities, an average of 1,301 consultations per month was provided.
MdM also trained 4436 medical staff and community volunteers to basic first-aid techniques, pursuing the aim to decrease hospitals' overload. From 2012 to April 2014, they have treated more than 1,650 emergency cases mostly for wounds, burns, fractures, convulsions, and cardio-pulmonary resuscitations.
In 2013, an Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP) was designed in coordination with the Ministry of Health whose aim is to help coordinate actors in time of crisis to better respond to emergencies and bring appropriate aid to the population. MdM also encourages the implementation of emergency committees in villages: vulnerable communities, such as fishermen and farmers, received Basic Life Support training and First Aid kits.
Emergency Medical Service (EMS), comprising ambulances have been provided with medical equipment and communication devices.
On July 2014, a Sexual and Reproductive health project intending to improve women's access to family planning and to defend women's rights in partnership with Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA), was due to start. However, the Israeli military operation has delayed its start.
Likewise, routine activities were suspended for security reasons. During the fifty days of the war, MdM focused on bringing an emergency response to vulnerable people and health infrastructures within the Gaza strip by providing drugs and medical supplies to Gaza's central pharmacy (belonging to the Ministry of Health) and supporting the psychological counselling hotline of our Palestinian partner SAWA. Since August 12, two mobile clinics were launched providing Primary Health Care and mental health services, and hygiene awareness sessions to displaced Palestinians living in public schools. Another two clinics have been set up next to damaged health facilities during their rehabilitation and until they are functional again.