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HM Coastguard helicopter, Isle of Portland ( photo taken by me )
HM Prison The Verne is a Category C men's prison, located in the Verne Citadel ( in Tophill ) on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England.
It operates the AgustaWestland EH101 Merlin helicopter, providing six " flights " capable of deploying with the following Type 23 frigates: HM Ships Somerset, Lancaster, Monmouth, Montrose, Westminster, Northumberland, Kent, Richmond, and Portland.

Portland and Prison
Clarke had been released from Portland Prison in October 1898 after serving fifteen and a half years, and had recently returned to Ireland after living in the United States.
Tom Clarke was released from Portland Prison in the winter of 1898.
" The Supermax facility at the Maine State Prison has been the scene of video-taped forcible extractions that Lance Tapley in the Portland Phoenix wrote " look like torture.
In Portland Prison, Devoy organised prison strikes and was moved to Millbank Prison.

Portland and ),
Amber conventions, known as Ambercons, are held yearly in Massachusetts, Michigan, Portland ( United States ), Milton Keynes ( England ) and Modena, Italy.
Products such as PLC ( Portland Limestone Cement ), which incorporate limestone into the mix, are being tested.
The couple lived at Dudmaston Hall, Shropshire ( where Babbage engineered the central heating system ), before moving to 5 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London.
Expansive cements contain, in addition to Portland clinker, expansive clinkers ( usually sulfoaluminate clinkers ), and are designed to offset the effects of drying shrinkage that is normally encountered with hydraulic cements.
In other standards ( e. g. ASTM ), pigments are not allowed constituents of Portland cement, and colored cements are sold as " blended hydraulic cements ".
* The Portland Collection, by Susan Songer, ( 1997 ), ISBN 0-9657476-0-3 ( Vol.
* John Nash ( basketball ), executive for several teams in the NBA, most recently General Manager of the Portland Trail Blazers
* Contributions of Philadelphia to Lewis and Clark History, Paul Russell Cutright, ( July 1982 ), Portland, Oregon: Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc., ISBN 0-9678887-0-0.
* City of Portland ( Victoria ), former Local Government Area ( LGA )
* Portland Island ( British Columbia ), a small island off the coast of Vancouver island
** Portland ( community ), Dodge County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
** Portland ( community ), Monroe County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
* City of Portland ( train ), a passenger train running between Chicago, Illinois, and Portland, Oregon
* Duke of Portland ( whaler ), an American whaling ship
* Portland ( shipwreck ), a ship sunk in the Portland Gale off New England in 1898
* Portland ( steam tug 1947 ), a preserved sternwheel tugboat based in Portland, Oregon
* Union Station ( Portland, Oregon ), the Amtrak station serving Portland, Oregon
* Portland Timbers ( disambiguation ), several different soccer teams, including this incarnation:
* Portland ( film ), a 1996 Danish film

Portland and prison
Upon his release from prison in 2002, Goad returned to Portland and was on parole for a time.
The three are the last of the Portland Seven to be sentenced ; the group of Muslim men from the Portland, Oregon area were convicted of attempting to enter Afghanistan to join the Taliban – are sentenced to prison.
For this purpose Jebb designed the prison at Portland.
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Tommy Vercetti, having just been released from prison, was dispatched to Vice City in 1986 by Sonny Forelli, who was shown inside the Forelli-run Marco's Bistro at Saint Mark's, Portland, Liberty City.
Balfour was tried at the Old Bailey and sentenced to 14 years penal servitude, most of which was served in harsh conditions in Portland prison, and he was released in 1906.
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When Kay told Rees about the money, he went to see Agar who, at the time, was in a prison hulk at Portland.
HMP Weare was a prison ship berthed in Portland Harbour in Dorset, England.
Upon closure, various locals, prison campaigners and politicians voiced relief, and the people who lived and worked near Portland Port were relieved that they would not have to deal with prisoners anymore as they left the ship.
As a result of the prison ship's closure, Les Ames, a local councillor and the mayor of Weymouth and Portland, was quoted by The Guardian in August 2005, stating " I had reservations when it first came.
When people come to Portland, the first thing they say to me is: ' Where is the prison ship?
" In the same article, Portland Port, the Home Office's landlord, had also expressed disappointment at the " political decision " to close the prison and move inmates to other jails.

Portland and for
The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.
On Friday he will go to Portland for the swearing in of Dean Bryson as Multnomah County Circuit Judge.
Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.
`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.
Mrs. Peck, later joined by the commission's vice-chairman, Mrs. Lee Patterson, took Harvey to task for comments he had made to the North Portland Rotary Club Tuesday.
Funeral for William Joseph Brett, 1926 NE 50th Ave., who died Thursday in Portland, will be Monday 1 p.m. at the Riverview Abbey.
The award is the first such honor in the 11-year history of JA activities in Portland, according to Ralph Scolatti, local executive director for Junior Achievement.
Over 400 Portland firms contributed funds for the maintenance of Junior Achievement headquarters here.
* Beyaz Arif Akbas, " Khakassia: The Lost Land ", Portland State Center for Turkish Studies, 2007
For example, when Whist became popular in 18th-century England, players in the Portland Club agreed on a set of house rules for use on its premises.
The cement, commonly Portland cement, and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, serve as a binder for the aggregate.
A method for producing Portland cement was patented by Joseph Aspdin on 1824.
In 1978, Love was arrested in Portland for shoplifting a t-shirt and was sent to Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility in Salem, Oregon, spending the following two years in and out of juvenile hall and numerous foster homes.
Carbonates are widely used in industry, e. g. in iron smelting, as a raw material for Portland cement and lime manufacture, in the composition of ceramic glazes, and more.
But in the early 1930s it was soon discovered that, while Portland cement had a faster setting time it was not as durable, especially for highways, to the point that some states stopped building highways and roads with cement.
The most common use for Portland cement is in the production of concrete.
In some cases, such as the Portland International Film Festival, there is an entry fee, but it is waived for filmmakers within a certain region, such as the Northwestern United States.
Some of his proposals were adopted, specifically the extension of the Cumberland Road into Ohio with surveys for its continuation west to St. Louis ; the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the falls of the Ohio ; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana ; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.
Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.
The city of Portland, Maine, known for its numerous nationally renowned restaurants, was ranked as Bon Appétit magazine's " America's Foodiest Small Town " in 2009.
Notable examples include Samuel Adams of the Boston Beer Company in Boston ( even though the recipe for the beer does not come from New England ); Sea Dog Brewing Company of Bangor ; Shipyard Brewing Company of Portland ; and Smuttynose Brewing Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
* Portland, Indiana, a former name for Fountain, Indiana, in Fountain County near the western border of the state

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