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Wouldn't you just know it--there was a Welshman behind Pi?
Celebrate Pi Day!
William Jones , FRS (1675 3 July 1749) was a Welsh mathematician , most noted for his proposal for the use of the symbol (the Greek letter pi ) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter . He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley . In November, 1711 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , and was later its Vice-President. [1]
Read all about William Jones, from Anglesey, here , so you can amaze your friends with your grasp of trivia!
Pi, Greek letter (
), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535
infinitely without repeating. The symbol for pi was first used in 1706 by William Jones, but was popular after it was adopted by the Swiss Leonhard Euler in 1737.
Buy Pi merchandise, send an ecard, and learn more than you want to about Pi here: http://www.piday.org/
Jennifer Bowen has qualified as a Certified Chartered Accountant with leading West Wales accountants and business consultants Clay Shaw Butler.
The qualification is further evidence of Clay Shaw Butlers commitment to training and developing staff members.
Jennifer, who lives in Whitland and is married with a young daughter, was educated at Whitland Primary School and Ysgol Dyffryn Taf.
She joined Clay Shaw Butler in 2007 as an accounts trainee studying towards the Chartered Certified qualification.
Clay Shaw Butler is accredited as a Platinum status Training Office with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. There are currently three trainees working towards the qualification with Clay Shaw Butler. In addition, there are two trainees working towards the Association of Accounting Technician qualification.
Clay Shaw Butler director David Butler said: I am extremely pleased to welcome Jennifer into the Practice as a newly-qualified accountant. We have Investors in People status and we will continue to invest in the development of Clay Shaw Butler team members.
Clay Shaw Butler now has eight qualified team members able to assist in accountancy and taxation advice for clients of all sizes.
The team at Clay Shaw Butler can be contacted on 01267 228500 or through the website at www.clayshawbutler.com
The window, showing a black Christ, was considered "bold" at the time Forty-eight years ago an act of terrorism on the other side of the Atlantic created such an outpouring of sentiment, that its solidarity reached Wales.
On 16 September 1963, a splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black girls attending Sunday school.
While few outside of Birmingham's African-American community displayed much sympathy, youngsters in Wales were so touched by the tragedy that they quickly raised the funds to replace the church's .
Their message of support from Wales is remembered in a BBC Radio Four documentary at 1130 GMT on Thursday.
Kathleen Bunton, a member of the church and lifetime resident of Birmingham, said: "I was surprised that people cared about blacks altogether.
BRITONS in Japan have spoken of their terror as the enormous earthquake struck.
Even for a country used to earthquakes, this one was of horrific proportions the largest the Pacific rim nation has ever faced, with a tsunami that crashed ashore, submerging everything in its path as it surged several miles inland before retreating.
Apocalyptic images on Japanese TV showing powerful, debris-filled waves, uncontrolled fires and a ship caught in a massive whirlpool resembled scenes from a Hollywood disaster film.
Waves of muddy waters flowed over farmland near Sendai, carrying buildings, some of them ablaze.
Upturned and partially submerged cars bobbed in the water.
First person accounts and videos are here:
University archaeologists to dig for Tregaron elephant
Archaeologists are to dig up the garden of a Ceredigion pub in the search for a legendary Victorian circus elephant.
The Tregaron Elephant has long had its place in local folklore - a beast that died while on tour rumoured to be buried behind the town's Talbot Hotel.
A small-scale in April will search for clues in the hope of revealing its final resting place.
The elephant was said to have fallen ill after drinking in the town in 1848.
Only in Wales!
Llangollen 'warlock's' full moon curfew lifted by court
A "warlock" found with a knife is to be released from a night-time curfew when there is a full moon, says a court.
Cerwyn Jones, 52, of Llangollen, who supports witchcraft as a religion, admitted being in possession of a knife in a public place in Bala, Gwynedd.
Dolgellau magistrates placed Jones on a 12-month community order, but to vary a 1900 to 0700 GMT curfew on four days when there was a full moon.
She may have started her chart career by getting Lost in France, but Bonnie Tyler knows she will always find a home in her native Neath.
And never more so than now, as she has become a freeman of Neath Port Talbot.
The singer, whose hits also include Total Eclipse of the Heart and It's a Heartache, is only the second woman to get the freedom of the borough.
Tyler, who was born Gaynor Hopkins 59 years ago, hoped she could "live up to the honour and trust placed in me".
She said: "Who would have thought that a simple girl from a simple family in Skewen would be honoured like this?"
Bonnie has consistently been one of Britain's top female artists achieving international success for 35 years
Bangor museum tells story of the naughty boys' ship
The HMS Clio took troubled boys and trained them for a life in the navy or merchant marine It was known as the naughty boys' ship because it tried to turn around the lives of teenage delinquents.
The Clio trained hundreds for life in the royal or merchant navy when it was moored in the Menai Strait off Anglesey from 1877 to 1920.
Now its story is being retold at Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor.
"It was part of local folklore," said the museum's Alun Thomas. "People would say, 'If you don't behave you'll be sent to naughty boys' ship' ".
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Friday, 18 March, 7pm: Booklaunch: Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales Free entry and wine, in association with Gomer.
The launch of Another Country, the first ever Welsh national anthology of haiku poetry. Published by Gomer Press and edited by Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones and Lynne Rees, it features haiku, tanka, haibun and somonka in both English and Welsh by forty poets, from Wa ... less haiku pioneers such as Chris Torrance, Tony Conran, Peter Finch, Caroline Gourlay, Arwyn Evans, Matt Morden and John Rowlands, to an exciting younger generation, among them Sarah Coles, Alan Kellermann, Eloise Williams, Rhys Owain Williams and Stephen White. There will be readings from the book and music, before and after, from the pianist and haiku poet Marion Carlisle.
Saturday, 19 March: Haiku Workshops.
Workshop 1, 10am to 12.30pm: read haiku/write haiku with Ken Jones Join Ken for a friendly discussion of haiku, some practical advice on writing your own, and the opportunity to share your work within a supportive group. Ken Jones lives at Cwmrheidol, Aberystwyth and is the recipient of the Sasakawa Prize for Original Contributions in the Field of Haikai. He has published four volumes of haiku and haibun and is co-editor of the annual Contemporary Haibun anthologies published by Red Moon Press (USA). www.redthreadhaiku.org
Full Price: 12 Concessions 10. Includes entry into the evening event.
Workshop 2, 2pm to 5pm: walk haiku/write haiku with Lynne Rees
Join Lynne for a traditional ginko, a guided walk around the docks, marina and city centre with prompts that will give you the material to write your own haiku. Inspiration provided just bring a notebook and pen! Port Talbot-born Lynne Rees is a poet, novelist and creative writing tutor. The recipient of the University of Kents Faculty of Humanities Award for innovative and imaginative practices in the teaching of poetry, she is a judge for the inaugural British Haiku Award in 2011 . www.lynnerees.com
Full Price: 12 Concessions 10. Includes entry into the evening event.
Special Offer: attend both workshops for 20 Full Price, 16 Concessions
Saturday, 19 March, 7.30pm: music/haiku: poems and performance from Peter Stacey and Friends
A celebration, in words and music, of haiku poetry, featuring some of Waless leading haiku poets in creative collaboration with extemporising musicians, including the renowned flautist and saxophonist Peter Stacey. This event will round off a day of haiku workshops at the Centre and haiku rambles around town, and will also showcase some of the poetry arising from the days activities.
Full price 5 Concessions 3.50 PTL 2
I grew up in Arizona--one of a few states that had the good sense to avoid the hassle of Daylight Savings Time. Not sure who 'they' think they're fooling. I know it was originally meant to help out the farmers, but, come on! We aren't exactly an agrarian country anymore! Anyway, here's what you may need to know:
Daylight savings time is almost here. Yes, much of the nation switches over to daylight savings time at 2 a.m. Sunday. Most states spring forward an hour with the exception of Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and territories such as Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and Northern Marianas Islands.
That makes many people happy -- or, rather, they think it does. Sure, folks can enjoy a bit of lingering daylight before turning on the TV after dinner. But some research suggests the time change may not be all its cracked up to be. It might just might, were not saying it does increase your risk of having a heart attack or attempting suicide.
More to the issue perhaps is that the mornings will be darker. L.A. Times staff writer Shari Roan examined the effect of this a few years ago when the time change was moved ahead by three weeks.
She wrote: "Early morning light sets the body's clock to gear up for the day's activities, but the later sunrise in the winter -- and a society based on the clock instead of nature -- causes a delay in the normal cycle."
Roenneberg said, The consequence of that is that the majority of the population has drastically decreased productivity, decreased quality of life, increasing susceptibility to illness, and is just plain tired. He refers to the chronically overtired people in the developed world as suffering from social jet lag.
He further stated, Light doesn't do the same things to the body in the morning and the evening. More light in the morning would advance the body clock, and that would be good. But more light in the evening would even further delay the body clock.On ther other hand, National Geographic reports Hendrik Wolff of the University of Washington co-authored a paper about daylight saving time power-use data. He is also studying whether daylight saving time gives health a boost because of more active lifestyles.
Wolff said, in a nationwide American time-use study, we're clearly seeing that, at the time of daylight saving time extension in the spring, television watching is substantially reduced and outdoor behaviors like jogging, walking, or going to the park are substantially increased. That's remarkable, because of course the total amount of daylight in a given day is the same." Evidently 'they' are fooling some people!
The University of Connecticut Health Center offers these tips for managing your sleep and life this weekend and the rest of the year.
--Practice. In the days leading up to the change, go to bed 15 minutes earlier and wake up 15 minutes earlier.(Too late!)
--Take a nap on Saturday but not close to bedtime.
--Just do it. After the time change, go to bed at your usual time even if you dont feel sleepy. Youll get used to it.
Suggestions to offset possible health effects of daylight savings time include getting early morning sunlight on the weekend to help coordinate your circadian rhythm. Lewy indicated it meant getting up at dawn for direct sunlight and not just sleeping by a window, something many people might be reluctant to try on a Saturday or Sunday morning.Avoiding evening light during those longer days can also help your body clock adjust. Another option is taking melatonin, a hormone our body produces at night that helps activate our body clock. Lewy said, A melatonin pill can stimulate those same receptors. And if you take it during the day, you can trick the neurons into thinking it's night and shift the clock.
Gehrman also suggested keeping a regular schedule including meal times. Other options include minimizing caffeine consumption during the day and avoiding exercise right before bed. Gerhman explains, You really need an hour of wind-down time, before going to bed.
Daylight saving time 2011 will be around for awhile so people are sure to get used to it. This weekend we will spring forward an hour. Standard time will be back on Sunday, November 6, 2011 when we once again fall behind an hour.
Here's a link to see how the rest of the world does (or doesn't) do it: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html
