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Israeli troops kill one more Palestinian on Gaza border
A Palestinian activist walks away from a tear gas grenade fired by Israeli security forces in Beit Sahur on Thursday. Agence France-Presse
Israel's military said soldiers opened fire on Thursday on a Palestinian near the Gaza border fence, and the Hamas group said one of its fighters was killed.
The last round of violence in the Gaza Strip and neighbouring southern Israel was in May, with hundreds of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes over three days.
The health ministry in Gaza, an enclave run by Hamas, said a 28-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed in Thursday's incident near Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the territory.
An Israeli military spokesman said troops observed two gunmen approaching the Israeli-built security fence and "fired in order to drive them away."
In a statement, Hamas's armed wing said Israeli forces deliberately targeted a fighter "on duty" near the border.
"The occupation bears responsibility for the consequences of such a criminal act," it said, referring to Israel.
But tensions have remained high, with Hamas accusing Israel of failing to abide by the terms - never publicly confirmed by Israeli leaders - of a truce deal to ease a blockade of Gaza.
Incendiary balloons launched from Gaza have continued to spark fires in southern Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - who is running in a September election - held out the prospect on Thursday of Israeli military action.
"We are preparing for a campaign that will be broad and also surprising," he said in Ashkelon, a southern Israeli city that has been a target of Hamas rocket attacks.
On Sunday, an 89-year-old Israeli woman, hurt while running for shelter during the fighting in May, died of her injuries, Israeli health authorities said.
Rockets and missiles fired from Gaza killed four other Israelis during those hostilities. Gaza health officials put the number of Palestinian dead at 21, saying more than half of them were civilians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday not to dismantle even the remotest settlement in the West Bank, in a message to settlers ahead of September's general election.
Israeli media had speculated that after US President Donald Trump handed Netanyahu valuable political prizes by recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital and its annexation of the Golan Heights, Trump might expect concessions in return when he finally unveils his long-awaited proposals for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
"We shall not allow the dismantling of any settlement in any peace plan," Netanyahu told an audience at the settlement of Revava in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
"I also make no distinction between the settlement blocs and isolated settlement sites," he said in Hebrew.
"Every such spot is Israeli from my point of view." The Palestinian leadership has already rejected the US peace plan, saying that Trump's moves so far show him to be blatantly biased in favour of Israel.
Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Israeli settlements are viewed as illegal under international law and major obstacles to peace since they are located on land the Palestinians see as part of their future state.
The settlers are a major plank of support for Netanyahu's right-wing government and his bid for re-election.
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"To take us from the house is like taking my heart from my body," one of the Palestinian residents, Ali Siyam, 20, said.
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SHEFFIELD BUSES, TRAMS & TRAINS
Sheffield to Manchester via Castleton.
By boginspro, September 21, 2017 in SHEFFIELD BUSES, TRAMS & TRAINS
I have just come across this photo' of a North Western prewar Tilling Stevens on the Sheffield to Manchester via Castleton route. What a great route, up and down Mam Tor must have been great fun in one of these.
In view of the route I am guessing that this is in front of the LMS station but not sure, can anyone confirm where it is please? -------------------- (c) https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmightycat/36589607802/sizes/l
Waterside Echo 13
Location:Lowedges Sheffield
Midland Station approach c1930. Courtesy Chas. C Hall.
Thank you WE, very interesting vehicles in that photo', what information is there about these buses please?
53 minutes ago, boginspro said:
Front to rear, L.M.S. coach No. 51F a A.E.C. is bound for Bakewell. Sheffield Corporation bus No. 118 on route 20 to Manchester via Snake Pass. This was a 1926 Guy fitted with 30 seat Guy dual door bodywork. At the rear is L.M.S. coach. 53F another A.E.C. bound for Doncaster. This was one of the coaches that worked the Sheffield to Manchester service with connections at Manchester for Blackpool for a while, a short time later it was transferred to the East Midland Co. W/E.
9 hours ago, Waterside Echo said:
Thanks again, I worked and traveled on routes to all these destinations (except past Castleton of cause) in the 60's / 70's , I would have loved it with these vehicles.
6 hours ago, boginspro said:
Well, I was lucky. Took my test in a crash box Crossley, drove A.E.C. pre-selects every day in service until they were finally withdrawn [for the second and last time]. Then there were the Leyland Leopards with manual gearbox and a big stick to pull on for door operation. Though when we started OMOing these Queens Road very kindly converted the doors to air operation for us. Not much exciting after that apart from the Ailsa-Volvo's and the Bendy's of coarse. In the mid 1970s the Sheffield fleet of 49 single-deck and 633 double-deck buses formed the major portion of the new S.Y.P.T.E fleet. W/E.
58 minutes ago, Waterside Echo said:
I took my test in a Leyland PD2 and drove Leyland and AEC back loaders in service at East Bank but never drove a Crossley. I was a conductor first in the 60's and in the 70's and loved the job with back loaders (with a good driver). I only decided to go driving because the back loaders were fast vanishing in the early 70's. I later went OMO and was on the Derbyshire board at East Bank before going on nights at Leadmill. My favourite buses were the Leylands especially the PD3 but I would have loved to have worked the C routes with these prewar beasts. My favourite route was probably Gainsborough.
Peter Hall 24
Peter Hall
A friend has unearthed what these days we would call a 'flyer' announcing that this summer only service, suspended during WWII would recommence in May 1950. It being operated by North Western. How long it continued for has yet to be established.
On 13/06/2018 at 21:00, Peter Hall said:
The answer would appear to be until the Summer of 1968. This information being contained in http://www.lthlibrary.org.uk/library/PDF-014-1.pdf which mentions that the X39 Sheffield - Manchester via Snake Pass summer only service was also withdrawn then. These services were jointly operated by Sheffiield Joint Omnibus Committee and North Western Road Car Company. This left the X48 as the only Sheffield-Manchester service which by then I am presuming was similarly jointly operated.
My earliest recollections of the X48 in the mid 1970's were of it being jointly operated by South Yorkshire PTE and Ribble Motor Services. Ribble pulled out after operation on 7th November 1980 leaving SYPTE to soldier on alone until its last day of operation, 25th October 1986.
I presume Ribble took over from North Western on 5th March 1972 but initially may have been under National Travel North West guise - more digging needed. .
Thanks Peter , that has brought back a few memories especially regarding the Mosley Street bus station. I think I remember the Snake and Woodhead routes being 39 and 48 before the X was added, do you know what year the X was added please? Again I may be wrong but I seem to remember as a conductor, about 1966 working the odd short runner to the Snake Inn, not sure but presumably transferring passengers there.
Further delving suggests involvement of North Western Road Car Company and Sheffield Transport / Joint Omnibus Committee on routes between Sheffield and Manchester is quite complex and an element of blurring of references between the routes may have crept in. Working South to North this is how I know understand the post World War II history.
72 via Mam Tor
Summer only extension of Sheffield - Castleton service. All journeys beyond Castleton operated by North Western. Operated from 1950 - 1966.
39 via Snake Pass
Summer only service that appears to have been jointly operated between North Western and SJOC. Operated from 1950 - 1966. There after SJIOC operated a Summer Sunday service from Sheffield to Snake Inn.
48 via Woodhead
Daily service operated solely by SJOC until 31/12/69. Chas Hall's book says that a result of the 1968 Transport Act was that it became jointly operated between STD and the NBC. The NBC subsidiary involved was presumably North Western. Certainly they were involved from 3/1/71 when the Manchester terminus was changed to Lower Mosely Street. At some point North Western were replaced by Ribble Motor Services. This may have been 4/3/72 when North Western Manchester area local services passed to SELNEC or 4/5/73 when the Manchester terminus was altered to Chorlton Street. From 8/1/80 operation was solely by SYPTE until the service was withdrawn after operation on 25/10/86..
Corrections and clarifications welcomed.
Thanks Peter , so many changes there is no wonder I couldn't remember very well, but it does explain why I remember working to the Snake Inn. My clearer memories are not of working but previously travelling as a passenger sometimes snuggled up the front near the Clayton Dewandre heater.
I have just come across this photo' of a North Western Leyland TS4 on Mam Tor. --------------- http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/wp-content/themes/Old-Bus-Photos/galleries/frank_brindley_collection/frank_brindley_collection.php

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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, The Wall Street Journal, 6/20/2009
Judged by today's psychological standards, these 18th century fathers sound harsh and unfeeling. Yet to see the Founding Fathers as flesh–and–blood dads, to glimpse their struggles to rear their children at a time of grave uncertainty and peril, is to appreciate their service and sacrifice anew.
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Barack Obama is a doting father who says that one of the greatest pleasures of his presidency is eating dinner with his daughters on the nights when he is in town.
Some of the nation's Founding Fathers were not so lucky. Doting dads though they were, patriotic service forced them to live apart from their families for years at a time. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the three Founders who spent the most time abroad, missed milestone events. Franklin was a no-show at his daughter's wedding and his wife's funeral. Adams was in Philadelphia when his wife, Abigail, gave birth to a stillborn daughter. While in France, Jefferson received word that his 2-year-old daughter had died of whooping cough. The news came seven months after her funeral.
Trans-Atlantic separations proved too painful to bear. Whenever possible, the Founders took their children with them or sent for the children once they had established a household abroad. John Adams set off on his maiden voyage to England accompanied by his 9-year-old son, John Quincy. On a second crossing he brought along sons John Quincy and Charles. His teenage daughter, Abigail, arrived in France with her mother a few years later. Benjamin Franklin's son, William, and his two grandsons, Temple Franklin and Benny Bache, were part of the Franklin overseas ménage at various times. A new widower, Jefferson took his elder daughter, Patsy, along with him on his diplomatic mission to France and later sent for his younger daughter, Polly.
The children were not always thrilled to go. Charles Adams sobbed inconsolably as he boarded the ship with his father. Eight-year-old Polly begged her father to let her remain at home in Virginia with her beloved aunt: "I am very sorry you sent for me," she bravely wrote. "I don't want to go to France." Still she went, accompanied on the journey by a 14-year-old babysitter named Sally Hemings. Upon arrival in London, the homesick girl spent the next month in the temporary care of Abigail Adams until her father sent a French-speaking manservant to fetch her. Abigail pointedly reminded Jefferson that the experience was traumatic for the child who, once again, was faced with separation from a mother figure and sent off to live with a father she did not know.
Nor was the arrangement a piece of cake for their fathers. In addition to the all-consuming diplomatic responsibilities of winning allies and funders for the Revolution, these lone fathers had to raise Revolutionary Kids. Chief among their responsibilities was securing an elite European education for their young offspring while protecting them from the temptations and dissipations of living abroad. The Founders' children and grandchildren kept company with an aristocratic power elite, savored Continental fads and fashions, and learned to speak fluent French.
It was all too easy, their fathers worried, for the Revolutionary Kids to abandon the republican virtues of industry and frugality and, even worse, to lose their native language. "It is a mortification to me," John Adams wrote to John Quincy, "that you write better in a foreign language than in your mother tongue."
To protect their children from corrupting influences, therefore, the Founding Fathers had to part with them again. Franklin dispatched his 9-year-old grandson, Benny Bache, to school in Switzerland for five years. The Adams sons attended schools in Holland. The Jefferson daughters were placed in a convent in Paris.
Yet no matter how devoted, the Founding Fathers were not inclined, as today's parents are, to lavish their students with praise. "Good job" was not in their vocabulary. "Take care you never spell a word wrong," Jefferson admonished his younger daughter. "Remember too . . . not to go out without your bonnet because it will make you very ugly and then we should not love you so much."
Nor did the Founding Fathers leave it up to their children to "make good choices." Instead, they moralized endlessly on the perils of indolence, time-wasting and thriftlessness. Jefferson reproved Patsy: "If at any moment, my dear, you catch yourself in idleness, start from it as you would from the precipice of a gulph." John Adams lectured John Quincy, hardly a slouch of a student, to "lose no Time. There is not a moral Percept of clearer Obligation or of greater Import."
When Benny Bache asked his grandfather for a gold watch, Franklin responded tartly: "You should remember that I am at a great Expence for your education . . . and you should not tease me for things that can be of little or no Service to you."
Even the profligate Thomas Jefferson embraced the virtue of frugality. When Patsy appealed for extra money, her father refused: "The rule I wish to see you governed by is of never buying anything which you have not money in your pocket to pay for. Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want."
Judged by today's psychological standards, these 18th century fathers sound harsh and unfeeling. Yet to see the Founding Fathers as flesh-and-blood dads, to glimpse their struggles to rear their children at a time of grave uncertainty and peril, is to appreciate their service and sacrifice anew. Founding a nation meant more than winning a war. It also called upon the nation's Founders to pass on the passion for freedom, educational excellence and civic virtue to their children and grandchildren.
John Adams said it best in a letter to Abigail: "The education of our children is never out of my Mind . . . Fire them with Ambition to be useful and make them disdain to be destitute of any useful or ornamental knowledge or accomplishment. Fix their Ambition upon great and solid objects."
Ms. Whitehead is director of the John Templeton Center for Thrift and Generosity at the Institute for American Values and co-editor of "Franklin's Thrift: The Lost History of a American Virtue," just published by Templeton Press.
This article originally appeared here.