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Tommy Emmanuel Gig

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:18:20 GMT

Went to see Auzzie musician Tommy Emmanuel play his gig in the Waterfront Hall Belfast. A touch of guitar class and on an acoustic no over drive to hide the bum notes, not that he made any. The best bit for me was probably ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ with its crazy interludes that sounded like a harp, and some strange jazz chords.

He also played a Beatles medley with 'day tripper' being my favourite, with bass, chords, and melody showing Mr. Emmanuel's not just a pleasant plucker.

Having said all these great things there was this weird Aboriginal based tune he played that made me think i was in some sort of drug induced coma and certainly when he finished it i felt like I’d come out of one I suppose that’s what u get for sitting 2 feet from the front of house speaker stack.

24/7 prayer

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:29:22 GMT

I'm not one for this blogging crap as you may have guessed, but I was at this 24/7 prayer thing in Belfast last night and i noticed all these painted posters around the room and this one caught my attention a pretty cool looking angel i thought. But what is that thing in the middle of the angel? (see contented angel pic)

Bonnie Scotland

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:43:47 GMT

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Zoos

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:04:41 GMT

A zoo is an institution where mainly wild and exotic animals are restricted within enclosures, bred and displayed to the public. The term zoological garden refers to the biological discipline zoology, which derives from Greek Ζωο ("animal"), and λογος ("study"). The term was first used in 1828 for the London Zoological Gardens, soon shortened by the Londoners to the abbreviation “zoo”.

All the photos are taken at Belfast Zoo which started life as Bellevue Pleasure Gardens, a public park and recreational area, in 1911 on the slopes of Cavehill.

The gardens were opened by Belfast City Tramways to give an incentive for Belfast's residents to use the company's new tramway. Twelve acres of the site were redeveloped as a zoo in 1933. Initially the zoo was very popular, attracting over 280,000 visitors a year.

During World War II many of the zoo's dangerous animals were put down. The decline continued into the 1960s, when the zoo's facilities fell into disrepair.

Belfast City Council acquired the facility in 1962, starting a long process of renovation. Under the supervision of manager John Stronge, the new zoo eventually opened in 1978.

Summer Madness 2006

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:19:38 GMT

Summer madness is round the corner again the "Reedstars" are playing on friday night at the "Sale Ring" where ever that is so come and support us, it's gonna rock.

Ian Hanna is leading worship on Sun mornin starts at 11:00 AM and Tim Hughes is leading worship on Sunday night at 7:00 PM Mike Pilavachi is speaking so come along its usually free on Sunday see ya'll there.

191 hmmmm

Thu, 25 May 2006 22:41:34 GMT

On this day in history American Airlines Flight 191 crashed in 1979, killing all 271 persons on board and two persons the ground.

Flight 191 was the deadliest plane disaster on U.S. soil up until the crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 on 11th September 2001.

The aircraft crashed on takeoff from Chicago after the #1 engine and pylon separated from the wing during rotation. A leak in the hydraulic lines allowed the left-side slats to retract, while the right-side slats remained extended. This led to a stall on the left wing which resulted in the roll-over.

Actress Lindsay Wagner, TV's "Bionic Woman," was scheduled to fly on the ill-fated plane, but she felt uneasy about it just prior to boarding. So Wagner, believing in premonitions skipped the flight, a decision that saved her life.

Arthur C. Clarke's "World of Strange Powers" reports the case of David Booth. In 1979 he had a recurring series of premonitory dreams that tormented him for days. He saw a plane take off from an airport, bank steeply and then crash. He alerted the authorities who took him seriously but could do nothing about it. Three days after, the DC-10 crash of Chicago occurred, exactly as in Booth's dreaming.

Another flight with the same number, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, crashed at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in 1985. Neither company has ever used the 191 flight number again. In addition, Puerto Rican airline Prinair also had a fatal flight numbered flight 191. So don’t get on flight 191, you’ve been warned!

You ever heard that saying "it's a free country" it's a good job isn't it?

Tue, 16 May 2006 23:20:27 GMT

May 17, 1992 was the beginning of a four day public uprising in Bangkok, Thailand against the military dictatorship of General Suchinda Kraprayoon, who had established martial law after assuming power through a coup d'etat a year earlier.

Students organized a rally in central Bangkok to protest against the imposition of martial law, and were confronted by heavily armed troops in full battle gear, who opened fire on the crowd of protestors.

Up to 300 people are believed to have died during the protests. Further escalation was avoided by the intervention of King Bhumibol. (The current worlds longest serving head of state)

The protests ended with Suchinda's resignation on 24 May 1992. The Deputy Prime Minister, Meechai Ruchuphan, took office for a transitional period until the new government was assigned. He was succeded by Anand Panyarachun.

On this day in 1933 books were burnt and bodies followed

Wed, 10 May 2006 22:09:23 GMT

On the Bebelplatz Portal in Berlin, there bears an insciption "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen"

The German writer Heinrich Heine famously wrote these words in 1821 in his play “Almansor” the English translation would read "Where they burn books, they will end in burning human beings." Just over a century later the Nazis did exactly as Heine had predicted.

May 10, 1933 on the Opernplatz in Berlin, S.A. and Nazi youth groups burned around 20,000 books from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and the Humboldt University; including works by Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx and H.G. Wells. Student groups throughout Germany also carried out their own book burnings on that day and in the following weeks.

I’ve been to the memorial shown in the last picture the memorial art is an empty library, located underneath the square and visible through its ceiling. Through a translucent panel you can see rows and rows of empty bookshelves.

It’s a bit eerie just imagining the reality of Heine’s words.

On this day in ladi bla bla history coke was born (not the drug)

Mon, 08 May 2006 20:50:52 GMT

Coca-Cola is the most recognised trademark in the world with 97% of the Worlds Population having seen it.

Today in 1886 Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented the carbonated beverage that we all know today as "Coca-Cola".

This bad boy drink was supposed to be a medicine when it was invented but when Asa Griggs Candler, took over the company he led Coke to world-wide domination of the soft drink market.

Why anyone drinks the stuff is beyond me!

You can clean your bog with this stuff! just pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, and then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. And that’s not all this stuff removes!

It removes rust off chrome car bumpers, cleans the corrosion from car battery terminals, loosens rusty bolts, removes grease stains and it’s a great wee window cleaner.

This stuff so good a removing things that to transport the Coca-Cola syrup about (the concentrate that is) the lorry carrying it must use the "Hazardous Material" warning signs reserved for highly corrosive materials

On this Day in bladi blah history a bit of peace came to Europe

Sun, 07 May 2006 13:37:51 GMT

At 2:41am on the 7^th May 1945 at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Rheims France, the Chief of Staff if the German Armed Forces High Command General Alfred Jodi signed the unconditional surrender documents for all German forces to the Allies.

Heralding the end of the war in Europe the next day at 2301 Central European Time which would become known as V-E Day

Alfred Jodi was then arrested and put before a military tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials were he was accused of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war-crimes; and crimes against humanity among other things.

Jodi pleaded not guilty “before God, before history and my people” but they hanged him anyway. His last words were “My greetings to you, my Germany”.

Jodi was later exonerated in 1953 by a German De-Nazification court, which found Jodi not guilty of crimes under International Law.

On this Day in ladi bla bla History there was a Zeppelin

Sat, 06 May 2006 15:55:03 GMT

On this day in history that big daddy airship the Hindenburg when up in smoke, I suppose that’s what you get for filling a giant balloon with highly flammable hydrogen gas. It's German makers said this was only because America wouldn’t supply them any Helium, but thats like saying i'll fill my bath with acid instead of water because the water service won't supply me any water...anyway.

At 245 m long it was longer than 3 Boeing 747s placed end to end. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew, 13 passengers and 22 crew died. Most deaths did not arise from the lighter-than-air fire burned overhead but were suffered by those who leapt from the burning ship.

The passengers who stayed on the ship as it came to earth escaped unharmed. Interestingly double the number of casualties occurred when the helium filled USS Akron crashed.

ps. i didn't take the before and after photos.

Why Oh Why So Many Questions - add to the list at will

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:21:34 GMT

Why do the numbers on phones go down while the numbers on calculators go up?

Why is Donkey Kong called "DONKEY" Kong if he's a monkey? Is this perhaps the biggest typo of all time?

Why isn't the word 'gullible' in the dictionary?

If your glove is too big, does it still fit like a glove?

Why do they call front seat shotgun?

If you can see your breath outide on a cold day, could you see your fart?

Why is Mickey Mouse bigger than his dog Pluto?

Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?

How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?

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The Boys from Nexus Visit N. Ireland

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Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:51:49 GMT

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Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:58:12 GMT

Tommy Emmanuel

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24/7 prayer meeting

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Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:03:24 GMT

Bonnie Scotland

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Photo Album: Radiohead gig n Stuff

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:18:15 GMT

Radiohead gig n Stuff

Me doing sound in Church

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Nicky Williamson entertains the big crowds

Two boys to depress ya who have obviously been listening to too much Radiohead

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Photo Album: Belfast Zoo

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:33:14 GMT

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Photo Album: Cambridge

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:56:49 GMT

Cambridge

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Team Talk

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Photo Album: My cycle pic

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:16:44 GMT

My cycle pic

I took this at Craigavon Lakes sometimes you discover something beautiful

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Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:17:56 GMT

Reed

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Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:55:21 GMT

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Photo Album: 12 March

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:31:20 GMT

12 March

Hazard Light

Going Home from Work

The Scenic View From My Office

Mcdonalds Sprucfield Snow

A Wierd Picture of Me

The Garden complete with snow

The Garden complete with more snow

The Garden complete with even more snow

My Car with u've guessed it snow

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Photo Album: Its aTaraghagan - reed gig

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:38:55 GMT

Its aTaraghagan - reed gig

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Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:11:44 GMT

Spain - Mountain Biking Day 1

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