Places to see in ( Ruthin - UK )
Places to see in ( Ruthin - UK )
Ruthin is the county town of Denbighshire in north Wales. Located around a hill in the southern part of the Vale of Clwyd – the older part of the town, the castle and Saint Peter's Square are located on top of the hill, while many newer parts of the town are on the floodplain of the River Clwyd. Ruthin also has villages on the outskirts of the town such as Pwllglas and Rhewl.
The name 'Ruthin' comes from the Welsh words rhudd (red) and din (fort), and refers to the colour of the new red sandstone which forms the geologic basis of the area, and from which the castle was constructed in 1277–84. The original name of Ruthin was 'Castell Coch yng Ngwern-fôr' (red castle in the sea-swamps). The town developed around the castle and the nearby mill. Maen Huail is a registered ancient monument attributed to the brother of Gildas and King Arthur and is located outside Barclays Bank (formerly Exmewe House), on St Peter's Square.
Ruthin has a regular daytime bus service on Mondays to Saturdays, with the last service on most routes leaving between 5.30 and 7.30 pm. The Ruthin railway line and station were closed in the 1960s. Prior to the closure, Ruthin was connected by rail to Denbigh and Rhyl to the north, and Corwen in the south.
Ruthin Gaol ceased to be a prison in 1916 when the prisoners and guards were transferred to Shrewsbury. Ruthin Craft Centre is revenue funded by the Arts Council of Wales and is part of Denbighshire County Council. Nantclwyd y Dre (previously known as Tŷ Nantclwyd), in Castle Street, was built about 1435 by a local merchant Gronw ap Madoc. The building was sold to the county council in 1982, restored from 2004, and opened to the public in 2007.
This is Ruthin's main park area, which includes a children's play area, a lake, walks and picnic area. A skate park was built in 2007 and a zip wire and trim trail added later. The River Clwyd runs through the park. St Peter's Church is the parish church of Ruthin. It is in the diocese of St Asaph.
The Myddleton Arms is also known as the Seven Eyes. It is said to have been built in the 14th century. The Dutch style design, long, steeped roof is attributed to Sir Richard Clough, an Elizabethan merchant. Now flats, the Royal Oak is one of the finest buildings in Ruthin, having three cruck frames, it is a Grade II* listed building.
( Ruthin - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Ruthin . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Ruthin - UK
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Farmers Markets in Wales - USK
Farmers' Markets in Wales:
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This one at USK, Monmouthshire, UK,
on 1st and 3rd Saturday of each Month, 10.00 am - 1.00 pm.
Memorial Hall
Maryport Street
USK
NP15 1LH.
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Maes Mynan Park, Afonwen, Caerwys, North Wales
Maes Mynan Park is an exciting new Holiday Park Development set in 84 acres of beautiful countryside.
The first phase of the Maes Mynan Park lodge development is now underway which will see elevated holiday home lodges, with spectacular rural views, positioned around 2 lakes.
If you are thinking about acquiring a UK based holiday home that offers you your own space, tranquility and a base to explore and discover new interests and adventure, then visit us at Maes Mynan Park - a stunning relaxing location. Aspire to your dreams and own your own lodge and enjoy your staycation holidays.
A gem of a location in Flintshire, the gateway to North Wales, Maes Mynan is only 4 miles from junction 31 of the A55 in Afonwen, Nr. Caerwys.
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Inspirational Ideas For Your New Magnetic Wall
Richard Williams are delighted to now be stocking the incredible magnetic plaster from British Gypsum. Magnetic Plaster can be order at either of our branches in Llandudno Junction or Ruthin. These fantastic new walls can be used for a variety of scenarios, whether it is work or play, they have the potential to brighten up any rooms. We thought we would share some of British Gypsum's inspirational ideas for how to use your wall:
The Big Party
A gloriously sunny 1st July saw the Masonic Province of North Wales celebrate the Tercentenary of Grand Lodge with a hugely successful BIG PARTY in the extensive grounds of Queen Elizabeth Court Care Home in Llandudno. Attracting over 1400 attendees, including many young families from the local community, the day was a festival of live music, charity and market stalls, games of skill, fun fair rides, circus performers, circus workshops and craft demonstrations all supported by the Goose & Gridiron licensed bar and catering outlets.
Visitors were astounding to see a secretly planned landing by a Wales Air Ambulance on the adjoining school field. Children in particular stood in awe as the big red bird settled no more than 100 metres from them. Provincial Grand Master, Ieuan Redvers Jones, accompanied by Director of Operations for the Masonic Charitable Foundation, Les Hutchison, presented a cheque for £4,000 to the helicopter pilot on the big stage.
All proceeds from the day, which amounted to over £21,000, were donated to the Friends of Queen Elizabeth Court to be used for the benefit of the elderly residents.
Take a look at our highlights’ video professionally produced by Knew Productions of North Wales.
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Farmers Markets in Wales - CARDIFF ROATH
Farmers' Markets in Wales:
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This one at CARDIFF ROATH, Glamorganshire, UK,
every Saturday, 9.30 am - 1.00 pm, and
includes Roath Craft Market (indoors).
Mackintosh Sports Club
The Mackintosh Community Centre
Keppoch Street
Roath, CARDIFF
CF24 3JW.
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Llangollen Motor Museum in North Wales
Llangollen Motor Museum is a small family run museum on the banks of the beautiful River Dee in Llangollen North Wales.
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Betws y Coed, snowdonia DJI Phantom
Betws-y-Coed is North Wales' most popular inland resort and accommodation provider. It is where the River Conwy meets its three tributaries flowing from the West, the Llugwy, the Lledr and the Machno. Much of it was built in Victorian times and it is the principal village of the Snowdonia National Park.
Set in a beautiful valley in the Snowdonia Forest Park, it is ideal for outdoor activity holidays. Numerous Craft and outdoor activity shops are in the village with the popular Swallow Falls nearby.
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Betws-y-Coed has a river side car park which is quite small, usually spaces available if you hang around and someone will leave. A beautiful place to have picnic on the river side inside the woods. Nice bench and tables on the river banks. The river water is crystal clear and its a beauty to watch it flowing. There is people swimming if you can take the chillness of the water
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Oil painting techniques and tutorial with Jonathan Brier I Colour In Your Life
In this fine art TV show episode Jonathan Brier is interviewed with Colour In Your Life about painting, drawing, art workshops, art tips and art techniques.
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William Aston Hall, Illustration Degree Show, 2002.
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Wool industry in Wales | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:12 1 Process
00:04:12 2 Prehistoric to early medieval times
00:06:36 3 Medieval period
00:11:39 4 Foreign trade
00:16:16 5 Industrial era
00:16:26 5.1 North Wales
00:19:16 5.2 Mid-Wales
00:24:16 5.3 South Wales
00:27:56 6 Today
00:28:57 7 See also
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The woollen industry in Wales was at times the country's most important industry, though it often struggled to compete with the better-funded woollen mills in the north of England, and almost disappeared during the 20th century. There is continued demand for quality Welsh woollen products.
Wool processing includes removing the fleece by shearing, classing the wool by quality, untangling, carding and spinning it into yarn, which may be knitted or woven into cloth, then finishing the cloth by fulling, napping and pressing.
Spinning and weaving of sheep's wool dates to prehistoric times in Wales, but only became an important industry when Cistercian monasteries were established in the 12th century.
Water-powered fulling mills to finish the cloth enabled rapid expansion of the industry in the 13th century, although spinning and weaving continued to be a cottage industry.
In the early 16th century production shifted from south Wales to mid and north Wales. The Shrewsbury Drapers Company in England took a dominant role in distributing Welsh cloth. From the 18th century there was strong demand for cheap, sturdy Welsh material shipped from Bristol, Liverpool or the Welsh ports to clothe slaves in the British colonies of North America and the West Indies.
During the Industrial Revolution the Welsh woollen industry was slow to mechanize compared to the mills of northern England. When railways reached mid Wales in the 1860s they brought a flood of cheap mass-produced products that destroyed the local industry. However, development of the South Wales Coalfield opened a growing market for woollen products from water-powered mills in the south west, which prospered until after World War I. At one time there were more than 300 working wool mills. The industry went into steady decline after World War I, and only a few mills continue to operate.
Andrew Logan: The Artistic Adventure
Andrew Logan’s work spans the fields of sculpture, theater, pageants, jewelry, and interior design. As a scene-maker Logan is the mastermind behind London’s long-running Alternative Miss World pageant. A celebration of transformation, creative free-reign, and the ordinary turned extraordinary, the pageant features a countercultural parade of freaks, fops, show offs, and drag queens. From his early fame amongst London’s fashionable and artistic crowd, who have variously dubbed him ‘Faberge for the millennium’, ‘The Wizard of Odd’, and ‘mirror of our times’, he has become an influential artist of international stature. The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture in Wales is the only European museum dedicated to a living artist. Brian Eno said: “His work takes the risk of being completely clear in its intentions, doesn’t obscure itself in artspeak, and is unashamedly beautiful. […] He is also a ‘scene-maker’ — one of those rare people with the ability to bring out in others their sense of creativity and curiosity.”
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Literacy | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:11 1 History
00:03:21 1.1 Prehistoric and ancient literacy
00:03:31 1.1.1 Origins of literacy
00:07:15 1.1.2 Origins of the alphabet
00:14:14 1.2 Classical and post-classical literacy
00:19:21 2 Modern literacy
00:19:30 2.1 Spread of literacy since the mid-twentieth century
00:20:52 2.2 Regional disparities
00:22:56 2.3 Gender disparities
00:26:19 2.3.1 Challenges of increasing female literacy
00:28:18 2.3.2 Gender gap for boys in developed countries
00:29:21 2.4 Socioeconomic impact
00:30:58 2.5 Health impacts
00:32:22 2.6 Economic impacts
00:33:37 2.7 Literacy promotion efforts
00:36:56 2.8 Literacy as a development indicator
00:38:12 2.9 Literacy as a human right
00:39:42 3 U.S. public library efforts to promote literacy
00:41:37 3.1 30 April: Dia! Diversity in Action
00:42:33 3.2 READ/Orange County
00:44:01 3.3 BoulderReads!
00:45:45 3.4 Hillsborough Literacy Council (HLC)
00:47:17 4 Broader and complementary definitions
00:51:50 5 Teaching literacy
00:56:27 5.1 Post-conflict settings
00:57:47 5.2 Teaching non-native users
01:02:38 5.3 Teaching migrant/immigrant language users
01:08:12 5.4 Importance
01:10:03 6 By continent
01:10:13 6.1 Europe
01:10:22 6.1.1 United Kingdom
01:11:07 6.1.1.1 England
01:13:06 6.1.1.2 Wales
01:14:57 6.1.2 Continental Europe
01:18:40 6.2 North America
01:18:49 6.2.1 Canada
01:18:57 6.2.1.1 Colonialism (1600s–1762)
01:22:03 6.2.1.2 From the British Conquest (1763) to Confederation (1867)
01:25:00 6.2.1.3 1868–1986
01:29:00 6.2.1.4 Direct systematic measures of literacy in Canada, 1987 to present
01:33:09 6.2.2 Mexico
01:34:59 6.2.3 United States
01:36:46 6.2.3.1 Cultural and westernized literacy for Native Americans in the United States
01:38:40 6.3 South America
01:39:30 6.4 Africa
01:41:32 6.4.1 Algeria
01:41:52 6.4.2 Botswana
01:42:12 6.4.3 Burkina Faso
01:42:55 6.4.4 Egypt
01:43:31 6.4.5 Djibouti
01:43:46 6.4.6 Eritrea
01:44:04 6.4.7 Ethiopia
01:44:47 6.4.8 Guinea
01:45:48 6.4.9 Kenya
01:46:37 6.4.10 Mali
01:48:05 6.4.11 Mauritius
01:49:42 6.4.12 Niger
01:51:40 6.4.13 Senegal
01:52:47 6.4.14 Somalia
01:53:18 6.4.15 Sierra Leone
01:54:06 6.4.16 Uganda
01:54:20 6.4.17 Zimbabwe
01:54:38 6.5 Asia
01:54:47 6.5.1 Afghanistan
01:55:42 6.5.2 China
01:56:43 6.5.3 India
01:57:18 6.5.4 Laos
01:59:23 6.5.5 Pakistan
02:04:27 6.5.6 Philippines
02:06:59 6.5.7 Sri Lanka
02:08:01 6.6 Oceania
02:08:10 6.6.1 Australia
02:09:12 7 See also
02:09:42 8 Sources
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
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- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Dictionaries traditionally define literacy as the ability to read and write. In the modern world, this is one way of interpreting literacy. One more broad interpretation sees literacy as knowledge and competence in a specific area. The concept of literacy has evolved in meaning. The modern term's meaning has been expanded to include the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers, and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge, solve mathematical problems and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. The concept of literacy is expanding across OECD countries to include skills to access knowledge through technology and ability to assess complex contexts. A person who travels and resides in a foreign country but is unable to read or write in the language of the host country would be regarded by the locals as illiterate.
The key to literacy is reading development, a progression of skills which begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and which culminates in the deep understanding of text. Reading development involves a range of complex language-underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds (phonology), spelling patterns (orthography), word meaning (semantics), grammar (syntax) and patterns of word formation (morphology), all o ...
The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Gives Up Cigars / Income Tax Audit / Gildy the Rat
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.