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Scania K400EB6, Irizar i6 (C53Ft)
LTG Coliseum Coaches, Southampton
King Henry I Street, Portsmouth
08 February 2018
L'amas de galaxies ACT-CL J0102-4915 (Hubble) est situé à 7 milliards d'années-lumière de la Terre dans la constellation du Phénix (Phoenix). Il contient plusieurs centaines de galaxies grouillant sous l'effet d'une attraction gravitationnelle collective. La masse totale de l'amas est estimée à 3 millions de milliards d'étoiles comme notre Soleil (soit environ 3 000 fois la masse de notre propre galaxie, la Voie lactée), bien que la majeure partie de cette masse soit dissimulée sous forme de matière noire (son emplacement étant indiqué dans la superposition bleue). Comme la matière noire n'émet aucun rayonnement, sa gravité déforme les images des galaxies lointaines de l'arrière-plan, tel un miroir déformant. L'amas a été surnommé Le Gros (El Gordo en espagnol) lorsque des observations aux rayons X et des études cinématiques ont suggéré qu'il était inhabituellement massif pour l'époque où il existait dans l'univers primitif, l'amas ayant subit une fusion violente entre deux amas plus petits (cf. NASA, ESA, J. Jee Université de Californie Davis, J. Hughes Université Rutgers, F. Menanteau Université Rutgers et Université de l'Illinoi, Urbana-Champaign, C. Sifon Observatoire de Leiden, R. Mandelbum Université Carnegie Mellon, L. Barrientos Université catholique du Chili)et K. Ng Université de Californie Davis).
Pour situer l'amas de galaxies ACT-CL J0102-4915 (Hubble) e dans la constellation du Phénix (Phoenix) :
In times past a small creek changed it's course and undercut the the bank, damaging this house making it unlivable.
Abandoned, near Mountaindale in NW Oregon.
Nunspeet deze keer ;-)
ACTS 1606 (nog steeds lekker schoon) komt met trein 50063 vlak voor station Nunspeet langs zetten.
Btje jammer - panto in portaal - maar het was dit of de trein er niet helemaal op (my bad).
This time Nunspeet - next station after Harderwijk towards Zwolle.
ACTS 1606 (still clean) passes with train 50063 (30 Sgns full loaded container) just before Nunspeet station going to Harderwijk and final destination will be Rotterdam Maasvlakte.
Leyland Atlantean / Northern Counties
Delaine of Bourne
New to Delaine of Bourne 3/1973 as 72
*Scan From 35mm Slide Won From Ebay*
After taking Hayden's shirt and eating all the brownies herself, Elsa was a bit sorry and cooked some chocolate cookies for Hayden. She expects Hayden wants to be her friend again...
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Credits to my 8 years old daughter Elsa, who made the cookies with PlayDoh for this picture (she loves helping mommy when I'm taking pics of my dollies)
Blythe a Day. February 2025 Day 17
Approx. 100,000 personnes ont défilé dans le calme à Copenhague le 12/12/2009 contre le sommet COP15, sous le thème "Changeons le système, pas le climat". Après quelques incidents initiaux en fin de cortège dus à quelques membres du black block, près d'un millier de personnes ont cependant été bloquées puis arrêtées après plus de 3h assis par terre, dans le froid et sans accès à des toilettes, générant une forte polémique.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album et de parcourir les photos par ordre chronologique / Please read the explanation at the beginning of the set and view the pictures in chronological order.
Part of COP15: Climate Justice
Traditional dancers perform for tourists in the park in Valladolid Mexico [town center park - Parque Francisco Canton Rosado]. Going back over the photos from the trip into Mexico and picking out some more angles and maybe even better shots than I posted earlier.
I am thinking of them like a wrestling double-act. If anybody could take on the UBU/Tusk Juggernaut, it's this pair. That Doge is a menace.
Equal opposing madnesses, even, though I know which side I would be on, or rather am on, having yet to affect sublime indifference.
So here they are, the oiled-up marathoners, Spartans 'R' Us, assuming the 'Ready Position', even, with the lead firmly placed in their revolving pencils (there's an image).
Rest assured, both are wearing loincloths over (not backless) athletic pouches (Invisible details), and no jiggery pokery is suggested (none at all, at all, to be sure).
CIGAAUH? (Can I get an Amen up here?)
Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution's physical object collection, he also extensively photographed pages of books on topics of personal interest to him as a way of copying the material for future use. Smillie also photographed letters and documents as a method of preserving the Smithsonian's records.
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie's duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum's installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie's documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution's art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1890
Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) - Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession number: RU95_Box77_0030
With the Tea Act in 1773, tea was still actually cheaper in the American Colonies than it was in Britain. By this time, however, the colonists in Boston were frustrated and angered over the perpetual taxes from the mother-country. Enlightenment ideas mixed with salutary neglect led the colonist believe more in their own sovereignty. Britain, however, saw these taxes as the colonist paying their fair share for the empire
To get out of my malaise, my wife suggested that I do a bit of a walk around of Civic with my camera.
These are the photos I captured.
Oh, the furore. The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act has photographers up in arms after pundits released broad-brush statements to the effect that ‘The government have made a law that removes my copyright control from my photographs’.
UK photographers have responded angrily, saying (in a variety of ways) that the new Act means that anyone anywhere can strip the data from a photograph that they want to use, declare it an ‘orphaned work’ (one for which the originator cannot be found) and use it as they wish without any payment. So once again the government are vilified in the electronic press and on forums because someone took what someone else said as correct.
This vitriol is fairly typical of our reactionary times and, as is so often the case, based on opinions that are not quite correct because the ‘respected authors’ have reacted to the headline without examining the content.
ERR has to comply with the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, in which there are already certain provisions for the use of images and textual extracts without payment to the originator or author or, as appropriate, any estate. UK law already complies with the Berne Convention.
Amongst other things, the Act repeals S52 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, which limited a design’s copyright period to ‘the life of the originator plus 25 years’ – a measure taken despite international law maintaining the copyright for 70 years after the originator’s death. The UK will fall into line with the international community on design, as it already does with other creative works – such as photographs.
Ranting about ‘diligent search’ quality – in that people wanting to use an image will just say that they conducted a diligent search – is such a waste of time and effort. The search is to be conducted under an existing commercial process, approved by government, following application (and payment, of course) from an intending user. Part of the payment will, no doubt, cover the administrative cost of the search with the remainder going into a Royalties nest-egg in case the originator suddenly springs up to claim misuse. The original suggestion that the forthcoming 'Use Authorising' department should conduct searches has been blocked on two grounds.
1.HMG lacks the expertise necessary to do the job efficiently.
2.HMG does not wish to be seen as competing with existing commercial agencies.
Obviously this will all reduce the time and money spent on litigation for copyright breach which, while not mentioned in the committee’s impact assessment, has to be a consideration because of the corresponding reduction of the burden on the Court Service.
The main purpose of this part of the bill is to enable and encourage archives and museums to monetise orphaned works that gather dust in dark corners of storage areas.
I’ve yet to see anyone complaining about the part of the Act that removes the onus on retailers to inform TV Licensing of any sales or rentals of television sets (Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 (as amended)) because it has become an onerous burden and in part, because of international sales, unenforceable.
Ficha Técnica:
Cliente: ACT
Produto: Anúncio Institucional
Campanha: Outono/Inverno 2008
Direção de Arte: Gustavo Ruiz
Atendimento: Marco Dib
Aprovação: Hector Santos
Today 11/7/17 I visited the harbour a little later than normal around 18pm, the weather was poor with only one PSV due to arrive within the hour, hence I listened in to VTS on my scanner, eavesdropping I picked up that four ships would be leaving to head back to sea shortly.
The sky was cloudy and denied the sun at quay side though still let sun shine through at the exit of the harbour at the north pier, hence the light issues with my captures, anyways I've posted a few of the ones I took to enjoy on my Flickr, though doubt I'll visit in conditions such as tonights again, I keep telling myself this : )
Vessel STANDARD VIKING (IMO: 9363728, MMSI: 232007485) is an offshore tug/supply ship built in 2007 and currently sailing under the flag of United Kingdom. STANDARD VIKING has 93m length overall and beam of 19m. Her gross tonnage is 4183 tons.
Standard Drilling increases fleet to 10 PSVs
S.D. Standard Drilling has made plans to buy three large Norwegian-built platform supply vessels (PSVs) on a wholly owned basis, increasing its fleet to 10 PSVs.
The company informed on Thursday that, through wholly owned subsidiaries, it has agreed to acquire the three ST-216L CD PSVs Volstad Viking, Volstad Supplier and Volstad Princess from Volstad Shipping.
The vessels are large PSVs, all built at Aker Brattvaag, Norway in 2007-2008, with 1,060m2 deck space and equipped with ice class (ICE- 1B) capabilities. The vessels are to be acquired for a total en-bloc consideration of $40 million.
Following the acquisition, the company will control a fleet of 10 Norwegian built PSVs. To remind, earlier in January, Standard Drilling bought interest in two platform supply vessels.
Martin Nes, Chairman of the company, said: “The vessels grow our asset base and fleet significantly and are favorably priced at $13.3m per unit, representing a discount of 67% to $40.6m actual newbuild price and a discount of 47% to the 25-year current newbuild parity of a 9 year old vessel with an implied value of $25m.”
He also added: “The vessels have an impeccable operating track record and enable the company to enter the Norwegian market. With their ice class capabilities the vessels are also likely to be deployed for operations in harsh/sub-Arctic regions.”
Fletcher Shipping will act as technical and commercial manager for the vessels. The acquisition of the vessels is expected to be completed, subject to inspection, in February 2017. It will be financed through the company’s cash holding, the share contributions from the subsequent offers and (to the extent necessary) a credit facility.
In connection with the acquisition of the vessels, the company will enter into a six months revolving credit facility at market terms with Saga Tankers totaling $10 million in order to secure the company’s available liquidity reserves.