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An agreement allowing convicts to pass on type of locks used on prison doors.
Generally, these locks on turnouts are called `` facing point locks ''.
Different antibody idiotypes, each having distinctly formed complementarity determining regions, correspond to the various " locks " that can match " the keys " ( epitopes ) presented on the antigen molecule.
Former emphasis on presumed race, in which John A. Scott could write an article on Achaean blondness, compared to the dark locks of " Mediterranean " Poseidon, on the basis of hints in Homer, has been laid aside.
The flight of 16 consecutive locks at Caen Hill Locks | Caen Hill on the Kennet and Avon Canal, Wiltshire, England
Scotty forces Cheryl into the cellar and locks it, but his girlfriend Shelly is also possessed by a demon, which spies on her from outside her bedroom as she is changing before hurling itself at her.
Montag yells at the women to go home and reflect on their empty lives and burns the poetry book while Mildred locks herself in the bathroom to take her pills.
The locks were on a large scale, most having a change of level of.
:" I call your own kind self to witness [...] the last pages of Heart of Darkness where the interview of the man and the girl locks in — as it were — the whole 30000 words of narrative description into one suggestive view of a whole phase of life and makes of that story something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa.
However, the network of dams and locks on the Columbia River and Snake River make the city of Lewiston the farthest inland seaport on the Pacific coast of the contiguous United States.
He later worked for Joseph Bramah on the production of metal locks, and soon after he began working on his own.
* PickLock – A round post on the back base of the blade locks into a hole in a spring tab in the handle.
Of the numerous locks that were proposed, only thirteen were completed ; Locks 1 to 11 on the stretch downstream of Mildura, Lock 15 at Euston and Lock 26 at Torrumbarry.
The first locks on the river were built in 1825 at Louisville to circumnavigate the falls.
Investigators discovered incriminating evidence at his home: ammonium nitrate and blasting caps, the electric drill used to drill out the locks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter ( a 1989 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance ) and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City, on which was marked the Murrah Building and the spot where McVeigh's getaway car was hidden.
Tolls will continue to be calculated based on vessel tonnage, and will not depend on the locks used.
In 1871, locks on the Saint Lawrence allowed transit of vessels long, wide, and deep.

locks and Aire
In 1806, the Company agreed with the Aire and Calder Canal to replace the lock at Fall Ing with a new cut and a pair of locks, the work to be jointly funded.
The first improvements to the rivers above Knottingley were completed in 1704 when the Aire was made navigable to Leeds and the Calder to Wakefield, by the construction of 16 locks.
John Hadley was engaged as the engineer immediately, and by 1704 the original work was completed, including 12 locks on the Aire between Haddesley and Leeds and 4 on the Calder.
By the early 18th century, river navigations such as the Aire and Calder Navigation were becoming quite sophisticated, with pound locks and longer and longer " cuts " ( some with intermediate locks ) to avoid circuitous or difficult stretches of river.
Faced with a dilemma, the Barnsley and the Aire and Calder companies negotiated, and the result was the Barnsley Canal Transfer Act of 1871, which authorised the takeover of the canal by the Aire and Calder, the replacing of ten of the twelve Walton locks by an inclined plane, and protection of the water supply at Barugh.
The final section to Barnby, including the five locks at Barugh were abandoned under the terms of the Aire and Calder Act 1893.
The restored canal would follow the original line from the Aire and Calder Navigation to Barnsley, where a new marina would be built near to the location of Barugh locks.
By this stage, the plan was to enlarge the waterways to enable 300 or 400 ton barges to navigate, but also to make the locks suitable for compartment boat trains, as used on the Aire and Calder.

locks and Calder
The Calder and Hebble Navigation is a Broad ( i. e. with locks and bridgeholes ) inland waterway in West Yorkshire, England, which has remained navigable since it was opened.
It included the construction of 24 locks, 21 on the Calder and three on the Hebble, and nearly of cuts, including one of at Horbury.
The importance of the Calder and Hebble as a through route makes one notorious feature of the canal very significant: its short locks.
Another quirk of the Calder and Hebble locks is the handspike, a length of timber shaped at one end to provide a comfortable two-handed grip.
John Smeaton was the engineer of the Calder & Hebble which opened in 1758, and a series of eight pound locks was built to replace flash locks on the River Thames between Maidenhead and Reading, beginning in 1772.

locks and lower
Although the building of the railroads lessened the importance of the river somewhat, the lower river ( navigable as far as East Brady, Pennsylvania through locks ) has continued to serve as route of commercial transportation until the present day.
The original plans called for the dam to employ a unique method for moving ships ; the ships would move into locks located at the lower and upper ends of the dam and then cranes with cables would move the ships from one lock to the next.
In 1893 the section from Swafield locks to Antingham was abandoned, and the lower section was damaged by flooding in 1912.
For instance, Union Mills featured a two-and-a-half-mile long canal and towpath, and one upper and two massive lower locks, all directly upon the river.
Breath work and the application of bhandas ( 3 yogic locks ) aid to release, direct and control the flow of Kundalini energy from the lower centers to the higher energetic centers.
Above the locks, a section at Burton was drained because of problems with leakage, and a pipe replaced the canal, so that the water supply to the lower canal was maintained.
Traditionally the guillotines were manually operated by turning a large wheel some 150 times to raise or lower the gate ; since the locks have to be left empty this operation will always have to be done twice to pass through.
The lower section, from Sandplace to Looe, would use locks and be larger, so that barges used on the river could bring limestone to some proposed limekilns.
Once he had picked the locks on the lower pairs of handcuffs, the upper pair could simply be slipped off.
There are 45 locks, including 36 conventional locks, two sets of flight locks, hydraulic lift locks at Peterborough and Kirkfield, and a marine railway at Big Chute which transports boats between the upper and lower sections of the Severn.
To prevent outbound passengers from consuming meals intended for return passengers, locks needed to be installed on the lower compartment that could only be opened by cabin staff during the aircraft's turnaround at the destination airport ( although these were not always effective at deterring determined passengers ).
The Soo Locks ( sometimes spelled Sault Locks, but pronounced " soo ") are a set of parallel locks which enable ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
Although at least two flash locks were built, including one to assist passage past the mill at Broxbourne, there was still friction between the bargemen and the millers, since the use of a flash lock tended to lower the water level above it, to the detriment of the mill.
The removal of boulders and snags on the lower river in the 1840s allowed navigation, which was extended upriver after the construction of locks and dams starting in 1875.
The summit level was cut lower than the original plans, so that no locks would be required, but this greatly increased the amount of earthworks required.
Most insurers charge a lower premium if it appears less likely the home will be damaged or destroyed: for example, if the house is situated next to a fire station or is equipped with fire sprinklers and fire alarms ; if the house exhibits wind mitigation measures, such as hurricane shutters ; or if the house has a security system and has insurer-approved locks installed.
In effect the five-rise consists of five locks connected together without intermediate " ponds ": the lower gate of each chamber forms the upper gate of the chamber below.
Initially, nine locks were used in a temporary arrangement to lower and raise the canal for the crossing of the River Great Ouse at Wolverton at the river's water level.
The canal has nine one-chamber canal locks on the Volga slope, which can raise ships 88 m, and four canal locks of the same kind on the Don slope, which can lower ships 44 m. The overall dimensions of the canal locks are smaller than of those on the Volga River, however they can pass ships of up to 5, 000 tonnes cargo capacity.

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