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AmeriCymru is the largest social network for anyone interested in or connected to Wales and one of the largest Welsh sites on the internet and includes the AmeriCymru blog, our online magazine, featuring news, interviews and articles about Wales and the Welsh, including author Niall Griffiths, composer Karl Jenkins, book reviews, the Welsh History calendar and much more. We also present the West Coast Eisteddfod, very successfully for 2011 in partnership with A Raven Above Press in Los Angeles, and proudly publicize the North American Festival of Wales.
The AmeriCymru social network and the AmeriCymru blog offer several channels for advertising and we're willing to work with you to find the advertising solution that works for your budget. If one of the ad spots below doesn't quite meet your needs, contact us and let's work out something that will.
Advertising New Deal on Ameriymru! Book Your Christmas Ad Now...Only $25!
This year for the first time we will be offering spots on our new 'Buy Welsh For Christmas' page at only $25 for three months. The page will be linked from all pages on the site and prominently linked from near the top of the home page. Your listing can include images, text and a link and we'll be promoting the heck out of "Buy Welsh For Christmas!" all the way through Christmas. Email americymru@gmail.com to reserve your spot now!
Home Page rotating banner - $30 for 6 months
These ads appear on the home page of the social network with a link to your site and are 476 pixels by 80 pixels, in a rotating banner spot.
Right column - $50 for 6 months
These ads appear on the entire 15,000+ pages of the social network and the AmeriCymru blog, with a link to your site, provide 15,000 opportunities for your ad to be seen by viewers and clicked on. These ads are 125 pixels by 125 pixels and there are currently only 5 spots available.
Full page ads - $50 for 6 months
These are full-page ads on the AmeriCymru social network and can be designed however the advertiser wishes, as long as the design and elements are compatible with the ning.com platform. Ads can include slideshows, video, audio, an advertiser's catalog, even an embedded web store. The pages will be listed on a directory splash page on the social network and rotating graphic buttons from the home page of the social network. Advertisers may create their own page design and provide us with the code or request that we design their page for an additional fee. Pages we design will also include SEO services, full on-line promotion and marketing. If you choose to design it yourself, code must be compatible with the NING platform, content must be optimized for quick page load time and please be aware that we will very probably not accept code generated by website template design packages. as they are frequently not compatible with our platform and not optimized. Some promotion, all updates and maintenance ARE a part of the $50.00 package.
Targeted page ads - $25 for a full year
Targeted page ads are banner ads available on specific pages, such as a relevant group page, of the advertiser's choice. An example might a genealogist's ad on the genealogy group page or an ad for Welsh language tutoring on the Welsh language group page.
Why Advertise with AmeriCymru?
AmeriCymru is the best place on line to find the international Welsh diaspora. People all over the world view our pages, read our articles.
Last but not least, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your money will go to support activities and events which are designed to promote Wales and Welsh culture. AmeriCymru is NOT a commercial venture but exists to promote and support the Welsh American community Welsh culture.
The Boring Stuff: Advertising Terms and Conditions
1. AmeriCymru (AmeriCymru herein shall mean Ceri Shaw and Gaabriel Becket) may redesign its sites at its sole discretion at any time. If any redesign materially and adversely affects the placement of one or more advertisements, or if AmeriCymru is otherwise unable to display such advertisements, we'll work with the advertiser to display the affected advertisements elsewhere in comparable areas of the AmeriCymru site.
2. Advertising spots are solely for the use of the advertiser and may not be resold or used by any third party.
3. AmeriCymru will be entitled to reject or discontinue advertisements at any time.In thr event of discontinuation refunds will be prorated.
4. Advertiser shall bear full responsibility for all products or services offered, sold, or licensed through the advertisements or the Advertiser's website. Advertiser will collect and pay all taxes related to the sale or licensing of such products or services.
5. License and Warranties. Advertiser hereby grants AmeriCymru the right to market, display, reproduce (including compression and temporary storage), distribute, perform, transmit and promote the advertisements together with any content or materials on any interactive site linked to the advertisements through the americymru.net and/or americymru.blogspot.com websites. Advertiser certifies that it has all necessary rights and permissions to offer, sell and/or license such products and services through the advertisements and the Advertiser's website, and that the advertisements and the Advertiser's website do not and will not violate any applicable laws or regulations or any third-party rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights), or contain any libelous or defamatory materials.
6. Limitation of Liability; Disclaimer; Indemnification. Damages under this agreement shall be limited to direct damages. AmeriCymru does not make and specifically disclaims any representations or warranties, express or implied, and under no circumstances will AmeriCymru's aggregate liability hereunder or in connection herewith (including, without limitation, in respect of the indemnity below) exceed the advertising fees actually paid by Advertiser to AmeriCymru hereunder, and (C) each party (indemnifying party) hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the other party and the officers, directors, agents, affiliates, distributors, franchises and employees of the other party from and against all claims, actions, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages and costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys fees) that may at any time be incurred by any of them by reason of any claims, suits or proceedings arising out of any material breach by indemnifying party of any duty, representation or warranty under these Terms and Condition. Related Limitations and Covenants.
7. AmeriCymru shall not have any liability whatsoever by reason of error for which it may be responsible in any advertisement beyond liability to give the advertiser or advertising agency credit for so much of the space occupied by the advertisement as is materially affected by the error; and its obligation to give such credit shall not apply unless it is notified of the inaccuracy within 48 hours following the posting error.
8. AmeriCymru does not guarantee any given level of circulation, distribution, reach or readership for any advertisement.
9. The advertiser and advertising agency jointly and severally assume liability for all content (including text representation, illustrations, updates and links to other internet content) of advertisements published and also assumes responsibility for any claims arising therefrom made against AmeriCymru or its affiliates, including all costs associated with defending any such claim.
9. Advertiser shall not send unsolicited, commercial email or other online communications (e.g.,spam) through or into americymru.net and/or americymru.blogspot.com and Advertiser shall ensure that its collection, use and disclosure of information obtained from AmeriCymru users under this agreement complies with all applicable laws, regulations and privacy policies.
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Welsh Choir in New York and a chance to be interviewed and seen on TV back in Wales.
By David Thomas Jones, 2011-08-21
The Fron Male Voice Choir will be in New York from August 22nd until August 29th. They will be giving two free concerts in the city. The first at 12:30pm Tuesday 23rd August at St. Bart's Church, located at the corner of Park Avenue and 51st Street. The second concert is on Wednesday 24th August at 1:30pm at St Patrick's Cathedral, 460 Madison Avenue.
The choir is being followed by two film crews one from ITV Wales who are producing a 30min documentary for UK National TV and one from S4C who are producing a 60 min documentary for the Welsh language TV station back in Wales.
Any member of AmeriCymru who is planning on going to either of the concerts or even meeting the choir (We are staying at the Wolcott Hotel) can you make yourself known to David Thomas Jones, and you could end up on TV back in Wales. S4C are interesting in interviewing anyone in America who is using social media to keep in contact with Wales.
The Fron Male Voice Choir (Wales) hails from the beautiful village of Froncysyllte home of Thomas Telford's famous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. The area has recently been awarded World Heritage status.
The choir was formed in 1946 to compete in the local Llangollen International Eisteddfod but have achieved International success on the competition stage by winning 1st prizes at a numerous choral competitions in the UK and the National and International Eisteddfod in Wales. In Europe they have been awarded 1st prizes in choral competitions in Greece, Malta and Germany.
In 2006 they were signed by the Universal/Decca label and have released 4 albums under the theme of Voices of the Valley. They have sold over one million albums and their CDs are sold in over 30 countries. They can be heard to sing Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau on Universal's recently released official Rugby World Cup album.
The choir will be joined by the Irish soprano Margaret Keys who is also signed to Universal and has appeared in concert halls as far a field as Australia, the UK Ireland and the USA. The choir will be conducted by Leigh Mason. Both concerts are free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken.
Their 5th album will be released in the UK on the Decca label on October 3rd 2011, it will be available for download from Amazon and iTunes.
We were fond of 'Ladybird' books in our house, forty and more years ago. We've still got most of them, too. Peter, Emma and I are obssessive-compulsivewith books but Kate, more into the 'Good Stable Management Guide' type of thing, is ruthless. Once read, it'sstraight out-the-door-the-book's- gotta-go.
Shetellsme she'sread only three books she can rememeber in any detail. The one about mucking out the stables, 'Lucy Walter' and 'Salt Blue'.
'But you read "Colette" for 'O' levels', Iprotested. 'Her mother stood on the back step at night, when she'd not seen the children all day, wailing, "Where are the children, where are the children".
Colettehad acupof hotchocolate and dipped a pain aux raisininto itevery morning'.
(I remember thatclearly because Kate refused anything but a cup ofcoffee made with milk and two chocolate biscuits before school, when therest of us had fried egg and fried bread every day for twentyyears or so. (Nothing unhealthy about that inthose days. I still like it).
'No Mum', she said. 'That was Emma's book. Mine was Laurie Lee.'
'But Emma read that, too', I protested.
And I read what the girls read, becausesome of the books were new to me butalso, if I was askeda question,I could answer it fairly quickly. (Peter's replies went into too much detail, so he was by-passed).
Kate studied art, so she didn't read so many novels, but Emma specialised in'Welsh Studies'and the literature of Wales. (Ed Thomas's 'House of America' was new to me and I liked it) and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender is the Night' and 'The Great Gatsby' were wonderful.
But, I will let all that go for now,because I am thinking of myholiday, and no, I'm not taking books. I want to be free of the written word as much as possible, apart from asmall pocketFrench Dictionary.
Verily,I havepacked, but should some essential item have been overlooked, there is the deux-euro shop we have discovered. Yes, the Croisette has some of the best shopping in the world but, should you be caught in a heavy shower why, for 2 or so, you can be covered in a plastic poncho.
The deux-euro boutiquesmells of plastic. Plastic circles withpegs attached dangle about the place. Plastic doilies, plastic tablecloths,plastic hair-rollers, nylon hairpieces, plastic bin-bags abound but, after a walk around the designer shops, curiously, this comes as a delighful surprise, though I'm not planning on giving anyone a clothesline as a present or a sponge mop for washing the windows.
Bluebell Bunny? I nearly forgot her. She went on holiday and got blown out to sea clutching her brolly. It could just happen to us.
443 visits to http://crwtynrhifnaw.blogspot.com yesterday, not bad! I have now added a selection of Welsh language books for sale through 'Amazon,' also on http://patrimoinebreton.blogspot.com ; http://taffawrnantmorlais.blogspot.com & http://miscellaneous-bynbrynman.blogspot.co
It is now possible for group creators on the site to choose the individual language for particular groups on the "Edit Group" page, and all parts of the group's interface will appear in that language. When participating in a group with its language set to French, for example, phrases like "Started by" or action links like "Favorite" will be translated to "Cr par" and "Favori." Even better: All email notifications received from participating in the group will be in French, too.
The portions of the user interface that are part of AmeriCymru as a whole the footer, tabs, the right column will remain untouched in the network's default language.Member-generated content won't change either, remaining in whatever language it was posted in.
As an example we have set the group language for our Welsh In South America group to Espanol ( Latin America ) See screenshot below ( click to enlarge ) or visit the group here:-
Group Creators are responsible for their groups, and they often carefully review new posts . Of course, it could be confusing to try to manage a group if the management tools are in another language.Not everyone might know, for example, that "Supprimer" is the button to click to delete a French group.
To maintain a great and consistent experience, group creators will see all groups in the native network language. Additionally,they will see an informational banner at the top of the group telling them what language the group is using, and allowing them to see the group in the custom language, if they wish.
Group creators and admins can click "View sample" to see the group in the custom language if they want to check out how the group appears to its members. A group's language can be changed at any time from the group's Options tab, where all editing of groups is normally done.
Of course what we really need now is a Welsh language file. Any ideas?
Meantime if any of our members wanted to set up groups in European or other languages for didactic purposes etc, this is now possible.
We'd love your feedback on this new project. We hope this feature will lay the groundwork to eventually providing a language setting at the member level, giving an even better experience for all our members. Diolch!
Llanelli House was built in 1714 by Thomas Stepney, MP for Carmarthenshire. Occupyinga central position, opposite the parish church and close to the library, it is a vast town house.
John Wesleywas a guest here on one of his journeys through Wales spreading the gospels.
For many years the houselanguished in a state of decay but, in1998, local personalities decided something should be done about it.
By a stroke of good fortune, Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen, interiors guru and connoisseur of old buildings, presented a programme about Llanelli House, giving it tremendous publicity.
This led to 3.4 million of Lottery Heritage Funding.
The house is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who killed herself after being falsely accused of a liaison with the married butler.
This week the internet has been full of spoof pictures of the 'ghost'.
Apparently, the genuineapparition was last seen in the sixties by two young girls, one of whom's mother was a cleaner there.
My next news item today concerns the skua birds I mentioned last week.
Not them, actually, but only in as much as the Great Skua originates in the Faroes and the knitters there are experiencing a boom. This is to do with a television seriescalled 'The Killing', first shown in Denmark in 2007.Sarah Lund, detective, has turned a knitted woolly into a fashion item, a jumper sprinkledwith snowflakes.
Thousands of these garments have been sold, knitted from Faroese wool treated with lanolin.
At 240 each, they sound like heirlooms to meand buyers await them eagerly. Thirty Faroese women knit in their island homesand the really quick ones can finisha jumper in a day.
In the 1900's it was the custom for boys from the age of fourteen and men to spend six months at sea, clad in thesejumpers.
Ican't wear wool, it's too itchy for me, though it looks lovely.
The Llanelli Railway Strike of 1911 began on Thursday, 17th August.
It took place against a background of great social unrest. The immediate causes of the strike were the low wages received by railway workers. At 1 a week they were about twenty per cent lower than the average manual wage.
Things came to a head onSaturday, 19 August, when the train to Fishguardwas stoppedby strikers.Boats sailed from Fishguard toIreland, wherethere were the 'troubles'and politicians becameuneasy.
Eighty soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment were sent toprotect the train and the Riot Act was read. The protesters were given sixty seconds (an insufficient time) to disperse, before shots were fired.
John 'Jac' John, twenty one,was sitting on his garden wallwhen he was shot dead. Leonard Worsell, twenty, in Llanelli recovering from TB, was also shot dead
Violence erupted when the crowd heard what had happened.Later, an explosion at the station resulted in the death of four more rioters.
The riotingcame to an end whenan agreementwas reached with the Great Western Railway Company afterthe workers threatened wider action.
On the following Monday, Harold Spiers, twenty two, a deserting soldier, was arrested in New Radnor. He had been put under arrest forrefusing to shoot a man sitting on a wall, but escaped. Spiers was due for court martial but there was a public outcry and he became a national hero.
A verse was added to 'Sospan Fach' in 1911 about 'Dai Bach y Soldiwr' and it is believed to be based on Spiers.
Thirty thousand people lined the streets of the town for the funerals of John John and Leonard Worsell.
Llanelli became a labour stronghold and Tom Mann and Ben Tillett addressed rallies and mass demonstrations in the town in the weeks ahead.
One-time Discounted Duesfor the Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Associationfor New Members in Missouri!(limited number--ACT NOW!)Are you a member of the Welsh National Gymanfa Association?If so, then you may have read in the summer newsletter, HWYL, that there will be a discussion about a possible dues increase at the Annual General Meeting, which will be held during the North American Festival of Wales this Labor Day Weekend in Cleveland.This is the perfect time to make a gift of WNGGA membership to children and grandchildren--what better way to keep the spirit of the Dragon alive for future generations?If you are not already a member of the WNGGA, this is the best time to join.Why? An anonymous donor has offered matching money for every NEW annual membership form received by August 31, 2011! That means, you can buy a membership in the WNGGA--for yourself or as a gift (as many as you like) for only $5 each and the donor will pay the remaining $5!You will likely never see an offer like this again, but you must act now. This offer is only good on the first 10 NEW memberships received by August 31. To qualify, the new member must reside in Missouri. Offer does not apply to renewals.Visit www.wngga.org to find out about the WNGGA and to print the membership form. Mail completed form and $5 payment to: Mona Everett, WNGGA Publicity Chair, 1314 Woodvale Drive, Madison, WI 53716. Be sure to include your phone number and email address. If your request arrives after the first 10 have been received, we will contact you and you will have the option of a refund or sending in the extra $5. If you prefer to send the entire $10 payment, that will mean someone else will have a chance at the discount.If you have any questions, or wish to pay by PayPal, email publicity@wngga.org. (NOTE: That is NOT the PayPal address!)Thank you to our anonymous donor!
Last sunday before heading for the granite saints I wrote that I was setting out on my 'treck' which seemed logical, but it was bugging me after I'd written it because in the back of my mind I knew there was no c, the reason being that although it's used in English it's really a South African Dutch word, which brought me to this: a week ago in the Daily Mail Roger Lewis an author from Caerffili wrote a review of Jasper Rees's new book 'Bred of Heaven'; besides generally denigrationing his country of birth in a way that only the Welsh can do, he picked up on Welsh borrowings of English words, now we know that Welsh is a very old culture having shared their country with the Romans and spoken latin as a living tongue, English history & culture begins with the pagan Anglo-Saxons. For some reason deracinated Welsh such as Mr Lewis grow up not only to hate the country they left behind but try to prove their superiority by climbing to the pinnacle of the country that educated them and berated their perceived inferiority, we have exaggerated examples in the Corsican Napoleon, the Austrian Hitler, the Georgian Stalin & the Breton Le Pen. The world revolves around their adopted home, everything is seen from its perspective. Taking England as their base and looking at things from its standpoint it must seem strange to hear English borrowed words in Welsh, but if one takes Latin, French or German as one's starting point one wouldn't notice borrowed words in Welsh their being infinitesimal, but one would notice the thousands upon thousands of borrowed words in English without which the language wouldn't exist; Welsh can stand on its own as a language, English cannot. The Welsh didn't miss out on the classical world and built Britain's first university in Llanilltud Fawr before having the misfortune of having the English moving in next door raping & pillaging, destroying civilisation; the English having missed out grafted it on later at their own universities of Oxford & Cambridge creating their own lie, the great pretenders camouflaging the past by writing their own history linking Greece, Rome & England. If the truth were told Roger Lewis & people like him turn the world on its head.
P.S. in some cases modern 'English' words like 'car'are Welsh in origin, whilst there are latin words in English that have been in use in Cymru/Wales since before England was conceived.
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