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1st April 2018. Pulling into Platform Four at Bury Bolton Street is LMS 5MT Crab 2-6-0 No.13065 with a service from Heywood. The Crab would be continueing its journey with an all stations stopping train to Rawtenstall.
It seems a long time a go that we saw LMS No.13065 in action as it was decided in 2018 that if it went for over-haul now it would not coincide with a City Of Wells [another ELR loco ] over-haul which would be the same year. As it turns out both locomotives could be out of action at the same time as the LMS 5MT Crab 2-6-0 No.13065 has just been pushed back and further back for unforseen circumstances. Hopefully the ELR will launch an appeal for the Crab when this lockdown has finished.
Bury Bolton Street Station is part of the East Lancashire Railway.
A charming little thing in gleaming condition too. I'm not quite sure of the name of this colour but a fair few 70s Fiats had it, little wonder when it suits this one so much. I didn't realise just how sunny it would be during our week there, so am rather pleased that my new camera did quite well given the circumstances.
In May, 1980, MILW 70C had run its last mile. It's in the dead line at Milwaukee, WI. Compare its condition to the in service photo of it that I took a bit more than 4 years earlier, as seen in the next photo.
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. ~ Erich Fromm
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Explore~thank you
Company/Owner: Luzon Cisco Transport, Inc.
Fleet/Bus Number: 801
Classification: Air-conditioned Provincial Bus
Coachbuilder: Autodelta Coach Builders, Inc.
Body Model: Volvo/Autodelta B7R Coach
Engine Model: Volvo D7E-290
Chassis Model: Volvo B7R (YV3R6R62**A)
Transmission: 6-speed Automatic Transmission
Suspension: Air Suspension
Seating Configuration: 2×2
Seating Capacity: 49
Franchise route: TBD
Route: Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija [CAB, NE]–Cubao, Quezon City [CUB, QC] via N1 (Maharlika Highway) / Plaridel–Pulilan Diversion Road / Old Cagayan Valley Road
Municipalities/cities passing: Santa Rosa/San Leonardo/Gapan City/San Miguel/San Ildefonso/San Rafael/Baliuag/Pulilan/Plaridel/Santa Rita (Guiguinto)
Type of Operation: Provincial Operation Public Utility Bus (Regular Class)
Area of Operation: Central Luzon (Region III)
Shot location: Plaridel–Pulilan Regional Road, Barangay Cut-cot, Pulilan, Bulacan
Date and time taken: May 23, 2018 (17:33H)
Notices:
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*** The specifications and routes (for provincial, inter-provincial, and city operation) mentioned above are subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice.
**** The vehicle's registration plate(s), conduction sticker(s), and/or persons (if applicable) were pixelated/blurred to prevent any conflict with the photographer, the bus company and/or to the car owner for their security and/or privacy purposes. So, don't use their plate number, conduction sticker, and vehicle tag as an evidence for any incident. And, I have taken this photo for bus fanatics, bus enthusiasts, and bus lovers purposes.
Perhaps it's time for a couple of words about this series...
I was moved to explore how our matriarchy, with our ever-changing roles in our society, reacts to change.
My observations come from interactions on the media, and social networks, which led to the exploration of a collective reaction towards individuals that break the norm, and yet are still somehow a part of our hearts and souls.
3. St. Bernard however says that this condition is no cause for discouragement. On the contrary, “Who is poorer in spirit than the man who nowhere in his own spirit finds any place to lay his head?” 766 (chap. 7) and above all “HE WHO FINDS NO PLEASURE IN HIMSELF MAY PLEASE GOD, AND HE WHO HATES HIS OWN HOUSE, MAY BE ENTERTAINED IN A HOUSE OF GLORY” 767 (cf. Letters of St. Thérèse768). This is a basic principle—from the evil that afflicts us we can hope to draw good and salvation by turning to God. Misery can make us blessed, not by itself, but because it humbles us, opens our hearts to receive the mercy of God, keeps us from trusting in ourselves and opens us entirely to the action of grace, if we are only meek in our will. “It is not misery, but compassion, which makes a man blessed; yet the proper object of compassion is misery. At least then let this misery make thee blessed, so that a low estate may be the road to humility.” 769 It is not necessary to have a strong will, but we must be meek and pliant, submitting to the divine action (841), willing to be guided, taught and commanded.
-The Cistercian Fathers and their monastic theology : initiation into the monastic tradition 8 / by Thomas Merton ; edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell ; preface by James Finley.
In beautiful condition and despite the rain a wonderful sight.
Taken during the Spring Steam Fayre on the WSR 2009
1950s-vintage medical building at 2265 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, California
The offices in this building are vacant, and the building has been surrounded by temporary fence. It appears that the building will be demolished and replaced with housing soon.
Flooring is concrete. Condition is little cracked.
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【話題】まだ間に合う。軽井沢千住博美術は館内撮影可能【11月30日迄】 - 建築グラビア
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Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa (軽井沢千住博美術館).
Architect : Ryue Nishizawa (設計：西沢立衛建築設計事務所).
Contractor : Shimizu Corporation (施工：清水建設、笹沢建設JV).
Completed : 2011 (竣工：2011年).
Structured : Steel frames (構造：鉄骨造).
Costs* : million USD (総工費：約億円). *USD/JPY=100.00
Use : Art museum (用途：美術館).
Height : ft (高さ：m).
Floor : 1 (階数：地上1階).
Owner : (発注者：).
Floor area : 22,800 sq.ft. (延床面積：2118.26㎡).
Building area : sq.ft. (建築面積：㎡).
Site area : 107,639 sq.ft. (敷地面積：10,000㎡).
Location : 815 Nagakuwa, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano, Japan (所在地：日本国長野県北佐久郡軽井沢町長倉815).
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Red Dead Nettle / lamium purpureum. Stanton Canal, Derbyshire. 11/04/20.
This was growing at the foot of the canal bridge wall, (a different location to the plants in previous images).
There was just the one clump of sprawling flower stems, all in fresh condition. Most still bore some tight magenta pink buds, one of which can be seen in this image. Viewed large you can notice how the flowers turn a lighter, brighter pink as they mature.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
ENGLISH :
I dedicate this series to Moroccan women. I want them to know all the good that I think of them! I do not comment, I just want you to read between the "images"
PS. Je serai absente pour quelques jours. A bientôt.
I'll bee absent for e few days. See you soon
Black-tailed Skimmer / orthetrum cancellatum. Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk. 09/06/16.
I found this strikingly fresh female Black-tailed Skimmer on a perfect summer day late one afternoon back in June. Whether she had emerged that day I don't know but she was in pristine condition so I think it likely.
There were a lot of dragonflies around a boggy area of rough grassland and reeds. Most were hyperactive and any perching they did was frustratingly brief. It was therefore with measured step that I approached this beauty, hardly daring to breathe. Thankfully she stayed put, allowing me the time to make some images. Eventually, disturbed by a fly, she zipped off low. I was delighted to have met up with her :-)
Peak Forest Driver Andy Jones lets mint condition 60059 "Swinden Dalesman" sound out its brand new Mirrlees MB275T power unit with a late running (due to no groundstaff) 6F05 Tunstead-Oakleigh Brunner Mond hoppers.
The Tug could be heard coming from over a mile away with its distictive Mirrlees throb reverberating through the Cheshire countryside.
Thanks yet again Andy for the progress report.
Before highways and railways, before pioneers....the land we know as the United States was truly a vast wilderness. To protect these last remaining areas, in 1984 Congress created the Paria Canyon - Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. Coyote Buttes' outstanding scenery, desert wildlife, colorful history, and opportunities for primitive recreation will remain free from the influence of man and are protected in this condition for future generations. Its 112,500 acres beckon adventurers who yearn for solitude, scenic splendor, and the chance to explore one of the most beautiful geologic formations in the world.
A permit is required to visit Coyote Buttes. Due to overwhelming demand, Coyote Buttes North ("The Wave") permits are available through a lottery. For additional information visit www.blm.gov/programs/recreation/permits-and-passes/lotter....
Photo by Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management.
#3 Reflections on the human mind
ON THE LIMITS OF HUMAN KNOWING
.how far can we reach and how true is our truth?
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Are we travellers? Explorers? Thinkers or simple sumnabulics? what is our life worth?
Btw: Apollo 13, was launched on 11.04.1970 exactly at 13:13 AM; so I think they weren't supersticous...
For this gorgous texture I'd like to thank Ishkamina
American postcard by American Postcard Company, no. 3900, 1998. Photo: New Line Cinema. Publicity still for Polyester (John Waters, 1981). Caption: Divine as "Francine Fishpaw," and STIV BATORS as "Bo-Bo Belsinger" in John Waters' Polyester, 1981. The film introduced "ODORAMA" which allowed the audience to share in 10-of the more penetrating odors that plagued poor "Francine".
Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by his stage name Divine (1945-1988), was an American actor, singer, and drag queen. He was closely associated with the independent filmmaker John Waters. Divine became the international icon of bad taste cinema.
Harris Glenn Milstead was born in 1945 in Baltimore, Maryland to a conservative middle-class family. His parents were Harris Bernard Milstead and Frances Milstead (née Vukovich). Their only child, his parents lavished almost anything that he wanted upon him, including food. He became overweight, a condition he lived with for the rest of his life. Divine preferred to use his middle name, Glenn, to distinguish himself from his father, and was referred to as such by his parents and friends. When he was 17, his parents sent him to a psychiatrist, where he first realised his sexual attraction to men as well as women, something then taboo in conventional American society. In 1963, he began attending the Marinella Beauty School, where he learned hair styling and, after completing his studies, gained employment at a couple of local salons, specialising in the creation of beehives and other upswept hairstyles.
Milstead developed an early interest in drag while working as a women's hairdresser. He eventually gave up his job and for a while was financially supported by his parents, who catered to his expensive taste in clothes and cars. They reluctantly paid the many bills that he ran up financing lavish parties where he would dress up in drag as his favourite celebrity, actress Elizabeth Taylor. By the mid-1960s he had embraced the city's countercultural scene. His friend from high school, John Waters gave him the name 'Divine' and the tagline of 'the most beautiful woman in the world, almost'. Waters later remarked that he had borrowed the name Divine from a character in Jean Genet's novel Our Lady of the Flowers (1943). Along with his friend David Lochary, Divine joined Waters' acting troupe, the Dreamlanders (which also included Mary Vivian Pearce and Mink Stole), and adopted female roles for their experimental short films. The first was Roman Candles (John Waters, 1966), which was shown 'triple projected' on three 8mm projectors running simultaneously but was never released commercially. Divine starred in drag as a smoking nun. Other short films were Eat Your Makeup (John Waters, 1968), and The Diane Linkletter Story (John Waters, 1969), filmed on Sunday afternoons. Again in drag, he took a lead role in Waters' first full-length film, Mondo Trasho (John Waters, 1969) Divine as an unnamed blonde woman who drives around town and runs over a hitchhiker. In their review of the film, the Los Angeles Free Press exclaimed that "The 300-pound (140 kg) sex-symbol Divine is undoubtedly some sort of discovery." In 1970, he travelled to San Francisco, California, a city which had a large gay subculture that attracted Divine, who was then embracing his homosexuality. Divine played the role of Lady Divine, the operator of an exhibit known as The Cavalcade of Perversion who turns to murdering visitors in Waters's film Multiple Maniacs. The film contained several controversial scenes, notably one which involved Lady Divine masturbating using a rosary while sitting inside a church. In another, Lady Divine kills her boyfriend and proceeds to eat his heart; in actuality, Divine bit into a cow's heart which had gone rotten from being left out on the set all day. At the end of the film, Lady Divine is raped by a giant lobster named Lobstora, an act that drives her into madness; she subsequently goes on a killing spree in Fell's Point before being shot down by the National Guard. Due to its controversial nature, Waters feared that the film would be banned and confiscated by the Maryland Censor Board, so avoided their jurisdiction by only screening it at non-commercial venues, namely rented church premises. Multiple Maniacs was the first of Waters's films to receive widespread attention, as did Divine; KSFX remarked that "Divine is incredible! Could start a whole new trend in films." Following his San Francisco sojourn, Divine returned to Baltimore and participated in Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972). Designed by Waters to be an exercise in poor taste, the film featured Divine as Babs Johnson, living in a pink trailer with her egg-eating grandmother, chicken-loving son and voyeuristic daughter. Babs claims to be 'the filthiest person alive' and she is forced to prove her right to the title from challengers, Connie (Mink Stole) and Raymond Marble (David Lochary). In one scene, the Marbles send Babs a turd in a box as a birthday present, and in order to enact this scene, Divine defecated into the box the night before. The final scene in the film proved particularly infamous, involving Babs eating fresh dog feces; Divine later told a reporter, "I followed that dog around for three hours just zooming in on its asshole," waiting for it to empty its bowels so that they could film the scene. The scene became one of the most notable moments of Divine's acting career, and he later complained of people thinking that "I run around doing it all the time". The film proved a hit on the U.S. midnight movie circuit, became a cult classic, and established Divine's fame within the American counterculture.
Divine returned to San Francisco, where he and Mink Stole starred in a number of small-budget plays at the Palace Theater as part of drag troupe The Cockettes, including Divine and Her Stimulating Studs, Divine Saves the World, Vice Palace, Journey to the Center of Uranus and The Heartbreak of Psoriasis. In 1974, Divine returned to Baltimore to film Waters's next motion picture, Female Trouble, in which he played the lead role. Divine was unable to appear in Waters's next feature, Desperate Living (John Waters, 1977), despite the fact that the role of Mole McHenry had been written for him. This was because he had returned to working in the theatre as the scheming prison matron Pauline in Tom Eyen's play Women Behind Bars and its sequel, The Neon Woman. While in London in 1978, Divine attended as the guest of honour at the fourth Alternative Miss World pageant, a 'mock' event founded by Andrew Logan in 1972 in which 'drag queens' – including men, women and children – competed for the prize. The event was filmed by director Richard Gayer, whose subsequent film, entitled Alternative Miss World, premiered at the Odeon in London's Leicester Square as well as featuring at the Cannes Film Festival, both events which were attended by Divine. Continuing his cinematic work, he starred in Polyester (John Waters, 1981) as Francine Fishpaw. Unlike earlier roles, Fishpaw was not a strong female but a meek and victimized woman who falls in love with her dream lover, Todd Tomorrow, played by Tab Hunter. The film was released in 'Odorama', accompanied by 'scratch 'n' sniff' cards for the audience to smell at key points in the film. In 1981, Divine embarked on a career in the disco industry by producing a number of Hi-NRG tracks, most of which were written by Bobby Orlando. He achieved international chart success with hits like 'You Think You're a Man', 'I'm So Beautiful', and 'Walk Like a Man', all of which were performed in drag. The next Divine film, Lust in the Dust (Paul Bartel, 1985), reunited him with Tab Hunter and was Divine's first film not directed by John Waters. Set in the Wild West during the nineteenth century, the film was a sex comedy that starred Divine as Rosie Velez, a promiscuous woman who works as a singer in saloons and competes for the love of Abel Wood (Tab Hunter) against another woman (Lainie Kazan). A parody of the Western Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946), the film was a moderate critical success. Divine followed this production with a very different role, that of gay male gangster Hilly Blue in Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985), starring Kris Kristofferson and Keith Carradine. The script was written with Divine in mind. Although not a major character in the film, Divine had been eager to play the part because he wished to perform in more male roles and leave behind the stereotype of simply being a female impersonator. Reviews of the film were mixed, as were the evaluations of Divine's performance. The he reunited with John Waters for Hairspray (John Waters, 1988), which represented his breakthrough into mainstream cinema. Set in Baltimore during the 1960s, Hairspray revolved around self-proclaimed "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local television show and rallies against racial segregation. As he had in Female Trouble, Divine took on two roles in the film, one of which was female and the other male. The first of these, Edna Turnblad, was Tracy's loving mother; the other was the racist head of the station that airs the Corny Collins show. Hairspray was only a moderate success upon its initial theatrical release, earning a modest gross of $8 million. However, it managed to attract a larger audience on home video in the early 1990s and became a cult classic. Divine's final film role was in the low-budget comedy horror Out of the Dark (Michael Schroeder, 1989), produced with the same crew as Lust in the Dust. Appearing in only one scene within the film, he played the character of Detective Langella, a foulmouthed policeman investigating the murders of a killer clown. Out of the Dark would be released the year after Divine's death. On 7 March 1988, three weeks after Hairspray was released nationwide, Divine was staying at the Regency Plaza Suites Hotel in Los Angeles. He was scheduled to film a guest appearance the following day as Uncle Otto on the Fox network's television series Married... with Children in the second season wrap-up episode. Shortly before midnight, he died in his sleep, at age 42, of an enlarged heart (according to Wikipdia or respiratory failure caused by sleep apnea (according to IMDb). It was probably a combination. Described by People magazine as the 'Drag Queen of the Century', Divine has remained a cult figure, particularly within the LGBT community, and has provided the inspiration for fictional characters, artworks, and songs. Various books and documentary films devoted to his life have also been produced, including Divine Trash (1998) and I Am Divine (2013), written by Divine's manager and friend Bernard Jay. Frances Milstead subsequently cowrote her own book about Divine, entitled My Son Divine (2001), with Kevin Heffernan and Steve Yeager. His mother's continued relationship with the gay community was later documented in a film Frances: A Mother Divine (Tim Dunn, Michael O'Quinn, 2010)
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.