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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 2038: Prime

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“And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.”

A new Prime Number, and now the largest of all has been discovered.  And, it’s not just a little larger (or in this case longer) than the past number, it is nearly five million digits longer than what was the previous longest prime.  Prime numbers are in the simplest forms, numbers that can be only be divided by the numeral 1 and itself.  The prime number thread we learned in school looked like this:  1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13,…  The equation for getting to prime is:  2 (to an nth power) – 1.  The number (or integer) we make n plugs into the equation to see if a prime number results.  What a computer at the University of Central Missouri found is that if you take 2 to the 74,207,281st power and subtract 1 it is a prime number, the longest prime number ever.  And the number has a name. It is, “PC No. 5 Room 143”.  And what did this PC get for it’s 31 days of continuous computation?  Well, it got a world-record and is being retired to become a showpiece.  Hal would be proud.

What do prime numbers mean to any of us?  Well, I read that they estimate over 100 billion people have lived (and died) on the earth.  On God’s equation, each of those are His “primes”.  Each were unique.  And, so God considers us His uniquely, each to go about our lives in a unique and significant way of living and impacting others.  It can sometimes feel like we are getting lost among all of the others around us and that we don’t get recognized for how hard we are trying.  But, like the new prime number that is discovered, we are each here, and how we live and work for Him, as his “prime example” matters.

Reference:  Luke 12:7 (New Living Translation)