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I chose pages I found interesting from the family's collection of ephemera left over as souvenirs from the New York World's Fair 1964-1965 in case you've been away from my photostream for awhile!
Getting an Understanding of existing digital innovations used by ASBEF for adoption in Project ANY. Here we are having a deep dive into ASBEF digital platform for data collection.
Photo Credits: Planned Parenthood Global - Africa Regional Office
Gwyddelwern lies on the A494, an old turnpike road, some 3km north of Corwen, which serves as the largest settlement nearby. As is common, the earliest origin of the village is lost and findings in the area which suggest an early prehistory are rare.
The dedication of the church to St Bueno, one of the best known of British saints would certainly suggest an early foundation, possibly early medieval, as does the shape of the churchyard. Certainly, an early written reference of 1198 names the village as ‘Gwothelwern’ and the Norwich Taxation of 1254 names the church, ‘Ecc’a de Gwidelwern’. As to the meaning of the name, the traditional understanding that it translates as, ‘The Irishman’s Alder Grove’, is unfortunately highly unlikely. The mistake seems to originate in the word, ‘Gwyddel’, meaning ‘Irishman’, and perhaps the belief that St Beuno raised an Irishman from the dead in the area. The name is more likely to refer to, ‘an alder marsh in the thickets’, perhaps referring to the prevalence of swampy ground due to its low-lying position in the valley.
It is not until Edward Lhuyd records at the end of the 17th century, ‘eight houses and two cottages’ by the church that the village once again emerges into the light of recorded history. The village does not seem to increase in size substantially in the intervening century or so.
St Bueno’s Church was largely rebuilt during the 19th century, enjoying the raising of a new chancel along with a striking tower and spire. This was the most recent rebuild, since earlier work occurred in 1538. All of this has complicated an understanding of the development of the church. There are 14th century windows in the nave, along with a priest’s door of the same century. The church has a 19th century screen but which seems to incorporate some medieval work, a late medieval dug out chest and a font from the 15th century. There is much more which seems to suggest a historical patchwork.
The churchyard, which owns a striking myth discussed elsewhere, was thought by Elias Owen to have been much bigger at one time, and circular, which would suggest an early possibly pre-conquest foundation. The village boasts two holy wells, though both are now seemingly lost. Ffynnon Bueno is a little north of the village on a sharp bend in the A494, but now seems to have been buried and overlooked. A reference to a Ffynnon Fair somewhere to the west of the village is little to be going on. Both holy wells have much more famous relations discussed elsewhere.
There a few old buildings in the village, largely the old public houses of The Crown and the Blue Bell, both of which have features that date from the medieval period and a little later.
Gwyddelwern is a small village and community of 508 residents, reducing to 500 at the 2011 census, situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Corwen in Denbighshire in Wales. Historically the village was part of the Edeyrnion district of Meirionnydd. Edeyrnion was part of the Glyndŵr district of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996, when the area became part of the principal area of Denbighshire. The village straddles the A494 road (trunk road).
The name is often "poetically", but incorrectly, translated as The Irishman's Alder Grove. Gwyddel being Irishman, wern usually referring to a damp or swampy area arising from run-off from surrounding hills. However, the name is derived from gwyddeli, meaning thickets, hence the correct translation would be alder marsh in the thickets. In colloquial speech the village is often referred to simply as Gwyddel.
The outlook to the west of the village is dominated by the hills Mynydd-Rhŷd-Ddu and Bryn Gwenallt. To the south the view extends over the Dee Valley to the Berwyn Mountains and Arenig Fawr near Bala.
Besides farm work, local employers include a saw mill in the village and light manufacturing in Corwen and Cynwyd, further south.
The nearby hamlet of Bryn Saith Marchog (53°02′25″N 03°22′45″W), features in the story of Branwen, daughter of Llyr, part of the Mabinogion, and is so named after Bendigeidfran (Bran the Blessed), who stationed seven princes or knights there (the Saith Marchog) to watch over his lands while he was away in Ireland.
The Lordship of Gwyddelwern was a junior title within the Princely House of Powys Fadog and was recorded in 1400 as being held by Tudur ap Gruffudd, son of Gruffydd Fychan II, who was the younger brother of Prince Owain Glyndŵr.
Tudur perished in battle during Glyndŵr's war of independence and the title became dormant. His grandson, Ellis ap Griffith, husband of Margaret, the heiress of Plas yn Yale, would later succeed Tudur to the Lordship of Gwyddelwern and become Baron of Gwyddelwern.
In 1550, Gwyddelwern absorbed the neighboring parish of Llanaelhaiarn (named after its founder and patron saint Aelhaiarn, who visited the region in the early 7th century with his master Saint Beuno); a small village at the site was long also known as Aelhaiarn but was eventually replaced by the small community of Pandy'r Capel.
During the English Civil War a significant part of the village sided with the Royalist Cause - or at least enough people for the village to be required to give financial retribution. At the end of 1649 at least 20 men from the village were fined by the Parliamentarian side for "delinquency" to pay for their involvement fighting for the king. This included a heavy fine of £28 for Peter Meyrick at Ucheldref Farm.
Quarrying was important to Gwyddelwern: the two local quarries being the Dee Clwyd Granite Quarry and Graig Lelo Quarry. There is still activity at Graig Lelo, which plays host to a vehicle breakers and a granite and marble finishing business.
Gwyddelwern became the first full-operational railway station in the Vale of Edeyrnion, when services started on 22 September 22, 1864 with the opening of the Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway. The station generated much income from the two quarries, which both had their own sidings. The station also had a coal yard, horse loading bay and cattle pens with a weighing machine. There was a freight loop at Gwyddelwern, on the otherwise single track line.
Passenger services ended on 2 February 1953 and goods traffic on 2 December 1957.
Gwyddelwern's historic architecture includes the much-rebuilt high spire of the parish church of St Beuno. The churchyard is circular, an indication of the age of the site, possibly to pre Christian times.
Which shares a boundary with the local inn - Tŷ Mawr, formerly the Rose and Crown. Parts of Tŷ Mawr date back to the 11th century and, during extensive renovation, a rare jeton or 15th century gaming token was found in one of the wall spaces.
Denbighshire is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthin is the administrative centre. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name.
Denbighshire has an area of 326 square miles (840 km2) and a population of 95,800, making it sparsely populated. The most populous area is the coast, where Rhyl (25,149) and Prestatyn (19,085) form a single built-up area with a population of 46,267. The next-largest towns are Denbigh (8,986), Ruthin (5,461), and Rhuddlan (3,709). St Asaph (3,355) is a city. All of these settlements are in the northern half of the county; the south is even less densely populated, and the only towns are Corwen (2,325) and Llangollen (3,658).
The geography of Denbighshire is defined by the broad valley of the River Clwyd, which is surrounded by rolling hills on all sides except the north, where it reaches the coast. The Vale of Clwyd, the lower valley, is given over to crops, while cattle and sheep graze the uplands. The Clwydian Range in the east is part of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewydd-Llanelwy) Palaeolithic site has Neanderthal remains of some 225,000 years ago. The county is also home to several medieval castles, including Castell Dinas Brân, Denbigh, and Rhuddlan, as well as St Asaph Cathedral. Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod takes place in the town each July.
The main area was formed on 1 April 1996 under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, from various parts of the county of Clwyd. It includes the district of Rhuddlan (formed in 1974 entirely from Flintshire), the communities of Trefnant and Cefn Meiriadog from the district of Colwyn (entirely Denbighshire) and most of the Glyndŵr district. The last includes the former Edeyrnion Rural District, part of the administrative county of Merionethshire before 1974, covering the parishes of Betws Gwerfil Goch, Corwen, Gwyddelwern, Llangar, Llandrillo yn Edeirnion and Llansanffraid.
Other principal areas including part of historical Denbighshire are Conwy, which picked up the remainder of 1974–1996 Colwyn, the Denbighshire parts of 1974–1996 Aberconwy, and Wrexham, which corresponds to the pre-1974 borough of Wrexham along with most of Wrexham Rural District and several parishes of Glyndŵr. Post-1996 Powys includes the historically Denbighshire parishes of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llansilin and Llangedwyn, which formed part of Glyndŵr district.
Researchers have found signs that Denbighshire was inhabited at least 225,000 years ago. Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site is one of the most significant in Britain. Hominid remains of probable Neanderthals have been found, along with stone tools from the later Middle Pleistocene.
In 2021 February, archaeologists from Aeon Archaeology announced a discovery of over 300 Stone Age tools and artifacts in Rhuddlan. They revealed scrapers, microliths, flakes of chert (a hard, fine-grained, sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz), flints and other rudimentary tools. An expert, Richard Cooke, believes the lithic remains belonged to ancient peoples, who while passing through the area, made camp by the river more than 9,000 years ago.
The eastern edge of Denbighshire follows the ridge of the Clwydian Range, with a steep escarpment to the west and a high point at Moel Famau (1,820 ft (555 m)), which with the upper Dee Valley forms an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley – one of just five in the Wales. The Denbigh Moors (Mynydd Hiraethog) are in the west of the county and the Berwyn Range adjacent to the southern edge. The River Clwyd has a broad fertile Vale running from south–north in the centre of the county. There is a narrow coastal plain in the north which much residential and holiday-trade development. The highest point in the historic county was Cadair Berwyn at 832 m or 2,730 ft), but the boundary changes since 1974 make Cadair Berwyn North Top the highest point. Denbighshire borders the present-day principal areas of Gwynedd, Conwy County Borough, Flintshire, Wrexham County Borough, and Powys.
Rhyl and Prestatyn form a single built-up area in the north of the county, with a population of 46,267. They are immediately adjacent to the Kinmel Bay and Abergele built-up area in neighbouring Conwy, and at the eastern end of series of coastal resorts which that also includes Colwyn Bay and Llandudno further west.
According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, Denbighshire's population was approximately 95,800. According to previous censuses, the population of Denbighshire was 93,734 in 2011 and 93,065 in 2001. The largest towns on the coast are Rhyl (2001 population c. 25,000) and Prestatyn (2001 population c. 18,000). According to the 2011 Census returns, 24.6 per cent stated they could speak Welsh.
Since the 20th-century demise of the coal and steel industries in the Wrexham area, there is no heavy industry in the county. Although most towns have small industrial parks or estates for light industry, the economy is based on agriculture and tourism. Much of the working population is employed in the service sector. The uplands support sheep and beef cattle rearing, while in the Vale of Clwyd dairy farming and wheat and barley crops predominate. Many towns have livestock markets and farming supports farm machinery merchants, vets, feed merchants, contractors and other ancillaries. With their incomes on the decline, farmers have found opportunities in tourism, rural crafts, specialist food shops, farmers' markets and value-added food products.
The upland areas with their sheep farms and small, stone-walled fields are attractive to visitors. Redundant farm buildings are often converted into self-catering accommodation, while many farmhouses supply bed and breakfast. The travel trade began with the arrival of the coast railway in the mid-19th century, opening up the area to Merseyside. This led to a boom in seaside guest houses. More recently, caravan sites and holiday villages have thrived and ownership of holiday homes increased. Initiatives to boost the economy of North Wales continue, including redevelopment of the Rhyl seafront and funfair.
The North Wales Coast Line running from Crewe to Holyhead is served by Transport for Wales and Avanti West Coast services. Trains leaving Crewe to pass through Chester, cross the River Dee into Wales, and continue through Flint, Shotton, Holywell Junction (closed in 1966), Prestatyn, Rhyl, and stations to Bangor and Holyhead, which has a ferry service to Ireland.
There are no motorways in Denbighshire. The A55 dual carriageway runs from Chester through St Asaph to the North Wales coast at Abergele, then parallel to the railway through Conwy and Bangor to Holyhead. The A548 run from Chester to Abergele through Deeside and along the coast, before leaving the coast and terminating at Llanrwst. The main road from London, the A5, passes north-westwards through Llangollen, Corwen and Betws-y-Coed to join the A55 and terminate at Bangor. The A543 crosses the Denbigh Moors from south-east to north-west, and the A525 links Ruthin with St Asaph.
There are local bus services between the main towns. Several services by Arriva Buses Wales run along the main coast road between Chester and Holyhead, linking the coastal resorts. Another route links Rhyl to Denbigh.
Denbighshire is represented in the House of Commons by three MPs. The Welsh Labour Party lost to the Welsh Conservatives in the 2019 general election for the first time.
The following MPs were elected from Denbighshire in 2019:
Simon Baynes (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd South, first elected in 2019.
David Jones (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd West, first elected in 2005.
James Davies (Welsh Conservatives) in Vale of Clwyd, first elected in 2019.
Denbighshire is also represented in the Senedd by three members elected in 2021:
Ken Skates (Welsh Labour) in Clwyd South, first elected in 2011
Darren Millar (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd West, first elected in 2007
Gareth Davies (Welsh Conservatives) in Vale of Clwyd, first elected in 2021.
In 2019, research by UnHerd in association with the pollster FocalData showed that most people across the county support the British monarchy.
Understanding the Essence of Flowers - Exploring Pollen 12-14th
June, 2013, Helsinki
Photo: Tommi Taipale
"Everyone knows those moments when you seem to understand everything; perhaps the next moment you try to define what you’ve understood and it all vanishes." - Italo Calvino, The Watcher.
Session TWO: Winds of change - understanding and profiting from emerging trends.
Keynote Speaker:
Arjan Oude Kotte, Director Small and Meium Business, Microsoft MEA
Madinat Arena, Madinat Jumeirah
November 30, 2014
Understanding the Essence of Flowers - Exploring Pollen 12-14th
June, 2013, Helsinki
Photo: Tommi Taipale
At the Martire Business & Communications Center, representatives from Sacred Heart University signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan University of Economics. In attendance were were SHU President John J. Petillo, and Japan University of Economics President Asuka Tsuzuki. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 9/11/18
Understanding the Essence of Flowers - Exploring Pollen 12-14th
June, 2013, Helsinki
Photo: Tommi Taipale
The bronze statue that once stood atop the Pitt County Confederate Soldiers Monument is secured for transport as the sun begins to rise on Monday, June 22. Crews worked throughout the night to disassemble the monument while hampered by equipment issues; the remainder of the monument was removed on Tuesday evening. Work was performed at night to prevent interfering with traffic, court proceedings, and businesses in the Uptown area.
On Monday, June 15, the Pitt County Board of Commissioners voted to relocate the memorial due to threat of vandalism and concern for public safety after property damage occurred during rioting in the Uptown area two weeks earlier. Following the vote to relocate the monument, County Commissioners created a committee to select a new location for the statue, which has not been determined at this time.
The monument was formally dedicated in November 1914; various groups have called for its removal from the courthouse grounds since at least the 1990’s.
“NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City Council of the City of Greenville is committed to a community where all are welcome and should be treated equally with the same compassion in every interaction with a commitment to fairness, equality, kindness, justice, peace, and understanding.” — excerpt from Resolution For Equality, adopted by Greenville City Council on June 15, 2020.
The true pattern of life extends through both domains [death and life] . . . there is neither a This-side nor a That-side, but a single great unity in which the beings who transcend us, the angels, have their habitation . . . . . . The earth has no alternative but to become invisible—in us, who with a portion of our being have a share in the Invisible, or at least the appearance of sharing; we who can multiply our possessions of the Invisible during our earthly existence, in us alone can there be accomplished this intimate and continual transmutation of the Visible into the Invisible . . . just as our own destiny becomes unceasingly more present, and at the same time invisible, in us.
-Letter to Witold von Hulewicz, 13 November 1925, Rilke, Rainer Maria, Selected Letters 1902–1926,
136th Airlift Wing Airmen and their families took part in KUDOS, Kids Understanding Deployment Operations, a mock deployment event that helps children understand deployments and the 136AW mission, Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, Sept. 10, 2016. The event was sponsored by the Carswell Family Guardians.
To raise awareness and understanding of social enterprise in government, the SEUK team hosted a series of rountables and workshops at the Department for Business, Skills and Innovation (BIS) last Thursday.
Along with our members, SEUK met with a number of civil servants and politicians including Business Secretary Vince Cable, to find out how social enterprise and entrepreneurship can support the government’s agenda for economic growth.
PHOTO: Michael David BIS Digital ©2012
This photo album contains photographs of the 2019 Signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding by Assistant Secretary Royce of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and Ambassador Domingos Fezas Vital of the Republic of Portugal, with remarks by Robert Faucher, Director of the Office of Western European Affairs in the Bureau of European Affairs (EUR).
Since the first iteration of #CutlassExpress in 2011, this exercise has built on a foundation of shared understanding that improved #MaritimeSecurity in the West Indian Ocean can only be achieved through cooperation and partnership," said Rear Adm. Nancy Lacore, vice commander, U.S. Sixth Fleet.
go.usa.gov/xpr56
U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Understanding the mind through psychology
Image source: newbrandstories.com/2011/12/26/brand-happiness/
On 9 July 2019, Imbuto Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, renewing their commitment to sponsor around 100 students under our Edified Generation programme.
This scholarship programme was initiated in 2003 to financially support secondary school students from economically vulnerable backgrounds, in their pursuit of education.
Understanding the importance of preventing malaria - a disease that kills more in Burundi than HIV and AIDS - is essential to survival.
Some of my photographs include 'Artist Impressions' of the College Campus ... you can decide if the reality corresponds with the original plans.
DIT Grangegorman was due to have about 11,000 students by this September increasing to 20,000 over two years. However, due to legal disputes completion of some key elements of the project could be delayed for about two years. At this stage I do not know what impact this delay will have on the local business community, who were planning for an influx of potential customers, or on the new Luas tram service [my understanding was that the opening of the Grangegorman Tram Stop depended on the college having a student population of 20,000 but at this stage it would appear that the stop will be operational this December]
"Letters Without An Envelope" 2009 ART of Scott Jeffrey Cousins
These intensely bold oil paintings are a delightful retinal experience. The artist's innate sense of color and exuberant technique are so enchanting that one is captured from far away and enticed to come so close as to see the graceful, subtle brushwork and literally hundreds of colors. The purely abstract compositions dance before you and, when they draw you in, seem to viscerally bring on a sense of peace -- humanity through joy, pathos and transcendence. Like seeing music. The artist, Scott Jeffrey Cousins, refers to these new paintings as: "A sanctuary that the spectator may enter through a retinal experience." They are truly unlike anything else. Influences of other great painters are present but only a memory. These tactile paintings, photographed beautifully here, have surprised even the most experienced art critics and curators with their lush interplay of color -- They'll surprise you when you touch them with your own eyes!
Joe Vassallo, "Understanding Your Budgets" at the Eastern Energy Expo 2018 at Foxwoods. Keith Muccilli Photography, LLC
Marco Sosa. 1st floor view. Marco's design proposal included a diachronic path that used the fibonacci series [in recognition of the golden section] to create a series of labyrinths that had to be deciphered to discover the next space. The alternative synchronic path happened under the previos path, discovering the solution to the puzzle.
Ankara, Turkey - December 14, 2012: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) met in Ankara, Turkey, to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) intended to expand commercial relations between the United States and Turkey. Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, TOBB President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone, and Vice President of Turkey, Middle East, and North Africa Affairs Lionel C. Johnson participated in the signing ceremony. The MOU specifies that both sides designate separate business delegates and commission joint studies that explore ways to bolster trade and investment in visits between the two nations.
On 9 July 2019, Imbuto Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, renewing their commitment to sponsor around 100 students under our Edified Generation programme.
This scholarship programme was initiated in 2003 to financially support secondary school students from economically vulnerable backgrounds, in their pursuit of education.