{"id":2625,"date":"2014-09-28T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2014-09-28T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:57:24","slug":"cafe-amsterdam-ulaanbataar-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"Cafe Amsterdam &#8211; Ulaanbataar, Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John,<\/p>\n<p>currently stuck in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, due to early snowfall. The trip is full of coincidental meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we ended up in Cafe &#8220;Amsterdam&#8221;, in the center of the city here where we suddenly met a Japanese entrepreneur who was working on Climate Change and Precision Agriculture. He is currently connecting us to his people in Japan and to Ulaanbataar University. It seems that this Water Preservation \/ Precision Irrigation using low-cost devices is really hitting the right notes.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, I am really thankful to have to opportunities to bring Sam here, it is really\u00a0 a great addition to our travel. I will send you a set of pictures soon; we have some great footage and places where we placed the stones. Btw, yesterday we placed the first stone in Mongolia, at a rather special place \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>-RJ<\/p>\n<p>Robert-Jan Sips<\/p>\n<p>NB From 1 Sept 2014 until 3 Jan 2015 I&#8217;ll be travelling in Central Asia with limited access to my mail. Responsibilities will be delegated to Wing-Yan Man, please mail to wingyanman@nl.ibm.com<\/p>\n<p>CAS Research Lead<br \/>\nUniversity Relations Manager<\/p>\n<p>Center for Advanced Studies (CAS)<br \/>\nIBM Netherlands B.V.<br \/>\nJohan Huizingalaan 765, 1066 VH Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>Phone:\u00a0 +31 (0)20 513 3584<br \/>\nMobile: +31 (0)6 2041 9915<br \/>\nFax:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +31 (0)20 513 5866<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0 rjsips@nl.ibm.com<\/p>\n<p>From:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0John M Cohn\/Burlington\/IBM@IBMUS<br \/>\nTo:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Robert-Jan Sips\/Netherlands\/IBM@IBMNL@IBMGB,<br \/>\nDate:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a026-09-14 21:37<br \/>\nSubject:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Re: SamStone Kazan<\/p>\n<p>Robert-Jan,<br \/>\nThanks so much for the update. It&#8217;s so cool to imagine where you are , what you&#8217;re seeing and who you&#8217;re meeting !<br \/>\n-jc<\/p>\n<p>John Cohn Ph.D,<br \/>\nIBM Fellow , Corporate Technical Strategy<br \/>\nphone 802-578-0985<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John, currently stuck in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, due to early snowfall. The trip is full of coincidental meetings. Yesterday we ended up in Cafe &#8220;Amsterdam&#8221;, in the center of the city here where we suddenly met a Japanese entrepreneur who was working on Climate Change and Precision Agriculture. He is currently connecting us to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":47.9182014,"longitude":106.9098511,"description":"1st 40 Thousand, Ulan Bator, Mongolia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}