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Free DVD to iPod Converter from Aimersoft
DVD to iPod Converter
Though the mp4 technology had come into the market, it wasn't so famous and well known over the world. But with the advent of the iPod the video version of it the format mp4 has become well known. Mp4 is that format which is supported by most of the portable players and also by the well known iPod.
Now users convert their movies into the mp4 format to store and view them on their respective players whenever they want at leisure. Users are often confused as to how to convert these videos for viewing on their iPod's. The process is very simple and easy and one can easily convert them without any hassles.
The Digital Versatile Disk or the DVD, which has the capacity of 4.7GB stores videos in an encoded format, which is the .VOB format. If you open the contents of the DVD you will find two folders –
VIDEO_TS
AUDIO_TS
If one opens the VIDEO_TS folder there will be lots of files, but there will also be files with the extension .VOB, which is the format in which the DVD stores the video. In order to convert the video one has to copy these files onto the hard disk of the computer in any folder. The simple reason for this is that in case the software or the DVD gets hanged while the conversion is going on then there might be a problem, so to be on the safer side one has to copy the DVD video files on the computer.
Then after that the process is as simple as 1,2 and 3. One can open the converter installed on the computer. After the converter has opened then one can drag or import the video files into the software. After the files are imported then one has to select the output option as mp4. Other settings can also be changed such as the frame rate or the bit rate for the audio etc. After the files are converted which would obviously take time one can add it to their iPod. That too can be only done through Apples trademark software iTunes. After opening iTunes one has to add the files and then from the left hand pane, from the movies tab and drag the files on to the iPod, which will also be on the left hand, side pane.
One has to keep on mind that though the task is easy it is a time taking job and consumes up a lot of time, so when the conversion is large ie.movies then one should just add the files and leave it for conversion. A feature film may easily take up 40-50 minutes. The conversion also depends upon the priority of the converter. One has to keep in mind that all other programs must be closed so that the converter can take up most of the memory and convert at a very fast rate.
What is The Best iPod and iPhone Video Converter?
Now, a very versatile converter is one from the table of Aimersoft Studio's, which provides cutting edge technology for trimming, cropping as well as converting video to other formats. This is one of the best Free DVD to iPod Converter i know in the market.
The following is the wide list of the formats supported by Aimersoft's software –
AVI, XviD, WMV, MPEG, MPG, FLV, DAT, RM, RMVB, MOV, ASF, FLV, MP4, M4V, Limewire as well as Youtube video.
The software from Aimersoft converts any of the video formats to any of the above. The software is a freeware and easily available on the Internet and can be downloaded from the link (Click the Image below to get 30 Days Free Trial of iPod Video Converter from Aimersoft):
Free DVD to iPod Converter
After installing the dvd to ipod touch converter software above, the ADD tab has to be clicked and then the files are added to the list of the videos that have to be converted. Once the files have been added, then if one takes a look at the bottom there will be a drop-down menu under the heading of 'Profile', which is actually the output one wants to have. From there the output setting of the video is set. Bang below that will be the setting for the destination, which is the location where the converted file will be saved.
After these settings have been done then one can directly click 'Start' which would start the file conversion. This is the simple three-step method in which not much has been done to start converting dvd video to ipod format.
But in case of a complex dvd to ipod conversion where one has to customize the settings one can do so by setting the different parameters for Audio as well as Video. The settings button has to be clicked to open the settings' window and set the video parameters (such as resolution, frame bite, encoder, and bit rate) or audio parameters (such as sample rate, channel, encoder and bit rate, etc. After this entire setting one can convert easily and view it on their iPod.
There are some other useful tips, which might help you in a better video conversion. Without the help of editing software, some useful functions can be used. The video in question can be cropped from sided to remove the black edges.
Also effects can be added that will enhance the video. Depending on your choice one can set the: brightness, contrast, saturation and adjust the volume etc. You can also choose the effect such as Emboss, Gray, negative, old film, or just no effect.
With the advancement of technology everything is possible which no one had even thought of before. Watching video on such a small screen was never thought of before and now it is in front for everyone to use and avail. Lying down with an iPod in hand and watching everything happening in a small screen is amazing and the best part is you can enjoy any movie that too anywhere, whether you are traveling, lying down, in a flight or even in a bathroom.
But that is only possible if one first converts the video with the help of various software's available on the Internet and Aimersoft's software is one of them. All in one package is a difficult find and Aimersoft's DVD to iPod converter provides it. Copy, add, convert and enjoy.
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You could try Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum which a friend told me. It could help you rip DVD (including protected DVD with CSS) for playback on iPod, iPhone, Zune, iPod, Apple TV, PSP, Smart Phone, etc. with only three steps. Also let you set the movie effects.


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Two women have been shot dead in their car in an Alabama Walmart parking lot by a gunman who rammed his vehicle into theirs then got out, opened fire and eventually killed himself.
Police say when they arrived outside the Walmart store in Tallassee. around 10:15 this morning, they found two cars that had hit each other near the garden center. Officers found 65-year-old Harold Miller lying in the parking lot dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Officers then found the bodies of 58-year-old Tresea Miller and 75-year-old Barbara Buttles inside one of the cars. Police say both of the women were victims of multiple gunshot wounds.
Police say their preliminary investigation shows there was a history of domestic incidents between the family members and are considering the case to be a murder-suicide.
Tallapoosa county court records show Tresea Miller filed a protection from abuse order against her husband, Harold, on Monday.
The order says the couple has been married for 43 years, but says they have a pending divorce. She also claimed in the order that Harold threatened to kill their son, verbally abused her and threatened to set her house on fire.
The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon at a Walmart in Tallassee.
Before opening fire, the gunman rammed his vehicle into it. He killed himself after shooting both women in what police are calling a domestic incident.
Local station, WSFA reports that Miller first rammed his car into the women's vehicle then got out with a weapon.
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Katharina Schneider (* 14. August 1985 in Ingolstadt) ist eine deutsche Tischtennisspielerin.

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Boston, MA: Bigtincan, the mobile, AI-powered sales enablement automation company, today announced the launch of Bigtincan Life Sciences (Bigtincan LS) as part of its Spring Platform update. This announcement was made during Medforce 2018, taking place June 25-26 in Boston, Mass.
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March 2015 to present Florida Atlantic University Living Room Theaters, Boca Raton, FL
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Wiz Khalifa Announces The Decent Exposure Summer Tour
French Montana, Playboi Carti, Moneybagg Yo, Chevy Woods, And Dj Drama To Join
Presale Begins April 23rd
General On Sale Begins April 26th
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Multi-platinum selling, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa announces "The Decent Exposure Tour" today. Wiz made the announcement of the tour
during his set on stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival over the weekend. French Montana, Playboi Carti, Moneybagg Yo, Chevy Woods, and DJ Drama will join as special guests.
Produced by Live Nation, the 29-city outing will kick off on July 9th in Atlanta, GA at the Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood and make stops in Toronto, Chicago, Dallas and more before wrapping August 15th. The tour will see Khalifa and friends playing at outdoor amphitheaters across North America just in time for the summer vibes.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public starting on Friday, April 26th at 10 AM local time at LiveNation.com. Citi is the official presale credit card of The Decent Exposure Tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, April 23rd at 10 AM local time until Thursday, April 25th at 10 PM local time through Citi EntertainmentSM. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com. VIP and artist presale will also begin on Tuesday, April 23rd at 10 AM local time and go through Thursday, April 25th at 10 PM local time. Please visit http://www.wizkhalifa.com for more information.
Wiz dropped his new mixtape, FLY TIMES VOL. 1: THE GOOD FLY YOUNG on Friday. The mixtape features 14 new songs and was produced by Cardo, TM88, and IDLabs among others. Additionally, last Wednesday, Wiz released his 5-part docuseries, "Wiz Khalifa: Behind the Cam," with Apple Music, which gives viewers an exclusive look into his life and career.
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07/09/2019 Atlanta, GA Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood
07/10/2019 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
07/12/2019 Holmdel, NJ PNC Banks Art Center
07/13/2019 Hartford, CT XFINITY Theatre*
07/14/2019 Boston, MA Xfinity Center
07/16/2019 Wantagh, NY Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater.
07/18/2019 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
07/19/2019 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
07/20/2019 Pittsburgh, PA KeyBank Pavilion
07/21/2019 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Amphitheater
07/23/2019 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage
07/25/2019 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
07/26/2019 Indianapolis, IN Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
07/27/2019 Chicago, IL Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*
07/28/2019 Columbus, OH Express Live!*+^
07/30/2019 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
07/31/2019 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Center
08/01/2019 St. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
08/02/2019 Camdenton, MO Ozarks Amphitheater+^
08/03/2019 Dallas, TX Dos Equis Pavilion
08/04/2019 San Antonio, TX Majestic Theatre*+^
08/06/2019 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium*+^
08/07/2019 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
08/09/2019 Irvine, CA FivePoint Amphitheatre+
08/10/2019 San Diego, CA North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
08/11/2019 Concord, CA Concord Pavilion*
08/13/2019 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
08/14/2019 Ridgefield, WA Sunlight Supply Amphitheater
08/15/2019 Boise, ID Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater*.^
* Playboi Carti not on this date
+ French Montana not on this date
. Moneybagg not on this date
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About Wiz Khalifa
Multi-platinum selling, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa burst onto the scene with mainstream success with the release of his first major label debut album, ROLLING PAPERS in 2011. ROLLING PAPERS spawned the hugely successful hits "Black and Yellow," "Roll Up" and "No Sleep" and gave Wiz the platform to win the award for "Best New Artist" at the 2011 BET Awards and "Top New Artist" at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards. As a follow up to ROLLING PAPERS, Wiz Released O.N.I.F.C. This album contained his songs "Work Hard Play Hard" and "Remember You" featuring The Weeknd. His third studio album, BLACC HOLLYWOOD, debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart and featured the hit single "We DemBoyz." Soon after, Wiz's track, "See You Again," off the FURIOUS 7 soundtrack, catapulted to the top of the charts across 95 countries. Holding the #1 spot for 12 consecutive weeks, "See You Again" broke records by being Spotify's most-streamed track in a single day in the United States and in a single week in 26 countries. In addition to winning 3 Teen Choice Awards in 2015, "See You Again" continued its success by winning a Critics' Choice Award in the "Best Song" category, winning two Billboard Music Awards in the categories "Top Hot 100 Song" and "Top Rap Song," earning three Grammy Award nominations in the categories "Song of the Year," "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance" and "Best Song Written for Visual Media," and a Golden Globe nomination in the category "Best Original Song – Motion Picture." Wiz released his album, KHALIFA, in February 2016 as a thank you to fans which includes the tracks "Bake Sale" featuring Travis Scott and "Elevated." In June of the same year, Wiz collaborated with Juicy J to debut TGOD MAFIA PRESENTS: RUDE AWAKENING and TM88 and also embarked on his co-headlining "The High Road Summer Tour" with Snoop Dogg. On April 20th, 2017, Wiz launched his mobile app, Wiz Khalifa's Weed Farm, which has garnered over 10 million downloads and is currently being played in over eight countries and six languages. Later that year, Wiz's mixtape, LAUGH NOW, FLY LATER, was released in November and featured the chart-topping hit, "Letterman." His latest studio album, ROLLING PAPERS 2, which is certified gold, was released in July 2018. It contains his hits "Something New" featuring Ty Dolla $ign and "Hopeless Romantic" featuring Swae Lee. Following the release of ROLLING PAPERS 2, Wiz and rap duo Rae Sremmurd hit the road for their "Dazed and Blazed Tour" throughout summer 2018. Most recently, Wiz just wrapped his "2009" joint tour with Curren$y which kicked off in February 2019 in support of their new mixtape in the same name. These tours are just part of the seven shed summer tours Wiz has headlined.
About French Montana
Some artists blur genres, but French Montana blurs borders. His inimitable fusion of classic East Coast rhymes, wavy pop swagger, and international ambition elevated him to the forefront of the game on a global scale. Earlier this month French dropped a new single entitled "Slide" [feat. BLUEFACE & Lil TJay], off his upcoming album. In the fall of 2018 he released "No Stylist" [feat. Drake], a beat thumping track that was accompanied by a music video featuring cameos from A$AP Rocky, Cam'ron, Dapper Dan, Young Thug, Luka Sabbat and Slick Rick. The hit earned platinum certification from the RIAA and crossed 200 million streams on Spotify.
2017 saw him ascend to superstar status with the smash "UNFORGETTABLE" [feat. Swae Lee]", which cemented him in the "Billion Club" for streaming and earned a quintuple-platinum certification from the RIAA. Meanwhile, his sophomore effort, JUNGLE RULES, went gold and dominated the charts. At the same time, he has left an indelible mark on communities around the globe. In addition to becoming the very first rap ambassador of Global Citizen, he staunchly supported humanitarian efforts, spanning DACA, the viral Mama Hope #UNFORGETTABLE Dance Challenge, which raised over $500,000-plus, and his Pan-African health and education movement into Morocco with Care Morocco. 2018 also saw him become a U.S. Citizen after emigrating to the South Bronx from Morocco at just 13-years-old.
About Playboi Carti
Just a few years after edging into Atlanta's hip-hop underground, Playboi Carti released his highly anticipated debut self-titled debut on April 14, 2017. The tape debuted at #12 on the Billboard 200. His first release for Interscope Records and AWGE, Playboi Carti features "Magnolia" and "wokeuplikethis*"—two chart-busting singles that embody the 22-year-old rapper's deeply experimental but hook-heavy sound. Both tracks featured on the Billboard 100 (Magnolia peaked at #8) and appeared on Spotify's RapCaviar playlist, accolades that affirmed Playboi Carti's position as one of today's biggest breakout hip-hop artists. Playboi Carti has also won recognition within the fashion world, landing features in Vogue, GQ and W Magazine. He played to sold out crowds last summer on his debut headlining world tour, including festival appearances at Rolling Loud, Coachella (alongside Lil Uzi Vert and Gucci Mane,) and the Forbes 30 Under 30 festival where he was selected as the 2017 Music Callout.
Playboi Carti released his first album Die Lit as surprise release on May 11 via AWGE/Interscope Records. Die Lit debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200, and amassed over 60K in consumption units in its first week with over 82.1 million streams, more than double the first week streams of his 2017 self-titled debut. The album garnered a great deal of critical acclaim, earning an 8.5 score and Best New Music nod from Pitchfork, who lauded it as a "57-minute sugar high that's even wilder, more disorienting, and more perversely infectious than its predecessor." SPIN has praised the album for its "broadcast[ing] a refreshing and well-developed aesthetic–one that feels like Carti's specific achievement." Meanwhile, Stereogum has hailed Die Lit as "a strange, exciting, physical record…It bursts with ideas and with personality, and it sets itself immediately apart." A week following the release, Carti made a surprise appearance on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, joining musical guest Nicki Minaj for a performance of "Poke It Out." Nicki Minaj is featured on "Poke It Out," a track included on Die Lit.
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I remember I just stared at her, not knowing how to answer the question. It would be a lie to say that I wasn't upset at all. It was my project, after all. And if I took the warning lightly, I could risk my professional credibility as a project manager. So it wasn't like I was fooling around, either.
But what my team member said had some truth. Despite being upset, I never did show it to everyone. Despite being torn apart by the warning, I kept on managing the project like it was just another day—as if I never screwed up.
The other day, I saw the news about the JT610 plane crash. This wasn't the first time a plane crash had happened, of course, but as I scrolled the feed on my Twitter and Instagram, I had come to realize that more and more people were posting news about the incident.
I found it fascinating, that instead of the cold, monotonous, professional tone of a newscaster voice that dictates how many people died, how the engine failure happened, and what the airline company promised to compensate, there were more and more people commenting about the victims' lives.
Inside that airplane, there were more than 100 people aboard. Some of them were newlyweds. Some of them were expecting to be married. Some of them were going to see their family and friends—only to end up in an unfortunate accident.
The good thing about growing up, I think, is that we become more and more accustomed to failure than we were during our pubescent or childhood. Just hours ago, for example. I was in a small room with 4 others; 2 of whom could literally decide the fate of my professional career.
Yes, I was in a meeting. It's a very laughable situation where I had to present a proposal I've been meticulously preparing for weeks to a member of the board, only to have this person point out every single mistake I've made, even denoting that "I haven't done a thing worth mentioning" in regards to the proposal.
The meeting itself was cut short, as you might have predicted. The end result? A humiliating rejection from the board member, and some dissatisfying remarks I will probably carry with me for the rest of my professional career. This includes unpleasant vocabularies such as "worthless", "mistaken", "unneeded", etc.
I would be lying if I said I didn't feel disappointed. As a matter of fact, I knew I could get a much better outcome than just a plain rejection. I knew for sure that I've already prepared all I could, and even rehearsed the presentation because that's just how paranoid I can be.
There's just something about marriage that excites people. The other day, when Felicia—my friend of 8 years and counting—announced her marriage, I couldn't be happier. I genuinely wanted to congratulate her from the bottom of my heart, because I was truly happy for her.
I have always been fascinated by the idea of being a valedictorian. You know; standing in front of people, delivering a speech that will hopefully change the world—or simply waste a few minutes of people's lives.
The very foundation of using your own words and voice to instill a drop of water in the bucket we call "our generation" is a peculiarly foreign thing to me, and thus, fascinating.
Unfortunately, even though I believe I have the passion to deliver these words, I did not have the qualifications to do so in my graduation ceremony. That day, I sat in the middle row of the great hall with shame and listened halfheartedly to the valedictorian's speech.
I must say, the speech itself felt so fabricated with all those subliminal advertisements of our university it even made me sick. But the person who spoke in front of us seemed like your typical good kid. I even wondered seriously whether this person we call the valedictorian actually enjoyed his campus life.
Don't you find it funny that people drift apart for no reason?
The other day, I accidentally met one of my childhood friends in a shopping mall. The very first thought that came to my mind once our eyes met was, "Crap, now I have to make small talks." And I don't know if my friend realized it, but during that moment, the only thing I wanted was to escape from him, go home, and bury myself under a pillow.
In some occurrences between my slumber and waking, I often get strange visions. You know, the ones strange enough you couldn't help but realize you were still half asleep.
For instance, I once had a strange vision of meeting my younger self right there, inside my room.


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Capcom are laying a common grumble about Monster Hunter: World on PC to rest in a couple weeks, with the release of an optional HD texture pack. While the PC version of the game is the smoothest, nicest-looking way to play the enormous boss rush, eagle-eyed folks noticed that many textures in the PC release were slightly fuzzier up close than their console equivalents. Not a huge difference, but it was still visible. Capcom smoothed out some of this in last October's update for the game, but will soon offer players with extra space and VRAM the option to crank everything up further.
According to Capcom's announcement, the April 4th update will offer the high res textures as free DLC. The system requirements are a GPU with 8GB of VRAM, and "40GB of free space". Whether that means the DLC weighs in at 40GB or if that'll be the final size of the game when it's installed (MH:W is currently 21GB) is unknown. The update will also include a new TAA+FXAA anti-aliasing option and a couple minor quality-of-life improvements, but otherwise sounds like a fairly minor update. I'm curious to see what this does to the game's overall performance, too.
The graphics update will be followed on April 5th by a new event quest – an Arch-tempered version of endgame dragon Xeno'jiiva is on the way. You'll need to be Hunter Rank 50 to take the new quest, and repeatedly blatting the even shinier crystal dragon (now with metallic highlights) will earn you two new sets of top tier armour. Still, this is just a gentle warm-up for the upcoming Iceborne expansion, which looks to be re-introducing G-Rank hunts to the game: New Game Plus styled remixed fights against tougher, faster, meaner versions of old creatures with new attacks.
Frustratingly, there's still no date for the Witcher crossover on PC. It's already out on consoles, and features Geralt, playable, hunting a forest demon from his world plus the option to permanently unlock him and Ciri as full character skins with their own perks and special weapons. The HD texture update launches on April 4th. Arch-tempered Xeno'jiiva lands April 5th and leaves April 18th.
For newcomers enticed by the updated visuals, Dave's guide to Monster Hunter's basics would be a good first stop.


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Firearms Developed and Manufactured in Southern Africa 1949-2000: an outstanding treatise!
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The modern history of southern Africa saw some of the world's most inventive gunmakers in action: today, following almost nine years of research, the Pretoria Arms and Ammunition collectors' Association offers an outstanding essay to those collectors, historians and gun enthusiasts who want to discover more about the firearms industry of South Africa and Rhodesia
The book published by PAAA/PWAV is the ultimate treatise on the firearms engineered and produced in southern Africa
VIDEO / The launch of the book at the Leriba Hotel & Spa in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
The gun industry of South Africa and Rhodesia produced some of the most obscure and yet interesting firearms for collectors and enthusiasts alike
The rich, often controversial and sometimes violent modern history of southern African Countries has been a perfect background for the work of a number of brilliant and gifted gunmakers and companies that went on to engineer and manufacture hunting, sport shooting, defensive and military-grade firearms with whatever little means they could find locally.
Most of those firearms remained obscure to the vast majority of gun enthusiasts in Europe and north America, but nonetheless they left a deep mark in the history of gunmaking and gun technology, and under many points of view they set standards for the global industry.
Gun enthusiasts, discerning collectors, historians, and whoever has an interest in the Rhodesian Bush War, in the South African Border War and in a great, unsung chapter of the history of Africa from the 1960s to the late 1980s now have a new reliable source of detailed information, the fruit of years of work by a team of local experts.
The Pretoria arms and ammunition collectors' association worked on this outstanding essay for eight and a half years
The result is a 540-pages long book, full of previously unreleased informations, and richly illustrated with exclusive pictures
The volume covers the civilian and military-grade firearms engineered and manufactured in South Africa and Rhodesia from the year 1949 and up to the end of the Twentieth Century
Edited by Chas Lotter for the Pretoria Arms and Ammunition Association / Pretoria Wapen en Ammunisie Vereniging (PVAA/PWAV) and authored by twelve different local experts of international fame, Firearms Developed And Manufactured In Southern Africa 1949-2000 (also known by the authors as the DAMISA book) offers a precise and detailed overview of the firearms engineered and produced for hunting, sport shooting, defensive, Police and military purposes in the Republic of South Africa and in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) ever since the end of World War II and up to the end of the 20th Century.
The authors have engaged in eight and a half years of research: they traced and interviewed some of the key figures involved in the development and manufacture of many of the firearms described in the book; they retrieved and digitalized period pictures and documents; and they found and personally inspected samples of many of those firearms – of whose, more often than not, only a few samples survive nowadays.
The book is also enriched by detailed post-scripts about the South African and Rhodesian gun industries
Over 1200 exclusive pictures and scans of period documents illustrate the DAMISA book
Most of the firearms are illustrated under the technical and historic point of view, with detailed tables
The DAMISA book covers some of the most obscure firearms ever developed and manufactured in modern times
In those eight and a half years, the authors collected a library of over thirty thousand documents – some 15.000 of whose being pictures, both professional images and period photographs. Out of those, 1252 were hand-picked, selected carefully among the images of the firearms covered in the treatise to illustrate the 540 A4 pages of this hardback, full-color book.
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The scope of the treatise stops at the year 2000, but the book also covers some later developments
Featured in the DAMISA book are also many rare, if not outright unique, custom realizations
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HomeLatest News & PoliticsDo not involve me in any Arms Deal Scandal – Okonjo Iweala tells Falana
Do not involve me in any Arms Deal Scandal – Okonjo Iweala tells Falana
January 27, 2016 AdeLove Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending...., Uncategorized 6
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Former finance minister has described as malicious the attempt by Femi Falana to involve her in the $2.1 billion arms scam, asserting that she had nothing to do with it.
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In a response to Falana's letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking, among other things, Okonjo-Iweala's prosecution, the former minister, through her media adviser, Paul C. Nwabuikwu, stated that contrary to Falana's lies, she had absolutely nothing to do with the alleged misappropriation of $2.1billion by the office of the former national security adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
She insisted that Falana and his sponsors are simply trying to invent a connection where there is none.
According to her, the January 20, 2015 memo in which she sought and received the approval of former President Goodluck Jonathan for the release of part of the newly returned Abacha loot to the NSA for purchase of arms is totally separate from the $2.1 billion issue.
"The memo, which is now in public domain, speaks for itself. The release of the resources was in response to an approval by the former President following a meeting chaired by him after a committee had considered the request.
"The memo clearly documented Okonjo-Iweala's insistence that the proper procedure be followed, subject to appropriation and according to financial regulations."
Okonjo-Iweala went further to state that the she had advised that the former NSA should account for the funds to the former President since she was not a member of the Security Council, adding that the attempt to link her to the $2.1billion issue is therefore dead on arrival.
Responding to Falana's claim that billions of dollars of Abacha funds were recovered and that Okonjo-Iweala should account for the recovered funds, the former minister said that some of the funds recovery was done under the regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar and the first term of President Olusegun Obasanjo when she was not even in government.
"During the time Dr Okonjo-Iweala was Finance Minister in the second Obasanjo administration, $500m was recovered. As documented by the Field Study conducted by the World Bank with the assistance of national and international NGOs, this amount was properly applied."
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President Muhammadu Buhari has on Thursday directed the Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma, and the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to pay the outstanding Paris and […]
Police murdered my innocent husband, labelled him cultist – Widow cries out
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According to reports, the widow of a taxi driver that was allegedly shot dead by Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Rivers State, Mrs. Gift Ademisoye, has cried out that security operatives killed her husband while he […]
Chief Falae in court testifies against kidnappers, SEE what he said
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Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae was in court Wednesday to testify against seven suspects, who kidnapped him at his farmland in Ilado, Akure North local government area of […]
Darasimi says:
thief dey expose thief
FEMI says:
When I hear the amount of money people stole and are still stealing and will still steal from Nigeria and then look at the country..all I do is just to weep
Jack Daniel says:
When a house is burgled, the security guard on watch is the first man to answer. Madam, Dasuki stole the money under your watch.
U de fear
Queency says:
What if he involves u in then, what will u do, u can't hid ur self
Madam "finance manager", you and Goodluck will go and explain to ICC why you did not ENSURE the former NSA accounted for the funds released to him as Buhari is currently doing; so many Nigerians complained about the situation of things then, including the soldiers, but you and your oga were insensitive to the thousands of Nigerians being slaughtered every day; all you cared about was his re-election campaigns


The Projects Page is where you will find the Crochet Translation Project and my Crochet Bucket List Project.
The Crochet Translation Project is a worldwide initiative. Volunteers submit translations for crochet terms being used in other languages. So far we have received translations for crochet terms in the following languages: Swahili, Finnish, UK, US, Afrikaans, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch and German. I accept translations on an ongoing basis so please feel free to complete as many of the terms you may know in another language using this form here: Translation Submission Project I try to update the translation pages every few months with the new submissions.
If you find an error in any of the translations I'd appreciate if you let me know!
The Crochet Bucket List Project is my own personal project where I crochet other Designer's patterns that have made it on my bucket list. I love to crochet and I enjoy trying new patterns and techniques. You will find an assortment of projects I have crocheted from other patterns located here with links to the original Designer's Patterns (both free and paid). If you have a pattern you think I'd like to crochet as part of this project please let me know!


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Everyone agrees the country needs new farmers. Trouble is, they can't afford land
by Naomi Tomky
09.17.2018, 12:21pm
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Nearly 100 million acres of U.S. farmland will change hands in the next few years, but most of it will go to investors and developers. Now, two online tools aim to help a new generation of farmers find land and demystify the cost of owning it.
Since 2012, Virginia Moore and Rebecca Martello have farmed a tiny plot of land, just 1/16th of an acre, 45 minutes from their home in Bremerton, Washington. That worked out for the first five years, when the couple grew only enough to eat themselves. But this season they sold 10 shares in a 16-week CSA branded as Sun Dog Farm—a small step forward that quickly maxed out their cozy plot. Now, with every available inch already planted, their dream of becoming full-time farmers is on hold.
"We can't expand, can't go into markets, can't serve more people," says Moore. So the pair will continue to work elsewhere—Moore full-time as a mental health clinician, Martello part-time as a dental assistant—until they can find more land. The tiny plot they do have is owned by Martello's parents. But the hunt for acreage of their own has so far been unsuccessful.
Photographed above is a farm in Kittitas, a town in eastern Washington.
America has a farmland problem. It's too hard to find land for sale or lease at reasonable rates, making growth a challenge, especially for new farmers going into business for the first time. Land access is the top challenge young farmers face, says Holly Rippon-Butler, the Land Access Program Director for the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC). The issue isn't just land prices, which have increased by a stunning 1600 percent since they bottomed out during the farm crisis of the 1980s. American farmland is also increasingly consolidated, owned by non-operators who see their holdings as an investment, and would rather rent than sell.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that 30 percent of U.S. farmland is owned by non-operators. But in some heavily agricultural states, that number is even higher. In Iowa, for example, more than half of farmland is farmed by renters. The economics of agriculture change completely—and not for the better—when farmers are working someone else's land.
This gathering crisis is coming to a head as the oldest current generation of farmers prepares to retire. The average age of U.S. farmers is 58, a number that's been on the rise for 30 years. What happens when those farmers retire? It depends, but if a farmer's children decide not to get into the farming business the land is likely to be sold to non-farmers, developers, or corporate landlords who want to profit from agricultural land without farming it themselves. The NYFC estimates that nearly 100 million acres of U.S. farmland will change hands in the next few years, a development that's likely to make affordable land even scarcer.
Sun Dog Farms
Virginia Moore and Rebecca Martello are just two of many young farmers who are struggling to find and secure funding for farmland
"Pressure to develop is really high," says Moore. "People are buying their first home, their second home, and they and the developers are all willing to pay in cash."
That's why advocacy groups, land trusts, and other non-profit organizations are looking for ways to ensure that land continues to be working farmland, passed down to the next generation of farmers. Some hope that new online tools can make the process of finding and financing farmland easier, and two solutions, specifically, could provide models for the future. The first acts like an online matchmaker, connecting people selling land with the farmers who need it. The second helps to demystify the confusing economic prospect of acquiring farmland in the first place.
Finding farmland
In their search for land, Moore and Martello have a list of non-negotiables. "We need to live on our property," Moore says. They also need an irrigation system, and they have a specific acreage in mind (though when they started they hoped for 15-20 acres, the pair have settled on about five as a goal). Finally, they need to be close enough to a decent-sized community to be able to deliver promptly. They scour online listings, tour farms, and even find the names of people who own empty plots and write them letters inquiring about the possibility of a sale. They don't consider themselves picky—unless, says Moore, "you count needing potable water as picky."
So far, they've found nothing that fits their specific criteria. But at least now they have a little help—from the PCC Farmland Trust's Farm to Farmer tool.
PCC Farmland Trust, which works to conserve land for farming in the Northwest, sees over and over new farmers who are looking to buy land. But the non-profit conservation organization has another angle on the issue, too: It also hears from farmers looking to sell. "We know that more than two-thirds of owners are close to retiring, want to pass land on to future farmers, and haven't chosen a successor," says Megan Jenny, the Trust's community engagement manager. "But not all of them are people we can work with through conservation programming."
Saving just a handful of farms from development across two counties could make a difference in the region.
For years, the Trust looked for ways to preserve the farmland that their usual methods, like conservation easements, didn't work for, while also helping young farmers start their businesses. Ultimately, land-matching just made sense as a solution, fitting into their existing in-house strengths and programs. A feasibility study showed that a matchmaking tool was not only broadly necessary, but that it was much needed in both Pierce County (the original target) and neighboring King.
"Historically, land transfers worked through word of mouth and family," says Jenny, but both are happening less now. New farmers like Moore and Martello are finding their careers on their own, rather than because it's what their parents did, so they need to build their businesses from the ground up, starting with acquisition of land. PCC Farmland Trust realized that this was where it could help: connecting land owners and land seekers. "That was a lightbulb for us," says Jenny. "It was a barrier to land access that we could help with."
The tool, launched in June at farmtofarmer.org, works something like an online matchmaker. Though PCC Farmland Trust's program is fairly new, it looks to older programs as examples, including the Maine Farmland Trust's FarmLink, which currently lists 75 farms and 26 farm seekers and has made 190 matches through the years. Farm to Farmers's land seekers can say whether they're looking to lease or buy, how many acres they want (minimum and maximum), and filter by keyword, organic status, and housing availability. Land owners can search for a farmer by the same categories of buy/lease and preferred acreage, but also by years and type of experience, type of business, and whether or not they're currently farming.
"The underlying issue is that we don't value farmland in this country."
So far, the platform's user base is tiny—the digital equivalent of Sun Dog Farm's 1/16th-acre plot. Two months after launch, there were four land owners and more than twice as many land seekers listed, disproportionate representation that hints at greater issues in land access around the country. But PCC Farmland Trust believes that its process has true promise. Farm to Farmer isn't just a passive listing system. It involves a coordinator who personally reaches out to each participant in the tool and will incorporate landowner outreach in the farming offseason. It also partners with local conservation districts, who talk to landowners daily, and the coordinator works directly with people to ensure that the online tool can still be leveraged by less tech-savvy folks. Saving just a handful of farms from development across two counties could make a difference in the region.
Demystifying the true cost of farmland
To even get to the point where they could put an ad on Farm to Farmer, Martello and Moore had to figure out what they really needed: how much protected area they could afford to have on their land, what they could do with 15 acres or with 40. That complicated financial calculation isn't for the faint of heart. Though the search for land has been a major challenge in its own right, Moore says, "understanding the financing has been equally intricate."
Enter NYFC's Finding Farmland Calculator. The tool lets farmers build up to three different scenarios, starting with the price and size of the farm, then manipulate different financing systems and options to add to the price of the farm. It's not entirely different from the kind of mortgage payment calculator you might find for homebuyers, except that it is specialized to the options available to farmers, including USDA Farm Service Agency loans and conservation easements.
The traditional system of passing down farmland from family to family has all but disappeared, but the fact is it was problematic to begin with
"We hope to give farmers a head start," says Rippon-Butler of why NYFC chose to launch the program. "We understand the big challenge when it comes to understanding costs." In some cases, farmers might approach a bank and the it may not even know what a conservations easement is. "The bank is ultimately trying to sell a product," Rippon-Butler says of how the calculator differs from the help farmers might get elsewhere. "But this helps farmers get information lined up before or as part of a loan."
The tool, she admits, isn't necessarily a solution, but addresses some of the challenges new farmers have with land access—showing how loan interest can double the cost of a property over time. "The underlying issue is that we don't value farmland in this country," says Rippon-Butler, and that makes it tough for farmers to compete or even to get money in time to be a player. The tool lets farmers play around with various scenarios to figure out how they could potentially succeed.
Like the Farm to Farmer tool, the Finding Farmland Calculator helps young farmers navigate an industry that was never set up to transfer land to them. The traditional system—passing farmland down from family to family—has all but disappeared. But the fact is, points out Rippon-Butler, that system was problematic to begin with. "Land has been much more available to white people, much less available and secure for farmers of color."
The economics of agriculture change completely—and not for the better—when farmers are working someone else's land.
In the Hudson Valley, Rippon-Butler and her colleagues see a lot of people who are looking for second homes—people who earned money in urban areas, and now want to find land in rural places, squeezing out the folks who try to make a living in those places. But the problem runs deeper than the money moving in. Because of the way tax law is written, farmers are incentivized to hold onto land until they die. One of NYFC's goals is to see to see a waiver of capital gains taxes for sales to incoming farmers, which could encourage the practice of passing land to a new generation who want to farm it.
In order to address the issue of land access for young farmers on a national scale, online tools like Farm to Farmer and Finding Farmland Calculator can't work alone. They need to go hand in hand with other means of breaking down barriers. For example, NYFC recently worked on an initiative in Minnesota that gave incentives to established farmers who sold land and equipment to newer, young farmers. Other approaches include stewardship and conservation easements. But the challenges are stark. Solving the land access issue will require looking at a broad spectrum of factors—from the ways student loans and debt management affect farm finances to the history of displacements that has made land access unequal to farmers of different backgrounds.
In the meantime, the tools bring hope and help to farmers looking to speed up the long process of finding their own land. "We're so satisfied with the work we do," says Moore. "It brings us a lot of joy."
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Blurb Alexander Hamilton, the worldly New Yorker; John Adams, the curmudgeonly Yankee; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary Virginia squire--each steered their public lives under the guideposts and constraints of Enlightenment principles, and for each their relationship to the politics of Enlightenment was transformed by the struggle for American independence. Repeated humiliation on America's battlefields banished Hamilton's youthful idealism, leaving him a fervent disciple of enlightened realpolitik and the nation's leading exponent of modern statecraft. After ten years in Europe's diplomatic trenches, Adams's embrace of the politics of Enlightenment became increasingly that of the gadfly of his country. And Jefferson's frustrations as a reformer and then Revolutionary governor in Virginia led him to go beyond his previous enlightened worldview and articulate a new and radical Romantic politics of principle. Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson is a marvelous reminder that the world of ideas is inextricably bound up in the long trajectory of historical events.
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I believe Smart Cities are products of both nature and nurture, just like smart people.
Think back to smart people you know. Some people just seem to be blessed from birth with more gray matter, a quicker mind, and better memory retention than the rest of us.
But superior natural gifts are wasted when lacking guidance, discipline, and a purpose that shapes their intellectual horsepower towards some greater purpose.
Likewise, smart cities. Some places are blessed with good weather, crucial natural resources like water, and a topography that accommodates being settled and built upon.
Austin is one of these places.
It has good weather throughout the year and is situated in a location that avoids most of the major forces of natural disaster, like hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, snowstorms, and the like.
The Colorado river, that runs through Austin, is an abundant source of fresh water supplying the city. Its future was further ensured with construction of the highland lakes system of dams and lakes, built in the early part of the 20th century and managed by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA).
And, the Austin topography has accommodated plenty of land settlement and construction for decades, with plenty of trees, natural streams and lakes, and malleable soil.
But, all of these natural advantages that Austin possesses would be for naught without the nurture of leadership, a vision for the future, and the community planning to get there.
In its recent history, I've observed Austin traversing at least three major cycles of this vision-planning activity, with each carrying the city forward to the next, higher place on the global stage. It seems like these cycles come roughly once every 15 years.
They say that a generation is approximately 30 years. So, perhaps the city vision-planning cycle hits every generation in its prime, at least twice: once to inaugurate the new generation, and a second time, to let that generation orient the new one coming after it.
The first cycle of Austin's smart city future to my memory was in the mid- to late-1980s. Austin was in the depth of a land speculation recession, which out a damper on much of the traditional economy.
But, it was also the big winner in a national contest to locate a major federal technology initiative, called the Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corporation, or MCC for short. MCC became one of the anchors of a new, digital sector for Austin, which became referred to as the "technopolis" by the IC2 research group at the University of Texas-Austin.
As MCC's mission evolved and people came and went, Austin began to benefit by having new tech-oriented companies surface in software, hardware, communications, semiconductors, and services. By early 2000, as the dot-com era had firmly taken hold, it was time for a new burst of vision-planning.
Organically, the new, colorful generation of dot-com founders claimed a role in this vision-planning through ventures like the series of 360 Summits that brought together diverse groups of business, academic, political, and civic leaders to engage in deep discussions about Austin's future.
Initiatives like Charitech, the IDEA Network, and the Entrepreneur's Foundation were formed during this period, to provide on-going vehicles for business-civic action.
The early 2000s were also the time when a broad, community-wide effort, called Envision-Central Texas, was launched to chart a vision and plan for all stakeholders.
I vividly remember participating in one of several planning sessions to which Austin citizens, young and old, were openly invited to participate in an active, hands-on design session. It was incredibly exciting, energizing, and bonding for everyone. It made you feel like you were having a direct hand in planning the future of your city.
Of all of the outcomes of Envision, the one that had the greatest impact on the next 15 years of Austin growth was the much greater emphasis on denser development in key clusters of residential, commercial, and retail real estate activity. This included downtown Austin, the Domain, and the Mueller-Airport development.
Now, 15 years later, Austin is coming off of another burst of smart city planning, let by the Imagine Austin comprehensive planning process, charting a vision for the city for the next twenty years.
The city's participation in the "Beyond Traffic" Smart City Challenge is directly aligned with the Imagine Austin plan. The goal is to build a fully integrated, first-of-its-kind transportation network that uses data, technology, and creativity to shape how people and goods move in the future.
It is aspirational visions like this, providing a purpose that we can all share, that drive the creation of great cities. Austin is one. Nature and nurture created it. Other smart cities (just like smart people) are created and sustained in the same way.
Steve Guengerich is a life-long entrepreneur and award-winning author, whose newest book, Naturally Caffeinated: Addicted to Entrepreneurship, is available at bit.ly/ncthebook. He is the Managing Director of BroadBrush Ventures LLC, a Principal with Powershift Group, and an Adjunct Professor at St. Edward's University.
Among his many community roles, Steve has served as a member of the Austin Museum of Arts, Austin Social Venture Partners, and Capital Area Workforce Development boards of directors, CEO of Easter Seals of Central Texas, and founder & chairman of Knowbility.


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Olden Yolk return with their latest cut of pastel psych with the video for "Cotton & Cane" from their upcoming sophomore full-length, Living Theatre out on May 17th via Trouble In Mind. The songwriting pair of Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer construct matrices of cinematic rhythms and unglued chord changes to unpack their transition from NYC to sunny Los Angeles. The video was directed by Butler and Shaffer with additional support from P. Nick Curran, Coco Segaller, and Frank Maston.
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125 years ago today - Wednesday, Sept. 28th, 1892
[Abraham H. Cannon]
I then went to Pro. Merrill's room where he gave me the marriage service to study so that I could perform the same, it being to officiate in the case of Amelia and her husband that I came to Logan. After having dinner I went to the sealing room and sealed for time and eternity, fourteen couples in addition to Wm. H. Chamberlain, Jr., and my sister Amelia. In their case I laid my hands upon their heads, as Father had suggested I should do, but in the case of the others I merely repeated the ceremony. It is as follows: The hands are clasped ... The parties then kiss each other, which ends the ceremony. When all the sealing was done Bro[ther] Merrill said I had done the best of any person who had sealed in the Temple for the first time. It was about 2:30 o'clock when I left the Temple.
[Source: Abraham H. Cannon diary, Sept. 28, 1892 , Perry Special Collections]
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Thread: The Peking Duck is officially closed .
Before I go I'd like to call attention to a few of my favorite posts. On the left-hand sidebar on this page you'll see the category "The Emperor's Jewels," a list of what I considered my best posts — this old-timer remains my favorite — but there are many others I could include. There is this post, which offers the wildest comment thread in the blog's history. The post in which I expressed my greatest frustration with living in China was probably this one (which is also pretty funny). One post especially close to my heart is this one, which I wrote after learning that a friend of mine took his own life; people who knew him came here to share their memories of him and I found it incredibly touching. I also posted about the death of my closest friend from college, which also generated some moving comments. Another of my funnier posts is here, about a blind date I had in Singapore. (It's funny now; it wasn't funny in 2003.) Back in 2011 I had a feud with a China apologist named Shaun Rein; these posts, some of which were quite amusing, can be found here, and they inspired some of my best comment threads.


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