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From the August/September 1988 Edition of School Bus Fleet. I am not claiming ownership for this picture and am only uploading for archival purposes.
Classified as a 2+2 but I wouldn't want to sit in the back for more than a block. The folding hardtop makes this into a Spider in 14 seconds. --- Cars & Coffee - Irvine, CA
Hong Kong Transport - Trucks
The Hong Kong Truck Culture
The number of Trucks, Vans* and Special Purpose Vehicles (Light, Medium & Heavy) registered + licenced in Hong Kong seems to fluctuate between 120,000 - 125,000 vehicles and presumably new trucks registered are offset by old trucks being retired or sold over the border in China.
*Vans are classified as Light Goods Vehicles and are not shown in this album
In Hong Kong Trucks are classified as GOODS VEHICLES By the Transport Department - see below
☛Light Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight not exceeding 5.5 tonnes.
☛Medium Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 5.5 tonnes but not exceeding 24 tonnes.
☛Heavy Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 24 tonnes but not exceeding 38 tonnes.
The major truck types you tend to see in urban areas are trucks carrying construction materials or waste, dump trucks, concrete mixers and all sizes of delivery trucks... outside of the urban areas it is container trucks and large trucks carrying construction materials.
The following brands of Trucks can be seen on the streets of Hong Kong and include:-
Beiben ✚ Bell ✚ CAMC ✚ CNHTC ✚ DAF ✚ Dennis ✚ Dong Feng ✚ FAW ✚ Fuso ✚ Foton ✚ Ford ✚ Hino ✚ Howo ✚ Hyundai ✚ Isuzu ✚ Iveco ✚ JAC ✚ Kato ✚ KIA ✚ Liebherr ✚ MAN ✚ Mercedes Benz ✚ Mitsubishi ✚ Nissan ✚ Renault ✚ Scania ✚ Shacman ✚ Sinotruk ✚ Suzuki ✚ Toyota ✚ UD ✚ Volvo ✚ Zoomlion
Hong Kong is a brand conscious place even for trucks (!) hence the popularity of the European brands, Scania and Man are very popular and even the older trucks look the business and they are utterly reliable.
Isuzu is the market leader in terms of sale volume for all types of trucks.
(Source - The Transport Department, Hong Kong Government)
☛.... and if you want to read about my views on Hong Kong, then go to my blog, link below
✚ www.j3consultantshongkong.com/j3c-blog
☛ Photography is simply a hobby for me, I do NOT sell my images and all of my images can be FREELY downloaded from this site in the original upload image size or 5 other sizes, please note that you DO NOT have to ask for permission to download and use any of my images!
Once we got to the farm store, we realized that, yes, it is a FARM store. These are farmers. Lots of them are whole-grain, organic, nature's path sorta farmers, sure. But that last word? It's still farmer.
Passerelle du Palais de Justice that crosses the River Saône in Lyon.
After our walking tour of Vieux Lyon had ended (and after we went somewhere for lunch) we headed towards the River Saône. We crossed over via the Passerelle du Palais de Justice (went past a market) then returned to the other side via the Pont Maréchal Juin (aka the Pont Alphonse Juin).
Footbridge of the Palais de Justice
The bridge of the Palais de Justice is a bridge crossing the Saône in Lyon.
A first bridge seems to have been established in 1638 at this site. Consisting of ten arches, it was destroyed in 1778 because of its advanced decay. It was replaced in 1780 by a bridge consisting of a chain of twelve boats, two of which were mobile. Commonly referred to as "Flying Bridge", it is also called "Wood Bridge" or "Celestine Bridge". This bridge was partly destroyed by the melting of the ice on January 18, 1789, and then totally during the winter of 1795 .
It was replaced in 1797 by a wooden bridge built at the initiative of Guillaume Niogret. This bridge retains the name of "flying bridge", but it is also called the "Pont Neuf". It is damaged by the fall of a fireworks in 1820 , then by the floods of 1824 . It was finally destroyed in 1833 and was replaced by a footbridge built by the Séguin Company in 1833 - 1834 to serve the Palais de Justice . The central arch, with a range of 90 m , is destroyed by the floods of 1840 . The bridge, reconstructed in 1844 , is composed of two piers anchored near the banks on which come to rest a central arch of 47,70 m relayed by two side bays of about 20 m . The width of the carriageway of the new bridge is 4 m and that of the two pavements is 1 m . The central arch was destroyed by German forces in September 1944. The bridge was reopened in January 1945 .
In 1968, the navigation service obtained the destruction of the "Pont du Change" and the "passerelle of the Palais de Justice", replaced by the "Pont Maréchal Jun" bridge. In 1983 , a new footbridge designed by Gilbert Lamboley was inaugurated. It is 4 m wide and its 136 m span is suspended by guy ropes planted in a single mast anchored on the left bank of the river.
View of the Palais de Justice
Palais de justice historique de Lyon
The Palais de justice historique de Lyon is a building located Quai Romain Rolland, on the right bank of the Saône, in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon. In 1996, it was classified as monument historique.
Its construction began in 1835 and ended in 1845, under the direction of architect Louis-Pierre Baltard. It was built in the same location as the previous courthouses that followed since the 15th century.
The Palais de Justice de Lyon is often called the 'Palace of the twenty-four columns'. This is one of the finest neo-classical buildings in France.
In 1995, construction of a new courthouse in the district of La Part-Dieu allowed the transfer of the Tribunal de Grande Instance, the Tribunal d'Instance and the Tribunal de commerce de Lyon. The Cour d'appel of Lyon and the Cour d'assises of the Rhône remained installed in what is now the historic courthouse of Lyon.
In 2008, the building was the subject of a profound renovation (accessibility, upgrading, security...).
Above the historic courthouse is the
Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière and the Metallic tower of Fourvière
From the December/January 1971 Edition of School Bus Fleet. I am not claiming ownership for this picture and am only uploading for archival purposes.
Launching a classified satellite package to a geosynchronous orbit.
"The NROL-37 mission patch depicts a knight, a symbol of courage with a chivalrous code of conduct representing bravery, training, and service to others. The knight stands in front of the U.S. flag in a defensive posture as to protect at all cost. The eagle on the chest is a symbol of both freedom and the United States of America. The sword is a message of tenacious, fierce focus with the claws representing extreme reach with global coverage." ~ULA
The patch has also been speculated to be symbolized from the Black Knight Satellite of UFO lore, but missions artwork design often takes on themes from mythology, astrology, and sci-fi based sources while remaining bad-ass.
Hong Kong Transport - Trucks
The Hong Kong Truck Culture
The number of Trucks, Vans* and Special Purpose Vehicles (Light, Medium & Heavy) registered + licenced in Hong Kong seems to fluctuate between 120,000 - 125,000 vehicles and presumably new trucks registered are offset by old trucks being retired or sold over the border in China.
*Vans are classified as Light Goods Vehicles and are not shown in this album
In Hong Kong Trucks are classified as GOODS VEHICLES By the Transport Department - see below
☛Light Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight not exceeding 5.5 tonnes.
☛Medium Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 5.5 tonnes but not exceeding 24 tonnes.
☛Heavy Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 24 tonnes but not exceeding 38 tonnes.
The major truck types you tend to see in urban areas are trucks carrying construction materials or waste, dump trucks, concrete mixers and all sizes of delivery trucks... outside of the urban areas it is container trucks and large trucks carrying construction materials.
The following brands of Trucks can be seen on the streets of Hong Kong and include:-
Beiben ✚ Bell ✚ CAMC ✚ CNHTC ✚ DAF ✚ Dennis ✚ Dong Feng ✚ FAW ✚ Fuso ✚ Foton ✚ Ford ✚ Hino ✚ Howo ✚ Hyundai ✚ Isuzu ✚ Iveco ✚ JAC ✚ Kato ✚ KIA ✚ Liebherr ✚ MAN ✚ Mercedes Benz ✚ Mitsubishi ✚ Nissan ✚ Renault ✚ Scania ✚ Shacman ✚ Sinotruk ✚ Suzuki ✚ Toyota ✚ UD ✚ Volvo ✚ Zoomlion
Hong Kong is a brand conscious place even for trucks (!) hence the popularity of the European brands, Scania and Man are very popular and even the older trucks look the business and they are utterly reliable.
Isuzu is the market leader in terms of sale volume for all types of trucks.
(Source - The Transport Department, Hong Kong Government)
☛.... and if you want to read about my views on Hong Kong, then go to my blog, link below
✚ www.j3consultantshongkong.com/j3c-blog
☛ Photography is simply a hobby for me, I do NOT sell my images and all of my images can be FREELY downloaded from this site in the original upload image size or 5 other sizes, please note that you DO NOT have to ask for permission to download and use any of my images!
I am beyond fortunate that I now qualify for a prescription drug benefit care of the state of Oklahoma. And that is only because I am classified as disabled and my income is low enough to trigger the state program. Medicare, which covers me for some other health costs, did not, until quite recently, have a prescription drug benefit of any kind.
The full amount of the cost of the medication I take in a vain attempt to control my seizures, as represented above, is for a single month. I used to take twice the dosage, back before I had any drug coverage at all. The retail at that time would have come to $440 per month, equivalent to the mortgage payment on my house.
Since Lamictal was developed and is manufactured outside the United States, I was able to purchase a month's supply of that higher dose from Canada for about $180 per month, or about 40% of the price charged by US pharmaceutical distributors.
Distributors. Who buy it from the same place the Canadians do. and charge over twice as much for it. American drug distributors represent a bottleneck in the system. There are only a handful of them, and they are not in competition with one another. Last year's changes to the Medicare program was said to introduce a prescription drug benefit, in a multi-tiered system run by a spate of outside companies. This means each potential recipient has to navigate a veritable mine field of complicated plans to determine which, if any, provide them with good value for money.
Turns out, many of them provide no real savings at all, once the monthly fee plus deductions are taken into account along with the sliding spending requirements. And further, and most criminally, the new legislation explicitly forbids Medicare, the largest single potential purchaser of drugs, from negotiating with the industry for better pricing. Never mind that other government agencies are allowed to negotiate prices based on bulk purchases, were Medicare allowed to do so, it would singlehandedly drive the artificially inflated cost of drugs down, and we can't have that, can we?
Once these new questionable drug programs are in place, it is likely states will abandon their own programs, leaving anyone under Medicare basically shit out of luck.
The truly pathetic thing about all of this is that not only do Medicare recipients get the shaft, so does everyone else. Drug prices remain artificially high, driving up the cost of insurance premiums, state health programs dance along the edge of insolvency trying to keep up, and many people simply go without the medications they need to be healthy.
And the only people making out are those within and connected to the pharmaceutical industry, perennially the most profitable industry in the entire world.
It's obscene.
Hundreds of students, faculty, classified professionals, administrators, and members of our Board of Trustees, representing City College, Mesa College, Miramar College, the College of Continuing Education, and all San Diego Community College District divisions and offices walked to support the LGBTQIA+ community during the 2023 San Diego Pride Parade.
Classified
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON
Feb 25th, 2012
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