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We apologize for broadcasting about this for the umpteenth time but the simple fact is that there are 32 hours to go and we're still in the pack but holding on by the skin of our teeth. We need to put on another 50 votes before 3 pm ( PST ) 6pm ( Eastern ) 11 pm ( UK time ). Thats when the next ranking takes place. If you havent voted please vote now. If you have please call a friend ( or 2 or 3 ) and ask them to vote too. If you're feeling adventurous you could try using your gift vote. You'll find directions here:-

http://americymru.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-use-gift-votes-on-chase

This can result in two extra votes if you exchange with someone else who's going to vote for us as well. You could also use some of your votes on other charities ( please pick charities in the top 100 who we are not in direct competition with ) and leave a message on their comment wall.

Something like this:-

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Here's another one from Meriwether Lewis! I'll send more people your way. Please return the favor! Let's both win $20K!

http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/263243673-meriwether-lewis-memorial-eisteddfod-foundation

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If you do this don't forget to add the whole message above including the url. This method has proven quite effective in getting new votes.

All in all we hope you'll do all of the above and keep doing it for the next two days. WE ARE SO CLOSE BUT IT COULD COME DOWN TO LITERALLY ONE VOTE BY MONDAY. WITH YOUR HELP WE CAN DO IT

Brythoneg/Cymraeg has more than two millennia history: -

The Coligny Moon lunar calendar twelve months a year - six weeks a month - five days a week.

Two thousand years ago, a bronze sheet about 1 metres by 1 metre and 5 millimetres thickness was broken into small pieces, placed in an earthenware jar and buried at a site near Coligny, Ain Province, France.

It was rediscovered when unearthed in AD 1897. The bronze pieces have now been re-assembled in the manner of a jigsaw puzzle, revealing a yearly twelve-month lunar calendar, yearly cycles repeated five times. Named the Coligny Plaque, it is inscribed with words in capital letter Latin characters, not Roman names but purely Celtic core words with added terminations. Considered a most important ancient artefact, it portrays a comprehensive Moon calendar, twelve months a year, six weeks of five days a thirty-day month. Every other
month lost one day of the fourth week to maintain a fifty-nine day bi-monthly lunar cycle.

The twelve month names are Samonios, Dumannios, Rivros, Anagantios, Ogronios, Cvtios, Giamonios, Simivisonnios, Eqvos, Elembivios, Edrinios and Cantlos. The Plaque is a record of the native Gallic Celtic language at that time, half the month names are early Welsh Brythoneg and half early Irish Gaelic, demonstrating Celtic Gallic links with the Brythonic and Gaelic languages.

I translated the twelve names as the first month SUMMER, SECOND month, THIRD month, HOARD month, OGRE month, SHELTER month, WINTER month, BUDSWELL month, LAMBING month, SPRING month, BETWEEN month and lastly FULL CIRCLE month.

Archaeologists suggest the Coligny Plaque was manufactured between 200 BC and AD 50. Having regard to the known and deduced features, I consider its actual date of manufacture could be considerably earlier. Its suggested manufacture date is not really important, what far exceeds other considerations is the message offered by the Bronze Age or Iron Age artefact. A skilfully made bronze article could properly belong to the Bronze Age well before 200 BC.

The Coligny Plaque has identical Moon calendar features to the Irish Loughcrew and Knowth petroglyphs c.3500 BC, also to Stonehenge about 2300 BC. It demonstrates a fully comprehensive lunar calendar endured for three and a half millennia until Julius Caesar decreed observance of the Julian calendar throughout the Roman Empire two thousand years ago.

My translation of the Moon calendar months twelve Celto-Gallic names was facilitated by concordance between the Moon calendar and Sun calendar seasons and events. I can recount how the ancient Stonehenge Sun calendar had sixteen months, four weeks of five days each month, 365 days a year.

This record of the Celto-Gallic language two thousand years ago is a significant source of written information concerning our forebears and their language.

Many thanks for the votes you put our way today ( Friday ). We were able to get back from position 191 to 174 over two increments. Unfortunately Friday night is the worst night of the week for us ( I guess all our people are down the pub ) The crucial times for us are the few hours before 11 am ( UK time ) and 11 pm ( UK time ) with the morning being the most critical. Any help anyone can give us on Saturday and Sunday before the morning voting results would be hugely appreciated. WE ARE SO CLOSE....JUST TEN DAYS TO GO...PLEASE HELP US OUT WITH THE FINAL PUSH!!

Hangovers are 10% dehydration and 90% guilt. So drink a cup of water and vote for us in the Chase Community Giveaway and you'll be fine

HERES WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP

1. If you are not on Facebook.join and vote here:-

http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/263243673-meriwether-lewis-memorial-eisteddfod-foundation

2. If you are on Facebook VOTE NOW!

3. Persuade a friend to vote.

4. Post on group walls and ask group admins of Welsh/Celtic groups to message their members to ask for their support.

5. Put our voting link banner on your website or blogpost. You can cut and paste it from the voting page:-

http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/263243673-meriwether-lewis-memorial-eisteddfod-foundation

6. Consider getting together with a friend ( if both of you have already voted ) and exchanging Gift Votes. This will enable both of you to vote for us twice.

Saturday, September 4

3-5 p.m. - $5 per person.

North American Festival of Wales

Featuring the 79th Annual Welsh National

Gymanfa Ganu

2 September - 5 September, 2010

Portland, Oregon

All events are at Doubletree Lloyd Center Hotel.

See http://www.Wngga.org for details

. *This will be one of a number of workshops, and other Welsh-related events.

The Welsh are Coming to Portland

By Chris Jones (slightly edited)

The caller will be Sian Frick. Sian attended Cymdeithas

Ddawns Werin Cymru (Welsh Folk Dance Society)

workshops in Wales to learn the spirited, but light-footed,

Welsh dances, and earned a Cymdeithas Instructors Certificate.

Sian was the leader of Dawnswyr y Tract Cymreig

(Welsh Tract Dancers) , based in Newark, Delaware.

She has also been a member of the Dawnswyr Man

Dance Team in Anglesey, Wa l es . Sian is frequently invited

to teach Welsh folk dance wo r kshops and give clogging

demonstrations at many of the Celtic festivals in the U.S.

In the workshop , she will teach a number of the Welsh

dances, and all attending will have a chance to try out

their footwork. Please wear your dance shoes! All ages

welcome .

The dance workshop will be held in the Broadway/Weidler Room at the Doubletree Lloyd Center Hotel, which will host the Festival. The band will be Portland ' s own Beltaine.

There will be a special price of $5 for the workshop.

A $15 day ticket is also available for the afternoon events.

Tickets will also be available for the evening concert by

Gar Godre'r Aran, an accomplished Welsh male voice

choir , based in Llanuwchllyn in Penllyn, near Bala in North

Wales.

All these will be part of the North American Festival

of Wales held this year over Labor Day weekend in Portland

More information on all the Welsh Festival events can

be found at http://www.wngga.org . The Festival is held

yearly in the U.S . and Canada. This is Portland ' s year,

I and we are expecting a wonderful event. Please come for

I the dancing and other even ts .

Croeso cynnes Cymreig iawn i chi gyd - there will be a very warm, Welsh welcome for all.

Optimum Records are delighted to have the support of the International recording artist from Wales IRIS WILLIAMS . She has especially recorded a track for the album "THE BRAVE BAR NONE" . The album also includes a track from the TREORCHY MALE CHOIR and includes VERNON HOPKINS (Ex Tom Jones band) The profits of the album are going to support the Charity for WELSH SOLDIERS

It is to be a tribute to their bravery and courage and to those who were killed. from their fellow Welsh men and Women.

The ALBUM of ten songs especially recorded for this album is out in SEPTEMBER this year and will sold on AMAZON and most download sites including itunes. The album has collection of new songs of a Welsh genre and will appeal to fellow Welsh men and Women around the World. Please fly the flag for Wales and order a copy or download a track or two . It will on download from September 12th. IRIS is currently in the States

Kevin King