Creating Wealth Through Health | CNN.om Blogs
#wealth #health #finance #consulting According to Dan Ogola 2012, “…My mother, Patricia Ogola, was an uneducated housewife married at the age of 15, and because of the many children she had, she struggled to make ends meet by brewing the local traditional brew. This led to a lot of run-ins with the local policemen who demanded bribes for her to continue making the illicit brew, driving the family into further poverty.
Due to the difficulties in Ugenya for our family, my brothers and I left for Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city, to try and do odd jobs in order to support ourselves and the family back at home.
My mother’s case is a typical case of women in Ugenya. Many were married young and had several children as they were uneducated and did not have access to family planning. Many were also widowed because of HIV/AIDS thus increasing their poverty levels as they were unemployed. Many others also died while giving birth due to inaccessibility of health facilities. Many children also suffered the fate of my brothers.
Women and children in Ugenya need to lead healthy, productive, and prosperous lives.” Read more > http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/02/creating-wealth-through-health-2/?hpt=hp_c2
The Economist’s The Economist Innovation Awards and Summit 2011 Oct. 20 – Oct. 21, 2011
According to the Economist 2011, “Who’s the greatest innovator of all time? Vote Now.” Participate between now and October 14, 2011 to cast your vote . “A Decade of Celebrating World Changing Innovation.”
Economist adds, “About – As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of our Innovation Awards programme, we have created The Anniversary Award - a one-time honour which recognises the essence of truly great innovation. We are inviting Economist readers and the wider community the opportunity to vote on who of our previous winners is the most significant to them.” Read more > http://bit.ly/n1eVTu.
The Economist’s High Growth Markets Summit Sept. 29 – Sept. 30, 2011
The line-up is phenomenal. The Economist’s High Growth Markets Summit Sept. 29 – Sept. 30, 2011 at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London http://bit.ly/odcsN3
According to the Economist Conferences 2011, “There are hundreds of reasons why your company should be investing in high-growth markets; it’s a world of opportunity. But this is a two-way situation: for every new opportunity in a high-growth market there are new high-growth competitors. They operate not only in their home environments but are also expanding globally. Consequently competition is escalating very quickly around the globe. In this new world of hypercompetition, how can businesses operate successfully? What are the strategies companies adopt to stand out?”
EIU: Executive Briefing Joins Forces with Harvard Business Review
Economist Intelligence Unit and Harvard Business School Publishing have joined forces to create the definitive source of best-practice management thinking and advice for senior managers. I’ve been an EIU executive member panelists for 5+ years now. I enjoy the reports, survey’s and articles. Read More http://bit.ly/psLZUC (Image is owned by Economist and Harvard Business Review.)
He sold the “gold pants” trinket!
(Since I originally drafted this blog post back on 12/25/2010 the players have apologized and will sit out a number of games this 2011 season). Here’s what I had to say back when it first happened…
The @ESPN.com headline reads “@OhioState football players sanctioned” http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5950873 Now fellas come on. Mr. Terrelle Pryor I understand you’re young and will make mistakes but to sell the “gold pants” trinket? My goodness. You beat “that team up North” which is every @OhioState football players dream and goal to do. Some guys never win the gold pants trinket for such an accomplishment. By winning you are in a special elite group of accomplished players. Yes it’s a trinket but it means so much to the players, the university, #Buckeye nation and fans. To sell tradition so wantonly really brings into question your loyalty and your leadership to your team, your players, your family. Now your name will be mentioned for as long as there is an Ohio State football team as the guy who sold the “gold pants”.
Trivia questions far and near will relentlessly post the question, “What Ohio State QB who beat “that team up North” went on to sell the traditional “gold pants trinket”? I know I shouldn’t be so hard on you. I made mistakes too. I sold some of the rights (only parts I had 100% and sold 50%) of certain copyrights to a small portion of my catalog (songs). Regrettably. Since then I have gained an understanding that “once in a lifetime achievements” should not be sold and memorabilia is not to be placed for sale. No monetary value can replace all the hard work and dedication, sweat, pain and agony it took to achieve those pants. It’s just not worth it.
Activision Blizzard Joins Broad Coalition Urging Rejection by The U.S. Supreme Court on California’s Flawed Restrictions of Video Game Purchases
(PRESS RELEASE) SANTA MONICA – Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), the interactive entertainment software industry’s leading publisher, today announced it supports respondents in Schwarzenegger v. EMA (No. 08-1448) and has joined the historic alliance of film, music, publishing, advertising, journalism, creative guilds, software, comic books, and other media-related groups, as well as 10 state Attorneys General, numerous legal scholars and social science professionals urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a 2005 California law that would interfere with the First Amendment by creating an unprecedented exception for unprotected speech. Read more > http://www.activisionblizzard.com/corp/ui/pdf/Activision_Blizzard_Press_Release.pdf
M.I.T. OCW Micro/Nano Processing Technology (6.152J/ 3.155J)
This course is free Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare (M.I.T. OCW) as taught in 2005 by Instructors: Professor Martin Schmidt, Susan Ruff and Dr. Robert O’Handley http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-152j-micro-nano-processing-technology-fall-2005/ #MIT #MITOCW #nanotechnology #microtechnology #engineering #consulting @Callistecomm
