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Since 9/11, complying with security procedures has been one of the biggest challenges about flying. Download the TSA app for help figuring out how to pack and what to expect. At the TSA checkpoint, you'll first have to show your boarding pass and valid photo ID. A passport is required for international flights. |
Next, agents will ask you to remove certain items (electronic devices, liquids, gels and aerosols) from your bag and place it into the trays on a conveyor belt for screening. You'll also be asked to remove your shoes, belt and jacket and empty your pockets and put these items in trays to go down the conveyor belt as we... |
Once all your belongings have moved into the screening area of the conveyor belt, a TSA agent will instruct you to walk through a scanner or, less commonly, a metal detector. Agents will verify that you're not hiding any weapons or explosives on your body, and you can then collect your bags and follow the signs to find... |
Until boarding starts, there's nothing in particular you need to do. Check the screen periodically for updates and information about delays, and listen for announcements by gate agents. They'll make an announcement when boarding begins. Check your ticket for a group number or zone number and wait until that number is c... |
When your group is announced, join the line and show your ticket to the gate agent. He or she will scan it and hand it back. (For an international flight, prepare to show your passport too.) Then, you can follow the line of passengers down the jet bridge and onto the plane. |
On the plane, on most airlines, you'll have to look at the row numbers posted at eye level, just under the overhead bins, to find your seat. Stow your larger carry-on in an overhead bin, tuck your second carry-on under the seat in front of you and attach your seat belt. You're ready to fly. |
Boarding procedures are pretty consistent from airline to airline, but Southwest is known for doing things a little differently. This carrier doesn't assign seats. Instead, travelers are assigned a group number and boarding position. When your group number is called, line up according to your position number. On the pl... |
Before full flights, gate agents may ask passengers to gate-check large carry-ons. If that happens, you'll be given a tag to attach to your bag. Leave the bag at the end of the jet bridge just before you walk onto the plane. It will be put in the storage area of the plane and placed on the jet bridge at the arrival air... |
Keep in mind that gate agents and flight attendants are always available to help travelers who are experiencing their first time on a plane. Don't hesitate to ask questions if necessary. |
Walsh, Kathryn. "How to Board a Plane." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/board-plane-102150.html. 13 March 2019. |
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Campaigners protesting about six blocks of student flats which are a 'horrible eyesore' on a city skyline are urging authorities to slice off the top floors of the buildings at an estimated cost of £30million. |
Protesters, including author Mark Haddon, have described the Castle Mill development near Port Meadow, Oxford, as a 'terrible mistake' and claim it blocks the view of the city's famous spires. |
The flats, which are used as graduate housing by the University of Oxford, have been marred by controversy since development began in 2012. |
After being built by Frankham Consultancy Group on behalf of the University, at a cost of £24million, the Save Port Meadow group was set up to protest against their existence. |
Over the last two years, it has campaigned against the development, claiming there were 'exceptionally low levels' of public awareness of the initial planning application and criticising it for 'hampering' the city's skyline from the ancient meadow. |
The Castle Mill development has not only received criticism for its location, but also for its design. |
Former Planning Minister Nick Boles MP previously described the buildings as 'some of the worst he had seen'. |
Speaking in January last year, he said: 'I think that this design is possibly one of the worst designs I've seen of any set of new buildings to go up in the last 10 years. |
The saga surrounding the Castle Mill development began in late 2011 when the University of Oxford submitted the planning application to Oxford City Council. |
As part of a consultation document for the development - which was built on a brownfield site near Oxford railway station - planning consultants stated that it would 'not be visible from the majority of Port Meadow'. |
At the time, city council planning officers stated that the development was not in an environmentally-sensitive location and therefore no Environmental Impact Statement (EIA) was required. |
Development began in summer 2012, and building work soon drew attention from residents and local business owners who were surprised at the height of the flat blocks. An online petition was drawn up to protest the height of the buildings and quickly gathered thousands of signatures. |
In March the following year, the Council for the Protection of England (CPRE) issued a High Court challenge, challenging the council's decision not to request an Environmental Impact Statement as part of the planning process. |
It prompted the University to announce it would commission independent planning consultants to carry out a retrospective Environmental Impact Statement. |
The assessment was published towards the end of last year with three options: To change the appearance of the building externally, carry out height reduction on a couple of the buildings or reduce the height of all the buildings to the treeline of Port Meadow. |
The University has now confirmed that the institution's 'Congregation' - its sovereign body, which consists of academic staff - will now vote on a formal motion to reduce the height of the blocks. |
The motion will be discussed on February 10, and could be followed by a postal vote. |
Toby Porter, founder of the Save Port Meadow campaign group, has welcomed the Congregation meeting and supports the motion of reducing the height of the buildings. |
He told MailOnline: 'Normally in planning cases, you have up to three months after a planning application to lodge an appeal but in this case nobody really knew the application had been planted. |
'Nobody was aware of the buildings until they started going up in September 2012, by which time the three-month period for a legal challenge to the planning permission had long passed. |
'This was one of the many unusual things about the case so we started looking into it and what we uncovered was an extremely unsatisfactory planning process. |
Mr Porter admitted that it would cause upheaval to students living in the building if work was carried out to reduce the height, but said this should have been thought about at the beginning of the planning process. |
He said: 'I don't think the University is facing any easy options but what price do you put on its accountability to get things sorted. |
'I recognise that there are no easy choices now. The idea of spending the money on buildings that have already gone up is crazy and I can fully understand the view that there are other things the University could spend the money on. |
'But the trouble is that it all comes down to the fact that thousands of people have had their experiences of a natural heritage site ruined for the 40-year lifetime of these buildings without them ever having had a say in it. |
'Through their own incompetence the University managed to achieve this extraordinary outcome, this messy development that has had a huge impact. |
'I don't think it was deliberate, I think it was incompetence. |
'The people making this decision on February 10 now have a proper moral decision. |
Mr Haddon, the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and a graduate of Oxford University's Merton College, agreed that a top floor of each of the buildings should be removed. |
He told The Sunday Times: 'The Castle Mill development is a horrible eyesore. We all understand the need for more housing, but the development was an abuse of the planning process. |
The University said in a statement that its focus throughout the development has been the best interests of its students and the city. |
A spokesman told MailOnline: 'We followed due planning process and built much-needed accommodation on a brownfield site on a former railway siding. |
'Castle Mill has now been occupied for nearly a-year-and-a-half, home to more than 300 graduate students, some with young families. |
'At the same time we have relieved pressure on Britain's most un-affordable housing market. |
'Independent experts have reported that Castle Mill, with the mitigation measures we propose, delivers clear benefits to the city. |
'The resolution before Congregation would undo these benefits. All 300 students would have to leave for at least a year and 38 flats, including family units, would be lost permanently. |
'There would be knock-on damage to the city's hard-pressed property market. |
'The total cost of going down this route, according to independent experts, is £30million - more than the flats cost to build (£24million). |
Oxford City Council confirmed it had commissioned and published an independent report by planning expert, Vincent Goodstadt, on the planning and environmental issues surrounding the development. |
A council spokesman told MailOnline: 'The Goodstadt Review concluded that the planning permission was valid and that the necessary information was provided to the planning committee in taking its decision. |
The council spokesman also confirmed that the authority met the statutory requirements for consultation and said the University did undertake public consultation. |
The University's Congregation will now meet to formally discuss the height reduction motion on February 10. |
There are some gardens that slowly seep into your soul to occupy a special place in your affections. Altamont in Ballon, Co Carlow, the former home of the late Corona North, is a shining example. It’s not that its gardens are exquisitely maintained (in truth, while full of many magnificent mature specimen trees and shr... |
Instead, I treasure this special place for its rare charm and magical atmosphere – a sort of horticultural fairy dust – that’s made me want to linger there ever since I first visited it as a teenager. |
I love it for its giant and ancient beech trees and its surrounding meadowlands, for its almost quaint, sloping lawns, old rose beds and ornamental lake excavated during the famine years as well as for its wooded glen with paths that curl down to the majestic River Slaney. I also love it for the generations of interest... |
More recently, I prize it for its wonderful walled garden and nursery. Founded almost 20 years ago, it’s managed separately to the rest of the 40-acre grounds by professional horticulturist and plantsman Robert Miller. Not only is this part of Altamont home to a 70-yard-long double herbaceous border packed to bursting ... |
On my last visit there, I spotted lots of ultra-covetable specimens for sale on its plant benches, from the golden sea thistle, Eryngium ‘Neptune’s Gold’ and the newly introduced peacock-blue and white variety of agapanthus called ‘Twister’, to a weeping form of gingko and a particularly lovely form of snowy mespil, Am... |
Miller’s love of gardening extends far beyond the walls of Altamont: he’s also the co-founder and chairperson of the hugely successful Carlow Garden Festival, now entering its 17th year, which runs from Friday, July 27th, to Monday, August 6th. |
So from later this month, he’ll be busy welcoming a host of luminaries from the world of British gardening to Co Carlow to give a variety of talks, walks, workshops and illustrated lectures including Fergus Garrett (author and head gardener of Great Dixter) and Chris Beardshaw (garden designer and this year’s winner of... |
Also taking part in this year’s festival are Sarah Price, one of the world’s most gifted garden designers; the British author and Times (UK) gardening columnist Stephen Anderton; the BBC Gardeners’ World presenter, nursery woman and author Carol Klein; award-winning designer and Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost; g... |
There will also be plenty of homegrown green-fingered experts taking part including Helen Dillon; plantsperson and rosarian Assumpta Broomfield; broadcaster and author Dermot O’Neill; Seamus O’Brien, author and head gardener of Kilmacurragh Botanic Gardens; Jimi Blake of Hunting Brook gardens; John Anderson, keeper of ... |
I’ll also be taking part with a ‘walk and talk’ tour of the Carlow gardens of artist Philippa Bayliss (for details of all of the above, tickets of some of which will need to be booked well in advance, see carlowgardentrail.com). |
The prolonged heat and drought of recent months has been stressful for even large, well-established trees and shrubs. Signs include wilting, curling and yellowing leaves, premature leaf drop and even branch die-back as plants do what they can to survive. The good news is that most will recover as soil moisture levels g... |
Keep deadheading plants every couple of days to ensure as long a flowering display as possible, using a sharp, clean secateurs to cut faded blooms and stems back to a point lower down the stem where there are either new lateral flower buds or leaves, or if this isn’t possible, then right back to the basal foliage of th... |
While some species of plants have struggled with this summer’s high temperatures, record low rainfall and brilliant sunshine, ornamental shrubby salvias have been in their element. Colourful, long-flowering, drought-tolerant and pollinator-friendly, these versatile plants add great oomph to the summer and autumn garden... |
Friday July 27th- Monday August 6th, Carlow Garden Festival 2018: a host of garden experts will speak on a wide range of subjects in some of Ireland’s loveliest gardens, see carlowgardentrail.com for details and to pre-book tickets. |
Sunday July 29th (9.30am-5.30pm), Russborough Garden Show 2018: Russborough Gardens, Blessington, Co Wicklow, with plants, cut flowers and garden accessories sales, garden tours, garden advice, an open studio with members of the Irish Society of Botanical Artists, displays by the Beekeepers of North Kildare and guest s... |
The Knuckleheads are tethered together by a unbending chain, so controlling them is a bit like steering a giant dumb-bell. Hold [right] to rotate clockwise and [left] to go counter-clockwise. One of the heads will grip the earth, allowing you to pivot the other through the air; they travel end over end, taking big, clu... |
A man works on the production line at the Toyota factory in Derby, central England, March 7, 2011. |
China's official manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) came in at 51.8 in November, accelerating from 51.6 in the previous month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which released the data jointly with government-linked industry group the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. |
Sterling rose briefly against the dollar after the PMI showed surging orders at home and from Europe's recovering economy. |
Overall it added to signs that manufacturing could be a bright spot next year, when the slowdown in the overall economy is likely to deepen as Britain approaches its departure from the European Union in March 2019. |
The U.K. economy has slowed markedly this year as inflation, which accelerated sharply after the pound's steep post-Brexit depreciation, began to outpace wages and squeeze consumers-a key engine of growth. |
"Firms increased their purchasing sharply in order to support demand, leading to a record increase in their input stocks and further substantial pressure on supply chains". |
Looking at margins, the rate of input cost inflation quickened to a seven month high, with this latest rise attributed to increased raw material costs, including for aluminium, paper and plastics. |
A PMI survey of the services sector is due to be published on Tuesday. Readings above 50 signal an expansion while readings below 50 signal a contraction. Improved production processes and sub-contracting also contributed. |
"The PMI suggests the strong growth momentum in the Filipino economy has some way to go", Aw said. |
India's factory activity quickened in November at the fastest pace since just before the government's surprise cash clampdown late a year ago, driven by a surge in new orders, a business survey found. |
June 2, 2016, 11:01 a.m. |
Snapchat reportedly has more daily users than Twitter. What does that mean for news? |
Snapchat now has more active daily users than Twitter, Bloomberg reported Thursday. |
Snapchat has 150 million active daily users, up from 110 million in December, Bloomberg reported. Twitter, meanwhile, has less than 140 million. |
As young people flock to Snapchat, news outlets are trying to showcase news on the platform both as live stories and in Discover, where nearly 20 outlets — from The Wall Street Journal and CNN to Tastemade and People — publish unique content exclusive to Snapchat. |
Instead of static media logos in circles, representing the channels, publishers will have an actual cover image to draw readers into the content, according to one source. One publisher said the cover images would make Snapchat content look more like a magazine — and hopefully attract more eyeballs. |
It might not seem like much, but Discover still only captures a small portion of Snapchat’s more than 100 million daily viewers, who are mostly there to message with friends. Snapchat and publishers would like to get more of them into Snapchat Discover stories, because that’s where most of the ads run. |
The solution to Twitter’s problems, they all reiterated, along with Dorsey, is that word “live.” “We now know what inhibits usage, and what doesn’t,” Dorsey explained to me. He said he has a slew of new features—including hosting live video from the N.F.L., where people can talk about the game as they watch it—that wil... |
Despite Facebook’s dominance and Snapchat’s growth, Twitter remains a highly influential platform — you don’t see Donald Trump’s snaps highlighted on cable news, for instance — and Twitter will have to make the most of that as it tries to compete with these other larger networks. |
Can you for one second argue that Snapchat is a more influential platform than Twitter? |
@mathewi agree. Also I wonder about the ripple effect – harder to have stories ripple out if you can’t see them tomorrow. |
Lichterman, Joseph. "Snapchat reportedly has more daily users than Twitter. What does that mean for news?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 2 Jun. 2016. Web. 25 Apr. 2019. |
Lichterman, Joseph. "Snapchat reportedly has more daily users than Twitter. What does that mean for news?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 2, 2016. Accessed April 25, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/06/snapchat-reportedly-has-more-daily-users-than-twitter-what-does-that-mean-for-news/. |
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The world's oldest frozen mummy reveals some of his secrets after scientists complete sequencing of nearly his entire genome. |
An international team of researchers has published nearly the entire DNA sequence of 5,300 year old Ötzi the Tyrolean Iceman, Nature News reports. |
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