Oxford Prospect April

Oxford Prospect is a current affairs, lifestyle, geopolitical, policy and business news magazine based in Oxford. Part of this site is restricted to subscribers. Inside April’s edition:    Spring TREASURES FROM A GOLDEN AGE. Australia Landscape: Kew at the British Museum Greek Cookery Class Easter Special Daffodil Time. Theatre Bronte at Oxford Playhouse Films Cool it – Bjorn Lomborg Music Russian quartet to perform in Oxford  Shopping Headington Farmers’ Market. Food Enjoy an extravagant Easter with Courvoisier Festivals A look at Oxford Literary Festival and Oxfordshire Artweeks 2011 Energy Book Review Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East & North Africa   Energy Norway: Europe’s Powerhouse?   Japan’s natural disaster will boost demand for LNG Imports.  Our unpredictable, bright energy future Does local content policies – work in economic development? Europe gains from difficulties in Turkmen-China Energy Deal The EU’s energy infrastructure plans: where will the money come from? Science In search of extra solar planets! Technology Xara Web Designer 7 Sport Bring a friend for free for Badminton sessions at leisure centres Travel Fall in love with New England Business Top 10 Management Myths A question of leadership -why looking at alternative approaches – can be a sign of strength! Greek shipping magnates navigate troubled waters http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-0955871448637294&format=200x200_as&output=html&h=200&w=200&lmt=1302991225&ad_type=text_image&ea=0&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_border=336699&color_link=0000FF&color_text=000000&color_url=008000&flash=10.2.152.26&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordprospect.co.uk%2F&ui=rc%3A10&dt=1302991225168&shv=r20110406&jsv=r20110412&saldr=1&correlator=1302991226198&frm=0&adk=4185908689&ga_vid=1095991734.1302991226&ga_sid=1302991226&ga_hid=504925294&ga_fc=0&u_tz=60&u_his=0&u_java=1&u_h=768&u_w=1360&u_ah=728&u_aw=1360&u_cd=32&u_nplug=0&u_nmime=0&biw=1339&bih=532&fu=0&ifi=1&dtd=1105

A look at Spring in Oxford

Daffodil Time.

Julia Gasper 6 July 2011 I sometimes think that if we had to have only one flower in the whole year – a sort of Desert Island flower – it would have to be the daffodil. Nothing else quite so joyously announces that Spring has come around again. This year I have been noticing how the fancy varieties of daffodil are getting more and more predominant until you can hardly find any of the ordinary, old-fashioned, plain ones, by which I mean yellow daffodils, with a trumpet in the middle, and just a single, not a double flower. There are every other possible kind to be seen – many of them white, which are all very well for contrast now and then, but not really as cheerful as the familiar golden daffodil of childhood memory. There are white daffodils with a yellow middle, or a flat orange middle, looking like a fried egg, and there are those fussy little white narcissi, with several heads on one stalk. I have even seen some so-called daffodils that look like chrysanthemums, with spiky petals sticking out in all directions – whatever is the point of that http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Daffodil-Time.html

Cargill propels shipping forward with largest kite-powered vessel

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – 28 February 2011 – Cargill has signed an agreement with SkySails GmbH & Co. KG (SkySails) to use wind power technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry. SkySails, based in Hamburg, has developed innovative, patented technology that uses a kite which flies ahead of the vessel and generates enough propulsion to reduce consumption of bunker fuel by up to 35 percent in ideal sailing conditions. http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Cargill-propels-shipping-forward-with-largest-kite-powered-vessel.html

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Students outside Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre protesting against government cuts on 10 February 2011.

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• Headington News
• Youth Service Changes in Oxfordshire
• Oxford Weather
• National Family Week
• Unwanted recycling boxes to be collected
• Nominate your local hero
• Have your say on Shotover Park at two Area Committees
• Half term activities at leisure centres
• Advertising on Roundabouts
• Bury Knowle Park play area refurbishment starts
• Unions back deal with Oxford City Council
• Warning to all dog owners
• Planning control measures for Houses in Multiple Occupation
• Barton ‘Live Well’ Day
• Oxford’s Council budget approved

The Affordable Art Fair

ART IS AT THE HEART OF GREAT BRITAIN

 

“The Affordable Art Fair: 10 – 13 March 2011 in Battersea Park, London”

Returning to London’s Battersea Park from 10 – 13 March 2011 is the well-loved and much-anticipated Affordable Art Fair (AAF). Now in its thirteenth year, the fair will host 120 galleries exhibiting paintings, prints, sculpture and photography, now priced between £100 and £4,000.

The recent AAF in October 2010 proved that Britain’s love of art continues to flourish: 22,500 art-lovers visited Battersea http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/ART-IS-AT-THE-HEART-OF-GREAT-BRITAIN.html