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Multi-Purpose Dry Cargo ship BBC SCOTLAND passing Schacht-Audorf / Kiel Canal westbound with destination Zeebrügge | Photo: 25.10.2015 | © Hans-Wilhelm Delfs, Kiel
IMO 9266322| MMSI 304074000 | Flag: Antigua & Barbuda/St. John’s | Call-Sign: V2GS7 | Class.: NKK |
GT 4090 | NT 2016 | dwt 4713 | Grain 6410 m³
Loa 100,60 m | Lpp 93,80 m | Beam 16,60 m | Draught 6,41 m |
Engine : 4-stroke-6-Cyl.-MAN B&W-Diesel – 2980 kW – 15,0 kn
Shipbuilder: Tianjin Xingang Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Tianjin/China– Yard No. SB329 – keel laid 29.06.1998 – launched 23.04.2002 - delivery 06.08.2002 |
Manager: Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG, Leer
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ex BBC SCOTAND (01.08.2002-31.03.2017)
ex KNOCK (2002 launched as)
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Bitty Blocks for Group 2 Houses. Will be sending out on Monday so please choose if you want a special block.
This was my first computer. It was in constant use from 1986 until 1994. I learned to program on it.
Okay, this is my sample for the Happy Hour swap on BBC. Yes, I had to look up how to spell it! LOL! Doesn't it look delectable?!!! I'm feeling kind of thirsty!
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Taken from walkway outside the SECC. Looking towards the BBC Scotland building, bridge open with Dredger out on the Clyde.
Hundreds of people gathered at BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow to protest over the corporation's coverage of the referendum
Speaking to the BBC, Ms Williams said: "We organised this event because we are witnessing increasing discontent over BBC referendum coverage and we felt we needed to stand against this unhealthy bias.
"Whether Scotland votes 'Yes' or 'No', let it be based on facts provided in a fair and accurate way, not because people have been misguided."
She added: "The BBC should be doing what it says in its job description - being unbiased and impartial."
The Scottish independence referendum takes place on 18 September 2014.
Voters will answer the Yes/No question: "Should Scotland be an independent country"
Maida Vale Studios is a complex of seven BBC studios (of which five are in regular use) on Delaware Road, Maida Vale, London.
It has been used to record thousands of classical music, popular music and drama sessions for BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 from 1946 to the present. On October 30, 2009, BBC Radio 1 celebrated 75 Years of Maida Vale by exclusively playing 75 tracks recorded at the studios over the years. Snow Patrol played a live set from the studio with Fearne Cotton to celebrate 75 years of live music.
The site was built in 1909 as the "Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace and Club". Over a period of fifteen months in 1933/1934, one hundred men reduced the skating rink to a shell, then rebuilt it. The arches at the doorway were preserved. It was one of the BBC's earliest premises, pre-dating Broadcasting House, and was the centre of the BBC News operation during World War II.
It has been the home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 1934. For over fifty years the BBC Symphony Orchestra has given invitation concerts, usually free. As a schoolboy, Vernon Handley learned some of his conducting technique by watching Sir Adrian Boult conduct the BBC symphony orchestra here. Studio 1 has room for an orchestra of over 150 musicians and an audience of over 200. An unusual feature of these concerts is that they were often recorded, which means that in later years the orchestra sometimes were able to do re-takes. It is the largest classical music studio in London.
The "Third Programme" was created in September 1946. By the 1950s, the Third Programme was frequently broadcasting concerts from this venue, including the first broadcast performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana given by the resident orchestra with the Goldsmiths Choral Union and soloists. Some premieres of British classical music were recorded here (in studio 1), including works by Robert Simpson, Arnold Bax, Nicholas Maw, Alan Rawsthorne and Sir Arthur Bliss. Many of them later became available on vinyl or CD. Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila was rehearsed here, before its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall.
In 1958 the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was created and based here until its demise in 1998, and the pioneering "Delaware" synthesiser made by EMS takes its name from the Studios' address. The Workshop's rooms are now used as a small TV studio for The Film programme, audio archiving facilities, engineering workshops and office space.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the radio programme Movie-Go-Round was broadcast from here. Peter Haigh played sound clips from major films. The Beatles used studio 5 several times in 1963 to record sessions for BBC radio.
Bands doing live sessions for John Peels Radio Show used to record them here also
Studio MV1 is one of the largest recording spaces available in the UK. Equipped with a Studer D950 digital desk, MV1 is currently home to the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It was also used by the BBC Radio Orchestra on some of its larger sessions until the early 1990s.
Studio MV2 had its technical installation decommissioned some years ago. It currently provides rehearsal space for the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Chorus.
Studio MV3 is another large studio (equal in size to MV2). With a SSL 9000J series analogue desk installed, MV3 is used for a large number of BBC Radio 2 programmes and some BBC Radio 1 session recordings and live audience shows. Bing Crosby made his last recording session in this studio in 1977 – 3 days before he died of a heart attack on a golf course in Spain.
Studio MV4 is a smaller studio with vocal booth and balcony. Utilising a SSL 9000J series analogue desk, MV4 was home to the Peel sessions and has continued to be used to record the BBC Radio 1 sessions for shows that have replaced John Peel's.
Studio MV5 is now one of two spaces used for the Live Lounge and plays host to a large number of current pop acts.
Studio MV6 is a drama studio still in regular use to produce programmes for BBC Radio 4.
Studio MV7 was a drama studio but is now decommissioned and used for tape storage.
The studios have been under regular threat of closure by BBC management: the building is in need of constant maintenance and due to its location in a residential area there are limits to the hours of operation and access. In July 2007 the BBC announced that the studios were "wholly unsuitable for the 21st century", and it was reported that it would be sold to property developers as part of cost-cutting measures.[1] However, no viable alternatives have been found to house Maida Vale's various activities, and therefore the studios are still in constant use.
Dinky Toys completed its trio of BBC-themed outside broadcast vehicles with the launch in the October 1959 Meccano Magazine of this extending mast vehicle. It is based on a Bedford RL truck chassis. Television technology advanced in leaps and bounds during the 1950s as the medium became almost universal in UK households. Only a minority could afford to buy their television set outright - most people (including my own parents) rented. Television's social, economic and cultural impact was enormous, a spearhead in the promise of an ever better future in a world largely at peace. People in Britian truly felt that they "never had it so good", and in the very month of this model launch, the UK electorate voted their thanks to the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan, giving the party a greatly increased parliamentary majority.
The BBC Future of Journalism conference held at White City, London.
This sees Louise Minchin (L) chair a discussion with Pete Clifton (C) the BBC's Head of Editorial Development, Multimedia and Paul Bradshaw(R) author of the 21st Century Newsroom, on the Newsroom of the Future.
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Call Sign: V2ER7
Flag: Antigua Barbuda [AG]
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo - Hazard A (Major)
Gross Tonnage: 12974
Deadweight: 16943 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 143.13m × 23.13m
Year Built: 2010
Status: Active
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IMO:9569530
Flag:Antigua & Barbuda
MMSI:305642000
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Vessel type:General Cargo
Gross tonnage:5,344 tons
Summer DWT:6,252 tons
Length:116 m
Beam:17 m
Draught:5.2 m
Home port:Saint John's
Class society:Germanischer Lloyd
Build year:2011
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Radiation fears split Fukushima community
By Mariko Oi
BBC News, Fukushima
Sachiko Sato sells organic vegetables from Western Japan in Fukushima
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A year after the earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, local residents still want one fundamental question answered - is it safe to live here?
Sachiko Sato sent her children away to Yamagata, more than 100km (62 miles) from Fukushima, after the meltdown at the nuclear plant.
"We couldn't trust the government," said Mrs Sato, who lives in the town of Kawamata. "They kept releasing different figures about radiation and how much of it was OK."
"So we had family members arguing about it, colleagues accusing each other of abandoning their homes."
Parents sent at least 10,000 children away from Fukushima in the aftermath of the disaster, which saw soil, air and water contaminated.
Mrs Sato has since opened a store selling organic vegetables from the other end of the country to local residents. Her customers are anxious parents and grandparents.
"We need to stop kids from eating contaminated food," she said. "Products from Fukushima are not safe so that's why I opened this shop."
Produce from Fukushima is being shunned, but some say this is unfair.
"Sales have fallen sharply," said eighth-generation farmer Koshi Fujita at his farm in the city of Koriyama.
Koshi Fujita continues to grow rice and carrots in Fukushima
He had all his products - rice and carrots - checked and no radioactive caesium was detected. Scientists also say it is safe to eat products from Fukushima.
"Most of the caesium is firmly adhered or attached to the soil," said Tomoko Nakanishi of Tokyo University. "Our study has found that agricultural products don't absorb caesium even if they are grown in highly contaminated soil."
But that has not stopped speculation.
"Some bloggers say we create toxic food and call us murderers because we continue to grow vegetables in Fukushima," said Mr Fujita.
People only talked about Fukushima "in numbers and data these days", he added. "I want them to know that there are people behind those numbers who are simply trying to recover from this disaster."
Lack of data
Every day, after the weather forecast, radiation figures are broadcast on local news.
Levels in most parts of Fukushima outside the exclusion zone have fallen to below 3 milisieverts per annum (3mSv/year), according to Professor Akira Watanabe of Fukushima University, whose students measured the levels.
In many parts, it is lower than 1mSv/year which is the exposure limit recommended by the International System of Radiological Protection for the general public.
But scientists say they do not know enough about the dangers of long-term exposure to low-level radiation.
Professor Seiji Yasumura is conducting a health survey of more than two million Fukushima residents for the government.
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Professor Seiji Yasumura
He began the survey in June and so far has found no serious impact on people's health, including in the thyroids of children.
This is of particular concern as the nuclear accident in Chernobyl was linked to the development of thyroid cancer amongst local residents who had been children at the time of the explosion there.
"We hope to finish checking all 360,000 children within 2.5 years and we'll continue monitoring them every other year," he said.
But Professor Yasumura is also concerned about the mental health of Fukushima residents.
"The evacuation has doubled the number of deaths among the elderly," he said. "I believe it's due to the stress of moving, which is also a huge concern for children and pregnant women."
There have also been reports of bullying or neglect in areas where they evacuated to. Professor Yasumura experienced it first-hand.
"As soon as you say that you are from Fukushima, people have this 'don't touch' attitude," he said.
"My aim is also to give evidence that we are doing everything we can to address this issue and hopefully remove any unfair bias about people or products from Fukushima."
Decontamination
Authorities have meanwhile begun clean-up efforts to lower radiation levels.
The BBC's Mariko Oi reports on painstaking decontamination work
This involves removing and disposing of huge quantities of soil and concrete contaminated with caesium 137 - a radioactive isotope which can remain in the environment for 30 years or more.
But again opinions are split on how much they need to clean up.
Some residents are demanding a mass clean-up operation to reduce radiation levels to zero - or the pre-accident level. But city officials say that is unrealistic.
"I understand their feelings but it is not practical," said Takahiro Hanzawa, who is in charge of decontamination efforts in the city of Date, 50km north-west of the nuclear plant.
"No one wants a dump site near their home and no other prefectures would take the waste either so instead of producing so much waste, we need to be realistic. Our aim is to bring it down to a non-harmful level."
Communications failure
Possibly the biggest challenge faced by officials seeking to calm local residents is the loss of public trust.
"The biggest problem after the accident was censorship," says Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama, the head of the Radioisotope Centre at the University of Tokyo who famously shouted at politicians during a parliamentary session on the crisis.
"Scientists or politicians or journalists didn't say what happened because they said they wanted to avoid panic."
Many residents as a result turned to the internet to learn about radiation, and safety debates are still being held in cyber space.
Bloggers have accused some scientists of parroting government policy, while experts say they face unwarranted criticism due to government incompetence.
"If we say that radiation levels have fallen, or if doctors say that radiation has had little impact on people's health so far, people label you pro-nuclear," said one professor.
"It may only be a few people making these accusations but it really hurts because we love Fukushima as much and we are doing our best to address all the challenges," said another.
The government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), both blamed for the sense of mistrust, only have one word to say - sorry.
"We were in a panic in both Fukushima and Tokyo," said Tepco spokesman Yoshimi Hitosugi. "As a result, our information got mixed up or we didn't actually have the right information to release."
"We apologise for causing any confusion but we never intended to hide any information from the public," he added.
That may be the case, but in Fukushima the sense of distrust looks set to continue for months if not years to come.
Hundreds of people gathered at BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow to protest over the corporation's coverage of the referendum
I didn't realise how much it sucked until I started using Bloglines to manage RSS feeds. It also has a weather feed, which is far better designed than the BBC's, which I've relied on for years.
Note:
- Visible descriptions, rather than rollovers
- Meaningful descriptions. Compare "More Clouds Than Sun" with BBC's "Sunny Intervals", and specifying "early" or "late".
- More meaningful icons
The BBC is a national institution and provides probably the worlds best public television and radio service. The online services is excellent also. That said, the BBC has come under a lot of criticism lately over variety of issues. The balance between being independent from government whilst providing an appropriate service to the license fee payer has always been difficult and is under even greater scrutiny today.
Broadcasting House is one of the original buildings, but has recently been sold.