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Dear Supporter
Welcome to the April issue of our newsletter.
In this issue you will find "Protecting the future and honouring the past" - part two of last month's article discussing the business realities that exist in operating LifeLine with some ideas for our future funding direction.
Also in this issue is an article by Rita Inch pondering the advancement of "Video Phone" technologies and the implications this could have for our services and Denis Bunbury poses the question "Who is Jack Reacher?" - read on to find out more!
In addition we have included a review of the book "Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive" and our regular "What's happening at LifeLine" article together with an uplifiting piece called "The Daffodil Principle" borrowed from some recent office email.
Happy Reading
Best wishes
Bryan Wilshire, Chief Executive Officer
PS If you have any articles or ideas that you would like to be considered for inclusion in our next issue please email sarahf@lifeline.org.nz
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In this issue:
- Protecting the future and honouring the past
- I wonder....the challenge of changing technology
- Who is Jack Reacher?
- What's Happening at LifeLine
- Book Review - "Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive"
- Introducing LifeLiner....Debs Wand
- The Daffodil Principle
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Protecting the future and honouring the past
by Bryan Wilshire
"It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will some day give shade to people he may never meet." David Trueblood
I wrote last month about thinking of ways to protect our future services. I did so after looking carefully at the increasing demand levels across all channels.....
Click here to read the full article
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I wonder....the challenge of changing technology
by Rita Inch
Just recently I have seen Telecom commercials for what I think are video phones. One of them shows a mother in New Zealand - seeing and talking to her son in the US, and somewhere in the US her son is seeing and talking to her.
It is obviously a deeper, more meaningful level of contact and I have been wondering about its possible future impact on both telephone and face to face counselling......
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Who is Jack Reacher? by Denis Bunbury
The easy answer is: Jack Reacher is the 'defeat all-comers' male hero of a series of detective thriller novels (millions of copies sold) written by Lee Child.
In some respects Reacher (that's how he likes to be known) resembles another popular character, Harry Bosch, author Michael Connelly's solve-all-cases-type detective.
At their respective author's bidding, both these figures have leapt from novel to novel over the years, each bringing conclusion to cases that no one else would be capable of resolving. Heroes indeed!......
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What's Happening at LifeLine.....
News, information and stories from behind the scenes at LifeLine..including this month's Toffee Pop Award winner!
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Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive
"Retirement" should be re-classified as a four letter word and banished from polite conversation - or so is the premise of the radical and thought-provoking new book by David Bogan and Keith Davies.....
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Introducing LifeLiner....Deborah Wand
Debs volunteers as a telephone counsellor with the LifeLine 24/7 team
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The Daffodil Principle
An uplifting "seize the day" story received at LifeLine through the nicest kind of email spam...
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Your Feedback
Email sarahf@lifeline.org.nz with your feedback or ideas for articles
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