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Reports that a paper plane was hung from a crane in front of the Canary Wharf in London, England to mark a national campaign to reduce the amount of office waste.

Profiles Paul Cook, head of paper conservation of charts, globes, manuscripts, books and engineering drawings at the National Maritime Museum in London, England. Job description; Ambitions; Hobbies.

The article reviews the art installation "Unfolding the Aryan Papers," an exhibition about "Aryan Papers," a film started by director Stanley Kubrick, but never completed. The show is presented at the BFI Southbank Gallery, London, England, through April 26, 2009.

If plastic is inert, why does it have a taste and smell? Plastic bin bags have a strong smell when first opened and water left in plastic bottles can acquire a distinct taste. Louis Chambers, London, UK [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the development of the Carshalton Lavender project in London, England. Tree surgeon Roger Webb started the project by placing ads in local papers and flyers, telling the community he was looking for lavender plants that had grown in gardens for more than 20 to 30 years. The seven most promising locations across the borough were selected, from which they hoped to reproduce lavender that was as close to the strains grown in the plant's heyday. The project took Roger's cuttings and grew them into 2,500 to 3,000 young lavender bushes. The project was voted Conservation Project of the Year in The Observer Ethical Awards.

Highlights • A first Domain Decomposition (DD) method based on nodes weighting for the NIROM. • The DD uses a weighting constraint to achieve an equal accuracy in each subdomain. • The DD minimises the dynamic activity between subdomains. • The accuracy of the new DD based NIROM is improved compared to NIROM. • This method is validated using a realistic turbulent flow case at LSBU. Abstract In this paper, a new Domain Decomposition Non-Intrusive Reduced Order Model (DDNIROM) is developed for turbulent flows. The method works by partitioning the computational domain into a number of subdomains in such a way that the summation of weights associated with the finite element nodes within each subdomain is approximately equal, and the communication between subdomains is minimised. With suitably chosen weights, it is expected that there will be approximately equal accuracy associated with each subdomain. This accuracy is maximised by allowing the partitioning to occur through areas of the domain that have relatively little flow activity, which, in this case, is characterised by the pointwise maximum Reynolds stresses. A Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) machine learning method is used to construct a set of local approximation functions (hypersurfaces) for each subdomain. Each local hypersurface represents not only the fluid dynamics over the subdomain it belongs to, but also the interactions of the flow dynamics with the surrounding subdomains. Thus, in this way, the surrounding subdomains may be viewed as providing boundary conditions for the current subdomain. We consider a specific example of turbulent air flow within an urban neighbourhood at a test site in London and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed DDNIROM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an interview with choreographer Mark Baldwin about how Albert Einstein's three famous 1905 papers have been translated into a modern dance work for Rambert Dance Co. in London. Baldwin thinks that art-science collaborations are often done with good intentions, but it's just the way some of them have been realised. He said that the play "Constant Speed" is gorgeous, cheap and nasty, and fabulous. He also commented that of all the art forms that one can use to express the notion, dance is probably the best.

Reports that a major collection of the papers of Great Britain's theoretical economist Roy Harrod has been acquired by London, England based British Library. Contents of the acquisition.

In this article the author discusses press coverage of an expansion plan proposed for Heathrow Airport, near London, England. He notes that British newspapers on the right of the political spectrum oppose the expansion, not on environmental grounds, but because they favor the creation of an entirely new airport in the Thames river estuary region.

Reports that the British Library in London, England has published part of its Tenth British Library Research Institute as `Electronic Libraries and Electronic Journals.' Electronic journals; Transition from the current system.

The article focuses on performance of various web sites. The web site www.going-underground.com focuses on the London, England underground system, with quotes from tube drivers and station announcers. Reader Rob Knell and a colleague from the school of biological sciences at Queen Mary College, London, recently submitted research paper to a major peer-reviewed science journal. Using the journal's online submission service, they sent their paper at 4.46 pm on a Wednesday and received an email rejecting it by 5.20 pm the same day. Thomas Thurman has developed a game for people bored with conventional surfing. The game can be played in the web site www.tinyurl.com.

The article reports that Cyprus-born conceptual artist Sumer Erek and his collaborators rolled up 120,000 free news sheets as building blocks for a 12-foot-tall house in March 2008 and displayed it in the district of Hackney in London, England to show people how they are filling up spaces with waste. According to the author, free news sheets have been littering the city's tube trains each morning.

Discusses the insatiable need for sponsorship and donors at the Tate Modern museum in London, England. Examples of sponsorship, including the donation of the toilet paper in bathroom stalls; Role of museum director Nicholas Serota; Effects of the sponsorship on the museum's patrons; Returns to the sponsoring companies.

Features the interior design of a house owned and designed by Misha Stephan in London, England. Use of curving wallpapers; Inclusion of sofas and velvet-covered armless chair; Shade of the walls and upholstery.

The article offers information on the trip of William Lim, the head of CL3 Architects, to the Netherlands and London, England that fed his dueling proclivities for invention and observation. He joined the first contingent of Chinese designers participating in Dutch Design Week at the Designhuis in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. With wife, father and two siblings in tow, Lim toasted "Drifting Pavilion," an installation in which Hong Kong graphic artist Freeman Lau's furniture was surrounded by Lim's wood-framed paper envelope panels.

The article discusses the politics involved with reproductive health. A decade ago, the world's leaders met in Cairo at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). There, they crafted a plan to achieve "reproductive health and rights for all" by 2015. That plan was wide-ranging--from more contraception and fewer maternal deaths to better education for girls and greater equality for women. The ICPD plan also aimed to change the way those at the sharp end of making policy and delivering services thought about reproduction. It wanted to move away from a focus on family planning (and, by extension, government policies on population control) towards a broader view of sexual health, and systems and services shaped by individual needs. Over the past week, hundreds of government officials, public-health experts and activists met in London to mark the anniversary of the ICPD and to take stock of progress towards achieving its goals. On paper, that progress has been impressive. Governments around the world have introduced legislation that reflects the ICPD's aims. But when it comes to turning policy into practice, "mixed success" is the verdict of a report card just released by Countdown 2015, a coalition of voluntary bodies involved in the field. According to the United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA), 61% of married couples now use contraception, an 11% increase since 1994. This has helped push global population growth down from 82m to 76m people a year over the past decade. But in some places--particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia--birth rates remain high. Few poor countries have earmarked enough of their budgets to meet their citizens' reproductive-health needs. Nor have donors lived up to expectations.

The article reports that Metropolitan Police of London, England has been helped by personal data recovered from satellite navigation systems in solving crimes like kidnap, murder and terrorism. According to a paper by forensic analyst Beverley Nutter, the Police have used information taken from satnavs to aid its various investigations. It is stated that data stored in the memory of global positioning system (GPS) receivers is turning out like a boon for crime-fighters.

The article reports on the announcement of the Olympic Delivery Authority on the removal of London's Olympic stadium after the 2012 game in England. It mentions the factors that affect the removal of the stadium which includes the amount of steel used, the types of connections that would be employed in the structure and the location of amenities. Moreover, photographs of the stadium, blueprint of the project and detailed discussion concerning the facilities of the stadium are also discussed.

An essay is presented in which the author recounts how he grew to love London (England). Moving to London a month before the September 11 attacks, he first appreciated the way British papers would not censor him when he expressed ambiguous feelings towards America. The British culture of open debate and opposition attracted him, but he really fell in love with the city when he met his wife there.

The author reflects on his experience of the Internet and with Algerians in London. He argues that the Internet cannot replace printing or paper or the reading of printed materials. He believes that Internet and printed materials help one another. Whenever additional data is needed from the printed materials, the Internet can always help. He met some Algerians in London and he wonders what their background are. He also wonders what those Algerians are doing in London.

This article describes a workshop conducted by Joe DiVanna, a consultant, with the purpose of writing a book in a day. No problem, you might think, to judge by the work of Florida Romance Writers, Inc, which recently ran a book in a day workshop for would-be writers of pulp fiction. In 1992 Oxfam, a British charity, challenged some authors to write a short story in a day, then published the result. Probably the most successful--albeit the work of years rather than hours--is "Q", an elaborate novel about the Reformation, concocted by a team of four Italian writers calling themselves Luther Blissett. Given infinite time, logicians say, 1,000 monkeys would accidentally hammer out the entire works of Shakespeare. Joe DiVanna, on the other hand, is not someone often afflicted by self-doubt, or the doubts of others. He is a polymath to whom words come easily, and who has committed many of them to paper. The 30 were a selection of bankers, management consultants and strategists from various British companies. They were able to produce examples of passion in the workplace (workers who saved a South African tea factory by volunteering to take a pay cut) and emotional commitment (the parable of two stonemasons: one sees his job as chipping stone, the other says he's building a cathedral.

Discusses the outlook for economic growth in London, England as of March 2002. Information about population and housing, according to a paper published by the Centre for Economic and Business Research; Idea that there is an impending crisis in housing, according to a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a social policy think-tank; Indication that the increasing population is straining the transport system; Issue of Ken Livingstone's London Plan that will force councils to release land for development.

Presents the author's experience as a journalist who joined 'The Economist' in 1933 and retired as finance director in 1978. History of the journal, which began as a weekly paper in London, England; Impact of war, the communications revolution, and economic and social change; Outlook for the periodical.

Offers information on the exhibition `Francis Bacon: Works on Paper,' held at the Tate Gallery in London, England. Examples of Bacon's works; Background on Bacon; Questions raised by the Tate's show.

Focuses on the vision of a modern mayoral chain in London, England. Release of the green paper `New Leadership for London'; Work of the mayor in tandem with the Grater London Assembly; Debate over the election of the mayor; Concern about the prospect of GLC leader Ken Livingstone reincarnated as Mayor of London.

The article reviews "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," an exhibition of artworks by Philip Guston presented at the Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England.

The author comments on the media in Great Britain. The "Sunday Express" offered a poem about the London whale. The papers could not agree on the whale's name, but agreed that something had to be done to commemorate its death. The London "Evening Standard" published a four-page souvenir. Suggestions of who to blame for the whale's predicament included the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Navy, deep-sea trawling and global warming. This is the 20th anniversary of Rupert Murdoch's dismissal of all his printers and the transfer of his newspapers from Fleet Street to Wapping.

This article reports that the National Preservation Office of the British Library in London, England has published "Where Shall We Put It? Spotlight on Collection Storage Issues," which is composed of papers from a conference held on October 4, 2004. Some of the presentations refer to the following topics: future of collection storage; diagnosis and treatment for the preservation environment; and, an alternative for the long-term storage of archival records.

The article looks at the decrease in crime in Great Britain following the terrorist bombings of July 2005. It has long been the subject of speculation among the police and criminologists: what would happen if all the officers who now spend so much of their time taking statements, profiling criminals and moving pieces of paper around were suddenly put on the streets? Crime figures released by London's Metropolitan Police this week provide the best answer yet. Following the bombings of July 7th and 21st, thousands of police officers materialised on London's pavements, many of them sporting brightly coloured jackets. Drawn from all over the city, they were assigned to guard potential targets such as railway stations. The show of force did not just scare off terrorists. There was less crime in July than in May or June, which is unusual: the warmer month tends to bring out criminal tendencies, as windows are left open and alcohol is imbibed alfresco.

The article focuses on international banking and a British court case. Normally, an insolvent, little-known British paint company would interest few bankers besides those who had lent it money. However, any international bank that has made a secured loan under English law--which is used in many jurisdictions around the globe--might well keep an eye on the case of Spectrum Plus. Earlier this month the Court of Appeal in London said, in effect, that the House of Lords, Britain's highest court, should have the final say in a test case brought by National Westminster Bank about Spectrum Plus, to which it had given a secured loan. At issue is whether NatWest enjoys a fixed or a floating charge over Spectrum Plus's book debts and their proceeds. The difference is important, because fixed charges give banks the legal right to payment from a bust borrower ahead of all other creditors. With a floating charge, they must join the queue and face more risk of losing their money. NatWest asked the High Court last year whether security (identical to that in the Siebe Gorman ruling) that it had taken for a loan to Spectrum Plus gave it a fixed charge. Recent doubts over the correctness of Siebe Gorman date from 2001.In a New Zealand case known as Brumark, senior English judges hearing the final appeal in London ruled that whether a charge was fixed or floating depended on substance, not form: what mattered was not what the parties had agreed on paper, but how easily the lender could gain control of the assets on which the loan was secured. The appeal to the Lords will surely cause a re-examination of this ruling too. It will interest the British government as well as bankers. Until the law changed last September, some government departments were first in line after fixed-charge holders when firms went under. Now they must wait their turn, at an estimated cost to the state so far of £70m ($128m).

While the press speculated that his six-year marriage to actress Sadie Frost was on the rocks, Jude Law took the pointed step of consulting with lawyers about whether he could sue the papers. Although the couple's rep admitted that Frost was suffering from postpartum depression following the birth of their third child, Rudy, they insisted that talk of a split was baseless. But on February 11, 2003 Law's publicist Simon Halls said that the actor had moved out of the couple's London, England home and into a house down the block.

Six Algerian men and one Ethiopian were arrested in a north London flat this week in which a smidgen of ricin, a lethal poison was discovered. Ricin is derived from castor beans using a simple chemical process involving easily obtainable materials, chiefly lye, acetone, a coffee grinder and some old newspapers. The latest raid in London is probably a result of another success: the discovery last month of false papers, protection suits, and chemicals suitable for bombmaking in a flat in Paris, where four North Africans were arrested. Documents found after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan show that al-Qaeda had investigated ricin, among other poisons. The government is planning new laws to update the country's disaster planning, which is currently a cluttered mixture of cold-war relics and ad hoc measures introduced since September 11th 2001.

Comments on the publication of the newspaper 'Evening Standard' in London, England. Examples of keywords used in the newspaper; Provincial paper headlines that make an impact.

Reports on the discovery of "Heart's Yearnings," an original poem by Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde, written while he was a student at Oxford University. Sale of the poem with a group of Wilde paper and memorabilia at Sotheby's.

States that education is the number one priority of a London government concerned about what it perceives as falling standards in the very basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Education reforms of the Labor government; Education as the number one priority of the Labor Party; Information on `Excellence in School,' the white paper on education.