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HARMONDSWORTH, England, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

British Airways is serving up a feast of six new flights from London City Airport this summer with the first of the new services taking off to Mahon in Menorca.

The airline will complete its Balearic Islands portfolio, launching flights to Mahon in Menorca. British Airways launched highly successful services to Majorca and Ibiza from the Docklands airport for the first time two years ago.

Other cities served direct from the Docklands will include Angers in the Loire Valley, Quimper in Brittany, Venice in Italy, the Isle of Man and Aberdeen

The addition of the new routes means a total of 23 destinations in the UK, Europe and the USA will be served by British Airways from London City Airport. As the airline continues to grow its network customers have more choice to more business and leisure destinations, flying on one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the business.

Luke Hayhoe, general manager commercial said: "We are very excited about the launch of the new routes, most of which are completely new destinations for London City Airport and offer our customers even more holiday choices. We're sure that these new routes coupled with British Airways' all inclusive fares and London City's unique 20 minute check-in time with luggage will be a hit this summer."

British Airways offers all inclusive fares to all destinations, which include a generous free 23kg luggage allowance, free on-line check-in and seat selection 24 hours before departure and complimentary food and drink on board.

British Airways also offers holidays from London City including holidays in Menorca. The four-star Port Ciutadella hotel in a great location on the west coast of the island and close to a selection of restaurants and shops, while the three-star Carema Club Playa aparthotel is right on the beach and offers families great value and the perfect base to explore.

In Angers, British Airways offer a range of hotels in the Loire Valley from the three-star Mercure Angers Centre Foch to the four-star de France Angers hotel which is a few minutes stroll from the famous city castle.

Fly-drive holidays to Quimper make discovering the Brittany region even easier. The historic town is picturesque with grand buildings and museums and medieval gardens and a great place to begin a holiday to the region.

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Barbadian special athlete Ross Forde finished a commendable tenth place at the tenth annual Cayman Islands 800 metres Butterfield Sea Swim.

Forde, who was accompanied on the recent trip by coach Jasper Blades, completed the event in a time of 28 minutes, 6 seconds at Cayman Islands Seven-Mile Beach.

The event, which also included participants from Jamaica and Curaao, came at the culmination of an open water training clinic hosted by Special Olympics Cayman Islands.

The clinic was a Special Olympics International pilot project that will form the basis for open water swim clinics for Special Olympics programmes worldwide.

The projects ultimate goal is preparing athletes to compete in the open water sea swim at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles.

According to Kester Edwards, co-ordinator for leadership development and education with Special Olympics International, the organization has identified 266 Special Olympics athletes worldwide from 40 countries who have participated in local open water swims.

We have only begun to scratch the surface of all the Special Olympics athletes who do open water swims at the local and regional levels, Edwards said.

Special Olympics International has developed a comprehensive, interactive online coaching manual.

At the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games held in Athens, Greece, Barbados sent a small team of seven athletes, who competed in bocce, table tennis and athletics. All seven earned medals. (PR/HG)

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Photo: Pam Bondi and Greg Henderson in the Cayman Islands/Courtesy Ryan Joseph Photographs TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Contrary to reports, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi didn't get married during her recent stay in the Cayman Islands, though she did wear her wedding dress while she was there.

Gov. Rick Scott and his wife were among those who traveled to Grand Cayman last weekend for what turned out to be a "celebration" in advance of Bondi's actual wedding to a Tampa ophthalmologist, according to Bondi's spokeswoman.

Bondi recently told the Tampa Bay Times that she planned to wed on the beach in a small ceremony. Now she says she plans a ceremony in a Baptist church in the Tampa area.

Media reports about Bondi's trip fueled speculation about whether she planned to get married and then called it off. That prompted Bondi to email one paper and say she is happily in love with Greg Henderson.

Bondi's spokeswoman wouldn't discuss much about the trip Thursday, saying it was personal.

Jenn Meale said Bondi spent Thursday in the Turks and Caicos Islands and was expected to return Friday to Florida. The date of the wedding hasn't been disclosed.Attorney General Pam Bondi didn't get married on Caymans trip

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Foreigners returning to the home of their ancestors can experience identity issues, Peng Yining reports.

Being an expat in China can be tough if you happen to look Chinese. When John Kung, a 50-year-old Chinese Canadian, first arrived in Beijing in 2002, the only Mandarin phrases he knew were ni hao (hello), and wo e le (I'm hungry).

Chinese-Canadian John Kung interacts with students and a colleague at his school in Beijing. Kung says he will stay in China for at least another five years. Photos by Zhang Wei / China Daily

"When I wanted to order in a restaurant, I had to nudge my friends for help," he said. "Waiters must have been confused, especially when I was having dinner with other foreigners, because I was the one who looked Chinese but couldn't speak the language."

Now, after 10 years in Beijing, Kung can deal with basic conversation, but said he still finds himself at a loss when the topic of his origins arises. If he speaks English, people might think he's strange, he said. If he switches to Chinese, people usually want to know where he's from, because of his accent.

"When they find out, they tell me, 'No, you are not Canadian. You are always Chinese'," Kung said. "It's very hard to explain, so sometimes I tell people I am from South Korea and they're satisfied."

China's surging economy has prompted an increasing number of descendants of Chinese emigrants to return to the home of their ancestors. However, for most, looking Chinese doesn't make them any less foreign. Their background certainly helps, but also brings cultural frictions that other ex-pats don't experience.

"After speaking with me, people in China would say, 'You're not very Chinese'," said Mary Chang, a Chinese-American who studied and traveled in China in the mid-1990s. "I'd sometimes get mini-lectures on how I should be able to speak and write Chinese better."

Chang said her ethnicity and language skills helped her navigate the actual traveling - how to get where, what dishes to order at a restaurant, that sort of thing. But she didn't understand some of the cultural clues - When is it OK to haggle? Is it OK to buy train tickets from a scalper if the ticket window is sold out? She wasn't clued up on how the systems worked and what was expected and what wasn't.

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NEW YORK, May 31, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reis, Inc. (Nasdaq:REIS - News) ("Reis" or the "Company"), a leading provider of commercial real estate market information and analytical tools, today announced that Lloyd Lynford, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Needham & Company 7th Annual Internet & Digital Media Conference on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, at approximately 3:00 p.m. (EDT). The conference will take place at the Essex House, located at 160 Central Park South, New York, New York. This conference features pioneering private and public companies in the internet and digital media world. For more information on the conference, visit: http://www.needhamco.com.

Reis will not webcast this presentation; however, a copy of the slide presentation will be available in the "Events" section of the Company's website at http://www.reis.com/events. Please also visit that location for information on Reis's other recent events.

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Reis, founded in 1980, provides commercial real estate market information and analytical tools for its subscribers. Reis maintains a proprietary database containing detailed information on commercial properties in metropolitan markets and neighborhoods throughout the U.S. The database contains information on apartment, office, retail, warehouse/distribution and flex/research & development properties and is used by real estate investors, lenders and other professionals to make informed buying, selling and financing decisions. In addition, Reis data is used by debt and equity investors to assess, quantify and manage the risks of default and loss associated with individual mortgages, properties, portfolios and real estate backed securities. Reis currently provides its information services to many of the nation's leading lending institutions, equity investors, brokers and appraisers.

Reis, through its flagship institutional product, Reis SE, and through its small business product, ReisReports, provides online access to a proprietary database of commercial real estate information and analytical tools designed to facilitate debt and equity transactions as well as ongoing evaluations. Depending on the product, users have access to trend and forecast analysis at metropolitan and neighborhood levels throughout the U.S. and/or detailed building-specific information such as rents, vacancy rates, lease terms, property sales, new construction listings and property valuation estimates. Reis's products are designed to meet the demand for timely and accurate information to support the decision-making of property owners, developers, builders, banks and non-bank lenders, and equity investors. These real estate professionals require access to timely information on both the performance and pricing of assets, including detailed data on market transactions, supply, absorption, rents and sale prices. This information is critical to all aspects of valuing assets and financing their acquisition, development and construction.

For more information regarding Reis's products and services, visit http://www.reis.com and http://www.ReisReports.com.

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