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Evolution Bureau
Evolution Bureau (EVB) is a digital marketing agency based in San Francisco. We moved into this incredible 20,000 square-foot office space in 2006. It's an open, fun and creative space that includes everything from an indoor park with live trees and benches to a half pipe, jungle gym with workspaces, meeting rooms with glass ceilings and friendly dogs that roam the office - all in the name of supporting its creative, innovative office culture.
Hail Storm in Dallas
This Video was taken on April 14th 2011. Coppell a Sub-urban near Dallas was hit by a powerful hailstorm. Hails about the size of a golf ball pounded heavily for nearly 30 minutes.You can hear our dog going crazy with all the thunderstorm and noise.
Bangkok's Bloody Carnage Remembered at Democracy Monument
30,000 Red Shirts regrouped on Sunday 10th April at Democracy Monument to mark a full year since the Bangkok bloodbath in which 26 people were killed when the army tried to retake the Red Shirts’ Ratchadamnoen Avenue rally site and encampment.
The government still maintains that the brutal deaths on that confusing night were not caused by the army whose orders were to fire live bullets only as a warning or in self defence. Talk of a mysterious black-clad combat group killing and maiming while weaving through the crowd has led to no definite conclusions one year on, and the Red Shirts still demand an end to what they see as a cover up, so that fair law enforcement can take place.
This video is a montage of Sunday’s Red Shirt activities leading up to a merit-making ceremony in the late afternoon to honour the dead. The music is whatever was playing in the background at the time, most of it celebrating the ‘Seua Daeng’ (Red Shirts).
The usual, upbeat humour abounds, along with the impromptu quirkiness of kids and dogs, plus the frozen dramatic cameos involving severed limbs, serpents, giant catapaults and chains.
Footage of the shootings on 10th April 2010 at Khok Wua intersection are played on a tv monitor as Red Shirt protesters crowd forward to peer at the screen, and others stare up at a gallery of gruesome images of the bloody corpses left on the street after that evening’s chaos.
Two starkly dramatised scenes depict the controversial killing of Japanese Reuters cameraman, Hiroyuki Muramoto. Bystanders stamp on the photo of a Thai army sergeant they believe was guilty of the crime.
A young boy is hoisted onto the roof of a car and handed a placard as his image is captured by a gaggle of photographers and pasted around the world.
About twenty Buddhist monks take their place at the foot of Democracy Monument for the ceremony to commemorate the slain Red Shirts whose family members file sadly through the crowd bearing treasured portraits.
With the prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, set to dissolve parliament in the first week of May clearing the way for a long-awaited election, leaders of the Red Shirts’ United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship are hopeful that the Puea Thai Party will gain power, bringing ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra back from exile.
Three days after this gathering, the Red Shirts’ Ratchaprasong rally site was the scene of a world record breaking water fight involving 3,477 revellers celebrating Songkran and the Thai New Year. It promises to be an eventful year.
When Your Dog Loves You Too Much...
Separation Anxiety is often misdiagnosed in the canine world. Sometimes it is really just boredom or the dog becoming adventurous when given the opportunity. If your dog seems to follow you and stick to you like glue, and/or if destruction is happening within the first 20 minutes you are away, then you are probably dealing with some form of separation anxiety. Here are some things that you can do to help: - Keep your comings and goings neutral! Don't make a big fuss at either time. - Practice leaving with your normal cues (pick up your keys, grab your purse, put on your work shoes, etc.), then don't leave. This will help desensitize your dog to your departures. - Give your dog a hobby while you are gone. Stuff a Kong, leave treats around the house, utilize a feeding tube, or anything that will get your dog up, moving and eating. A dog that is eating is not a stressed dog. - Leave your dog with an article of clothing that smells like you, such as an old t-shirt that you recently slept in. - A good dog is a tired dog! Try to exercise your dog more both mentally and physically.
