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South Wales entrepreneur Kevin Green has launched a mobile phone app for top wealth tips.
The app has been launched for both iPhone and Android mobile phones and is free.
Its no secret that I love modern technology and am a fan of all sorts of gadgets, said Green.
What fascinates me so much is how we can use and develop technology to help generate opportunities to create wealth.
If you want to learn the secrets of wealth from a multi-millionaire, then this app is an essential way to get started.
The app features a property offer price calculator designed especially for property investors.
This is something which will be particularly interesting and useful for people interested in following my footsteps in building a property portfolio, said Green.
The app also features training videos by Green, who was featured on Channel 4s Secret Millionaire programme.
The app also contains:
Videos of Kevin sharing wealth tips
Inspiration from some of Kevins coaching clients
Information on Kevins wealth training programmes
A short biography on Kevins life story
The app has been developed by The App Geeks.
The App Geeks are also developing the app to include additional free updates to include calculating yields, net returns and returns on capital invested.

You can download the app from the following webpage
Weblink
http://www.kevingreen.co.uk/kgw-iphone-app/
http://www.kevingreen.co.uk/
Twitter - @kevingreenwales

Kevin Green is a self-made multi-millionaire and social entrepreneur. He is one of the UKs largest residential property landlords and a multi-business owner.
The 48-year-old dyslexic, who featured on Channel 4s Secret Millionaire, was homeless in 1984. Today, his property portfolio runs into the hundreds.
He has a wealth of experience in the property investment world and heads a number of successful companies and other non property related businesses.
He is also involved in coaching under his own brand of Kevin Green Wealth (KGW) and is a Dynamo role model for the Welsh Government, inspiring young people in schools and universities to set up businesses.
Before making his fortune in business, he was a successful dairy farmer.
In 1999 he won a Nuffield Scholarship in agriculture and studied the attitudes and personalities of high achievers. He interviewed Bill Gates and Sir Richard Branson.
The wealth guru loves to educate, motivate and inspire others and his passion and enthusiasm is quite infectious. His down to earth approach is often referred to by those who know him as exactly what it says on the tin. These qualities have catapulted him into worldwide demand as a speaker at conferences, dinners and seminars.
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Should We Do This Again?


By Ceri Shaw, 2012-06-13

If anyone wants to nominate the Meriwether Lewis Memorial Foundation we will certainly think about it

http://www.basilmagazine.com/this-weeks-top-five/chase-community-giving-offers-7-5-million-in-grants/

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A Plea!


By Ceri Shaw, 2012-06-12
Reproduced with kind permission from David Western's Portland Eisteddfod Lovespoon Blog
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Laura is just about set to start cutting out this year's Left Coast Eisteddfod Lovespoon, but before she does, I wanted to take this quick opportunity to ask for your support! As everyone is well aware, times are getting tougher and tougher and money is getting tighter and tighter. It's become extremely difficult to stage any kind of event these days as sponsors dry up and potential attendees try to decide whether they can afford to go out or not.
Things are no different for the Left Coast Eisteddfod. As a grassroots production, the Eisteddfod feels even the slightest drop in support in a big, big way. This lovespoon helps to cushion the financial impact of weakening sponsorships by providing a fund-raising opportunity for the Eisteddfod. Anyone and everyone is most welcome to donate to the Eisteddfod and in exchange for their generosity, will have the opportunity to win the spoon when it is drawn for at the Eisteddfod this October. Every dollar helps to ensure the Eisteddfod's continued existence and every dollar could be the one that wins the spoon.
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I urge you to consider donating and to encouraging your friends and relatives to do the same!! Each dollar you donate equals a ticket in the draw...the more you donate, the more tickets you get!! But it only takes one to win and if one is all you have, we are more than happy to accept it! Naturally, we hope that you can give more...but every single dollar helps us out during a very hard time!!
There aren't too many Welsh events in North America...please help us to keep the Left Coast Eisteddfod running!!!
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Donating is easy... just click on the orange "donate" box located to the right side of this blog post. Its completely safe and secure and you will NOT be hassled with spam and further money requests. We do our begging here, in full public view and hope that it is enough to encourage your generosity!!
This spoon will be our best one yet and we guarantee that whoever wins it will be getting a deal and a half!!
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On behalf of the Left Coast Eisteddfod, Laura and myself, we thank you if you have already donated and we thank you in advance if you haven't quite gotten 'round to it yet but are planning to soon!
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Any tourist tips for member Fiona Wilton? Please post in comments below.

I am going to be in South Carolina for the first time in September/October. Can any members suggest a really great place to visit? We have the guide books but would love anything less well known but worthwhile. History, horses, farmers markets, great beaches, great eateries especially seafood. Also anything to avoid! All tips gratefully received!Thanks in advance!

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TUESDAY 12TH JUNE
Gruffzilla Seeks The Lost Tomb Of Don Juan Evans

Gruff Rhys will embark on his second investigative concert tour in August. The first, that was documented by Dylan Goch for their award winning feature film Separado! saw Rhys playing detective and singing at shows as he searched for his long lost guitar playing, poncho wearing uncle, Rene Griffiths through South America.

For the latest tour Rhys will follow the trail and search for the grave of his extremely great uncle Don Juan Evans* who left Wales and his life as a farm hand in 1792 to search for a mythical tribe of abandoned Welsh speaking Native Americans.
Tired and broke, he eventually died out of his mind at 29 in a disease ridden New Orleans having left a trail of chaos through the USA.

Initially landing in Baltimore, he left Pennsylvania in 1794 and walked into the wilderness with $1.75 in his pocket, wrestled river monsters in the Mississippi, hunted Bison with the Omaha tribe, defected to the Spanish in St Louis, discovered imaginary volcanos in Missouri, annexed North Dakota from the British, and created the map that Lewis and Clarke used to go west.

The shows will be documented by Goch again and will be featured in their presently untitled second feature film, album and book project.

Rhys urges any one with any clues to Evans' burial place or any imaginary volcanos, wandering tribes of Welsh Speakers or river reptiles out there to come to the shows where they can be interviewed by Rhys for the movie and help out with his investigations. The general public also most welcome.

A second leg will be added taking in North and South Dakota in a few months time. Also look out for some unscheduled appearances in August in some pretty random yet highly significant locations.

*Born as John Evans, he transformed himself in a Bowie style re-invention in Spanish controlled St Louis, defecting to Spain and becoming Don Juan Evans.

Gruff

Thu-July-05 Exeter
Fri-July-06 Royal Festival Hall with Cate Le Bon and Y Niwl **performing Hotel Shampoo in full**

Join the Investigative Concert Tour!

Thu-Aug-02 New Haven, CT Yale University Beineke Library
Sat-Aug-04 Baltimore, MD Golden West Caf
Sun-Aug-05 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA
Tue-Aug-07 Pittsburgh, PA Club Cafe
Thu-Aug-09 Cincinnati, OH CAC Black Box Theatre at Contemporary Arts Center
Sun-Aug-12 St. Louis, MO Contemporary Art Museum
Tues-Aug-14 Omaha, NE Slowdown Jr.
Thu-Aug-16 Columbia, MO Les Bourgeois Vineyards
Sat-Aug-18 Memphis, TN Hi-Tone
Wed-Aug-22 New Orleans, LA One-Eyed Jacks

www.gruffrhys.com | @gruffingtonpost

www.turnstilemusic.net | @turnstilemusic

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Ammanford singer-songwriter Padraig Lalor's debut album has been timed to coincide with the centenary of the Titanic disaster.
Called Ismay's Dream, the album focusses on different characters in Lalor's home city of Belfast.
Lalor takes a keen interest in the history of Belfast.
He provides vocals on all but one track and is accompanied by various combinations of acoustic and bass guitar, piano, drums, percussion, violins, viola, whistles and accordion.
The songs on the album focus on different characters who were associated with the Titanic in various ways - those who built her, those who sailed on her, and those left behind.
The songs are all original, but they have a quintessentially Irish feel to them.
Padraig was born in Belfast. He lived his formative years in the 1970s against the backdrop of the troubles in Northern Ireland.
He worked as a freelance journalist in the 1980s; becoming Northern Irish correspondent for the Irish Post, before gaining a Scholarship to Ruskin College Oxford.
It was in Oxford he formed the Traditional Irish band Henry Marten's Ghost and started writing songs in the late 1990s.
A fascination with his country's musical history and a love of the stories that permeate its culture, bring an engaging authenticity to his songs.
Capturing the passion and contradiction of the people and places of Belfast has seen Padraig earn the reputation of a modern day Seanacha.
Not surprising perhaps, that he lists both the great Irish Tenor Josef Locke, and Belfast's Kathleen Largey among his key musical influences.
Padraig's music has featured on TV and radio across the world.
He has opened shows for Finbar Furey, the Dubliners, Craobh Rua and has taken his individual brand of Irish music to audiences in France,Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and the Channel Islands, where he is a perennial visitor.
His debut solo album Ismays Dream is an evocative journey through Ireland's Titanic history that will appeal to anyone who loves great stories and great songs.
What the critics had to say about the album -
"almost like a musical version of James Joyce's Dubliners, this is an album of well-written songs which is bound to appeal to those with an interest in the Titanic". Shelley Rainey Bright Young Folk
"In Ismay's Dream he has created a world peopled by complex Irish characters and I look forward to seeing the live show". Aidan OHara Irish Music Magazine.
"Padraig Lalor is set to become one of the foremost folk singer/songwriters of his generation". Alison O' Riordan Irish Post
"All the songs reveal Lalors gift as a storyteller, with intriguing lyrics woven around instantly appealing melodies that stick in the mind after just one hearing". Pat Kehoe Irish Music Forever
"All are amazing stories put into song by Padraig Lalor and his band. I found this album and its content very moving". Peter Massey Green Man Review
"Lalor's band combines the foundation of rock with the tradition of folk music and his songs are literate but direct: sometimes dramatic - "Molly Brown" for example - and sometimes melancholy as with "Close your eyes" on which Lowri Evans takes the lead". R2
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Ashburnham ladies help Heol Goffa School


By Robert Lloyd, 2012-06-12

The ladies of Ashburnham Golf Club in Pembrey raised more than 400 through charity events last year.
A cheque was presented to Heol Goffa School in Llanelli.
In the picture are some of the children from the school, with the headmistressNikki Symmons and the Ashburnham lady captain of 2011, Ann Francis.
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Burry Port firm Celtic Couriers is one of the number of businesses making sure a fund-raising party for the Teenage Cancer Trust goes with a swing.
The courier and delivery business has donated a special prize for the raffle and auction at the Grand Ball being staged at The Diplomat Hotel, Llanelli, on Friday, June 29 (7pm).
"We are very grateful to Celtic Couriers and all the other individuals and businesses who are helping to support this wonderful event," said one of the Ball organisers, Llangennech Councillor Gwyneth Thomas.
"It's a very worthwhile cause and we are hoping for a full house on the night.
"The prize from Celtic Couriers is for a four-ball round at The Ashburnham Championship Links Golf Club in Pembrey.
"The prize has been generously donated by Mr Ivor Skinner and the team at Celtic Couriers and the winner is bound to enjoy the day as The Ashburnham is known as one of our premier golfing venues."
Councillor Thomas added:"The scene is set fora glamorous night of music and dance in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust on June 29.
"We have the Morriston Big Band as the main attraction and they promise to be great fun.
"Other major raffle and auction prizes include use of one of the hospitality suites at Parc y Scarlets for 12 people for a Llanelli Scarlets rugby match.
"There's also a wonderful prize of bed and breakfast, with fishing thrown in."
One of the other organisers isCarmarthenshire libraries manager Mark Jewell, whose son Tom was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2010.
Mr Jewell has devoted himself to raising cash for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity which works with youngsters aged between 13 and 24 to pay thanks for the support his family has received over the past two years.
He said: "I am delighted to be able to support the various activities that are planned, and to give something back in support of the first-class treatment and support we as a family have had from the unit at the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff.
"It's a very special place and the dedication of nursing staff and support workers is second to none."
The Morriston Big Bandboasts a repertoire encompassing a wide range of music with something to suit all tastes, including jazz, swing, rock and roll, Latin- American, big band and pop music from the 1960s to the present day.
The band's singers Jeff and Irene are backed by 19 musicians playing four trumpets, five trombones, five saxophones, guitars, keyboards, bass and drums.
With songs ranging from Sinatra's Witchcraft and the smooth swing of Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife to favourites such as Katrina and the Waves' Walking on Sunshine and the Amy Winehouse hit Valerie, the dance floor is expected to be buzzing.
Tickets for the event cost 35 each, and are available by calling 01554 751188 or 01554 820834.
Anyone interested in giving a raffle or auction prize should contact Councillor Gwyneth Thomas on 01554 821637.
Find out what the Teenage Cancer Trust does at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff -
http://www.teenagecancertrust.org/what-we-do/specialist-services/units/university-hospital-of-wales/
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In the news today . . .


By Robert Lloyd, 2012-06-12
In the news . . .
Burry Port firm Celtic Couriers help cancer fund-raiser go with a swing - http://sirgarblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/celtic-couriers-help-cancer-fund-raiser.html
Ladies of Ashburnham Golf Club help Heol Goffa School in Llanelli - http://sirgarblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/ashburnham-ladies-help-heol-goffa.html
Father's Day special weekend offer at Aberglasney House and Gardens - http://www.aberglasney.org/index.php?page=view_event&event_id=302
AGM of Carmarthen Town AFC being held tonight (June 12) at 7:30pm at the clubhouse and community centre in Richmond Park, Carmarthen.
The latest Newsletter for Aberglasney House and Gardens is now out - http://sirgarblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/latest-aberglasney-newsletter-is-now.html
Sandwich of the Week at Jenkins Bakery shops is Chicken and Stuffing, 2.10. For more special offers - http://jenkinsbakery.co.uk/
Sad to hear of the death of Nigel Harrison-Rees (Sports Aid Wales and dad of former Carmarthen Journal Ed Cathryn Ings). Funeral on Friday.
Dyfed-Powys Police make it into the June edition of Private Eye over station closures - http://sirgarblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dyfed-powys-police-make-it-into-private.html
Burry Port firm Amcanu @AmcanuLtd makes its debut on the social networks - http://sirgarblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/amcanu-now-on-social-networks.html
Clay Shaw Butler's Donna Jones celebrates new qualification - http://sirgarblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/clay-shaw-butlers-donna-celebrates-new.html
The news page for Burry Port sheet metal tailors Amcanu Ltd @AmcanuLtd has been updated - http://amcanu.co.uk/news-blog/
It's Captain's week at the Ashburnham Championship Links Golf Course in Pembrey this week - http://www.ashburnhamgolfclub.co.uk/
Blog for Clay Shaw Butler, accountants and business consultants, has been updated with news of latest tax events - http://clayshawbutler.blogspot.co.uk/
Celtic Couriers @CelticCouriers and their work on a Mencap initiative featured on the Your Llanelli website - http://www.llanellitown.com/business/business-news/2169-celtic-couriers-work-with-mencap-on-jobs-initiative
ITV Wales spotlight on Evan-Evans Brewery's 'best job in the world' - http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-06-09/is-this-the-best-job-in-the-world/
Loaf of the Week at Jenkins Bakery shops this week is the Small Anniversary, *Save 10p* 0.98p. More special offers - http://jenkinsbakery.co.uk/
Latest special offers from the Jenkins Bakery @JenkinsBakery (inc 2 BBQ Chicken pasties 2) now on company website - http://jenkinsbakery.co.uk/
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For boxing fans everywhere and particularly for fans of Welsh boxing this book is a must read.

From the introduction we learn that:-

"For such a small country, Wales has made a significant, if largely unacknowledged contribution to the sport of boxing. While most boxing fans can probably name a handful of Welsh champions, it is unlikely that many will be aware that at the dawn of modern boxing in Britain the three greatest fighters to be found anywhere in the United Kingdom all came from Wales.

Yet in 1909 when the Lonsdale belts were first offered to establish the best boxers at lightweight, middleweight and featherweight weight classes, all three championship belts were quickly scooped up by a trio of remarkable boxers from South Wales."

You'll have to buy the book if you want to learn more about these, and other , fascinating characters from the history of Welsh boxing. Lawrence Davies' meticulously researched biographies of the dozen or so fighters featured in this book are a pleasure to read and I hope to write a fuller review some time soon.

Meanwhile to buy your copy of 'Mountain Fighters' please go to:- http://www.gwales.com/latest/?tsid=6

If you are keen to know who the Welsh holders of those first Lonsdale belts were, please go to:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdale_Belt

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