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Toast to the Welsh Language

At the end of January, the BBC published an article about the pub The Seven Stars in Wrexham, the largest town in North Wales. This pub was renamed Saith Seren, a direct translation into Welsh, and is being run by the newly-formed Wrexham Welsh Centre.

Wrexham has become the first location in Wales chosen to be a “bilingual town” in a scheme to promote the use of the Welsh language. The project, drawn up by the Welsh government and the Welsh Language Board, hopes to encourage more people to use Welsh in everyday life in the town.

People are also welcome to drop their suggestions for a name for the new beer, which is being brewed with the help of Pene Coles from the Sandstone Brewery, who sits on the centre’s board of directors.

This pub features regular live music by Welsh-language bands and local bands with poetry, film and theatre, and serves as a focus for hundreds of Welsh learners in the area.

Although the aim is to promote the use of Welsh, the centre is open to all members of the public, and as well as food, drink and entertainment, the centre hopes to offer meeting rooms, community facilities and office space. Phase two of the project, the upstairs renovation of the listed building, is expected to be completed by June.

If you are interested in the Welsh language, you can also read Can Wales Really Trust Google Translate?

By |2019-09-03T21:26:42+01:00March 6th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

Dive into the Great Barrier Reef from Home

Google Street View, in collaboration with the Catlin Seaview Survey, will soon let you explore the Great Barrier Reef. The Seaview Survey is a scientific expedition which aims to carry out the first comprehensive study to document the composition and health of coral reefs on the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea across an unprecedented depth range (0-100m) – addressing a series of important questions regarding the changes associated with the rapidly warming and acidifying oceans.

The shallow survey will use a panoramic camera to generate images of the reef, at 20 sites across the entire length of the 2,300km Great Barrier Reef. The University of Queensland will participate in the project using an image recognition software to conduct a visual census of corals, fish and other organisms. The deep water survey will use robots to study the health, composition and biodiversity in the deep-water reefs. Finally, a team led by Richard Fitzpatrick, a cinematographer and shark researcher, will track 50 animals with satellite tags that continuously monitor their geographic position, temperature and depth. The aim is studying the migratory behaviour of tiger sharks, green turtles and manta rays in response to increasing seawater temperatures.

If you are interested in Google Street View, you can also read Google Maps Goes Indoors.

By |2019-09-03T21:26:42+01:00March 5th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments
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