Danny Graham struck the winner as Swansea claimed the first major scalp of their maiden Premier League campaign with a thrilling 3-2 victory over Arsenal at the Liberty Stadium.
The Gunners had taken an early lead through captain Robin van Persie but Scott Sinclair levelled from the penalty spot for the hosts.
Nathan Dyer then fired Swansea ahead before Theo Walcott equalised, but Arsenal paid the price for a loss of concentration as Graham ran in to slot his ninth goal of the season less than a minute later.
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Tomorrow, Sunday 14 January 2011, is the big day at the Liberty Stadium when Swansea City take on Arsenal. In my mind these are the two best pure footballing teams in Premier League. I’ve followed Arsenal since I was 9, but supported Swansea since I was 13. Tomorrow is the one time I hope the team I support beat the team I follow.
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As a youngster passionately interested in radio I was very aware of a station that had broadcast for a short time from Monte Carlo to the UK. It played progressive music and had a cult following. It had ceased transmissions a year or two before I had started actively listening to radio, and in those days getting information let alone a tape recording of their broadcasts, was nigh on impossible. So Geronimo was a bit of a mystery to me. There were the occasional mentions or a few lines in the free radio or offshore radio magazines, but it wasn’t until recently with the rise of the internet more information has become freely available.
Therefore it was a real pleasure to see a short film about the station has been made. Have a look here
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Running three internet radio stations means that I am frequently ripping CDs so that I can add music to the music libraries for later playout. The radio stations stream at 128Kbps MP3, so that’s the quality I rip CDs destined for radio station use at. However I long ago standardised on 320Kbps MP3 for home playing of music files. I am a big fan of Audiograbber which is probably the best CD ripper I have tried out. However, I did have problems getting it to run successfully under Windows 7. A re-install of both Windows 7 and Audiograbber recently seems to have been successful, so a full test will be done soon. I currently use a combination of iTunes and MediaMonkey to do CD ripping. MediaMonkey is a superb program, and much better than iTunes for almost everything.
CD ripping is actually quite a specialised business, and it does pay to read up and learn about the various aspects of it. I recently found an article which may be of interest to those planning on making a serious attempt to rip a lot of CDs in the highest quality: Computer-Audiophile-CD-Ripping-Strategy-and-Methodology
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The village of Hayscastle Cross in North Pembrokeshire is very small, apart from a pub and about forty houses there’s not much there. Even the village school closed a year or so ago. However go back thirty years and you would have found two shops, a couple of petrol garages, regular bus services and a full church. Go back even further to the 1940′s and you would have found less houses, but a busy atmosphere as the village was helping the war effort in an obvious way. Huge transmitting and receiving towers had been constructed in a field alongside the village and they formed part of RAF Hayscastle Cross which in turn formed part of a chain of radar stations called West Coast Chain Home. These radar stations helped protect the UK during the dark days of World War 2.
Local resident Mike Flude has put together a history of the station on his website which can be found here. Mike’s researches have put him in contact with another local resident John Hughes who was able to provide him with a very rare photograph of the station taken in 1941.
In addition to Mike’s fascinating site there is a also an extensive collection of photographs and a report on RAF Hayscastle Cross on Subterranea Britannica put together by Nick Catford. Nick is well known in radio broadcasting circles as the man behind famous London pirate station Radio Jackie, which eventually gained a licence to broadcast legally to South West London. Nick’s material can be found here.
I’ve also discovered a collection of photos showing the site as it is now here.
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Having had external hard drives fail and CD backups be unreadable I have started to use Dropbox for making backups of important files. It’s free for 2GB of space, and extra space upgrades start at about 5 pounds a month for 50GB. It’s easy to use, and it places a folder icon on your desktop. All you have to do is drag the file you want to backup to the folder, then it’s all done for you! The free version doesn’t need you to give any details other than name, password and email address, no card details required unless you want more space.
Go here to sign up at no cost for the 2GB option
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Below is a slideshow of some photos I took during my holiday in Northern France in late September 2011.
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