France's largest banking house, BNP Paribas, generated $109bn in revenue in 2017. While this represents a 2.2% decrease in revenue when compared to 2016, BNP experienced a profit increase of 14.7%, according to Fortune. This is the third-largest profit increase in the top 10, and is predicted to increase further in the future, as BNP reveals plans to use Brexit as an opportunity to expand its share of the UK's financial market. BNP is currently ranked 14th among investment banking houses in the UK, according to the Financial Times.
Allianz, the world's largest property and casualty insurer, is based in Munich, Germany, and last year declared $122.2bn in revenue. While this represents a 0.6% revenue decrease in comparison to 2016, the company's profits have grown by 3.7%. This makes 2017 a 10-year high point for company profits, according to Forbes. Allianz CEO Oliver Bate has recently warned that the improving health of the global economy may experience setbacks in 2018. As a result, Allianz is offering enhanced coverage for commercial property owners going forward by combining property and casualty covers.
Total, France's largest oil and gas conglomerate, reported a total revenue of $127.93bn in 2017. At 10.8%, Total experienced the second-most severe revenue decrease in the top 10, in keeping with the industry as a whole, but experienced a profit growth of 21.8%. In January 2018, Total took ownership of the Lapa and Santos Basin oil fields from Petrobas, as part of a $1.95bn alliance deal. Expansion across multiple holdings is expected to add over 200,000 barrels of crude per day to the company's production capacity.
With a reported revenue of $143.7bn, France's largest insurance company AXA experienced revenue growth of 11.2%, the largest of any company on the list. Company profits have grown steadily at 3.5%, and a recent agreement between AXA and transportation giant Uber is expected to promote further growth. The new deal provides more comprehensive cover to Uber's drivers for "medical expenses, disability indemnities, and survivor benefits in case of an accident".
Italian investment company Exor Group reported a yearly revenue of $154.9bn in 2017. While this figure represents a 1.5% increase over the previous year, Exor registered a profit-reduction of 21.1%, the worst of any company on the list. The Exor Group, through its subsidiaries, controls auto manufacturers (Fiat, Ferrari, Maserati), real estate service providers (C&W), and the Juventus FC football franchise. At over 300,000, Exor employs the largest workforce in the top 10. The company's asset portfolio has shrunk dramatically in recent years: from $165.8bn in assets four years ago to $11.348bn this year, according to Forbes.
German auto manufacturer Daimler reported a revenue of $169.5bn at the end of 2017, according to Fortune's 500 list. The company has experienced stable growth in revenue (2.2%) and profit (0.9%), despite the decision to recall 3mn diesel vehicles in the summer of 2017 in response to the revelation that its products were performing far below carbon emission standards. The recall effort has been estimated to cost over $220mn by Fortune. The company has shown steady growth in profit since turning a loss of over $3.6bn in 2015. The scandal is being held responsible for Daimler's descent down the Fortune Global 500 list this year, to a worldwide position of 17.
Swiss commodities giant Glencore reported a net revenue of $173.9bn this year, the figure representing a 2.2% increase over 2016. Profits showed no change, according to Fortune's Global 500 list. The company's investment in mining and metals, agricultural equipment, and energy products has resulted in a slow return to profitability after massive losses in 2011. The steady sale of its assets has seen a reduction in company value of almost $100bn since 2012. Steadily declining commodities prices and rising costs have caused concern among investors over Glencore's future, reports Fortune, and the company has been urged to reduce spending further in the coming year. Glencore has fallen two places on the Fortune Global 500 list this year, down to number 16 overall.
With a net revenue of $186.61bn, BP continues its descent through the Fortune Global 500 rankings, from its high point of second in 2005, dropping again to rank 12th in the world this year. The company experienced a 17.4% revenue decrease in comparison to the previous fiscal year, although profits remained the same. BP displayed promising signs of resurgence this year, resuming the practice of share buybacks in a move that shows Big Oil is learning to turn a profit in a post-oil-crash market, according to Fortune.
Royal Dutch Shell is incontestably this year's European success story. While the company's net revenue $240.03bn decreased by 11.8% from the last financial year, Shell experienced a profit increase of 135.9%, the highest by far of any company in the European top 10. Deep spending and job cuts have allowed Shell to adapt to the $50 per barrel oil market. Third-quarter profits were also boosted in Shell's upstream sector by Hurricane Harvey, which temporarily reduced US oil production by over 25%. The company announced it remains confident going into 2018, provided world oil prices remain above $50 per barrel.
Boasting the highest revenue of any European company at $240.4bn, Volkswagen continues its steady ascent up the Fortune Global 500 list, with a revenue growth of 1.5%, reaching an all-time high of sixth in the global rankings. While profits remain unchanged from 2016, Volkswagen increased sales in 2017 by 4.3%, according to German news source De Local. In the face of financial setbacks, Volkswagen has turned to the emerging markets of electrical and self-driving cars, acquiring Aurora Innovation at the beginning of 2018, financially backing the startup's aim to have self-driving cars on the streets in between two and five cities by 2021.


What is the Kerstperiode of Cyclocross?
While Americans are exchanging gifts and ringing in the New Year, Belgium has something special - the "Kerstperiode" of cyclocross. What is Kerstperiode? Literally, it means "Christ Period"; but in cyclocross terms, it means a series of elite races clustered around the Christmas and New Year's weeks in Belgium.
Diegem - this town just outside Brussels hosts a night race under the lights. Super exciting to watch as the fastest riders fly through the town center.
If you're in Europe, you have an opportunity to personally visit multiple races, in a small, easy-to-visit geographic area, all within just a few days.
If you're in North America attending personally might be out of the question, but the quality of streaming for many races is high these days, so you can still join in the Kerstperiode celebration via the internet.


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ISIS and the Assad dynasty – by Lydia Wilson
Article • Publié sur Souria Houria le 29 septembre 2015
Well into its fifth year, the conflict in Syria only seems to worsen every day, the news impossible to foresee from one month to the next, with warnings from the UN, NGOs and charities growing ever more desperate. And all the while the feelings of helplessness grow. What can we do? Or, increasingly, what should we have done? Would early intervention have been the better option, stopping, or at least slowing, the carnage, the rise of sectarianism and extreme Islamism? Should the West have dug out those moderate opposition fighters and armed the right ones? And if so, is it now too late to do so?
The al-Kalaseh neighbourhood of Aleppo, November 17, 2014 Photograph: ©Hosam Katan/Reuters
Meanwhile, the civilians pay the price. Syria, a country with a population of under 23 million, now has the highest number of IDPs (Internally Displaced People) in the world: around 7.6 million. One in every four refugees (almost 4 million) in the world is Syrian: 43 per cent of the entire population is displaced. Deaths resulting from the conflict are hard to verify: the UN, well known for being conservative, says that the toll has surpassed 220,000; the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights puts the number at 320,000. UN humanitarian missions are being blocked or ignored by the regime, despite the soaring poverty levels – three out of four citizens were living in poverty by the end of 2013.
Samar Yazbek brings these horrifying statistics to life in her powerful and deeply painful The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria, beautifully translated by Nashwa Gowanlock and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp. After fleeing to France in 2011, Yazbek made three trips to Idlib province in northern Syria, illegally crossing the Turkish border – all too easy, then and now – thus charting the changing fortunes and attitudes of the opposition forces and giving a rich portrait of this province, "liberated" from the regime early in the civil war and relentlessly bombarded by air and land in return. She charts with grief the rise of the Islamists and their claim to the revolution, which the secular idealists could only stand and witness given their critical lack of weapons to counter the foreign-funded jihadists.
A fine novelist, Yazbek makes her experiences palpable; visceral fear and anger – and pride in her compatriots – thread through the account. Her deep commitment to understanding her interviewees, along with the virtuosic prose, make her characters and their stories indelible: there is the regime soldier refusing to rape a Sunni girl and so shot in the back by his officer, a friend defecting the same night to live and tell the tale; the seven-year-old girl nightly recounting stories of injury and death in the cellar during bombing raids – "my little Scheherazade", Yazbek calls her; the two old women who refuse to seek shelter or flee with their family, reminiscent of characters in a novel by Gabriel García Márquez; the foreign jihadists manning checkpoints and the spurt of anger from Syrians at this new form of occupation.
One in every four refugees – almost 4 million – in the world is Syrian: 43 per cent of the entire population is displaced
By contrast, Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs uprising by the Franco-American novelist and journalist Jonathan Littell (translated by Charlotte Mandell), is a bare record of notes the author made during two weeks in Homs in 2012. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his book is sketchy, and this can be frustrating. So many questions remain. Why was Littell's interpreter and photographer, Ra'id, so quick to get into arguments? Why were there sometimes other translators involved? What was Ra'id's background, given that he had good contacts and spoke Arabic but came from outside Syria? These details matter: they would explain the reactions of the fighters and others to Littell, but the reader is left wondering at the gulf between his experience with the rebels, seemingly antagonistic at every stage, and that of Yazbek, who was welcomed and appreciated for her help, despite their common aim in documenting the revolution. Is it because she is Syrian, he European? She female, he male? Is it a question of the difference between towns in Idlib province and the major city of Homs? Littell's epilogue shows one possible benefit of his approach: with hindsight, he is ashamed of some of the episodes that may well have been deleted in a sanitized, revised version, episodes that do indeed strike a jarring note (including his unexplained anger with the people who are daily risking their lives to defend their country), but perhaps give a truer version of what it is to be a European war correspondent in Syria, with all the confusion and fear and bad behaviour that can occur.
In the heat of disgust at the behaviour of ISIS, it is sobering to find evidence in both of these books of identical behaviour by Bashar al-Assad's regime, and long before ISIS broke out into the open. Burning people alive, taking women as spoils of war (especially if they were deemed heretical by the Alawite shabiha militias), widespread looting and the destruction of culture were all happening from the beginning of the revolution, and the abuses reported here are every bit as bad as those of ISIS: Littell describes in stomach-turning detail the experience of a doctor formerly in the service of the regime employed to keep people alive after horrific and repeated torture. So why does the West only respond militarily to ISIS and not to Assad's forces? The reality is that Assad beats even ISIS at propaganda, to such an extent that many don't even recognize him for what he is: an opportunist ruthlessly taking advantage of whatever group is expedient to his purpose only to turn on them when necessary, in this case using the jihadists both to fight his war against the rebels, and at the same time using their presence in the country to defend his actions to the international community, claiming his tactics are necessary for the global war on terror, an excuse used by Russia and China to block international action against his regime and more recently by Russia to build up troops inside the country. This is where Jean-Pierre Filiu's work is valuable, showing the long-established techniques of Syrian leaders which led directly – inexorably – to the formation of ISIS.
From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab counter-revolution and its jihadi legacy is somewhat misnamed, being mostly structured around an analogy between four current regimes and the medieval Mamluk rulers of the Islamic world, barely mentioning, let alone explaining, the "Deep State" of Turkey (which, in Filiu's version, seems to refer to an unofficial power structure, parallel to and secret from the elected government, capable of meting out "justice" and guiding, even controlling, the legitimate leaders for the perceived welfare of the country); and on top of this there is a crucial flaw to the Mamluk analogy, but nevertheless this book is forceful and illuminating. The flaw is that the Mamluks, even in Filiu's own description, were outsiders, remaining so through strict rules concerning marriage and lifestyle. In fact, Filiu goes a little too far in stressing their foreignness to Arab culture, claiming that in over two centuries they never really learned Arabic properly, something hard to imagine. In contrast, the twentieth-century despots in the region were locally born, compatriots of the people they brutally suppressed and continue to suppress. (The fact that they are sometimes minorities of the countries – Alawite in Syria, Sunni in Iraq – has contributed to the descent into sectarian violence we have so often seen.) But, despite flaws and a certain patchiness of evidence, Filiu has produced a refreshingly nuanced analysis of the region's totalitarian regimes, distinguishing between those of his "Modern Mamluks" (in Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria) and other styles of suppressive dictatorships (in Iraq, Libya, Tunisia and the Gulf States): the dictators that held on to power in these four countries, he shows in great detail, "hijacked their independence from the hands of the actual, mostly civilian, freedom fighters", and held on to it at all costs. The intricate story of Tahrir Square leading to the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood at the polls before power reverted to the "modern Mamluks" of the army is particularly revealing, though of less relevance to the Syrian civil war than the acid portrait of Bashar al-Assad, who "follow[ed] in his father's footsteps, compensating for his minor talent through his tenacious greed".
Filiu shows that Assad was caught off guard by the demonstrations but quickly regained lost ground through the use of the Islamists he had previously imprisoned and tortured: the regime's "dramatic recovery owed a lot to the viciousness of [its] jihadi gamble that literally caught the popular uprising in a crossfire". Yazbek, observing this "double occupation" of the regime and the Islamists, delicately explores the complicity of Assad's government: why were notorious Islamist prisoners released in May of 2011, she asks many of the fighters she meets, just when the demonstrations began to get violent? The questions are rebuffed by the interviewees, but, perhaps because of this, they echo throughout the text, unanswered. The link between Assad and ISIS is laid out directly by Littell in his introduction when he draws comparisons between modern-day Syria and the Chechen revolution – with Chechnya's democratically elected government overwhelmed by Russian government-backed Islamists – as well as with the jihadists once supported in Afghanistan by the CIA. When charged with the evidence from Syria, the then French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppé, agreed with Littell (to his surprise), but said that "alone . . . without the participation of its American and British allies, France could do nothing". The alliance is also contextualized historically by Filiu, who shows that it was no surprise, given the previous tactics of the Syrian regime of drawing cynically on what he calls the "jihadi joker". And so when Charles Glass, in Syria Burning, says that the West is now effectively supporting Assad by bombing his enemies, he only has half the picture: Assad avoided bombing the Islamists himself while they were battling the more moderate opposition (for example, waiting for rebels to kick ISIS out of districts of Aleppo and Idlib provinces, at some cost, before sending in his warplanes: around 2,000 people died in the subsequent bombing of the ISIS-free area while ISIS had already turned its attention to expanding in Iraq), gambling on the fact that the international community would react to such an enemy. The gamble paid off. Coalition's air strikes against ISIS positions started after the declaration of the Caliphate in 2014, which, as Glass points out, sought to remove one enemy facing Assad, but only once it had helped decimate another.
Glass's book is an extended form of an article written for the New York Review of Books, the argument resting largely on the colonial period, in particular blaming Britain and France for the current debacle. "Think back", Glass tells the reader, confident that there can be no disagreement, "to when this mess began which was a long time before young Mohamed Bouazizi burned himself to death in Tunisia. It was about the time the British and the French decided to save the Arabs from the Ottoman Empire's oppression." This wishful picture of peaceful coexistence before the Europeans arrived is common enough among journalists and academics, but there are limitations to the narrative. It robs the people of the Middle East of their history and the historical fractures the European powers exploited, and it fails to account for the rampant nationalism seen within these artificial borders made very clear by the Arab Spring. To blame the colonialists is ultimately to deny responsibility to the people of the Middle East for their own affairs. It is old-fashioned orientalism dressed up in mea culpa garb. Filiu shows that there was indeed self-determination, but it was all in terms of the self-interest of a few, never for the general good – or, rather, what was for the general good never managed to gain or hold on to power. In this context the crushing of the Arab Spring was just the latest in a series of moves against a popular opposition to the status quo, and the covert support of Islamists just another tool in the kit.
To blame the colonialists is to dress up old-fashioned orientalism in mea culpa garb
Christian Sahner's Among the Ruins: Syria past and present is another form of witness, often expressing the same affection and grief as Yazbek, but from the perspective of an outsider, as are Littell and Glass. But instead of concentrating on the conflict itself, Sahner bears witness to the country as it was before the demonstrations, including factors that led to, and somewhat explain, the current tragedy. In his beautiful patchwork of recent experience and academic history, he gives a truly original portrait of contemporary Syria without shirking the social problems, physical ugliness or political realities many Westerners often want to deny. "I suspect some readers will disagree with my assessments of the importance of religious identity in Syrian history", he rather humbly and bravely says in his introduction, pointing out how many commentators blame the regime or foreign powers for stoking a sectarianism that simply didn't exist before the war, a stance his book gently demolishes. "True", he says later, "the destructive sectarianism the world has witnessed in Syria recently is something new, but it seems clear that . . . sectarianism is appealing precisely because it builds on pressures that have existed in Syria for a long time."
Sahner gives a long historical arc, going back to pre-Islamic, Byzantine Syria, before going on to produce a moving and highly readable account of the country today. His close attention to the buildings and geography of Syria, together with accounts of his many friendships, bring the country into sharper focus than textual sources alone can do. In one scene he walks through the Christian area of Bab Touma in Damascus, describing the churches he passes. As he goes, he explains their presence and position in the Old City: the first Caliphs to make Damascus their capital, the Umayyads, decided to demolish the big basilica in the centre of the city. The Christians negotiated with their new rulers, and were compensated with land granted in perpetuity in another part of the city – land where four churches still stand (though they are not the original buildings). This was canny of the Caliphs: Christian worship and hence much of its culture was pushed from the middle to the edges of Damascus in a move construed as gracious and generous to the conquered population. Sahner uses this background to explain various conversations he has had with contemporary Damascene Christians, digging beneath the "rosy picture" of Muslim–Christian co-existence to find that "much was left unsaid"; in particular, he writes, the construction of the old city now gives the impression of a "very gentle siege". His affection for the city never blinds him: "In 2008, Damascus seemed less like paradise than urban purgatory: from high above, she was a mash of satellite dishes and grey tenements, an expanse of concrete slowly consuming all trace of green on the desert fringe".
History is not only practised by scholars seeking to understand the present, but also by politicians wishing to shape it; we see the effects in Shakespeare's history plays, or Israel's politicization of archaeological sites, or in ISIS's expositions of Islam in the time of Muhammad. As Sahner says: "Ancient history can be a hobby of . . . the kinds of people who profit from tracing the political present to a distant, unknowable past . . . . It's also a way of excluding those deemed not to belong". His account brings us up to the present, complementing Filiu's more broad-brush picture of the Assad regime with descriptions of the social effects of the security state created by Hafez Assad and now maintained by his son. A conversation with a friend sheds light on "the most tragic side-effect of Syria's security state: the decay of civil society, of the invisible bonds that create an esprit de corps among a people". This is just one factor in the descent into a multifaceted civil war that Christian Sahner explores in his subtle book.
Nothing about the twentieth-century history of the Middle East was inevitable, although historical retellings often make it seem so. As Jean-Pierre Filiu says in his conclusion: "The unfolding of such disasters in the Arab world was both predictable and avoidable". Read together, these books complement and contradict each other not only to give a composite picture of the conflict, but also to show the numerous ways in which this region is (and has been) interpreted, for good and for ill, and of the ideologies that continue to dog the Middle East, from within and without.
Lydia Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, a Research Fellow and Field Director at Artis International, and visiting scholar at the Ralph Bunche Institute, Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She edits the Cambridge Literary Review.
source : http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1610548.ece
Samar Yazbek
My journey to the shattered heart of Syria
Translated by Nashwa Gowanlock and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
288pp. Rider. £20.
978 1 84604 486 1
Jonathan Littell
SYRIAN NOTEBOOKS
Inside the Homs uprising
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
192pp. Verso. Paperback, £12.99 (US $24.95).
Jean-Pierre Filiu
FROM DEEP STATE TO ISLAMIC STATE
The Arab counter-revolution and its jihadi legacy
328pp. Hurst. £15.99.
US: Oxford University Press. $24.95.
978 0 19 026406 2
Charles Glass
SYRIA BURNING
ISIS and the death of the Arab Spring
156pp. OR Books. Paperback, £11.
978 1 939293 88 6
Christian C. Sahner
AMONG THE RUINS
Syria past and present
240pp. Hurst. £20.

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Our 34" x 22" horseshoe crab poster is not only attractive, it's also filled with great information about the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab. The poster side details horseshoe crab spawning cycles, anatomy, lifecycle, and distribution and features a timeline of the history of the ancient mariner.
The reverse side of the poster describes the history of horseshoe crab management, features information about Delaware's Green Eggs & Sand program for educators, and provides resources for finding more information about horseshoe crabs and shorebirds.
It's a great tool for educators and classrooms, but the poster also makes a terrific gift for anyone who loves nature and science. Posters are shipped rolled in a tube.


En geluk aan laasmaand se wenner, Karin Behrens. Die regte antwoord was Broken Monsters.
Moenie vergeet dat die vierde uitgawe van Idees Vol Vrees nou beskikbaar is in boekwinkels nie! Met 150 tekenprente, is die 'n moet-hê vir alle aanhangers. Die boek bevat ook 50 van Kobus se oorspronklike eenlyn grappies, wat jou sal laat lê van die lag! En, as jy nie geweet het nie… daar is nou 'n Idees Vol Vrees app! Kliek hier vir besonderhede.
Wow, it's almost November! Where did the time go and is the end of the year upon us already? As you count down the days to Christmas and 2015 why not test your book knowledge skills with the latest cartoon that Kobus Galloway illustrates exclusively for us. As usual it depicts the title of a recently published book, this time by Umuzi. Can you figure it out? Here's a hint – it was published in English and Afrikaans but the cartoon is specifically referring to the Afrikaans title. Have a browse through the Random House Struik website to help you find the answer, then fill in your details below to enter and you could win any Random House Struik book of your choice (maximum value of R500)! Good luck!
Congratulations to last month's winner, Karin Behrens. The correct answer was Broken Monsters. Also, don't forget that the fourth volume of Idees Vol Vrees is available in stores now! It's packed with 150 more cartoons, including the most popular ones and more than 100 new cartoons that have not appeared anywhere else. It is a must-have for the legions of existing fans. As an added bonus the book also features 50 of Kobus's original one-liner jokes, which will have you in stitches. Plus, did you know that there is now an Idees Vol Vrees app? Click here for details.


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The Punch Bowl Inn
"With Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk on the doorstep" - AA Inspector
LOW ROW, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Refurbished it may have been, but it's still evident that this Grade II listed Swaledale pub is old, 17th century, in fact. Alongside open fires and antique furniture, the bar and bar stools were hand-crafted by Robert 'The Mouseman' Thompson's company, whose trademark is a discreetly placed carved mouse. Masham brewery Black Sheep's cask-conditioned ales are in the bar. The Lunch and Beyond Menu wends its way from home-made Scotch egg with spiced apple chutney, via steak and Blacksheep casserole, herb dumpling and horseradish mash, to Yorkshire parkin with apple compôte. An alternative menu, the Mirror, has suggestions such as creamy cauliflower and Stilton soup; sea bass with Asian spiced vegetables and poppadom; and roasted Mediterranean vegetables with brown lentils. Game comes from the surrounding moors, and fresh fish is delivered from Hartlepool six days a week. There's a traditional carvery every Sunday, and steak nights are held on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. If you stay over, perhaps for the Swaledale festival in late May, enjoy the views from one of the 11 bedrooms. The nearby market town of Richmond is famous for its castle and Georgian Theatre, Britain's oldest in its original form.
LOW ROW,DL11 6PF
Phone : 0333 7000 779
Children's portions
Sports TV
Prices and payment
Main course from: £11.50
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Wide selection of Ales
Wide selection of ciders
The Red Lion Inn
[field_city] , NORTH YORKSHIRE
Charles Bathurst Inn
The King's Arms
1783 Bar & Restaurant
Discover North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire, with its two National Parks and two designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is England's largest county and one of the most rural. This is prime walking country, from the heather-clad heights of the North York Moors to the limestone country that is so typical of the Yorkshire Dales – a place of contrasts and discoveries, of history and legend.
The coastline offers its own treasures, from the fishing villages of Staithes and Robin Hood Bay to Scarborough, one time Regency spa and Victorian bathing resort. In the 1890s, the quaint but bustling town of Whitby provided inspiration for Bram Stoker, who set much of his novel, Dracula, in the town. Wizarding enthusiasts head to the village of Goathland, which is the setting for the Hogwarts Express stop at Hogsmeade station in the Harry Potter films.
York is a city of immense historical significance. It was capital of the British province under the Romans in AD 71, a Viking settlement in the 10th century, and in the Middle Ages its prosperity depended on the wool trade. Its city walls date from the 14th century and are among the finest in Europe. However, the gothic Minster, built between 1220 and 1470, is York's crowning glory.
The Punch Bowl is a friendly inn which is appointed in a contemporary style. Real ales and freshly-cooked meals using quality local produce which are served in either the spacious bar or dining room. The modern bedrooms are simple yet stylishly...
Arklehurst
The CB Inn, as it is known by locals, is surrounded by magnificent scenery high in the Dales. Food is the focus of the pub, where a choice of rustic eating areas makes for atmospheric dining. The well-equipped bedrooms blend contemporary and...
Thwaite Farm Cottages
Thwaite Farm Cottages are situated in the small peaceful village of Thwaite in Upper Swaledale. Two stone barns converted to a very high standard with wonderful views over hay meadows with Kisdon Hill beyond. A perfect walking area with long or...
Hazel Brow Farm
West of Reeth you'll find this 200-acre organic working farm where you can interact with the livestock, discover nature trails and watch the sheep-shearing demonstrations and other events. April and May are the best months to see lambs. With tray...
Swaledale Museum
The Museum specialises in collecting objects and archives from Swaledale and Arkengarthdale and the main focus is on lead mining and the culture and community this industry created, from geological specimens, prehistoric finds, and tools connected...
Wensleydale Equestrian Centre
How about seeing the area from a different perspective? The Wensleydale Equestrian Centre at Bainbridge offers trekking and hacking out, from short-lead rein hacks to full day treks – and you don't have to be experienced to join in.
National Park Centre
A visitor centre usefully stocked with maps, guides, walks and local information. Interactive displays explain the history and natural history of the area. Plan the day ahead with a light lunch in the coffee shop. Various guided walks begin here...


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namespace {

constexpr char kEnglishLanguage[] = "en";

// Writes the given |data| in a file with |path|. Returns true if saving
// succeeded, or false otherwise.
bool SaveFile(const std::string& content, const base::FilePath& path) {
  DCHECK(!base::CurrentUIThread::IsSet());
  DCHECK(!path.empty());

  if (!base::PathExists(path.DirName()) &&
      !base::CreateDirectory(path.DirName())) {
    LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to create path: " << path.DirName();
    return false;
  }

  return base::WriteFile(path, content);
}

}  // namespace

ProjectorMetadataController::ProjectorMetadataController() = default;

ProjectorMetadataController::~ProjectorMetadataController() = default;

void ProjectorMetadataController::OnRecordingStarted() {
  metadata_ = std::make_unique<ProjectorMetadata>();

  // TODO(b/200960615) When multi-language support is available for speech
  // recognition, get the language from the speech recognition service.
  metadata_->SetCaptionLanguage(kEnglishLanguage);
}

void ProjectorMetadataController::RecordTranscription(
    const media::SpeechRecognitionResult& speech_result) {
  DCHECK(metadata_);

  const auto& timing = speech_result.timing_information;
  metadata_->AddTranscript(std::make_unique<ProjectorTranscript>(
      timing->audio_start_time, timing->audio_end_time,
      speech_result.transcription, timing->hypothesis_parts.value()));
}

void ProjectorMetadataController::RecordKeyIdea() {
  DCHECK(metadata_);
  metadata_->MarkKeyIdea();
}

void ProjectorMetadataController::SaveMetadata(
    const base::FilePath& video_file_path) {
  DCHECK(metadata_);
  // TODO(b/200330118): Finalize on the metadata file naming convention.
  const base::FilePath path =
      video_file_path.AddExtension(kProjectorMetadataFileExtension);

  // Save metadata.
  auto metadata_str = metadata_->Serialize();

  // TODO(b/203000496): Update after finalizing on the storage strategy.
  base::ThreadPool::PostTaskAndReplyWithResult(
      FROM_HERE, {base::MayBlock()},
      base::BindOnce(&SaveFile, metadata_str, path),
      base::BindOnce(
          [](const base::FilePath& path, bool success) {
            if (!success) {
              LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to save the metadata file: " << path;
              ProjectorUiController::ShowFailureNotification(
                  IDS_ASH_PROJECTOR_FAILURE_MESSAGE_SAVE_SCREENCAST);
              return;
            }
          },
          path));
}

void ProjectorMetadataController::SetProjectorMetadataModelForTest(
    std::unique_ptr<ProjectorMetadata> metadata) {
  metadata_ = std::move(metadata);
}

}  // namespace ash


In light of the pension reforms in last month's budget and, after much consideration and deliberation, I finally took the plunge and opened a SIPP with Fidelity.
The charges on this product are low considering how much I expect to hold in there (only 0.35%) and "switching" funds (ie dealing) is free. So this all seems good. The only slight fly in the ointment is that the documentation talks about needing to take (paid) advice before you can start to draw down the money but hopefully this requirement will be something that is either dealt with when the budget changes are formalised next year, or it will disappear naturally over time as the new ways of working for pension funds becomes embedded.
I set the fund up with a £1000 lump sum and initial monthly contributions of £200. The money is sitting there as cash at the moment waiting for me to decide how to invest it. This is my task for the weekend.
I must admit I'm struggling a little to make a decision. I know that I have a very "unbalanced" pot at the moment. The bulk of my money is in my S&S ISA (which, btw, still shows no sign of landing in my iii account - in fact I received a Manager's Annual Report from CIS this week so they still obviously have me on their books) which is invested entirely in a UK Equities Growth Fund (apart from a tiny bit in a US Fund which is a legacy from when I sold that fund off as part of a mis-selling dispute (long story).
I have started to spread my investments around a little since I set up my account on iii, but I will only be able to grow any of these new holdings very slowly with my monthly drip feeds unless I sell some of the CIS fund (when it arrives). I'm still not sure how to go with this.
However I have to admit that I do not plan to stick to passive funds only. The reasons for this are complex, not very scientific and mostly down to my personality and how I approach "projects" (which is how I see my goal of retiring when I want to). However full discussion of this is something for a future post I think.
In the meantime I have the problem of how to position my SIPP in all this. Added into the mix is the fact that I have a specific time-frame and amount requirement for the fund. I want to use it to help fund the 6 years between 60 and 66 at a level just below the tax threshold (ie somewhere just below £10,500 on today's figures). Given that I will have a very small pension from an old job, plus some rental income from our studio flat, this means that I ideally want to draw a further £8,000 a year from the my personal pensions. I will then use the ISA to top up to the £15,000 per year I've calculated we will need as a household until my LGPS and state pensions kick in.
My existing CIS FSAVC should see me safely through 60-63 as it should total around £24,000 by the time I need it, but the SIPP has to work quite hard to cover the years 63-66. Given the tax advantage, I would still need to put in at least £250 a month and gain a 6% return to reach my goal. This is within what I can afford (just) but ideally I don't want to have to resort to funding the ISA much less than I originally intended, so I'm not quite sure how things will balance out. I may need to make a judgement call on this at some point but for the moment I'm just going to see how things pan out.
In addition, and from the point of view that the SIPP has a specific job to do in a very tight time scale, I'm wondering whether to treat the pension as a different pot altogether rather than try to balance it in line with the rest of my stuff.
> treat the pension as a different pot altogether rather than try to balance it in line with the rest of my stuff.
From your post it appears that the pension has a different timescale (invested now till you are 63, DD 63 to 66) whereas your ISA is a core part of your wealth/long-term tax-free 'pension' income. In that case you would definitely want to take the different investment horizon into account - the SIPP is a very short investment horizon that indicates steady-as-she-goes boring low equity sort of thing. It's not going to look anything like your ISA because it's doing a different job.
Most of the win on the SIPP will be the tax that the Chancellor doesn't steal from you. That's like a 25% bump up on the money you forego. Simulate this using a spreadsheet - once the legislation has passed it's an awesome risk-free return on capital. Because it is the return of some of your capital that you were robbed ;) The ROI calculation con cash is basically (the tax bung 25%/years SIPP runs)-3% (rate of inflation) as long as you can take the money in the SIPP out tax-free. That's the 25% tax-free PCLS plus £10000 personal allowance, assuming you do not have any other taxable income, it roughs out to about £13k.
It's the offer of a riskless return (unless the world ends or hyperinflation in the next 5 years) that makes a short SIPP transformational for people coming up to retirement. There's nowhere else in the world you can go get a risk-free return.
This only applies to people using a SIPP over a short time horizon, because of the years SIPP runs in the divisor means that you have to chase investment return if the SIPP lasts more than 5 years, and certainly if it runs for 20 or more years!
Thanks ermine, that all makes complete sense. I will have a little bit of taxable income post employment (about £2,500 pa) but not enough to mess up the advantage altogether.


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There are many things we don't take much notice of in day-to-day life – traffic signals are among them.
In the video below, we take a look at this complex web of technologies as we go behind the scenes at Adelaide's Traffic Management Centre to show you how traffic lights actually work.
Then, read on as we look at some of the most commonly asked questions about SA's traffic system.
How are traffic lights and other signals managed?
Traffic lights are connected to a computerised system called SCATS – an Australian program used in 27 countries – which co-ordinates and measures traffic flow through in-road sensors and adjusts signals to ensure traffic moves efficiently.
This intelligent traffic system also records the density of traffic sitting at intersections and then alters the timing and sequence of the next phase of lights to get vehicles moving quickly and safely.
Does the weight of my car trigger a green light at an intersection?
No. The detectors behind the stop line are loops of wire that produce a magnetic field. The change in the magnetic field when something metallic passes over it – like a car, motorbike or pushbike – is what activates the detector and triggers the signal to change.
The signal also calculates the gap between cars and how long the vehicle has been at the intersection.
Can you be too far behind the white line?
Yes – you need to be over the loop to be detected. For this to happen, you need to be immediately behind the painted white stop line.
However, keep in mind that it's against the law to have any part of your car over the white line.
Is it possible to get a 'green run'?
Whenever you want to get somewhere quickly, it seems like the lights inevitably turn red as you approach. However, the SCATS system generally aims to get motorists through two to five sets of lights without stopping.
During peak times, the groupings of lights that are being coordinated are bigger, but in the off-peak hours, the system automatically adjusts the links to smaller groups. This means that you may stop more often; however, you won't be stopped for as long.


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Depending on who you believe 30-to-50% of all private jet flights are ferry flights. However, that doesn't mean they are necessarily dirt cheap. Magellan Jets, which sells jet cards and on-demand charter also offers empty legs, and while you have to contact the company for pricing, it says rates start at $3,000 per hour. Airstream Jets enables visitors to its website to download a list of active empty legs and while most of the 13 listings were for the next two weeks, there were flights posted through mid-November, one an empty leg in September on a Gulfstream G-IVSP from New York to London for $49,900. Another broker quoted the same date and route at $92,000. Even more attractive was a G500 charter this weekend from Palermo, Italy to New York for $35,000. Quotes for a non-empty leg charter that I received from another broker for random dates in August started at $111,000.
WE were told to go to First Aviation Services terminal at Teterboro but our plane was at another terminal so we wasted over 45 minutes trying to find our aircraft and our agent was not at all helpful. In fact he told us someone was coming to pick us up and they never came and we had to find someone to help us get to the terminal our plane was located at. The agent asked us for our rental car info but when we landed in Naples the rental car was not at the terminal and we had to find a ride over to the other side of the air field to get our rental car. The flight was great but the handling of the pre and post flight were below normal and not what I am used to when I fly private.
We had quite a number of issues booking this trip, which resulted in add'l work and follow up for me. As broker these issues should have been handled / caught prior to making a proposal. I believe I had to sign 4 different revised quote sheets for this trip! Also the final signed sheet stated we would land in LFMD on the return leg. Hence we booked transportation for pick up at LFMD. However flight landed in LFMN. This caused add'l stress and expense for no reason. I have only now seen that the last itinerary link showed an arrival at LFMN - but I never opened this one since all previous ones, including the contract reconfirmation showed LFMD. As for the aircraft itself: it was one of the oldest ones I have ever flown. The door / separation to the toilet / luggage area was broken (not the lock but the entire frame!) and the toilet was not accessible due to a lot of "stuff" (amenities, water bottles, etc.) being thrown in / stored in the area. Overall cleanliness was not superb either. Finally, the catering we requested was not available / not complete. Breakfast (eggwhite and sausage!!) was cold and wet and the fruitplatter had molded grapes; no ice bucket, nor champagne glasses were present. On the return leg, fruitplatter was nice but again no ice bucket nor champagne glasses were present. As a matter of fact, the soft drink container was not even replenished w new ice!! So overall - yes, we flew from A to B but the service experience was disappointing.
How much luggage can you bring?  Unlikecommercial airlines, there are no baggage limits per se.  You can bring whatever luggage will fit on the plane. But always work with your flight planner, especially if you'll need to accommodate extra bags or heavy equipment. With smaller planes in particular, weight limits may influence the amount of baggage you can bring.
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As one of the world's leading charter providers, we've created an on-demand charter experience that's simple, intuitive and flexible. Through the constant evaluation of how to best meet the needs of private jet travelers, our team of experts has designed an on-demand experience with you in mind. Whether you book your flight using Skyjet.com, the Skyjet app for iPhone, or through a telephone conversation or e-mail, we offer the right solutions — the best solutions — to get you to your destination with ease.
When you play the empty leg market, you need to be very flexible and understand that there's a decent chance your empty leg may not happen or might be moved. If the customer chartering the inbound flight wants to leave a few hours later, your flight will be delayed. On the flip side, your planned departure could be suddenly moved up because Mr. Big wants to leave earlier.
Paramount Business Jets specializes in private air charter services to and from Dallas, Texas. As one of the nation's populous cities and busiest metropolitan hubs, Dallas can be reached by over 38 airports located within a 50 mile radius of the city itself, with the major ones being Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL), Dallas Executive Airport (RBD), and Addison Airport (ADS). There are over 60 private jets available for charter in the city itself with over 150 private jets available for charter within a 30 mile radius of Downtown Dallas. Aircraft options are plentiful, including light jets (Beechjet 400, Learjet 35, and Citation Bravo), super light jets (Learjet 45, Citation Excel), midsize jets (Citation III, Learjet 60, and Hawker 800XP), super midsize (Falcon 50 EX) and large jets (Challenger 604, Falcon 2000, Gulfstream IV, and Legacy 600). There are also many ultra long range jets available for charter in Dallas including the Global 5000, Gulfstream V and the Gulfstream G 550. For more information on private air charter services to and from Dallas, please call us 24/7 at 877-727-2538 and one of our private jet charter specialists will be happy to assist you.
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Using a private jet rental to get to a holiday destination ensures the additional benefit of access to private terminals for faster security check-ins, ensuring that more time is spent enjoying the getaway instead of waiting in line. With its ability to access more locations around the world and enhanced potential for personalisation, chartering privately is the perfect way to travel for pleasure.


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import {VolumeChunk} from 'neuroglancer/sliceview/backend';
import {postProcessRawData} from 'neuroglancer/sliceview/backend_chunk_decoders/postprocess';
import {DATA_TYPE_BYTES, DataType} from 'neuroglancer/util/data_type';
import {prod3} from 'neuroglancer/util/geom';

export function decodeRawChunk(chunk: VolumeChunk, response: ArrayBuffer) {
  let {spec} = chunk.source!;
  let {dataType} = spec;
  let numElements = prod3(chunk.chunkDataSize!);
  let bytesPerElement = DATA_TYPE_BYTES[dataType];
  let expectedBytes = numElements * bytesPerElement * spec.numChannels;
  if (expectedBytes !== response.byteLength) {
    throw new Error(
        `Raw-format chunk is ${response.byteLength} bytes, but ${numElements} * ${bytesPerElement} = ${expectedBytes} bytes are expected.`);
  }
  let data: ArrayBufferView;
  switch (dataType) {
    case DataType.UINT8:
      data = new Uint8Array(response);
      break;
    case DataType.UINT16:
      data = new Uint16Array(response);
      break;
    case DataType.UINT32:
    case DataType.UINT64:
      data = new Uint32Array(response);
      break;
    case DataType.FLOAT32:
      data = new Float32Array(response);
      break;
    default:
      throw new Error(`Unexpected data type: ${dataType}.`);
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Tissue response to a supplement high in aluminum and silicon
K. K. Turner, B. D. Nielsen, C. I. O'Connor-Robison, F. H. Nielsen, M. W. Orth
The objective was to determine the effects of sodium zeolite A (SZA) on mineral metabolism and tissue mineral composition in calves. Twenty calves were placed on study at 3 days of age and were placed into one of two groups: SS, which received 0.05% BW SZA added to their milk replacer, and CO, which received only milk replacer. Blood samples were taken on days 0, 30, and 60 for mineral analysis. Urine and feces were collected on day 30 for mineral metabolism, and on day 60, the calves were euthanized, and samples were taken from numerous organs for mineral analyses. Aluminum retention was increased in the SS calves (p=0.001). Silicon concentrations were increased in the aorta, spleen, lung, muscle, and kidney of the SS calves, and aluminum was increased in all SS tissues (p<0.05). Calcium concentrations were increased in aorta, liver, muscle, and tendon; phosphorus concentrations were increased in aorta, but decreased in plasma; magnesium concentrations were increased in aorta, heart, kidney, liver, and pancreas, but decreased in plasma; and iron concentrations were decreased in kidney and liver (p<0.05). The accumulation of tissue aluminum and therefore potential adverse consequences may preclude any benefits of using SZA as a dietary supplement.
Biological Trace Element Research
Sodium zeolite A
Tissue response
Dive into the research topics of 'Tissue response to a supplement high in aluminum and silicon'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Silicon Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Aluminum Medicine & Life Sciences 94%
Minerals Medicine & Life Sciences 80%
Zeolites Medicine & Life Sciences 79%
Mineral Chemistry 66%
Aorta Medicine & Life Sciences 57%
Zeolite Chemistry 46%
Sodium Medicine & Life Sciences 41%
Turner, K. K., Nielsen, B. D., O'Connor-Robison, C. I., Nielsen, F. H., & Orth, M. W. (2008). Tissue response to a supplement high in aluminum and silicon. Biological Trace Element Research, 121(2), 134-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12011-007-8039-x
Turner, K. K. ; Nielsen, B. D. ; O'Connor-Robison, C. I. et al. / Tissue response to a supplement high in aluminum and silicon. In: Biological Trace Element Research. 2008 ; Vol. 121, No. 2. pp. 134-148.
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The 2008–09 Minnesota Wild season began October 11, 2008. It was the Wild's ninth season in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Pre-season
At the conclusion of the Pre-season, the Wild finished with a 5-2 record.

Regular season
The Wild were the most disciplined team in the League during the regular season, with just 291 power-play opportunities against. They also allowed the fewest power-play goals, with just 36.

Divisional standings

Conference standings

Schedule and results

Playoffs
The Minnesota Wild failed to qualify for the 2009 NHL Playoffs. after qualifying in 2006-07 and 2007–08

Player statistics

Skaters

Goaltenders

†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Wild. Stats reflect time with Wild only.
‡Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Wild only.

Awards and records

Records

Milestones

Transactions

Trades

Free agents

Draft picks
Minnesota's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario.

See also
2008–09 NHL season

Farm teams

References

Minnesota Wild seasons
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Am I Disturbing You? / Anne Hébert; translated from the French by Sheila Fischman.
Toronto: House of Anansi, 1999, c1998.
This little novella by French Canadian author Anne Hébert has been on my shelf for ages! I finally took it down to read it, and it was a quick read, though with its own sense of deep back story.
Edouard and Stéphane are two young friends living in Paris who one day come across a young woman crying as she sits on the edge of a fountain. They kindly go over to check on her, and she finally tells them that her name is Delphine, she's from Quebec, and she's pregnant & homeless.
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As readers, we think we know where this is going, and we are partly right. But Hébert surprises us in the development of the story - at least she surprised me.
In the book's opening pages, Edouard tells us that Delphine has appeared at his door in the middle of the night with her catchphrase, "Am I disturbing you?" But without waiting for an answer she crawls into bed with him and mumbles away until, Edouard says, he leans over to clear her long black hair off her face and her breathing changes: she dies in his bed.
That's not a spoiler, by the way - it's on page 4. Edouard then goes back over their history with Delphine trying to figure out how and why sh let her into his very orderly life. Her story, her presence, brings back his own troubled and lonely childhood. In the last few pages of the book we return to the scene in Edouard's room, with the police and ambulance there. Edouard is still feeling shocked and numb; but the last few lines throw his whole account into question. Is he a reliable narrator? I had to reread both the opening and closing again, but I still can't decide what I think. It's a slight, depressing story, but it's also finely crafted and quite ambiguous. Hébert is strong at portraying a character in just a few lines, and so each of these three leads, as well as the various side players, seem real and rounded. But motives are more mysterious.
This story, though short, is atmospheric, redolent with the sense of a hot Parisian summer, with the exhaustion of Delphine's wandering through the hot streets looking for her lover. The converging storylines are finely drawn, and there is an awful lot in this brief narrative to think about. Though not my favourite of Hébert's works that I've read thus far, it is a story that sticks in the mind, that still has me pondering what *really* happened, and why. It's dream-like and perhaps that it why it stays in your thoughts, with its various images appearing randomly in your memory. Definitely worth exploring this one.


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A 12-month programme to create opportunities for young people who wouldn't usually consider higher education has seen pupils from Blackpool and Wyre high schools continue to develop their digital and creative skills.
Fleetwood High School and South Shore Academy students, recruited and supported by Future U, attended arts workshops at Blackpool and the Fylde College and the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, as part of a specially organised nationwide week of action. They worked on digital portfolios ahead of a public exhibition they have project managed which will be held on 8 July.
Future U, a £2.2 million Lancashire initiative, is led by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and involves institutions and organisations across the county including Edge Hill University, Lancaster University and the University of Cumbria. It has been funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as part of its £60 million National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP).
The feedback from students has been extremely promising, and to hear them say 'I am going to study music' or 'I am going to study fashion design' is very encouraging.
The pupils have been attending workshops and participating in activities on subjects including performing arts, photography and fashion as they work towards a creative and digital Silver Arts Award.
The award was funded by Future U who recruited and supported the young people through the journey, and developed by the Grand Theatre, which tailored a new Digital Arts Award delivered by staff from Blackpool and the Fylde College to enable students to gain knowledge and experience in a chosen field within a creative industry.
29 networks of schools, colleges, higher education providers and local agencies work together to create activities tailored to the needs of their own area.
Dr Lynne Livesey, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at UCLan, said: "It's incredibly important to encourage and facilitate young people's aspirations and help them explore the options available through higher education in the pursuit of a career within the creative sector. The Future U programme is helping to inspire and educate and it's wonderful to see how the pupils are benefitting."
The Grand's programme has given the young people a rich source of material to draw from as well as some new cultural experiences.
Andrew Walker, Lecturer in Creative Media Production at Blackpool and the Fylde College, said: "It's programmes like this that open young people's eyes to a future in the creative industries. At this point in students' lives the spark for the arts needs to be nurtured and as time progresses this will become a fully-fledged creative fire. From what I have seen during these sessions the creative future is in safe hands."


Bless her heart. Davies means well and, on the whole, her report is solid. To her credit, she did not go so far as to compare obesity to terrorism. But we definitely don't need any more hype about how bad obesity is. Nobody has missed the message. The popular concept that people with obesity aren't taking it seriously enough is flat out mistaken.
What people lack is good options for correcting the problem. Public health folks who say it's preventable are blind to the fact that nothing they've done has put a dent in obesity's rising prevalence.
People who harp about "personal responsibility" ignore the fact that no matter how personally responsible one feels, this chronic condition is is resistant to simplistic behavioral prescriptions. Powerful physiology is at work in this disease. More often than not, all the willpower in the world is no match for severe obesity. Intensive behavioral therapy, obesity medicine, and surgery are needed.
So no, we don't need any more hype about the problem. We need more attention to evidence-based solutions. Moral panic isn't going to help.
Click here to read more from the BBC, here to read more from the Daily Mail, and here to download the report itself.
Just a *few* resonant parallels to nicotine and tobacco in your analysis, Ted.
Absolutely. Fear gets in the way of good decision making.
What can one say about the "press" – they are out to sell newspapers and air time.
Davies is a bigger problem. She needs some education. Her heart is in the right place, but she lacks knowledge about the disease of obesity. She needs to go to the Blackburn Obesity Course or Obesity Week. Then she can help the UK help their people.


5. Webers Location Triangle•• Alfred Webers work (1909) is considered to have established the foundations of modern location theories. One of his core assumption is that firms will chose a location in view to minimize their costs. This involves a set of simplifications, namely that location takes place in an isolated region (no external influences) composed of one market, that space is isotropic (no variations in transport costs except a simple function of distance) and that markets are located in a specific number of centers. Those conditions are quite similar to those behind Von Thunens agricultural land use model elaborated almost one hundred years earlier. The model also assumes perfect competition, implying a high number of firms and customers, small firm sizes (to prevent disruptions created by monopolies and oligopolies) and a perfect knowledge of market conditions, both for the buyers and suppliers. Several natural resources such are water are ubiquitous (available everywhere) while many production inputs such as labor, fuel and minerals are available at specific locations. According to Weber, three main factors influence industrial location; transport costs, labor costs and agglomeration economies. Location thus imply an optimal consideration of these factors.
6. Webers Location Triangle•• Solving Webers location model often implies three stages; finding the least transport cost location and adjusting this location to consider labor costs and agglomeration economies. Transportation is the most important element of the model since other factors are considered to only have an adjustment effect. To solve this problem, Weber uses the location triangle within which the optimal is located. The above figure illustrates the issue of minimizing transport costs. Considering a product of w(M) tons to be sold at market M, w(S1) and w(S2) tons of materials coming respectively from S1 and S2 are necessary. The problem resides in finding an optimal factory location P located at the respective distances of d(M), d(S1) and d(S2). Several methodologies can be used to solve this problem such as drawing an analogy to a system of weights and pulleys (Varignons solution) or using trigonometry. Another way preferred among geographers, particularly with GIS, is to use cost surfaces which are overlaid.
23. The European City• Western European cities are more compact than Canadian cities• Same size in pop. As US cities, but smaller in land area• European govt. are proactive in maintaining healthy CBDs• No sprawl-suburbs are too far out to compete with CBD• Greenbelts preserve the central city from close suburban development• Very high fuel costs discourage suburban development• Central cities are clogged with cars, but mass transit, bikes, and walking are relied on for transportation• Zoning rules are strictly enforced and highway and beltway construction lags.
27. The Eastern European City• Eastern European & Russian cities were turned into microdistricts by communist planning• Old primate and historical cities were ignored• Huge dominant square & wide radiating avenues fronted by huge apartment complexes with factories, schools, shops & so on.


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Alice Chang: Perspective on the future of Princeton mathematics
by Morgan Kelly
March 5, 2012, noon
As chair of Princeton's Department of Mathematics, Sun-Yung Alice Chang, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, is focused on expanding the department's research areas, building its popularity with students and fostering efforts to attract more women to a traditionally male-dominated field.
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Name: Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Title: Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics
Scholarly and administrative focus: Chang's research has focused on areas such as harmonic analysis, geometric analysis and partial differential equations. As chair, she is helping to guide the department in expanding its research areas and building its popularity with students. With powerful computing creating a demand for mathematicians skilled at calculating and analyzing increasingly larger data, math faculty frequently collaborate with researchers in other fields — not only lending their expertise but encountering problems that inspire the creation of new mathematical tools. At the same time, the department is attracting growing enrollments of aspiring mathematicians. The number of Princeton undergraduates declaring math as a major has risen from the low- to mid-30s during the middle of the past decade to 83 in 2010-11 and 75 this year. Enrollment in undergraduate mathematics courses also has grown steadily, from 1,642 in 2004-05 to roughly 2,100 in 2011-12.
Chang, the department's first female chair, also has taken a personal interest and central role in attracting more women to the field, including serving as an organizer of the Program for Women and Mathematics summer program offered by the University and the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).
Princeton's department has put great effort into designing its graduate and undergraduate curricula in recent years, Chang said. This includes initiatives to bridge graduate and undergraduate coursework, and courses designed to increase general student interest in mathematics. As a result, enrollment in undergraduate classes and the number of Princeton students declaring math as a major have increased greatly.
What particular fields does Princeton's mathematics faculty focus on and excel in?
We cover all major fields of research. Our department certainly does not cover every research field, but the quality of our faculty is extremely high. Sorry, mathematicians traditionally are more modest [laughs]. But I would like to say that many of our faculty members are leaders in their fields.
Basically, there are three main branches of mathematics — analysis, geometry and algebra. We have strengths in each of these major directions. In the early 1970s, our department was the world center for topology [which falls under geometry]. Gradually, we became a center for analysis and lately the department, together with IAS, is very strong in number theory and partial differential equations. We also have strengths in analytic and algebraic number theory, algebraic and differential geometry, applied mathematics, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, geometric partial differential equations, general relativity and topology. Our focus depends on the development of mathematics in general. At this moment, one of our concentrations is number theory, which is developing rapidly because of its close relationship to probability and computer science. As mathematicians, we are able to develop and apply sophisticated tools to analyze large data, so the connection between mathematics and other branches of science that use large-scale computation is more intimate than ever.
How do mathematicians contribute to work in other fields?
There is a lot of interplay between math and other departments. It used to be that people would wonder about mathematical theories — "Why is this useful?" or "Why is this relevant?" — but now more and more mathematical theories are applied to other sciences. For example, I am a geometric analyst. I use analytic techniques to study problems in geometry, but the types of problems I study are related to problems in physics. I work on conformal geometry, wherein the measurement of an object is changed by increasing its length in each direction while preserving the angles between two different directions. Conformal geometry is infinitely related to conformal field theory, which is a main branch of mathematical physics. I've been studying this branch of geometric problems using non-linear partial differential equations.
Does collaborating with other scientists in other disciplines benefit the mathematician, too?
Yes. We get to know the problems that are in other sciences, which stimulates us to develop tools to study and analyze them. The main benefit comes from the communication. If a mathematician talks with someone in physics or biology, then the main thing is to get to know that scientist's problem and determine what kind of math tool can be applied. The mathematical tools have always been there, but usually need to be modified to apply to practical problems. The modification takes a lot of coordination between different groups of people. Usually, the theory is much more advanced than the practical applications, but that doesn't mean it cannot be applied immediately. To apply it, one needs to adjust it. The real challenge is how to adjust a model or tool to apply to real problems.
The variables in real problems are usually very big and there are many factors to consider. Many different mathematical tools have been developed to handle this large data. Somebody with the training as a mathematician may have the ability to visualize and organize the large data better than other people. That's the type of training, to analyze the data. You develop this ability to have critical thinking, and that makes you able to analyze things scientifically. If you are a musician, you learn to feel things. A mathematician learns to analyze.
In recent years, the number of Princeton math majors has increased significantly. What is attracting students to the department?
First, our department has paid a lot more attention to our curriculum. In addition to core courses for students who intend to major in mathematics, we have begun to offer undergraduate courses aimed to raise students' general interest in mathematics. Some of these courses have been extremely popular. For example, Professor Manjul Bhargava offered a course [in spring 2009] called "The Magic of Numbers," an interdisciplinary course — including a connection to music — with more than 100 students. The class was so popular we had to limit the enrollment. We have added a number of such courses by looking at the need of the students. The enrollment of students in all undergraduate courses also has increased tremendously in the past few years. We have reorganized our undergraduate curriculum and we pay attention to students at all levels.
Also, the number of math students being recognized for their outstanding academic achievements has increased significantly in recent years. Last year, the valedictorian, John Pardon, was a math major. Our students' achievements come from the teamwork between our faculty and students. Most students majoring in math write both a junior paper and a senior thesis, so we make an effort to provide the one-on-one supervising that these students want. Ours is a small department, so there is, of course, a balance of resources. We want our faculty to be devoted teachers and we also want them to be top researchers.
The scarcity of women in mathematics and other STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields has received a lot of attention in recent years. Do you think that women are still underrepresented and is the situation improving?
This is a long-term problem. Traditionally, math and physics are fields dominated and developed by men and women did not play a large role. The number of women in our department, both students and faculty, is still small. We definitely feel we are a minority. Last year, we had 83 math majors, but among those, only 13 were women. There's a continuous effort being made by the department and faculty to increase that number, but it's a long-term problem. Until the percentage of women faculty [in mathematics in general] is much higher than it is now, the problem will persist. Women will feel this is a field dominated by men and that it will be a struggle for them. Progress has been gradually made and women students in our department I have talked with seem to feel comfortable and confident in general. But we do want to encourage more women students and faculty to join us.
When I see these women graduate students in our department now, the quality of these students is very high. There used to be an impression that women cannot do mathematics, and that the analytical ability of men is stronger. Most people would agree that this simply is not true. I definitely feel that, given the right environment to develop, women can do as well as men in mathematics.
What outreach does Princeton provide to draw more women to mathematics and help them excel?
I, of course, hope we can do more, but at this moment we have a couple of programs. We have the Program for Women and Mathematics organized with IAS. We offer two weeks of intensive classes each summer, with each year focusing on a different topic. Women students from around the country at the advanced and undergraduate levels are selected to participate in this program, though Princeton students are automatically selected if they want to enroll. The lecturers and teaching assistants are usually female faculty from other top universities around the world, and they participate on a volunteer basis. This program has been very successful.
Students in our department also formed the Noetherian Ring club, named after the famous woman mathematician, Emmy Noether. This club provides a chance for women students and faculty to meet each other, and for each female math student to find a mentor she can talk to.
Finally, what are some future objectives for the department?
Our department will always make an effort to stay strong in our traditional areas. On the other hand, we are also seeing a trend to have more and more interaction with other departments. Over the last few years, we have sought to hire new faculty with joint appointments in the departments of computer science, physics, and operations research and financial engineering. I can see the relationship between our department and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics becoming much more connected in the future. I think these secondary appointments and partnerships will happen more frequently and become another strength of our department.
We also are taking on a major reorganization of our entire undergraduate curriculum, and rewriting the syllabus for each course. In addition, we plan to add a number of "bridge" courses for first-year graduate students and our upper-level undergraduate math majors that will be designed to close the gap between our graduate and undergraduate curricula. These courses will allow for undergraduates to learn basic topics in advanced mathematics and for graduate students to develop a solid background in topics they might not have learned as undergraduates.
Uhlenbeck receives Abel Prize for geometric analysis
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Mathematician Codá Marques named 2020 Simons Investigator


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NFL owners discuss potential new deal for NFL player-agent deal
The NFL is set to meet with owners about a potential new multi-year contract that could include a new agent, league sources told ESPN.The owners will discuss the deal, which could include an increase in the salary cap, during an owners meeting Wednesday, league spokesman Greg Aiello said Thursday.Owners are set to discuss the agreement…
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The NFL is set to meet with owners about a potential new multi-year contract that could include a new agent, league sources told ESPN.
The owners will discuss the deal, which could include an increase in the salary cap, during an owners meeting Wednesday, league spokesman Greg Aiello said Thursday.
Owners are set to discuss the agreement during their weekly meeting, according to a league source.
The league would not confirm whether the meeting will take place in person or over the phone, but the league source indicated the meeting would be held over the conference call.
Aiella declined to say whether the league planned to increase the salary-cap ceiling this season or beyond.
NFL teams will not receive any compensatory picks this season.
The salary cap is set at $68 million this season, and the league would need to increase it to $84 million by the start of next season.
Players on NFL rosters earn base salaries, which are the amount paid each season by a team to a player, including incentives.
Players can make up to $20 million in guaranteed money during their contract year.
NFL owners are scheduled to meet at the end of the week.