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A 60-year-old Singaporean male passenger on-board the SuperStar Gemini cruise ship is missing after falling overboard near Babi Besar Island, located off the Malaysian south-east coast. Mr. Wuan Poh Fatt was traveling from Singapore to Penang with five others. According to on-board closed-circuit camera footage, Mr. Wuan fell overboard on Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 11:05 p.m. However, it was not discovered that he was missing until the next day when he failed to respond to announcements. After a headcount confirmed he was missing, the ship's Captain contacted Malaysian authorities who began a search of the area. According to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, search and rescue operations are ongoing.
The SuperStar Gemini is a 1,750 passenger cruise ship operated by Star Cruises, an Asian based cruise line. In October 2015, reports surfaced of a 30-year-old Indian national man who disappeared from the SuperStar Gemini while traveling in the Strait of Malacca. The man was traveling with his extended family and they too did not realize he was missing until the next day. The cruise line claimed the man had committed suicide but the family strongly disputed that allegation instead suggesting he had been the victim of foul play due to a fight he had with one of the ship's officers.
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By Emily J. Weitz
When Quail Hill Farms started as Full Circle Farm in 1988, it was the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiative in New York State. With ten families harvesting fruit from trees in Bridgehampton, the idea of sharing the labor and sharing the fruits of that labor was born.
Now there are dozens of CSAs across the state, and as many as 12,000 across the country. Quail Hill, which found its current home in Amagansett in the early 90s, has grown from the original ten families to 250. Even the term CSA has become commonplace, and is being touted by senators like Kristin Gillibrand as a way to support local economies and increase healthy living.
As more and more people learn about CSAs and join them, there are some expected growing pains that occur. The whole concept has had to evolve, as has the practice.
"Serving 250 families is very different than serving ten," says Scott Chaskey, Director of Quail Hill. "Serving more people, you use more acreage, grow more food, sponsor more events… We've grown in all directions."
Steven Eaton, who got his start in organic farming with Quail Hill six years ago, has seen different angles of the CSA. After two years with Quail Hill, he became an independent farmer on Springs Fireplace Road, farming one plot of land and selling his produce to friends and neighbors, and at the local farmers' market once a week. Last March he was hired by Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island as the crew leader, which means he's out in the fields managing the work.
"From my perspective," says Eaton, "the idea of CSA has changed from what the name suggests. Community Supported Agriculture implies a community around the farm, supporting farmers in their work to ensure their food security. These people are saying 'We want our produce to come from farms in our area and we don't want those farms to struggle.' It was a way for the community to make sure these farms that they value survive."
In recent years, though, Eaton has noticed a change in the reasons people are joining CSAs, and he fears that it's sometimes more of a trend than a real connection to the land that attracts them. Of course, there are still the people who genuinely feel it's important to be connected to a farm, Eaton says. They want to know where their food is coming from and have a relationship with that food.
"This is more than a farmer exchanging with the community through a retail space," he says. "At Sylvester Manor we have our regular harvest days, where we get feedback and have conversations. That's very supportive to the farmer."
Eaton believes that the name CSA is growing outdated, and it no longer reflects the trends happening on the East End. When the physical connection to the farm and the farming practices is not there, there is a disconnect between the people and the farm, so that they lose the very understanding of the farm that a CSA is supposed to create.
"If someone is expecting vegetables delivered to their doorstep, what happens if the basket doesn't come or something isn't in it," he asked. "If you're actually engaging in all the dimensions of a farm, you can understand the delicate nature of food and farming and how rich and joyous and difficult it can be… The trend of CSAs moving away from multi-dimensional participation is a huge disadvantage. That understanding, that dialogue, between farmer and community becomes lost."
At the same time, as CSAs become more popular, more small, local farms are able to flourish. Balsam Farms, which has been around for a decade, began its CSA just two years ago.
"The CSA is only a small part of our farm," says Ian Calder-Piedmonte, co-founder and farmer at Balsam Farms, who also is the outreach director for EECO Farm in East Hampton. "We prepare a box with items that are in season, and members come to pick it up at the farm. For us, it's all about growing food and seeing people. We want as many people eating our food as possible."
At Quail Hill, Chaskey has no problem calling the farm a CSA in the truest sense of the word.
"It's who we are," he says. "We started as a CSA, and we've influenced the beginning of lots of other CSAs, not only on the East End. Besides people around here, I've traveled all over the country speaking about community agriculture, running workshops and presentations about how you do it."
The difference between Quail Hill and all the other farms on the East End is, at Quail Hill, the members do all the farming and harvesting. They get an intimate understanding of what is growing and how because they are involved in the whole process. At Sylvester Manor and other farms, like Amber Waves in Amagansett, members do some of the harvesting. For example, Eaton says, if members get a pint of string beans that week, they might be sent to the fields to pick their own.
"Being at the farm when the CSA shows up," he says, "they'll get out in the fields and pick basil, they'll start talking, and they start to see those dimensions of farming. That, to me, is the biggest asset to upholding and encouraging that nature of the CSA. It educates like no other. If you sign up for twenty weeks and you come and see the ups and downs on the farm for twenty weeks, that's a good education. That's a huge chunk of the community that understands the nature of food, and how real food is. The value of food and farms goes way up the more people are educated. The value of food goes down otherwise."
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Wednesday Vignette - Remember When?
Remember when the sky was a beautiful clear blue, the sun wasn't red and it wasn't snowing ash? On On a beautiful day in July I had the pleasure of visiting Karen Brindley's garden in Indianola, designed by our favorite cowboy, Shayne Chandler. Notice the yellow Tibetan prayer flags on the left side of the image; they're a clue as to who gardens next door. Stay tuned for a full tour of this stunning garden. Maybe I should save it for a soggy winter day...
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I see a table and chair in the foreground. Can't imagine the pleasure of morning coffee with that view!ReplyDelete
I must be what Picture Perfect means. I could look at this view all day long.ReplyDelete
Can't wait for the ash to be gone, on the other hand, it's worse to get swallowed by Irma.
Picture perfect is right! Can't wait to see the full report... As for delightful and talented (you're far too kind) - right now I feel more like a raging, out of control mama bear. If the kids that started the fire in our beloved Gorge were mine, I would probably be guilty of filicide by now. Jeez...ReplyDelete
Oh you big tease! Looking forward to the full report.ReplyDelete
Thank you! I needed to see that sky.ReplyDelete
I feel like this week, and perhaps these last day of summer are being taken away from me, going up in smoke. I see that red sun and know the blue sky is right up there, but lost to us in the smoke.ReplyDelete
That next door garden looks like a good reason to return to Windcliff, if they do a double in the future.
With those madrones, I actually thought this WAS an early incarnation of Windcliff! Makes sense that it's next door. How lucky to have that as the neighboring property. Looking forward to seeing more of this garden, as well!ReplyDelete
That's an outstanding view! I hope you get relief from the smoke and ash soon!ReplyDelete
What a view! Are things getting any better with the smoke and ash?ReplyDeleteReplies
Not yet but the weather forecasters are calling for a bit of relief over the next couple of days.Delete
An amazing view, all the way down to the water. WOW.ReplyDelete
So beautiful! I hope the wildfires die back soon! Do you have some rain in the forecast? Thinking about you guys and the flood victims frequently these days.ReplyDeleteReplies
The forecaster on the radio said there is a slight chance of showers in a couple of days but accuweather shows no precipitation for at least a couple of weeks.Delete
I had no idea that D. H. has such a beautiful garden next door! Can't wait to see it!ReplyDelete


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(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Last year Surbhi Verma quit her investment banking job in Mumbai, moved to Silicon Valley, and started a master's in finance program at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. She thought the degree would help her land a prestigious job with a good salary in the U.S.
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Many B-schools are warning prospective students about the difficulty of landing a job in the U.S. and suggesting employment alternatives when they arrive on campus. Columbia Business School, ranked No. 7, brings an immigration attorney to campus each semester to address what Michael De Lucia, director of the school's International & MS Career Management Office, calls "rumors and uncertainty." In addition to the career workshops the school has long organized for international students, Columbia this spring started bringing Canadian officials to its New York City campus to explain the country's express entry program for skilled workers.
Susan Brennan, an assistant dean who oversees the career development office at Sloan, says work visas have become "a burning issue at the most senior level" of many schools. She's been meeting with dozens of executives and recruiters to learn whether the government's policies are dissuading them from hiring foreign Sloan graduates. "There's a sense it may take longer, but they're staying the course," she says of employers. Only 47 percent of U.S. companies plan or are willing to hire international graduates of B-schools this year, down from 55 percent last year, according to a survey of nearly 1,100 employers released in June by the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers business school entrance exams.
Nicole Hu, a master of finance student at Sloan, expected to return to Hong Kong after graduation because of stricter immigration policies. Then, in August, a major bank in New York offered her a job, which she plans to start in February. Hu is making backup plans, because once her student visa runs out, her employer will need to apply for a temporary work visa in the government's lottery system. "It's whether your stars align," says Hu.
International applications dropped about 11 percent in 2018 at 400 U.S. graduate business programs, according to a GMAC survey released in October. Among prospective students who prefer full-time MBA programs and plan to apply internationally, 47 percent prefer the U.S. as a study destination, down from 56 percent in 2016, according to a separate GMAC survey of almost 9,500 students.
Impeding international talent is bad for B-schools' economics because many depend on foreign students, who often pay full tuition. Schools that lack the global brand of a Harvard Business School, No. 3, for example, are "somewhat more exposed," says Sangeet Chowfla, president and CEO of the GMAC. "They're having more difficulty getting quality applications, forcing them to make some uncomfortable choices about not filling the classroom or lowering their admission standards." B-school deans also worry the perception that the U.S. doesn't want foreign students will reduce classroom diversity, Chowfla says, making the schools less appealing to some students and recruiters.
Some B-schools, particularly those outside urban areas, are experiencing significant declines in foreign enrollment, says Caryn Beck-Dudley, Leavey's dean and board chair of the accrediting group AACSB International. One reason: Prospective students are concerned about their personal safety, says Chowfla, a troubling trend reflected in GMAC surveys. Leavey is considering sending staffers overseas to reassure foreign students.
Safety concerns aren't misplaced, says Dana Bucin, an immigration lawyer who's spoken to hundreds of students at Columbia and other schools. "The environment for all immigrants, including and especially foreign students, has gotten much tougher," she says. Not because the laws have changed, but because the Trump administration is enforcing old laws more harshly and creating new policies, Bucin says. The government is increasing processing times and adding requests for more documentation, she adds.
In an email, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Michael Bars said: "USCIS will continue adjudicating all petitions, applications and requests fairly, efficiently, and effectively on a case-by-case basis to determine if they meet all standards required under applicable law, policies, and regulations."
In August, more than 50 executives from such U.S. companies as Apple, Johnson & Johnson, and JPMorgan Chase signed a letter to the Department of Homeland Security from the advocacy group Business Roundtable, arguing recent USCIS policies are "unfair and discourage talented and highly skilled individuals from pursuing career opportunities in the United States." This harms American competitiveness, it said.
Making it harder for foreigners to work in the U.S. doesn't help American workers, says Koc, NACE's research director. "If the best talent is international, employers are going to find a way to access that talent," he says. If new hires end up working out of a company's office in Toronto instead of Pittsburgh, for example, the U.S. economy "loses all the multiplier effects," from support positions to taxes paid.
Verma is considering relocating from Silicon Valley to another country that's more welcoming or returning to India. To work temporarily in the U.S., she would need a job offer within three months after she graduates in December. Her employer would then need to apply for one of a limited number of temporary work visas, among other steps. Verma doesn't like the uncertainty. "The whole environment is draining," she says. She's telling Indian friends who are considering U.S. B-schools to rethink their plans. "It's a huge financial investment to come and study in the U.S.," she says. "If you don't find a good return on investment and have to go back jobless, it doesn't seem like a good option."
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Hey guys, good to see the weather is starting to warm up. Just in time for the start of our boot camps.
For those of you that are still considering getting on board the boot camp, you are more than welcome even though the first one has started. They will continue through until around April / May next year and we encourage everyone to have a go, no matter what level of fitness.
Numbers have nearly been locked in for the Fight Gone Bad - Wounded Warrior fundraiser at Perth CrossFit on the 9th October. For those still a little a bit apprehensive, sign up and have a crack, remember the cause is worthy and it promises to be a good day to mix with the CrossFit community from Perth.
Well done to out netball girls who won their grand final. Great effort girls!!! Was an exciting game even though the result was a forgone conclusion. We knew you would get up...
WORKSHOPS - We will be changing the schedule for these shortly. Still keeping the Friday arvo one, but including another during the week to cater for those guys that can't get down on Friday's. Make the effort to get to these as the guys that have been down have shown considerable improvement in technique and become more efficient with their training.
Lastly guys, we encourage you all to provide continual feedback on not only how your training is going, but how the trainers at REX are assisting you. There have been some awesome results to date and we want to make sure that we keep providing you a quality product and work hard towards achieving your goals, whatever they may be.
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
9 Lombrose St. - Day 1 ~~ "Mole" ~~
Hello Pulp Friends!
I decided to do this little project titled "9 Lombrose St." and have it going for 10 days on a daily basis. I am not giving any more info right now so you guys can play the guess game ;)
What I can say is that it's undeniably Pulp and you are going to love it :)
"Lombrose St." and "9 Lombrose St." © 2008 Francesco Francavilla
Posted by Francesco Francavilla at 6:18 PM
Labels: Francesco Francavilla, Lombrose St., Pulp
2 comments:
- SRH said...
I love how you are pushing the caricature on this a bit.
- July 6, 2008 at 10:46 AM
- Francesco Francavilla said...
Thank you :D It's fun to go more exagerated on designs and anatomy sometimes ;)
- July 6, 2008 at 8:17 PM
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10 Ways to enjoy a vacation to to New York City
1. Ensure your traveling companion has these qualities. Mine was/is the easiest person to travel with… (THANK YOU Permaguilt for a wonderful time!)
- Flexible, but not a pushover
- Interested AND interesting
- High energy but not high maintenance
- Fun, funny and friendly
- Gracious and appreciative
- Similar tastes in food, drinks, shows and sites
- Heart of gold with a little bit of the devilish mixed in
- Fabulous
2. Stop to appreciate the buskers and street art, good or bad. We saw:
- The Meedles – A Beetles cover band performing in Time Square Station. Their homely appearance and blank expressions belied their talent and how much fun it was to listen to them
- Preachers in Time Square – At one point we came upon several black men dressed in black knight outfits claiming to be the real Hebrews, the REAL Jews. Two young Jewish boys were getting really bent out of shape and were sucked into their game. You can't pay for that sort of entertainment
- Comedians – Lots of guys trying to sell us comedy show tickets but when we asked them to give us a sample of something funny they couldn't. Another dude walked up to us and had a great personality, told us a few corny jokes and we game him some of our money.
- Subway musicians – We came upon a few musicians in the subway, a mariachi band, a guitar player rock star wannabe
- Dancers – We happened upon some street dancers – so-so in talent. They were having a blast as were the passers-by. Watching people enjoy themselves is half the fun anyway.
3. Explore the food
- I won't detail all the places we ate, but the point is we were willing to go out and explore bars, cafes, and restaurants. Our rule was no chain food and no food we could get back home.
- You must try at least one street dog.
- If you're going to eat pizza, make sure it's an authentic New York pizza place…"the kind that doesn't sell slices." John's Pizza in the Village is THE place in my opinion, but we also enjoyed Bleeker St Pizza last time.
- A few places had the "community table" set-up which I hadn't seen before. It's one big table where conversation among patrons is encouraged.
4. See Shows: Here's what we saw
- Priscilla Queen Of The Desert – You can read about the play and my performance HERE
- How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying–
This is a revival of an old classic musical. The night we were there, one of the supporting cast members fell into the orchestra pit while doing a handstand in one of the dance numbers. You gotta love live theater! He was OK and made it onstage for the next number. Nick Jonas also did surprisingly well as the lead. I've seen Daniel Radcliffe's Tony Award performance from the show on YouTube and Jonas sings remarkably better. He certainly dances and acts just as well too. The musical doesn't try to be anything other than what it is. It's a fun, feel-good show with some amazing dancing.
- Jersey Boys – I didn't consciously intend to only see shows with hot men in them, but Jersey Boys certainly gave us the hat trick of shows with hot male singers. The musical is the true story of the rise of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons with a surprise appearance by the young Joe Pesci. If you love their music, and I do, this show will be a thrill. I loved every second of the acting and singing. I've also seen videos of the original cast of this show and I believe the current cast is better, tougher looking, and sound truer to the original singers. If you don't like musicals where actors spontaneously break out into song in the middle of a conversation, this would be the musical to see. This doesn't happen in this show but the songs are performed in context. The staging and book of this work of theatrical art are amazing.
- Rent – This show is now Off-Broadway and we'd never seen it before so it was on our list. I have dear friends whom I respect for their talent and taste who love this show. We didn't. I know there's a big difference between Broadway and Off, so there's some accounting for that, but I didn't appreciate the music or even the story line. I think if you're going to have a rock opera like that you need to at least make some of the "dialogue" in melodic tones but is was all so dissonant and dark. I think I missed the whole Gen X theme as well. It just didn't resonate with me. I do love one song from the show, Seasons of Love. I might have liked it slightly better to see Neil Patrick Harris in the leading role as Mark. Our Mark wasn't very good. Fortunately we only paid $20 each for our ticket on the 20at20 discount.
5. Visit The High line and Central Park
One of the best things about any city is the natural space reserved for recreation. I spent more time outside and in parks when I lived downtown than I ever did in the suburbs.
Central Park is well known, but not everyone realizes how vast and beautiful it is. A walk through the park at any season is a must. On our first night in the city we met a young friendly guy at a bar who advised us to go walk the High line in Chelsea.
The High Line is a public park completed in 2009 on an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan's West Side. I'd never heard of it before, but he said it was his favorite place so we took the walk. We loved it. It's a great way to see some of the architecture from a different angle, to enjoy views of the river and to people watch.
6. People watch and have random conversations
- Cute NYC policemen
- Dark curly haired jewish men wearing yarmulkes
- Spot your celebrities. We saw: Malcom Gladwell, Gayle (Oprah's friend), cast of Gossip Girl filming in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Chat with the other people waiting in lines.
7. See some of the serious stuff too
- 9/11 memorial – Saw this for the first time. It's an appropriately beautiful and dramatic memorial.
- Bodies Exhibit – This has traveled around but I missed it when it was in my city. I loved it. Talk to the docents! They know their stuff. One guy chatted with us for about 15 minutes on the nuances and effects that smoking vs. smoking weed have on your brain.
- Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island – We didn't go this time but I've been before. They're worth it.
8. Discounts
- TKTS Booth – Most people know about the booth for same day discount tickets in Time Square, but there's also one downtown with shorter lines and you can get next day matinee tickets there too!
- 20at20 – Beginning Wednesday, January 18th, and running through Monday, February 6th, tickets for all off-Broadway 20at20 shows were only $20 each.
- Kids Night on Broadway – On Kids' Night on Broadway, young people age 6-18 can see a participating Broadway show for free when accompanied by a full-paying adult. I didn't participate in this obviously, but I might next year.
- My flight was paid from my Reward Miles from all the traveling I do with work.
- Our apartment in NYC was FREE! It was a Home Exchange. The owner stayed in my home in CA while we stay in hers in NY. This literally saved us thousands of dollars.
- In the end the entire trip cost me food and show tickets. That's it!
9. Architecture
Enjoy the man-made beauty everywhere even in the most unlikely of places!
At one point we were eating lunch in a restaurant, Foleys, I think it was called. It was a converted men's club and when I visited the restroom it was amazing!
10. Roll with the punches
- We tried to get in to see Saturday Night Live but were unsuccessful. We didn't let it ruin our day even though we had gotten up at 5 in the morning to stand in line.
- We got stuck on the subway on Sunday trying to go downtown to the TKTS booth. There were certain subway lines that were closed and I wish I could explain what happened but I know we ended up in Brooklyn at one point. Finally we just walked out and took a cab.
- When we finally got to the TKTS booth downtown it was closed on Sunday. Make a note.
- There's always a coffee shop or a restaurant nearby where you can pop in and warm up or cool off and develop a plan B.


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SALEM, Ore. - The Oregon Office of Emergency Management is scheduled to participate in the 2013 Oregon State Fair with a new display and giveaways, Aug. 26-27, located at the northeast corner of Columbia Hall across from Familyville and garden displays. Demonstrations will highlight the agency's capabilities as well as the importance of emergency preparedness. The Office of Emergency Management is scheduled to give away 80 custom emergency kits and OEM mascot "Buzzy the Bee" will be in attendance along with other activities for children.
OEM is also scheduled to operate an amateur radio station at the fair from the Office of Emergency Management Continuity of Operations Communications Support trailer.
"Our goal is to demonstrate how amateur radio provides backup communications in the event of a disaster to support communication in Oregon," said Fred Molesworth, communications officer for OEM. "Amateur Radio is a key resource we'll rely on in an emergency and we're always looking for volunteers who enjoy what they do to support the state."
Molesworth said his group has received a special callsign from the Federal Communications Commission, and will be operating on air as amateur radio station W7F along with the normal callsign W7OEM. Callsigns such as these are known as "1x1" calls. They are very unusual and will attract attention on the air, he added.
"The group hopes to contact as many other stations as possible across the country and around the world during the two-day period," explained Molesworth.
Along with giveaways and information on how to create emergency preparedness kits there will also be information on the State 9-1-1 program that OEM manages. The State 9-1-1 Program's primary mission is to ensure seamless operation of the statewide Enhanced 9-1-1 system. The program is responsible for the continual coordination and management of the network necessary to deliver 9-1-1 calls, as well as consulting and assisting local governments with the challenges faced in the statewide enhanced 9-1-1 emergency reporting system.
Activities and giveaways will be catered to educate children about the importance of 9-1-1, said Section Director, Technology & Response Services State 9-1-1 Program Director Mark Tennyson.
"Having this display at the Fair is a great opportunity to provide public education on 9-1-1; especially to kids," Tennyson stated. "We are excited to have demonstrations and giveaways that will highlight our program at the fair this year."
You can enter to win an emergency kit prior to the Oregon State Fair by going to the following link and following the instructions: https://www.facebook.com/events/315824881896730/?ref=22.
OEM is encouraging families to attend the display to learn about emergency management while having a great time at the Oregon State Fair! For more information contact the OEM public information office at (503) 378-2911 x22283. Learn more about the Oregon State Fair by visiting www.oregonstatefair.org.
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In this vlog, I talk about a failure of communication that happened at a job fair that our agency put up. As a result of this experience, a goal that I set out to do when I was younger came rushing into my memories.
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Our School
Welcome to Heaton Normal Intermediate School.
At our school we strive to provide the best possible education for your child. We want all our students to achieve to a high level and to leave our intermediate equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for success, not only at the next stage of their formal education but also as lifelong learners.
Early adolescence is a unique and special time of immense physical, intellectual, emotional and social development. These changes create specific needs and challenges that are significantly different from the needs of younger children or older adolescents. Our teachers are specialists at working with students in their early adolescence. The whole operation of our school is geared to meet the needs of this age group.
In particular, early adolescents enjoy learning about what is important and meaningful to them in an environment where they have some choice and a real say in what and how they learn. There also remains an emphasis on developing skills to a high level in literacy and numeracy.
Our school is strongly based on the values of respect, responsibility and care for others. We want every student to thrive in an environment where there is real emphasis on supportive, caring and encouraging relationships.
We thoroughly enjoy having the opportunity to include international students in our school community. We believe all our students benefit by learning and developing alongside students from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds. Students in our school achieve outstanding results in academic subjects, sport and music. We have highly qualified and experienced teachers who have high expectations for all our students and work very hard to ensure every student achieves to the highest possible level.
We are a Normal School, which means we have a special role in supporting preservice teacher training providers, the College of Education at the University of Canterbury and the New Zealand Graduate School of Education (NZGSE). The term "normal school" originated in the early 19th century from the French, École Normale which was a model school that demonstrated exemplary teaching in order to model excellent teaching practice for trainee teachers.
You are most welcome to come and talk to me at any time and to see our school in action.
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Graffiti Prevention & Removal
During the past several years, the city has seen a growing number of vandalism reports involving graffiti. Research shows that the sooner graffiti is removed, the less chance there is of the graffiti returning.
City Code 130.11 states that property owners whose property has been vandalized by graffiti will need to remove the graffiti within 10 calendar days of receiving notice from the city. If it is not removed within 10 days, the city will remove the graffiti, and the property owner will be responsible for reimbursing the city for its actual cost. Prior to removal by the city, the property owner may submit a written request for a hearing before the City Council to show cause why the graffiti should not be removed.
Graffiti Prevention Tips
- Leave outside lights on from dawn until dusk.
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SAN DIEGO, Texas - Maria De Jesus Garcia, 89, of Odem, Texas, passed away Wednesday, May 30, 2007. She was preceded in death by her parents, Rosalio and Jesus Camario; her husband, Felipe Garcia on May 24, 2007; two brothers, Guadalupe and Rosalio Camario; four sisters, Sabitas Juarez, Manuela Gonzalez, Olivia Hernandez and Catarina Pena; and a son-in-law.
Survivors include seven sons, Jesse (Loria) Garcia of Mathis, Texas, Jose Luis (Eloisa) Garcia, Felipe (Jesusita) Garcia Jr. and Abdon (Kalay) Garcia of Orange Grove, Texas, Adolfo (Elena) Garcia of Mathis Texas, Adalberto (Maria) Garcia of Ingleside, Texas, and Ramon (Esther) Garcia of Sandia, Texas; two daughters, Felicitas Garcia and Natalia (Silverio) Acevedo of Odem, Texas; one brother, Benito Camario of San Diego, Texas; one sister, Benita (Placido) Gonzalez of Kingsville, Texas; 38 grandchildren, 102 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 31, 2007 with a Rosary recited at 7 p.m. that evening at Ruben M. Garcia and Sons Funeral Services. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, June 1, 2007 at St. Francis De Paula Catholic Chrurch in San Diego, Texas. Interment will follow at San Diego Cemetery.
Arrangements entrusted to Ruben M. Garcia and Sons Funeral Services, Inc.
DUBLIN, Texas - William Thomas '"Bill" Huber Jr., 79, a retired crib manager for Egs Appleton, passed away Tuesday, May 29, 2007 in Dublin, Texas.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret 'Peggy� Huber; his sons, William, Timothy and Gerald Huber; his daughters, Sharran Lusby, Dorothy Nichols, Margaret Burgan and Helen Isom; 25 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren; his son-in-law, David Johnson; and a host of other relatives and friends who will miss him dearly.
A Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 31, 2007 at Harrell Funeral Home in Dublin. Funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, June 1, 2007, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Dublin with burial following in the Erath Gardens of Memory.
Arrangements entrusted to Harrell Funeral Home of Dublin, Texas.
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FALFURRIAS, Texas - Margarita "Margaret" Olinda Ramon, 60, passed away at a Corpus Christi hospital on May 29, 2007.
Survivors include a daughter, Tricia S. Cruz of Corpus Christi, Texas; three brothers, Leopoldo Ramon and Oscar (Alicia) Ramon, both of Falfurrias, Texas, and Leonel (Consuela) Ramon of Orange Grove, Texas; two sisters, Belia (Raul) Flores and Mary Ann Ramon Hinojosa, both of Corpus Christi; and numerous nieces and nephews
A memorial Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Friday, June 1, 2007 at Alaniz Funeral Home in Falfurrias. Inurnment of the cremains will be on Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 11 a.m. in the Premont Cemetery, Premont, Texas.
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(Continued from part 1. Note that FalconStore disputes Sandorfi's views on its technology and its rebuttal can be seen here.)
TW: What about performance?
MIKI SANDORFI: As the amount of data protected increases, customers need performance to increase concurrently to ensure that there is enough bandwidth available for backing up and restoring. Since data-duplication is complex and often compute-intensive, it can have a major impact on backup and restore performance.
Since hash-based algorithms are generating hashes in real time, the process is fundamentally compute-intensive. The hash generation and lookup processes create substantial environmental overhead and slow performance ignificantly.
The only way to solve these problems in a hash-based environment is to add more systems. As mentioned above, this creates complexity and reduces the overall de-duplication ratio. This inline approach relies on the hash table to maintain pointers to existing data. The hash table is initially populated with the first backups. Subsequent backups add new data to the table and include pointers to existing data.
The data stored from a given backup includes pointers to data from previous backups. It is important to note these pointers can point to backup all over the disk (e.g., it typically includes pointers to the first backup, to the backup on the previous night and to everything in between.) When a restore is requested, the de-duplication technology must recreate the data by following the various pointers.
However, the algorithm has fragmented the backup data all over the disk so to restore data it has to rebuild that data and, in the process, performance is slowed down significantly. This impact is also seen when performing tape copy operations. Tape copy can be a major challenge with real-time data de-duplication algorithms because restore performance is at least as important as backup performance.
FalconStor highlights an ability to cluster its SIR engines. Note that its de-duplication occurs inside an entirely separate environment then its VTL - requiring separate servers and storage that must be managed separately.
FalconStor highlights its ability to add up to two SIR engines to provide additional de-duplication performance. Of course, since each is a separate managed entity this adds substantially to system management overhead.
The ContentAware algorithm as implemented by SEPATON is designed for scalability. Unlike the other approaches, the algorithm is designed to natively support clustering. Each time you add a node to the cluster, the SEPATON system adds processing and disk I/O resources to enable increased de-duplication performance. The SEPATON solution also performs de-duplication out of-band so that the native backup performance is not affected. As a result, the SEPATON approach can deliver wire speed Fibre Channel performance while delivering industry leading de-duplication performance and scalability.
SEPATON's content-aware algorithm is not susceptible to the restore performance degradation problems of hashing algorithms. Hashing algorithms use the first backup as a key source of data for populating the lookup data. This causes them to fragment data all over the disks. They point backward to earlier backups.
In contrast, the SEPATON solution uses the most recent backup as the primary source of data. Its pointers point forward to the newest backup. As a result, the SEPATON solution always provides the fastest restores for the most recently backed-up data (which is typically the most business-critical data for backup.)
TW: There is a wide range of de-duplication ratios put out by suppliers. What is your take on this topic?
MIKI SANDORFI: A variety of factors influence the capacity reduction or data de-duplication ratios. These factors include backup schemas, data types, data change rates and many other factors. While these are inevitable and will influence all data de-duplication methodologies, there are inherent differences in the various approaches that will result in differing ratios. The primary issue is how efficient a de-duplication methodology is or how efficiently the algorithm finds and removes redundancies. In all cases, there is a trade off between de-duplication granularity and performance, and different algorithms take different approaches to balance these two requirements.
With hash-based algorithms de-duplication products do not balance de-duplication ratio and performance well. The issue is that the smaller and more granular the hashes, the better the de-duplication ratio but the greater the performance and the larger the hash lookup table.
Another factor that affects all inline de-duplication ratios is the difficulty in understanding where files and other data objects begin and end. This is simple for technologies that look at data on a file system level, but very complex for technologies that look at data on a byte stream level. In the latter case, the application is seeing a string of streaming bytes and must deduce breakpoints. If the algorithm is incorrect, it will negatively affect de-duplication ratios.
Unlike full backups where the data is always in a consistent order and much of it is unchanged, identifying breakpoints is particularly complex for incremental backups where data is in an inconsistent order. In practice, these de-duplication solutions will always have a dramatically better de-duplication ratio when performing full backups versus incremental backups. This factor can be a major point of differentiation in incremental-only environments such as TSM where full backups happen only once.
FalconStor's use of a hybrid content-aware and hash approaches may improve on the limitations of traditional pure hash-based approaches. However, it still has the challenge of how small the block of data being hashed is and this will have a dramatic impact on both de-dupe performance and de-dupe ratios.
Unlike the hash-based and byte-level algorithms, which effectively guess at the data breakpoints, the content-aware approach natively includes and understands both files and breakpoints, eliminating the guesswork of where a file ends and/or begins or the redundancy (or lack thereof) of a given data set. All of this information is contained within with content-aware database.
The content-aware model intelligently analyzes the relationships between files and understands what files are likely to be redundant before it compares the two files. This additional intelligence enables the content-aware approach to balance performance and granularity with unparalleled efficiency. Since the algorithm knows which files are likely to be redundant it can de-duplicate those files more aggressively while avoiding unnecessarily processing new files.
The other key point is that the content-aware approach is equally efficient for incremental and full backups. Since the technology looks at the object, the order of the backups or finding breakpoints is irrelevant. A given file has the same metadata and path regardless, of whether it is backed up in a full or incremental backup.
Since the content-aware technology has more intelligence around the content of backup data, it can support sophisticated configuration rules that enables the customer to tune the algorithm to their environment. For example, customers can configure the solution to handle designated data types, data from certain servers, and data from certain policies or exclude specific data formats.
TW: Do you think the EMC/Avamar approach of claiming an up to 50:1 de-dupe ration through running a second de-dupe round at the datacentre on remote/branch office de-duped backups consolidated to the datacentre is worthwhile or not?
MIKI SANDORFI: It would depend on the customer's data. If the customer has duplicate data spread across many sites, it would be of value. If not, it adds little value. Higher ratios would be achieved where backups of operating system files (Windows, Linux) are routinely backed up since they are the same across all sites. Of course, the second round of de-dupe requires additional resources (compute, network etc.)
TW: How realistic is it to compare de-dupe ratios between different vendors products? Is an apple-to-apples comparison even remotely possible?
MIKI SANDORFI: Absolutely. From the customer's perspective, they can retain more data online in a given amount of underlying physical disk. How much more is very measurable and results in the de-dupe ratio. SEPATON's DeltaStor graphical user interface supplies this information for the system overall as well as for each and every backup job and is available after the second backup.
TW: Should customers ask vendors to run a sample customer-supplied file set to be de-duped through their products to arrive at a valid de-dupe ratio for the customer's specific requirements?
MIKI SANDORFI: Since the achievable de-dupe ratio is highly dependent on the customer's backup policies and data sets, the customer should absolutely ask for a representative sample set to be run by the vendor. Unfortunately, this is not usually practical for vendors using hash-based approaches since the optimal de-dupe ratio is not achieved for weeks or months. An advantage to the ContentAware approach is that de-dupe ratios are demonstrable after the second backup is processed.
TW: Could you provide an overview of Sepaton's OEM relationships please?
MIKI SANDORFI: HP OEMs SEPATON's VTL software which it integrates with its choice of servers and storage for its 6XXX and VLS 300 families of virtual tape libraries. The OEM relationship was announced in May of 2005 (see here).
TW: Could you provide your view of the role tape media should play in data storage please?
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Innovation and Craft: A Trans-Atlantic Theory of Poetry
"Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock"-Emerson
Dichotomies are often false but useful. Contemplating the similarities and differences between British and American poetry, having steeped myself in both for some time now, I have been slicing my experiences as a reader along two axes: innovation and craft.
Ancestors to the word "craft" come from Germanic languages and originally had to do with "strength, force, power, virtue", making the transition to mean skill in art or occupation exclusively in English. To "innovate" comes from Latin and French and has always meant, as Ezra Pound would assert, "Make it new!".
To better define the effects of innovation and craft on readers of poetry, here are some comparisons:
|Reassures us with skill
|Disorients us with newness
|Builds trust
|Generates excitement
|Pleases the senses
|Delights the mind
|Refers to convention
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Monday, thirty-two people were killed by a gunman on the campus of Virginia Tech. I started writing this Tuesday morning — waiting for the conservative argument I knew was coming. By the time I got home Tuesday afternoon, Digby had already spotted it.
We live in an era when public high schools and colleges have all but banned God from science classes. In these classrooms, students are taught that the whole universe, including plants and animals—and humans—arose by natural processes. Naturalism (in essence, atheism) has become the religion of the day and has become the foundation of the education system (and Western culture as a whole). The more such a philosophy permeates the culture, the more we would expect to see a sense of purposelessness and hopelessness that pervades people's thinking. In fact, the more a culture allows the killing of the unborn, the more we will see people treating life in general as "cheap."
I'm not at all saying that the person who committed these murders at Virginia Tech was driven by a belief in millions of years or evolution. I don't know why this person did what he did, except the obvious: that it was a result of sin.
Previously, in the wake of Columbine, this same nutbar had this to say.
The more the foundation for Christian morality was attacked and removed, and the more students were taught there were no absolutes, the more their world-view reflected this change.
These are ingredients for powerful 'bombs' to explode, resulting in hatred of Christians and the devaluing of human life, leading to killing one's fellow man and suicide. Now it's not that a student wakes up one morning and says, 'There's no God, and I'm just an evolved animal, so there's nothing wrong with killing students and teachers.' The longer that generations of young people grow up in a culture whose education system is devoid of Christianity and pervaded by evolutionary philosophy, the more possible that an increasingly large subset of these students will eventually act out in accord with the foundation they've been given for their understanding of life. It is not just the schools that are giving the ingredients for 'bombs' to the students.
Remember John Walker Lindh? He's the kid for California who turned up in the trenches in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban. According to these same wingnuts, Mr. Lindh was so morally confused in our "permissive" liberal culture, that he couldn't tell the difference between dirty hippies engaging in bacchanalian orgies of "free love," and Islamic fundamentalists who whip women for showing bare skin on their forearms.
Make no mistake, the above analysis scapegoating "liberals" and their "moral relativism" is coming. Forget the "gun control" argument. No university campus is going to even think about allowing its students to pack heat on campus — especially now. Meanwhile, making this tragedy an opportunity to advance the "culture war" will not be missed. Conservatives are constantly braying about the "filth" coming out of "liberal" Hollywood, undermining the virtues of patriotic Americans. Why it's just one continuous stream of sex, violence, and profanity poisoning the minds of our children — who then go to school and receive a healthy dose of moral ambiguity from their secular nihilist school teachers. No one is being taught a "clear difference between right and wrong." Instead, the "liberal media" is poisoning our minds with messages of licentious self-indulgence. The "liberals," of course, are behind it all.
This conservative narrative of the root of "evil" in American society is so convoluded, one scarcely knows where to begin. I will start with a simple observation about the basic relationship between Hollywood and the government. There is barely any relationship at all. The entertainment industry is practically unregulated. Even such systems as ratings for movies, music, and video games, are imposed by the media on itself.
Conservatives overlook another interesting fact about the entertainment business. It is pure "free market" capitalism. All that morally bankrupt nihilism on the silver screen is bought and paid for by the movie going public. It is nothing more than supply and demand in action. Hollywood teen sex and slasher movies are produced for one simple reason. That's what people want to watch. As for television, conservatives never seem to get around to asking who pays for it. Jerry Bruckheimer doesn't get grants from the National Endowment For The Humanities. Neither is George Soros subsidizing the daily output of shit-coms, cop shows and "reality TV." Every bit of that schlock is financed by American corporations like Ford Motor Company and Coca-Cola — not to mention all the Insurance Companies, oh and Wall Street brokerages who run 12 minutes of commercials for every hour of electrical shit beamed into your living room.
But wait, forget the shows. What is the content of the commercials? Right now, the Arby's fast food chain has a commercial the gyst of which is that a couple of zookeepers allowed all the zoo animals to escape. Why? They were so engrossed over a fucking fast food sandwich, that they lost all ability to behave responsibly. That is fairly representative example of the constant message from corporate television advertising, namely, "indulge yourself by buying our shit." If it weren't for sex and self-indulgence, Madison Avenue would go out of business. Madison Avenue has one overriding desire when deciding where to place its commercials, namely how many eyeballs will see it. If they choose such culturally enlightening outlets for their commercials as the Jerry Springer Show it is simply because lots and lots of Americans like watching that kind of crap. Whatever moral bankruptcy you find in entertainment, it is bought and paid for by capitalists in their never ending quest for customers.
The moral bankruptcy of corporate capitalism doesn't end there. Indeed, it is fair to say that moral bankruptcy is inherent in the corporate form of doing business. Here, listen to Milton Friedman, who explains the be all and end all of the business corporation.
The discussions of the "social responsibilities of business" are notable for their analytical looseness and lack of rigor. What does it mean to say that "business" has responsibilities? Only people can have responsibilities. A corporation is an artificial person and in this sense may have artificial responsibilities, but "business" as a whole cannot be said to have responsibilities, even in this vague sense.
He goes on to patiently explain that corporations exist to "maximize profit." That is all they exist to do. That mandate translates into maximizing the selling price for whatever goods or services command the biggest market. It then translates into avoiding and reducing costs anyway possible. Scrubbers on the smokestacks cost money. So does cleaning up toxic waste dumps. So does providing healthcare benefits and old age pensions to your workforce. So does paying them a living wage, when coulees can be found in the third world. So does promoting "democracy" in those third world cheap labor cesspools, when local authoritarians will keep the coulees suitably intimidated. That's why Nike paid 25 cents an hour for Indonesian workers — kept from organizing by Indonesian government goons. That's why rightwing hoodlums in Colombia recently went on a campaign of murder directed at labor organizers in Columbia. Who was the beneficiary of this violence? Why, Coca-Cola, that's who — the same Coca-Cola whose contribution to American culture is sponsorship of American Idol.
When you add the power of the US government to corporate profit maximizing overseas, that's when the bloodshed gets really serious. Coca-Cola paid goons might kill a few dozen union organizers in Bogata, but it takes US government backing to kill 50,000 people in Chile [on behalf of Anaconda Copper], or 100,000 people in Guatemala [on behalf of United Fruit Company], or 2,000,000 people in Southeast Asia. All of that mayhem was supported in order to make the third world safe for American corporations to extract the mineral wealth, clear cut the forests, keep the work force chained to the oars, and keep the markets open to sell the locals lots of tennis shoes, Coke, electronic gadgets, and the Hollywood movies and CD's to play on them. That is the corporate imperialism and cultural pollution that regimes from the fundamentalist Taliban, to the communists in Cuba are trying to save their countries from. According to the conservative "clear sense of right and wrong," corporate imperialism including spreading that cultural pollution is "good." Any regime that resists it is "evil."
As for us liberals, we're the one's who complain about the amoral predation on the part of corporate America. We're the one's who say that companies ought to pay their workers a living wage. We're the one's who say that air and water pollution are moral concerns, and that corporate polluters ought to take responsibility to clean up their own mess. We're the one's who say that investing twenty or thirty years of your time and energy in a company ought to entitle you to health care and a retirement pension. We're the one's who say that marketing high trans fat, sugar laden, hydrogenated, processed shit to children using cute puppets or cartoon characters isn't good business, it's morally reprehensible. We're the one's who hold our government to the same human rights standards overseas that our constitution supposedly guarantees us here at home. Conservatives respond to these real moral concerns over the conduct of business corporations and their US government enablers by calling us — get this — "sanctimonious." This from the same crew who call us "nihilists" because we have no "clear sense of right and wrong."
So, if you're are looking for the source of "moral confusion" that might lead a young man to commit barbarous acts, don't look at us progressives. Brutality in the third world happens everyday — courtesy of US supported hoodlums, if not elements of our own military at places like Abu Ghraib. As for the cultural violence churned out of Hollywood, it's all brought to you by the same corporate sponsors whose profits are fairly drenched in human blood. They're the one's in desperate need of a "clear sense of right and wrong." If the Virginia Tech shooter learned his moral lessons from anyone, he studied at their feet, not ours.


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U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has held talks with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan and other officials amid renewed efforts aimed at finding a negotiated solution to the 17-year war in Afghanistan.
The Pakistani government released few details about Khan's talks with Khalilzad, saying only that he reaffirmed Islamabad's 'commitment to facilitate the peace process in Afghanistan.'
In a statement, it said Khalilzad briefed Khan 'on his recent visits to the region to muster support for the Afghan reconciliation process.'
Khalilzad also held talks with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
Washington has been pressing Pakistan to use its leverage to convince the Taliban to meet with U.S. and Afghan officials.
Islamabad says its influence on the Taliban is overstated but it will do whatever is possible for peace.
On his previous trips to the region, Khalilzad met with Taliban envoys in their Mideast headquarters in Qatar.
On January 17, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called Khan to discuss how to advance the peace process.
Taliban representatives said this week that Islamabad was pressuring its leaders to accept talks with the Afghan government, detaining a senior leader in the city of Peshawar before releasing him a few days later.
Taliban envoys have met with Khalilzad on at least three occasions but have repeatedly refused to talk directly to the internationally recognized Afghan government, which they view as a puppet of Washington.
Based on reporting by AP and Reuters
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London Waterloo East (WAE)
Managed by Southeastern
Station facilities
Station seating facilities
Note Coffee shops
ATM machine
Toilets Platform B and C
Pay phone
Pay phone Cards and Coins
Post box
Tourist information office
Shops newspapers
London Waterloo East
Stations made easy
Route planning around the station including maps and platforms
Getting to and from the station
- Car Park
- No
- Onward travel information
Information to plan your onward journey is available in a printable format here
- Accessible taxis
Accessible Black Cabs are available from the taxi rank adjacent to the Cab Road exit from Waterloo Main station.
- Impaired mobility set down / pick up points available
- No
Ticket buying and collection
- Ticket Office
- No
- Ticket machines
- Yes
- Accessible ticket machines
- There are accessible ticket machines at this station
- Accessible ticket machines note
- On overbridge from Waterloo Main station
- Collection of pre-purchased tickets
- Yes, from ticket machine
- Oystercards
- Get Oyster cards here
- No
- Top-up Oyster pay as you go here
- Yes, at ticket machine
- Use Oyster Pay as you go here
- Yes
- Smartcards
- Smartcards issued
- No
- Smartcards top-up
- Yes, at ticket office
- Smartcards validators
- Yes
Seasons, Single and Return tickets are now available digitally on The Key. To find out more or apply online, go to www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/tickets/the-key or get a smartcard from all staffed Southeastern ticket offices.
- Penalty fares
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Monday - Sunday 24 Hours a Day
Train running Information and advice on how to get assistance available through the Help Point.
- Passenger Information Systems
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- Customer help points
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- Yes
- ATM Machine
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- Pay phones
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- Pay phones type
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Public telephones are not wheelchair accessible
- Refreshment facilities
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- Coffee shops
- Shops
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- Type of shops available
- newspapers
- Toilets
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- Toilets Location
- Platform B and C
- Accessible toilets
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- Baby changing facilities
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- National key toilets location
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- Step free access coverage
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