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Detroit, Michigan, USA
bulk carrier
flag: Antigua- Barbuda [AG]
owner: Nordana Line AS,
Rungsted, Denmark
length: 138m / 453ft
built: 2018
The Scottish independence referendum takes place on 18 September 2014.
Voters will answer the Yes/No question: "Should Scotland be an independent country"
At the quiet end of a quiet shopping mall and up some quiet stairs. Mind, it's a nice place once you're inside.
Keyboatrd of a BBC Micro computer at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park
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NameBBC EMERALD
FlagAntigua Barbuda
IMO9504750
MMSI305857000
Call signV2FZ2
Home Port: St John's
vessel typeGeneral Cargo
Gross Tonnage12838
Summer Deadweight (t)14371
Length Overall (m)153
Beam (m)23
Year of Build2013
Builder JIANGZHOU UNION SHIPBUILDING - RUI CHANG, CHINA
BBC Quay House
Media City UK Salford
Media City UK is a 200-acre (81 ha) mixed-use property development site at Salford Quays on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford and Trafford, England. The project is being developed by Peel Media, and its principal tenants are media organisations. The land occupied by the development was part of the Port of Manchester.
The BBC signalled its intention to move jobs to Manchester in 2004, and the Salford Quays site was chosen in 2006. The Peel Group was granted planning permission to develop the site in 2007, and construction of the development, with its own energy generation plant and communications network, began the same year. Based in Quay House, the principal tenant will be the BBC, whose move marks a large-scale decentralisation from London. BBC Children's, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Research and BBC Sport are among the departments scheduled to relocate to the development. ITV's Granada division plans to move from its Granada Studios to MediaCityUK in 2012. The Studios on Broadway house seven high-definition studios, claimed to be the largest such facility in Europe.
MediaCityUK is to be developed in two phases. The 36-acre (15 ha) first phase was completed in 2011, and the second is dependent on its success. The Manchester Metrolink was extended to MediaCityUK with the opening of the MediaCityUK Metrolink station on 20 September 2010,[1] and further extensions are planned. Road access was improved by the construction of Broadway Link Road.
Traditional street names are not used in the development. The main thoroughfares are styled blue, white, pink, yellow, orange, purple and green where street furniture and coloured ambient lighting will be colour-coded to match. A stylised map of the site has been devised. Landscape architects, Gillespies regenerated the brownfield site to create public spaces.[28] The focal point is a piazza and landscaped park, which stretches to the ship canal around which the buildings are located. The piazza's two distinct areas, The Green and The Stage are capable of holding events for up to 6500 people.[29] In front of The Studios are the foundations for a free-standing big screen, which will be viewable from the piazza when it has been commissioned.[30]
Construction of the BBC Centre at MediaCityUK in February 2010The BBC will occupy three buildings: Bridge House, Dock House, and Quay House, all designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre. With simple forms intended to harmonise with their waterfront settings, the buildings provide 450,000 square feet (42,000 m2) of accommodation.[31]
Quay House is the BBC's 135,000-square-foot (12,500 m2) main building from where BBC Breakfast, Match of the Day, BBC Radio Manchester, North West Tonight and BBC Radio 5 Live will be broadcast.[32]
Bridge House will be where Blue Peter, Mastermind, Dragons Den and BBC Bitesize are produced.[32]
Dock House will contain the BBC's Research and Religion and Ethics departments.[32]
Orange is an 11-storey building, designed by architects Sheppard Robson. It is a glazed structure with four types of cladding, including one made of folded aluminium in a diamond pattern. It will house departments from Salford University and on seven floors, staff from ITV Granada.[33][34]
The Studios on Broadway,[35] contain seven high-definition studios, claimed by Peel Media to be the largest such facility in Europe.[36] The largest has an area of 12,500 square feet (1,160 m2), making it one of the biggest in western Europe.[18] Fitting began in 2010 at a cost of £22 million, in time for the BBC's move in summer 2011.[37] The seven studios vary in size; the large studios are on the ground floor, and the smaller studios on the first floor. The larger of two audio studios, sitting on hydraulic jacks to insulate it from noise generated in the surrounding studios, is dedicated to the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.[38] The studio block contains offices and the glass-fronted, 16-storey Holiday Inn hotel.[39]
The Pie Factory occupies the former Freshbake factory, which after closing in 2006, was converted by Peel Media into a TV, film and commercial production facility. The bakery's facilities were renovated into three sound stages, anxilliary and office space. It opened in 2007 and was the first working studio complex at MediaCityUK.[38][40]
The Greenhouse designed by architects Stephenson Bell, is a refurbished three-storey office block that has been converted into small, flexible office suites for small companies in the media and creative industries.[21]
The Heart and NumberOne are the residential elements of the development, providing 378 apartments in two tower blocks. TheHeart is a 22-storey apartment building on the quayside and NumberOne, another 22-storey building, is next to the studio facilities.[From Wikipedia
The sign was taken down not long after this picture, as the BBC have now moved out of the Oxford Road building in Manchester to Salford Quays.
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."
From the viewing balcony I could see the BBC Six O'clock news going out live. Makes a change to see the programme from that angle. The newsroom was a hive of activity as well. Watching the programme as a viewer, perhaps we forget all the people behind the scenes.
Algonac, Michigan, USA
heavy lift
flag: Antigua-Barbuda [AG]
owner: Jungerhans Heavy Lift,
Haren Ems, Germany
Chartered by:
BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH,
Leer, Germany
length: 119.81m / 393ft
built: 2007
ex names:
BBC Tasmania 2013 - 2015
Industrial Dolphin 2007 - 2013
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.
i couldn't resist a little trip down to the television centre whilst i was so nearby.
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In the deep space of the sea, I have found my moon~Jacques Cousteau
Man, this episode was something
Kicked it off Wed night and was mesmerized
Going down into the chilling depths of the Antarctic, the undulating ice on the icebergs was something mysterious and magical
Instead of barren waters, life is exploding to the gills
Then the twilight zone, 200m down into the Pacific, the outer limit of light that can reach from the surface
Cock-eyed squid where one eye is normal and the other bulging to see silhouettes of fish swimming above!
Barreleye with a transparent head!
90% of all fish move around here; who knew‽
Lantern fish are most common and move up to the surface in the night to feed
The Cock-eyed squid have a go at the Lantern fish and, when they are exhausted, they start attacking one another. Pouch a smaller one and squirt ink as a decoy!
The BBC team switch off the lights and the surrounding bioluminescence is mysterious and other-worldly
it's enough to explore the Ocean in your backyard to get that far-out feeling of Space
Further down into the midnight zone, 1000m down, where no light ever reaches
A whale carcass falls down (whale fall) and is stripped clean over months by Bluntnose sixgill sharks and other crustaceans such as Spider Crabs
Everything recycled all the way down the chain; everyone gets their cut in due course
All so mysterious
No one told the Old Ma that She couldn't do all this and She goes berserk with gay abandon; in the first episode, we see female fish that turn males when the current dominant male is no longer exciting enough!
Last night, finished the rest of the episode
Gets weirder
The temporary oasis of the whale fall is replaced by the permanent ones of coral, with fish abounding in them
Coral that's 4,000 years old, growing in mm per year
Very delicate and dainty some of it, like the Venus' Flower Basket; with shrimp locked inside for life once they get in and grow big
However, deep-sea trawlers with their dredging nets have destroyed these as well, reducing them to so much rubble
"Marionettes that the puppeteer has thrown into the discard", as Maugham writes in The Razor's Edge
One should live with reverence, says Jiddu. One sees so little of it for other denizens of Mother Earth. IMHO, it's a good thing the Coronavirus happened, otherwise a virus called Mankind would have overrun Mother Earth in no time
Further afield to the Gulf of Mexico where a lake of brine, heavier than sea water, forms at the bottom of the Ocean!
An eel swims in the brine for too long and gets into toxic shock; somehow it wriggles out of it
Then, the underwater mid-ocean ridge formed by plate tectonics
The water is fuming with volcanic fire below and creatures are furiously active there; Ed Ricketts would have been so happy!
Then the Lost City Hydrothermal Field in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
What a magnificent feeling at the end
Kudos to the intrepid team and their fantastic underwater vehicles that enabled them to record all this for such vicarious enjoyment later
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it~Jacques Cousteau
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