Thursday, May 17, 2018

Why I Love To Blog -- Reason #346 -- May 17, 2018

Size matters? The linked blog was posted just the other day. Take a look at the post.

Note the major oil company that is red; the other three, green.

Now, today, WTI hits $72 and the entire oil sector pretty much surges. EOG, OAS, CXV, PSX all moved nicely. EOG up almost $5/share.

But there was one oil company that actually declined today. Yes, XOM. Not much, but XOM was down about 14 cents, and is now trading under $82.

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Geography

Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks, Ken Jennings, c. 2011.

The English Landscape, Viking Studio, Profile Books, c. 2000.
  • the Yorkshire Wolds, p. 338
  • the Vale of York, p. 340
  • the Yorkshire Dales, p. 363
  • the North York Moors, p. 373
The Yorkshire Dales
  • one of the most treasured and beautiful parts of Englnd
  • high, remote moorland cut by deep river valleys
  • over twenty separate dales can be identified in this part of the Pennines
  • Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, York
  • magnificent limestone uplands
  • sheep: black-faced, curly-horned Swaledale
  • underlying rock is limestone, giving rise to classic "glacio-karst" formations such as caves, gorges, sink-holes and rock pavements
  • acidic moorland covered with heather ,bilberry and blanket bog and haunted by the occasional cries of grouse or curlews
  • many place-names indicate Norse or Viking origins, with suffixes such as "-thwaite" or "-thorpe"
  • these huddled villages often stand at river crossing points and at the junctions of ancient trading and pack-horse routes through the fells
  • the Dales are known for their handsome, historic market towns such as Skipton, Askrigg, Masham, and Reeth (I've spend time all of these except Reeth)
The North  York Moors
  • two major seaside resorts, Scarborough and Whitby
  • market towns of Pickering, Helmsley, Guisborough
  • North Yorkshire Moors Railway, built by George Stephenson, the steam-train pioneer, between Pickering and Grosmont
  • Robin Hood's Bay to Whitby
  • Rievaulx
  • Byland Abbey

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