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MPV Jura was built at Ferguson's Shipyard, Port Glasgow. She was launched in 2005 and entered service in March 2006. Currently the largest vessel in the fleet, she is 84 metres in length and has a gross tonnage of 2,181. She has a crew of 17, a top speed of 18 knots and is used mainly for offshore enforcement tasks.
The Jura type are offshore patrol vessels with a displacement of 2,200 tonnes. These vessels can stay on effective patrol for up to 30 days although the normal patrol length remains at 21 days. The first vessel of the type, FPV Jura, was constructed by Ferguson Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow, joining the fleet in March 2006.
In the tendering for the next two Jura type vessels to be built, the Scottish Executive awarded the contract to a Polish shipbuilder rather than Fergusons, sparking strong criticism from the Scottish National Party. FPV Hirta, was constructed in Remontowa Shipyard, Poland, and launched on 17 August 2007.
The vessel joined the fleet in May 2008.
The Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (SFPA) was an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. The SFPA is responsible for both deterring illegal fishing in Scottish waters, as well as monitoring the compliance of the fisheries industry in Scotland with the relevant Scottish and European Union laws on fisheries.
The Agency has 18 Fishery Offices, a fleet of 3 Fishery Protection Vessels, and 2 aircraft for the purposes of monitoring and enforcement in the waters around Scotland. The letters "SF" appearing in the Agency's ensign relate to the words "Sea Fisheries" as the agency is part of the UK Sea Fisheries Inspectorate (SFI).
On 1 April 2009, the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency and Fisheries Research Services were merged with the Scottish Government Marine Directorate to form Marine Scotland, part of the core Scottish Government.
The SFPA is now known as Marine Scotland Compliance and the Fisheries Research Services are known as Marine Scotland Science.
Exploring these old asylums is a unique experience. The feeling I get going through, seeing and imagining, is rather complex. One word wont do justice. But a number of words work: Peaceful, creepy, strangely nostalgic, comfortable, sad, insane, hopeful.
The things I find the most intriguing are not the architectural details of the exteriors nor the absolute symmetry of the interiors. It's the views of the exteriors from the interiors. One can not help but feel connected to those who were in these walls, hoping for peace within themselves. The windows themselves I find to be so honest as to the situation there. The view out the windows is vast and open and freeing, but between the patient and that view is a complex grid of protection. This is very symbolic, in my opinion, of mental illness, the mental health system, and all it involves
Current listening (to fit the mood of this piece):
Boards Of Canada- The Color of the Fire
Bhutan. Punakha dzong.
Protection mandala: Srid-Pa-Ho.
It's a Diagram of Divination, depicting the patterns of the Eight Trigrams (eight combinations of three lines, formerly used in divination) and the 12 symbolic animals of Chinese astrology.
Tibetan astrology depicts the signs and symbols of the universe in this traditional format, possibly introduced from China as early as the seventh century and popular in Tibet since the seventeenth century. The central figure is a large golden tortoise, representing the Bodhisattva of Knowledge, upon whom are drawn various geomantic diagrams, such as the nine magic squares and symbols of the eight planets.
The Srid-pa-ho is a wheel of protection based on traditional Tibetan calendar charts. Calendar charts are viewed as auspicious representations of natural cycles associated with stability, predictability, and regularity. The symbols they bear, all closely related to time, counteract the negative influence associated with planets, seasons, cosmic phenomena, and natural events and support stability and balance in nature and in human lives.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-326R
Government Publishing Office: Production of Secure Credentials for the Department of State and U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Out of the Archives: Exhibition test of the High Pressure Fire Service on West Street and West 12th Street. Throughout 1908 the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity (DWSGE) ran a series of tests of its new High Pressure Fire Service system in conjunction with the NYC Fire Department.
Between 1904 and 1908 the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity designed and built the NYC High Pressure Fire Service system. Comprised of pumping stations, distribution pipes and high pressure hydrants, the system operated independently of the regular water distribution system and delivered water at pressures up to 300 pounds per inch. (Image ID: LS336)
EU Civil Protection officials participating in a coordination meeting in Poland.
As of 17 May, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism has delivered over 30,000 tonnes of in-kind assistance to Ukraine via logistical hubs in Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.
© European Union, 2022
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly Amanita, is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The quintessential toadstool, it is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually deep red mushroom, one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture. Several subspecies, with differing cap colour have been recognised to date, including the brown regalis (considered a separate species), the yellow-orange flavivolata, guessowii, and formosa, and the pinkish persicina. Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2008 show several sharply delineated clades which may represent separate species.
Most of the aerial personnel and overhead on the 1952 Blowdown and Bark Beetle Survey. Oregon. For the list of names on the back of the photo see the next image.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1952
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Region 6, Forest Health Protection, Aerial Survey Program slide collection.
For additional information see:
Greeley, A.W., Wright, K.H. and Pope, R.B. 1953. Final report on the 1952 blowdown bark beetle survey in the Douglas-fir region of Oregon and Washington. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. Portland Forest Insect Lab.
For geospatial data collected during annual aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
For related historic program documentation see:
archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...
Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.
For additional historic forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Dispatcher. Western spruce budworm control project. Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Oregon.
Photo by and courtesy of: William M. Ciesla
Date: 1988
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: William M. Ciesla collection; Fort Collins, Colorado.
Bill Ciesla summarized this project in his 2005 Founder's Award address (wfiwc.org/awards/founders-award/speech/ciesla):
"Portland, OR - 1988-90
Within days after our return from Chile, I learned that I had been selected to fill the vacancy of Director of Pest Management in R-6, a position that had been vacant for nearly two years. A major outbreak of western spruce budworm was underway in the Region, with several million acres of forests suffering defoliation. Plans were already underway for a large suppression project and I arrived just in time for Regional Forester Jim Torrence to announce that, based on the Environmental Analysis that had been completed, he would authorize treatment of up to 1 million areas providing they met the pre-spray insect population densities that had been established.
That project took up virtually all of my time for my first six months in R-6. We successfully treated 600,000 acres, all with undiluted formulations of Bacillus thuringiensis. For the first time, we adapted the Incident Command System (ICS), an organizational structure for managing large wildfire suppression projects, to insect suppression. We established five Incident Command units and an Area Command in Portland. The project involved deployment of over 70 helicopters, a fleet of turbine powered fixed-wing aircraft and over 700 people. I believe it still stands as the largest single western spruce budworm suppression project that involved exclusive use of a biological insecticide. The project was a great success and all of the units treated met the post treatment criteria of < 1 budworm larva/15 inch branch. We conducted smaller western spruce budworm suppression projects in 1989 and 1990."
For information about earlier western spruce budworm activity and control projects in Oregon and Washington see:
Dolph, Robert E. 1980. Budworm activity in Oregon and Washington, 1947-1979. R6-FIDM-033-1980. Portland, OR: US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Forest Insect and Disease Management. 54 p.
For additional R6 pesticide application project documentation see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
View of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge from the Salish Sea. Mt.Baker is in the background. For more information visit
www.fws.gov/refuge/protection_island/
Photo by Brent Lawrence / USFWS
The shot-peened torsion spring (life span improvement) is powder coated for corrosion protection and high appearance.
The BC government and the BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals (BC SPCA) had a message for dog owners as they hosted Animal Protection Day at the Parliament buildings today, leaving pets in hot cars is not cool.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016AGRI0021-000765
1. wix book/ (analog dossier of clues, maps, correspondence, numbers,
addresses, thoughts, potions, research, so on)
2. elastic yarn and needle
3. young living essential oil (valor)
for electrical realignment/frequency shifter
4. black tourmaline (protection stone)
5. ancestral research
6. xacto knife
7. sunglasses (morgenthal frederics)
Filling the cabin completely with helium balloons is the latest automotive anti-theft technology.
Note all the ends of the balloons are tied around the mirror.
The personnel protection shields are used when insulating the line is not necessary, but operating temperatures require safeguarding personnel from coming into contact with the pipe. These shields are designed for 8" pipe operating at 800°F, and are made of 304 stainless expanded steel rolled to a 20" diameter.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations agent patrols in an EC120 helicopter checking from the air for border crossers, drug smugglers and any other illegal activities along the Laredo, Texas border.
Photographer: Donna Burton
English
Taken for this weeks Twitter Photo Challenge, with the subject "Reflection".
Norwegian
Tatt til denne ukens TwPhCh, "Refleksjon". Kan vel si at bildet var litt inspirert etter mine forsøk på TwPhCh017 (Abstrakt) og fortsatte med å bruke en CD for å lage lys. Men denne gangen plasserte jeg også ett par med solbriller foran og knipset i vei med forskjellige innstillinger. Croppet litt i Photoshop, ellers ikke behandlet på noen andre måter.
Sitter stor pris på tilbakemeldinger :)
(for LowePro Photo Comp)
Wanted to have three associated images... and (apart from camera bags) footwear was the only other thing I could think of that exhibited all three qualities! (The socks are just an added bonus)
Lighting: 2 x Interfit EX150 strobes. One directly above camera pointing at feet, one to the right rear lighting the backdrop.
Stockholm Monsters
Book :
Robert Longo
MoMA
2025
CD :
Glenn Branca
The Ascension
99 Records
99-01
Producer . Ed Bahlman
Artwork . Robert Longo
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GMA
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