Live the life you love, Love the life you live,

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars 

Osiepna

An empress such as as you deserves a crown, always a pretty face, never a frown. Stuck in your love, let me drown.

Never a thought to make you want, never loose ur respect, perspective still, livity please. I I see You as true, clear heart, sky blue, clean like the morning due, me love how

Blow as so, gyal a nice so , ask me her name I say .....she know

HEicH

Love and dust

Conscious flow, stand for true,they ask how I tell em for shoooo, maybe a pause, but never let go,karne nane bado nitasema the same ,nothing left no blame. the lips can't chase the words, so the same birds can't blame the wings for fly, life is but the roll of a dice,play what u got,battles fought battles lost, last ting me know is abundance, before that is love .......and dust

HEicH

A Life with Purpose _ In Memory of Dr Eunice Songa-Saraceno

I recently reposted a piece that moved me, entitled A Call To Action below is the story of the the incredible woman that wrote that powerful piece  Dr Eunice Songa-Saraceno, BA, MD

In Memoriam of Dr Eunice Songa-Saraceno, BA, MD and on why Kenya needs to change 

At approximately 4:30 pm of Friday the 27th of January 2017, my wife, my best friend, the love of my life, Dr Eunice Songa-Saraceno, died like a hero. Aged 34, she died young and beautiful, like the heroes of the ancient myths; willing to change her Country she died fighting inequality and injustice, like only true heroes do.

She knew and understood the challenges of her Country and fought for Kenya when, with a BSc in Psychology and Physiology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and a Doctor in Medicine Degree Magna cum Laude at the University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, she decided to come back to Kenya, to work in a Country where there is a patient / doctor ratio of 0.2 doctors for 1,000 people, that means one doctor every 5,000 people (any doctor, not a specialist!).  

I remember the day she came back home exhausted after she pumped oxygen into the small chests of children whose lungs got burnt by the flames of exploded paraffin lamps, the only source of lights in the many areas of Nairobi where electricity is a luxury

As Eunice said with some of her last words “We want leaders who put our interests and well-being first and their pockets second. We want leaders who take pride in their positions and use their power to inspire and create rather than trample on and destroy.”

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Mind Thoughts: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.  

Cyber Risks Insurance

Cyber insurance

Cyber insurance covers the losses relating to damage to, or loss of information from, IT systems and networks. 

Technology, social media and transactions over the Internet play key roles in how most organizations conduct business and reach out to prospective customers today. Those vehicles also serve as gateways to cyberattacks. 

More and more attacks are likely to occur and can cause moderate to severe losses for organizations large and small. As part of a risk management plan, organizations routinely must decide which risks to avoid, accept, control or transfer. Transferring risk is where cyber insurance comes into play.

Do I need it?

As a business of any size, it is likely you will rely on information technology (IT) infrastructure to some degree.  If so, you will be exposed to the risks of business interruption, income loss, damage management and repair, and possibly reputational damage if IT equipment or systems fail or are interrupted.

A UK Government survey estimated that in 2014 81% of large corporations and 60% of small businesses suffered a cyber breach. The average cost of a cyber-security breach is £600k-£1.15m for large businesses and £65k-115k for SMEs.

While existing insurance policies such as commercial property, business interruption or professional indemnity insurance, may provide some elements of cover against cyber risks, businesses are increasingly buying specialised cyber insurance policies to supplement their existing insurance arrangements, particularly if they:

hold sensitive customer details such as names and addresses or banking information;rely heavily on IT systems and websites to conduct their business;process payment card information as a matter of course.

What does it cover?

With its roots in errors and omissions (E&O) insurance, cyber insurance began catching on in early 2000's

Cyber insurance covers the losses relating to damage to, or loss of information from, IT systems and networks. Policies generally include significant assistance with and management of the incident itself, which can be essential when faced with reputational damage or regulatory enforcement. 

Generally cyber risks fall into first party and third party risks.  Insurance products exist to cover either or both of these types of risk.

First-party insurance covers your business’s own assets. This may include:

Loss or damage to digital assets such as data or software programmesBusiness interruption from network downtimeCyber exhortation where third parties threaten to damage or release data if money is not paid to themCustomer notification expenses when there is a legal or regulatory requirement to notify them of a security or privacy breachReputational damage arising from a breach of data that results in loss of intellectual property or customersTheft of money or digital assets through theft of equipment or electronic theft

Third-party insurance covers the assets of others, typically your customers. This may include:

Security and privacy breaches, and the investigation, defence costs and civil damages associated with themMulti-media liability, to cover investigation, defence costs and civil damages arising from defamation, breach of privacy or negligence in publication in electronic or print mediaLoss of third party data, including payment of compensation to customers for denial of access, and failure of software or systems

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A Call To Action

I read this well thought out piece on the complacency of the Kenyan middle class and thought to share by  Eunice Songa

 

https://thenewmaumaurevolution.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/a-call-to-action-wake-up-middle-and-upper-class-kenyans/

Kenya is a beautiful place, isn’t it? Opportunities abound for those willing to work hard; the land where you can be born in a small village, work hard and enjoy your lifetime in lush suburbs of Nairobi.

But we get caught up in that rat race don’t we? The never ending pursuit to get a bigger, flatter TV, a smarter phone, a more expensive car and holidays to those exotic destinations we see on our friends’ timeline. While we make sure our children are in elite private school “A”, that our houses are on the right side of the CBD, while we are sipping our 500 shilling mojitos with colleagues at the hottest after work watering holes in the city, our beloved Kenya, our land of opportunity is crumbling right around us.

But hey we know these problems right? They are plastered across the dailies: “Doctors strike again!” “ 2.5 Bn shillings scandal in Ministry of “take your pick”” “KCSE exams leaked!” “Security at all time low in Kenya!”

What do you really feel when you read those headlines? I won’t lie, I am guilty of it as well. you skim the article to keep informed and have something to say during polite conversation and continue flipping through the newspaper. So when billions of shillings disappear, money that we break our backs to earn, why aren’t we up in arms about it? Why aren’t outraged, enraged by these scandals? Why isn’t there a fire burning inside of you when you realize the people you put in charge of the well being of your beloved Kenya do not measure up and are in fact draining us of the little we have.

We, the middle and upper class pay most of the tax but why don’t we demand quality service?

 

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 Mind Thoughts : 'The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.'_  Andre Gide

She got me inna Grip

I miss u anytime ur away, such as the ground misses rain in january I dare say,
You got me heart gripped, ur sweet essence every time I wanna take a sip

The same thing that pulls the moth to the light, is the same same thing that pulls the heart so tight..... The love of love, the wings of doves, ...... The option to love......

But still we just two souls flirting in the gentle night, the mood jus right, wings that could take flight, a dreamy future so we hold on to the present for it is a gift.

So see Esh got me in a twist, her passionate roots me can't resist, her craving still persists, a longing so deep, anything I would do for just one sip, see Esh got me in a twist

Words ooze out, thoughts never shared, memories still hearts paired, in life's full glare we demand our piece, our moment, our place, for we belong, we matter, the moment we sieze, for when am with u am at peace

To think of another gives life meaning, to know that another matters, tells me am alive, to true that without her how did I survive, my heart stops,her touch revives, whatever life brings lord knows I will survive, see Esh got me in her grip , her essence I take a sip

HEicH