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In the Himalayas, many houses are built of fieldstone: shale and slate, pried from the earth, stacked in the mountain air, and mortared with mud and hay. This was the type of home that crashed down on Aimoj Tamang, an eighty-six-year-old Nepalese woman, on April 25th, the day when, in twenty seconds, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale destroyed much of what was man-made in Nepal and killed more than eighty-five hundred people. For three hours, Tamang lay trapped beneath the rubble, thinking about her children and grandchildren. She had been born in a house not three miles distant, which had also been destroyed by a natural disaster—a landslide that struck when she was a child. As an adult, she'd farmed millet on the same green terraces as her parents, in Paticho, a close-knit Christian village of three hundred people, only rarely leaving the valley where she was born.
Tamang's son-in-law eventually arrived and freed her from the rubble, then carried her home. The next day, some men from the Nepali Army arrived and asked her to consent to evacuation by helicopter, which was the only way in or out of Paticho aside from steep stone paths. Her feet were crushed, the bones revealed. She swatted the men away with a stick. Eventually, they left her.
Nine evenings later, Ryan Paterson, a thirty-six-year-old E.R. doctor and experienced mountaineer from Denver, arrived at Tamang's house and made the same request. Her wounds were now infected, and Paterson believed that she would die if she didn't receive treatment. By iPhone and headlamp light, he and Jake Dutton, a New York City paramedic and firefighter, carried Tamang from her wooden shack into the family's muddy yard, where a hobbled water buffalo backed away as they lay her down. Paterson began the long and sometimes painful process of cleaning, anesthetization, debridement, stitching, splinting, and dressing. As he worked, Tamang tsked him, questioned him, and clutched a pack of Khukuri cigarettes beneath her sari. She continued to refuse evacuation.
For the next week, Paterson visited her every morning, discovering each time that she had removed the splints he'd applied the day before. Even so, by day two she was referring to him teasingly as "my son." He, in turn, called her "grandmother." She was his most serious case, and he talked about her often that week. She was tough, he said, but she might not make it, no matter what he did. Which was a lot.
If they'd been in Denver, members of his team estimated, the care they were providing Tamang alone would have cost perhaps a hundred thousand dollars. As it was, NYC Medics, the Harlem-based charity that organized the trip, had spent more than twenty-three thousand dollars to equip and transport Paterson and the others to Nepal, and they'd brought with them thousands of dollars' worth of donated medicines and supplies—enough to treat approximately four thousand patients.
During previous two-week deployments, in places like the Philippines, Pakistan, and Haiti, NYC Medics teams had treated thousands of people, hundreds of whom were suffering from disaster-related traumas. But during the trip to Nepal, Tamang was one of only a handful of urgent cases that Paterson's team saw. The mission instead proved to be a lesson in real versus imagined needs in a disaster zone, and called into question the value of emergency medical intervention by foreign teams.
"I try to reconcile in my head," Paterson said toward week's end, "is it worth coming?"
Tamang, for her part, often commented that "everything happened with the blessings of Christ." Paterson was the first doctor she'd ever seen.
NYC Medics has a concise mission: the rapid provision of medical care to remote locations that have been hit by disasters. Founded by a handful of Hell's Kitchen-based paramedics in 2005, in response to an earthquake in Pakistani Kashmir, the organization has now conducted seven relief missions, drawing on a roster of volunteer medical professionals who are prepared to deploy anywhere in the world.
The government of Nepal issued a request for international assistance almost immediately following the quake on April 25th. By the evening of the 27th, when NYC Medics announced that it was mobilizing, Nepal was reporting that some eight million people had been affected, with more than forty-three hundred dead and nearly twice as many injured. "What we were hearing from the field indicated that mobile medical teams would be helpful," Tim Tan, the medical director of NYC Medics, told me. Mountainous Nepal seemed like a particularly good fit for the group, whose members pride themselves on mobility in difficult conditions. Several among the twelve-person team formed for the mission had responded to earthquakes in Pakistan and Haiti. Two were U.S.-special-forces veterans. One of the nurses had worked as a photojournalist in Iraq, and another had been in Liberia the year before, treating Ebola patients. Paterson had been an expedition doctor on Mt. Everest. NYC Medics agreed to let me join their trip to report on what I saw. (I paid for my own travel to Nepal, though, once in the mountains, I shared food and transport with the team.)
The team was delayed leaving New York because of a ticket mix-up, and plans soon went further awry. The morning after we arrived in Kathmandu, everyone met with Anil Parajuli, the founder of Himalayan Healthcare, a local charity that NYC Medics was partnering with for the mission. The original idea, per Nepal's Ministry of Health, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, which were coördinating relief missions, had been to go to Barpak, a village of about twelve hundred homes near the quake's epicenter, in the Ghorkha district, approximately a hundred miles from Kathmandu. But as it happened, a doctor friend of Parajuli's was already in Barpak, and he said that the area was well served by the Indian Army. Fearing redundancy, Kathy Bequary, the director of NYC Medics, agreed that the team might be more effective in a different district.
Parajuli suggested Jharlang, where H.H.C. traditionally worked and where his contacts described widespread destruction and an absence of aid. "There is chaos going on," he told the team. Though Jharlang was only eighty miles or so from Kathmandu, as the crow flies, it was a two-day trek from the nearest road, and many of the trails were compromised. Some five thousand people were potentially in need of care, and no one, to Parajuli's knowledge, had delivered any aid to them since the quake. Bequary cleared a new plan with the health ministry: the team would drive three hours west, to Dhading Besi, the district capital, then take a half-hour helicopter ride into the mountains.
Arriving in Dhading Besi toward midday, we saw some severe destruction. The U.N. was estimating that as many as eighty per cent of the houses in the affected districts were damaged or demolished, and it had requested four hundred and twenty-three million dollars for urgent response. Only a small portion of that amount—itself a fraction of the five to ten billion dollars the country will require to rebuild—had been donated. (As of now, four months after the quake, more than three billion dollars has been pledged by donor governments.) There were, however, at least eighty foreign medical teams registered in the country. The influx of humanitarian workers was large enough to be causing delays at Kathmandu's airport, not to mention coördination issues countrywide. The office of Nepal's U.N. Resident Coördinator issued a warning: "Since several agencies are fielding needs assessment teams, a need for better coordination is necessary to avoid overlap and misunderstanding."
Most of the misunderstandings seemed to revolve around helicopters, which were in high demand. Parajuli had told the team that transportation to Jharlang would ultimately be up to the district health officer, who was coördinating with the Indian and Nepalese armies. Bequary stopped in at the local health office, where she soon learned that official priority had shifted from medical care to the provision of food and shelter. While they waited for two helicopters to become available, the team camped on the edge of Dhading Besi's town green, increasingly frustrated. Their immediate neighbors, from India's 60th Parachute Field Hospital, didn't understand the hurry. "These people are going eight days late," Sergeant G. H. Marathe said, as he lounged in the shade of a bandstand opposite Paterson's tent. "All the people they want to save will be dead."
The team had been concerned about this, too. Most earthquake fatalities occur in the first seventy-two hours, and it was now nearly nine days later. They briefly considered setting up in Dhading Besi, but the Indian Army seemed to be meeting the town's needs. Bequary began calling charter services, and learned that a private flight to Paticho would cost twelve thousand dollars. "You could build and staff a clinic for a year with that. It's fucked up," Dave Young, an emergency-medicine doctor from Denver, remarked.
The next day, the team finally caught a free ride on a pair of Indian Army helicopters that were making supply drops. At touchdown, Paticho greeted the team in force. Perhaps half of the houses dotting the green terraces above and below the drop zone had been torn open to the elements or collapsed. Accompanied by a large crowd of villagers, who insisted on carrying the gear, the team soon set up their clinic amid the ruins of the local school. Patients began arriving immediately. Health services in rural Nepal—where the per-capita G.D.P., of six hundred and ninety-eight dollars, is the second-lowest in Asia, not far above Afghanistan's—are rare and rudimentary. Lightly trained government health workers occasionally pass through Paticho, but the nearest doctors are usually in Dhading Besi.
In the first twenty-four hours, the team treated two hundred and forty-two people from the village and surrounding area. They soon learned that scores of people had already been evacuated from the area by either the Indian or Nepalese army. This was the first indication the team received that any other support had been there before them. The trauma victims, it seemed, were already dead or gone.
That night, though, they found Aimoj Tamang a little way down the mountain. And they were making a difference to Paticho residents; all of the people I spoke with were glad that the doctors had come, even if, as they mentioned, shelter had become a more pressing concern. Monsoon season was approaching, and they needed tarps, and sheets of corrugated iron, to rebuild their roofs. The Nepalese Ministry of Health had, by then, requested that no more foreign medical teams fly in. "We do not need any more foreign personnel, but we definitely need the commodities," a senior official told a reporter.
The team was in good spirits for a while, but on their second full day, the patient count slowed dramatically and they began operating far below capacity. In conversation with Parajuli in Kathmandu, they decided to start sending mobile groups out each morning, trekking to villages where they might find others in need of care, especially any remaining trauma patients.
On the fifth day, I joined one of the treks. Our guide, Yuan Tamang (no relation to Aimoj; Tamang, a minority ethnicity and language, is the surname of almost everyone in Paticho), was employed part-time by H.H.C.; he led us from house to house, along the valley's narrow paths. The patients on the trek, like those at the clinic, had only rarely suffered injuries in the quake. Up and down the valley, Paterson dispensed albuterol for respiratory problems, Tylenol for arthritis, and all of the anti-fungal and anti-worm medication that he had. Though he was evidently frustrated with the team's placement, he remained upbeat, listening to everyone's stories and joking with the children. One woman who complained of insomnia had, Paterson discovered, lost her daughter to a falling boulder. He sat with her for a while in the makeshift refugee camp that was now her home, attempting to comfort her. "We talk about the resources being used," he remarked to me afterward, "but we don't talk about the value of just being here."


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I nicked this from a post on Facebook, from a group I belong too. It sums up my thoughts, completely. What say you ? ….
Don't blame Boris and his men for locking us away,
Think instead of the all night raves, that happened every day,
Think back to all those marches, when black lives mattered most,
And the crowded summer beaches, all along the coast.
Think back to newsreel funerals where a hundred more have come,
And street gatherings of the selfish, as stupid stood next to dumb,
Some say rules are made to be broken, but their actions have a cost,
And for every thoughtless action, someone's life just might be lost.
So don't look to those in authority, when blame you seek to lay,
We're locked up because the selfish, have ignored rules every day,
So in this coming month or so, don't rant or rave or shout,
Just do as you're bloomin' told, and burn this virus out!

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So where is Bekal? It's a small town by the Arabian Sea in Kasaragod district, in the state of Kerala. And why Bekal? Because we are heading home to Kerala and Bekal is a half-way point for a stopover. And I have never been to Bekal.
We leave the hotel by 9:00 am after breakfast. We cross Panjim and by 10: 30 am reach South Goa. I had mentioned in the itinerary a visit to the Mario Gallery, Calangute, but didn't share any pictures in the past posts; we bought some souvenirs to remember the trip and moreover Mario's cartoons are evergreen plus they always manage to draw a smile !!
11: 15 am, we reach Canacona, Goa. We will soon be leaving Goa, entering the state of Karnataka and then crossing over to Kerala. We are on the NH 66 (NH 17).
Everything is not hunky dory in Goa, there are plenty of empty restaurants lining the roadsides, awaiting the tourists. There are articles in the newspaper saying the number of tourist are declining.
Goa reminds us of the bygone Kerala. The narrow roads, cute and colourful villas (some may call the colours outlandish) surrounded by overgrown greenery. Kerala used to be like this (maybe some parts still are), but the NRI money pouring into Kerala has resulted in the old villas being demolished and replaced by bigger, grander homes and apartment complexes. Homes are a reflection of the new found prosperity. While Goa is still holding onto the old world charm to attract the tourists.
11: 40 am, we are at the state border between Goa and Karnataka and at the checkpost, the officer asks us if we are carrying any liquor bottles with us. Nil, we reply.
We enter into the state of Karnataka, the national highway is now four lane and the landscape is much drier. It is very hot outside.
Goa is the smallest state in India and Karnataka is the seventh largest in geographical area. We are speeding along coastal Karnataka which stretches between Karwar in the north and Mangalore in the south. In the past the coastal regions of Karnataka called Canara or Karavali.
12:00 pm, we reach Karwar, Karnataka and stop near the beach. There is a naval base here. But we can't linger on the beach for long, the sun in blazing hot and we rush back into the air-conditioning. No wonder the beach looked deserted in the afternoon. Mangalore is 274 kms away.
We stop for lunch at a Cafe Coffee Day outlet and by 1:00 pm take to the road again. The Cafe Coffee Day outlets have clean rest rooms which is a big reason why they are often preferred stops along the highways. There are many small veg restaurants along the roadside but the condition of the rest rooms are appalling, so we give these a miss.
There is construction work along the national highway, but the traffic is meagre so the drive is smooth.
2:00 pm, we reach Honavar, Karnataka.
2:35 pm, we pass Ranginkotte, Karnataka and it starts to rain.
We stop at another Cafe Coffee Day outlet for a tea break.
4:35pm, we pass Udupi, Karnataka.
5:40 pm, we reach Mangalore, the roads are bad and we get caught in a huge traffic jam. I wanted to spent sometime in Mangalore, the city is famous for its seafood and I wanted to have a taste. But seeing the huge traffic pile up, we just wanted to get out as fast as possible; visiting a good restaurant meant a detour from the highway and to come back into the jam of vehicles was not a relishing prospect. Mangalore will have to wait another day. Mangalore also has the only major port in Karnataka.
6:00 pm. we cross Karnataka border and hello Kerala !! The second we enter Kerala and a smile develops. We are still several districts and many kilometres away from home; still it is a good feeling of the familiar, we speak the native language, we know the food, we know the peculiarities and we feel a sense of belonging, not a tourist.
7:00 pm, we reach Kasaragod, Kerala
It's night and the city is buzzing. Almost along the same stretch of road, we see three big jewellery show rooms – Sultan Gold, Malabar Gold, City Gold. We Keralities love gold, more the merrier !! Yes we are home !!
Kasaragod became part of Kerala only after post-independence and as a consequence of the State Re-organization Act. Pre-independence, Kasaragod was part of the South Canara district (together with the southern coastal regions of Karnataka) with Mangalore as the administrative headquarters and part of the Madras Presidency in British India. And hence though Kasaragod is the crown of the state of Kerala, its history is more closely linked to the state of Karnataka as we learnt.
A 10 hour journey….was a good road trip, the drive was comfortable. We stop for the night at Bekal. Where's the stay? At Taj Bekal, a beautiful resort, more in the next post !!


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Plums, like the cherry, are of Genus Prunus and there are around 20 species used in several different ways, the species used in Britain is P domestica which is actually a hybrid of two other species. P domestica has been bred into several varieties including my favourite, the greengage.
P domesticus also produced the damson, our third fruit for this recipe. Damsons to me are the most English of all three, though I have never tried them before. I shall have to rectify that.
Stone 8 ounces of morello or amarelle cherries, plums or damsons. You can use canned cherries if you want, just make sure they are in water, not syrup. This is what I used. Put the fruit in a saucepan along with ¼ pint each of red wine and port, a tablespoon of sugar, 2 cloves and an inch-long piece of cinnamon. Bring to a boil and simmer for around 10 minutes until the fruit is nice and tender. If you want, you can sieve the damsons or plums if using, but I think it's better to leave whole. Now add 2 good tablespoons of redcurrant jelly and the juice of 3 oranges and a lemon. Season with black pepper and, off the heat, stir in an ounce of butter. Taste and add more sugar if needed.


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Sudan's Fragile Hope for Democracy
The African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Sudan, referred to by its acronym UNAMID, was established on 31 July 2007 with the adoption of Security Council resolution 1769. UNAMID has the protection of civilians as its core mandate, but is also tasked with contributing to security for humanitarian assistance, monitoring and verifying implementation of agreements, assisting an inclusive political process, contributing to the promotion of human rights and the rule of law, and monitoring and reporting on the situation along the borders with Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR).
Sudanese civilians risk their lives everyday protesting and campaigning for democracy but they face several obstacles, including street closures and no Internet access.
However, the prospect for democracy remains uncertain with regional autocracies aiding the military government, ceaseless violent clashes and the UN on retreat.
A Sudanese protester, Abdelfatah Arman, told IPS that the situation on the ground is characterized by continued violence.
"We started to see military personnel in uniforms, along with the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS)," Arman said, recalling a protest he participated in Al Souq Al Arabi, the largest open market in the capital Khartoum.
"They were heavily armed and blocked, with their open back pick-up trucks, all the roads leading to the Souq or the Presidential Palace. They used batons, teargas, and had snipers in some buildings," he said, in an interview with IPS.
"We started to run in every direction to get out of there," said Arman, who is currently a doctoral student at Penn State University's education school.
He is also a journalist and a member of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FCC), a protest organization group.
Since December 2018, protesters led by the FFC and the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) have taken to the streets in half a dozen cities, demanding the resignation of Sudan's ruler of thirty years, Omar al-Bashir.
Although al-Bashir was ousted in April, a military government headed by the Transitional Military Council (TMC) has since taken over, rejected the civilian demand for democratic elections and killed more than 100 peaceful sit-in protesters in a brutal crackdown on June 3 that drew international outrage.
Nearly 40 bodies were later reported to be thrown into the Nile River, among them men, women and children. Medical staff were wounded, along with doctors and volunteers at clinics.
Al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2009 on charges of war crimes in the western region of Darfur. The charges are pending and he never appeared before the ICC in the Hague.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has condemned the June massacre, calling for a UN inquiry into the TMC's violence.
"The decision to unleash violence against peaceful protesters is absolutely unjustified and unlawful, and a slap in the face for those who have been pursuing dialogue to achieve a handover to civilian government," the organization said.
The crackdown continued with a government Internet shutdown aimed to discourage protests, which rely on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, to communicate.
The Internet shutdown has worsened civilian safety, said journalist Zeinab Mohammed Salih, in a letter to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
"Those forced to walk have been seen carrying knives and sticks, especially in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, to protect themselves," Salih said.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Gwi-Yeop Son, has noted the "deteriorating" humanitarian situation in Sudan, voicing deep concern that half a million people are at risk of disease infection without access to proper medical supplies.
Despite mounting obstacles, the SPA has reasserted its conviction for a civilian government, called for an international panel to investigate the "barbaric" June 3 massacre in Khartoum and continued to call for civil disobedience.
However, regional autocracies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are working towards a different end.
In April, the two Gulf countries reportedly sent Sudan's military leaders three billion dollars in aid to strengthen the TMC's counter-revolution efforts.
UAE's Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed promised to "preserve Sudan's security and stability" in fear that Sudan's democratic energy could jeopardize his own tightly-controlled nation.
Security intelligence thinktank The Soufan Group warns that the on-going confrontation could risk spiraling into a full-scale civil war.
"There are clear parallels to some of the Arab Spring protests that eventually progressed to full-blown insurgencies, including Syria, where indiscriminate shelling of civilians by the military initially galvanized protest movements that helped launch a broader uprising," the organization said.
However, a potential civil war could end up in another military government, repeating Egypt's path following the Arab Spring.
The United Nations has urged for both sides to resume peaceful negotiations and search for a political solution to the conflict.
At the Security Council meeting on June 14, member states stressed that the worsening humanitarian situation demands continued UN support, but Sudan should take control of its own political future.
"A peaceful and orderly transition aiming to achieve the transfer of political power to a civilian, democratic and representative government is the only lasting way to resolve the current crisis," said Belgium's representative Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve.
The UN withdrew its civilian staff in Khartoum after the June 3 massacre but resumed the rest of its operations.
Arman said that the FFC would not hold negotiations with the military government until the sit-in massacre is investigated. However, despite the present tension with the TMC, Arman remains optimistic for a democratic transition.
"We're hopeful that if we were able to topple dictator Bashir and his successor Gen. Ahmed Award Ibn Auf, we would be able to topple Gen. Al-Burhan and the military junta."
"We'll continue our protest and civil disobedience until they're out," said Arman. "We will not accept anything less than a civilian-led government."


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Discussion in 'Tae Kwon Do' started by Ragnarok2005, Jun 8, 2006.
As above.
Dear Sir...
Dear Sir,
As oppossed to getting into a lengthy conversation regarding the government, society, creation of an independent nation, and the other highly indepth situations which all contributed to his self exhile...
I seriously recommend reading his autobiography. By doing so you will hear his story in his own words!
~~~One martial artist to the masses I humbly request that we all act as a whole to prevent this thread from becoming what we all know it can. Let his lifes work be noted while his spirit be allowed to rest!
to get to the other side!
no, no, wait.... I thought you said chicken......
As a student of Korean MA I am surprised that you haven't read any of the history concerning Gen. Choi
Aside from his autobiography ... I have read the Moral Guidebook a Vol 3 in a trio.... then Volume One: Motherland, the Land in Turmoil and Volume Two: The Vision of Exile: Any Place under Heaven is Do-Jang ...
If you're lazy read this article of Gen Choi's extensive interview in TKD Times
Page 54 explains in detail the reason why he exiled to Canada
My current instructor doesn't care all that much for history or tradition, and my ITF instructors curiously never told me this fact despite lengthy car trips and group discussions on the founder. - Came as news to me.
As did Choi smashing somebodys head with an inkstone because he lost money in a card game. Hmm....
Actually he was just trying to write a letter with the ink stone, its just he did really understand the proper application of using the inkstone....
Ink Kwon-Do, eh?
I actually meant to put *didn't understand*, kind of ruined that joke.
Persoanlly I've been that bothered about Gen Choi as a person so haven't read any of the books KickChick has pointed out, but doing about 10 minutes of google work should bring up enough pages (with sources, and quotes from the Gen himself) to give you a rough idea of what happened.
don't feel too bad about it, as long as your fighting skills are top notch people will forgive you.
and where's my family guy comment dammit?!
Hehe. What are you on about? Your Family Guy Comment?
"I haven't felt this bad since that time I went to the Museum"
"Why did the dinosaurs die?"
"Because you touch yourself at night!"
You seen Season 4 yet?
probably, it's one of the very few things i actually turn the tv on for
From D. Burd ick's People and Events of T'aekwondo's Formative Years (1996)
Did anyone bother to read through the link I gave?
(no need to go through 10 mins of Google Search )
That was more a "you could start a thread about it, or just look it up yourself" comment. And as you said, no need to search now thanks to you an Thomas.
I did, very informative, thanks KC, and thank you also to Thomas, for his informative post.
Yes. That was where I found out about General Choi's violent inkstone assault.
And having heard it in his own words, Choi comes across as if racism was the sole reason for the creation of Taekwon-Do. To get one up on the Japanese.
:bang: Do you blame him??? If I was him, or any Korean, I would have done the same.
Kamsahamnida Master Choi.
Well erm... Yes actually.
I'm all for creating a new Martial Art and exploring for better ways. But Choi pushed himself to create this system and fought long and hard to change the name from Tang Soo Do... Just to show the Japanese.
Oh and the inkstone attack. Way for Integrity and Self-Control, General!
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Premium Springs Water Company is privately owned and operated in BC, and established in 1998 by David Van Andel in Vancouver and has grown steadily from its inception. From a single delivery van and a product line bottled for them by a distributor, to today, with a fleet of vehicles covering all of the BC Lower Mainland and well into the Fraser Valley, and a new production facility in 2014, they are the epitome of a successful business.
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The Declaration of Independence is an astounding document. It's short (you should read it). The majority of its content is actually an enumeration of "injuries and usurpations" by the British monarch King George III against the American Colonies, but the most interesting part is the first three sentences which give a rationale for why it is necessary for "one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another." The following "unalienable rights" that the Declaration lists—Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—would become the shorthand for what America stands for, and would be the lifeblood of the next great document to be produced by the new country: the Constitution. G.K. Chesterton once observed, "America is alone in having begun her national career with a definite explanation of what she intended to be. And this is an experiment of the highest historical and philosophical interest."Continue reading
Tag Archives: America
I'm generally not for the new trend of bio-pics about currently living people (Barry, Snowden, The Iron Lady, The Social Network, The Theory of Everything). While depicting figures from the past brings them back to "life" in a fictional sense, depicting living figures seems to me to be robbing them of their own ongoing, real drama in this world. Their story isn't yet finished, so it's objectionable to try to tell it—even a portion of it—because the end of their narrative, the conclusion that is necessary to cast the final light over all the rest of it, hasn't yet come to pass. But I've made an exception in watching the Netflix original series The Crown, because the living figure which it depicts is exceptional. Continue reading
Team America
If you've ever played sports or competed in any way on some kind of team, then you know what it's like to form a bond with people over a shared purpose or goal. It's a strange dynamic: a communal identity may form, a pride for the group and its members, a desire to see it succeed. Complete strangers can quickly form deep connections when they're forced to cooperate to achieve a mutual end — especially when that end is outward oriented, such that a team's identity depends on a context beyond itself, like a marketplace or a league…or a global stage. Continue reading
Memorial Day
Today's the last Monday in May, which means it's Memorial Day — the day Americans have set aside to specially remember and honor the men and women who have given their lives in the armed service of the nation. A day that remembers this profound sacrifice from our fallen soldiers, especially on a national level, especially in the face of an ever increasingly selfish, petty, and nihilistic culture is important now more than ever. Continue reading
The Sentinels Of An Epoch
As an American who's used to seeing dilapidated 'historic sites' no older than four hundred years old, I dream of visiting the numerous thousand-plus year old sites of Europe still standing and often functioning in the capacity for which they were built. And so many of Europe's historic sites are cathedrals, parish churches, and monasteries. A quick image search of historic churches of Europe will yield an amazing amount of breathtaking examples of Celtic/English, Frankish/Norman, Greek, Italian, Kievan/Russian, Kartvelian, and Scandinavian Christian architecture, some dating from the fourth century. At the center of nearly every ancient or medieval town across Europe stands one of these jewels. A note on a compilation of historic European churches by the Huffington Post quipped, "Churches seem to be nearly as abundant in Europe as drugstores are in Manhattan." A comparison like that once again highlights the obvious difference in the scenery of America and Europe. Continue reading


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Situational Insights into Water, Sanitation, Energy, and Waste from Southern Africa.
Tag: Research
Triem (2018)
Online tool that leverages on collective intelligence to create licenses that would allow citizens to share their health data for medical research.
Scaling an innovative university program (2018)
Consulting project aimed designing the international scaling strategy of a unique university undergraduate program.
Salus Coop (2017)
Salus Coop aims to legitimize citizens' rights to control their own health records while facilitating data sharing to accelerate research innovation in healthcare.


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I had one of those moments back in July when the lead singer of my all-time favourite band spoke out against Israel during a concert in the UK. The singer was Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.
While he never mentioned Israel by name, he declared, "I swear to f—ing god, there are people out there who are looking for a reason to kill… They're looking for a reason to go across borders and take over land that doesn't belong to them. They should get the f—out, and mind their own f—ing business." (I note that Vedder is yet to rant about the very real genocide taking place in Syria or Iraq)
I have never believed in the idea of boycotting artists but on the other hand, I have never been faced with this feeling of absolute betrayal.
Was he not aware that on a daily basis Israel has to deal with violent and indiscriminate attacks on its civilian population from terrorist groups like Hamas which is dedicated to eliminating Israel and killing all Jews everywhere? That by attacking a country and a people in this way, he actually gives succour to and encourages more violence? To my mind, Vedder was no longer a soldier of love but wittingly or unwittingly, he had become a soldier of hate.
I remember the first concert I went to when I was 14. How my friends and I sparked up lighters and shouted, "I will light a match this morning… So I won't be alone".
I remember not being able to make a Melbourne show and instead got off a 26-hour flight from Israel and travelled to New Zealand for less than 24 hours to see them with my husband back when he was just my boyfriend. I remember going to three concerts in four nights with my brother because we could not bear the thought of missing a single song.
That old VHS tape of MTV Unplugged, a guitar pick thrown out to the crowd, countless CDs, bootlegs – the memories go on and on back to the first song I heard and the first concert I ever attended.
Many of us have had to face this over the years, whether it was Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, and a list of others with misguided views (except for my father who must be lucky because his favourites are Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary who had some sweet Hebrew songs in her repertoire, the Beatles and Dylan. Paul McCartney and Bob support Israel).
I struggled to articulate why it bothered me so much until a friend sent me a picture of a singer named Cat Power. I have never heard of her but she posted a picture on her Instagram from last month with Eddie Vedder and she captioned it with #peaceinthemiddleeast #Gaza.
It was then I realised exactly that this is all about the very thing I have been advocating ever since I began my first project when I started working for the Zionist Council of Victoria in 2003. I was doing some research on Hanan Ashrawi and some of her public statements before her Sydney Peace Prize award. I had not entirely been in the camp that believed Ashrawi should not be awarded the prize. There was plenty of evidence to suggest that Ashrawi wasn't exactly a woman of peace but I believed at the time that peace was about a partnership and it seemed disingenuous to award a peace prize to only one side. My suggestion at the time was that there should have been an award for Ashrawi (although there were other more suitable Palestinians) alongside an Israeli like Amos Oz.
Incidentally Oz, a founding member of the peace movement, declared just last month, "I have been a man of compromise all my life. But even a man of compromise cannot approach Hamas and say: 'Maybe we meet halfway and Israel only exists on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays'.
That is exactly what Waters, Vedder and others ignore. Peace is about compromise, but above that, it is about partnership. Boycotts and public statements against Israel will not bring two opposing sides together but will drive them further apart.
If you really do believe in peace in the Middle East, you need to unite and not divide. You need to see #Israel in the picture. You need to ask yourself if you are helping the cause of peace by supporting/ignoring Hamas or are you just allowing both Israelis and Palestinians to suffer by prolonging the end game?
Emily Gian
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If you follow Humans of New York, you know that Brandon, the creator and photographer, has been profiling refugees. I read every HONY story, but one from the other day really stuck with me. I wanted to share it here in one place since it was actually seven different posts.
I can't help but feel like it's the opposite of Alzheimer's: his brain, his mind, his thoughts are 100% there but there is no one who will listen. He's clearly a brilliant, motivated man who wants to live a better life, for himself and his children (who remain).
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Homemade Refried Beans – these beans are so simple to make, they have just a few ingredients, take about 20 minutes and are so much better than the canned version!
It is no secret that we like Mexican food at my house. It can be anything from Chicken Enchiladas to just basic taco night. Mexican food is on our menu at least once a week, usually more. I have not always been a fan of refried beans, so I have relied on the canned version for my guys who love them.
Well recently my son was at my brothers house and he made homemade refried beans, and my son was blown away. I received an email with the recipe shortly after they were done eating and now they are our go to recipe.
This refried beans recipe does start with canned pinto beans. Lots of recipes out there use dried beans and is a much longer process. One of the things I like about Chicken Tostadas and other Mexican food is how quickly it is ready. I don't want to have to plan way ahead. So that is why I love this recipe. 20 minutes and you are ready to eat.
And the nice thing about making a homemade version is you can adjust the seasonings how you want. If you like the spicy, add in a little bit of chopped jalapeno. Mix in a little onion or chili powder. That is really up to you!
How to Make Refried Beans
- Start with canned pinto beans. You are going to use all the liquid in the can, so I like to pay a little extra and make sure I am getting the best version on the shelf.
- Add a bay leaf to help give it lots of flavor
- Smashed garlic cooks with the beans and infuses it with lots of flavor
- Seasonings. Add what you like. We do 1/2 tsp oregano and 1/2 tsp cumin. But you could skip those, add something different, whatever!
- Salt at the end. Adding salt early in the cooking process can make the beans tough. Salt at the end and adjust to the level you like.
- If you like your beans smooth, you can use a stick blender. If you like them slightly chunky a potato masher works great. Just mash to the texture you enjoy.
Can you Freeze Refried Beans?
- Definitely! Just cool completely and place in an air tight container.
- This recipe does not make a ton, but you could double, or triple the recipe and then freeze in portions for later.
How long will Homemade Refried Beans last in the fridge?
- I would store them in an air tight container in the fridge for 3-4 days.
- To reheat you can microwave or place in a saucepan and heat over medium-low heat.
So the next time you are thinking of Mexican food for dinner, skip the canned refried beans and make your own! They can be seasoning and exactly to your liking. Plus they are hardly any extra work.
These beans would be great to serve inside your enchiladas, on top of your Shrimp Tostadas or just as a side dish with tacos. So many possibilities, your family is going to love them.
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Homemade Refried Beans - these beans are so simple to make, they have just a few ingredients, take about 20 minutes and are so much better than the canned version!
- 1 (15 oz) can Pinto Beans
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It seems that the post-PC era is closer to the pre-PC era where the ruling company could dictate its own hardware specifications.
For the main 3.5″ SATA hard drive bay in the new 2011 machines, Apple has altered the SATA power connector itself from a standard 4-pin power configuration to a 7-pin configuration. Hard drive temperature control is regulated by a combination of this cable and Apple proprietary firmware on the hard drive itself. From our testing, we've found that removing this drive from the system, or even from that bay itself, causes the machine's hard drive fans to spin at maximum speed and replacing the drive with any non-Apple original drive will result in the iMac failing the Apple Hardware Test (AHT).
Read the whole article here: Apple Further Restricts Upgrade Options on New iMacs Other World Computing Blog.
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Airbnb to allow renting in occupied Palestinian territories
The reversal of a previous decision follows the company settling several lawsuits which alleged the ban was discriminatory.
Wednesday 10 April 2019 11:21, UK
Airbnb has reversed its decision to ban rental listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which is considered an occupied Palestinian territory by the International Court of Justice.
The change in the company's position follows a number of lawsuits filed against it in both the US and Israel which alleged that Airbnb's ban was discriminatory on the basis of potential hosts and guests' religion.
Airbnb stated it had settled the lawsuits and will not remove listings in the West Bank from its platform.
However, it added that the company will take no profits from these locations, and will instead donate those funds to humanitarian aid organisations.
The company's announcement comes just ahead of an expected victory in Israel's national elections for incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu, who promised to annex parts of the West Bank if elected again.
The company stated that the planned removal of the listings was not part of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement which campaigns for international boycotts against Israel.
"Airbnb has never boycotted Israel, Israeli businesses, or the more than 20,000 Israeli hosts who are active on the Airbnb platform," the company stated.
"We have always sought to bring people together and will continue to work with our community to achieve this goal."
The Israel and Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, described the company's decision as disappointing on Twitter.
Mr Shakir said: "Donating profits from unlawful settlement listings does nothing to remedy 'human suffering' they've acknowledged causing. By continuing to do business in settlements, they remain complicit in abuses."
The company's policy on "disputed regions" will also apply to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, regions in the Caucasus which are disputed between the states of Georgia and Russia following the 2008 war.


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In May 2017, we went to William's 8th birthday. Rachel & Melissa had purchased Minecraft t-shirts for the boys and Team Unicorn shirts for the girls. At the time, William and Aiden were really into playing Minecraft. They spent the afternoon there playing games and enjoying some cake and pizza.
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We Have More Questions Following Kevin Nicholson's Disastrous Interview About His Record of Supporting Democrats
With Kevin Nicholson's deer-in-headlights expression when confronted with one of his lies at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention this weekend, Kevin needs to come out from hiding and answer more questions. Did Kevin Nicholson lie? Did Dick Uihlein know about Nicholson's 2008 vote? If not, is he still planning to spend millions in support of Nicholson's run or will he just keep running false ads attacking Tammy Baldwin 18 months before the election? So where is Kevin?
Kevin Nicholson has a history of lying to prove his political allegiances, but after the Republican Party of Wisconsin convention last weekend, Kevin has disappeared.
"Kevin wasn't ready to address his lies last weekend, but he better figure out his line soon because out-of-state millionaires backing his run must be questioning his Republican credentials," said Democratic Party of Wisconsin Communications Director Brandon Weathersby. "Did Illinois millionaire and super PAC funder Dick Uihlein know that Kevin Nicholson voted for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in 2008? What does Dick believe: that the record was wrong or that Kevin has changed?"
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As USCG regulations on windjammer passenger carrying vessels tightened, they soon realized extensive repairs were needed if these vessels were to continue providing passengers with a glimpse of history and the golden age of sail. Never ones to settle for a half way solution, Capt. Ray and Ann committed to complete restorations of the 104 year old Grace Bailey and the 70 year old Mercantile. Five years of hard work saw these two authentic "coasters" returned to their rightful glory carrying on the tradition of sailing our coastal waters. Two of only five remaining authentic "coasting schooners", both vessels were designated National Landmarks in 1992, recognizing their historic significance. During this time the Schooner Mistress also underwent extensive restorations.
Maine Windjammer Cruises has been a family endeavor for the Williamsons from the beginning. Ann would sail as cook developing menus which worked well with the wood burning galley stoves. Today she manages the housekeeping side of things as well as the training and oversight of the cooking staff on our vessels. Her recipes developed over the years are recorded in the "Maine Windjammer Cruises Cookbook" which serves as their guide. Passengers never fail to mention the wonderful meals served on board!
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Mallory Pugh, soccer star from Highlands Ranch, will make her NWSL debut on Saturday
Over the weekend, Colorado's Mallory Pugh announced her decision to sign with the Washington Spirit of the NWSL.
Colorado soccer prodigy Mallory Pugh, who last fall became the youngest U.S. women's soccer player to ever score a goal in the Olympics, will make her National Women's Soccer League debut on Saturday.
Over the weekend, Pugh, 19, announced her decision to sign with the Washington Spirit, which came a little more than a month after she left school at UCLA without ever playing a game for the Bruins.
Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl reported last month that it was possible Pugh wouldn't wind up with Washington, who had the first choice in the NWSL's Distribution Ranking Order.
"Three sources close to the situation told SI.com that Portland was one of Pugh's preferred destinations in the NWSL," Wahl reported, while adding that Pugh could sign with a professional team overseas.
In the end, Pugh ended up with the Spirit, who are based in Germantown, Maryland. The Spirit reached the NWSL Championship last season but have taken a step back this year after trading away several key players. They're 1-1-3 with a minus-five goal differential in five matches.
"I think trying to promote and grow women's soccer in the U.S. was super important to me," the Mountain Vista High School alumna said during her Saturday announcement special on the Lifetime network. "I think staying in the NWSL and playing for the Washington Spirit was kind of the best decision for me right now."
The Spirit play FC Kansas City at 5 p.m. Saturday at Maryland SoccerPlex. You can watch the game on Lifetime's app or online at MyLifetime.com.
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Two agreements have seen Software AG increasing its presence in the on-gateway market, which MachNation estimates can accounts for 65% of IoT edge platform vendor revenues. Software AG announced both partnerships this month. MachNation has included Software AG in its 2018 IoT Edge ScoreCard.
The first announcement was with Dell Technologies. According to a press release, the partnership will see Dell Technologies bundling Software AG's Cumulocity edge platform with a selection of Dell's servers, to provide a joint plug-and-play, instant IoT solution for rapid deployment and simple configuration. The combination is set to be badged Cumulocity IoT Edge, powered by Dell Technologies, and is being touted as "a high-performance industry-proof bundle."
Software AG said the hardware, software and services package would enable customers to connect, power up, and start IoT projects immediately, connecting "any number" of end devices and sensors "in just a few minutes." The package will also offer features such as preconfigured smart rules, field bus connectivity, and integrated streaming analytics though Software AG's Apama complex event processing and event stream processing engine.
Shortly after the Dell announcement, Software AG also unveiled a partnership with Eurotech, an Italy-based leader in embedded and pervasive computing. The alliance sees Cumulocity being used to offer out-of-the-box connectivity for the latest release of Eurotech's Everyware Software Framework (ESF). ESF is used in all of Eurotech's multiservice industrial IoT gateways and high-performance edge devices. The integration gives customers functionality including expert triage, automated diagnostics and management, and secure access to the configuration details of connected devices, Software AG said in a press statement.
Software AG's latest announcements are notable for three reasons. First, they are part of a wider trend of integrating I0T functionality into a growing range of endpoints and devices, something we commented on recently in relation to ClearBlade's distribution agreement with Ingram Micro.
Second, for Software AG the Dell and Eurotech deals will likely be highly revenue positive. In our first State of the IoT Edge Market Report, published in April, we revealed that 65% of all IoT edge platform vendor revenues come from on-gateway deployments such as those that Software AG will be supporting through Dell and Eurotech.
Third, it is clear that Software AG is now increasingly bundling Cumulocity with in-house developed analytics, in the form of Apama, in line with a strategy option we outlined over a year and a half ago. Based on this, we can likely expect more announcements of this kind from Software AG in the future.


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The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has defied China and defended the "entirely reasonable and sensible" call for an investigation into the origins of coronavirus, as the international political fallout over the pandemic deepened.
China has been pushing back against criticism from other governments about how it handled the outbreak of Covid-19, which is believed to have started in Wuhan and which has now infected 3 million people worldwide and killed 200,000.
Donald Trump's accusation at the weekend that Beijing could have done more to prevent the deadly spread of the disease was met with fierce criticism from China's state media.
While Australia has eschewed the more strident approach of the US, which has stopped funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), it has urged its allies to back an overhaul of the WHO and suggested recruiting independent investigators akin to "weapons inspectors" to determine the source of major disease outbreaks.
On Wednesday Morrison said his government "will of course continue to pursue what is a very reasonable and sensible course of action".
"This is a virus that has taken more than 200,000 lives across the world," he told reporters in Canberra. It has shut down the global economy. The implications and impacts of this are extraordinary.
"Now, it would seem entirely reasonable and sensible that the world would want to have an independent assessment of how this all occurred, so we can learn the lessons and prevent it from happening again."
Australia's stance has angered Beijing, which has denied wrongdoing during the pandemic . In recent days Chinese state media has run numerous inflammatory statements including that Australia was "gum stuck to the bottom of China's shoe", doing the work of the US but without holding any influence, and risking longterm damage to its bilateral relationship and trading partnership with China.
On Tuesday, the Chinese embassy released details of a call from Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat), and in a further move to embarrass the Morrison government, claimed the Dfat secretary had said it was "not the time to commence the review now and Australia has no details of the proposal".
The move came after warnings by China's ambassador to Australia, Jingye Cheng, on Monday over consumer boycotts, described by an Australian minister as "threats of economic coercion".
A Tuesday night editorial in the Global Times accused Australia of "panda bashing" and victim blaming, and Morrison of "adventurism" which could damage the bilateral relationship "beyond repair".
"The Morrison government's adventurism to fiddle with this mutually beneficial comprehensive strategic partnership is in defiance of rational thought and common sense," it said.
"Canberra is treading on a hazardous path that has no prospect for a U-turn during the Covid-19 pandemic, and likely for a long time afterward."
But on Wednesday Morrison insisted the investigation "is not targeted" and refused to buy in to the war of words with China, saying the response was "a matter for them".
"Australia will do what is in our interest, in the global interest, and we will of course continue to support moves to ensure there is a proper independent assessment of what has occurred here."
Morrison said Australia's relationship with China was "mutually beneficial" and noted its trade with China consisted mainly of export of resources. "I see no reason why that would alter in the future."
In other coronavirus developments around the world:
The number of US cases passed one million as Donald Trump predicted a "great" economic rebound in the fall and claimed the country would soon be performing 5m coronavirus diagnostic tests a day.
Brazil's total number of confirmed deaths overtook the WHO's figure for China as cases accelerate in Latin America's biggest country. The number of deaths in Brazil has now passed 5,000.
China's consultative parliament is set to hold its annual meeting on 22 May, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, more than two months later than originally planned.
Nearly 70 residents infected with coronavirus died at a Massachusetts home for ageing veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the deadliest known outbreak at a long-term care facility in the US.
China reported zero new deaths as of the end of 28 April. There were 26 new asymptomatic cases, down from 40 the day before, but 21 new imported cases, compared to three a day earlier, and 22 cases in the mainland.
The Academy Awards will for the first time allow films that debuted on a streaming service without a theatrical run to be eligible for nominations, a break with tradition in direct response to the coronavirus pandemic.


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Cinemacraft, the Japan-U.S. company that provides interactive online video technologies, has launched a series of news tools aimed at giving broadcasters and brands new ways to boost engagement on their clips, beyond just relying on repositories like YouTube.
Rather than trying to replace YouTube, Vimeo and others, the company complements these services and caters to specific broadcasters, such as movie publishers or multi-channel networks, who are looking for a different way to engage viewers that's more in line with social media.
The company, which is actually rebranding to Videogram — the name of its product — raised a $3.9 million Series A funding round this January, and founder Sandeep Casi told TechCrunch that the new products are a result of feedback that it has seen, particularly from MCNs, over the course of 2015.
Videogram has long offered 'interactive' video embeds, which show multiple frames from a clip rather than a single thumbnail to entice a viewer in, but it has now launched a new card format that takes things up a notch. Videogram embeds remain free to deploy anywhere on the web, but many content producers found that they needed something that was more specific to the demands of social media.
Each is comprised of an eight-second preview — a GIF, which autoplays on Twitter and Facebook — that is automatically assembled by Videogram's engine and changes based on interaction.
Cards include auto-generated previews, the larger framer
"Each card is adaptively learning, so when people share the video, it keeps track and reformats the preview based on what people are looking at," Casi said in an interview. "That helps enable discovery to happen — even if you watch it now, the content might have changed a week later."
The card also includes a new, sleek video player design that lets viewers find other content via random discovery, categories and channels.
New look video card
That additional opportunity for interaction, Casi explained, was something many Videogram partners requested.
"Publishers have been asking for a landing site since traffic would go to the embed and then disappear after. They began realizing it wasn't sticky," he said, emphasizing that the new format could help convert casual wanderers from social media into more engaged viewers.
Finally — because news comes in threes — Videogram has also launched a new search and channel option. While that may rival YouTube, Vimeo, Vine and others by serving up content for consumers, those platforms are so established it isn't a contest. Instead, Videogram is focused on publishers who, Casi said, are sick of managing videos across multiple sites and want a centralized location for everything video-related.
"They wanted a unified search and channel to showcase content from all networks," he said. "We have integrated search from YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion and curation of Facebook and Twitter videos."
How a Conan channel might look
Putting all your content in one place makes sense for specific brands or broadcasters, for example all of the pre-launch clips for a film. Each page can be whitelabelled, too, which makes it an interesting option as an interactive extension of a website or promotional microsite. Consumers can not only search, but they can also create their own Videograms which show up on the channel — Casi again points to new engagement potential. Videogram said it is bringing on broadcasters from across these channels, and has also signed up four undisclosed MCNs to produce white label sites.
Fans may have noticed that the Videogram iOS and Android apps have left their respective app stores. This is only temporary, and Casi explained that they are being outfitted with the new design to match the web-based versions, which are optimized for mobile and smart TVs, too. The redesigned apps should return in the coming weeks, the Videogram CEO confirmed.


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A valued customer recently requested that we map out all post tension cables in an Orlando area resort. There were four areas, each about 500-1000 square feet, that needed to be mapped out, with both the post tension cables and the conduit marked. We were asked to paint the PT cables red and the conduit blue in order to distinguish between the two.
The customer had photos of the area prior to the concrete pour, so we were able to compare our field markings to photograph, and we thought the results were worth sharing. Not every job allows for such a stark visual confirmation of our findings, but in this case, the customer's photo demonstrated the clarity and accuracy of our marks.
Note: There was a piece of conduit in the photograph that was not in our field markings. We confirmed that this conduit had, in fact, been removed prior to the pour.
The conduit was easy to distinguish from rebar in this particular slab because it was empty and thus created a negative reaction—the metal rebar reflects the GPR signal back to the receiver, whereas the air inside empty conduit does the opposite. Sometimes conduit is full of metal wiring, and in those cases, it may be more difficult to distinguish, and technician may rely more on context clues (e.g. breaks in patterns and spacing, depth of anomaly, line angle, etc.)
Our customer proceeded with the work on the above area without incident, and has since scheduled additional work at the site. Its jobs like these that build our confidence that we as a team are doing truly valuable work. The average construction budget spends only .1% on locating services, but those locating services have been found to produce a 6x to 8x average return in savings. And even beyond these numbers, locating services keep people safe and keep projects on schedule, which adds its own kind of value. We have a professional team with a strong track record in a field that is adding true value back into the construction industry and the economy as a whole. That is something we are proud of.
GPRS does not provide geophysical, geological, land surveying or engineering services. If you need such services, please contact an appropriate professional. If you are interested in hearing more about how GPRS can help you on your next project, please call us.


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Lazy glutes - the common complaint many of us suffer with, and, a lot of the time, the reason we're not running stronger, further and faster. But if your diary is jam-packed and you've not got time for a full strength-training session, just practising this move alone has some serious benefits, according to science.
The Journal of Strength and Conditioning reports that the side-lying leg lift activates the glutes more than others.
1. Lie on your left side with legs extended out straight. Prop yourself up on your left forearm.
2. Lift your right leg up, keeping your hips steady and facing forward.
3. Lower the leg and repeat the move. For
an additional challenge, place a resistance band around your ankles.
4. Do 15 reps and repeat on the other leg. That's one set. Do two or three sets three times a week


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Here's one that was percolating in my mind for a while before I was able to put it up; discussing the concept of strength, some reasons men should seek to acquire it, and, as a byproduct, the contemporary tendency to prioritize comfortably ambiguous ideas of 'inner strength' over, you know, the kind you can't fake.
This danger is to emphasize inner strength to the point of devaluing outer strength. We do the same thing with beauty. It seems we can hardly talk about either without tripping over ourselves to add that we mean primarily "inner" strength or "inner" beauty.
The problem with this is that inner strength is indeed a much more valuable quality than outer strength, but it is also a much more ambiguous one. Anyone who likes can claim that he has inner strength, just as anyone can claim that she has inner beauty, and there isn't much anyone can do to disprove that.
Nothing is so common as to hear cowards talk about how much courage it took to run away, or degenerates wax lyrical about how brave they were to give into their lowest instincts. Like with school essay questions, it's fatally easy to fudge the issue—particularly in today's pluralistic culture—and twist anything and everything we do into an example of great virtue.
This is why it's important to start with blunt facts, with developing 'outer' strength.
It may be lower, but it is also more honest. You can fudge on whether you are in fact a coward or a sincere pacifist, but you can't fudge on whether that weight came off the ground or not.
Which, of course, is part of the point; not just that physical strength is valuable in itself, but that, like learning Latin or mathematics, it is uncompromising. Either the weight moves or it doesn't. Either you run the whole mile or you don't. There is no room for ambiguity, excuses, or uncertainty. Physical strength is an objective quality, meaning that it forces us to learn at least a little of the infinitely valuable skill of facing up to reality.
Read the rest here.


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There are over 5,200 bus stops across York Region.
All YRT/Viva stops are clearly marked with a bus stop sign that includes a bus stop number and our Customer Service contact information.
Bus stops that are more frequently used will have street furniture. YRT/Viva street furniture includes the following amenities: transit shelters, benches, bike racks, waste/recycling receptacles, multi-publication units, newspaper box organizers, schedule display cases and community information kiosks.
YRT/Viva Coordinated Street Furniture Program
York Region is currently implementing the Coordinated Street Furniture Program at YRT/Viva on-street facilities which will include some of the following amenities:
- Transit shelters
- Benches
- Bike racks
- Waste and recycling receptacles
- Multi-publication units
- Schedule display cases
- Community information kiosks
The Coordinated Street Furniture Program presents YRT/Viva and the area municipalities with the opportunity to promote an identifiable service across the Region. This is achieved by a unified and cohesive regional image while making 'places' within the public realm. It also supports a number of Regional policies through promoting a transit-supportive public realm, well-designed and accessible public places and pedestrian-friendly streetscapes.


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RayComposer 1.6
Version 1.6, the newest Release of our RayComposer Laser Software is now available for Download.
Additional to many detail enhancements several completely new functions have found their way in the newest release.
New is the concept of variables within the timeline, which can be remote-controlled by the OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol. This enables you to use RayComposer not only for pre-programmed show projects, but also for interactive projects.
Another highlight of this release is the enhanced 3D Preview, which can now simulate the real projector configuration much better. For instance, you can now rotate projectors or decorate them with custom graphics.
The promise for our Mac OS X users, that no feature of the PC version will be missing on Mac could finally be fulfilled with this release. Exporting laser shows directly to video is the last feature that has been ported over from the PC version.
Behind the curtains of the software a lot has also improved - performance and stability have been increased a lot. The basis of the Software was updated to the latest Revision, so we can proudly say RayComposer is ready for the future. Windows 10 and Mac OS X El Capitain are readily supported. Who hits the limits of system RAM with demanding multimedia shows can now use the 64 bit build of the full version of our laser software, RayComposer Professional.
The pool of readily available pre-programmed shows is constantly growing. We will offer a selection of shows for download here soon.


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Most folks who have coded in Java understand somewhat how to protect your application for the logging performance sink-hole. The sink occurs when you have turned off debugging, but for some reason your application still runs horribly slow. After much research and sout-ing you figure out that your logging statements are being evaluated, just not logged. This occurs because the String expression is evaluated, which might call a number of toString methods on Objects, and the result is passed to the debug method of the logger. This evaluation is what slows everything down. The same applies to Ruby as well and Ruby in fact has a number of cool tricks to help out and make the code a bit easier.
Java folks will remember this as the standard way to ensure that logging statements that create a lot of Objects or call toString won't be executed unless the logging level is set correctly:
/* or JDK logging logger.isLoggable(Level.FINEST)*/ if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) { logger.debug("My object is " + obj + ". Cool!"); }
In Ruby there are two forms of logging statements:
logger.debug("My object is " + obj + ". Cool!") logger.debug{"My object is " + obj + ". Cool!"}
These a very similar but drastically different. The first version evaluates the String and passes the String to the debug method on the logger. The second uses a code block and passes a pointer to the code block to the debug method. The second ensures that the block is not evaluated until the logger has determined that all levels are set correctly and that it should print the logging message. This is really key because in Ruby we can build complex logging statements that would take a bit of time to construct, but ensure they won't be evaluated unless the correct logging level is set, simply by changing our parens to curlies. Pretty slick. In Java you have to wrap the statement in an if block in order to achieve the same goal.
Here's another cool trick:
logger.debug("My object is " + obj + ". Cool!") if logger.debug?
This statement is nearly identical to our Ruby logging statement that uses the curly braces instead of parens. The reason is that Ruby will check the if statement at the end of the line before it evaluates the statement itself. Therefore, we can ensure that the string concatenation and conversion of the Object to a string will not occur unless the logger is set to debugging level.
Personally, I prefer the curlies approach as it reduces the overall code.


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Betting Odds
Point Spread: Navy -3
Total Line: OFF
Date/Time: 7:30 PM EST Thursday October 13, 2016
Location: Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC
Navy Midshipmen vs. East Carolina Pirates on 10/13/2015 at 7:30 PM at
Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC. The linesmaker has Navy as a 3-point spread favorite.
Navy is 3-1-1 ATS with an O/U record of 3-2 and East Carolina is 2-4 ATS with an O/U record of 4-2.
Last Games: Navy moved to 4-1 with 46-40 win over Houston covering as a 15.5-point underdog and the total going Over. East Carolina fell to 2-4 with a 38-22 loss to USF where they failed to cover as a 14-point underdog and the total going Under.
Last season at Navy the Midshipmen beat the Pirates 45-21 covering as a 4.5-point favorite and the total going Over.
This season East Carolina is 2-1 at home and Navy is 1-1 on the road.
Navy ranks 84th in total offense and 64th in total defense
while East Carolina ranks 14th in total offense and 83rd in total defense.
Sagarin Rankings
Navy: 72.83
East Carolina: 65.54
- NAVY is 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 games overall.
- NAVY is 0-3-1 ATS in their last 4 road games.
- NAVY has an Over record of 8-3 in their last 11 games.
- ECU is 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games overall.
- ECU is 2-5 ATS in their last 7 home games.
- ECU has an Under record of 7-1 in their last 8 conference games.
The road team is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 games between these teams.
The underdog is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 games between these teams.
In the last 5 games between these teams the total has gone Over every time.
Navy Midshipmen at East Carolina Pirates
I give full credit to ECU for not getting embarrassed on the road against a very good South Florida team. That said, they're on a four game losing streak straight up and against the spread and while they have played a tougher schedule than the Midshipmen, the visitor has only one loss on the year against an Air Force team that would destroy the Pirates. The line is a manageable -3, so will back the team that has proven that it can get the W for a small play.
Take the Navy Midshipmen -3
Thanks to Rich Crew for his against the spread prediction on this game. You can get his picks and more from other winning handicappers for free at SportsBettingStats.com


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text: webmktr 1 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The vast majority of my Evernote thoughts are entered by tapping on my keyboard. I was really disappointed when it went from a simple "New Note" to a '+' that then opened a drawer of all the wonderful things I could do; I would always be selecting the text option anyway. I would like to return to a one tap to a text note, so that my natural train of thought that I'm trying to capture is not impeded. If this is common behaviour (to use the 'text' option 90-95% of the time, can there be a gesture shortcut to automatically open a new text note? I'm thinking like SwiftKey's '!' ... You start on the '.' and slide left: you don't have to tap, just slide. The other thing I would like is to get into edit mode without explicitly having to tap into it. I open up an existing note, start reviewing it, and then find a place I want to insert text. But I can't. First, I have to tap the edit button. Then I need to scroll down to that spot, hopefully not having to search around too much, but I've got some really long notes. The natural thing for me to do is to tap at the spot I want to insert the text, and I expect the keyboard to swing up. But alas, I am disappointed every time. I think if it's a tap rather than a scrolling swipe, the app should know that I want to edit the note at the spot I've tapped. I'm addressing the same issue as with the first suggestion: the current process impedes my attempt to capture my natural train of thought in the moment. Link to comment