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THE AUGUST HEAT BOILS OUR BRAINS!
Many of you will have noticed the new sliding ad feature at the head of the AmeriCymru homepage. Its kind of hard to avoid. You may also have noticed that it is navigable via the new next/previous buttons we have incorporated. We believe that this makes for an amazingly powerful and effective advertising tool. The AmeriCymru homepage has a Google page rank of 4 and is visited by approximately 1000 unique visitors a day. Several of the current ads will become redundant by early October and we are offering our members and readers these valuable slots for just $50 FOR A FULL YEAR!! We are making available six slots at this price and we pledge that there will never be more than 8 ads in rotation at any one time once the current event ads expire in October. Also we will rotate the ads within the rotation so that each ad gets a chance to be first on the page. If you are looking to reach a Welsh American audience this gives you the chance for just 50 dollars to reach an audience of 350,000 potential customers in the next 12 months. We will design your ad if you wish and include any graphics and links you specify. Furthermore we will allow unlimited design revisions to both the design and the target url in the course of your 12 month contract. We will also consider feature articles and interviews to promote your service or product which will be heavily publicized both on this site and via other social media.
WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
Because we need to raise large sums of money very quickly to finance our intervention at Wordstock in support of Welsh publishers and authors. See the following post on WelshIcons posted by our good friend Dom Stocqueler:- You cant keep a Welshman down: Wales at Wordstock
For us Wales international image is far more important than a couple of quid. But plane fares cost money.
WHAT DO I NEED TO QUALIFY FOR THIS PROMOTION?
Well.... basically you'll need $50 , a product, book, event or CD of Welsh relevance to promote and a desire to help promote Wales and Welsh literature at the West Coast's largest and most prestigious literary festival. This is an opportunity to combine self-interest with altruism for next to nothing. We know that many people reading this post devoted considerable time and energy to supporting our campaign in the recent Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook. This is our way of saying thank you and we pledge to ensure that your promotional campaign is a success.
Diolch
Ceri Shaw
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This isn't really a top ten. But we hope you will enjoy this collection of snippets of performances from the comedians featured in our Christmas &New Year's Comedy Quiz . If you want to try the quiz it can be found here . But dont watch the videos first because you'll know all the answers:) Wherever you are and whatever you are doing tonight or on new years day we wish you a Happy New Year/ Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! 1. Griff Rhys Jones 2. Owen Money 3. Dawn French 4. Rhod Gilbert 5. Terry Jones 6. Paul Whitehouse 7. Max Boyce 8. Rob Brydon 9. John Sparkes 10. Tommy Cooper |
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To everyone celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, we wish you a wonderful day, hopefully with family and friends!
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Americymru member Beryl Richards has kindly consented to make her work "Nantybar - A Vanished Village in the Afan Valley" available for download. The book is available in PDF format and can be obtained here or by clicking the link below.
Beryl Richards, a historian and poet from Port Talbot in South Wales will also be giving a presentation at the left coast eisteddfod "Unlocking The Madoc Enigma". Here is an excerpt from the preface to the book:-"
"The Upper Afan Valley runs in a northerly direction, from the steel town of Port Talbot, for some 22 miles. The 1850s saw an unprecedented era of growth and development in the locality due to the enormous deposits of coal to be found there. The demand for it caused by advances in industrial technology on a national level, which needed fuel to power the newly invented steam engines and steam-powered ships.Alongside these advances in technology, commerce and trade were rapidly expanding to what would become a globally significant level."
 | Nantybar: A Vanished Village in the Afan Valley |
| nantybar.pdf, 2.4MB ∞ |
Actually I'm not sure how "traditional" or "Welsh" this recipe is but here it is anyway:-
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The above recipe for fried frogs and boiled eels is yet another culinary masterpiece from "Good Cookery Illustrated And Recipes Communicated by the Welsh Hermit of the Cell of St. Gover" which can be found along with many other fine things on Google Books.
( Many thanks to Wild Canary for bringing this to my attention )
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