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Syrian migrant crisis: The need for broad cooperation
A global security crisis of historic proportions is raging in the Middle East, and spreading by the day, as millions of refugees flee Syria and Iraq. The need for broad cooperation – and the support of the entire UN Security Council – is apparent.analysis Updated: Nov 03, 2015 20:17 IST
A global security crisis of historic proportions is raging in the Middle East, and spreading by the day, as millions of refugees flee Syria and Iraq. The crisis is now affecting not just all of Syria's immediate neighbours, straining their resources and exacerbating social and ethnic tensions; it now directly involves all of the current permanent members of the Security Council except China. It is time for all would-be permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – namely, Germany, India, Japan, Brazil, and Egypt – to step up.
The desire for a political settlement that could end the Syrian civil war is palpable; but just what that settlement would look like remains open to debate – or to further conflict. Indeed, Russia and the United States are circling each other like boxers before the contest actually begins, supporting different factions and trying to ensure that their allies in the multi-sided conflict are advancing, or at least holding ground.
The need for broad cooperation – and the support of the entire UN Security Council – is apparent. That is why US Secretary of State John Kerry is talking to the Russians, the Saudis, and the Turks to build support for a new round of international talks. And the UN and Arab League's special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has created a set of working groups, chaired by Europeans, to "create a framework for concrete talks between Syria's government and opposition."
In enabling a peace deal, a coalition of countries that are not yet directly involved in the crisis could be very helpful. Such a coalition – involving, say, Germany, India, Japan, Brazil, and Egypt – could increase the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to negotiate by convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin that the world is watching his deal-making efforts closely and that his prestige is on the line.
Moreover, coalition members could convince other relevant regional players to push for a lasting peace. Germany, for example, already recognizes that the only long-term solution to Europe's refugee influx lies in eliminating the need to flee, and has begun to make some moves. Foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeiertravelled to Turkey in September to help broker a deal on keeping refugees in Turkey, in exchange for restarting talks on Turkish accession to the European Union. A leading German foreign policy expert, Volker Perthes, is chairing one of de Mistura's working groups.
The other countries have yet to take action. But they, too, have plenty of motivation – and plenty to offer.
India – as well as Pakistan – has a great deal to gain from strengthening Southwest Asian trade, energy, and investment ties. Since the signing of the Iran nuclear deal, India has been contemplating renewing the plan for an Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, with the participation of China and Russia. But that will be impossible without a settlement in Syria and a decision by Iran to stop supporting Hezbollah.
India has a strong relationship with Iran, underpinned by long-standing cultural, social, political, and economic ties, with India now funding an overhaul of the Iranian port of Chabahar, which will give it direct access to Afghanistan. This places India in a strong position to push Iran to put pressure on Assad. Likewise, India can leverage its relationship with Russia – it remains a major importer of Russian arms – to help drive progress.
Japan's potential contribution also involves Iran, with which Japan has lately been pursuing a closer relationship – not least because Japan needs Iranian oil and gas. Earlier this month in Tehran, the Japanese and Iranian foreign ministers agreed to begin negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty. Japan also wants to speed up implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, so that it can take advantage of the business opportunities that will result when economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic are lifted.
But if Iran is truly to rejoin the international community, it must play a constructive role in its region. Japan, which now aspires to enhance its own role on the world stage, must not shy away from making that clear. A bonus here is that Japanese and Indian interest in the Syrian peace process could spur China to play an active role in reaching, rather than blocking, a solution.
Brazil, despite confronting plenty of domestic problems right now, is also in a position to help. Not only does it have substantial ties with Russia; it is also linked to Turkey, exemplified by the two countries' 2010 effort to broker a deal with Iran over its nuclear program.
Moreover, in 2011, Brazil put forward a concept paperat the UN outlining how countries seeking to implement the "responsibility to protect" doctrine should behave. With the Syrian government – through its murder of tens of thousands of civilians with barrel bombs and poison gas – having more than fulfilled the criteria for triggering the international community's obligation to intervene, Brazil could suggest what an intervention that reflected the principle of "responsibility while protecting" might look like.
Finally, Egypt – a perennial candidate for a permanent or rotating African seat in a reformed Security Council – has important relationships throughout the region, particularly with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries that are directly supporting some Syrian opposition groups. The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has emphasized the need for a comprehensive political settlement, is tacitly supporting Assad, but is also deeply concerned about the Islamic State. Egyptian diplomats are thus excellent candidates to exert pressure for compromise.
Many of these countries' governments might say that the Syrian conflict is too far away to affect them directly. But global leadership does not simply mean enjoying the prestige that accompanies presumed power. The UN Charterrequires countries to use their power to identify "any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression," and to decide which measures must be taken "to maintain or restore international peace and security." The Syrian crisis is a major "threat to the peace," and the world must address it together.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is the President and CEO of New America. Her latest book is 'Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family.'
Copyright:Project Syndicate, 2015.
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I wrote this last year about something that happened in November. For a number of different reasons it's taken until now to post it. (All is fine now, by the way.)
A counsellor told me I have post-traumatic stress. He said it is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation. Apparently my body is still pumping itself with adrenaline every time I think about what happened. That is why I keep flashing back to it. That is why my heart is pounding and my hands are shaking as I write.
Hopefully this feeling only lasts a few more days. I would not make a very good action hero.
Here's what happened. Two boys, both about 8 years old, got themselves into trouble on a paddleboard that they were sharing. The first lesson here is lifejackets. Always wear a life jacket.
I will call the boys Alex and James. Not their real names, of course. They had paddled a bit further out than was wise, if only by a matter of metres. The water was shallow and they should have been fine but the wind took them.
I was nearby, puddling about on a children's kayak. I couldn't fit into the seat so I was sitting on the back of it, my feet dangling over the side. Shorts and t-shirt.
Alex's dad called for the boys to come closer into shore. Since I was already on the water in my poor excuse for a kayak, I paddled over to them.
Things change fast. Did I mention you should always wear a life jacket? No one in this story is wearing one.
So here comes the wind. It's not something you notice straight away until you realise it has been building for a while, manipulating things so that by the time I reach the boys we have all drifted quite a distance. Alex is paddling, doing his best, but every stroke is taking them further in the wrong direction. The water is way over our heads and I realise James is crying.
I keep pace and tell Alex to copy what I'm doing with my paddle. He does really well. He manages to swing his board around to face the land but the wind pushes straight back and he is not strong enough to paddle against it.
Suddenly, it seems, we are right out in the harbour. The sky is grey. It is windy, choppy, and we have no life jackets. James is quite distraught and when I get alongside he scrambles onto the front of my kayak. I consider telling him to stay on the paddleboard but I figure anything that helps keep him calm is a good thing. He gets into the seat in front of me and hugs his knees.
I continue to coach Alex. He is silent and he does everything I tell him but his paddleboard is still moving away from me. The distance between his board and our kayak is stretching out. I am getting seriously concerned now. I am trying to get James to sit properly in the kayak. Our combined weight has raised the nose of our little craft. We are wobbling quite a bit and I am conscious of keeping our balance. Waves are starting to slop in over the side.
About now Alex's dad turns up in an adult's kayak. He hands me a child's life jacket and then heads away towards Alex. The wind has already blown Alex even further from us.
I pull the life jacket over James' head with one hand, holding my paddle with the other. I haven't yet tightened his lifejacket. Then our kayak tips over.
I am in the water and James is somewhere under the kayak. My first thought is that he is stuck but he pops up. So does his life jacket; it has slipped off. Somehow, with my two hands – I have no idea how I managed this – I grab James, the kayak, the life jacket and the paddle all at once.
James is screaming. I am yelling, "We're okay, we're okay." But we're not okay. I am not okay. I'm not a great swimmer. I could maybe swim to save my life but I don't know if I can swim to save someone else's life.
I am terrified by the sound of my voice. It is rattled and hollow. It is a voice that definitely does not sound okay. It doesn't sound like my voice at all. I've never heard a voice like this, ever.
But I have hold of James. I need to get him onto the kayak because he is panicking and I don't know if I can keep this flailing kid above the water by myself. I say again, "I've got you, we're okay." It is pretty much all I say for the next while. I am holding him up with my left arm. This is the moment I often flash back to: I'm in the water, no one is there to save us, and my whole reality has changed in an instant.
I am not even sure how I stayed afloat. Was I treading water? Was I supporting myself with my other hand on the kayak? What I can't figure out is that when we fell into the water I was at the back of the kayak but somehow James and I have swapped positions and I'm now at the front end.
I have a picture in my mind of the kayak sinking into the black water. That's not what happened at all, but the image is burned into my memory, perhaps because I so desperately didn't want it to sink.
That thump of dread – that is where I keep returning. I will be at work, minding my own business, and then wham, I'm back in the water reaching for James with my left hand while clutching for the kayak with my right.
So I have a hand on the kayak. I try to turn it back over, a futile exercise. I push James onto the kayak. He is lying there like it's a flutter board. I'm really worried it will sink so I edge him further forward to even up the balance.
Maybe it was never going to sink. But it in that moment it was our life support and nothing felt certain any more.
All this time James is yelling, "We're going to die!" I say, "We're not going to die, we're okay." I position myself behind him like an outboard motor. Now that we are on the kayak I am calming myself down.
I try to look over my shoulder a couple of times to see where Alex and his dad have got to but the movement rocks our precious balance in the choppy water. I have to trust that they have their situation sorted, whatever it may be.
Once I realise that I don't have the luxury of thinking about Alex and his dad, I completely forget about them. In this moment there is only James and me.
The life jacket and paddle are in my left hand. There is no way I can use either of them. James is still crying. "I wish my Mum and Dad were here. I don't want to die today."
I am saying, "We're not going to die, we're all sorted here on this kayak. I've got you, we're just floating here and we're fine." Or something like that. I can't see any sign of rescue boats and I am fighting off the notion that James is right, that someone might actually die today. This is all very wrong. I was having lunch with friends just an hour ago. How is it that I am here, in the middle of the harbour, responsible for the life of someone else's son?
And James is still crying. I can't use the paddle so I say, "We're okay, we're just going to kick our way to shore." James starts kicking, furiously. He ends up kicking me too and the whole kayak wobbles. I say, "No, you don't kick. Just me, I do the kicking." And I kick. I kick like the champion Olympic swimmer I will never be. The land has never looked so far away. I am kicking and I'm wondering how we are ever going to make it because the wind is still blowing against us. I wonder if I should turn and aim for the shore at a broader angle, maybe head down the harbour to get momentum. But James is so upset that I can't bring myself to point the kayak away from land. Perhaps, more honestly, it is for my own sake that I can't bring myself to head away from land.
I don't know what is going to happen. My greatest fear remains that we will be separated from the kayak. James is telling me he is cold. He is higher into the wind whereas I am pretty much entirely in the water. I'm not noticing the cold at all. I'm just kicking.
I am thinking about that policeman who jumped into the harbour to save the guy whose van was shunted off a bridge, how he had to keep the guy's head above water for 40 minutes with no life jackets. If we lose the kayak, I'm not sure I can do that. Seconds count out here. I still have the little life jacket in my left hand. It's pretty lightweight.
I have a vague notion that my wife might be on the beach worrying about me. But I have no real thought about her or my own children. I am not thinking about God or death or anyone in particular with any sort of clarity. It's amazing how your body goes into survival mode. I am detached from everything except water, balance, kicking, not sinking.
I am not sure how long we are there. It might be 5 minutes, it might be 10. It feels like 30. We are on our own. No one is coming. I genuinely do not know how this day is going to end.
It occurs to me that I am supposed to make chitchat in a situation like this, to help distract the other person. This is supposed to be one of those heroic bonding moments. But I can't think of anything to say to James other than "we're okay," and I feel bad about that.
Finally, there is someone else in the distance. He is heading towards us, sitting on a paddleboard. He looks so small and insignificant against the harbour. I'm thinking, do you not realize how serious this is, another flimsy paddleboard is not going to cut it, we need a dingy or a boat or a fucking helicopter.
The next thing I remember is everyone converging upon us at the same time. Alex and his dad have made it back to us. The guy on the paddleboard, who I'll call Pete, is there. We are a little flotilla of three men and two boys in the middle of the harbour. We are so far out that no one on the shore can tell what is happening.
We get James onto Alex's paddleboard. This time the lifejacket gets done tightly. Alex's dad prepares to tow the two boys to shore but first he asks if we should all stay together. Pete and I both tell him no, get the kids in. So off he goes.
I'm still in the water with my half-sunk upturned kayak. Pete hooks it up to his paddleboard. I am irrationally concerned that the kayak will sink and take the paddleboard with it.
It is strange how your brain compartmentalizes information during a crisis, shutting down distractions. It is only in retrospect I realize that until that point I was not once scared for myself. It was all about James.
Pete is towing me. He is working hard because my kayak and I are heavy in the water. Someone else arrives on a much larger kayak. I look ahead to see that Alex's dad has the boys in the shallows. So they're safe. And that's the last I think about them until I am back on land.
I pull myself up onto the front of the new kayak. I barely ask permission, that big blue kayak is safety – I must get to it. I basically do exactly what James did when he first scrambled onto my kayak, which now seems like an hour ago.
There is enough space on the new kayak for me to lie down. It feels like a cruise ship compared to where I've just been. My leg cramps. I realise I still have my sunglasses on. We get to shore and I pretty much collapse. My wife is there. She throws a towel around me, later telling me that my whole body was purple. My hands keep shaking long after the cold has worn off. They shake their way through several shots of whisky.
That night the overwhelming burden of 'what if' consumes me. 'What if' takes on a life of its own, far eclipsing the scope of the event.
All of the clichés are true. I don't feel heroic. I find the whole thing hard to talk about. If anything, I'm embarrassed and confused. I keep thinking it should have been someone else out there, someone more capable. The best I can attribute to myself is that I didn't fail.
Ostensibly this was a non-event, a near miss compared with what other people go through. If our little adventure has rocked me this much, how much worse for those in more serious incidents? A entire city was rattled and shaken in Christchurch. I suddenly understand why a doctor friend of mine found it so difficult to process his experience after the Feb 22 quake.
How awful must it be, fresh from tragedy, to find journalists in your face with requests for interviews and photographs? All that attention when you can barely talk about it with your own friends and family.
All week I keep finding myself back in the water, kicking that little sunken lifeboat against the wind, swamped by the feeling that we are not going to make it to shore. A stormy sky and the looming spectre of death. A slow collision with mortality.
It was the strangest, gravest experience I have ever had, yet I can already feel the details slipping away from me. Was it really so bad? We fell in the water, we paddled back. A little fright, but no big deal, right?
My shredded nerves suggest otherwise.
And finally, in case I have not already mentioned this: please, always wear a lifejacket.
Marcel Currin, December 2014

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On the heels of this year's Brickyard 400, Brown expects to announce two more major NASCAR sponsorship deals brokered by his company. Those deals-which he can't yet discuss-along with recent deals to bring Johnnie Walker and Hilton Hotels to Formula One, will bring his sponsorship portfolio to near $150 million annually.
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Just Marketing is set to move into a new, 27,000-square-foot building in Bennett Technology Park in Zionsville this December, allowing the company to grow to 100-plus employees.
Ironically, Brown, a California native, raced in the Formula One feeder system in Europe for five years, and moved to Indianapolis to be close to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but has made the lion's share of his money in NASCAR.
"About 75 percent of our revenue comes from NASCAR," Brown said. "My biggest regret is not getting into NASCAR sooner. I started out pitching open wheel because that was my background. But when I started asking clients what they wanted, it was NASCAR."
Brown, who never attended college or took sales classes, said his experience as a driver and team operator are critical to his success.
In spite of that experience and his love affair with NASCAR, Brown benefits from not working for the series itself, its tracks or teams.
"That's been the key to his success," said William Chipps, editor of IEG Sponsorship Report, a Chicago-based publication that follows the sponsorship industry. "Just Marketing set up a unique business model where they exclusively represent corporate interests interested in growing through motorsports sponsorships."
Chipps said other agencies have been trying to discover Brown's "secrets" for years.
"No one is doing the number of deals and size of deals right now that Zak is doing," Chipps said. "He's gotten audiences with all the heads of state in this industry in a relatively short period of time, and he always seems to close the deal."
Among his trophies was lining up the Subway restaurant chain as title sponsor for NASCAR's Rockingham, N.C., race, which used to take place not long after the Super Bowl. Because both the football game and race were broadcast by Fox in 2001, the network heavily promoted the NASCAR race during the game broadcast-garnering Subway 11 promotional mentions though it only bought one advertising spot during the game.
"That was just a matter of understanding the dynamics of the situation," Brown said. "There were some other advertisers who were not pleased with that, that's for sure."
"You don't get to where Zak has gotten without ruffling a few feathers," Chipps said. "This business is immensely competitive and when other advertisers and agencies see Zak getting more out of the system than they have by whatever means, that leads to frustration. That's just the nature of the beast."


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Everyone in the 40's had their Portrait taken. Why? They were going to War. There was a good chance that they weren't going to come back. We have a photo of Grandad, between 18 and 25 off to World War II. Shortly after, 50's 60's, Portraits started to get better. Gals would get a 'Sweet 16', maybe a 21st birthday Portrait. But in that time, it was pretty much Wedding Photography because everyone was getting married at that age.
Time passes, and children are had. Mom becomes last on the shopping list because the first 15 years, she spent photographing her babies. That becomes the large gap of where mothers don't exist in Photographs. She is the same one who 15 years later says, "I just want a beautiful photograph of my family together." Dad can't justify spending $2,000 on Photographs, and says that they have LOTS of photos of the kids. While Mom doesn't have any of her, none with her children, and the family cookout ones that she does, are none that she likes. She becomes the forgotten one. And she's the one who wants them more than anything in the world.
There will be a time where Grandma and Mom will not be with you. And what will you look for? Her Photos. You'll scroll and scroll on Instagram and realize there's nothing but a few birthday photos of her from another time you randomly snapped a photo. I have a large Wall Portrait in my family room of my late Great Grandmother and my mom taken on Christmas day. In my whole home, it is the number one most precious thing.
Moms, Grandmothers who are reading this. Go get your Portrait taken. For you. For your family.
Create a legacy to leave behind for your children, and #existinphotos


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The Everyman has a habit of mentally keeping a list of secret criteria that either make or break his dining experience.
In previous posts I've alluded to one of these; his bread and butter test. Whenever we are brought a bread basket in a restaurant, the first thing he does is test the butter to see if it's hard or not. You see, there's almost nothing worse when you want a piece of bread and butter than not being able to properly spread the butter on your bread. Or as the Everyman puts it, you end up breaking your bread by exerting so much buttery force.
Coincidentally, I also have a list… the bread and butter thing happens to be on mine too, but there are others, which I'll outline below.
Restaurants that do not have websites. Honestly, let's get real here. It's the 21st century, and everybody and their grandmother are on the internet these days. There is no valid excuse for a restaurant not to have a website in this day and age.
Advertising menus on the website that are no longer being served. This is probably the one that drives me the most nuts. If I decide that I want to go to your restaurant, I'm going to visit your website to review the menu (see above). Once I review your menu, chances are I'm going to have my heart set on certain dishes. There's nothing I hate more than showing up to a reservation, sitting down and seeing nothing I want on the menu because it's not the same one I looked at 24 hours ago. If you must change your menu with the weeks or the seasons, do us all a favor and change your website on that schedule too.
Unreliable servers. This category covers a multitude of sins. Think servers who don't notice when your wine or water glass are empty, those who forget to bring you cutlery, or the ones who accidentally misplace your order. Incidentally, this also includes the special breed of Siberian servers that are popping up more and more these days. If it's been more than an hour since you popped by my table, something is wrong with this equation and your tip is probably going to be proportionately affected.


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Red Rooster at The Curtain
- Shoreditch
- Supper
- ££££
Marcus Samuelsson brings his renowned Harlem restaurant to Shoreditch with Southern soul food, live music and late nights.
- Address
- 45 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3PT
- Contact
- +44 (0) 20 3146 4545
- Opening Times
- Mon-Tue 17.00-00.00
Wed 17.00-01.00
Thu-Sat 17.00-02.00
Sun 11.00-17.00
The Nudge Says…
Marcus Samuelsson's Harlem restaurant has understandably become quite legendary, and this Shoreditch branch takes it's finest qualities and builds on them... Aside from Shoreditch-only menu additions – which come in the form of dishes like such as Uncle T's Herring with fermented rice & brown butter, or duck with foie gras ganache and jicama – there's also that stage. And while the live bands will be nice, they're also planning on bussing in live gospel choirs for Sunday brunch. Yep. Oh, and then there's the fact that there's an entire other restaurant attached to this one – it's a taqueria, and it opens at 7am for Mexican-style breakfasts.Read more…
Just Opened London Says…
There are so many amazing dishes on the menu it's hard to know where to begin, but let's kick off with the Harlem fried chicken, pickles and hot Bourbon maple syrup and the corn bread with honey butter. Oh, and the devilled eggs with sea urchin mayo and candied bacon. Yup.... Harlem's famous comfort food restaurant has landed in London, serving creative dishes to a soundtrack of London's best up and coming musical talent. Where has this restaurant been?Read more…
Tatler Says…
The man who cooked for the Obamas at the White House is bringing flash, irreverent style straight from his Harlem HQ to just-launched Red Rooster, in the basement of Shoreditch's hip new Curtain hotel... The drinks are so good even the 'Sober' cocktails have punch (try the Rooster Juice with cold-brew tea and jerk syrup). Staff with sequinned denim waistcoats mix them up from behind the central bar. Ease yourself in with a peppy Madame Baker, with lemon vodka, St-Germain, Chablis, burlesque bitters and soda, or go hard with a Harlem Hellfighter (Calvados, grapefruit, red and green bitters, and beer).Read more…


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This is what happens when you put people on TV who aren't meant for television. This is the announcer, which means all that's important is his voice. We don't need to see his mug on screen, ever. And he certainly has no business messing with all the equipment and trying to steal the show. So he gets what he deserves. Tries walking against the treadmill and promptly pays the price. Another classic expression falls perfectly into place here, and I just can't help myself sometimes. Hey George, you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk? Nope. Laugh out loud funny.
But you gotta give credit where it's due. The easy move is to stand up quickly, and hope the cameraman just focuses on one of the models to create a distraction. But George Gray is fully aware that this is a big moment. His next move is absolutely pivotal for his reputation and potentially his employment status. Sometimes when something like this happens, you gotta just embrace it and run with it. He does what only a brave man would do. He just stays on the floor and continue business as usual, as if he didn't just embarrass himself on national TV. At this point nobody gives a FUCK about the treadmill prize, but that doesn't affect him at all. He's got a job do to. A true professional, he is.
Still hilarious. What an idiot. Don't be a hero, man. Leave the facetime for the models.


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With luggage companies manufacturing more and more refined travel gear, this inevitability will no longer be a sweet poison that you have to take every time you travel. We are talking about the Anti-theft bags and travel accessories with TSA approved locks and RFID blocking. There are travel bags and security bags available with TSA approved locks and RFID blocking which ensures that all your very important belongings stay safe and locked away from any sort of threats.
The Luggage Professionals Anti-Theft Travel Bags Collection
When venturing out, make sure you carry one of our anti-theft bags, travel accessories and luggage. We have a huge collection of travel products from Pacsafe that manufactures handbags, wallets, shoulder bags, backpacks and lot a more with RFID blocking systems and TSA approved locks for maximum security and protection. These are made from state-of-the-art materials and prevent RFID transmissions.
Apart from RFID blocking and TSA approved locks, the anti-theft travel bags:
1) Are easy to carry and the wallets can also slip into pockets.
2) Are not only theft-proof but also durable and travel safe.
3) Many anti-theft tour bags and travel accessories feature multiple zippered compartments to ensure separate storage for laptops, iPods, documents and other things.
4) Slash proof carrying straps.
Don't be apprehensive the next time you carry along your personal information on your adventures because you can carry them in the anti-theft travel gear.


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The Japanese EMARO robot
"In 2015, Japanese researchers revealed EMARO, an air-powered endoscopic robot that gives surgeons hands-free control and enhances visualization inside a patient's body with three movable cameras. It is expected to be marketed to hospitals and universities in Japan in 2017 and be available overseas within the next few years.
Riverfield Inc., a university-originated venture company, developed an endoscope holder robot "EMARO" that is compact, lightweight and highly operable, facing such problems. In its "EMARO", it is equipped with the world's first system to control endoscopic surgery faithfully by pneumatic control that can perform soft operation like human beings. With the support of the assistant required so far, the surgeon realizes a new mechanism that allows the surgeon to operate the endoscope as she wants."
"Emaro is the first pneumatically driven robot in the world that can control an endoscope, a tubelike camera used to see inside the body, to assist surgeons in operations, according to the researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
Emaro consists of a compressor, a control panel and a column that supports an arm that works the endoscope. The surgeon can control its movements in hands-free fashion while working forceps manipulators inside the body and viewing the Emaro camera feed on a large monitor.
Because it's powered by compressed air, the Emaro endoscope can move smoothly and precisely, and the researchers said it can improve the safety of surgery with laparoscopes, a type of endoscope. Laparoscopic surgeries involve the insertion of long fiber-optic tubes through small incisions in the abdomen. Such minimally invasive operations leave smaller scars and can promote better recovery.
The Emaro scope can move along four axes -- back and fourth, side to side, up and down and rotational.
At a demo at Tokyo Institute of Technology on Friday, a researcher put on a surgical cap fitted with a gyroscope over the forehead. When he moved his head, the machine would move the endoscope, including the camera and light at its tip. He also used foot switches to send directional controls to the device, and to put it into manual control mode.
Emaro can assist with surgeries such as operations for lung disease as well as gastric and prostate cancer. It could replace human endoscope operators, which could be especially useful in areas that lack such skilled workers.
"The camera is fixed and won't shake like when it's held by a person, which can make the doctor feel sick," said Kenji Kawashima, a professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University who co-developed the system."
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On Radar and Relayers
Exploring what a Øx relayer is and releasing information on the Radar Relay launch.
Relayers are a brand new category of token marketplace that provide novel functionality. Yet, many people don't know what they are or how they work.
What is a 0x Relayer?
A Øx Relayer is an entity that facilitates hosting a Øx order book. The book is filled with any number of individually signed orders from different Ethereum addresses. When an order fills, it is settled directly on the Ethereum blockchain using the deployed Øx smart contracts. Relayers collect fees in the form of ZRX tokens for hosting and facilitating the orders. More specific information on the role of a Øx Relayer can be found in the Øx whitepaper.
The Value of Relayers
Throughout the entire process of using a relayer you remain in control of your keys and therefore your tokens. The token trade happens in a Øx smart contract and you never have to trust anyone to complete their end of any steps.
Relayers are incentivized to create complimentary networks in order to create a versatile, decentralized pool of liquidity (by filling orders) to entice even more trading.
Future posts will explore these areas and other exciting applications of relayers in more depth.
Radar Relay Explained
Radar Relay maintains a Øx order book that will provide a simple interface to facilitate signing, finding, and filling Øx orders via browser interface and eventually via API.
At the end of August, Radar Relay will be launching with a month long beta, with weekly feature rollouts.
Will Radar Relay be doing an ICO?
No. As a project built on Øx, Radar has no current technical use case for a token. Radar is committed to providing a publicly accessible product that does not require a proprietary token to use.
How do I place an order?
Radar will provide a user-friendly interface for facilitating the use of Øx. To users, this process will be similar in experience to using an exchange. However, on the back end, Radar will be using the information users give us to fill order parameters, sign them to create a Øx order, then list the order on our book.
How do I fill an order?
Radar's interface will display signed orders available to be filled. Users will be able to fill orders directly on our relayer or take their orders and fill them with an Ethereum client of their choosing. Initially, users can fill individual orders through our interface. However, Radar will be rolling out more advanced taker functionality during the beta period.
When do tokens actually move from my wallet?
Tokens are moved from your wallet when an order is being filled by the Øx Ethereum smart contract — ie. a taker is executing your order at the desired rate. At no point does Radar Relay or Øx ever control your funds.
Will Radar have fees?
Radar will have a maker taker fee model at launch that will be reevaluated after the beta period ends.
Do I need ZRX?
All fees Radar collect will be in ZRX and initially during the beta users will be required to own ZRX in order to trade on Radar Relay. However, Radar will be implementing fee abstraction functionality to lower the barrier to entry. For example:
- A taker wants to fill Order A on Radar using ETH, but has no ZRX tokens in his wallet.
- Radar finds an ETH-ZRX Order B for the exact amount of ZRX the taker would need to pay the fee for Order A.
- Radar executes Order B to get the required ZRX tokens for Order A's fees.
- Order A is filled and the transaction is completed.
The taker's experience improves, and under the hood, Radar has collected fees in ZRX. Over time, as liquidity network effects grow, all tokens will be available for fees.
Beta Period Details
The month of September will be used for beta testing of new functionality.
Throughout the beta, Radar will be releasing new features (taker functionality, fee abstraction, limited API, etc) on a weekly cadence.
At the end of the beta, Radar will reevaluate the fee schedule based on community input and release a long term technical roadmap.
Hiring Details
Radar Relay is a small team of engineers, creatives, and business leaders. If you're interested in working with us, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Join us on Slack.
We just launched our Slack! We have channels set up for general discussion, announcements, and development.
Visit our site at RadarRelay.com


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Meet The Team
Katie Jiunta
I grew up in Wilkes Barre, PA where I fell in love with exercise at a very young age. As a kid, I participated in gymnastics, soccer, and field hockey – anything to keep me active! I received a degree in Biobehavioral Health from PSU in 2010. Since then, I have been in the fitness industry working with men and women of all ages (children to older adult population). I took over as the Lead Instructor at NKG in 2014 to focus solely on children's gymnastics.
I still teach adult group exercise classes, personal train, and children's gymnastics. I want to instill healthy lifestyle behaviors in children at a young age so they feel confident being physically active throughout their entire lives. Not only will NKG make physical activity fun but it can increase motor skills, coordination, and confidence!
Jamie Halbreiner
I grew up in Long Island, New York where I began learning and loving gymnastics at the age of 5. While attending Holy Trinity High School in NY, I was a member of their competitive gymnastics team for 4 years. I am a Marketing graduate from St. Joseph's University. For the past 8 years, I have been teaching gymnastics to children of all ages at several gyms, day cares, and elementary schools in the NY and Philadelphia regions.
Two years ago, I had a baby boy, moved back to Long Island and continued my passion of teaching gymnastics. I also started my son in a Mommy and Me Gymnastics Classes at 1 year old. He was shy at first but as the session went on, he truly loves it. He continues to gain confidence, improve his fine motor skills, and of course learn some gymnastics skills along the way.


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Beech Road 2MG Elevated Water Storage Tank
New Albany, OH
EMH&T provided design services for a new 2MG elevated tank. This effort began with a hydraulic analysis of the New Albany Pressure District (a pressure district within the City of Columbus water distribution system) to determine if a tank would help mitigate significant pressure fluctuations. The results of the analysis showed that a tank would indeed mitigate some of the current problems, and also provide an emergency store of water. The study also evaluated the optimum size for the tank weighing operational challenges associated with a larger tank, versus construction economies realized by building a larger tank. EMH&T provided complete design services for the new tank which included new site development, interior space planning, electrical and controls, interior piping, mixing system, and costing systems. The completed design allowed for the tank to be constructed either as a steel-fluted column or composite style. Ultimately, the bids for a composite style tank were significantly lower and as such was the constructed option.


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The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)
I did not love this book. In fact, it almost made it into the "unfinished" pile, which is a pretty small pile. I've been wanting to read this book for a while and I've read some glowing reviews and I tried to like it, I really did. It just did nothing for me. Maybe because it reminded me of The Village and I really hated that movie.Characters:The main character, Mary, was so selfish and unlikeable as a character. She risks everybody that she claims to love in order to chase the ocean. Is she just a selfish teenager or is she mentally unhinged?Mary's brother Jed was just such a dick. He disowns Mary because their *adult* mother made the choice to go into the Forest after she had been bitten. Then at the end he declares that he's her big brother and he will follow her anywhere in order to protect her. Does he have multiple personalities?Harry & Travis, the two brothers that are in love with Mary…Travis & Mary apparently fell in love while he was being cared for by the Sisterhood and Mary tended to him. I say apparently because Mary spent a few nights telling him her stories of the ocean and oh em gee she loves him! No development in their love story at all. Mary's betrothed to Harry and Travis is betrothed to Mary's best friend Cass, but hey, who cares? This love triangle (square?) was pointless and ineffective.I had no attachment to these characters and didn't care if they lived or died, which is ok really because we don't actually find out if some of them live or die.As zombies go, the Unconsecrated in this book were…kinda lame. They moaned and they pulled at the fence surrounding the village but I felt their threat was not immediate. Which isn't really true because Mary loses both her parents to the Unconsecrated but I just feel they were surplus to the story.Plot:Where to start? So many questions were raised in this book and go unanswered and I'm not sure I want to read the sequels to see if they're answered. What did the Sisterhood actually know about the Return? What did they do to Gabrielle? What else was written in that giant book Mary finds? The story seems to plod along with Mary living in the Cathedral and sneaking to see Travis, with them walking down these paths outside the gate and with them being trapped in the village. There's no sense of time passing, really. These events happen and you don't know if they're taking place within days, weeks or months.Conclusion:I really don't know if I'm going to read the rest of the series, even though I hate leaving series' unfinished. I wouldn't recommend this if you like zombie stories because it's not really a zombie story. I was underwhelmed and gave it 1 star.


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Do you love fresh cookies right out of the oven??? Because I do. Or do you get tied of hanging out by the oven trying to finish all the cookies… I have a solution to your problem. And if you have already figured this out good for you! Because my life is forever changed by this little discovery and I hope yours will too.
The solution is freezing you cookie dough. But freeze it into pre-made scoops.
So how do you freeze cookie dough? You take a baking dish and cover it with Saran wrap. Then scoop your cookie dough onto the dish, the dough can be touching. Next place more Saran wrap on top of the cookie dough. Place dish into the freezer and freeze until dough is hard, I normally leave overnight.
After cookie dough is frozen place into a freezer zip-lock bag. To make your life a little easier, write the baking instructions onto the bag.
When you are ready to eat your delicious, fresh out of the oven cookies, just place on baking sheet and bake. I do find that I usually have to add an extra minute from what I normally cook the cookies at. Or if you are like me you can skip the whole cooking process and just eat the dough. The choice is up to you! I hope you enjoyed this little tip on how to freeze cookie dough.
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2 Year Old Funding
Up to 15 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year of free early education and childcare is available to eligible two year olds from September 2013 as part of the Government's strategy to extend the offer of free early education and childcare.
In order to be eligible families must meet the following criteria:
The child must be two years of age (the funding will start from the term after the child's second birthday)
Parents need to be in receipt of one of the following to meet the Free School Meals criteria in order to receive two year funding:
● Income support
● Income based jobseekers allowance
● Income related employment and support allowance
● Support under Part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
● Guarantee element of State Pension Credit
● Child Tax Credit but not also Working Tax Credit and have an annual income not exceeding £16,190
● Working Tax Credit four week run on
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Children who are currently looked after by the local authority (LAC) or who have a special educational need or a disability are automatically eligible for the funding.
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Actually I have come to the same conclusion in the meantime . I will make sure the first version is really polished and covers the "normal" needs really well. And then at some point add the "crazy" version. I will probably call it "Rex Loopor"…
Looper - Ditto X2
ever used the full software SooperLooper? http://essej.net/sooperlooper/
…that's what I'm most familiar with.
w.r.t. speed, each loop is basically like a piece of tape. whatever you're doing (record, playback, overdub), the speed control just changes the rate. any changes you make can get very weirdly cumulative, depending on when you choose to do it.
a global speed control like that would be useful, along with whatever else you implement. an option like that would be my vote.
thanks for all your work, @Stevie!
@Stevie plugin has been added to non-stable now.
Thanks for all the work so far!
Let me know when an update is needed.
No sorry, not familiar with it. I use Cubase and for that the SooperLooper is not available. And I am familiar with Ditto. I looked at the documentation of what it does, but it is really light on details… I will dig a bit more.
Thanks, will do!
Hi @falkTX, turned out, there was still a discrepancy between my local version and the github version (name of the .so). I fixed that, downloaded and built from scratch and tested it to work. Please redeploy. Sorry for the hassle.
No problem, updated now.
Thanks, now everything works!
Real quick feedback on the Loopor plugin: I installed it, played around with it for 5 minutes all by itself (nothing else on the pedalboard), and tested the basic functionality on some very short loops (one channel). I was able to get it to work. I can hear a lightly audible pop at the end/beginning of each loop.
Frankly, as far as functionality goes, some sort of quantizing or BPM is really the only thing I can think of that I'd like to see when it's available (1.5?). You could stop developing this now and just address any bugs or stability issues that turn up, and I'd be satisfied- this definitely could be that simple version you mentioned above. The Duo should have a single button, no nonsense looper, so the second button can be used for something else, and Loopor does just that.
I'll try some more involved stuff with it in the coming days, with both channels (easy enough on a Chapman Stick) and on busier pedalboards.
Good work, thanks!!!
Thanks for the feedback, appreciated! With some playing around I was able to reproduce the slight pop you mention. I avoid the click by blending in the loop in the beginning and blend it out at the end. This was done over 32 samples. Just don't want to cut off any wanted transients. And also didn't want to cause spikes when ending the loop where the blend is baked into the dub. I changed it to 64 samples and was not able to reproduce any slight popping anymore. Still transients seem to be okay and I also observed no CPU load spikes. So I guess I will push that for others to try.
Let me know what else you may find. If I don't hear anything else I will ask to upload the updated version (which now also has some basic UI).
by mistake I assigned the dub to the left MOD footswitch,
only to discover it works very well, indeed…
- sort of like the small Ditto 1-button, was this intended?
1st click starts recording (w/autostart)
2nd click is close loop: play (first play also still records, though…?)
further clicks: overdub
A double-click: stops & erase all.
so, in effect:
a 1-button looper - very nice!
sounds sweet… gotta play with it tomorrow!
Looking for midi Sync and new looper
The 1-button looper is absolutely intended! But just to be clear, the "activate" and "dub" buttons are very similar. Both will start recording when clicked and finish recording when clicked while recording is active. Both also will reset on double click. The only difference is that the "dub" button after finishing any active recording will immediately start recording the next dub (but will obey a threshold).So you can choose whatever you prefer.
Note that if and as soon it becomes possible to record long presses of a button I will use that as well to make it even more 1-button capable.
@Stevie thanks a lot for this great work, it's really inspiring
I was a bit confused at first to guess when it was recording or not, when I understood the instruction it worked out well (especially those from your github).
I think sometimes I get lost and wished there was a visual to know if it's recording or not.
Also if the loop is nice, the possibility to download/ upload it would be great, but that's probably out-of-scope ?
thanks again
so I assigned Activate to MOD: Footswitch 1
everything works wonderfully,
exactly the way you'd expect
"Ditto" behaviour, very nice, indeed!
but assigning it to FootEx: Foot #1
does not work at all, no threshold action,
button behaviour random, or…?
…how come?
What's the difference?
I guess it's nothing to do with the plugin - Loopor
but there's a difference in footswitch behaviour,
please inform what to do to make:
FootEx: Foot #1 behave like MOD: Footswitch 1
Hi @leDamien, glad that it works fine for you! And I agree that the lack of visual feedback makes using it a bit hard. I wish I could light an LED or push something to the display. But at the moment I think I can't. @falkTX, can you confirm that?
Well actually I think I could, there is a little script on the Mod named mod_led or so which allows me to control the LEDs. But I guess that's not really wanted, right?
Hi @broupe, I don't have the FootEx, so I cannot test. But just to be sure: You do need to have a new firmware, right?
Yes, I do, and I have …
- though I don't think it's the Loopor that's the issue - only it's a perfect example where timing differences is crucial, and especially between the two footswitch options (MOD Duo & FootSwitch)
I also have a generic MIDI footswitch, and the timing is delayed on that, too - but that is to be expected.
Hello guys! Any news about the development of This plugin ?
Hi @rogeriocouto, the plugin is working and has been released on the non-stable a while ago. The one thing lacking is just the sophisticated UI (which I do not really miss). Apart from that I don't know of any bugs. Also at this point I am not planning to add features, unless someone is asking for something. What I would like to have is the LED support, but that's not possible, now.


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I'm getting close to finishing the front panel of the top I'm making for my mother. This is a stitched photo of the total length. Strangely, a seam showed up in the image (around the 10" mark) after saving it that wasn't there while I was stitching together the two photos. Oh, well.
Click on the photo for larger view options.
With the gauge swatches showing me 15 hdc per 3 inches instead of the 12 hdc per 3 inches in the book, I was curious as to how much of a difference it made. I am using a different yarn than in the pattern, but it has the same bulk (3 or light), plus I'm using the hook size recommended. Technically, it should have been the same gauge, but things like a different brand of yarn, or even the tension I personally keep while working, can make a difference.
Based on the pattern instructions, 66 stitches should have given me a length of 16 1/2 inches. In measuring, I found 66 stitches put me at about 14 1/2 -15 inches, instead. Had I actually had the same gauge as the pattern, that would put the actual length (almost 23 inches) at 6 1/2 inches longer than the pattern. With the different gauge, the change added about 8 - 8 1/2 inches to the length it would have been without the adjustments.
As I near the point where I have to make the arm hole, I will need to check the width and see if I need to add any extra rows to make up for the different gauge. That part is easy. What I'm not sure of is how this will effect the sleeves under the arms. I don't actually know how large my mother's arms are, but I'd rather err towards larger than smaller. Will the difference in gauge make the underarm area too snug? I'll just have to measure against myself and hope she's not larger around the bicep than I am, and that there won't be any pulling in the armpit. That would be really uncomfortable, I imagine.
Meanwhile, I find I'm really enjoying how the resulting fabric is working out. It has a lot of stretch and give, is light and has a very fluid behaviour. I think it will be very comfortable to wear, if I can get the fit right under the arms.