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Amazing Scenes of A Dutch City in the Afternoon: What Many Visitors May Not Observe

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Have you ever visited Holland?  Do not worry if the answer is no.  I will bring to you some of the fascinating scenes that will strike your imagination when you visit a Dutch city.  The pictures shown below are taken in the Dutch city of Den Haag.  The ghost streets of Den Haag.  They are empty in the afternoon and look like an abandoned city or a Sunday morning in London, England.  Streets are so clean that you will be forgiven for thinking that they are cleaned every hour.  Are these streets actually cleaned regularly or the city residents tend not to litter the streets?  There are scenes of bicycles chained to cycle rails all over the city.  A visitor to the city might think that these cycles are being displayed for sale just like the way cars are being displayed for sale on the streets. Abandoned cars become a play-ground and nests for birds.  Workers and shoppers on their bikes.  Taxi and private hire business
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Kursk Offensive: Ukraine's Bold Move in the Ongoing Conflict with Russia

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The ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia has recently escalated with Ukraine's significant military incursion into the Kursk region, marking a pivotal moment in the war that began in February 2022. This offensive, which commenced on August 6, 2024, represents Ukraine's first official military operation on Russian soil since World War II, signalling a bold strategic shift aimed at pressuring Russia into negotiations. Ukraine's incursion into Kursk has been characterised by surprise and tactical precision. Reports indicate that Ukrainian forces have made substantial advances, capturing key locations such as the town of Sudzha and destroying critical infrastructure, including a bridge over the Seym River. This bridge was vital for Russian supply lines, and its destruction could severely hinder Russian military operations in the area. Ukrainian officials have emphasized that their objective is not to occupy Russian territory but to create leverage for negotiations, compe
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Lockdown Lessons: A Personal Reflection on Rule Compliance and Safety Measures

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 The COVID-19 virus is no longer a major concern for health policymakers in the UK and many countries around the world. The mandatory wearing of masks in public places has been stopped. It is now optional for people to wear a mask if they feel vulnerable to the virus. At first, all countries went into lockdown. Businesses were ordered to close, and people were asked to stay indoors and not visit family members who did not live with them. Only essential workers such as nurses, doctors, and other emergency workers were permitted to work. Organizing or attending parties or events was also banned around the world, including in the UK. Law enforcement agencies were empowered to enforce the law. The outgoing British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, and other cabinet members received fixed penalty notices for organizing a birthday party at No. 10 Downing Street during the lockdown period. When the lockdown rules were relaxed and people were allowed
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Doctors in United Kingdom: Could they be a Source of NHS Hospitals Infection?

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Doctors in the United Kingdom (UK) working within the National Health Service (NHS) Hospitals are perceived as people that help treat diseases and save lives.  While this is true in many cases, it cannot be true in all cases.  Instead of being savers of lives, some NHS doctors appear to be a source of infections in NHS hospitals.  You might disagree with this assertion if you don't work in NHS hospitals and have no first hand experience of how doctors operate within the hospitals. As you read on, you would find out how doctors could be a source of infection in NHS hospitals rather than being the curers of illnesses.. Some NHS doctors tend to sit on patients’ beds and chairs when these doctors are doing ward rounds.  A ward round involves a situation in which a doctor or doctors visit patients in a ward to discuss the conditions faced by these patients, including any possible treatments for such conditions.  It normally occurs in the morning hours, and doctors conduct ward rou
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Bogus User Registration: User Role Editor Plugin Could Control It

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Bogus user registration poses a problem to both large and small website owners.   The term bogus user registration in this context refers to a user sign up which is not genuine. This fake user registrations become a problem to a website if the website allows members registrations. Fake registrations make it hard for the website owner to differentiate between genuine users and fake users. Many website owners tend to think that identifying individuals behind bogus user registrations and banning them from accessing the site is the best solution to the problem.   As a result, they will spend a lot of resources including time to develop tools supposedly designed to block or ban spammers from accessing their site.   While this approach may be effective in denying the individuals behind fake registrations on websites the access to them, it has two major drawbacks.   First, genuine website users can be unwittingly banned from accessing the website if the website owner is using the
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Disavow Links: Ways to control Links to your Website

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The disavow link feature is a relief for many website owners who are victims of unnecessary external links to their website.   It puts website owners in control of both internal and external links to their websites. Prior to the advent of the disavow links feature website owners were at the mercy of spammy website owners.   They could only request for any undesirable external links to their website to be removed.   They cannot do anything else if this request is ignored by the owners of the culprit websites. With the introduction of the disavow links feature website owners decide who can or cannot link to their websites.   Thus, the ball is no longer in the courts of dodgy website owners but in the hands of real website owners. The disavow links feature allows website owners to inform search engines about the external links they approve and those they disapprove for their websites.   This prevents a website from being penalised as a result of unsolicited external links. For t
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Wordpress Plugins: Imagine a website without Them

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The term plugin is often used when talking about wordpress content management system.   However, this does not mean that plugins are exclusive to wordpress websites as there are other content management systems that use plugins including Joomla.   If you are unfamiliar with plugins this short article will give you some insight into plugins.  There are thousands of plugins for adding functionalities to a website.   There is a directory plugin, for example, for building business listings websites.   There is also a recipe plugin for developing a food recipe website that provides information about food menu and how to prepare different dishes.   In fact, the list of plugins is endless and the problem faced by website owners is not whether they can find enough plugins to develop a website but how many plugins they can install on the website. Every plugin comes with an installation guide.   This informs the user about how to install the plugin and configure the settings.   Some of
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Wordpress Website: How to Increase the Page Speed without Disabling Plugins

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Getting the pages of wordpress website to load up very quickly is one of the problems often faced by many web developers.   Most of the times this problem tends to arise after new plugins have been installed. For many developers who cannot resolve this problem of slow page speed there is often the tendency to uninstall the troubled plugins.   While this strategy can help restore the site pages to their original speed the benefits associated with the plugins being uninstalled are often lost. There is a way of increasing the page speed of your wordpress website without uninstalling the so-called culprit plugins and losing their benefits.   This involves uninstalling any caching plugin on the website before installing plugins.   In other words, install the caching plugin after all other plugins have been installed.   This should be done every time a new plugin is being installed on the website for the site to retain its page speed. Adhering to this strategy can allow you no
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