Last week the great, the good, the bad and the ugly gathered at the BBC theatre in Cardiff to record a St David's day music extravaganza.
The biggest names in Welsh traditional and folk music were pressed into submission as supporting acts for the (relatively) new phenomenon that is now known to the world at large as "Calan".
All manner of living things flocked to the venue. But do not dispair if you could not be part of the lucky few.
This not-to-be-missed concert will be transmitted on Saturday 1 March as part of the "Celtic Heartbeat" programme at 7.25 pm on BBC Wales. Those unfortunate enough not to live on the better side of Offa's dyke will probably need to resort to the internet to listen.
Go on, give your ears a treat... You cannot afford to miss this gala performance.
Oh and by the way... Calan... that's Chris's band.
I came across this article yesterday and was suddenly unsure as to the date - I could've sworn it was 14th February and not 1st April.
I still can't figure out whether it's for real or just a load of pants.
I have volunteered to arrange a Knees Up. Any suggestions? Where? When? Who? Why? All very deep questions, but can I trust you to come up with the answers!
No comment required -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7200531.stm
In the interests of balance, you may wish to peruse the following web site. It may not answer all your questions, but it will give you some further 'FOOD FOR THOUGHT' ........ Happy Christmas to you all, and don't have nightmares. www.debunking911.com/WTC7.htm
The official FEMA report into the collapse of WTC 7 states "The performance of WTC 7 is of significant interest because it appears the collapse was due primarily to fire, rather than any impact damage from the collapsing towers".
These are the fires that according to the official report were the cause of WTC 7's collapse. Hot enough to bring down a 47 storey building, eh? The report is right about one thing, though - someone is clearly cooking something!
The person speaking is Larry Silverstein, owner of the World Trade Centre on 9/11. The expression 'pull' is a demolition industry term meaning controlled demolition by the use of pre-positioned explosive charges to destroy structures. So I agree - WTC 7 was indeed deliberately demolished. The question is, by whom? The fire service deny responsibility and nobody else has been identified as the person(s) responsible. Most importantly, when were the charges placed? Controlled demolitions of buildings in cities are designed to implode the structures, making them sink into their footprints and fold in on themselves into a small consolidated rubble piles and this is precisiely what happened to Building 7. Demolition experts agree operations of this nature require a huge degree of precision and take weesk to plan and execute, not just a couple of hours. If Building 7 was on fire, surely that's not a good place for a demolition expert to be walking about carrying demolition charges? So could the charges already have been in place before 9/11 - if so, lots of issues are raised about the events of that whole day. P.S. Silverstein now denies Building 7 was deliberately demolished.
Open family challenge!....Better this for a Pork Pie and a Pint???
This is NBC's footage of the same event......................
..........believe it now?
Anchorman asked for more. This newsreel footage of the collapse of Building 7 was broadcast by CBS on 9/11. It hasn’t been shown again since by CBS or any other network. An oddly peculiar omission. Why would major US news broadcasters choose not to air this footage and by so doing actually diminish the impact of the atrocity?
Want some more...............................?
Ask people how many buildings collapsed at the world Trade Centre on 9/11 - they will say 2. Wrong. There were 3. Building 7 also collapsed. No plane hit this building, or any part of it. It became only the third steel-framed high-rise building in the world ever to collapse spontaneously as a result of 'fire'. The first were buildings 1 and 2 earlier in the day. A remarkable coincidence. We all know about 1 & 2 - so why does nobody you speak to seem to know about 7? And why have you probably never this footage before? Maybe it never gets shown because it doesn't quite lend itself to the official version of what happened on that day.
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Gregorian calendar 1957
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Ab urbe condita 2710
Armenian calendar 1406
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Bahá'í calendar 113 – 114
Buddhist calendar 2501
Chinese calendar 4593/4653-12-1
(丙申年十二月初一日)
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4594/4654-11-11
(丁酉年十一月十一日)
Coptic calendar 1673 – 1674
Ethiopian calendar 1949 – 1950
Hebrew calendar 5717 – 5718
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 2012 – 2013
- Shaka Samvat 1879 – 1880
- Kali Yuga 5058 – 5059
Holocene calendar 11957
Iranian calendar 1335 – 1336
Islamic calendar 1376 – 1377
Japanese calendar Shōwa 32
(昭和32年)
- Imperial Year Kōki 2617
(皇紀2617年)
Julian calendar 2002
Korean calendar 4290
Thai solar calendar 2500
Lots and lots of things happened in 1957....
Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
Wham-O Company produced the first Frisbee.
The Cavern Club opened in
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat was published.
Al-Qaeda Leader and known terrorist Osama Bin Laden was born
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jimmy Hoffa
Elvis Presley bought
John Diefenbaker becomes
John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the very first time.
The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
The first edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road goes on sale.
David Lean's film The Bridge on the River Kwai opens.
The
Radio telescope of Jodrell Bank opened.
The
The laser is invented by Gordon Gould.
First
First flight of the Boeing 707 airliner.
The Africanized bee is accidentally released in
The Asian Flu pandemic begins in
Arturo Toscanini
Bugs Moran
Eliot
Oliver Hardy
Some other folk were born -
Adrian Edmondson
Spike Lee
Christopher Lambert
Aki Kaurismäki
Seve Ballesteros
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jo Brand
Sid Vicious
Siouxsie Sioux
Timothy Busfield
Frances McDormand
Fern Britton
Nana Visitor
Melanie Griffith
Richie Ramone
Denis Leary
Stephen Fry
Gloria Estefan
Dawn French
Nancy Cartwright
Dan Castellaneta
Denise Crosby
Donny Osmond
Steve Buscemi
Billy Bragg
Shane McGowan
It's that time of year again and our Sam is now the ripe old age of 33! Cor Blimey! And STILL an irritating C U Next Tuesday!
Spaz, you are a truly unique individual and I hope you never ever change! You deserve to be sooooooooo happy! Especially with your birthday present you lucky schmuck! I will no doubt tell you how amazing you are when we get drunk this weekend so I'll save it for then!! (And don't tell BB but you are also the most amazing person I know!!!)
Love you oodles! Lots of filing cabinets Bex xxx
I don't know about you lot, but seeing Emile standing there in his little school uniform really made me feel old. It seems like only yesterday that I was stood next to Sam in front of our old front door in Manchester on his first day at school.
I can't believe how excited he's been about starting his new school too. I never remember feeling that excited. What about you?
Sorry if this is becoming an annual thing, but I can't help but put something on the blog about 9/11. Every year, the anniversary creeps around with the inevitably of an unwanted season and it doesn't seem to fade into memory as time goes by.
Seeing those images again shakes me to my very core and upsets me like nothing else in this world. Even without considering the motivations and ideologies behind such an attack and, with hindsight, the brutal and unjustified reaction the attack provoked, I find it emotionally and physically difficult to even comprehend the scale and horror of what went down that day. Seriously, it really knocks me for six for a good couple of days each year.
Not happy with starting big school this week, Emile was on fire at the weekend and, with a little prompting (well, I just removed his stabilizers without consulting him, so he didn't have much choice!), decided he was going to ride his bike unassisted for the first time. Given that his previous experience of bike riding consisted of a couple of little jaunts on his bike complete with stabilizers, this was quite a dramatic jump.
I thought he'd just get bored of falling off all the time and had no idea that it could be learned so quickly, but no. He took to it with such enthusiasm that he just wouldn't stop. When we finally got him off his bike, the adrenalin must've been pumping through him, as he just ran around like a headless chicken.
Every time I see the footage, I can't help feeling a deep, fatherly pride.
P.S. I'll try and sort out the lop-sided filming thing when I get a mo. Til then, either turn your head sideways or turn your computer screen on its side - whichever's easiest.
