Landscape award

"... The winner (reproduced above) was taken on the Isle of Skye by Emmanuel Coupe and is titled: Sunrise over the Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland. It's a picture that has both beauty and drama, and you can see why the judges picked it out of the pack."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/photoblog/2009/10/landscape_award.html

Marchant Calculator

"The Marchant Calculating Machine Co. was founded in 1911 by Rodney and Alfred Marchant in Oakland, California.

The company built mechanical, and then electromechanical calculators which had a reputation for reliability. Employee Carl Friden designed a new model in 1918 in response to patent challenges. It was a great success, and Friden became the chief designer until he left in 1934 to found his own company. In 1958 the company was acquired by the Smith Corona typewriter company in a diversification move that proved unsound; the company, which was now known as SCM, tried to stay competitive by introducing the SCM Cogito 240SR electronic calculator (designed by Manhattan Project veteran Stan Frankel) in 1965. Within a few years a tidal wave of cheaper electronic calculators had devastated their business, and by the mid 1980s, SCM's typewriter business, too, had been ruined by the advent of inexpensive personal computers used as word processors."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchant_Calculator


http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/marchant.html


http://192.220.96.166/oldies/marchant54.html

Aro Cardiff Buddhist Group

Please join us for meditation practice and yogic song at our meetings in Whitchurch, Cardiff. Our main meditation meeting is on the 1st Sunday of each month at 10am.

http://www.meetup.com/Aro-Cardiff-Buddhist-Group/




For further information about the Nyingma Aro Tradition: please see
http://arobuddhism.org/ and http://aroevents.org/

 
If you are learning to meditate, you might be interested in our free on-line meditation course:
http://aromeditation.org/

Language law threshold to double

"Details of the final version of the assembly government's bid for more powers to make laws on the Welsh language have been announced.

The law would apply to various organisations, including those receiving £400,000 or more of public money per year, up from £200,000. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8292107.stm