Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The Trades Disputes Act 1927 was repealed, and a Dock Labour Scheme was introduced in 1947 to put an end to the casual system of hiring labour in the docks, Wages for members of the police force were significantly increased.

The Semester Abroad Scheme is a highly competitive programme open to academically outstanding juniors who wish to follow a regular Cambridge degree course as fully matriculated members of the University.

The South African Air Force Memorial at Swartkop, Tshwane includes a memorial to the Royal Air Force members who died in South Africa during the Joint Air Training Scheme.

IEC Standards are used by members of the CB Scheme of international agreements to test and certify products for safety compliance.

Seven members of staff have achieved lifelong Fellowship awards as outstanding teachers, as part of the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme introduced in 2000 by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme ( PAS ) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public.

In 1905 the Portsmouth Fortress Defence Scheme called for the occupation of Fort Fareham, during the precautionary period, by fort-four men of No. 23 Company Royal Garrison Artillery, and members of the 3rd.

Professional members were encouraged to participate in the Society ’ s Registration Scheme, which acted as a formal process of continued professional development.

Piaget are members of the “ Council for Responsible Jewellery Practices ” and the “ Kimberley Process Certification Scheme ”, which guarantees that diamonds do not originate from an area of conflict.

“ Ichalkaranji Textile Development Cluster Limited ( ITDC ). The individual members will contribute to the extent of about 50 % of the project cost and the balance amount would come in from the grant in aid from Department of Industrial Promotion and Policy, Government of India, under the Industrial Infrastructure up-gradation Scheme ( IIUS ).

Though some Catholic Church leaders may have been privately sympathetic to Browne and wished to reach an accommodation, what was viewed as Browne's tactless handling of the Catholic Church forced the moderates into silence, allowing the anti-Mother and Child Scheme members of the hierarchy under McQuaid to set the agenda.

Ever since that time, Freemasonry has been an important, though private feature in the life of the College, amongst both members of staff and increasingly the undergraduate and postgraduate men of the college through the Masonic University Outreach Scheme.

Candidates register as student members to undertake the Professional Scheme qualification.

* ACCA and TÜRMOB ( The Union of Chambers of Certified Public Accountants of Turkey ) at Turkey signed a partnership agreement in 2004 which enables TÜRMOB members resident in Turkey to follow the ACCA Professional Scheme qualification and achieve ACCA membership.

The CPF Minimum Sum ( MS ) Scheme provides members with a monthly income to support a modest standard of living during retirement.

( Staff in the post-1992 universities are mostly members of the Teachers Pension Scheme.

In order to raise the £ 3, 000 required to finance the move the club asked members, supporters and businessmen to subscribe to “ New Ground Scheme ” bearer bonds which cost £ 5 each.

Robert Burns ' claim that the Union of England and Scotland ( and hence the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament ) was brought about by the Scots members being " bought and sold for English gold " was largely accurate — bribery and parliamentary division combined with wider economic imperatives, partly arising from the disaster of the Darien Scheme, enabling the Crown to incorporate a Union with England in the Acts of Union 1707 which brought into existence the Parliament of Great Britain.

He left the Labour Party because of the ( indirect ) consequences of that government's travails over the Mother and Child Scheme and the demand of the majority of Irish Labour members in Belfast that the party should challenge the entrenched power of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Through " Progressive Activities Scheme ", youth members are nurtured stage by stage to embrace the mission of Red Cross Uniformed Groups ; and to be equipped with leadership skills, health care knowledge, discipline and social service skills in order to provide a variety of quality services to the needy in the community.

The Central Government Health Scheme ( CGHS ) was started under the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 1954 with the objective of providing comprehensive medical care facilities to Central Government employees and their family members.

CAMRA developed the " National Beer Scoring Scheme " ( NBSS ) as an easy to use scheme for judging beer quality in pubs, to assist CAMRA branches in selecting pubs for the Good Beer Guide.

Scheme introduced the sole use of lexically scoped variables to Lisp ; an inspiration from ALGOL 68 which was widely recognized as a good idea.

Common Lisp is sometimes termed a Lisp-2 and Scheme a Lisp-1, referring to CL's use of separate namespaces for functions and variables.

Nonetheless, common CL coding style does not favor the ubiquitous use of recursion that Scheme style prefers — what a Scheme programmer would express with tail recursion, a CL user would usually express with an iterative expression in,,, or ( more recently ) with the package.

Unlike Common Lisp, Scheme existed at the time Stallman was rewriting Gosling Emacs into GNU Emacs, but he chose not to use it because of its comparatively poor performance on workstations, and he wanted to develop a dialect which he thought would be more easily optimized.

Singapore pioneered the modern use of toll roads to enter the most congested city area with the Singapore Area Licensing Scheme, which has since been replaced with the Electronic Road Pricing, a form of electronic toll collection.

Syntax-rules has been replaced with a more expressive syntactic abstraction facility ( syntax-case ) which allows the use of all of Scheme at macro expansion time.

Such key schemes do not affect the distribution of messages through the container and do not use a message preprocessing according to the defined key ( see figure The Second Protection Level Scheme ).

A roughly R4RS-compatible implementation of Scheme, LispMe, provides the Palm platform with a GPL-licensed onboard Lisp REPL with some Palm OS-specific adaptations, but although it is functionally a compiler it does not produce code that operates outside the development environment, so its use is restricted to prototyping.

It too was a unification of earlier work, such as the two UK approaches ( the CESG UK Evaluation Scheme aimed at the defence / intelligence market and the DTI Green Book aimed at commercial use ), and was adopted by some other countries, e. g. Australia.

Kent M. Pitman is the President of HyperMeta, Inc. and has been involved for many years in the design, implementation and use of Lisp and Scheme systems.

Many universities now operate the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme ( CATS ) and all universities in Scotland use the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework ( SCQF ) enabling easier transfer between courses and institutions.

" It called for more random checks and robust enforcement of the scheme and states that " the use of the word ‘ pedigree ’ should be tied to a high standard of breeding ( for health and welfare ) across the board with the KC not just with the few that decide to join the Accredited Breeder Scheme ( ABS ).

Instead, some of the land is now managed under a Habitat Creation Scheme, which aims to encourage natural vegetation, wild flowers and nesting birds by limiting grazing and reducing the use of chemical fertilisers.

In the 1830s, residents from Strontian and the surrounding area were among the first to use the " Bounty Scheme " to emigrate to Australia.

Similarly, some e-mail systems use unique per-message return-paths, for example variable envelope return path ( VERP ) for mailing lists, Sender Rewriting Scheme for forwarded e-mail, Bounce Address Tag Validation for backscatter protection, etc.

While use of the term slacker dates back to about 1790 or 1898 depending on the source, it gained some recognition during the British Gezira Scheme, when Sudanese labourers protested their relative powerlessness by working lethargically, a form of protest known as ' slacking '.

Launched on 1 July 1997 by the Switch Card Scheme, it was designed for use on deposit accounts, as well as by customers who did not qualify for a Switch card ( or, later, Maestro card ) on current accounts.

In the Lisp world, most languages that use basic S-expression syntax and Lisp-like semantics are considered Lisp dialects, even though they vary wildly, as do, say, Bigloo Scheme and newLISP.

The JANET NRS ( Name Registration Scheme ) was a pseudo-hierarchical naming scheme adopted for use on British academic and research networks before the superficially similar system used by the Internet DNS had been fully established.

In a front-page, feature article in the Canberra Times on 2009-07-07, John Williams was reported saying there should be a 60 percent cut in water use across the Murray-Darling Basin, and the Snowy Mountains Scheme that diverts water to the Riverina should not be exempt from water savings.

Scheme requires implementations to optimize tail recursion because of Scheme's heavy use of recursion, but most techniques interfere with interoperation ; Guile compromises by optimizing tail calls within purely Scheme functions and programs, but not when foreign functions enter the picture.

Guile programs can use facilities from SLIB, the portable Scheme library.