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|Christopher Columbus
Pioneer Park, SF, CA
Many have asserted that Christopher Columbus introduced slavery into the New World. Here is one example of the charge leveled at the Genoese explorer...http://www.iamthewitness.com/books/Walter.White/Who.Brought.the.Slaves.to.America.htm. Here is another account that accuses Columbus of enslaving the indigenous people (http://www.understandingprejudice.org/nativeiq/columbus.htm#source4).
But are these claims really true? Did Columbus introduce slavery to the New World?
Certainly Columbus was no emancipator. He was a man of his time and his era took slavery for granted. According to Bartolomé de Las Casas, Columbus in 1492 described the native people he encountered on what became known as the island of Hispaniola with a mixture of curiousity and compassion...
|Columbus and the Taino
Columbus did apparently bring six of the Taino people from the isle of Hispaniola back to Barcelona. Little is know of their fate though all were dead within six months, probably from disease.
So Columbus did think that the natives represented an opportunity for the Catholic church to convert their souls. He was a devout Catholic whose name, after all, means "bearer of Christ". He also thought that they were "ingenious" and would make "good servants". Could those words not have come out of the mouth of Robert Crawley on Downton Abbey?
In Italy Invades: How Italians Conquered the World we wrote, "In 1492 Christopher Columbus, sailed west from Europe to the New World and changed the world forever. The intrepid navigator was not the first European to reach what would become known as the Americas,
but the impact of this "Italian Invasion" was profound, and its effects are being felt to this day.
Columbus would later be mythologized as the man who dared sail off the edge of the world. Ditties would instruct schoolchildren that "in fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." More recently, Columbus has come under fire by those who point to his lust for gold, his tolerance for slavery, and the sufferings of Native Americans.
Columbus cannot, however, be blamed for all the sins of European colonialism. Slavery was widespread throughout the world in the fifteenth century, and he needed to deliver a return on Ferdinand and Isabella's investment in his venture. At the end of the day, Columbus was an unbelievably brave visionary who transformed our world."
|Aztec Tlacotin
Christopher Columbus was NOT the first to introduce slavery to the New World -- it had been introduced by indigenous people themselves many centuries before Columbus. The Aztecs had a form of slavery which they called "tlacotin". Aztec slavery was personal and not hereditary. Slavery was sometimes used as a criminal punishment. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_slavery)
Christopher Columbus had many faults. He was an Italian invader and he mistook Cuba for a continent. But it is demonstrably false that he introduced slavery to the New World.
For more on Columbus see...http://americanconservativeinlondon.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/two-columbus-myths.html and http://americanconservativeinlondon.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/columbus-and-cannibals.html
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To celebrate the fact that spring has finally sprung, we want to share with you this cute 3D flower card that you can use to spread the springtime cheer around. Follow along to see how you can make your own.
Supplies Needed:
- Silhouette CAMEO® or Silhouette Portrait® or Silhouette Curio™
- Silhouette Studio®
- Silhouette Cutting Mat
- Silhouette Cutting Blade
- Glue
- Cardstock
- Design ID #20216
Step One: Create The Card
- Open up Silhouette Studio® and create a rectangle. You can locate the rectangle tool as the 4th icon on the tool bar to the left of your page. Once a rectangle is created, adjust its measurements to 3.25″ x 5.25." You can do this easily by first selecting it and then typing in the exact measurement in the width and height toolbar located above your page.
- Next, duplicate the rectangle by right-clicking the rectangle and selecting Duplicate.
- Move one of your rectangles off to the side for now (it will be used as a back layer later on).
- Locate Design ID #20216 in your library and double-click it to open. We will be using the top flower for this project so the rest of the pieces can be deleted. To do so, right-click the flower and select Ungroup. Then select the other pieces and delete.
- Resize the flower and position it on to the rectangle. To resize the flower, select the design and drag the corners inward.
Step Two: Create The 3D Effect
- To start we are going to offset our flower. To do so, open the Offset Panel on the right-hand side of your page. Select Offset in the window and move the distance toggle to zero (0.000). Then, hit apply. It'll look as though you haven't done anything however if you select and move your flower to the side you will see the duplicated design.
- Delete the original flower (left). Zoom in a little closer on the image and select the Eraser Tool (it can be located on the tool bar on the left-hand side of the screen).
- Erase a small area where the lines meet in the middle of the flower. Repeat for each intersection.
- Now that each point is erased, zoom out and select all of the flower petals. Right-click and hit Group. This will keep them all in place so nothing gets out of whack when we assemble the card.
Step Three: Cut And Assemble The Card
- Fill your page with as many cards as possible (I fit three). Each of these will be the front of your cards. Cut these out with your Silhouette machine and set them to the side.
- Cut the same number (3) of the plain rectangles (the one you moved off to the side earlier). You will want to cut these in a different color of cardstock to provide contrast.
- Now that your card is cut out, it's time to assemble. Curl the petals of the front layer with your fingers, then glue the front and back layers together.
- Wrap them up in ribbon, or include any other embellishments you'd like. Now your 3D flower card is complete!


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Ahlstrom to collaborate with Dow Chemical Company on water filtration applications
Ahlstrom Corporation PRESS RELEASE March 21, 2013 at 14.10
Ahlstrom, a global high performance fiber-based materials company, announces that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), to use Ahlstrom's Disruptor® technology in drinking water applications. Ahlstrom Disruptor® is a unique nanoalumina technology designed for a wide range of water filtration applications.
Ahlstrom's fiber-based materials match the global megatrends, such as environmental awareness, resource scarcity and urbanization. As a response to the need for clean water, Ahlstrom has developed the Disruptor® technology that can be used in removing a wide range of tiny contaminants from water. DW&PS will incorporate Ahlstrom's high performance, break-through Disruptor® filter medium into a new set of drinking water purification products that provide excellent pathogen rejection while operating at high flow and low pressure.
"One of the key goals in our product development is to create products that purify air and liquids in a sustainable way. We are excited about the opportunity to work with Dow since we see a wealth of opportunities for providing pure water solutions through combining our expertise with Dow's industry-leading product offering," says Fulvio Capussotti, Executive Vice President, Advanced Filtration, Ahlstrom.
Ahlstrom Disruptor® virtually removes microorganisms that can cause sickness. Its unique combination of large pore size and very high electrical attraction potential enable efficient removal of virus-sized particles at a high flow rate at very low pressure. Ahlstrom Disruptor® can be utilized in a number of drinking water applications, such as under-the-sink purification, tap water filters and water pitcher filters. It can be used in areas with no electricity, it requires no use of chemicals, and does not generate waste water.
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I've always loved horses: loved thinking about, drawing, photographing and, of course, riding them. I now publish the Northwest Horse Source Magazine and visit many different events and activities. It is a joy to capture the many inspiring images I see while on the road.
For me, photography is mostly the pure enjoyment of capturing special moments in time, as well as for use in the magazine. Now I've decided to share them with all the horse people I see in my travels. Enjoy!
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Interactive living and aesthetic of participation
Conversation with Christa Sommerer
This conversation with Christa Sommerer focuses on some aspects of the gigantic artwork that Sommerer & Mignonneau have been building together since 1992. After a brief synthesis of their career, the conversation will address the relationship between the living and the artificial; interactivity, dynamic systems and interaction; transmission through art, teaching and coaching of young artists. Through the responses will emerge dynamics of affect and emotion, these essential fuels of art making, before considering future trends.
Artist statement :
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists working in the field of interactive computer installation. They are professors at the University of Art and Design in Linz Austria where they head the Department for Interface Culture at the Institute for Media. Since more than 25 years they develop interactive art works that have been shown all over the world and won numerous awards.
Artistic path :
Interactive art pioneers, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau persue a career as artists-professors-researchers. Their artworks, which have earned countless awards including two Ars Electronica, has been circulating around the world, since « Interactive Plant Growing », to the most recent ones, « Egometer » and « Neuro Mirror ». At the heart of their approach is interactivity in all its forms that promotes the dynamic encounter of the participants not only with species, remotely located visitors but also with invisible energies. Playful and simple at first, each work reveals its own complexity and innovation. By crossing old and new devices, each work questions both our relationship to time, to the living and to the artifice in a changing world.
Escape © 2012
Affect and Emotion
Life Spacies (c) 97
Neuro Mirror ©2017
L.B. : To begin with, I would like to ask you this very simple question. What did you find in technoart that was not in your first career as biologist and then as sculptor?
C.S. : When I studied botany I always was very fascinated about the diversity and esthetics of plants. My preferred subject was nature drawing and the botany teacher who taught this class told me I have considerable skills; however he recommended me to not become too imaginative in my drawings, but rather stick to the facts and only draw what is really there. Later when I studied sculpture and installation art, I created a complex whole concept called Ikonophylla, the idea was to combine Carl von Linné´s plant classification system with my sculptures. But here again the sculpture professor told me that it is better to not become too intellectual and conceptual and rather stick to gut feelings and not think too much. Finally when I met Peter Weibel in Vienna in 1990, he told me to forget all what I was told before and start to use the computer, because this would be the ideal medium to combine botanical issues such as plant growth and diversification, and to combine them with my sculptural interests. He also told me to read Louis Bec´s writings on his fabulatory epistemology based on Artificial Life and Technozoosemiotics. This inspired me a lot and I thought I should do something similar with artificial plants.
So if you had only three words to pinpoint your artistic mission, which one would you choose ? I say mission because it does not seem possible to last in this field and create so many artworks without a certain sense of belief, a projection in the future and a true desire to show and share these revelations with others?
Open artwork, interaction, user participation
Portrait On The Fly – Interactive (by Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer)
Concerning affect and emotion, how would you spontaneously define and differentiate them?
Emotional impact is what we want to create for the users when they experience our art works, affect is something more abstract, more like a strong feeling.
For example, when you dream about an artwork, conceive it, and realize it, what kind of force, quality and intensity (affect) do you feel in the process? Do you have examples to share?
Well in the case of the interactive art work « Portrait on the Fly » for example, we wanted to create live portraits of people when they interact with their own mirror image. But when we found out that we can use the motif of the fly for creating these portraits, we ourselves felt a very strange sensation of fascination and disgust. The fly itself has so many meanings in human culture, there are so many proverbs about flies and many stories about them. When we presented the final work, many people reported us similar feelings about flies and how they see them and what they mean for them.
"Portrait on the Fly", that I experimented this summer at BIAN-Automata in Montréal, is quite impressive but also provocative in this time of critical weather changes…
During the whole process from creation to reception, what kind of emotion appears and orients your work?
Like stated above, first as an artist you have to be clear about what kind of emotion you want to evoke in people when they should experience your work. This emotion is also linked to a meaning or message, it should be experienced intuitively and non-verbally.
Would you say that your approach is rather intuitive, instinctive or linked with cognitive or psychological sciences or philosophical dimensions, if so which ones?
Yes depending on the project, all these areas are relevant. We usually need quite a long research phase, with reading, thinking, discussing, developing several versions of an idea, discarding them again, reacting to each other´s ideas, also fighting over some ideas…. it is usually quite a long germination process. But once we agree on an idea and both find it really good, then we realize it, test it, adapt it, improve it and present it.
Interactive Living and Aesthetic of Care
Interactive Plant Growing © 1992
It seems that technoart has offered you a field of activity that made blossom your interest as botanist or biologist, and afterwards as sculptor. We would like to 'hear' you, if I may use this term in a written conversation, about the evolution of your interests as a biologist, then artist, teacher and researcher. What has driven you in all these activities? And how have they contaminated (in a positive sense) each other?
Well as mentioned above, I first studied botany and anthropology and then later modern sculpture and installation art. During my biology study I was fascinated by the amazing forms in nature, the immense complexity of shapes and structures, species, families and taxonomies. But I always had an artistic view on nature, I believe. During my sculpture study I worked with various materials such a plaster, marble, wood, polyester… but I felt these materials reacted too slow and one needed too long for a single creation. I found these materials not flexible enough for the concepts I had. But once I discovered real time computer graphic at Peter Weibel´s Institute for New Media in Frankfurt and when I teamed up with Laurent Mignonneau, we began to work with generative processes and created artworks that deal with development, evolution, adaptation and variation.
Twenty-six years later, "Interactive Plant Growing" is still fascinating. Not only does it allow communication between participants and plants, but it serves as a dynamic mirror of multidimensional dimensions from aesthetic of care to plant's vocabulary and syntax learning, and reflecting on invisible aspects of the relations between living species. During all these years, sciences has evolved and brought proofs about what was before considered as intuitions, impressions or subjective feelings.
How do you feel about that?
Nano-Scape, Electromagnetic Tangible Interface 2002
Yes I think intuition is really important in human communication and interaction. Artists are very good at working with intuition and feelings, and one of the reasons why « Interactive Plant Growing » keeps fascinating the public is that it works with some very basic feelings we have towards plants. We know that they are alive, that they sense us, some people even talk to them, but we do not really understand plants completely. We humans have a very strong symbiosis with plants, we need them, they feed us, we use them, but we also adore them, cultivate them and we have a strong emotional connection to them. This very special relationship we have with plants is something we wanted to address in « Interactive Plant Growing. »
Interactivity, Dynamic Systems and Experiencing
Excavate ©2012
Christa Sommerer at 5uper.net Coded Cultures 2009
SISTEMES VIUS (conceptes i objectius del treball) 2011
Being at the heart of your artwork, interactivity seems to be not only technical but rather suggesting a larger intention of interaction, such as a desire to facilitate participation in many different ways.
Also the span of the interactivity in your work has largely evolved, not only in the variety of interfaces and devices but also in the nature of experience that you proposed to the participants. From the beginning, viewers were proposed plant growing with their touch, passing to building dynamic portraits with their movements, inviting insects, flies, on different scales with dialogues and stories, and recently playing with ego and mirroring.
How has interactivity evolved from 1990 up to now and how did this interest last such a long time?
S. : Interactivity for us is a means to get people involved in the artwork. For achieving this goal we have created various interfaces, from plants, to light detection interfaces, to 3D keys, to digital mirrors or sensing devices. The main objective is always to create an overall experience that allows people to intuitively feel and reflect the artistic message of the specific work.
With what criterias have you been constructing your interfaces from the beginning up to more dynamic systems and remotely locations?
In the 1990ies there were very little commercially available interfaces, so Laurent Mignonneau made almost all of them by himself, invented new interaction scenarios and even patented some of the interface inventions, such as for example the 3D Key system for « Trans Plant » and « MIC Exploration Space ». Later on when interactive media became so popular and when a whole maker culture and DIY community emerged, more and more interfaces became readily available. We sometimes use off the shelf technology if it serves the right purpose, but we have also still custom made interfaces, as for example in « Ego Meter ». What we use or develop is really always related to the specific art concept.
Artworks Generating the Most E-Motions
Egometer © 2017
It seems that motivation, central in the etymology of emotion, is very important in all your work, be it motivating a project, an experience, a connection, but also students interest, knowledge sharing and of course visitors of your artwork, from the devices in art gallery to the monumental scale of tower.
Do you plan to produce specific affects or emotions with your artworks?
For each of the works it is quite a different emotion, but generally, if the work is well designed, then the public intuitively understands what we wanted to say and convey. And what is more, people usually find a lot of extra layers and meanings connected to their own previous experiences. It is a bit like in a good movie: you understand the main message of the film, but everyone interprets it in a slightly different way.
Which artworks specifically have generated the most emotional reaction?
For you ? And your public? Any kind of emotion, positive or negative, strong or weak…
The artworks which generated the strongest feedback, reactions and attention so far are « Interactive Plant Growing, » « Phototropy », « A-Volve », « Life Writer », « Portrait on the Fly » and « The Value of Art. »
Do these emotions make you change your artistic intentions, and if so, how?
Yes, if we see that an artwork has not been fully understood or something is missing or if it turned out to be too complicated, we make iterations and adaptations. Sometimes we pick up an idea from a previous art work and develop it further in the next work.
Transmission to the Next Generations in Anthropogenic Time
Fly High Time Flies – ICC Tower – Hong Kong 2016
Considering your books about art and science, interface and interaction design, interactive art research… but also about your artworks "Wonderful Life", if you had to extract 'un fil rouge' linking past, present up till now, linking different disciplines, what would it be?
The search for engaging the public into an artwork that is open and needs their participation.
As a teacher, what would you like to legate to the younger generations of students?
But also what do they bring to you year after year?
It is very inspiring to see art and media art through the eyes of the young students. As our society has changed dramatically through ubiquitous media and social networks, we now face issues and problems that were not dominant 10-20 years ago. What we want to do at the Interface Cultures program in Linz, is to raise awareness that we all have the power to change things for the better; it can be done by proposing art works or prototypes that can become game changers or at least raise intuitive awareness about these burning societal and political issues.
As a researcher, what problems (of any kind) would you like to address for the next decades?
Do you think that our time is critical?
Yes I think now we need more critical investigations about the use of technology and how it affects our social interactions and our environment. There is a certain need for critical investigations of interfaces. We need to look what is hidden in and behind these black boxes that media companies provide to us or even force us to use. From issues of manipulation, fake news to issues of privacy and exploitation, there are so many issues that need to be addressed in the next decade.
In this antropogenic era that the earth has officially entered, what interactive art may do?
Of course art does not solve problems, but it certainly helps to sensitize people, to offer them a place to experiment, to get out of their envelope.
Yes exactly. Art can help raise awareness, make people understand complex topics intuitively and also inspire them to develop these ideas further in their respective fields. It is already quite a good achievement if you reach this level of impact as an artist.
To conclude, how do you see the future of interactivity, dynamic living and artificial systems?
Interfaces will become more and more transparent and hidden. The whole IoT industry is moving towards embedding sensors in any given object, striving for smart cities, smart homes, smart cloths etc. Privacy, surveillance and data ethics will become huge topics. We as artists have to keep a critical eye on these developments and create our own propositions and prototypes, raise awareness, ask questions and propose new metaphors and new memes.
References (books and press reviews )
Sommerer, L. Mignonneau and G. Stocker, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau–Interactive Art Research (Vienna/New York: Springer Verlag, 2009)
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski and Jadwiga Charzynska, Wonderful Life – Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, exhibition catalogue (Gdansk: Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, 2012)
Sommerer, L.C. Jain and L. Mignonneau, The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design – vol. 1, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 141 (Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2008)
Sommerer, L. Mignonneau and D. King, Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects of Interaction (Transcript Verlag, 2008)
Sommerer and L. Mignonneau, Art @ Science (Vienna/New York: Springer Verlag, 1998)
Articles "Série Affect ou émotion en art immersif et interactif"
Boisclair, Louise et Lorella Abenavoli. 2018. « Audifier et spatialiser l'Einfühlung. Entretien avec Lorella Abenavoli (partie 2), Série « Affect ou émotion en art immersif et interactif », Archée, Montréal, QC, juillet. <http://archee.qc.ca/images/edito-2018-06/Archee_2018_06_Louise2.php>
Boisclair, Louise et Lorella Abenavoli. 2018. « Sonifier la phusis. Entretien avec Lorella Abenavoli (partie 1) », Série « Affect ou émotion en art immersif et interactif », Archée, Montréal, QC, juillet. <http://archee.qc.ca/images/edito-2018-06/Archee_2018_06_Louise1.php>
Boisclair, Louise et Philippe Boissonnet. 2017. « Évanescences holographiques : entre illusion, doute et réalité. Conversation avec Philippe Boissonnet », Série Affect ou émotion en art immersif et interactif. Archée, novembre. <http://archee.qc.ca/images/edito-2017-10/Archee_2017_10_PhilippeBoissonnet.php>
Boisclair, Louise and Jonas Fristch. 2016. « From Philosophical Insights to Affective Interaction Design. Conversation with Jonas Fristch », Série Affect ou émotion en art immersif et interactif. Archée, juillet. < http://archee.qc.ca/ar.php?page=article&no=520 >
Boisclair, Louise and Andrew Goodman. 2016. « About affect and the expression and extension of affectual capacities. Conversation with Andrew Goodman », Série Affect ou émotion en art immersif et interactif. Archée, février. < http://archee.qc.ca/ar.php?page=article&no=505 >
Boisclair, Louise and Nathaniel Stern. 2015. « From affection to reflection, from listening to craftsmanship. Conversation with Nathaniel Stern », Série Affect ou émotion en art immersif et interactif. Archée, novembre. < http://archee.qc.ca/ar.php?page=article&no=494 >
Sites de l'artiste
Christa Sommerer
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists, researchers and pioneers of interactive art. They are professors and head the Interface Cultures master program at University of Art and Design in Linz Austria. They previously held positions as Associate Professors at the IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan and as Researchers and Artistic Directors at the ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan. They were Visiting Researchers at the MIT CAVS in Cambridge US, the Beckmann Institute in Champaign Urbana, IL, USA and artist in residence at the NTT-InterCommunication Center in Tokyo. Sommerer was an Obel Guest Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and at the Tsukuba University Empowerment Informatics Studio in Japan and Laurent Mignonneau was Chaire International Guest Professor at the Université Paris 8 in Paris, France. Sommerer & Mignonneau have participated in around 300 international exhibitions, and their works can be found in museums and collections around the world. They also received numerous awards: the 2016 ARCO BEEP Award in Madrid Spain, the 2012 Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Prize of the People's Republic of China; the 1994 Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica Award. More information is available at: http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent


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ABIS 2014 - 20th International Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling http://abis.l3s.uni-hannover.de/abis-2014 Held at Mensch & Computer 2014 31 August - 3 September Munich, Germany Submissions: 16 May 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the last 19 years, the ABIS Workshop has been a highly interactive forum for discussing the state of the art in personalization and user modeling. Latest developments in industry and research are presented in plenary sessions, forums, and tutorials. Researchers, Ph.D. students and Web professionals obtain and exchange novel ideas, expertise and feedback on ongoing research before submitting their work to major conferences such as CHI, UMAP, WWW and SIGIR. FOR RESEARCHERS The ABIS workshop accepts full or short papers, position statements, Ph.D. research papers and demos, between 2 and 8 pages in length. In addition, if you have an accepted paper at an international conference that is relevant for ABIS, you can submit an abstract with a (permanent) link to the paper. This allows you to further extend the reach of your paper and to present it once again. FOR STUDENTS (PhD, MSc, Bachelor) Students are encouraged to submit a full or short paper on ongoing work and get advice and feedback from experienced researchers and professionals. You can also submit a 1-page thesis abstract: a summary of your recently submitted Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. theses, including a (permanent) link to the thesis download. Further, students can attend Mensch & Computer 2014 for free when they register as a student volunteer. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Mirjam Augstein. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Boris Brandherm. DFKI, Saarbrücken Dominikus Heckmann. OTH Amberg-Weiden Eelco Herder. L3S Research Center, Hannover Wolfgang Woerndl. TU München IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 16 May 2014 Notifications: 6 June 2014 Camera-ready: 20 June 2014 Mensch & Computer 2014: 31 August - 3 September 2014 - Munich, Germany
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Well we're smack bang in the middle of the National Leagues and so far it's been a very entertaining one. The hurling league continues to be very competitive and so far the All Ireland champions are looking fantastic even at this early stage. Being a football girl though I don't know enough about hurling to comment any furthe. However, here's a photo of the Limerick Hurlers anyway 🙂
Over in the football championship the All Ireland Champions Dublin have had an iffy enough start to the campaign. A loss up in Monaghan, a win v Galway and a 1 point loss to Kerry that could have gone eitherway. Not since 2015 have Dublin lost 2 of their 3 opening matches. And still they ended up league and all ireland champions that year. This Saturday sees them take on Mayo. Since Mayo beat them in the semi final in 2012, Dublin have gone on to either win or draw with them ever since. Mayo have had a stormer of a start to the league and seem to have found a heap of new players who may be able to help them finally get over the line this year. Sitting top of the league on 6 points they are pretty much safe barring some crazy result permeatations. Same goes for Kerry. However, a Dublin defeat could see them in a relegation battle for the first time in what seems like forever. Will they care if they win Sam for the 5th time in a row?
Be back next week to discuss all of this weekend results! How will YOUR county do?
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Organization Helps Refugee Family Find New Life in Charlottesville
Madison Carter – NBC29
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) –
A family that fled the war in Syria is finding a new life in Charlottesville thanks to the help of some friendly neighbors.
Source: http://www.nbc29.com/story/35329560/organization-helps-refugee-family-find-new-life-in-charlottesville
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MY NAME IS RAHIMULLAH NISHAT i am From Afguhnistan i am very thank full from this organization they are helping all the new familes they came to this city i really appreciate kiaree miller and meeny cathy and her hasbind jahon and their hole family and liza. emlly . Dabi karsty .all the people work for this orgnaztion iam sorry if i not spill thire name corictly they helping us more than we Expect from them and we will supoort when we stand on our feet
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Canadian Federal Court Justice Robin Camp, who was investigated for making insensitive comments during a sexual-assault trial, would like to keep his job, please.
Camp oversaw the trial of Alexander Scott Wagar, who was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in a bathroom sink during a house party. During the trial, Camp continually and mistakenly referred to the woman as "the accused" and asked her, "Why couldn't you just keep your knees together?" and, "Why didn't you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he couldn't penetrate you?", according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Unsurprisingly, the Canadian Judicial Council was inundated with complaints after Camp's remarks went public, and it conducted a formal inquiry into Camp's practices. Camp underwent training and counseling, "with a view to interrogating his beliefs and improving his understanding of the law, the social context of sexual violence, and the psychological impact of sexual assault." He now says that counseling has made him a better, more empathetic person, and that because of his change of heart, he should be allowed to remain on the bench.
"He now understands that some of his prior thinking was infected with stereotypical beliefs and discredited myths," reads a note of response filed with the CJC. "He believes his training, counselling and this process as a whole have left him better equipped to judge cases with the empathy, wisdom and sensitivity to social context to which all judges aspire."


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If you are planning to move but are unsure of how it is to be done, you must make your move. This Side Up brings you some essentials to keep in mind for moving without any hassle –
- Be thorough
Before starting, you must ensure that you and the company which will help you in moving know what is to be moved. You can also do a in-home or video tour for successfully carrying out the same. Also remember to not always opt for the lowest price, they may not be able to fulfil your expectations.
- Review their estimate
Even after having the feeling of having spoken about almostevery possible aspect, you must review their estimate. If their is any issue regarding these services, you can contact them and they will help you in the best possible manner.
- Make an inventory list if possible
You should try and make an inventory list which will help you to reconcile what are the items moved. You can also mark the special items differently. This will help you to settle down in the new house.
- Establish the moving date as soon as possible
This will help you to finalise the moving date and also help yougain extra time for adjustment. It also gives you more time to pack unique and big items.
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There are some items which are not to be moved. Make the list of such items and contact This Side Up for moving those items. They are usually chemicals or money.
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Americans like to shop.
In fact, the United States retail market will approach $5 trillion in 2015, according to eMarketer. That's a 4% increase from its estimate for where 2014 finished, and a big jump over the $4.53 trillion in sales that retailers racked up in 2013.
Forget the recession. Forget concerns over gas prices or the housing market. Americans are consuming at astounding rates -- but how we decide where to shop may surprise you.
Why are Americans shopping where they shop?
Though the success of low-priced retailers like Wal-Mart (WMT -0.63%) and various dollar stores would suggest that value determines where Americans shop, it's not just price driving those chains. Instead, the 2014 American Consumer Satisfaction Index Retail Report showed that it's actually where the stores are and when they are open that consumers rank as the most important factors:
Customer experience benchmarks for the department and discount store industry show that customers give the highest rating to the convenience of store locations and hours of operation (86).
The second biggest factor -- frequency of sales and promotions -- shows that price does still impact behavior in a major way, but the way the survey asked the questions muddies the waters. A store can have everyday low prices, but run very few sales and still be attractive. Wal-Mart is the leading retailer by sales and it has low prices more by policy than through specials (though it does run promotions). The chain also offers expansive hours with more locations than any comparable chain.
As you will see below, Wal-Mart does not rank well on the ACSI survey, but consumers clearly still shop there even if they don't care for the experience. Attribute that to a mix of convenience and value offered.
Since consumers want convenience and good prices, they may pick a store they like less because it's easier to get to and offers better deals. Consumers, for example, may choose a more convenient Wal-Mart over a farther-away Target (TGT 0.44%), even though the former ranks at the bottom of the ACSI retail rankings (68) while the latter scores an 80.
If a company had to choose, it's actually probably better off being conveniently located and open more often than it is offering good service or a great selection of name brands.
Online may win anyway
Location and hours may be driving factors for customers when choosing a retail store, but that still may be a losing battle for physical retailers. Wal-Mart has a lot of locations, and some are even open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That could be very convenient, but it's still hard to compete with a company like Amazon (AMZN -3.66%), which is always open and always easy to access -- without even getting in your car.
That may explain why online retailers outrank their physical counterparts in the ACSI survey. Amazon, which tops the rankings with an 82 (a 5.1% increase over 2013), may not score as high as top bricks-and-mortar retailer Nordstrom (86), but it outranks all of the other companies in the 2014 department and discount store index.
Online consumers rank efficient checkout as their top concern, giving it an 87. They clearly value sites that are easy to navigate, where pages load quickly, and retailers offer a strong variety of merchandise with useful product images.
The convenience issue alone may make it very hard for traditional retailers to compete using only physical stores. It's possible to increase your hours and add locations, but you can't beat the Internet on those counts.
Physical retailers need to do digital right
What's very clear from the ACSI rankings is that the top online retailers -- specifically Amazon -- appeal to consumers because they are always open and offer convenient shopping. The big retail brands can duplicate that, but to do so, they need to improve their websites (something Target and Wal-Mart have committed significant money to in 2015).
That presents a major challenge, because one key advantage existing online stores have is that they already have credit card information on file. That's a very important barrier to competition because it's simply easier to check out at a store when you don't need to pull out a credit card.
To fight that, retailers need to get clever. They can incentivize digital sign-ups in their physical stores, or integrate Apple Pay, PayPal, and as many other payment methods as possible at their stores. It's possible, but it's clear that a pure physical play is destined to lose, while being a brand that serves both in-person and online customers requires making your website equal to the top pure Internet retailers.
That's possible, but it's a major challenge. According to the evidence, Americans pick where to shop based largely on convenience and value, which could make it hard for physical stores to compete, especially as online stores improve delivery options. However you look at it, winning customers is all about delivering the easiest, most friction-free experience possible.


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Pokemon Sun and Moon launch tomorrow, and, expectedly, Pokemon fans are pretty darn excited.
There's a huge midnight launch event happening at Melbourne's Federation Square, so be sure to get there and put your pre-order in to get the game as soon as possible.
With hype so high and gamers anxiously anticipating its release, some have resorted to piracy to play it before it officially hits store shelves.
The game's Pokedex was leaked last week, and a number of players on Reddit and 4Chan had reported playing it early thanks to the wonders of ROMs. Safe to say that the leaks came from one of these folk.
Unfortunately for them, however, it appears that Nintendo is clamping down on sneaky Pokemon trainers, slapping anyone that's played the game early with a ban from online features.
Whenever player's try to access Pokemon Sun and Moon's World Trade feature in the multiplayer mode, they are slapped with an error code saying their device's online access has been restricted by Nintendo.
The error code on the official Nintendo website treats it not as a ban, but rather an issue that can be rectified by calling the service centre. Although, Nintendo has confirmed that the bans are indeed intentional.
"As a result of a number of Nintendo 3DS users using unauthorized versions of several games, and connecting to the official game servers in violation of our terms of service, these users' Nintendo 3DS systems that stored the unauthorized game code have been banned from Nintendo's online network effective immediately," a Nintendo representative told Polygon.
So yeah, maybe don't play anything other than the official game.


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Sportsbeat with Kevin McDermott airs every Monday evening on Shannonside Northern Sound FM between eight and nine pm.
On this edition of the show on the first of April 2019.
Former Leitrim footballer Derek Kelleher looks back on Leitrim's Croke Park adventure as Terry Hyland's side took on Derry in the Divison four final.
Derek also talks about Mayo's Division one, Donegal's division two title success and Westmeath's promotion from division three.
Sports editor Dave Hooper pays tribute to Sports Broadcaster Pat MacAulliffe after he died aged 61.
Maurice Brosnan from Balls.ie looks back on an epic weekend of rugby.
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Blog Tour Kick-Off: The Teenager with a Chameleon Soul by Cindy McElroy!
YA Bound Book Tours is organizing a Blog Tour for: The Teenager with a Chameleon Soul by Cindy McElroy. This tour will run from December 11th to 15th. Check out the tour schedule below.
by Cindy McElroy
Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction
Release Date: September 28th 2017
Meet Sadie MacPhearson. She's seventeen and lives in a ritzy, artsy beach town called Mariposa Beach, California. Blond, bootylicious and beautiful—she's a main chick of the Pop Crowd: the most flawless looking, smartest, trendiest, richest, fabulous group of party animals at Mariposa Beach High School. She wants one thing, to keep her secret but it's always lingering above her head. When the administrators want to assess her for a learning disability, she coats inhibitions and fears with alcohol, which, in turn, causes serious damage in her life, mostly her chameleon soul.
After struggling to blend in, senior year, Sadie finds herself without her dear grandmother, with disgusted parents, three hundred and sixty mandatory volunteer hours and AA meetings, no driver's license or Jeep, zero friends, and cognitively low classes. Feeling like success is not an option with her learning disability, she sits behind building C next to an overweight, military loving, book nerd Jay Felix on the first day of senior year. He pushes her to be her best self. But even at her best, can Sadie overcome her learning disability, her struggles with alcohol and graduate from high school at the cutthroat Mariposa Beach High School or will the lure of the Pop Crowd take her down?
About the Author
Cindy McElroy is a young adult novel writer. The Teenager with a Chameleon Soul is her first book. She's the wife of a firefighter, and the mother of three children and a Rhodesian Ridgeback, but she's also been a special education teacher, a camp counselor and police decoy. She does her best writing when she's beach camping, or her kids are asleep or at school. If she's not writing or with her family, she's reading, doing yoga, water skiing, snowboarding or SUP boarding near her home in Ventura County, California. Cindy loves to write humorous yet emotional novels about young adults experiencing young adult things.
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This article covers the basics of reloading for the 5.56 NATO (.223 Remington), including how to choose the right equipment, component explanations, and the prepping of brass for accepting a powder charge and slug.
*Reloading ammunition is a skill and an art. We suggest anyone interested in reloading train with a professional first.*
Scarcity of Ammunition
I have noticed a scarcity of .223 Remington rounds lately. Perhaps, the "guv'mint" is hoarding them. Perhaps, the ammo manufacturers are driving the prices up.
Maybe, after the last gun ban scare, households are buying it up as fast as it hits the shelves while they still can. (Smart move) Or, it may be that Santa Claus is coming and giving all the boys and girls that were good a brick of .223 to play with. (Still hoping here) Whatever the reason is, no matter where you find it, the price has gone WAAAAYYYY up since last year.
This cost prohibition, coupled with the fact that the .223 is the most common round used in survival firearms (read AR-15 and Mini 14) prompted me to ask the bosses' permission to write about handloading them. They graciously granted permission, and here we are. We will divide this article into a three part series. Reloading is a tedious task, and to overload a person with too much information on their first batch would be asking for disaster.
I have personally seen the bolt of an M1 fly out of the receiver and stick in a man's chest on the range due to improper reloading; he lived, but was in terrible shape for a while.
Component and Equipment Selection for Reloading
The first segment of this series on reloading will be about component and equipment selection, and brass preparation. Component selection is almost as important as the actual building of the round, but not NEAR as important as equipment selection. Remember, once you buy this equipment, YOU will be working with it! You must select it to fit YOUR needs.
Press Selection
The center piece of all reloading is the press. Press selection is divided into two types: Single stage and progressive. Single stage is slower, but as you ARE going slower, people tend to have a closer eye on quality control, and therefore, get better ammunition out of them.
Progressives are much faster, as once you get each stage loaded, a round flies out of it with EVERY pull of the lever! You only have to stop to resupply the components. My personal needs as a competitive shooter called for very consistent ammo.
Tight quality control is in order here, so I went with two single stage presses, and they have served me well over the years. I have often wished for a progressive for higher production, but I am satisfied with what I have.
Choosing the Right Scale
Next are scales, digital or balance type? I prefer the balance type, as there is less to go wrong in a survival situation.
No batteries to fool with, no interference from an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) and they can be used in the dark.
Brass Trimmers
Then, we have brass trimmers. Your brass will need to be periodically trimmed to ensure it doesn't grow into the rifling and cause an over-pressure situation.
I have always used the manual type, once again the same pros and cons as the scale scenario. They make electric models, but in my opinion, they are useless in a survival situation when the grid is down.
Brass Tumblers
The consideration of brass tumblers must come into play somewhere in the conversation. I use the dry type myself, as they seem to be less messy.
However, the wet type seems to get the shells cleaner. Either is suitable for this application, as long as the brass gets cleaned.
Powder Measure
Powder measures are extremely effective in speeding up production; otherwise, you're looking at using a trickler, which is very precise, but extremely slow.
Now comes mention of the capper, this little jewel does the job of installing the primer without blowing your fingers off! I use a manual primer, it's slow, but there are NO screw ups with this system.
Some presses offer an automatic primer, this is handy, but if loaded improperly, can install primers upside down. Sometimes it can ruin a primer by installing it sideways and crushing it.
Die Sets
Last and most important of the necessary equipment is the die set we will use to build our project. There are many manufacturers of die, some include a shell holder to help with the reloading process, and some do not. I cannot, in the interest of keeping honest and unbiased as an author, recommend a manufacturer, but I have had great luck with Lee and RCBS dies.
Don't let all these decisions overload your mind! Many manufacturers have a starter kit that includes most of these items in it. And besides, we haven't even begun to select our components, which consist of brass, primer, powder and slug.
Brass we will be using for our project will be just some old common junk we found at the firing range and picked up for use. As long as it isn't damaged, brass can be used repeatedly!
It does eventually wear thin and have to be discarded, so looking for damage when reloading is paramount in brass preparation.
Brass can also be bought in a fired condition or brand new. Brand new being the most expensive, but you have to cull a lot less brass that way.
Primers are crucial to reloading. Primers perform the function of starting the whole firing process. Without a primer, we have no bang from our modern metallic cartridges.
Primer selection is subjective; I prefer the softer brass primers, as the harder steel primers require more force to fire. This is not a problem in a properly maintained firearm, but in a survival situation, firearm maintenance can be thrown to the wayside, so we eliminate that problem from the equation.
Powder is the next choice we must make. For our project, we will be using IMR 4895. I like this powder as it is readily available, cheap, and versatile. It is not the hottest powder made, nor the cleanest.
You can choose from several manufacturers, all one has to do is research online to find a manufacturer and powder to your liking.
Deciding on a Slug
Finally, the decision making is over….. or is it? We now have to decide on a slug. For our project I have selected a 69 grain hollow point boat tail from Sierra bullets (Sierra part number 1385), but the slug is designed for .223 caliber assault rifles specifically.
I will explain this later in the series, but many other selections are available. Most commonly found are Hornady, Sierra, Speer, and a host of others.
Consideration in slug selection must include use; different slugs have different flight characteristics, energy delivery, weights, shapes, and a mess of other considerations.
Brass Preparation
Now, on to the actual working parts. Brass preparation is definitely the most time consuming part of reloading. First, we take our tumbler, and the media of your choosing, and our brass. Mix them all up and let tumble for at least an hour. This cleans the brass and makes it easier to inspect. It also removes residue from the inside of the case.
After a good tumbling, inspection can take place. Look for cracks in the case, bulges, backed out primers, dents, or anything that you suspect might be abnormal. These are all warning signs of potential hazards down the road.
Next, we go to our press, and screw in our re-sizing die. Remember to lube the cases before re-sizing! They will hang up in the die if you don't! A light coat of lube is all that is needed and can be accomplished with either a lube pad or one of the various different spray on types.
If you over-lube, remove the excess, as it will cause a vacuum in the die and create dents in the case. It will literally suck a dent in the metal! This is a two for one process, as it re-sizes the brass and deprimes the little dude at the same time! Set your die deep enough to knock the primer out at the bottom of the stroke. It'll fall out and land in the little bin at the bottom of the press.
Case Trimming
Next order of business, case trimming. We set our case trimmer for the proper length. For our .223 rounds there is a MAX case length and a trim length. Take your calipers and measure case length AFTER re-sizing. If it is greater than the MAX case length of 1.760" then it must be trimmed. If it is not trimmed, there is the potential of the case swelling up into the rifling between the barrel and the slug.
This will impede the slug's progress down the barrel, thus increasing barrel pressure and causing a potential explosion in your face!! It is recommended to trim ALL cases to 1.750" but it is only required for those over 1.760".
Deburring the Case
After trimming, we begin the process of deburring. This is the slow tedious part. You MUST deburr the case mouth….ALWAYS!! For two reasons: one, any little burr against the bullet can affect accuracy. A .223 is a relatively small bullet, and the smallest impedance can throw you off a LONG way down range.
The other is in fact, the very same reason we trimmed our case length…. preventing a dangerous over-pressure situation. Also, as an option, you can deburr the primer pocket too. This makes for more uniform ignition and consistent shooting.
It is not required, but recommended for both reliability (very important in a firefight situation) and accuracy (consistent ammo is accurate ammo.) After the deburring process has concluded, we re-prime the brass with our hand primer (primers used in our project load are CCI 400 primers).
This brings us to the conclusion of part one of the Reloading for the 5.56 NATO (.223 Remington) Tutorial series.


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While traditional Libraries often concentrate on the repository and retrieval facets of their work, for many scientists it is also very important to be able to manage and maintain references to the information they work with, such as bibliographic information and Web bookmarks. ShaRef aims at providing a solution (usable Web-based as well as offline) for creating, managing, and sharing reference information. This information can be exported to other applications (such as word processing software or Web browsers). ShaRef is based on XML technologies for providing an open platform with powerful importing and exporting features. Web-based publishing features allow Web access and the creation of selected reference lists such as reading lists for lectures and seminars or publication lists for specific research areas.
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Informe semanal de noticias del mercado ruso de la Oficina de Turismo de Tenerife en Moscú
- Competitors
The demand of Russian tourists for accommodation in Madrid hotels increased by 127%
The Champions League final game, which was held on June 1 in Madrid, aroused a great interest of Russian tourists. So the cost of hotel room per night increased almost four times.
Now the cost of a night stay in a four stars hotel is €454, and €716 in a five stars one. And It is worth noting that the Russian tourists often book 2/3 stars hotels, hostels and guest houses.
- Destination News
Russia took 16th place in the list of the most visited countries
The world tourism organization (UNWTO) published a rating list of the world's most popular countries among foreign tourists of 2018. It was headed by France, which was visited by 93.2 million foreign tourists in 2018, and it was 7.3% more than a year earlier. Spain was the second one with 82.8 million index, and the USA was visited by 82.2 million travelers and took the third place.
Russia took 16th place, it was visited by 24,6 million tourists.
- Travellers: Tour operators and travel agents
Tour operators from Russian regions opposed mandatory financial guarantees
Russian regional tour operators was going up against the compulsory financial liability insurance, as they used to organize short-term and low-cost bus tours, so the additional costs of compulsory insurance would make a negative affect on the financial position of the companies.
- Tourism industry
Russia offered Japan to sign a visa-free agreement
Russia reminded Japan of its long-standing offer to sign a visa-free agreement. '…starting with trips that are related to business and tourist purposes…' – the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov said following a meeting with his Japanese colleague Taro Kono. Now all Russians only must fill a visa application form and submit the passport to get permission to step on the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan plans to introduce an electronic visa system for Russians in 2020.
- Aviation News
Russian MPs approved the idea to hold down brawlers with handcuffs in the planes during the flights
The State Duma members approved the legislative act giving the crew of Russian aircrafts the right to use deterrents against the violent passengers on Thursday (May 30).
It is not known yet what kind of self-defense items Russian flight attendants will be allowed to use but the plastic handcuffs have been already approved as a measure of influence on the passengers violating public order.
Etihad Airways announced the new direct flights from Moscow to Abu Dhabi
Domodedovo airport announced the new daily direct flights to Abu Dhabi on May 30, Airbus A320 would start operating in this direction on October 27.
One of the main reasons of the decision was that the Russian tourists flow showed a great increase in the beginning of 2019. 33'600 Russian tourists had visited the emirate for four months of 2019.


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Series Spotlight: Owl Diaries
The Wingdale owl family (Mom, Dad, Eva, Humphrey and Baby Mo) live in a tree in, of course, Treetopolis. When Eva receives a new diary, she faithfully records all her adventures, concerns, problems, triumphs, and sadness in the diary.
Each of the 13 books (so far) in this series focus on one big event in Eva's world. The plots feature a mystery that Eva solves and most readers of this series will solve. Friendships, working together, and solving problems are what Eva and her friends do.
The digital illustrations are a major part of the storytelling. There are collage-like illustrations are on each page. The connection between image and words is very clear. It would be easy to extend activities by encouraging art projects.
The author uses clever references to owls: "What a hoot," "Anyhoot," "sticking her beak into my business," and Owliverse."Readers will enjoy searching for connections. Speech bubbles are used for dialog between characters.
These books by Rebecca Elliott have gentle plots, interesting characters, and are for readers beginning "easy readers." The first book is Eva's Treetop Festival (2015). Each book has 74 pages (Lexile 530-620). At the end of each book is, "How much do you know about…?" Questions follow and a final suggestion of further activities.
Many of the books in this series are available as e-books on Overdrive.
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Ms. Laetitia Mailhes,
Thank you so much for you blog post, Stand Up For Agriculture, and your enthusiasm to encourage others to learn more about food production and becoming engaged in the process. I could not agree more that we need more consumers to become aware of their food sources and how food travels from pasture to plate.
It is time people stand up for Agriculture and become engaged by "get closely acquainted with your farmers; learn to discriminate between all the various misleading certification labels for meat, milk and eggs; read the ingredients' label before buying any packaged goods; educate yourself as needed about the issues at stake, and engage your friends and family about them; join a community garden; learn or teach how to cook/preserve/etc.; get involved in your kid's school to improve food and/or develop a food curriculum; join a local initiative to change regulation in order to promote urban farming…" I could not have said it better myself.
If you take a look at efforts by farmers and ranchers, we are promoting these projects and working to be more transparent and accountable through our use of social media and community outreach. Take my work for example. I am a 22-year old cattleman in Arkansas. I grew up on a family ranch, attended college in Oklahoma, worked in a Texas cattle feedyard (owned by one of the largest meat processors in the world), then chose to return to Arkansas where I now take care of cattle on another family farm. All of this and my thoughts are documented through my blog (www.AgricultureProud.com), videos on YouTube (AgProud), countless photos on Facebook, and daily updates on my Twitter account (AR_ranchhand). You may be surprised to find I am not the only food producer that goes to this extent to share the real story of production Agriculture.
In my travels, working on livestock operations across the U.S., I have witnessed life on the family farm in Arkansas, Natural beef production in Wyoming, and Feedyard beef production in Texas, and all of these operations have something in common. These farmers and ranchers all care about the livestock in their care and the environment in which they and their families live and work. Pardon me, but I do not see New York Lawyers or L.A. Actresses living and raising food in the mountains of Wyoming year round. In one form or another we all love your ideal of the farmer that "provides us with carbon sequestration in the soil, enhances the microlife that plants feed off, nurtures biodiversity and ecosystems, upholds symbiotic relationships between plants and animals, conserves water, upholds traditional practices, sustains communities and local economies, and, lest we forget, offers us nutritious and tasty food." But producing the amount of food we do today is harder than just waving a wand and making the world an ideal place. Thanks to the use of modern technology today's average American farmers produces enough food for 144 people each year.
The American Farmer today represents less than 2% of this country's population. Until I see every urban dweller caring for cattle during calving season or walking irrigation lines on the hay crop, you have no reason to complain. Before you criticize "corporate agriculture" did you know that 97% of U.S. cattle operations are classified as family farms. Those farmers also provide 75% of this nation's wildlife habitat.
I could continue for pages about how I have witnessed first hand how American farmers work hard to improve their environment. After all, if we do not take care of our land, how will it take care of us? Thank you for your concern about food production and the farmers and ranchers out there. But before you label us as the one "that brings us about 30 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, hormone- and antibiotic-fed beef, genetically-modified corn and soybeans, processed food devoid of nutrients, toxic contamination of our watersheds, soil erosion, slavery in the fields, salmonella-tainted eggs, deforestation, destruction of agricultural biodiversity and traditional farming practices in the name of the global free market, speculative trading on commodity prices, etc., etc.." take a moment to get to know a real farmer or rancher. Just because many of us do not claim the label of "organic" or "natural" does not mean we do not care about the food we produce.
Take a look at more entries on my blog and maybe you'll learn a little more about real food production. Any comment, questions, and criticisms are welcomed.


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I typed http://www.familysearch.org/ in my browser address line and saw:
Okay. So where are the old sites that were useful, like the International Genealogical Index and the other databases? I found that the URLs I had in my Favorites still work and take me to the old FamilySearch Search, News, Library, Education, etc.
But there's a link on the new FamilySearch.org home page at the top right - see the "Changes at FamilySearch.org" and "What's New" button? Click on that, and you go to Paul Nauta's post on the blog (two screens below):
On the blog post are links to some of the old FamilySearch.org sites, including:
* Go to Prior Version of FamilySearch.org
* Go to Popular FamilySearch Downloads
* Search the IGI (International Genealogical Index)
* Search Ancestral File
* Search Historical Books
* Search Community Trees
Here is the screen for the Go to Prior Version of FamilySearch.org link:
Everything seems to work as before, although the screens have changed a bit, and there are links to the FamilySearch Beta site (and http://beta.familysearch.org/ still works).
The Record Search Pilot site is still active, but has only 402 databases at this time. The http://www.familysearch.org/ site has 508 historical collections listed today.


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Parenting: Five Keys to Positive Child Development
If you contribute in any way to raising children, you may have wondered whether specific skills will ensure they have the best possible quality of life as adults. Research funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified five such skills. Vision's Gina Stepp examines each one.


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By Michael Buck and Michelle Pittman
Fruit of the trees is what Bethlehem-based Scholl Orchards does best—especially peaches. With about 30 different varieties of peaches growing in their orchards, they're sure to have a style for just about anyone. Martha Ryan, the daughter of owners George and Faith Scholl, says the family takes the quality and appearance of their peaches very seriously. Each one is tree ripened and plucked from the branch about two days before it's ready to eat.
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The produce more than lives up to the hype. The peaches we bought were some of the peachiest peaches we have ever tried. Orange, juicy and sweet, we eventually turned these tasty balls of joy into a peach crisp. See the results over at Feaston.
What isn't produced at the Scholl's Bethlehem orchard is grown at the much larger operation in Kempton, in Berks County. There, peaches, nectarines, pears and more occupy 30 acres of fruit trees. The produce is then trucked to the Bethlehem market for sale, along with vegetables the Scholl family gets from farmers in the Kutztown area.
The Scholls are conscientious about what goes into producing their fruit. Martha says they use a method wherein experts trap bugs, analyze them and tell them what they need to treat the trees for, so they're not indiscriminately spraying pesticides. Other hungry pests, like deer and birds, are deterred with a variety of methods such as hanging garlic-filled tubes, soap and shiny paper on the trees.
This fall, look out for Scholl's homemade, unpasteurized apple cider, which should hit the shelves by mid-September.
Scholl Orchards, 3057 Center Street, Bethlehem; Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.


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Now the firm plans public information forums Tuesday afternoon, June 29, and again Tuesday, July 6, at its Holland headquarters.
According to the firm's president, Dan Horne, the sessions will stress that the technology is neither fiber optic nor the Wi-Fi technology that many cities around the country are implementing.
He said wireless broadband is a direct alternative to DSL, cable or fiber optics.
ISG refers to the move as leapfrog, and Horne says it provides high-speed Internet, data and video conferencing.
ISG has furnished the same technology in the Grand Rapids market for several years. The firm has been in operation here since the early '80s.
According to ISG, organizations such as the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, the Grand Center, DeVos Place, Intaglio, Michigan Wheel, Holland Community Hospital and Regent Communications are among its wireless broadband clients.
Other clients are Transmatic, the Hager Group, theCharter Group and Fringe.
Horne stresses that the information session will focus on a characteristic of its service called scalability.
He said that means ISG quickly can adjust high-speed broadband service to conform to an organization's current level of need. "That's very important for locations such as DeVos Place that may need to support a Cher concert one day and a boat show the next," he said.
He said access to high-speed wireless broadband is an attractive community feature for organizations trying to determine where to hold gatherings or even conventions.
"It's definitely been a competitive advantage for (DeVos Place) as they work to generate interest and bring groups to Grand Rapids that may otherwise go to other locations around the country," Horne said.
The spokesman for a local major manufacturing company reports, "The scalability and reliability (of this solution) has been an immediate cost savings for us. You get what you pay for and only what you need."
Horne claims that clients can realize up to a 90 percent reduction in telecommunications costs. He also said ISG can install its system in days, easily integrating it with existing computer networks.
ISG says that its technology also helps retailers by speeding automation and improving productivity.
"In the case of a local large retail operation," Horne added, "high-speed wireless broadband service to the facility, coupled with a wireless local area network, enables personnel to check inventory and change prices while monitoring entryway activity."
He said wireless broadband currently is in use in entertainment, hospitality, retail, construction, rescue services, health care, banking and other markets and that it supports public safety and security initiatives.
ISG reports having partnered with many West Michigan businesses, integrating technology and business processes.
In addition to high-speed secure wireless broadband, the firm's services include: ASP, co-location, hosted managed network services, e-business strategies, traditional technical services, consultation, global network architecture, implementation and support; advanced application development and Web development and integration.
ISG's information sessions — for which it will charge no admission — are set for 4 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, June 29, and 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 6, at ISG, 1720 Adams St., Holland. Though there's no admission charge, ISG does require registration by calling (616) 546-4510 or online at www.goISG.com


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Welcome to our new website
We hope you all like our new website. The site has been designed with you, the user, in mind. We can now boast a mobile friendly and optimised website which works effectively on mobiles and tablets and a site that is generally more user friendly.
If you have any comments around the website then please send them to [email protected] and we'd be happy to take your feedback.
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By Nadya Khapochkina, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement
Yesterday, Acting U.S. Trade Representative Miriam Sapiro and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack met with the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee (APAC) and the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committees (ATACs) to discuss the Administration's ambitious trade agenda and the critically important role of U.S. agriculture within that agenda. In her remarks, Acting USTR Sapiro stressed the significant value of dialogue between members of the agricultural sector and the USTR's office.
During the discussion segment with members, Acting USTR Sapiro and Secretary Vilsack emphasized the importance of close cooperation between the two agencies, as well as the need for feedback from the agricultural community concerning trade negotiations. Recently implemented trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and Korea have all resulted in new and expanding export opportunities for U.S. agriculture. Looking forward, the successful conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will provide even more opportunities to expand exports. The pending Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations provide a further opportunity to eliminate tariffs and address non-tariff barriers facing U.S. agricultural exports. Earlier on the agenda, Ambassador Islam Siddiqui, Chief Agricultural Negotiator at USTR and Darci Vetter, Acting Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services at USDA , provided insight on a number of issues, including the state of agricultural negotiations at the World Trade Organization.
U.S. agricultural exports reached record levels in 2012, and produced an agricultural trade surplus of $42.2 billion. Ensuring that our agricultural sector continues to effectively participate in foreign markets will support domestic jobs for America's farmers, ranchers, and the businesses they support.


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A common problem is the creation of a ground loop (buzzing) in speakers if you use an amplifier and a subwoofer (another amp) on the same circuit (breaker)--> they "fight" for control of the ground. So my question is do the BP-8080STs create a ground loop if they (with two amps) are on the same circuit as the amplifier in your room?
Definitive Technology BP-8080ST Speaker System
Bipolar, Refocused and Refined
Living bipolar isn't an unfortunate state of mind at Definitive Technology; it's a chosen philosophy. And stretching further, it's perhaps even a reason for being. Founded in 1990, Definitive is a stalwart brand and a staggering success story in the CE business. Definitive has made compelling entries in the speaker market in recent years with speakers as diverse as its flat, sexy Mythos XTR-50 on-walls and its ultraslim, floorstanding Mythos STS. But the bipolar Super Towers, which include built-in powered subwoofers, are still the flagship line. To this day, much of Definitive's brand identity is those tall, sleek, and big-sounding black towers. The reason you're reading this review is that the bipolar Super Tower series has now been completely redesigned and reborn.
This past August, I visited Definitive's Maryland headquarters and was afforded a sneak peek and listen at the new bipolar ST line. The room was modest in size and minimally treated, and the electronics were very real world: An OPPO Blu-ray player and a midline, name-brand AVR comprised the system. I was floored. I liked what I heard enough to sign on for the manual labor involved in schlepping around and reviewing a pair of floorstanding loudspeakers and a matching center channel, something lazy fellows like me don't do so often. But these new Definitives—the top-of-the-line BP-8080ST ($1,499 each) and matching CS-8080HD center ($999) reviewed here—were worth some schlepping and then some. Lemme tell you about a little sump'n special…
The New Black
Much is different about the new BP-8080ST towers, but one thing remains the same. You can still have your Definitive bipolar towers in any color you'd like as long as that color is black. They're still wrapped in unassuming black socks, with a glossy top cap. Each 48-inch-tall tower is a slim 7 inches wide and 16 inches deep and performs an optical illusion in tapering slightly, even gracefully, at the front. Small isn't the right word for these speakers, but I was constantly thinking to myself that the sonics they delivered (big in every sense of the word) were disproportionate to the in-room footprint. These aren't small speakers by any stretch, but they somehow don't occupy as much mental real estate in your room (which as we all know is the hardest real estate to come by, especially for our spouses). And of course some function follows form (or vice versa); the smooth, tapered edges of the narrow baffles combat diffraction, which can improve performance.
Unboxing the BP-8080ST is easy for two people, as each tower only weighs 66 pounds. There's a single set of binding posts (no biwiring) that are arranged vertically, and here's my problem with that. I use spade lugs and heavy cables by AudioQuest, and invariably they pulled loose over time from the bending and tension that this arrangement requires. I'd prefer an oldfashioned side-by-side set of binding posts, and another set for biwiring. Each tower also has a single subwoofer level control and a single LFE input on an RCA connector to directly connect the LFE/subwoofer output of your A/V receiver or surround processor to the powered subwoofer in the BP-8080ST.
The BP-8080ST ships with stabilizer feet and spikes for carpeted floors, as well as rounded floor guides for hard wood, both of which are best installed by two people—one to tilt and one to do the mounting.
Focusing Forward: Business in the Front, Party in the Back
While virtually all of the components in this design are new, the biggest departure in the new bipolar ST series is perhaps philosophical. The Definitive bipolars of yore had two midrange drivers and a tweeter in a D'Appolito array on both the front and back of each speaker, with full output from both arrays. While this configuration results in a more spacious soundstage with all that reflected energy coming off the wall behind the speaker, detractors would say that this approach sacrifices image focus and some detail for all that grandeur. The new bipolar ST series employs what Definitive calls its Forward Focused Bipolar Array. Each speaker has a full dual midrange/single tweeter D'Appolito array on the front baffle, plus a single midrange and tweeter on the back of each speaker. The rear drivers' output is 6 decibels lower than the front. So in a sense, these new bipolars aren't quite as bipolar as your daddy's bipolars. But Definitive contends that this new Forward Focused design is the best of both worlds—the spaciousness of bipolars with the imaging and resolution of a front-firing design. My take? Read on. I'm not making it that easy for you.
The patented 5.25-inch BDSS (Balanced Double Surround System) midrange drivers (two in the front, one in the back) are brand-new designs made with mineral-injected polymer cones, cast-aluminum baskets, and a new, dimpled "linear response waveguide" that's patent pending and aims for smoother dispersion and off-axis frequency response. The tweeters on the front and back are identical 1-inch pure aluminum jobs that are new to the bipolar line. Then there's the powered woofers and the heavy lifting. Each BP-8080ST features a 12-inch active woofer (mineral-filled polypropylene cone) and two 12.5-inch passive radiators, effectively making this a bassreflex design. Each active woofer is powered by a 455-watt Class D switching amplifier with a digital front end (signals crossed over to the subwoofers are converted to digital) and integrated Digital Signal Processing for EQ and distortion and damage protection. You're likely to cry for mercy at high volumes long before these woofers do, but it's still not a bad idea.
How do the BP-8080ST compare to the Mythos ST for music and movie?
I bought the definitive mythos bipolar towers, center and surround. The manual says to configure manually because automated programs won't properly calibrate bipolar speakers.
Is this true for Audyssey? I read in the review that you liked using a trusted auto-setup!


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Memory Keepers, a genealogy club made up of about 15 SOCC members, will present a program on Friday, July 8 at 7:00pm in the reception room. You will learn there is much more to pursue than just dates. They will tell how they got interested in research, stories of ancestors they have found, show family artifacts and present projects they have constructed. You will be surprised by all the different detective directions they have used to assemble ancestor photos and information. These discoveries have allowed them to create albums, CDs, power points, charts and books. Some are also writing their own memoirs. Refreshments and a question/answer session will follow the presentation. This is definitely not a dusty, stodgy bunch!
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flyEgypt selects Fawry as a new payment service
flyEgypt is now offering greater payment flexibility with an extended range of options. We will make your booking easier through Fawry.
Within flyEgypt's plan to accelerate commercial growth, enhance expansion operations in foreign and local markets, raise the levels of customer innovation, as well as enable travelers to enjoy various payment services for tickets and other transactions, flyEgypt has added an immediate new payment method for its passengers… Fawry is the leading provider of e-payments and digital finance solutions, Fawry spearheads accessible, reliable, and high-value propositions for the benefit of millions of users. The new service will allow the airline to focus on its core values of customer focus and excellence in performance in a way that further improves both passenger experience and payment success ratios.
It's never been easier to book flights with flyEgypt .


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WooCommerce Feature
WooCommerce This feature will allow you to integrate natively your WooCommerce store in your application. It is different from the feature WooCommerce Link which is just a link to your store. First of all, you have to connect to your WordPress admin panel. Then go to the WooCommerce tab > Settings. Once in the settings, [...]Read more


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How Can Permanent Cash Value Life Insurance Pay for College?
Paying for college gets more expensive every year. Yet, you would do anything to ensure that your child's education is always within reach. Many families create a combination of methods to pay for school, such as savings plans and investment accounts. But, for some, a permanent life insurance policy can be an excellent way to tap into a low-cost way of paying for education. How does it work? Could it be just what you've been looking for?
The Value of Cash Value on Your Life Insurance Policy
A permanent cash value life insurance policy goes into place at any time. The younger, the better. Once in place, this type of insurance policy grows in value. That is, there is a death benefit in place should the policyholder die while it is in place. But it also grows in cash value. That means you may be able to use some of the investment value from the policy to meet your college goals. Here's how it works:
- You invest in a permanent life insurance policy, make premium payments, and build its value.
- The cash value grows based on the performance of the insurance company. Most permanent life companies are owned by their policyholders. When they have a good year they issue a dividend back to their policyholders. Most often this results in increased cash value.
- When it comes time to pay for college educations, you can withdraw some or all of that cash value to do so.
- There are no taxes on these funds. They are yours to use as you would like to.
- You can do this whenever there is value in the policy.
Is this the right option for you and your family? Many factors play a role here, but for many parents, it can be one of the best ways to access affordability in paying for college. Of course, there are limitations here. The insurance company needs to do well. And, the sooner you put a policy in place, the better.
Let's talk about how this type of policy can help you to pay for your child's college education. Call Dimmitt Insurance today to discuss your options at 866-763-6627 or use our online quote request form for a fast solution.
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The authors of a new paper out in PLoS Genetics (Cahill et al. 2013, entitled "Genomic Evidence for Island Population Conversion Resolves Conflicting Theories of Polar Bear Evolution") propose to explain how and why the brown bears (aka grizzlies) of the ABC islands of southeast Alaska (Admiralty, Baranof, and Chicagof – see previous post here), got to be so genetically distinct from brown bears on the Alaska mainland and so surprisingly similar (genetically) to polar bears. The authors determined (using a model) that this genetic pattern could be explained by an ancient hybridization event resulting from female polar bears cavorting with male brown bears in SE Alaska.
I had some issues with the way the paper was promoted by some of the co-authors, which I dealt with separately here. More importantly, I found the scenario these geneticists offered to explain how hybridization might have occurred to be patently implausible. Geological and fossil evidence from SE Alaska largely refutes their scenario, although another explanation may be more tenable. It is not impossible, in my opinion, that hybridization occurred in SE Alaska during the last Ice Age, but if it did, it almost certainly did not happen the way Cahill and colleagues suggest.


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BT Vision prepares for launch
BT will give its IPTV service, Vision, a proper marketing push this weekend, finally putting the service into hard launch mode, following a soft introduction in December.
Ovum analysts Annelise Berendt and Mike Cansfield have been told that the now familiar 'BT family' will kick off a national campaign on Saturday across TV, billboards, the web and national press.
BT Vision allows the company's existing broadband customers to watch Freeview channels, as well as a library of films, music, and sports programmes on demand.
The offering will be pushed out on the high street via a number of large shopping centres, department stores and electrical retail outlet Comet.
When we talked with BT last month a spokesman said the service has already been delivered to around 5,000 customers who pre-registered for the product, prior to launch.
Following the spring campaign, BT expects to ramp that figure to its target of 200,000 customers by year-end.
The offering combines a Freeview digital TV receiver with video-on-demand and "catch-up" television delivered over broadband. BT said it would offer a set-top box worth £199 free of charge for users signing up for the service. An on-demand film will cost a maximum of £2.99, the company said.
"One of the biggest challenges for the operator is building its reputation as a television provider, and that this will take time and cannot be done over night," said analyst Ovum.
"BT has done well to fit what is a significant new service launch into an existing marketing execution, extending the BT portfolio that is already being promoted," the analyst added.
The operator is expected to follow up with a further marketing campaign in the summer centred around BT Vision's sports content. Although not directly attempting to steal customers from satellite and cable, the company hopes to target those who find the alternatives too expensive.
"With the launch of this campaign we will now begin to see whether BT can successfully execute a marketing strategy to move the BT brand beyond communications and into the entertainment space, "Ovum said.