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The rugged central mountainous terrain of Taiwan Island has restrained its population and socio-economical growth that make the economic activities developed mostly along the plains of the West Coast areas. For years, the increasing demands for North-South intercity transportation had attracted much attention from the Government to work out the best solution. An efficient high speed and mass transportation system is therefore greatly needed to meet the anticipated demand in the intercity and regional daily commuting and business trips. The idea of linking the north with the south by a high-speed rail service was first thought of as early as in the seventies. After many years of strategic and route analyses, the HSR alignment and station locations were finally determined in 1992 by the Executive Yuan.
The Taiwan North-South High Speed Rail Project was initially planned to build as a public sector project, bearing the full responsibilities of the government Due to the increased public fiscal burdens, the Legislative Yuan withdrew the budget allocated to the HSR Project and later Government decided to have the HSR Project built by a private sector venture with a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model. The Encouragement Statute stating the required rules and policies for the project was passed in December 1994. A tender invitation for Private Participation in construction and operation of Taiwan North-South High Speed Rail Project was thus made by the Government on October 29, 1996. With a construction value of US$ 18 billion, the HSR Project is undoubtedly the largest privately managed and funded BOT Project in the world at the time and perhaps even today.
Taiwan High Speed Rail Consortium was formed in November 1996 to bid for the HSR BOT Project and was selected the Best Applicant in September 1997. Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) was incorporated in May 1998 as the Concessionaire to build and operate the HSR service. In July 23, 1998, the agreements were signed between MOTC (representing the ROC Government) and the THSRC, which have granted THSRC a concession to finance, construct, and operate the High Speed Rail System for a period of 35 years and a concession for HSR station area development for a period of 50 years. The HSR will link Taipei to Kaohsiung at a total length of 345km with 90 minutes traveling time. During the first stage of the operation, eight stations of the high speed rail will be operated, namely, Taipei, Banciao, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung (Zuoying), and by 2010, four more stations will be open, i.e., Nangang, Miaoli, Changhua and Yunlin.
The “9/21” earthquake in 1999 had resulted in releasing the contracts of the civil works due to the concerns of the design and construction methods. In March 2000, the first contract of the civil works was awarded and began its construction in August of the same year. With the great employment opportunities generated from the civil construction works, station and depot developments, trackworks and E&M core system, THSRC do bring the significant benefits directly and indirectly to the local economy and also caused the enhancement in the quality and technology of project management.
The Roll-Out Ceremony for the Taiwan High Speed Rail 700T trainsets took place in January 2004 at Kobe, Japan. It was the first time that the Shinkansen was exported its system to the foreign country. A test run was jointly held by the Taiwan Shinkansen Corporation and THSRC at HSR Tainan Station in January 2005, it was heralding the coming age of the high speed rail service with the vision of enabling people of Taiwan to live in an “one-day peripheral circle”.
By looking back at the history of the transportation developments in Taiwan, we realized that building any form of transportation system, regardless it is a harbor, railway or highway; which always have the immediate and long-term impacts on its regional development, an efficient and safe transportation would definitely change the habit, attitude and lifestyle of the society.
It is without saying that the benefits brought by the Taiwan High Speed Rail are a fast and convenient way of the trans-island travel linking north to south of Taiwan, and it also brings people together leading to an prosperous and fulfilled life.
We keep chickens. One of them has started getting broody and is developing a number of eggs.
Unfortunately this egg was damaged - possibly she knew it wasn't going to survive - had been pecked open and put away from the rest of the nest.
The developing embryo is about 2 weeks old.
As the egg was damaged I emptied the contents and you can see the chick developing in the membrane. What remained of the yolk had presumably been eaten by the rest of the chickens. The chick is attached to the egg by a distinctive blood vessel.
My first roll in developing colour C41 film (I used Fuji Superia Xtra400 rated at 100) in HC110 Dilution B for 10 minutes (or is it 20 mins?). I had no solid reference for the developing times so as the Malays say it: hantam keromo ajer ler (Translation: to heck with it)..
Some frames in the roll showed flat or uneven development or streaks but the rest (especially outdoor ones) are ok.
These are some of the succesful ones. I appreciate constructive comments and critiques.
Thanks in advance...:)
Was quite pleased to find this tree with developing fruit (samaras). Like other elms, it flowers before leaves have emerged. These are the female flowers/early fruit on one twig. I did not notice any male flowers, but this was the only twig I could reach
American Elm - Ulmus americana
Though devastated by Dutch Elm disease, this species can still be found occasionally in bottomlands in my area.
Will Cook has good photos of buds and flowers (Orange Co., NC 3/9/08.)
www.carolinanature.com/trees/ulam.html
I need to go back to get a habitus shot.
The common Winged Elm, Ulmus alata, is also in flower now--its female flowers are elongated with a "beak".
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Developed with Kodak D-76 at 1:1 for 10:00 at 68 degrees with 1 inversion every 15 seconds. Fixed with Kodak Fixer.
Scanned in with a Canon 80D with a custom film jig and studio strobe. Converted to a positive image with a film profile developed specificially for this emulsion and Simple Image Tools.
Rapier is a British surface-to-air missile (SAM) developed for the British Army and RAF. Entering service in 1971, it eventually replaced all other AA weapons in Army service. As the expected air threat moved from medium-altitude strategic missions to low-altitude strikes, the fast reaction time and high manoeuvrability of the Rapier made it more formidable. Following various upgrades, it remained the UK's primary air-defence weapon until it began to be replaced by the new, longer-range Sky Sabre system in 2021; it remains in service with eight foreign customers.
With sales to the then-Imperial Iranian Armed Forces came an additional requirement for a mobile version of Rapier. BAC responded by adapting the Rapier system to fit on the M548, a cargo-carrier version of the ubiquitous M113 APC. Development started in 1974 as Tracked Rapier, but had not yet been delivered when the Shah fell from power in 1978. The vehicles were later purchased by the British Army.
The first public showing of Tracked Rapier was at the 1977 Paris Air Show, as a static display unit. The first Tracked Rapiers entered service with 11 (Sphinx) Air Defence Battery, of 22 Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1983 in Napier Barracks near Dortmund.
The conversion was relatively simple; the launch unit was placed on the extreme rear of the cargo platform at the rear of the M548 carrier, and the tracking system placed inside the cabin at the front of the vehicle, projecting through the roof of one of the turret bustles. The optical tracker was operated from the left side of the crew cabin, while on the right were the driver and tactical controller. The crew cabin was quite cramped as a result, with the three crewmembers and all of the equipment stuffed into an area originally intended for two men. From moving to firing took only 30 seconds, a tremendous improvement over Towed Rapier, which required at least 15 minutes to prepare. The biggest difference between towed and tracked Rapier was that Tracked Rapier's launcher had eight missile rails compared with the four of the towed system. Unfortunately the equipment also greatly slowed the vehicle, with cross-country performance reduced to about 15 km/h.
There was no room for the Blindfire radar on a single M548, so this was instead towed or carried on a separate M548. Feeding data to the control system in the firing unit thus required more set-up time to connect the two vehicles. With less internal hardware, the support vehicle was also tasked with carrying field kits, rations and water.
After entering service the Tracked Rapiers were upgraded several times to follow the upgrades being introduced to all Rapier systems. The latest version included a new helmet-mounted sight that allowed the tactical controller to quickly slew the tracker onto the target while standing out of the other roof-mounted turret bustle.
During the 1990-91 Gulf War, 12 and 16 Regiment Royal Artillery tracked batteries, combined to provide Tracked Rapier support to deployed armoured regiments. Tracked Rapier was retired in the early 1990s. It has since been replaced in the mobile role by Starstreak missile launchers mounted on the Alvis Stormer.
49KB47 seen above in 2009 was part of a mobile display of vehicles at the Tank Museum at Bovington. It remains in the Museum's Reserve Collection.
28 September 2022 - On the opening day of the 55th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors, Governors from Pacific developing member countries met with ADB Management. ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa attended the event.
Levi 511 Commuters
Canon Al-1 + 35/3.5
Ilford FP4+
Pull & Bear Cardholder
iPhone 4S
Moleskine Week to view Diary
Zebra F301
Jagermeister
laguardia, new york city, ny
taken 12 august 2024
mamiya 7ii
mamiya 43mm f/4.5
kentmere 400
+1 dev
Scanned with dslr
Home developed
kodak d76
8min 23sec/26º
Canonet QL17 40/1.7
Kodak ImageLink Technical film
Exposed like ISO32
Developing R09 1:100, 20C, 40min.
Developed in Microdol-X 1:3 16 MIn. 75 F.
Camera: Pentax K-1000
Lens: SMC Pentax-M 1.4/50
Film: Legacy Pro 100
Scanned from lith print. Arista Liquid Lith Developer. Fomatone MG Warmtone RC 332
SEE THE CAMERA AT THE LINK BELOW:
Alnmouth, Northumberland.
Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim on Fujicolor C200, home developed in Tetenal C41 Rapid.
All taken from my Olympus Trip 35 on Fuji 400
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I didn't crop this but just posted to show what can occur. Just this frame out of a full roll had this streak. Of course I only took the one frame of this shot. Fils like that, unpredictable.
my neighbor found a nice polaroid spectra at a yard sale. It came with film. :) $5. Could not resist. Now if she finds any film at yard sales I will have a camera for it. This was one of the shots I took with the film. Well, before it developed all the way. I liked the ghostly look of her. Looked like a miraculous Mary sighting in a water stain or something.
After this rubber vase. Because the only thing sillier than a rubber vase is a paper one.
From a circle, heptagonal symmetry. Crease pattern.
These two photos, from winter in Wilsonville, are from my first rolls that i developed at home. I was just happy that I didn't crease the film and that images actually appeared. Can't wait to do more.
camera: hasselblad 500 cm
film: kodak TMAX 400
processed using Ilford chemicals
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