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EASY DAY TRIPS FROM LONDON
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Avoiding the hoards when the sun shines is not easy. Here are 10 easy day trips from London that you can take with your family while social distancing.
While the sun shines and the rain stays away heading to the beach is the obvious choice. But guaranteed you won't be the only one thinking the same. So when we decided to research day trips we thought we'd choose places that shouldn't be overrun by the public.
No matter where you go though, please respect the countryside and others around you, take care to follow social distancing rules and have consideration for the farmers and landowners who look after the countryside for us to enjoy. Also note that some car parks are now operating a booking service so check all websites for regular updates.
ABINGER ROUGHS AND NETLEY PARK
Hidden woods with ancient trees and flower-sprinkled grasslands, just off the North Downs and Pilgrims Ways provide plenty of options for a day away from the city.
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ASHRIDGE ESTATE
Ancient trees, rolling chalk downlands and lush meadows in an area of outstanding natural beauty is what Ashridge is known for. Also expect to see deer roaming freely in the estate.
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CHILTERNS WALKS
Little Marlow walks
The Water Walk is an almost flat route following the Thames Path National Trail to the flooded Spade Oak gravel pits. The gravel pits are now a haven for wildlife, particularly birds, with good access to the waterside on permissive routes. Keep clear of the water's edge. No swimming.
Circular Walk near Christmas Common
2.5, 3 or 6-mile circular routes in the Christmas Common area, starting from the National Trust car park at Watlington Hill
Box Wood walks
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WELLESLEY WOODLANDS
Trails have been created that wind through the woodlands, past retained military features such as the Wellington statue and firing range walls. To the north of Duke's Wood, the Basingstoke Canal provides walkable links to Lake and Canal Side and further reaches of Wellesley Woodlands.
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This tranquil woodland and large pond used to belong to celebrated Oxford author CS Lewis. It was said he enjoyed wandering here while writing his children's book series about Narnia which includes The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. With the A40 nearby and surrounded by houses, it is a surprise that the reserve has kept its sense of stillness.
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SNELSMORE COMMON
When you visit in spring you may be lucky to hear woodlarks singing across the heath. On brash and log piles, look out for adders basking in the sun. You can also see grass snake, common lizard and slow-worm, and the large pond supports a breeding population of palmate newts.
WARBURG NATURE RESERVE
A hidden wildlife gem nestling in the Chiltern Hills, rich in wildlife that will lift your spirits whatever the season.
High up in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Warburg Nature Reserve is a remote and magnificent place, rich in exciting plants and animals all through the year. The flower-rich grasslands in the valley bottom give way to extensive woodlands rising up the valley sides. It is the richest BBOWT site in the three counties for orchids. From April right through to August orchids can be found in all of the habitats, including fly orchid and bird's-nest orchid. Warburg Nature Reserve even has its own microclimate with exceptionally cold temperatures on winter nights.
AUBRY BUXTON NATURE RESERVE
Visit a beautifully wild nature reserve with its woodlands, ponds and species-rich grasslands, filled with amazing wildlife.
Once a wildlife and pleasure park to Norman House, this beautiful reserve was donated to Essex Wildlife Trust by the late Lord and Lady Buxton in 1976. It is now a thriving wildlife haven for the many rare and uncommon species found here, including the strange-looking Adder's Tongue Fern and Lesser Lady's Mantle.
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NORBURY PARK
A varied natural landscape, including woodland, grassland, river valley and farmland. The three farms within the park encourage skylarks to nest in some of the fields and maintain hedgerows to support a wide variety of birds, such as linnets and yellowhammers, as well as mammals and invertebrates. The river Mole is stocked with coarse fish and is home to swans, kingfishers, herons, various duck species, and little egrets.
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Home/Sports/One dead in violent clashes at Argentina football match
One dead in violent clashes at Argentina football match
StaffOctober 8, 2022
Authorities terminated rubber bullets and also tear gas as they tried to quit followers
A single person passed away Thursday complying with terrible clashes that began outside a football suit on the borders of Buenos Aires prior to spilling right into the arena and also onto the pitch, authorities stated.
Authorities terminated rubber bullets and also tear gas as they tried to quit followers going to the suit in between top-flight groups Boca Juniors and also Gimnasia y Esgrima from pressing right into the currently crowded place.
The agitation outside the Carmelo Zerillo arena in La Plata, concerning 50 kilometres (31 miles) southern of Argentina's resources, proceeded within, where stunned viewers were seen pressing via secure fencing to get away the physical violence and also obtain onto the area.
" There had to do with 10,000 individuals around the arena attempting to enter, some with tickets, some without. Every person might see that the arena was really complete," stated Eduardo Aparicio, head of a federal government company entrusted with protecting against physical violence in sporting activities.
" All this is being examined," consisting of "the activities of the cops," he included.
Authorities at San Martin health center in La Plata validated the fatality of 57-year-old Cesar Regueiro from heart attack as he was being moved from the arena to a health center.
A cameraman for sporting activities network TyC was wounded by rubber bullets while loads of viewers were experiencing the results of tear gas and also had actually been required to health centers, according to regional media.
The video game was put on hold after 9 mins as a result of an absence of safety and security, umpire Hernan Mastrangelo stated.
" It influenced everyone on the area," he included. "The air came to be unbreathable. The scenario left control and also there were no safety and security assurances."
Surges were listened to inside the arena and also smoke from the fumes rapidly gotten to the pitch.
The gamers, the umpire and also technological employee were compelled to leave the area.
At the exact same time, followers, consisting of youngsters being led or brought by grownups, hurried from the stands and also onto the pitch, where individuals were seen resting or relaxing evidently recuperating from tear gas direct exposure.
" The initial point I saw was that individuals had actually begun to run away the stalls and also I started to really feel the results of the gas. I considered my family members and also I began to fret," Nicolas Contin, a Gimnasia gamer, stated from the storage locker space where he had actually brought his young boy.
" I'm upset concerning every little thing that occurred."
The suit came with a crucial point in Argentina's Primera Department, with Gimnasia attempting to remain in the title race and also Boca aiming to relocate right into top place.
" What was mosting likely to be an event finishes in this. It injures all of us what occurred, it is incredible and also we regret it," Boca Juniors supervisor Hugo Ibarra informed press reporters.
Clashes inside and also outside Argentina's arenas have actually caused greater than 300 fatalities given that football came to be specialist in the 1930s, with two-thirds of the fatalities happening after the 1990s, according to a neighborhood NGO.
The physical violence in La Plata comes simply 5 days after among the most dangerous calamities in football background in which 131 individuals were eliminated in an arena crush in Indonesia.
The occurrence in the city of Malang likewise came down right into disaster after cops terminated tear gas right into jam-packed stands.

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Pianist Alessio Bax with the SB Chamber Orchestra, directed by Heiichiro Ohyama at Lobero Theatre, Tuesday March 17, 7:30 pm.
You'd be hard-pressed to find any blarney when Italian-born pianist Alessio Bax joins the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra (SBCO) on March 17, St. Patrick's Day—unless you count the craft beer tasting event afterwards, open to subscribers. The first half of the concert, however, belongs to conductor Heiichiro Ohyama and the orchestra, and will celebrate music from or about the British Isles, including works by Frank Bridge and Frederick Delius, as well as Felix Mendelssohn's deeply affecting The Hebrides. But the second half has nothing to do with St. Paddy, and everything to do with Bax, and the fulfillment of his dream to perform Brahms with the SBCO. According to Bax, Brahms' first piano concerto reveals a subtle level of new meaning when played with the intimacy of a chamber ensemble instead of the larger orchestration that is customary. The international piano star and 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient has garnered kudos in Santa Barbara in recent years, principally due to repeated appearances with the SBCO. Late last year, UCSB Arts & Lectures brought Bax to the Granada stage with violinist Joshua Bell, for a memorable performance that included a masterful articulation of Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano. Bax spoke with me from his home in New York on March 3.
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LEGAL AND LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF TRANSLATINGENGLISH LEGAL TERMINOLOGY
Active interaction of Russia with countries of the world community raised a wide range of issues concerning international business activities. Foreign and multinational corporations as well as domestic companies are involved in international deals all over the world. With rapid growth of international business transactions and, consequently, international commercial disputes, the problems of legal translating acquired vital importance.
Nowadays the English language has become the language of choice for conducting an international business. In addition, the English language has become prominent as the operational language of many law firms and multinational corporations. Thus, interest in studying English legal terminology and legal translating has recently grown up. In this context, the article reviews general peculiarities of legal terms and focuses on linguistic and legal aspects of translating English legal terminology.
While exploring legal terminology we have to determine the unit of this terminological system. In this article we define a term as a word or a word combination belonging to the specific field of usage, either specially created or borrowed for determining a specific concept and based on a definition. In that way, "a legal term is a word or a word combination which stands for a general name of a legal concept, has a specific and definite meaning, and is often used in legislation and legal documents" [6; 7, p. 64].
Contemporary language of law makes several requirements relating to legal terms that should be taken into consideration in the process of translating. The legal term should meet the following important requirements:
a) satisfy the rules and norms of a corresponding language,
b) be systematic,
c) correspond to a certain definition oriented to a certain concept,
d) be relatively independent of the context,
e) be precise,
f) be as concise as possible,
g) aim at one-to-one correspondence (within the certain terminological system),
h) be expressively neutral,
i) be euphonical.
The language of law as a special sublanguage has its own content and a set of specific characteristics which vary depending on a language system. However, irrespective of a language, the major part of its distinctive features and peculiarities are explained by the influence of historical, cultural, social and political factors on the language community.
The English legal language is characterized by a specific set of terms. First of all, it comprises numerous Latin words and phrases (ex. lex loci actus, res gestae, corpus delicti, lex domicilii, etc.). It also has words of the Old and Middle English origin, including compounds which are no longer in common usage (aforesaid, hereinabove, hereafter, whereby, etc.). Besides, the English legal language includes a large amount of words derived from French (appeal, plaintiff, tort, lien, estoppel, verdict etc.). The language of law also uses formal and ceremonial words (I do solemnly swear, Your Honour, May it please the court...) and technical terms with precise meanings (defendant, negligence, bail etc). Thus, the present content of the English language of law is due to the influence of different languages and that has a historical explanation [2, p. 386; 3; 5, p.187 ].
Considering Russian legal terminology, we should keep in mind that it comprises fewer borrowings and compounds than the English one. A considerable part of legal terms is of a national origin including Old Russian (for example, истец, ответчик, право). This may be explained by the history of Russia and its legal system development as well. At the same time, contemporary Russian legal language has been enriched by the new law terms derived from English (лизинг - leasing, антитрестовский - antitrust, корпоративный - corporate, факторинг - factoring etc.) [1; 3; 4]. Thus, English and Russian legal languages are characterized by their own specific features which are explained by the historical, political, social and cultural influences.
Dealing with the language of law implies two forms of transferring from one language to another – legal interpreting and legal translating.
Legal interpreting is meant for people who come before the courts (litigants, defendants, witnesses etc.) and who cannot communicate effectively in the language of legal procedures. According to the law, individuals who do not communicate in the language of legal proceedings have a right to speak their native language in court and use the interpreting services. Similar regulations are provided by the new Russian legislation - Arbitration Procedure Code (2002), the Civil Procedure Code (2002) and the Criminal Procedure Code (2001). The interpreter's goal is to interpret from one language to another everything what is said in court, preserving the tone and level of the original language, adding and deleting nothing. The legal interpretation should be adequate, complete and correct.
Legal translating first of all implies translating legal documentation (laws, acts, judicial decisions, legal rules, contracts, agreements, administrative papers and other law-related documentation). This kind of translating has been recently prevailing in the process of international relations development.
Faced with a legal text to translate, a legal translator must deal with the dual challenge of language and law, which he or she must reproduce as correctly as possible in the target language. This complex procedure of transferring from one language to another involves a number of risks inherent in language. That is why it is rather difficult to transfer the entire message of the source text from one language to another. Legal translation requires reproducing both form and content of the legal text. The latter also implies transferring text from one legal system to another. Therefore, legal translating is subject to various difficulties of transferring a meaning of a legal term and a translator must strive for a functional equivalence.
As it was mentioned before, any kind of translation has to meet the principal requirements of adequacy, accuracy and completeness. While accuracy and completeness are mainly aimed at the form of the legal text, adequacy is referred to its content. Adequacy of the legal translation is mostly achieved by following the principal rules of legal terminology in the target language. Translating implies transferring the meaning of the original, but not only the words.
While translating it is important to know the legal terminology in both languages. The substitution of a legal term of the source text by its synonym (a word of common usage) in the target language may result in misinterpretation in terms of law. The distortion of a meaning of a law term may influence upon legal consequences.
For example, the legal phrase "the party domiciled abroad" is not equal to its Russian translation «зарубежная сторона» or «сторона, проживающая за рубежом». The correct way to express the same meaning in Russian legal terminology will be «сторона, домицилированная за рубежом». It should be noted that a domicile as a legal term means "a place of permanent living" (if an individual is implied) or "a seat of a corporation /a principle place of business" (if juridical person is implied), while the general meaning of this word is "a place where someone lives" [1; 3; 4]. Besides, as the legal term party (сторона) implies either an individual person or juridical person/entity involved in a legal agreement or dispute, the second way of incorrect translation mentioned above relates only to an individual person and hence, is unequal to the legal term used in the source text. Inadequate translation obviously may influence on the objective evaluation of jural facts.
Thus, it should be taken into consideration that a legal translator or interpreter is liable for the correctness, completeness and adequacy of his legal translating. "The translator must appear before the court and translate completely, correctly and in proper time" (the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, 2002: article 57 clause 4). On the one hand, the procedural codes mentioned above provide criminal liability for a wittingly false translation (the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, 2002: article 57 clause 6; the Criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation, 2001: article 59 clause 5). On the other hand, interpreters are humans and making a mistake is possible. When an interpreter unintentionally makes a mistake, he or she is obligated to correct it immediately, and is expected to do the same in case of written legal translating. The Russian law provides a right of a court interpreter to ask questions in order to clarify the translation. Indeed, unprofessional (in its legal sense) translation may cause injustices. Rarely, but some cases have successfully been appealed because of interpreter issues.
Therefore, it is obvious that the major drawback of traditional language training and document translation services currently available is that these organizations have little or no experience and knowledge of the law. In order to provide the effective communication in English about specific legal concepts and ideas it is crucial for legal translators and interpreters to have a profound knowledge of the legal terminology in both languages.
All mentioned above allow us to determine the essential requirements that provide excellence in legal translating (interpreting) in the process of international communication. First, one of the important requirements is a language proficiency which implies ample vocabulary, knowledge of standard grammar and stylistic components of legal language. The mastery of the target language must be equivalent to that of an educated native speaker. Second, the high level of excellence requires up-to-date knowledge of the subject material and legal terminology in both languages. These are due to the translator's competence in legal language. Third, understanding of the procedures used in court as well as familiarity with principal legal concepts is necessary. In addition, a wide general knowledge, mental and verbal agility of an interpreter contributes to the effective legal translation as well.
Taking into consideration the aforesaid, we come to a conclusion that legal translators and interpreters should meet the essential requirements mentioned above in order to provide a complete, correct and adequate translation. Deep knowledge of legal language and proficiency in legal terminology of both languages are the main factors providing the effective intercultural communication of legal professionals in the process of international cooperation.
1. BBC English Dictionary. – Harper Collins Publisher, Ltd. London, 1992.
2. Crystal D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. – Cambridge, 1992.
3. Duhaime's Law Dictionary: http://www.duhaime.org/dictionary
4. English-Russian Law Dictionary/ Andrianov S.N., Berson A.S., Nikiforov A.S. – Russo Press: Moscow, 1998.
5. Ivanova L.I., Sheberstova T.B. The Peculiarities of the English Legal Term and Their Reflection in Translation //The Problems of Intercultural Communication (international conference materials). ISUCT Press: Ivanovo, 2000.
6. Superanskaya A.V., Podolskaya N.V., Vasilieva N.V. General Terminology: Theoretical questions. – Moscow, 1989.
7. The Language of Law /Pigolkin A.S. – Moscow, 1990.
Please, do not hesitate to contact the author of this article by e-mail with any questions you may have: article_response@mail.ru
Sheberstova Tatyana (Ivanovo State University, Russia)
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Intermittent fasting is one of the most ancient secrets of health and wellness. Because it's been practiced throughout all history. Intermittent fasting is considered a secret because this habit had been long forgotten.
But now, many people are re-discovering this dietary intervention. It may carry advantages if it is done correctly, including: reversal of type two diabetes, weight reduction, greater energy and many other things. In this beginner's guide you can learn the function of intermittent fasting on the body.
At its very core, fasting simply allows the body to burn off extra body fat. It is necessary to realize that this is ordinary for humans and people have evolved to avoid negative health consequences from it. Body fat is merely food energy that's been stored away. If you do not consume food, your body will simply "eat" its own fat for energy.
Once we eat, more food energy is consumed than can immediately be used. Some of the energy must be stored away for later usage. Insulin is the hormone involved with the storage of food energy.
Insulin rises when we consume food, helping to keep the excess energy in two separate ways. Sugars can be connected into chains, called glycogen and stored in the liver. There is limited storage space; and the liver starts to turn the glucose into fat, after that is achieved. This procedure is called De-Novo Lipogenesis.
A number of the newly created fat is stored in the liver, but most of it is exported into additional fat deposits within the body. Even though this is a complex procedure, there is no limitation to the total amount of fat which can be created. Therefore, two complementary food energy storage systems exist within our own bodies. One is readily accessible but with limited storage area (glycogen), and the other is more challenging to access but has infinite storage area (body fat).
The method goes in reverse when we don't eat (fasting). Insulin levels fall, signaling the body to start burning stored energy as no more is coming through food. Blood glucose falls, so the body has to pull sugar to burn for energy.
Glycogen is the most readily accessible energy resource. It's broken down to give energy to the cells. This provides enough energy to power the body for 24-36 hours. After that, your system will begin breaking down fat for energy.
So, the body just really exists in two states, the fed (insulin high) condition and the fasted (insulin reduced) state. Either we are storing food energy, or it is burning food energy. It is one or another. Then there is not any weight gain if fasting and eating become more balanced.
If we start eating the moment we roll out of bed, and do not stop until we go to sleep, we spend almost all our time at the fed state. As time passes, we will gain weight. We have not allowed our body some time.
To restore balance or to lose weight, we simply need to boost the quantity of time we burn food energy (fasting). Essentially, fasting enables the body to use its energy that is stored. After all, that is what it is there for. The important thing to realize is that there isn't anything wrong with that. That's how our bodies are designed. That's what cat, dogs, lions and bears do. That's what humans do.
If you are constantly eating, as is frequently advocated, then your body will simply utilize the incoming food energy rather than burn the body fat. It'll be only stored by you. It will be saved by your own body for a while when there's nothing to consume. You lack equilibrium. You lack fasting.
Fasting differs from starvation in a crucial way. Control. Starvation is the involuntary lack of food. It's neither deliberate nor controlled. Fasting, on the other hand, is the voluntary withholding of food for health spiritual, or other factors.
Food is readily accessible, but you opt not to eat it. This could be for any time period, from a couple of hours up to days or even weeks. You will begin a fast and it may be ended by you at will. You may start or stop a fast for any reason or no reason at all.
Fasting has no typical length, as it's merely the lack of ingestion. Anytime that you aren't eating, you are fasting. As an instance, you may fast a period of approximately 12-14 hours, between breakfast and dinner the next day. In that sense, fasting ought to be thought of as a part of life.
Fasting is but a part of regular, normal life. It is possibly the oldest and most powerful dietary intervention imaginable. Yet somehow we have forgotten its power and discounted its potential.


What values would you choose for thr area of the coil, A, and for the number of turns, N, that will provide this emf.
i have never done physics before so i dont even no what to begin...could comeone please run me though how i would attempt it..
How much do you know about electric and magnetic fields?
I would start with V=Blv, but unless that's known as a standard formula, you'd need to go back a few steps.
If I were designing a dynamo one of the first things I would consider is the energy which could be stored in the iron. You would need to know the area and length of the iron path. Also the susceptibility of the iron and the distance of the air gap. Then you can find out how many ampere turns can bring this to saturation and finally from the energy and frequency you may get the maximum power you can hope for. Then of course you want to know if you can fit your wire in the remaining space. This is hardly half of it. Maybe a start. Good luck.
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Texas is my home state, I was born and raised here. I left home after graduating high school and went out to the west coast to attend college. I did not return until my husband (also a native Texan) retired from the Navy in 2006. During our lifetime we've had the opportunity of living in many different places. Now that we're back in Texas to stay, I've been doing a series of paintings which depict what life is like here for me. This will be an ongoing series. Texas is such a large and diverse state, it has a lot to offer when it comes to subject matter to compose a painting from.
in springtime the bluebonnets line the roads as far as the eye can see.
the Gulf Coast is naturally gorgeous.
some of the most beautiful sunsets in the world happen in Texas.
fall brings out an amazing array of colors here.
the twisted ribbons of rivers provide an endless source beauty.
the beautiful explosion of stars in the night sky is something to behold.
the land is open and free.
few places have as a rich, storied, and proud history as the Lone Star State.
there are real cowboys and cattle in Texas.
And that's just to mention but a few.


Washington is playing a dangerous game of encouraging terrorists in Syria to attack government forces and the Russian military, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Moscow won't leave aggressive US steps unanswered, but wants to overcome the political deadlock, he added.
"It's impossible to eradicate terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa through military means only. We are deeply convinced about that. The advantage of our policy lies in that it is not self-interested and does not have a hidden agenda," he said.


Bank Name:City Bank & Trust Co.
City Bank & Trust Co. was founded in April 1910 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The bank operates as a subsidiary of Tcm Company. According to the FDIC and based on the institution's charter type, City Bank & Trust Co. is classified as a commercial bank, state charter and Fed nonmember, supervised by the FDIC. City Bank & Trust Co. is a FDIC-insured bank with certificate number of 5396. The Fed RSSD ID of City Bank & Trust Co. is 79855.
City Bank & Trust Co. currently operates with 4 branches located in Nebraska. City Bank & Trust Co. is the 59th largest bank in Nebraska. The bank does not have any offices outside Nebraska.
Bank routing number is a 9 digit code which is necessary to process Fedwire funds transfers, process direct deposits, bill payments, and other such automated transfers. We currently do not have a routing number for City Bank & Trust Co. in our database.
The full address of bank headquarters is 2929 Pine Lake Road, Lincoln, NE 68516. You can visit the official website of the bank at www.citybankandtrust.com for more information and online banking service if available. For a list of all City Bank & Trust Co. branches and detailed branch information like hours of operation, phone number and address; please refine your search by selecting a state from the map or list below.
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The staff of SBGS found a citizen of Morocco in the capital airport. The foreigner wanted to go to Ukraine by a false passport of a citizen of one of EU countries.
The Moroccan arrived to Boryspil by the flight from Istanbul. During the border control, he provided the passport of a citizen of France for control. However, the border guards established that the document contained the signs of partial forgery, such as the replacement of informational pages with constituent data.
Then, the border guards also found that the man purchased the French passport 3000€ and arriving to Ukraine he planned in a few days to fly to Italy.
The foreigner was refused in border crossing and banned to enter the territory of Ukraine for the period of 3 years. He was sent back by one of the flight.
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RBS improves efficiency to achieve profit growth
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has reported a growth in operating profit in the second quarter of 2010, helped by technology cost savings.
Anh Nguyen August 6, 2010
The bank said that group costs declined by seven percent in the period, to £4.1 million, which it said was "principally driven" by a reduction in staff costs, but also "reflected continued efficiency gains from Business Services".
RBS's Business Services division provides technology, property and operational services to the group's customer-facing divisions. The bank reported a five percent fall in its technology and operations costs.
The cost reductions helped RBS Group achieve a quarterly profit of £869 million, up from £713 million in Q1 2010.
However, RBS's results are clouded by the threat of further redundancies, in addition to the 500 job cuts it announced for its wealth management division in June, and the 2,600 job losses in its insurance division in May.
"While the group has already taken a number of difficult restructuring decisions that have affected its staff, further steps are planned in pursuit of establishing an efficient and competitive cost base.
"As with all such decisions to date, the focus will be on ensuring that the impact on staff is handled appropriately and that everything possible is done to minimise compulsory redundancies," the bank said in its latest financial report.
Meanwhile, in its UK retail division, RBS said that process re-engineering efficiencies win its branch network and operational centres have helped to reduce the division's costs by three percent lower than in Q2 2009. The bank also said that the division is "benefiting" from investment in process improvements and automation.
The RBS Group was recently fined £5.6 million by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to have adequate systems and controls in place to screen transactions under Money Laundering Regulations.
Royal Bank of Scotland lays off hundreds of IT staff Royal Bank of Scotland to spend £6bn on IT


My colleague Tad sent me a link to Andrew Connell's post: A Quicker Way to Create Custom SharePoint List Templates with the comment - 'I guess "quicker" is relative.' Tad's right – this seems to be going too far for a simple schema.xml file.
Yep, it's the ViewStyle tag I wrote about back in 2007. It eliminates that 90% of the schema file that Andrew suggests you ignore, leaving a fairly terse xml that can actually be digested and debugged (sort of).
i myself thought the article was a little behind the times... but, i guess it's good for somebody new to the whole concept of custom list templates.
Nice! That's exactly how simple I always thought it ought to be, but I didn't know it was actually possible.
Thanks for the tip, Oskar. I wish I had found out about this about two months ago, when I could have used it! I'll have to remember to pass this on to the next person I know who runs into this issue.
I've spent a lot of time on this stuff when writing the SPSource tool which reverse engineers a list much like Solution Generator does but a little smarter ...it doesn't use the RPC call technique.
I thought i'd ask you as you've found a cracker there!
Where do I have to look to ensure that the fields turn up in the New/Edit for. I konw there are attributes on the fields themselves in the schema.xml...but even forcing that there doesn't seem to do it! Where else needs to be set?
Hmmm. I would make sure that the ContentType's FieldRef element also has the ShowInEditForm and ShowInNewForm attributes both set to true.
Theoretically the List's Field element should override the ContentType's FieldRef, but as with all things SharePoint it isn't entirely clear.... Best of luck. I'll have to check out SPSource.
Do you use Keutmann's excellent SPM by the way?
Also, have you seen the survey I've put together on how people work with SharePoint Dev?
THANK YOU for posting this! schema.xml is now approachable and manageable!!
@michhes - no problem, happy to make someone's day... Just curious that no more people know about this.
List xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint" Title="Basic List" Type="11501" FolderCreation="FALSE" Direction="$Resources:Direction;" Url="Lists/Basic List" BaseType="0" DisableAttachments="TRUE"
Great article, saves a lot of time. Thank you very much.
Life saver that's what this is. It worked pretty well!!!
It is a nice trick for a basic view but can you create a group by elements like the ones you create using the web interface??
The posted code is wrong.
The List element at the top should not be immediately closed -- all the subsequent content should be within it.
The opening List element should merely end with ">", not with "/>".
Perry, thanks. I blame that on copy/ paste between Visual Studio and Bloger - it translated the namespace link and removed the quotes. Sorry about that - I will fix that attribute.
We're seeing problems with "Failed to cache schema".
Our issues were due to a field schema in the 12-hive changing underneath an existing list using that field schema. This doesn't seem to be the fault of using an abbreviated schema after all.
Perry, thanks for the followup. As evident from my more recent posts, I've since moved on from SharePoint, but I'm happy this old post is still useful to you!


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package net.gangelov.memories.rest;

import com.sun.jersey.core.header.FormDataContentDisposition;
import com.sun.jersey.multipart.FormDataParam;
import com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ResourceFilters;
import net.gangelov.memories.models.Image;
import net.gangelov.memories.models.ImageTag;
import net.gangelov.memories.models.Tag;
import net.gangelov.memories.models.User;
import net.gangelov.memories.filestores.ImageFileStore;
import net.gangelov.memories.rest.filters.AuthenticationFilter;
import net.gangelov.memories.rest.responses.ApiError;
import net.gangelov.validation.ValidationException;
import org.apache.commons.imaging.ImageReadException;

import javax.ws.rs.*;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

@Path("/images")
public class Images {
    @GET
    public List<Image> index() throws SQLException {
        return Image.query()
                .order("created_at", "desc")
                .include("user", "tags")
                .results();
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/{id}")
    public Image get(@PathParam("id") int imageId) throws SQLException {
        Image image = Image.query().where("id", imageId).include("user", "tags").first();

        if (image == null) {
            throw new ApiError(404, "image_not_found", "No image with this id");
        }

        return image;
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/search/{query}")
    public List<Image> search(@PathParam("query") String query) throws SQLException {
        return Image.query()
                .joins("images_tags", "images_tags.image_id = images.id")
                .joins("tags", "tags.id = images_tags.tag_id")
                .whereAnyOf(
                        Image.query().whereSearchLike("tags.name", query),
                        Image.query().whereSearchLike("images.name", query)
                )
                .order("created_at", "desc")
                .group("images.id")
                .include("user", "tags")
                .results();
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/{id}/image")
    public Response getImage(@PathParam("id") int imageId) throws SQLException {
        Image image = Image.query().where("id", imageId).include("user", "tags").first();

        if (image == null) {
            throw new ApiError(404, "image_not_found", "No image with this id");
        }

        File imageFile = ImageFileStore.get(image);

        return Response.ok(imageFile, ImageFileStore.getMediaType(imageFile))
                .header("Cache-Control", "public, max-age=31536000")
                .build();
    }

    @PUT
    @Consumes(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
    @ResourceFilters({AuthenticationFilter.class})
    public Image create(
            @HeaderParam("Authorization") String accessToken,
            @FormDataParam("name") String name,
            @FormDataParam("tags") String imageTags,
            @FormDataParam("image") InputStream fileInputStream,
            @FormDataParam("image") FormDataContentDisposition contentDisposition
    ) throws SQLException, ValidationException, IOException, ImageReadException {
        User user = User.findByAccessToken(accessToken);

        Image image = new Image();
        image.userId = user.id;
        image.name = name;

        ImageFileStore store = new ImageFileStore(contentDisposition.getFileName(), fileInputStream);
        store.ensureValid();
        store.upload(image);

        image.ensureValid();
        image.save();

        List<Tag> tags = Tag.tagsFromString(imageTags);
        // Create any new tags that aren't present in the database
        for (Tag tag : tags) {
            if (tag.id == null) {
                tag.save();
            }

            ImageTag imageTag = new ImageTag();
            imageTag.imageId = image.id;
            imageTag.tagId = tag.id;
            imageTag.save();
        }

        image.tags = tags;

        return image;
    }

    @DELETE
    @Path("/{id}")
    @ResourceFilters({AuthenticationFilter.class})
    public void delete(@HeaderParam("Authorization") String accessToken, @PathParam("id") int id) throws SQLException {
        User user = User.findByAccessToken(accessToken);
        Image image = Image.query().where("id", id).first();

        if (image == null) {
            throw new ApiError(404, "image_not_found", "No image with this id");
        }

        if (!user.id.equals(image.userId)) {
            throw new ApiError(401, "no_permission", "You cannot remove someone else's image");
        }

        Image.query().delete().where("id", id).execute();
    }
}

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Zytiga Extends Lives of Prostate Cancer Patients, Study Says
By | The Wall Street Journal
Zytiga, made by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) unit Centocor Ortho Biotech, gave men with advanced prostate cancer an average of four months of extra life, according to Phase III trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
The medicine, also known as abiraterone acetate, is a pill that targets a protein called cytochrome P450 17A1 (CYP17A1), which plays an important role in the production of testosterone. The drug works by decreasing the production of this hormone that would stimulate cancer cells to continue growing.
The treatment was discovered at The Institute of Cancer Research, or ICR, in what is now the Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit. It was first studied in trials at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
"Men with advanced prostate cancer have very few therapies available to them and sadly around 10,000 patients in the U.K. die each year from this disease," said the study's chief investigator and lead author, Johann de Bono of the ICR and The Royal Marsden.
"We are thrilled that a drug discovered at The Institute of Cancer Research has been proven to significantly extend life for many men, giving doctors a valuable new treatment option," de Bono said in a statement.
Zytiga received U.S. approval last month in combination with prednisone to treat patients with a certain type of late-stage prostate cancer in patients who have been previously treated with chemotherapy.
The manufacturer has also applied for regulatory agency approvals in Europe, but for now the drug is not available to patients in the U.K.
In prostate cancer, the male sex hormone testosterone stimulates prostate tumors to grow. Drugs or surgery are used to reduce testosterone production or to block testosterone's effects.
Still, sometimes prostate cancer can continue to grow even when testosterone levels are low. Men with these cancers are said to have castration-resistant prostate cancer, which is the type of cancer Zytiga was approved to treat.
Hormone treatments that block the testes' production of testosterone usually stop benefiting patients after a few years, leading to the assumption that as tumors progressed they developed the ability to grow independently of testosterone.
However, it was known that the adrenal glands also produce testosterone, suggesting that this was providing fuel to some cancer cells.
Scientists elsewhere had also measured higher levels of enzymes involved in testosterone synthesis inside prostate tumor tissue, giving rise to a new theory that some cancers were able to produce their own testosterone.
Professor Mike Jarman and his team at ICR designed Zytiga to have a different mechanism of action from standard hormone treatmentsblocking the production of male hormones in all tissues, not just the testes, by targeting an enzyme involved in hormone synthesis called CYP17.
"From the success of this study, it's now clear that men with advanced prostate cancer can still benefit from treatments targeting male hormones. This has corrected 40 years of misunderstanding about this disease and we hope it will lead to the development of more second-line hormone treatments for these men, much like those used successfully to treat breast cancer," ICR Chief Executive Professor Alan Ashworth said in a statement.
The study was designed to assess overall survival and showed that men given the placebo survived an average of 11 months, while men given Zytiga survived for nearly 15 months.
Pain eased during the trial for a much greater number of patients taking Zytiga than the placebo.


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By NASUWT: The Teachers' Union
Saturday 19 Jan 2019 12:00 am
schools / teachers
BME teachers face racist abuse, conference hears
More than half (53%) of BME teachers have reported being subject to verbal abuse at school in the last twelve months, Chris Keates, the General Secretary of the NASUWT – The Teachers' Union, told a conference of BME teachers today.
At the NASUWT BME Teachers' Consultation Conference in Birmingham, the largest gathering of BME teachers in Europe, Ms Keates told the delegation:
"BME teachers continue to be subjected to racist remarks, negative comments, and threats of disciplinary action because of their racial origin.
"Teachers are continuing to face misery, humiliation, ill-health, loss of confidence and blighted careers as a result of this abuse."
The General Secretary also recounted that 42% of BME teachers say they are not supported by senior management to deal with pupil indiscipline.
"This unacceptable failure to act is indefensible and reprehensible.
"It is a failure of the employer's legal duty of care to employees. Too often, schools are condoning behaviour that is leaving BME staff, and indeed pupils, isolated and vulnerable, setting an appalling example to our children and young people."
Ms Keates also raised the top concerns of the teaching profession, which workload remains the number one issue. She said many BME teachers were "buckling under the weight of more and more administrative tasks.
"Teachers are being crushed by punitive assessment and working policies, designed to hold them to account rather than support pupil progress.
"They are trapped in the seemingly permanent revolution of curriculum change, invariably ill-thought through, under-resourced, and badly executed."
Ms Keates highlighted the NASUWT's "outstanding" success in fighting for the rights of BME teachers, which has secured "positive change".
"The NASUWT has stood alone for what is right, often against the prevailing views of the day, on pay, workload, the teachers' contract, pupil indiscipline and equality."
If Theresa May wants to avoid a schools crisis she's going to have to start listening
The Home Office are turning teachers into immigration officers
Allowing faith schools to exclude all non-believers will only push communities apart
The fundamentalist wing of the Tory party is pushing out non-religious values


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Chris Sale: 'We got lied to' about LaRoche situation
By Daryl Van Schouwen
SHARE Chris Sale: 'We got lied to' about LaRoche situation
With signed jerseys from Drake LaRoche hanging at his locker, Chris Sale talks to media Friday.
GLENDALE, Ariz – Chris Sale walked into the White Sox clubhouse Friday morning and fired away.
At his boss, Sox vice president Ken Williams.
In a scathing 15-minute standup before a large contingent of Chicago and national media on hand to cover the Adam LaRoche saga, Sale – who verbally tore into Williams at a team meeting Tuesday — said Williams lied to the team and sent what had been a crisp, upbeat spring training camp riding off the rails. And oh, Sale also said Williams' actions will scare potential free agents away.
"Lying, plain and simple,'' Sale said. "We got bald-faced lied to by someone we're supposed to be able to trust.''
The respected ace of the pitching staff and face of the franchise, Sale was lived Tuesday after LaRoche announced he was retiring due to Williams' changed view on the agreement to allow LaRoche's son Drake in the clubhouse. What set Sale off? A story from the VP that didn't add up.
"You can't come tell the players it was the coaches [who wanted less of Drake] and tell the coaches it's the players and then come in and say something completely different,'' Sale said.
LaRoche also disputed Williams' version of events in statement issued via his twitter account Friday afternoon, saying he's walking away because Williams isn't honoring an agreement the Sox made when he signed as a free agent.
"The 2015 season presented no problems as far as Drake was concerned. (My bat and our record are another story!)," LaRoche said.
"With all of this in mind, we move toward the current situation which arose after White Sox VP Ken Williams recently advised me to significantly scale back the time that my son spent in the clubhouse. Later, I was told not to bring him to the ballpark at all.''
The Sox, rallying around a teammate, his .207 average and 12 homers while earning $12 million last season notwithstanding, held a sit-in during morning workout hours and wanted to boycott Wednesday's game against the Brewers.
"Somebody walked out those doors the other day and it was the wrong guy, plain and simple,'' Sale said.
Shortly after Sale's rant, Sox media relations personnel handed out the first of two statements around the press room at the Sox spring training facility: "While I disagree with Chris' assertions today," Williams said, "I certainly have always appreciated his passion."
With an intrigued and impassioned audience watching the Sox from around the world – the LaRoche and son story went international this week – chairman Jerry Reinsdorf issued his statement shortly after Williams, asking people in his organization to refrain from comment until he gets clarity. Sale said the players want clarity from Reinsdorf, who is expected to meet with the team soon.
"This is an internal issue, and we are in the process of holding a number of discussions with players, staff and the front office," Reinsdorf said.
"I have instructed members of the organization not to talk about this issue and get our focus back on winning baseball games.''
Coming off three losing seasons, the Sox' focus seemed to be where it needed to be. They were having a very good camp.
Until Tuesday.
"We're a steam engine going full steam ahead, and [this] kind of derailed it,'' Sale said. "We had some positive energy going. There was absolutely no problem in here whatsoever with anyone, and he [Williams] kind of created a problem."
Sale said manager Robin Ventura was handling the LaRoche and son arrangement as it should have been. "When it comes to what goes on in the clubhouse, the right person has to handle that, and that's Robin,'' Sale said.
"He's the top, he's the leader of this clubhouse ultimately, and if there's something that needs to be said in here, he can say it. And it's taken with respect, because he's fighting with us. And quite honestly, he has taken heat for us before that he doesn't deserve. So we have faith in him and we trust him.
"He's leading the charge. We just don't have room for outside distractions.''


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Q: Wordpress can't use ZipArchive Im currently developing a site where customers can download brand images like packshots. Ive made a custom cart where the client should be able to download all images added to the cart using ZipArchive. But it dosent seem to work as easy if it was not WordPress(as it usually is).
My code:
$files = array('test.jpg', 'test2.jpg');
$zipname = 'images.zip';
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$zip->open($zipname, ZipArchive::CREATE);
foreach ($files as $file) {
  $zip->addFile($file);
}
$zip->close();

header('Content-Type: application/zip');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.$zipname);
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($zipname));
readfile($zipname);

At first i had Error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at
but i managed fixing this using the init action.

The second problem was that no zip was downloaded.
My question is if anyone here have worked with ZipArchive in WP that would be able to show some samplecode. Or have any tips that may work.
Thanks.

A: I successfully created zip file in root folder of WordPress using following code:
$files = array(__DIR__.'/test.jpg', __DIR__.'/screenshot.png');
$zipname = 'images.zip';
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$zip->open($zipname, ZipArchive::CREATE) or die(' cant open ');
foreach ($files as $file) {
 if( $zip->addFile($file)){
    echo "
$file Added To Zip Sucessfully";
 }else {
    echo "
Can not add $file file";
 }

}
$zip->close();

if(file_exists($zipname)){
    echo " Download $zipname ";
}else{
    echo "$zipname not Exists!";
}

I give a full path of images using __DIR__  and test each step by printing messages. you can provide a download link if it is not automatically downloaded.  I hope it helps.

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Airport shops row: Boots and Dixons to issue new rules on boarding pass checks
Amid passenger revolt retailers are understood to be speaking to staff reminding them customers are not obliged to show boarding cards
Josh Halliday, Matthew Weaver and Damien Gayle
Wed 12 Aug 2015 09.33 EDT First published on Wed 12 Aug 2015 08.48 EDT
Travellers speak out over the claims that some UK airport shops are not passing on savings made through VAT rebates
Boots and Dixons are to issue new guidance to airport staff about checking customers' boarding passes following a consumer revolt over "rip-off" VAT charges.
Customers of Boots and Dixons and other prominent stores including WH Smith pledged not to show their boarding passes at airports after it emerged that retailers were benefiting from VAT savings without lowering prices.
Attacking the practice as a "fraud" and a "con", customers said they felt they were obliged to hand over their boarding cards at checkouts for security reasons or because they were getting a discount.
However, it has emerged that the information is used by stores to avoid paying 20% VAT on everything they sell to customers who are travelling outside the EU. Many stores, including Boots and WH Smith, do not pass this saving to consumers.
The Boarding Pass Revolt: why passengers are taking a stand
Amid growing revolt on Wednesday, Dixons said it had reminded its staff that customers are not obliged to hand over their boarding card at checkouts.
A Dixons spokeswoman said: "At Dixons Travel we do ask customers to show their boarding pass when making a purchase, but this is only on request and is not mandatory. We have re-issued existing guidance to all our colleagues confirming this as our clear process."
A Boots spokeswoman said: "At Boots we always listen to our customers and to help remove any confusion at this time, we have taken the decision to no longer ask customers to show us their boarding passes while we undertake a longer term review of this situation. We are currently in the process of notifying our airport store colleagues of this change."
The revolt comes after Treasury minister David Gauke said some retailers were not passing on savings to customers. Speaking to the Independent, he said: "The VAT relief at airports is intended to reduce prices for travellers, not as a windfall gain for shops.
"While many retailers do pass this saving on to customers, it is disappointing that some are choosing not to. We urge all airside retailers to use this relief for the benefit of their customers."
The shadow culture secretary, Chris Bryant, was among those on Twitter saying he would refuse to show his boarding pass at airport stores.
Chris Bryant MP (@RhonddaBryant)
I'm certainly not showing my boarding pass to airport retailers. What message must this send to tourists? Rip-off Britain?
At Heathrow on Wednesday, passenger Owen Evans blamed the government for not preventing retailers from taking advantage of the loophole. "It should be made illegal," he said. "If the shops are playing the system, it's the government's fault for allowing them to do that. Anyone would do that if it's legal. Obviously you want to do the best for your business. But obviously it's not providing the best service for your customers."
On Facebook, the retailers faced a storm of criticism from angry customers. Ian McNaughton demanded to be told when Boots would repay the government the VAT it had "essentially extorted" from customers flying outside the EU.
"Having purchased from Boots many times when flying abroad I've unwittingly been implicated in what in effect is fraudulent activity which I'm annoyed about now!" he said.
"Your behaviour and that of other airport retailers regarding this VAT issue is abhorrent and reflects major retailers contempt for their customers! I will not be buying anything from Boots again if I can until you change policy regarding this issue of VAT 'fraud' and make the necessary amends and would urge other customers to do likewise!!"
Another customer, Connie Tindale, asked Boots why "your staff at Gatwick are so aggressive when they ask for boarding passes". A Boots representative replied that they were "concerned to hear about the Gatwick stores and will ensure this is fed back to them".
'These shops have been very naughty': passengers react to airport VAT row
At Heathrow, Jonathan Stanton, head of digital retail at Nintendo and a regular traveller, said he wanted the VAT he had paid in duty-free shops to be refunded. He said he felt cheated. "It's unfair if they pocket the money," he said. "It's basically the VAT that we pay and they are pocketing it.
"It doesn't make any difference to me today, but I have just come back from LA and I'm going to New York in a few weeks. I would probably like them to give me the VAT back at the point of purchase."
Of the boarding card checks, he added: "I thought it was just a security requirement. It was never explained to me at the time."
A spokeswoman for Boots said customers were asked – not forced – to show boarding cards at airports. She said: "It is not compulsory to ask for [boarding cards] so if someone doesn't want to show it we won't force it."
In a statement the company said information on boarding passes was used to ensure accurate accounting. It said: "Our airport store teams are asked to request and scan boarding cards to ensure the accuracy of our accounting records, which includes the accurate reporting of VAT. We request our customers' boarding cards so that our VAT accounting is in line with the HMRC's requirements.
It added: "The HMRC and airports accept that this is general practice for all retailers located within airport terminals. Our pricing in airport stores is consistent with our London prices and VAT is not taken into account when setting prices of products. Showing a boarding card is not a compulsory requirement and any of our customers that do not wish to share this information can shop with us without the boarding card being scanned."
A former WH Smith employee at Manchester airport, who did not wish to be named, told the Guardian that store staff were told to check boarding passes as part of an unexplained "survey".
Taking a stand against airport VAT rip-offs | Letters
WH Smith confirmed that staff in its airport stores requested customers to show boarding passes, but conceded "there is no obligation on the part of the customer" to do so.
It added that dual pricing would be impossible to implement even though many duty-free shops already display two prices – one if you are flying in the EU and a lower price if you are flying outside the EU.
It said: "Whilst much of what we sell, eg newspapers, magazines and books, is fixed price and does not attract VAT, any VAT relief associated with the identification of customers travelling outside of the EU is reported in accordance with UK legislation, and any relief obtained is reflected in our single price and extensive promotional offers provided to all of our customers.
"Operational and financial system constraints make any form of 'dual pricing' for our extensive product file a practical impossibility. The destination data, regardless of whether it is to the UK, EU or beyond allows WHSmith to analyse the purchasing trends by time of day and by product category for customers travelling to different locations, and assists us in product ranging and placement decisions at our airport stores.
"This information is limited to the IATA three-digit destination airport codes, which form the basis of IATA's worldwide airport database and does not give access to any personal data of WH Smith customers."
Dixons Retail
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The grey forewings are marked with black and have no central spot, whilst the hindwings are diagnostic in being white with a deep brown border and a dark central crescent. The moth takes to the wing as soon as the sun appears, even on cloudy but warm days. It flies very rapidly just above the vegetation in search of flowers, especially Bearberry and Cowberry during early summer.
The larvae can be seen from July to August before they overwinter as pupae in a cocoon among plant debris.
The caterpillars feed by night on Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), and Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum).
This is a moth of high mountains where it occurs at around 600 to 650 metres on slopes, ridges and summits.
Restricted to Scotland, where it occurs in the central Highlands, Wester Ross, Caithness, Argyll, Galloway and the Southern Uplands.


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Join us for the once-a-year opportunity to experience the ChevroletDetroit Grand Prix course just like the race car drivers do. Runners & walkers will start from the Official Detroit Grand Prix starting line and experience turns 4-13 before crossing under the checkered flag in the shadow of the Cars.com Grandstand 1.
The Grand Prix 5000 is flat, fast, wide and flawlessly smooth; perfect for a new Personal Best. Participants will start at the Official Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix starting line in view of the downtown Detroit skyline. This completely closed course is engineered specifically for speed for some of the fastest machines on earth, and now you get to get on the same course to run your fastest 5K!
*Participants will enter the course at Turn 6 on the south side of the island, overlooking Windsor.
Custom Finishers Medal. The 2019 medal will be a part of the Trivium Mega Medal Series in 2019! All six medals will magnetically connect together to make one giant medal! Check out the images below!
A second custom finishers medallion to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the State Parks. This race is part of the Michigan State Park Centennial Race Series in 2019 and 2020! That means you get two medals for this awesome race!
Fully custom fully sublimated racer singlet shirt! We will be unveiling these awesome shirts in late February so keep your eyes peeled!
The kid's race is an untimed, quarter-mile run that finishes at the official Chevrolet Grand Prix Start/ Finish line. Our little racers get a special race cape and pair of Grand Prix 5000 sunglasses so they can be just as cool as the big kids.
Parents are welcome to join their little ones during the kid's race.
Parking will be along The Strand adjacent to Turn 6. Once parked, participants will enter the course at Turn 6 on the south side of the island, overlooking Windsor. It is approximately a 3/4 mile walk from the entrance at Turn 6 to the Start line. You're welcome to use the walk as a warm up or hop on one of our shuttles. The last shuttle will leave the parking area at 7:45am.
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In 2014 Belle Isle became a State Park and a Recreation Passport is required for entry onto the island. The Michigan DNR website has information on obtaining a Recreation Passport.
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*Sign up for our economy package and race on the cheap. $30 through May 1st and $35 through Race Day will get you the same great course, awards and race day food. Athletes who sign up for economy will not receive a finishers medal or singlet.
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Laughter Makes Sharon Geller's World Go Round
Jon Marks
Sharon Geller doesn't remember the first time she realized she was funny.
She knows she always loved to laugh and recalls watching The Carol Burnett Show and The Red Skelton Show with her father, Jack, even playfully dancing on his feet.
But once she left the house she was a different person, hardly someone who would go on to have a 30-year career as a comedic actress. Her resume includes four appearances on Saturday Night Live and being in the East Coast touring company of the off-Broadway hit Old Jews Telling Jokes.
"I was the shyest kid ever born," said Geller, who'll play Sarah Palin moderating a Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump "debate" on Oct. 30 at the Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue to benefit Hadassah. "In the house, I was always laughing. Outside, I didn't say 'boo.' I don't know why. The idea of me being onstage, no, that was not happening."
Unexpectedly, it did.
Shortly after her father's death in 1985, Geller, who'd worked in the less-than-glamorous field of medical public relations for a decade, had what she calls her wakeup call.
"I realized life is short, and I don't want to be 50 saying 'woulda, coulda, shoulda,'" said Geller, who teaches improvisation for lawyers at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and runs corporate team-building sessions.
"Then I watched a Phil Donahue show about six CEOs who'd left their six-figure incomes to pursue their life's interest. I said to myself, 'I'm not making six figures doing medical PR, and I don't even like it.' I was gone within a month."
That was three decades ago.
"I know how lucky I am to earn my living as a comedic actress when most people are not able to do that," said Geller, winner of the 2007 Manhattan Monologue Slam competition and several Fringe Festival awards. "But I always feel I can do more.
"I try to leave no stone unturned about my career. Since improv is my background, I certainly want to leave myself open to the possibility of what could be. But I love comedy and would much rather do that than anything else."
That leads right into the Debate of the Century, which is part scripted, part improv and — she hopes — all funny.
"This election is so ludicrous," she said, hours before rushing home to watch the final presidential debate, hoping to pick up new material. "What I've been saying for years is the beauty about Sarah Palin is you don't have to write any material for her.
"You just have to say what she says. Now with Trump, you can't be any funnier than what's going on. There's a definite script, but there's also improvisation not just because we take questions from the audience but because the three of us [Holly Faris as Clinton and Bob Heck as Trump] are so skilled, I have total confidence we can handle anything that comes up.
"And since the first rule of comedy is know your audience, I'll be saying things that day that I might never say that way again. It's definitely tailored to a Jewish audience."
"Sharon kind of makes the whole thing even more crazy and bizarre than it already is," said Faris, who's also Jewish and has worked with Geller for more than 15 years. "The fact that Sarah Palin would be moderating a debate and getting her 2 cents in between the candidates takes it up a notch in the level of bizarre."
For Geller, it's an opportunity to be in her comfort zone, although she insists impersonations really aren't her thing.
"Gilda Radner and Madeleine Kahn were my idols," said Geller, who played Roseanne Roseannadanna and Emily Litella at Gilda's Club, a South Jersey cancer support club created by Gilda's husband, the late Gene Wilder. "I could relate to their humor.
"They were also very good at improv, which is what I teach at the Walnut Street Theatre. With comedy improv, you don't have to be funny. It's about communications skills. Those are the same things that made Tina Fey and Amy Poehler famous."
Speaking of Poehler, Geller once played alongside her as an Icelandic delegate in a Saturday Night Live sketch. She was also a mom whose daughter was about to receive a prize for winning a pumpkin-eating contest — only to have it snatched away by the real Kanye West in a takeoff of the Taylor Swift incident.
And then there's her movie career.
In The Sixth Sense she's in the scene at a shiva house when they realized the mother poisoned her daughter. Other cameos include Twelve Monkeys, Philadelphia and Rocky V.
Geller's versatility goes beyond acting.
In her rare spare time, she's a producer for the Anne Frank Theater Project, which brings an abridged version of The Diary of Anne Frank and another Holocaust-related show to local schools and synagogues. Or you can hire her to perform a comedy murder-mystery through her company, SG Entertainment.
Even now she finds it hard to believe how far she's come from the sky kid who felt so out of place when her family moved from West Oak Lane to the Northeast. "I always knew I had a sense of humor, brought on by the fact my father had a great sense of humor," said Geller, who's had brushes of greatness of various sorts with Steve Martin, Peter Lawford and Jackie Mason among others. "but outside the house I felt more introverted.
"I was shy until I met a guy named Steven Cross. It was strictly platonic, and we're still great friends today," she said. "We would make each other laugh. We called it 'dribbling.' He was the guy who let me be funny and loud outside the house."
It led to a career that's had a bit of everything for Geller: TV, movies, commercials, improv, even a stint on QVC. But most of all, fun.
For Sharon Geller, you see, laughter makes the world go round.
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Welcome to the CCDICT online dictionary forum.
Most of the CGI scripts for CCDICT were rewritten recently. There are many bugs in these scripts left to be corrected.
This forum is for bug reports, comments, feature requests, and discissions on CCDICT.
Are you based in the Netherlands? I don?t know why but I always thought you were in Hong Kong or Australia.
I tried your new dictionary and found a few ?bugs?. On the information sheet that comes up for characters you have the ?Dialects Of China? link 3 threes.
You have the link for ?Dialects Of China? three times. Then when you actually click on the link you get a server error.
As for features that I would like to see made available, I would like to see pronunciations in more dialects (Wu, Taishanese , etc. ), more characters, more Sino-Korean pronunciations, more Sino-Japanese pronunciations, the addition of Sino-Vietnamese pronunciations, look up for words that are greater than one character in length.
Also, could you make a download available of a list of characters and their Minnan/Taiwanese pronunciations? By the way what is the source for the pronunciations that you have for Minnan/Taiwanese?
I spoke to a woman from Taiwan and for ?one?, ?two?, ?three?, ?four?, and ?five? she gave a pronunciation of ?jeeht?, ?nuhng?, ?sa?, ?seeh?, and ?ngoh? while you have ?chit8?, ?ji7?, ?saN1?, ?si3?, ?gou7?.
Sorry for my weird romanisation.
In the last incarnation of the CCDICT you had some place markers for characters that weren?t available, I think you had a $ (dollar sign) where a character wasn?t available. I don?t know if you have fixed them up because I don?t exactly remember where they were.
I think your website is a great resource for the study of Chinese characters.
P. S. Are you Hakka Chinese? If you are I think it's ironic that the Hakka forum has the least amount of postings.
There is also an error in your "posting to forums feature".
When I posted my last message I got a page saying that there was a possible server error.
I remembered seeing previous postings where people had posted the same message several times so I didn't resubmit my message but re-loaded the page and saw that my message had been submitted.
I reinstalled the forum software and hope that the problems are solved. I upgraded the servers system software a week ago and apparently the forum software does not work bug-free with the new system (which I already knew, but the basic functions of the forum software worked fine on a similar test server).
I will try to answer questions in separate postings since I don't have time to answer them all at once.
I'm Thomas Chin and responsible for all the functionality on the chineselanguage.org server (also forum administration).
The chineselanguage.org server is based in The Netherlands, to be more precise, it is connected to the network backbone of Leiden Univeristy.
Thanks for the bug reports! I'll try to solve them ASAP.
Sorry if this is off topic here, but Taiwanese has two pronunciations for a great number of characters, including numbers. For example, four can also be 'su'. The difference in pronunciation has to do with colloquial or literary readings. Literary readings are used when giving phone numbers.
If Thomas is going to add the Taiwanese, that would require differentiating a lot of those character readings, because some have as many as four or five, and I haven't checked, but it looks like what he gives might be mixing the two, so it doesn't look like a very reliable source. Like Japanese, you'd only know to use one reading by the context, or as in what word the character appears.
without definition; could you tell me the meaning in English?
I noticed your message without a response, and I was curious about the term kwukyel as well. Doing a search on Google, I found an article by Thomas Chan at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/message/155 where he cites The Korean Language by Ho-Min Sohn.
Hyangchal was the use of Chinese characters to transcribe vernacular poetry; mostly Korean words were used. Itwu proper was mainly for government documents and used many Chinese words with Korean grammatical elements indicated with Chinese Itwu characters.
Both of these two systems used Korean word order.
With Tho, however, the Chinese word order was maintained, and Itwu characters were used (often in simplified form) to show particles, suffixes and basic verbs.
I was wondering if it would be rood or not if I asked those people in the Chinese section to refrain from asking for all these translations. There's like a whole different section for that. I'd prefer that the content in the Chinese section be restricted to only discussion of the language, culture, etc....but asking for tatoo names????
I'll put a request in the banner not to post translation requests in certain sections.
Lately, I've been having to wait quite some time before the forum can be accessed. I've always been using my current ISP, but when it used to be instantaneous, it takes at least half a minute or more before anything comes up. Has the server been busy for the last week or so?
I also noticed it, but I'm still looking what the problem might be. All servers seem to function properly, but I'll reboot them nevertheless. Hope to provide some more info on this later.
I'm glad to say things are back to normal again. Dunno what you did, but it seemed to have worked!
I still did not figure out what the problem is. For now I mirorred the forum and CCDICT pages onto another server (which apparently works). This server can be accessed via the chineselanguage.org domain. The chinalanguage.com domain is still pointing to the old main webserver and appears to be extremely slow.


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Capturing this neat summary, NOT for the decade long Sex vs Gender blip of 21st C insanity, but for the millennia old fact that men and women do have archetypically different brains & minds as well as biological bodies. "Vive la Difference" as I keep referring to it.
Facts are not normative, everything and anything has their own individual evolutionary genetic and conception-to-grave biological & memetic development life trajectory and choices. But facts – statistically significant differences – are worth understanding.
"The term "sexual dimorphism" in neuroscience does NOT refer to two distinct types of brains (M v F). Instead, "sexual dimorphism" refers to any statistically significant difference between the sexes that only differs on average with lots of overlap (see below):"
The term "sexual dimorphism" in neuroscience does NOT refer to two distinct types of brains (M v F). Instead, "sexual dimorphism" refers to any statistically significant difference between the sexes that only differs on average with lots of overlap (see below): pic.twitter.com/VMF7bsEbcH
— Sammy, MSc (@NeuroSGS) January 2, 2023
The main omission in this set of example (nevertheless true) differences is that it focusses on quantities & sizes of things & stuff (brain parts). When it comes to minds & brains the balance of connectivities (connectome relations, and the dynamic making of such connections) counts for a lot more. (Some of the key sex differences for example are in corpus-callosum connections between the hemispheres – McGilchrist.)
[Maybe "Sammy" @NeuroSGS has that data too? And surely it would be better if – after the gross "size" difference – the relative component differences were normalised for actual gross size?]
"Objective scientific types tend to hate circular logic. But such logic is good clue that it's wrong to focus on objects when reality is made of dynamic relations." @Psybertron (standalone) Tweet
And, since it's topical (from yesterday's "ECO" post) Kevin Mitchell driving some great "Systems Thinking" dialogue on Twitter again (the threads above and below this tweet):
Absolutely. Many on the "applied" side of ST (like many "scientists") don't worry too much about the philosophical underpinnings, but the convergence is there too. "Foregrounding of relations" is a good summary.
Part of my
"Nothing (very little) New Under The Sun"
adage 🙂
— Ian Glendinning (@psybertron) January 6, 2023
And, I should add, "isomorphism" is one of the key aspects of systems thinking. Extrapolation between levels – same but different – always.
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The band's debut album, Yves' Blues, was a largely acoustic affair recorded in one long session. There second full length, The Great Book of John, was a deeply-layered production brimming with amplified crunch and a thick, somnambulant atmosphere, provided in part by musician / producer Jeffery Cain (Remy Zero, Sanders Bohlke, Dead Snares) and Grammy Award winning engineer Darrell Thorp (Radiohead, Beck, Outkast).