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The room is equipped with a large double bed (180 x 200), a sitting set and chest of drawers. The flooring window can be darkened with an electric exterior blind. In the summer, this serves to keep the heat outside. I can easily accommodate 3-4 guests in my house.
The large bathroom, which may be shared with other guests, is on the same floor. It is equipped with 2 sinks, shower, bathtub, toilet and bidet (see photos). There is also a hair dryer that guests can use.
In the summer the terrace with the beautiful green garden is at the guests' disposal.
Garden, terrace, BBQ, kitchen is available for breakfast with water cooker, coffee or tea free of charge. Cooking by arrangement from 18 h for a fee, shared fridge, washing machine for a fee
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Jojo and Bri sings “You Gotta Be” on America’s Got Talent Season 17 Live Shows Week 3, Tuesday, August 23, 2022.
“You harmonize beautiful together,” said Heidi. “It’s all about your chemistry together,” said Sofia. “I have a feeling you may have gone off key tonight but I just really like you two,” said Simon. “Bri you are the star,” said Howie.
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The new units, which are set to be delivered in November 2016, will be used in ACCHCO’s Alexandria Container Terminal at the Port of Alexandria and El-Dekheila Container Terminal at the Port of Dekheila.
All RTGs are equipped with eight wheels, provide a maximum lifting capacity of 40 tonnes under spreader and can stack standard containers 1-over-5 with a hoisting height of 18.1 m.
The three cranes ordered for the Alexandria Container Terminal, as well as one of the three units to be operated at the El-Dekheila Container Terminal, cover six container rows and a lane for terminal trucks.
The remaining two cranes designed for ACCHCO’s terminal at the Port of Dekheila cover instead seven container rows and a truck lane.
Alaa Eldin Ma’moun Nada, chairman and CEO of ACCHCO, said in a statement: “Terex’s RTGs have the reputation of being highly productive and offering competitive total cost of ownership. This is why we have now opted for this technology. With the six cranes we will significantly enhance the efficiency of our operations.”
The new cranes, which will all be manufactured in TPS’s facility in Xiamen, China, offer up to 45 m/min hoisting speed, a maximum gantry speed of 130 m/min and a trolley speed of up to 60 m/min.
“More than 60% of Egypt’s foreign trade is handled through the Port of Alexandria. It is therefore crucial for our country’s economy that the fleet is based on the most reliable technology, such as the RTG cranes from TPS,” Ashraf Salman, Egypt’s Minister of Investment, said in a statement.


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The Montana Department of Commerce announced Friday that four affordable housing developers representing four Montana communities will share more than $4.5 million of federal funding through the Housing Trust Fund and HOME Investment Partnerships Program. The money will be used to support the construction, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable rental homes in Montana.
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Alessandra Cipriani-Detres B.A. ’21, was awarded the 2021 Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion in International Education (EDIIE) award in the category of Global Student Leadership at the Undergraduate level by Diversity Abroad.
The award honors one undergraduate student in the U.S. who has global education experience and has made significant contributions to increasing awareness of and access to global opportunities for diverse students at their home institution.
Diversity Abroad is an international membership organization dedicated to inspiring and supporting global educational programs to support the academic success, interpersonal development and career readiness of students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.
Cipriani-Detres began as an Outreach Intern in the U’s Learning Abroad Office and then worked her way up to Peer Advisor by the time she graduated from her undergraduate studies. In her role as Peer Advisor, she carried out administrative tasks and worked closely with the office’s Diversity Team on projects focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in international education. She was nominated for her contributions to research, conducted by full-time office staff, on the experiences of transfer students at the U accessing international education. Her work helped Learning Abroad better understand the challenges and difficulties faced by transfer students as they navigate the U and accessing international education. She was recognized at Global Inclusion 2021, Diversity Abroad’s annual conference.
“My journey of making higher education more equitable is just beginning. This award motivates me to continue to transform my knowledge and experiences into action in order to better support underrepresented college students,” said Cipriani-Detres. She is now a first-year graduate student at Boston College and working toward an M.A. in Higher Education.
“Through the EDIIE Awards, Diversity Abroad recognizes the institutions, organizations and individuals who are addressing educational inequities and striving to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of global education. We congratulate the 2021 EDIIE Award recipients for their work to democratize global education and ultimately unlock the doors of opportunity for the students they serve,” says Andrew Gordon, CEO & Founder of Diversity Abroad.

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The book is set in the backdrop of the uprising against the armed forces in Kashmir in the late 1980s, Lost in terror is a tale of a young woman’s battle against the forces within and without. She is smart, educated and wants to be liberal but is struck in a maelstrom of death and destruction. From crumbling to crackdowns, surrender to murders, a martyr to crowds she witnesses everything with a fragile heart. And begins to lose her hold on her home, her relationship with her husband becomes worst when she uncovers her husband’s discreet links with the gunmen who have become obsessed with the dream of AAZADI at expense of a family’s security.
She is fed up with the male dominant society of the times, where there is a thick boundary line between daughters and daughters-in-law and where male members zealously “protect” them at every moment of their lives. In the opening lines of the book the author shows gratitude to all those women of Kashmir who lost everything – from dignity to their relations – but never lost hope for a better tomorrow, including the author’s mother. From the rise of anti-nationalism to the to extrajudicial executions of militants, extortion and harassment of the common people she describes it all.
The author herself dreaded the Aazadi movement but felt an ache at the thought of it. As she mentions that the era of 1990 to 1992 is the one in which most Kashmiri pandits flee the valley after the killing of two prominent pandit judges, while as the Sikhs belonged to the nation. The windy afternoon of 1993 where she opens the letter of BBC appointment changes her life and thus gives us a deep insight into the universality of the pain, forcing us to let go the sufferings of Kashmiris and the ice-cold attitude of the largest democracy of the world towards them and leaning us into the powerful future.
- Throughout the book, the author takes us down the bloody memory lane of agony and pain and we really feel it. I liked the confidence and heart-throbbing courage of the author.
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What was suppose to be a joke ended up getting a 14-year-old boy expelled from school for a year and facing a judge on an assault charge, both of which the Michigan branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is trying to reverse, Fox 2 News reports.
Kyle Thompson (pictured) was joking around with friends in class last March at Harrison High School in Farmington Hills, Mich., when he produced a ”hit list” of people he wanted to hit on the football field.
Kyle and his friends say the list was just a joke and, when their teacher wanted to take a look, they let her do so. At some point, the teacher took the piece of paper away from Kyle.
This is where the problem began.
In a video produced by the ACLU, Kyle explains what happens next: “My teacher came over. She took [the list] from me, and I got up and grabbed the paper and we were pulling it back and forth. … When we were pulling it back and forth she was laughing at first, so I thought it was just a joke. She got serious, and I let go.”
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But the teacher claims the exchange was more than serious. She accused Kyle of assaulting her and pulled away from her with great force. The teen’s classmates disagree with her claim, but the teen ended up being escorted to the principal’s office and taken away from the school by police. The teacher told Farmington Hills police that she was concerned about the list.
Despite witness statements contradicting the teacher’s account and the fact that Kyle had not ever been in trouble before, he was expelled under Michigan’s “Zero Tolerance Law,” which states any student who assaults a teacher must be expelled – and not just from their school, but from any Michigan public or charter school for one year.
Watch ACLU video of Kyle talking about his suspension below:
Fox 2 tried getting in contact with the teacher but was not successful. The news station did get a statement from the Farmington Hills School District which questioned the explosion but conceded it can do nothing to reverse it.
“Farmington Public Schools is prohibited by federal confidentiality laws from disclosing information of this type or even acknowledging if an incident like this occurred. The issue raised in this petition presents an opportunity for citizens to examine zero tolerance laws in Michigan. The state legislature has mandated that an assault by a student against a teacher requires a one year expulsion from all public schools within the state.
This is known as a zero tolerance law.
In Farmington, we strive to consider each student and any incident separately and individually, taking all facts and circumstances into account. The zero tolerance law passed by our legislature takes that ability away from us and requires all assaults to be treated the same. It is up to state policy makers to revise these zero tolerance laws, and until that happens, we will continue to follow our legal mandates as they are.”
But Kyle, his mother and the ACLU are fighting back with a Change.org petition, which asks that the teen be placed back in school where he belongs. So far, more than 1,830 people have signed it.


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The Seahawks improved to 12-2 with the victory.
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Manning's interceptions marked a career high for a game and raised his season total to 25, matching his career high. The Giants (5-9) were also shut out for the second time this season and third time in 19 games, dating to 2012. New York hasn't been shut out twice in a season since 1996.
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Hong Kong cinema really enjoys bandying around the word “rape”. I shudder to think what the total count is of Hong Kong films released in 1995 that feature “rape” in some form or another in the title. There seemed to be a big demand for rape-centric films in ’95, and Hong Kong movies studios answered that demand with a endless barrage of vicious, stupid as fuck films. Generally a rapey and obnoxious title means you’re (unsurprisingly) in for a rapey and obnoxious time, but sometimes the title is slapped on purely to lure in the boobs-and-violence-starved plebs… as is the case with this gigantic piece of shit…
THE RAPING MURDERER
original title: 殺姦Ｏ娘 (Sha jian O niang)
Hong Kong, 1995, Ka-Chi Lok
But really, the only reason for this film’s existence is shoddy sex scenes. The Raping Murderer piles on sex scene after sex scene. It reminded me of watching Rocky IV where the endless stream of montages are only occasionally interrupted by the tiniest bursts of dialogue. The difference is Rocky IV is awesome and montages featuring Stallone running up mountains and howling “DRAGO!” are great. Relentless poorly choreographed sex scenes where sweaty men spend most of their time kissing women’s legs, not so great. That said, the way the film jarringly transitions from sax-fuelled romantic scenes to animalistic, filthy fuckin’ is utterly hilarious. One scene harshly cuts from a bit of romantic light kissing to this…
The Raping Murderer fails miserably at being sexy. In the world of CAT III cinema, sex is always ludicrous and never has this been truer than in this stupid fucking movie. Sex makes no sense. Women gyrate violently over their partner’s knees. Blowjobs take place at least a metre away from where (I would assume) the penises are. Boobs and viciously shaken from side to side. Skulls rock back and forth like broken bobbleheads. You can almost hear the director (who I’m picturing as a pimple-faced teenager) off screen, “Shake your boobs more! Wobble your head around!”
In one exceptionally befuddling moment, a mid-coitus sweat-smeared lady screams a strange piece of sex talk, asking if she could bite her fuck-partner’s dick off.
For all its sex, and there’s a lot of it in its far-too-long running time of 95 minutes, The Raping Murderer is about as tame as CAT IIIs get. I couldn’t work out what the impressively offensive title had to do with anything. There’s a single scene where someone is raped and murdered. I’m pretty sure this scene is supposed to be a turn on, which is pretty distressing. The rape-murder comes out of nowhere. There’s no real purpose for it except, I guess, to justify the studio’s choice of title.
You may have noticed that I’ve said very little about the plot of the film. That’s simply because there’s nothing to say. I had to regularly rewind and rewatch scenes to try and make sense of the convoluted proceedings. At first I thought I was watching a heavily censored version. Several times scenes end right at their most climactic point. A sequence where one of our heroes escapes from the drug lords ends with her pointing a gun at her captor. It jumps forward in time and we miss all the action of her escape. In fact, I don’t think they even showed her being captured in the first place…
We’re shown flashbacks that serve no purpose to the plot. The story jumps from Hong Kong to Taipei to Tokyo and features a huge string of characters who disappear almost as soon as they’re introduced. I’m not even going to attempt to tell you who played what characters. I could barely work out who the main characters were. I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure the film is pieced together Godfrey Ho style from a hodgepodge of unrelated shitty, unfinished films. It makes zero sense.
The Raping Murderer is borderline unwatchable. I apologise for even bringing it to your attention if you weren’t already aware of it. If you have already seen it, I apologise for dredging up any bad memories. No one is going to get anything out of this garbage. The best it can offer is a few cheap giggles in its haphazard sex scenes. But almost any CAT III can offer you that, so why would you bother? Don’t be fooled by its lurid title, The Raping Murderer is about as dull as Hong Kong cinema gets.
While I’m generally an advocate for everything, no matter what its quality, getting some kind of legitimate release, in this case it’s not too much of a loss. The Raping Murderer will likely die a slow death on its out of print VCD never to be re-released.


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Love letters. Has anyone ever wondered what ever happened to writing love letters to the ones you adored? It seems as though romance is dead and I think it’s time we bring back some old school loving–starting with love letters.
Because of technology, I guess it’s easier to write a text, email or facebook post or inbox someone you’re involved with. But there’s something so detached from hiding behind a screen. Where’s the personal touches? Where’s the sincerity? Where’s the real love and care?
The beautiful thing about love letters, no matter whether there’s a visible mistake on there or whether it has been re-written so many times that it’s absolutely perfect–the fact that someone that you love back has taken some time out of their busy day to write something personal for you will always be more appreciated than something that has been quickly typed on a phone or computer.
It’s sad how this part of romance has dissipated. People’s relationships have so much technology blocking off some of the loving gestures that it seems as though, romance is dead (to an extent).
The thing about love is that it should be something amazing, something inspirational, something so beautiful that you share with another person that you would be willing to do sweet things like walking your date to their door, kissing their hand as a greeting or as a goodbye or writing a love letter, sending flowers at random, holding hands just because.
Bring back the romance. Bring back the love letter. Bring back the love.


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“Won’t he be surprised when I live to be 90!” That was my 88-year old mother’s reaction when the doctor who discharged her from the hospital suggested she get Hospice care. Her congestive heart disease and pulmonary problems had sent her to the hospital three times over the past couple years. It didn’t look like her desire to reach her 90th birthday would become a reality…
But two years later on January 26, 2015 we partied hearty. Mom even received a citation from her State Legislator for reaching such a milestone! Her desire in life had been realized. Or so she thought. My daughter discovered she was pregnant and Mom embraced a new goal: live long enough to hold her first great grandchild.
Little Tobin was born September 8. Since Bethany and Alan live over seven hours away, they planned to come home for Thanksgiving. But as the weeks after his birth progressed, Mom’s breathing became more and more labored. After two years of being hospital-free, we once again had to admit her. She was discharged a week later…this time under Hospice.
As I cared for her at home, hopes she would make it to Thanksgiving grew dim. But we prayed fervently God would grant Mom this last desire of her heart. On Saturday evening, October 24, that desire was met when Bethany made it home and placed her firstborn in Mom’s frail arms.
Yet God’s mercies didn’t stop….
On Monday, my brother, Marty, and his family hastily arranged to drive in from Ohio. More prayer they would make it in time. More rejoicing when they arrived. My son found a flight from Nashville that would get him in around midnight. More prayer. More rejoicing when he walked in the door and said, “Hi Grandma.”
Mom not only lived through the night, but was able to converse with each of us at the breakfast table the next morning. When God took her home later that afternoon my brother and I were both at her side.
My mom was one of the most flexible people I’ve ever known. She learned how to be content no matter what life handed her. Her life—and death—exemplify Psalm 37. She delighted in the Lord and he granted her the desires of her heart. Even the last one….
Quite a finale, Mom!


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Above Vieja fenestratus. Photo of female in breeding color by Rick Borstein.
Vieja fenestratus was first typed in Günther in 1860. Synonyms for this fish are Vieja fenestrata, Vieja fenestratum and Cichlisoma fenestratus.
The barred appearance of the fish, sometimes divided by a horizontal stripe is the basis for both the scientific and common name. Fenestrta is latin for window and the window-like markings must have made an impression on Günther when he discovered the fish.
Vieja fenestratus is a large, robust and aggressive substrate-spawning cichlid from the southern reaches of Mexixo. Males may approach 16", so big tanks are a must. Females stay a bit smaller.
Vieja fenestratus is in two color forms
- Grey mottled form, red breast, head and fins.
- Orange form, some black and red spots
The orange form is not particularly attractive. They look rather like a syphilitic red devil to me . . .
These fish undergo profound color changes when breeding. When in normal coloration, both sexes exhibit a mottle gray flank with pink to red coloration on the head, breast and lower fins. When breeding, the dark striped window pattern becomes evident.
A common name for Vieja fenestratus is the Window Cichlid
According to Fishbase, Vieja fenestratus is found primarily in lakes or rivers with little water movement, often over sand or mud.
As mentioned previously, you need big tanks for these fish. I kept five individuals in 90 gallon tank. Regular partial water changes are obligatory with a big messy fish like Vieja fenestratus.
Vieja fenestratus is easy to feed. Mine ate a variety of prepared foods such as Tetra Cichlid Sticks and Dainichi ColorFX. In the wild, they are omnivorous, but stomach content analysis has found a preponderance of vegetable matter. For that reason, I do not recommend feeding a diet with heavy, meaty foods.
Vieja fenestratus isn't difficult to breed, at least for a large Cichlasoma. I had been very interested in this fish for years. The pictures I had seen of breeding adults were spectacular.
Ric Perez of the GCCA offered to organize a rare fish auction for the club of Central and South American cichlids. When he showed me the offerings available from Don Conkel's fish farm, I immediately asked him to bring in some Vieja fenestratus. I purchased two bags of 3-inch juveniles when they came up for auction and placed them into a 90-gallon tank when I returned home.
The tank was filtered by a large wet/dry filter and received regular, 50% water changes. I used a silica sand substrate and maintained the temperature at 78F. My water is typical Chicago water— 7.4pH and very hard.
The fish ate well and grew quickly in their new home. At six inches, I was able to discern pairing behavior. I added two large (8" diameter) terracotta flower pots and placed them on their sides in the tank.
Shortly thereafter, I observed the female cleaning a pot after a water change. The male patrolled the outskirts of the territory, driving the other tank inhabitants across the tank. The next day, I observed the female zealously guarding 300+ pink-tank eggs which she had laid on the floor (actually the side) of the flower pot.
The eggs hatched after five days and became "wrigglers". About five days after that (9 to 10 days post-spawn) the fry are free-swimming. At this point, the fry are able to take freshly hatched baby brine shrimp.
As often happens, the pair did not raise up their fry the first time, but eventually settled down and spawned every 3-4 weeks, avidly defending their fry.
In order to save some babies, I siphoned out 75 from the last spawn and raised the separately in a 10-gallon tank. I now have them in a 40-gallon breeder tank and expect them to be 1-1.5" and ready for sale at ACA 2006.
Vieja fenestratus is occasionally available at pet stores. Expect to pay $9-12 for 1.5" juveniles.
Vieja fenestratus isn't the easiest fish to find. There are a limited number of people who have the large tanks necessary to breed them. I occasionally see this fish listed in the ACA Trading Post, but seldom for sale on the web. Your best bet is to ask around at local clubs.
Report June 2006 by Rick Borstein.

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Jon Hamm is a big fan of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.
“They were so great and they were such nice people,” he tells the Canadian Press about meeting them on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” last month.
The “Beirut” actor is no stranger to Virtue and Moir’s appeal. While filming in Canada during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, just like everyone else, Hamm found himself mesmerized by the skating pair who he calls “exciting to watch.”
“Between curling, women’s hockey and them, it was a very exciting Olympics, especially for Canadians – although the curling didn’t work out so well,” Hamm says of the recent games.
The former “Mad Men” star recalls eating dinner at The Keg and watching the pair compete on the ice with everyone else in the restaurant.
“I would sit in the Keg, it was right next door to my hotel, and watch the Olympics every night and have dinner and everybody was staring at the TV. It was kind of nice,” Hamm says. “Everybody was pulling for them and it was so great that they won.”
While Hamm didn’t cross paths with the Olympians while he was filming in Vancouver, he found himself on “The Ellen Degeneres Show” on the same day as Virtue and Moir with a dressing room next to theirs.
“I knocked and said ‘Hi,”‘ he explains. “They had the gold medals and it was really cool. I didn’t touch it, I didn’t want to jinx it or something.”
Hamm adds: “It’s so funny, you meet them in person and you realize, ‘Oh my gosh, you guys are so tiny,’ and I guess you have to be to spin around like that and throw people up in the air.”

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A Comprehensive Accessibility Guide to Britain's Rail Stations
Stations Made Easy, a comprehensive, interactive online guide to every one of the UK's rail stations, minimizes or eliminates a major aggravation of British train travel - all those flights of stairs.
The guide was published after a year long project costing £1.2 million and involving more than 700,000 photographs. Britain's 2,500 railway stations were photographed in detail and hundreds of thousands of routes through them were planned. I didn't check all of them but I'm told that the system has, for example, found 44,000 different routes around London Bridge Station.
Leveling the Field
The online guide enables travelers to plan their way around rail stations, avoiding obstacles like stairs, steep ramps and narrow ticket barriers. It is also a good way to find station facilities - seating, luggage carts, escalators, lifts (elevators), ticket offices, ticket machines, baby changing facilities, shops and more.
Originally planned to improve accessibility for passengers with disabilities and mobility problems, Stations Made Easy is packed with information that's also invaluable for anyone who has ever tried to juggle heavy luggage, laptops and shopping, while steering young children and pets up and down the steps of Britain's mostly 19th century train stations. It's linked to the National Rail Enquiries website, making that already useful online tool even more comprehensive.
How to Use Stations Made Easy on National Rail Enquiries
To use Stations Made Easy, find your way to National Rail Enquiries. This useful website, is always my first stop when planning a train journey. With it you can search for train schedules, routes, the best fares and station information in an easy to navigate website.
Here's what to do next:
- From the tabs at the top of the page, pick "Stations & on trains".
- Enter the name of your chosen station in the search box located beside the "Station Facilities" headline and hit search. If there is more than one station with a similar name, you may get a further drop down list and search button. Or you may go directly to the Station Facilities page for your chosen station.
- On the right side of the Station page, near the top, you'll see a box with an arrow that says "Stations made easy". Click on it and you'll arrive at a page specific for the station you want to use.
- The Stations Made Easy Overview page for your chosen station has general information as well as links to an interactive, graphic Station Plan ( like the plan for St Pancras International Station shown on the previous page) and a list of best accessible routes. If you click on the station plan, it will enlarge and the various icons and symbols will become live and interactive. Clicking on each symbol of the station plan produces either a box of further information or a photograph showing the elevator, ramp or other accessibility feature being described.
- If the station has several floors, there is a separate, interactive plan for each floor.
Information contained in the station overview as well as by clicking on the Accessibility and Mobility tab provides a handy summary of key accessibility information, including:
- Availability of disabled parking spots
- Accessible entrances
- Hours when staff is available to assist
- Ticket office accessibility features
- Restroom and baby changing facilities
- Useful phone numbers
This page information is especially handy if your trip involves smaller stations where lifts (elevators) may not be available and staff may not be on duty all the time.
Plan an Accessible Route Then Select and See It
The next page in the Stations Made Easy accessibility tool for British train stations provides you with a selection of choices:
- From the drop down menus in the search boxes, choose where, in or around the station you want to leave from and where you want to go to. These are programmed to provide landmarks - entrances, parking areas, ticket offices, train platforms - that are specific to the station you have chosen.
- From the buttons in the menu on the left side of the page, choose which methods of moving around the station - steps, escalators, lifts, ramps - you can or cannot handle. Everyone is different and some people with disabilities or mobility problems may be able to handle some facilities and not others.
This is where the tool becomes rather clever. Depending on the station you choose, this list may be longer or shorter than the one shown here, since it reflects the real physical features of that specific station. It thus allows you to plan a route around the station that is geared to your personal requirements.
- Click on the "Main accessible routes" button, indicated by the yellow arrow on the left the picture above, for details on the best routes for you.


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– The UN’s top human rights official was criticized by Turkey on Saturday for saying the country should curb its “thirst for revenge” over the July 15 attempted coup, reported Anadolu Agency.
Tanju Bilgic, a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman, rejected claims that Ankara was transgressing human rights and said comments by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, were unacceptable.
Tens of thousands of people suspected of links to the violent cult said to be behind the coup — the Fetullah Terrorist Organization — have been arrested or suspended or dismissed from their jobs.
Earlier this week, Zeid said he had no sympathy with coup plotters but added that he had received allegations of torture and mistreatment of detainees in Turkey and called for “proper procedures and guarantees of the pursuit of due process [to be] upheld in respect of all these Turkish citizens”.
In a statement, Bilgic said: “The UN high commissioner for human rights said he ‘has no sympathy’ for the coup plotters instead of condemning these terrorists who attempted a deadly coup. To put it mildly, this is an unfortunate statement for a UN official who is expected to protect universal human rights.”
Bilgic reiterated an invitation for Zeid to visit Turkey and said fundamental rights and the rule of law had been fully observed since the coup attempt, which resulted in 240 deaths and more than 2,200 injured.
“As a responsible member of the international community Turkey will sustain its comprehensive cooperation with the UN based on constructive dialogue,” he added.


Samantha Assures To Vijay Devarakonda Fans That 'Kushi' Movie Shooting Will Resume Soon
- Samantha confirms that the Kushi shooting will resume soon!
- It has Vijay Devarakonda as the lead actor and the shooting was halted as she was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder!
Tollywood's ace actress Samantha is suffering from an auto-immune disorder and thus she took a break from Vijay Devarakonda and Shiva Nirvana's Kushi movie shooting. Just a couple of days ago, the filmmaker dropped an update about this movie on social media and stated that it will resume soon. Off late, even Samantha also assured the same thing to Vijay's fans when one of them asked her about the status of Kushi movie on the Twitter page…
Samantha humbly apologised Vijay Devarakonda's fans and wrote, "#Kushi will resume very soon .. my apologies to @TheDeverakonda fans @ShivaNirvana @MythriOfficial".
Well, Vijay Devarakonda also replied to this post and said that they will wait until Sam returns with full health and a big smile…
Being a family entertainer, Kushi is Vijay Devarakonda's 11th movie… It is helmed by Shiva Nirvana and it is being produced by Mythri Movie Makers. According to the sources, the film is set in the backdrop of Kashmir and Hesham Abdul Wahab will score the tunes for this movie. This movie has an ensemble cast of Jayaram, Sachin Khedakar, Murali Sharma, Lakshmi, Ali, Rohini, Vennela Kishore, Rahul Ramakrishna, Srikanth Iyengar and Saranya. It is also being made in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam languages.
Samantha already completed the shootings of Shaakuntalam and the movie is ready to hit the theatres in February. She is also part of Citadel and the Hollywood film Arrangements of Love movies. The makers of Citadel Raj & DK dropped the first poster of Samantha and welcomed her to the Citadel movie which has Bollywood's young actor Varun Dhawan as the lead actor!


Seconds often make the difference between life and death and new technology makes the difference…
We are saddened by some assertions made by Agudath Israel of America spokesman Rabbi Shafran in last week’s Forward newspaper. We have, until now, avoided any editorializing on the continuing and animated exchange of opinion that has appeared for several weeks in our Letters To The Editor section, preferring to let our readers explore the issue of Agudath Israel’s non-participation in the recent Washington rally in support of Israel. And we will not now address the controversy. However we cannot leave unremarked some of Rabbi Shafran’s comments.
The Forward quotes Rabbi Shafran as saying, “Jewish Press readers, to a large part, are more centrist or Modern Orthodox readers. They may have a pre-existing animus for Agudath Israel and used the rally to jump on us and to both misconstrue and misrepresent us.”
Rabbi Shafran should better have focused on the message rather than the messengers. He did not help his cause by laboring so hard to suggest that the demographics of our readership somehow skewed the totality of the commentary that appeared in our paper. After all, “a large part” of our readership is not “most of it”. Nor is the notion that our readers “may have a pre-existing animus for Agudath Israel” all that persuasive. Of course, Rabbi Shafran knew that the demographics are not what he tried to communicate to Forward readers. These sort of contrivances should be beneath a national organization that acts out of principle.
More important, Rabbi Shafran also left unaddressed the signal fact of Agudath Israel’s participation in the 1974 mass demonstration in Dag Hammarsjold Plaza against the PLO, despite his having claimed that Agudath Israel stayed away from the Washington rally because of a “longstanding policy” against such involvement. Indeed, The Jewish Press did not create the statement of Rabbi Moshe Sherer, a”h, on the importance of Agudath Israel’s demonstrating “wall-to-wall” support for Israel despite the organization’s dissent from some of what went on there. We just reported it.
Rabbi Shafran apparently feels that Agudath Israel is uniquely shielded from having to explain anything it does. But he must now know that there are consequences to such a posture.
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We could establish cities of refuge for the refugees; they’d become citizens of these new places.
There is cause to believe the ICC is an improper venue for sorting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Congress described it as “economic warfare against Israel” yet US Jewish leaders proudly finance it!
Pataki is the last Republican Governor to win a majority of Jewish votes.
Obama’s desire to be “fair” enables Iran to get nuclear weapons which will threaten global security
All GOP candidates will continue seeking – and praying – for Jewish money with greater success.
The one reason to make Aliyah outweighs all the arguments not to move to Israel.
“We returned to this Land not in order to be murdered, or uprooted. We came here to be replanted!”
I don’t fear for the future of our people because I believe Yeshiva University has created an “Iron Dome” of Jewish leadership
Poland’s great Jewish cities where Jewish life had once flourished and thrived, were now desolate
Chief rabbi, Rav Dovid Lau, stated that the Torah community’s turnout in the WZO election is vital.
Iran has at its core the same ideology as that of ISIS but, inaccurately, is thought a lesser threat
An early Yom Ha’atzmaut gathering for Israel’s 67th birthday with Pres. Rivlin of Israel and guests
Israel’s Memorial Day shouldn’t be a day of mourning, it’s a day to honor, not another Holocaust Day
A committed Religious Zionist, he was a sought-after adviser on Zionist affairs around the world.
For our community, Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy record will doubtless attract the most attention. And it is a most interesting one.
He went on to say that the United States would defend Israel if it were “attacked by any state.”
In their zechus may we all come to appreciate that life is a fleeting gift and resolve to spend every precious moment of it as if it were the last.
If nothing really changes in the hearts and minds of the Palestinians, is Israel obligated to provide them and its other adversaries launching pads for attacks?
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Dogs in Vienna
I am thinking of getting a dog - white labrador. We have two kids 4 and 7 years old and I suppose it would be best to have a good training for the dog, since a small puppies, but big in size can be quite strong and wild.
I have no idea how life with a dog in Vienna would be, where would be possible to go with the dog and kids at the same time.
I have noticed that lot of places for kids does not allow having a dog so I would be very interested to talk with people who have dogs about few issues:
- Where can you go with dogs and kids to play at the same time.
- How do you decide on what the dog should eat
- good veterinarian in Vienna
- meeting other families with dogs
- and not on the last place, how should we search to find a small baby labrador which might insure in some ways that the dog is in a good health. What are the best ways?
- if you know any websites with info. about dogs that you like, I would very much appreciate any information.
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|1979||Crystal and molecular structure of two crystalline modifications of bis[1-methyl-3-(2-chloro-6-methylphenyl)triazine 1-oxidato]nickel(II), NiBPT - A bis chelate with a five-membered Ni-N-O ring||Rajasekharan, M.V.; Varughese, K.I.; Manoharan, P.T.|
|1996||Fitting of magnetic susceptibility data as a function of temperature of various spin systems - A fortran program||Chandramouli, G.V.R.; Balagopalakrishna, C.; Rajasekharan, M.V.; Manoharan, P.T.|
|1989||Polarized electronic spectral studies on some diethyldithiocarbamate complexes of Ni(II) and Pd(II)||Rajasekharan, M.V.; Chandramouli, G.V.R.; Manoharan, P.T.|
|1976||Polarized optical absorption studies on copper and silver diethyldithiocarbamates||Rajasekharan, M.V.; Sethulakshmi, C.N.; Manoharan, P.T.; Gudel, H.|
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Effects of three artificial diets on development and reproduction of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J E. Smith).
Fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) is an important agricultural pest invaded China in 2019, it is important to screen out the suitable artificial diets (AD) for its mass-rearing in laboratory. In this paper, the effects of three candidate artificial diets on the development, fecundity and population growth potential of S. frugiperda were studied by establishing the life table of experimental populations, and those reared on maize leaves were used as the control. The results showed that the three artificial diets had significant differences in the rearing effect of S. frugiperda. Among the three candidate artificial diets, AD-II was the best one. Although the larva-pupa developmental time (23.63 d for female individuals) of AD-II population was slightly longer than the control (20.98 d), biological parameters such as the immature survival rate (88.00%), female pupa weight (243.90 mg), male pupa weight (251.60 mg), and fecundity (845.90 eggs/♀) of AD-II population were superior to the control. Life table parameters such as net reproductive rate (R0, 346.29), intrinsic rate of increase (rm, 0.1859) and finite rate of increase (λ, 1.2043) of AD-II population were also higher than the control. Though S. frugiperda could complete its generation development when reared on AD-I, but the larva-pupa development time (41.56 d for female individuals) was prolonged significantly, the immature survival rate (36.00%) was quite low, and only 25.00% females could lay eggs, which made it difficult to meet the requirements for mass rearing of S. frugiperda. S. frugiperda those reared on AD-III could only grow to the 5th instar larvae, and could not complete its generation development. In conclusion, AD-II is a suitable artificial diet for mass-rearing of S. frugiperda.


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Poland by Jana Seta
Folded road map of Poland with index. Cover is in Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, and Latvian, but legend is in Polish, German, English, and French.
- Product Number: 2225699M
- Product Code: JAN_POLSKA
- ISBN: 9789984075457
- Year of Publication: 2014
- Folded Size: 9.84 x 4.72 inches
- Unfolded Size: 37.4 x 39.96 inches
- Map type: Folded Map
- Geographical region: Miscellaneous
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In October, early cobot pioneer Rethink Robotics announced they were shutting down. Today, Universal Robots (UR, Odense, Denmark) announced they are hiring 20+ Rethink staff members and merging their Boston office with Rethink’s former headquarters in the Seaport area in Boston – effective immediately. Rethink personnel hired by UR bring extensive collaborative robotics experience in engineering, product development, and customer applications, which UR expects to combine well with their own expertise to continue to drive new and innovative collaborative robotics solutions.
“Our new colleagues from Rethink have extensive expertise, knowledge and know-how not only about the technology but indeed also about the market conditions and what the customers’ pain-points are. All of this will benefit our customers and partners as we face an increase in competitors due to the huge market potential for collaborative robots,” says Universal Robots’ President Jürgen von Hollen. “Our ability to secure key members of the Rethink team will have a significant positive impact in meeting market needs and driving innovation.”
Collaborative robots, now the fastest-growing segment of industrial robotics, is forecasted to grow from $283 million last year to $3.26 billion in 2022 according to BIS Research. Universal Robots’ currently leads the segment with around 60% market share. In 2017, UR saw 72% growth and they are targeting 50% growth in 2018. Long term, according to von Hollen, is to maintain greater than 50% market share within the cobot category. Achieving this growth means continually adapting the company structure and processes to deliver its ambitious targets for 2019 and beyond. The company sees the addition of key Rethink Robotics personnel helping expedite UR’s strategic ambitions and actions.
“Rethink Robotics – along with Universal Robots – has been a pioneer in driving and developing the collaborative robotics market globally,” said von Hollen. “The company was always a good competitor, which helped us drive cobot awareness worldwide, and we want to make sure its customers can continue to fulfill their collaborative automation initiatives.”

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Nacho Ormaechea’s amazing series Street Memories combines traditional photography with collage techniques, Via Visualnews
Spanish graphic designer and artist Nacho Ormaechea contrasts photos in a way that gets your brain ticking. By filling the silhouette of people in urban settings with a clashing image, often from nature, he evokes the idea of memories or deeper yet, replaced energy. If it’s true that 98% of the atoms in our bodies are replaced with new ones every year, it’s interesting to think what forms they’ve taken before and Ormaechea’s photo collages offer a hypothesis. The photographer, who has lived and worked in Paris for the past decade has always been fascinated with people watching, thus preferring cities, “which [he] see(s) as perfect theaters full of inspiring yet anonymous characters.”
Assigning random memories to each figure, Ormaechea provides a beautiful contrast between an urban setting and the other experiences a person has had. He states, “Within those urban landscapes, the inhabitants and their opaque lives are the roots of my conceptual projects; those works call upon the viewer’s experiences and induce moments of introspection.” See more of Ormaechea’s fascinating photo collages on his website.


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Jennifer Spinney. (Handout)
A Winnetka village trustee has pleaded guilty to a September drunken driving charge.
Jennifer Spinney, 60, was arrested by Skokie police on Sept. 6 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. She will be under supervision for a year and have her driver's license suspended until late October, according to the Cook County Circuit Clerk's office. Spinney also will pay a fine of $1,329 and must attend a victim impact panel.
Spinney declined to comment when reached by phone Monday. Her attorney, Thomas Moran, could not be reached. She entered the plea in Cook County Circuit Court on Feb. 1.
Spinney is serving her second two-year term on the Winnetka Village Council. It expires May 1.
Skokie police noticed Spinney driving erratically at 1:15 a.m. on Sept. 6, northbound on McCormick Boulevard, according to the police report. At the time, she was driving 25 mph in a 40 mph zone, the report said. It took Spinney nearly a minute to pull over as the officer used his squad car's lights, siren and air horn, the report said.
Once pulled over, Spinney refused a test to measure her blood-alcohol level and failed a field sobriety test, according to the report.
Spinney's driver's license was suspended on Oct. 22, and she is eligible for reinstatement a year after that.
Spinney is allowed to leave the state to visit Florida, where she periodically lives, during her year-long supervision, according to court documents.
Besides serving on the village council, Spinney has had an active civic life in Winnetka, where she has lived for more than 40 years.
She has volunteered with several groups, including school parent-teacher associations, Erika's Lighthouse, the Volunteer Center of New Trier Township, and the auxiliary board of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. She also was co-president of New Trier High School's Parents Association.


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Re: Raspberry Pi update please.
On 7/01/2013, at 10:06 AM, Richard Neswold <rich.neswold%gmail.com@localhost>
> I picked up a Raspberry Pi over the holidays and have been messing around
> with it. The Raspian and raspbmc images work well, but I'd prefer to use
> The only advertised NetBSD kernel for it is from Oct 13th. Is there a more
> recent kernel available (with further support, like USB or video?) I don't
> have the expertise to complete the port, but if there's anything I can do to
> help, let me know.
USB is still missing which means that ethernet is still missing. Video may be
missing too, but I haven't tested it.
Updating the image manually is not too hard although it is a bit more
complicated than it might be. The Oct 13 image boots into a 3rd party boot
loader called u-boot which in turn loads the NetBSD kernel because u-boot is
much more sophisticated than the initial boot loader. Unfortunately, I couldn't
make u-boot work although that might not have been u-boot's fault. I downloaded
the latest Raspberry Pi boot loader from
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot and threw away the old
files and u-boot. The NetBSD build produces a file called kernel.img when you
build the RPI kernel and that's what you need to put on your SD Card. Since all
of these files go into the FAT16 format partition, you can mess with the SD
Card on almost any computer you like.
Once you have your boot loader sorted out, you can cross compile a new kernel
from whichever -current you like and just install it.
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Return Of 1920s Glamour
Dahlia gown with ivory overlay and blush slip by Sarah Janks.
Today’s brides are blessed with an abundance of riches in the styles and colors of wedding gowns that are available to them. Champagne, blush, ivory, lace, sleeves, sequins, embroidery, beading, the options are endless. Dresses are sleek and modern or reminiscent of the 1920s. The dresses that follow will give you an idea of the hottest trends in wedding gowns.
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Vale’s injury crisis was exacerbated as they went down 2-0 at home to East Stirlingshire.
Chris Anderson already had to name himself among the substitutes for this one but it got even worse with Euan Saunderson pulling up in the warm-up, prompting a promotion to the starting line-up for Alex Imlah.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, two players – Tommy Patterson and Steven Lynch – were forced off inside the first half hour meaning Anderson was the only remaining option left on the bench.
The team stood up to the adversity well and stood firm against a dominant East Stirling side, until conceding to Paul Sludden after 64 minutes.
Kevin Kelbie struck in the last minute to make it 2-0 and give Shire the win they deserved, although not many would have begrudged Vale a point for their efforts.
After a scrappy opening in which Patterson went closest with a free kick, the same player had to be stretchered off after 15 minutes. It was an innocuous looking 50-50 challenge but Patterson came off worst and appeared to jar his knee.
Signed just this week on a loan deal from Livingston, Liall Smith came on to make his debut.
After the change East Stirling took over for a spell and managed to get forward on their right hand side which Patterson, who often turns out at full back, had vacated.
Right back Jamie McCormack has lightning speed and used that to get forward at every opportunity, forcing Vale on the defensive.
From a corner, Kelbie had a header cleared off the line by Ainslie Hunter and the same player hit an effort from 25 yards which was held by Ross Gilpin.
Drew Ramsay then carved open the Vale defence but Andy Rodgers miscued his shot horribly.
The home side had a chance of their own when a quick switch of play from Smith started a move which ended with Jordan Finnie wriggling free on the right side of the box. It wasn’t clear whether he tried to score or pick out a man but the ball rolled agonisingly across the goal and out.
Other than that the play was almost entirely in Vale’s defensive half but they defended stoically and continually managed to crowd out Shire’s attackers or get a block in.
On one such occasion Rodgers looked certain to score only to be denied by a Jonny Scott-Mercer block.
The last chance of the half fell to Kelbie but Gilpin was equal to his header from McCormack’s cross.
Half time: Vale 0-0 East Stirlingshire
Play raged from end to end at the start of the second half and Vale had the first opportunity. Shaun Stevens went down the left and managed to work the ball to Finnie but a defender got in the way of his effort.
Scott-Mercer prevented another goal when Rodgers beat two men in the box before nudging it past Gilpn, but the right back was on the line to clear.
The ball was finally in the net after 19 minutes of the second half and Shire’s lively front three were all involved. Rodgers got free on the right and found Kelbie in the box. The big forward calmly rolled the ball into the path of Sludden who tucked it under Gilpin.
Vale were denied what looked like a penalty when Jordan Tapping climbed on Craig McBride in the box and flattened him to the ground. You have to imagine that a foul would have been awarded had it happened outside the box and the Vale bench were incensed.
Anderson brought himself on in place of Kerr Allan for the final 15 minutes and Vale began to get forward a bit more.
However, Shire looked to kill the tie on the break and Connor Greene thundered a header into the side netting.
It was a counter attack which brought the decisive second in the last minute when a Vale free kick into the box was cleared. Rodgers won the ball in the middle of the park before surging forward and slipping a pass to Kelbie who had his initial shot saved by Gilpin but stuck in the rebound.
Vale: Gilpin, Scott-Mercer, Imlah, Lynch (Lewis 26), McBride, Hunter, Stewart, Allan (Anderson 74), S.Stevens, Finnie, Patterson (Smith 15).


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(USNewsBreak.com) – Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on August 29. The Category 4 storm caused widespread devastation. Some of those effects continue to plague residents even now.
The Louisiana Department of Education says over 70,000 students still can’t attend school as a result of the August 29 storm. Devastation in coastal regions significantly interfered with infrastructure and, in some cases, rendered learning institutions all but uninhabitable.
Thousands of Louisiana students remain out of school over a month since Hurricane Ida https://t.co/LzqguBBbIp
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 5, 2021
With power restored just recently in most zones, families are still trying to come out from under the extensive damage. Parents worried about meeting basic needs are finding it tough to manage back-to-school time.
Economic conditions in significantly impacted zones, where families often lack the money to rebound on their own, continue to hamper the lengthy recovery process. Some schools also have a hard time accessing the funding they need, which makes it challenging to repair damages caused during Ida.
Getting the financing to fix the problems isn’t easy, either. Federal government programs can take weeks, months, or even years to process claims.
Students aren’t getting off scot-free with an impromptu vacation. Instead, they’ll make up the missed days with summer school or reduced time off during scheduled breaks. It remains unclear exactly when the majority of students will return to school full-time.
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Connie B. Robinson. audi. May 07th , 2017.
2015 Audi S4 is released to the market with the previous basic model that is about Audi A4 sedan with the 220 hp. This has been renewed with the powerful engine. This car 2015 Audi S4 engine is a 3.0 liter V6 engine which can produce more powerful 333 hp and 325 lb/ft of torque. This engine is being collaborated with the 6-speed manual transmission which is the standard transmission. More, there is also the optional transmission which is a 7-speed dual clutch automatic transmission. This engine is also good in case of the fuel economy result where this can return 17/26 mpg from manual transmission and 18/28mpg from automatic transmission.
2015 Audi S4 has been released with the previous model enhancement. This 2015 Audi S4 release date has been done in the previous 2014 year where there are some features that bring this S4 has its superiority. About the appearance, this S4 has the aggressive appearance with the front fascia with more about fog lamp housings and also the grille which is trimmed in metallic color. From the side, this S4 appearance is great where the exterior design looked like pedestrian vehicles. This is good with the performance as a sedan type.
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Yorkshire Chess History
Identity of the Chess-Player
“G. Pollard” of Dewsbury appears regularly in chess records from the 1901-02 season to the 1907-08 season and maybe beyond. In 1899-00 and 1900-01 seasons a “G. Pollard” played for Leeds in the Woodhouse Cup. This G. Pollard seems probably to be the Dewsbury player, as in the 1899-00 Yorkshire-Kent correspondence match the only G. Pollard is of Dewsbury, not of Leeds. (Correspondence players tended to be listed with their place of residence rather than the club they played for.)
The George Pollard described here seems the only person who fits the chess-player’s career.
A separate “G. Pollard”, possibly related, appears playing for Leeds in the 1920s, after G. Pollard of Dewsbury had died.
George Pollard’s parents were mariner John Pollard (born 1799/00, Knottingley) and Mary Pollard (born 1800/01, Knottingley), who had at least the following four children, presumably all born at in Knottingley:
Entry 1514 in the baptism register of St. Botolph’s, Knottingley, records the baptism there, on 09/2/1838, by George Steward, curate, of George Pollard, son of mariner John Pollard and Mary Pollard, of Knottingley.
The 1841 census found the family of six living at Back Inn Yard, Knottingley. Daughter Alkamia’s name is unusual, but clearly written in the census return. Father John was by occupation a mariner.
The 1851 census found John, Mary and George living at Aire Street, Knottingley. Father John was still a mariner. 12-year-old George was a scholar.
It appears young George initially embarked (pun intended) on the same career as his father, as the 1861 census found 22-year-old Knottingley-born George Pollard as one of two crew on a vessel. The description of George’s job was somewhat unreadable, but was something ending in “-man”, possibly “poopman”.
The marriage of George Pollard to Sarah Martha Thompson was registered in the fourth quarter of 1864, at Doncaster. The couple went on to have ten children, including the following nine:
It may have been getting married which caused a career change for George. The 1871 census found the two parents and three children living at Back Lane Knottingley. George’s occupation was now that of maltster’s labourer.
At some time the family moved from Knottingley to Thornhill, about three miles, as the crow flies, to the south of Dewsbury. This was evidently at some stage from 1871 to 1874.
Tragedy struck in December 1874, when 3-year-old Lucy Ann Pollard died. She was buried on 06/12/1874, at St. Michael & All Angels, Thornhill, by F. R. Grenside(?), assistant curate.
Quite what caused the Pollards to move to Thornhill is unclear, but it may have been to do with a second and final change in occupation.
The 1881 census found the Pollards living at 12 Maines Yard, Thornhill. George was now a “blanket raiser”. Alfred was a mine labourer. Sarah, Herbert and Edith were scholars.
At some time from 1881 to 1891 George and his family moved to Walker Street, off Lees Moor Road, Thornhill, which is where George, Sarah and their seven surviving children were living, with Sarah’s 76-year-old mother, Sarah Thompson, at the time of the 1891 census. George was a raw blanket raiser. Alfred was a blanket weaver. Sarah was a cloth weaver. Herbert was a glass bottle worker (partly illegible), Edith was a cloth weaver. John and Arthur were scholars.
George retired from blanket raising at some time from 1891 to 1901.
The 1901 census found George and Sarah living more specifically at 14 Walker Street, Thornhill. Still living with them were Alfred, Edith, Ann, John and Arthur. George was a retired blanket raiser.
The 1911 census found parents George and Sarah, with unmarried daughters Edith and Ann, living still at 14 Walker Street, Thornhill. George and Sarah were recorded as having had ten children, of whom seven were still alive. Thus there had been a tenth child not listed above, and one of the above nine, in addition to to Lucy, had died by 1911.
George Pollard died in June 1911, aged 72. Entry 1834 in the burial register of St. Michael & All Angels, Thornhill, recorded the burial there of George Pollard of Lees Moor, on 28/06/1911, by H.T. Hayman.
“G. Pollard” played for Leeds in the Woodhouse Cup the 1899-00 and 1900-01 seasons. This appears to be the Dewsbury player playing for Leeds at a time when Dewsbury had no Woodhouse team.
“G. Pollard”, specifically of Dewsbury, played 1899-00 Yorkshire-Kent correspondence match.
He played in the 1903 Huddersfield-Dewsbury match.
He played in the 1903 West Riding v North & East Riding match.
When Dewsbury got a place in the Woodhouse Cup in the 1904-05 season, he became a regular player in the team, though to 1907-08 and possibly beyond (data not to hand).
He played for Huddersfield in the 1904 Huddersfield v North Manchester match.
He played in the 1906 Yorkshire-Lancashire match, and the 1907 Yorkshire-Lancashire match.
Copyright © 2013 Stephen John Mann
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We are delighted to announce that Beth has been promoted to Senior Medical Writer.
Porterhouse Medical is delighted to announce the promotion of Amanda Hyne to senior medical writer within our scientific services team.
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Country Megaticket is the hottest country music festival including Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert and Sugarland take to the stage to bring what is sure to be the most existed experience of the year for country music fans!
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Two Democrats, Patty Murray and Michael Bennet, both of whom accept a lot of pharmaceutical money, voted no.” To the contrary: I’d say that Democrat discipline held up quite well!
The alleged public servents name according to the DDN story is Maj. Apparently Public Servant John Di Pietro was alone in the room with the naked wet teen while he was hosing her down. Asking a local officer in our shop about these situations, he said it’s normal procedure to supply the pepper sprayed individual with a bottle of water and a cloth to clean their face.
He said he tells them it will burn again in the shower as some could wash down into the eyes again.
Apparently before arresting the teen he sprays her with pepper spray.
After arresting her and taking her into custody she is transported to the Sheriffs office where she is stripped naked and hosed down with a garden hose by this very Sheriff. This event is a clear abuse of this teen and the public trust.
But even though Mexico is pushing hard for the talks to conclude before the end of 2017 to avoid the negotiations becoming a big issue in next year’s July 1 presidential election in Mexico, some long-term trade experts say a lot of things would have to fall into place to get a fully agreed-to package by year’s end” [Politico].
Politics Policy “Sanders and others decided to continue trying to get [drug] importation to a vote.
Police Department, concerning the decontamination of a 17-year-old girl after her July 12 arrest, according to prosecutor’s spokesman Greg Flannagan.
The decontamination was related to the girl being…. A grown armed man representing the Miami Township here in Ohio arrests a 17 year old girl.
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After locking down a win with Wonderland Entertainment’s Dj competition in 2017, Collelo went on to share stages with celebrated artists such as Duke Dumont, Morgan Page, Darude, and Marshmello.
In following years, she won the FamAF DJ competition for the annual Holy Ship pre-party. Mentionable acts for Holy Ship 12.0 include Mija, AC Slater, Gorgon City, and more.
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As one of the smartest and most complex drama series on TV, “The Good Wife” has plenty to recommend it. Traditional court room theatrics are melded intriguingly with title character Alicia Florrick’s complicated personal life. Viewers are treated to smart stories, witty dialogue, and impeccable acting. While change can be good to keep a show fresh, there are three main aspects of “The Good Wife” that the writers should never, ever change.
From the very start of the series, we haven’t always been sure of Alicia Florrick’s motives, and that’s one of the best parts of “The Good Wife.” Julianna Margulies is stunning in the role; I wrote an entire article about her skill at playing the role with such subtlety. It’s season 2 and we still don’t know if Alicia plans to stay with her husband Peter (Chris Noth), hook up with old school friend and current boss Will (Josh Charles), or ditch the both of them and strike out on her own. Every time we think we know which way she’s going to turn, she makes an unexpected decision.
We were set up at the beginning of “The Good Wife” to feel for Alicia and her dilemma, but many in the audience may have been surprised at some of her subsequent choices. As Peter has worked on his post-prison campaign and begun to gain favor, we see little hints of how Alicia enjoys the power and prestige of being a prominent politician’s wife. She also knows how to step into gray areas, as when she brought Eli Gold to her law firm to help her land the last associate spot over competitor Cary (Matt Czuchry).
Alicia is quiet and conscientious, and does a lot of good for her clients. She’s not afraid of going for the jugular on a win, however, and she still gets a little thrill out of beating Cary and any other obnoxious attorney. What all of this does is give us an Alicia who is not a perfect, squeaky clean superheroine, but an admirable yet flawed, interesting and strong human woman.
Shows like “The Closer” give us a strong female lead, but back her up with a crowd of men. “The Good Wife” is far more balanced, surrounding Alicia with complicated characters of both sexes. Alicia isn’t the only fascinating, powerful woman on the series. There’s the incomparable Christine Baranski as Diane, partner of the firm, who gives us a delightfully sharp and wry woman who has achieved success by being only as ruthless as necessary. We’ve seen her have a few crises of conscience, when considerations about clients or the livelihood of the firm render her unable to be noble as she wants to be. In a way, she could be a glimpse of Alicia’s future.
“The Good Wife” also highlights Alicia’s mother-in-law, Jackie (Mary Beth Peil). A true political woman, Jackie is all about standing by your man. She is critical of Alicia and her signs of reluctance to forgive her husband, and frequently intervenes (or interferes, depending on your point of view) with the family business. She knows how to work ladies’ luncheons and even conspire with Peter’s slimy advisor Eli (Alan Cumming). Being on Alicia’s side, viewers may sometimes consider her evil, but as with most “bad” characters on “The Good Wife,” Jackie is not always wrong.
We also get the perspective of Alicia’s daughter Grace (Makenzie Vega), a teenager struggling to figure out how she’s supposed to feel about her father’s scandal and her mother’s simmering anger. This season we also have squeaky clean political candidate Wendy Scott-Carr (Anika Noni Rose), making things difficult for Eli, who try as he might, can’t seem to dig up any dirt on her. There are also plenty of interesting female judges, staff, and lawyers on “The Good Wife.” One of the standouts has been guest star Mamie Gummer (“Taking Woodstock,” “Stop-Loss”) as Nancy Crozier, a pretty blond lawyer who uses a wide-eyed, airy persona to blind lawyers, judges and juries to the cunning shark underneath.
Then there’s Kalinda, who deserves a section all her own. As the enigmatic investigator, Archie Panjabi brings “The Good Wife” viewers an intriguing mix of sensuality, boldness, and sharp intelligence. There’s no hidden truth Kalinda can’t uncover, no building she can’t find her way into, no crime scene she can’t lift evidence from. Kalinda operates in the shady corners, so the lawyers don’t have to.
Like Alicia, Kalinda’s mystery is her power. With “The Good Wife” episode “Poisoned Pill,” the writers skated close to revealing too much about her personal life. Many may consider the revelation of Kalinda’s past affair with Donna (Lili Taylor) her “coming out” episode, but it looks like Kalinda is still playing her cards close to her vest. I think it’s more likely Kalinda is interested in whomever will get her what she wants or needs at that moment, and doesn’t care if it’s a man or a woman. Meredith Blake of The LA Times blog thinks it’s definitely possible that Kalinda had more “professional ambition” in mind than romance when she wooed Donna.
While Kalinda definitely has her dangerous side, including the baseball bat-to-car episode with rival investigator Blake (Scott Porter) that Entertainment Weekly’s Dalton Ross considers the “highlight” of the season. What’s interesting is that Kalinda might not be as dangerous as Blake, because we’ve seen just the slightest hints of fear each time she learns a little bit more about him. So “The Good Wife” is keeping us on our toes. Each time we learn a little more about Kalinda, we’re unsure of even less–and we love it.
Watch “The Good Wife” on CBS, Tuesdays at 10 pm ET.
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Influence of solar forcing, climate variability and modes of low-frequency atmospheric variability on summer floods in Switzerland
Abstract. The higher frequency of severe flood events in Switzerland in recent decades has given fresh impetus to the study of flood patterns and their possible forcing mechanisms, particularly in mountain environments. This paper presents a new index of summer flood damage that considers severe and catastrophic summer floods in Switzerland between 1800 and 2009, and explores the influence of external forcings on flood frequencies. In addition, links between floods and low-frequency atmospheric variability patterns are examined. The flood damage index provides evidence that the 1817–1851, 1881–1927, 1977–1990 and 2005–present flood clusters occur mostly in phase with palaeoclimate proxies. The cross-spectral analysis documents that the periodicities detected in the coherency and phase spectra of 11 (Schwabe cycle) and 104 years (Gleissberg cycle) are related to a high frequency of flooding and solar activity minima, whereas the 22-year cyclicity detected (Hale cycle) is associated with solar activity maxima and a decrease in flood frequency. The analysis of low-frequency atmospheric variability modes shows that Switzerland lies close to the border of the principal summer mode. The Swiss river catchments situated on the centre and southern flank of the Alps are affected by atmospherically unstable areas defined by the positive phase of the pattern, while those basins located in the northern slope of the Alps are predominantly associated with the negative phase of the pattern. Furthermore, a change in the low-frequency atmospheric variability pattern related to the major floods occurred over the period from 1800 to 2009; the summer principal mode persists in the negative phase during the last cool pulses of the Little Ice Age (1817–1851 and 1881–1927 flood clusters), whereas the positive phases of the mode prevail during the warmer climate of the last 4 decades (flood clusters from 1977 to present).

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