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Tool distribution in Jeremie/Distribution d'outils à Jeremie.
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A pair of Railfreight Distribution class 47 diesels approach Ashford (Kent) station. They are at the head of a long train of "CargoWagon" vans destined for the continent via the Train Ferry at Dover.
The narrow path near my home, I used to walk this path to go home, now the last part of it will be demolished soon. Expired Fujicolor 100 Film (Expired Date: 2009-12)
The Art Gallery of Knoxville
January 1-27, 2007
"Distribution Religion" was developed in 1973 by Chicago artists Dan Sandin and Phil Morton as a text to describe the schematic plans for Sandin's Image Processor, an analog computer optimized for video processing. The "Distribution Religion" expressed a determined belief in the idea of free and open copying, which is a central aspect of the Chicago School and a notion that has begun to become important to many contemporary artists.
From January 1 – 27, The Art Gallery of Knoxville will examine situations of sharing and exchange provided by three contemporary Chicago groups: criticalartware, People Powered , and Temporary Services. Each of these artists have developed interests in distribution and it's role as an important social / cultural concern.
criticalartware is a contemporary group led by artists jonCates, jon.satrom and bensyverson. A central part of their work involves the public distribution / presentation of interviews, video and text featuring the key players of early code or concept based Art. They are particularly interested in enabling "shared cultural resources connecting these conversations." In Knoxville, criticalartware will coordinate an electronic system for the sharing and exchange of this information – primarily through a custom computer interface.
People Powered is a Chicago group run by artist Kevin Kaempf. His work integrates itself socially, becoming a means for the distribution of physical tools. People Powered "adopts consumer culture's aesthetic forms to distribute information about sustainable living practices such as community composting, recycling, and free public transportation." A recent People Powered exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art highlighted prototypes for "Chicago Blue Bikes," in which junked bicycles are salvaged and rebuilt into a fleet of public bicycles. The Knoxville exhibition will become part of the project "Loop Limited: Recycled Paints" where unfinished cans of used paint are recycled/mixed together and redistributed into the community. Cans of paint will be available for free in the Gallery space.
The artists of Temporary Services are founders of the Chicago space "Mess Hall" and widely known for their public and social works. Often the group aims to "provide a network for the collection and distribution of artistic work going on looking at the line between art and ethics, power and art, and the role of the public." In Knoxville, the group's Booklets, a large collection of self published material on a wide range of subjects, will be freely available. Alongside this substantial library, an example set of works given away at the Temporary Services event "Free For All" will be shown. "Free For All" was a public art project where multiples of many small objects were collected by the public within a cardboard box that acted as a portable, distributed exhibition.
Temporary Services: Free For All by Marc Fischer "Over 10,000 objects were given away! Over 50 artists, individuals and organizations contributed work that was distributed for free at this one-day-only event. Artists' work was integrated with a wide range of material submerging the work in a broader context than it normally enjoys. Religious tracts, booklets, flyers, stickers, matchbooks, posters, audio tapes, and postcards were among the items given away. … 100 boxes (like the one pictured above) were provided for free. Visitors were invited to take anything they wanted making their own portable exhibitions to take with them."
"Free For All" is a self-replicating exhibit, one which is shared and exchanged in both the collecting and the viewing of it. Through "make-shift methods of distribution and display that are commonly found in flea markets, garage sales and craft shows" Temporary Services created an alternative, distributed exhibition that enabled a public to engage with cultural information on a level of personal ownership. The exhibition dealt not only with the free use of Art – but the creation of free and open systems as Art.
On the night of Friday, January 5, 2007 members of criticalartware will be involved in creating a free computer art and cultural event, (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest at the Pilot Light on January 5th. "(A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest in Knoxville parallel processes The Art Gallery of Knoxville and the Pilot Light nightclub with intersections of New Media Art, realtime audio video processing, computer art geekery, digital punk rock, noise music, the Blues and freak folktronics!" Please join us to celebrate the Distribution Religion opening at both The Art Gallery of Knoxville and The Pilot Light.
At the height of my interest in London buses, sustained by living in the city, I was also interested in LT's support vehicles. The fleet was substantial. Here, 3313/B761XBP, an Escort van is seen at Camberwell garage. The white lettering says 'Distribution Services Manager'.
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Local residents in Bung village, Maban, South Sudan, get registered to receive seeds during a distribution.
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Representatives of striking independent truck drivers meet with Vice President Walter Mondale (seated, center) June 29, 1979 at the White House in an attempt to reach an agreement to end the work stoppage.
Mondale aide Jack Watson is standing immediately behind Mondale.
Truckers had been on strike since early June in what began as scattered halts to trucking over rising fuel prices and other independent trucker grievances.
The following day Watson released a plan that he called a “final offer” that included an Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) rule permitting truckers to “pass through” rising fuel costs to businesses.
Other aspects of plan included support by the Carter administration for federal legislation ending a six-state refusal to increase the minimum weights of truck loads to the federal 80,000 lbs. that caused loads of some truckers to be lightened or partially off-loaded.
Other provisions included a federal promise for equal fuel distribution across the country, a coordinated federal program to ensure safety for truckers and a federal working party to find solutions to other problems of independent truckers.
The proposal fell short of the independent trucker representatives demands, but the strike was already crumbling with an increasing number of trucks on the road and blockades of oil terminals and food distribution centers dismantled.
By July 7th, a group representing 21 independent trucker associations voted to return to work. “We lost our bargaining power because so many truckers went back to work,” said Bill Hill of the Independent Truckers Unity Coalition to the Washington Post.
“Economically, we’re in bad condition to continue the strike right now,” he continued. Hill estimated fewer than 20 percent of the truckers were still on strike at that time.
The Independent Truckers Association that had initially publicized the strike nationwide and attempted to continue, but the back-to-work horse was already out of the barn. The ITA was initially formed in 1962 by Overdrive magazine editor Mike Pankhurst.
The strike had been spurred by a fuel crisis spurred by the revolution in Iran that led to prices increasing dramatically.
A previous nationwide strike by independents occurred during the 1973-74 gas crisis.
At the time, independent truck drivers’ rates were still subject to federal regulation and many earned a good living, but that would soon be challenged not by gas prices, but by deregulation.
Business Insider reported October 21, 2019:
“In the mid-20th century, truck drivers had to buy specific routes to move a certain type of product from one location to the other. But goods exempt from regulation moved at rates 20% to 40% below similar products that were regulated, according to Thomas Gale Moore, then a senior fellow at Stanford University's conservative public policy think tank Hoover Institution.
“Ultimately, that meant consumers were paying more because trucking was an industry with little competition and high barriers to entry. But it also meant truck drivers were better paid.
“The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 removed many of the cumbersome regulations that the previous law, passed in 1935, had put in place. Most notably, it allowed new trucking companies to open with relative ease and removed many of the route regulations. Companies also had more control over changing their rates.
“The law was passed by President Jimmy Carter, who declared that the MCA would save consumers as much as $8 billion ($25 billion in 2018 dollars) each year.
“Following the passing of the MCA, truck drivers' salaries tumbled. From 1977 to 1987, mean truck driver earnings declined 24%, according to research by Wayne State University economics professor Michael Belzer. And from 1980 to the present day, a Business Insider analysis found that median trucking wages have sunk as much as 35.8% in some metropolitan areas.
"’To be able to be a truck driver used to be quite a good blue-collar, middle-class job, but over the past 40 years, it has kind of dwindled away,’ Gordon Klemp, principal of the National Transportation Institute, previously told Business Insider.
“Unions also lost much of their power. Membership in Teamsters, which was once one of the most powerful unions around, has declined dramatically. In 1974, Belzer wrote that there were 2,019,300 truckers in Teamsters. Now, there are 75,000.
“When truck drivers were largely in Teamsters, work stoppages were common — and sometimes quite dramatic. In 1970, a nationwide trucker strike went on for more than a month, dealing a serious economic blow in cities like Chicago and St. Louis.
“In Cleveland, Ohio, the impacts even became one of domestic security as rock-throwing protesters drew 3,000 National Guardsmen to the city. "Helmeted troops, armed with M‐1 rifles, were stationed in pairs on some overpasses, while other guardsmen rumbled along on patrol in quarter‐ton trucks," reported The New York Times on May 1, 1970.
“The strike led to a pay increase of nearly 30% for all Teamsters truckers. The average nationwide hourly pay of $4 got a $1.10/hour bump, the Times reported.
The issue of the “barrier states” was not resolved until Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 established the needed federal minimum for truck weight limits. This Act standardized truck size and weight limits across the country for traffic on the Interstate Highway System.
De-regulated and de-unionized, four out of five truckers are now independent owner-operators. Many more work for small non-union trucking companies. The two groups mostly eke out a living from what was once was a good blue-collar job.
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Distribution: E. European Russia to SW. Pacific (14 RUE 30 ALT BRY CTA IRK KRA TVA WSB YAK 31 AMU KHA KUR PRM SAK 33 TCS 34 AFG IRN IRQ 36 CHC CHH CHI CHM CHN CHQ CHS CHT CHX 37 MON 38 JAP KOR NNS TAI 40 ASS BAN EHM IND NEP PAK SRL WHM 41 MYA THA VIE 42 BOR JAW LSI MLY MOL PHI SUL SUM 43 NWG SOL 50 NSW QLD SOA TAS VIC 51 CTM NZN NZS 60 NUE NWC SAM TON VAN)
Lifeform: Hemicr. or tuber geophyte
Homotypic Names:
* Neottia sinensis Pers., Syn. Pl. 2: 511 (1807).
Gyrostachys australis var. sinensis (Pers.) Blume, Fl. Javae Nov. Ser.: 108 (1859).
Spiranthes australis var. sinensis (Pers.) Gagnep. in H.Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 6: 546 (1933), nom. superfl.
(* Basionym/Replaced Synonym)
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Aristotelea spiralis Lour., Fl. Cochinch.: 522 (1790).
Epidendrum aristotelea Raeusch., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 3: 265 (1797), nom. superfl.
Neottia australis var. chinensis Lindl., Bot. Reg. 7: t. 602 (1821).
Spiranthes pudica Lindl., Coll. Bot.: t. 30 (1821).
Neottia pudica (Lindl.) Sweet, Hort. Brit.: 383 (1827).
Spiranthes indica Lindl. ex Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 625 (1841), not validly publ.
Spiranthes australis var. pudica (Lindl.) F.Muell., Fragm. 10: 65 (1876).
Spiranthes neocaledonica Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 39: 51 (1906).
Spiranthes papuana Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 46 (1911).
Spiranthes aristotelea Merr., Philipp. J. Sci. 15: 230 (1919), nom. superfl.
Spiranthes spiralis (Lour.) Makino, J. Jap. Bot. 3: 25 (1926), nom. illeg.
Ibidium spirale (Lour.) Makino, J. Jap. Bot. 6: 37 (1929).
Spiranthes lancea var. chinensis (Lindl.) Hatus., J. Geobot. 16: 80 (1968).
Spiranthes sinensis f. autumnus Tsukaya, J. Pl. Res. 118: 17 (2005).
Spiranthes sinensis f. gracilis F.Maek. ex Tsukaya, J. Pl. Res. 118: 18 (2005), no type indicated.
A visitor to the PacLease exhibit at the National Private Truck Council convention in Cincinnati looks at a Peterbilt Model 330, a class 6 truck available with an innovative medium-duty leasing program called the PacLease Value Spec. Companies have a choice between the Peterbilt Model 330 and Kenworth T270. Powered by the PACCAR PX-7 engine, rated at 220 hp and matched with an Allison 5-speed automatic, the PacLease Value Spec is especially suited for the food and beverage industry. The new program, announced at the NPTC convention, is in response to growing demand in the U.S. and Canadian medium duty lease market – especially in the Class 6 segment since drivers are not required to have CDLs.