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Welsh tributes as Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, resigns

16 March 2012 Last updated at 08:06 ET

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Tributes are being paid in Wales to Dr Rowan Williams for his work as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Swansea-born Dr Williams has announced he is to stand down in December after 10 years in the post.

The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, said Dr Williams had worked tirelessly over the past decade to hold the Anglican Communion together.

"Perhaps his true worth will only really be appreciated by the church once he's gone," he said.

Born in 1950 in the Swansea Valley he was educated at Dynevor Secondary School before going on to Christ's College, Cambridge.

He will take the position of Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge from January 2013, his website says.

He said stepping down had not been an easy decision and said it had been "an immense privilege" to serve as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury... Continued at BBC:

BBC Welsh Tributes as Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, resigns

Pembrey golf professional Martin Stimson is celebrating five years as the Pro at the Ashburnham Championship Links golf course.
It a marvellous course and one which makes it a pleasure coming to work every day, said the 45-year-old.
Stimson has known the course as man and boy, being born in Pembrey and a former pupil of Glan-y-Mor School in Burry Port.
I originally came here during the time Richard Player was here in the 1980s. I trained under Robert Ryder for five years.
I went back into engineering work for a while, but then turned Pro when I was 30.
I spent some time at Milford Haven, but then came back here as Pro in 2007.
Ive known some of the members since I was a boy and they are a great crowd.
Stimsons work as club Pro involves a number of duties.
I run the club shop and, of course, I am available for lessons.
We run a service centre for power caddies, we hire out buggies and we look after all sorts of repairs.
The focus is always on looking after club members and making sure that the Ashburnham experience is one that they appreciate and enjoy.
Stimson also takes part in competitions.
As a PGA member, I compete on the west region circuit and try to qualify for The Open.
Stimson is particularly pleased with the efforts being made at The Ash to develop junior talent.
Nia Greville, Elliot Anderson and Bobby Phillips are all great youngsters coming through the system here at The Ash.
We have a good batch of 13-14 year-olds coming through, which will be the next generation of golfers here at The Ashburnham. Ive even got my son into playing the game!
The Ashburnham remains Stimsons favourite course, but, when pressed, he will admit that he also admires St Enedoc in Cornwall.
He rates the Woodhall Spa course in Lincoln as the most challenging course he has played.
Stimson added: As far as The Ash is concerned, my favourite thing is the challenge it provides and the stunning location. Ive been playing it since I was 14 and still find it provides a fresh challenge every day.
From my perspective, the most demanding hole on the course is the 6th, a challenging par 3. Its probably on the list of most challenging holes for members as well.
You can contact Martin Stimson by email at pro@ashgolf.co.uk

The legal team at Redkite has beaten off stiff competition to win the right to represent the new legal super brand called QualitySolicitors in Camarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.
Redkite will now be rebranded as QualitySolicitors Redkite.
The name changes, but we remain your local solicitors for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, said QualitySolicitors Redkite managing partner Luke Smith.
Our very strong identity, with staff who care passionately about the community and the people of West Wales, stays very firmly in place.
But the new branding will give us benefits throughout the region by being part of the biggest new brand in the legal market in the UK.
QualitySolicitors is expanding fast to becoming a household name, with strong media and television campaigns.
The game changing group now has 220 branches across the UK and has ambitions to be present in every major UK town and city.

Reproduced with kind permission from David Western's Portland Eisteddfod Lovespoon Blog

Occasionally, I will visit a certain well-known internet product retail website and have a read of the customer comments regarding my book, "The Fine Art of Carving Lovespoons". One comment in particular always gives me a good chuckle, even though it is a bit scathing in its condemnation of my artistic abilities. It refers to a couple of my more 'simple' pieces, generally spoons where I have let a particularly beautiful piece of wood do the talking while I stay in the background supplying only a few selective cuts and some elbow grease at polishing time. To my eye, these are some of my most beautiful spoons, to my critic, they are a failure to do something worthwhile with my carving abilities.

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The picture to the left is the one that I think is responsible for the largest lashings of my critic's vitriol. As he/she describes it, "it honestly looks like a block of wood." To me it looks like one of the most beautiful pieces of figured broadleaf maple I have had the good fortune to have encountered. Now I'm a pretty good carver, but trust me, there is nothing I could have done to this wood that would have made it any more beautiful than it already is. I put an elegant bowl and a little heart on it and called it a day, content that this was one of my most beautiful lovespoons!

THIS is a perfect example of the adage "Less is more".

Unfortunately, we carvers are an odd lot and many of us are motivated by a desire to be as complicated as possible...we equate complexity and difficulty with beauty and art.

Too often, carving which is 'simple' is looked down on as it is viewed as a failing of the carver's artistic skill and his carving abilities. But it aint easy to make a really simple spoon that looks as beautiful as some of these ones you see here today. I'm not bragging or showing off, but I have to confess that making spoons like these is every bit as difficult as coming up with one of the Celtic knot eye-poppers I am more known for. These spoons are the Stompin' Tom Connor (ZZ Top for my American readers) tunes of the spoon world! They are little 3 chord beauties with a catchy hook and easy to remember lyrics that seem so simple that anyone could do it...but which very few actually can.

Could I do this without many years of experience? Certainly not consistently. I might get the odd lucky bounce and make a good one by accident, but it has taken me long time to learn enough carving and art skills, enough self-confidence and most important, enough restraint to take spoons like this on.

Honestly, these aint no blocks of wood!

Theres a new team at the helm at The Ashburnham Championship Links golf course in Pembrey.
The new club captain is structural engineer Mel Williams.
And the new ladies captain is Iris Jacob.
Mr Williams, 69, has been playing at The Ash for 53 years, since he was 16.
When I was brought up in Pembrey and most of the local boys in played golf as well as the traditional sports of rugby and cricket, Mr Williams said.
Im really looking forward to my year as club captain. The fellowship and the fun is great here and I am looking forward to all the competitions and activities planned for the year.
Ladies captain Mrs Jacob is a post office worker living in Pembrey.
She started playing golf in 1994.
She recalled: I started playing on the advice of a friend. Id just become a widow and she brought me down to The Ash to try the game. Ive made new friends and been given a new lease of life with a new circle of friends.
Mrs Jacob added: We have a wonderful course here at The Ash and a great community spirit in the club.
Picture: Mel Williams and Iris Jacobs, club captains at The Ashburnham Golf Club.

Award-winning South Wales architects the Lewis Partnership are celebrating winning a place on a UK-wide register which is designed to champion efficiency and best practice.
Constructionline is a partnership between the Government and Capita and is designed to deliver savings for both the public and private sector.
Constructionline isnt a name which is well known among the general public, but it is a real door-opener in business, said Lewis Partnership Managing Director Philip Lewis.
You have to meet key standards for a place on the Constructionline register and weve been successful in achieving Constructionline registration.
Constructionline is the UKs largest register for pre-qualified contractors and consultants.
At the heart of what they do is a national online database. In terms of efficiency, time and cost saving and best practice, Constructionline is proven to deliver for public and private sector organisations alike.
The service is recommended by the Governments Office Of Government Commerce (OGC) and the Local Government Task Force.
Mr Lewis added: We are delighted to secure a place on the Constructionline register and look forward to it paying dividends for us as a successful local business.
For suppliers to the construction industry, Constructionline means that they no longer need to repeatedly fill in standard pre-qualification forms for every construction tender.
Whats more, with 8,000 buyers already using the Constructionline database to source contractors and consultants, Constructionline is a great tool to market businesses.
All suppliers on Constructionline are pre-qualified to Government standards and maintain relationships with a range of industry, ePurchasing and Government partners to ensure that they remain relevant to procurement professionals within the construction industry.
By reducing duplication in the pre-qualification process, Constructionline helps both buyers and suppliers achieve savings in cost and time spent filling in forms.
Constructionline is a Public-Private Partnership between Capita (the UKs leading business process outsourcing (BPO) and professional services company) and the Department for Business Innovation & Skills.
Weblinks -
http://www.constructionline.co.uk
http://www.lewispartnership.co.uk/
On Facebook, search Lewis Partnership Ltd.
On Twitter, look for @Lewis_Architect
The Lewis Partnership of architects was founded in 1995 by partners of established architectural firms based in Llanelli, Carmarthen and Bridgend. The firm has a wide knowledge of the design and project management of a wide variety of building types, and draws on the experience of chartered architects and a complimentary technical and secretarial staff. Projects are prepared and completed using high-tech Autocad computer-aided design The company has gained accreditation to the International Quality Assurance Standard BS EN ISO 9001 : 2000. During 2007, the company gained RIBA Chartered status. The company is one of Carmarthenshire Councils preferred Architectural Practices in their Building Control Partnering Scheme.
The company is based at No13 Park Crescent, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SA15 3AE.
Telephone 01554 777998.

Below is an excerpt from a recent announcement by our platform provider. We are looking for ways to utilize this on AmeriCymru. I have had discussions with Gaabriel, Swansea Jack, Brett Hull and others and between us we have so far failed to come up with a concrete idea for adopting this interesting new functionality. That's not to say we haven't had a few bright ideas but nothing as yet that we want to commit to. So...dear readers and members, we are turning this over to you. How might we adapt this for use in this community? Remember that this could be used as a basis for all sorts of competitions, rankings etc etc. I have also investigated a user points system which could be used in conjunction with it and I suppose "the possibilities are only limited by the power of our imaginations". Well.....maybe that's a bit over the top, but I'm sure you know what I mean

Anyhoo if you have a bright idea please don't be reticent...drop a communique in comments below and lets see if we can do something with this....Diolch

The excerpt beginneth:-

"Categories
Create up to 50 categories and assign members to them. All of your members will begin in the default category, called Members. You can create and edit new categories via the Member Categories tab in the Member Management section. A couple of important limitations to note up front: the default category can't be edited, and members can only belong to one category at a time.

Listings
When you create a category, you have an option to create a listing page exclusively for the members in that category, and you can create listing pages for up to 5 10 categories. When you do this, a new submenu item for the category will appear in the submenu items for Member pages. You can choose the text for the submenu listing, so that you can pluralize or customize it. This is a great way to highlight specific members on the network.

Image and Text Badges
Each category that you create can also have an optional image or text badge that gets added as an overlay on a member's profile picture. Whether you create badges of honor or badges of shame, this is an excellent way to identify admins, reward special members, or just make it easy for visitors to identify different types of members. Text badges are based on the category name, and can be placed at the top or bottom of the profile picture. You can set the text color, background color, and the background opacity for each badge.

Images badges can be positioned in one of the four quadrants of a member's profile picture. We've included 22 badges to get you started, and you can upload and manage up to 50 of your own custom badges.

Text and Image badges will appear in most places in your network, but not everywhere. Right now they won't appear in Chat and in a couple of other places, like the profile images on sign in and sign up pages.

CSS Tricks
Designers and Network Creators who are comfortable with CSS will be pleased to know that each created category is associated with a CSS class that we're adding to the #xg_themebody div in profile pages. This means you can create CSS styles that will be applied to the profile pages of members in a category. This will let you do things like adjust the background or color scheme of every member of your network who's in a specific category.

Messaging
Once you've assigned your members to categories, you can use new functionality in the Broadcast Message feature to send a broadcast message to just those members. Choose any category you've created and proceed from there. The current broadcast message includes a subheader with the words "A Message to all members of Network Name". Now that you can target individual categories for messages, that text is no longer accurate, so we'll be removing it with this release. If you like that message and want to retain it, you can add it in manually like this:
<h3>A Message to all members of Network Name</h3>"