History has it that King Somhlolo, the founder of the nation, who ruled over Swaziland in 1844, had a vision in which he saw people of a different colour, coming to him bearing two objects. One was a book (umculu), the other a circular object (indilinga). The king was advised in his dream to spurn the circular object (interpreted as money), but to take the book (the Bible), so he sent four messengers to find the men with the Book. They went down to the Methodist Mission at Thaba Nchu in the Free State and their visit resulted in two missionaries going to Swaziland in 1844.
When I did so, I got the following included in the response:
Your request to reship the PDF for Agile Web Development with Rails has been entered into our fulfillment system. Teams of PDF-aware gerbils are this very moment limbering up to deliver your content.
This reminds me of the classic "we've shipped your order" message from CD Baby that is praised in so many blogs (and on a marketing site as well, I find):
Customer —(quoted from Jaredigital Articles.Thanks for your order with CD Baby!
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved ‘Bon Voyage!’ to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Sunday, June 26th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as ‘Customer of the Year’. We’re all exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Thank you once again,
Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby
the little CD store with the best new independent music
phone: 1-800-448-6369 email: cdbaby@cdbaby.com
http://www.cdbaby.com
GT [Global Trends?—rl] 2015 estimated that the interplay of demographics and disease —as well as poor governance—would be the major determinants of Africa's increasing international marginalization in 2015. Developments over the past three years have only reinforced rather than diminished that finding. The relentless progression of AIDS continues, with HIV seropositivity rates in the most severely affected countries holding steady or in many cases mounting, while the two most populous countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Nigeria and Ethiopia experience major increases in HIV prevalence. Most African states will miss out on the economic growth engendered elsewhere by globalization and by scientific and technological advances. Only a few countries will do better, while a handful of states will have hardly any relevance to the lives of their citizens.
All the more reason to stand for Africa.
More from the NIC report:
Sub-Saharan Africa will continue to be particularly at risk for major new or worsening humanitarian emergencies stemming from conflict. Genocidal conflicts aimed at annihilating all or part of a racial, religious, or ethnic group, and conflicts caused by other crimes against humanity—such as forced, large-scale expulsions of populations—are particularly likely to generate migration and massive, intractable humanitarian needs.