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Get Your Friends (and Maybe Your Mom?) on YouTube with Tutorials

davo — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:20:06 +0000

More information is good. Get your friends (and maybe your mom?) on YouTube, the right way.

If you subscribe to the YouTube channel, you may have noticed a slew of new videos uploaded recently. They’re part of an initiative called “YouTube 101,” a series that explains basic features to new users. With hundreds of thousands of people creating new YouTube channels every day, there are a lot of folks out there who may not know that they can share a video privately, customize their channel or even how to upload a video — in full HD, no less.

Tent Drives: Local and National Ways to Contribute

davo — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:20:29 +0000

Tents in Haiti - By Bourne Media

Local Asheville nurse Jessica Hardy went to Haiti to help and came back with a better understanding of the tragedy before the tragedy. Conditions were bad enough before the earthquake, but now poor infrastructure and housing will make health matters worse. Donating tents will help in the immediate short term.

Here is a quote from Jason Sandford’s Mountain Express article

“With the rains and the winds, we’re looking at a second wave of death and disease,” she says. “We’ve put all this effort into saving lives, but there will continue to be illness. Sanitation is an issue, so bacterial infections could be out of control. Air quality is poor. So if these people are out in the wet and the wind, they just won’t have a chance. If we can provide them a way to get out of the weather, we can save their lives.”

Hardy says she’s asking people to dig through their garages and basements and consider donating old tents, tarps or other weather-resistant materials. She says the Nantahala Outdoor Center, REI, Black Dome, Craggie Brewing and Terra Nostra Decor have all confirmed that they will serve as drop-off points for anyone who has something to donate.

Wet and the wind AND Malaria carrying mosquitoes can be kept at by by a decent tent.

If you are not local to WNC or you just want to donate directly for a tent, try http://ahomeinhaiti.org/ Plus, this site will help you organize a local drive, if you really want to get things done.

I have a big ‘ole tent in my basement that is going to get dropped off soon.

Thanks, and CONSIDER HAITI!

Test Post from ScribeFire Plugin for Firefox

davo — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:04:18 +0000

I’m trying to make it easier to update my blogs. Posterous is great, but I’d rather have my traffic going to one place. I will continue to use Posterous for sending pics form my phone. It’s great for that.

I’ll let you know in a later comment to this post if I like it or not.

Consider Haiti Gets a Reboot. Can You help? Follow @ConsiderHaiti

davo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:20:26 +0000

Almost three years ago, I started playing with the words “Consider Haiti” as a name for my film project on Haiti and in particular, Mission Manna’s work in Haiti.

I’ve now come to realize that there is SO much need for a better understanding of Haiti as a developing nation. “We Americans” have such a hard time understanding why the recent earthquake destruction was so bad. Why it was so hard to Be Safe, Stay Safe, or in the case of the injured Get Safe.

One answer to these questions: overwhelming lack of infrastructure. Why is that so? Well, there is the question itself. Hopefully, we can help address that and find good ways to help.

So mark this date as a reboot. I’m opening up the Consider Haiti project as a multimedia internet resource for groups to learn about Haiti and learn how we can better help our fellow brothers and sisters here on this great planet Earth.

Lean more by following @ConsiderHaiti on Twitter and here at davidbourne.com.

Please comment below with ideas, interest, or an indication of needs.

Thank you, or shall I say MESI ANPIL!

David

A compelling image for me. Fault Lines in Haiti: Image from NASA’s Earth Observatory.

davo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:59:46 +0000

7.0 Quake Near Port Au Prince

via earthobservatory.nasa.gov

This image compels me for two reasons.

1. There is nothing so normal as a still ground beneath us. But there are fault lines all over the place in this image! It amazes me how unstable the very ground we walk on can be.

2. The sadness of the Haitian quakes was lessened a little bit for me since the people I know in Haiti were not too directly affected. However, this map shows a fault line very close to the Montrouis region. The region that Mission Manna visits twice a year. (It’s the L shaped line just SW of the word “Haiti” on the map.)

These are more reminders that we are not in control, and we need to make the best of what we have.

We must continue to Consider Haiti.

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My favorite App. Streaming music from iTunes to the home stereo. Controled by the phone. Pic.

davo — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:50:56 +0000

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davo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:35:29 +0000

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Jessica from @winestudio at the Winesday fundraiser for @MissionManna

davo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:46:14 +0000

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One of my favorite pics from Haiti. The Little Girl with the Red Ribbon. Just posted at MissionManna.org

davo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:11:00 +0000

via missionmanna.org

This photo was taken a the Ivoire clinic, a few hours drive up in the Montrouis mountains. The little girl is one of about 150 kids that were seen by doctors that day. It’s very likely that this was the first time she has seen a doctor. The red tint in her hair is an indicator of malnutrition, a common health problem in Haiti.

She’s looking up at Eddy, one of our two main men on the ground in Haiti. He heads up Mission Manna’s Community Health Care Worker program. For more info go to Missionmanna.org.

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Hatian Art at Ten Thousand Villages Asheville (pics)

davo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:06:22 +0000

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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