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BBVA Compass Stadium is an American soccer-specific stadium located in Houston, Texas that is home to the Houston Dynamo, a Major League Soccer club, the Houston Dash of the National Women's Soccer League, and to Texas Southern Tigers football.
The recently repainted Compass Buses vehicle was on KCC/ESCC Contracted Route 228/229 to and from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, and a Thank You this vehicles driver and most of his passengers for the freindly wave.
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Compass Bus took over service 32 on 1st June 2015, following previous operator Arriva's decision its financial performance was not good enough - Compass won the resulting Surrey CC tender process.
Four new Enviro200s were acquired for the route. One of them, SK15 HBE, is seen here in Shalford, en-route to Guildford.
King's Road, Shalford, Surrey.
Part of the long gone Compass Cafe Truck stop.
Some of the clientele enjoying their evening meal whilst soaking up the last of the spring sunshine.
One of the many roadside eateries that fell victim to planners dreams and business greed.
1st May 1987
A1
Closterworth
Lincs
Compass Royston: (FL02 ZXG) a Jonckheere Modulo bodied Volvo B7R, painted in white fleet livery and captured here outside Carlisle Railway Station.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 29th May 2010.
Ref No: IMG_8078/JL.
67027 100718 Carlisle CT Midland Fellsman
Rattling over the pointwork into platform 1 at Carlisle is 67027 with Compass Tours Midland Fellsman. Compass Tours ran fairly straight forward, out and back tours which appealed to the general public as well as enthusiasts with the philosophy that you sell them cheap they will fill and it worked. There were no frills but everyone had a good day out.
Some trains employed 67's, like this one, and others catered to the organisers wish for Class 47's to everywhere they could get them.
18th July 2010
Compass Bus GX62 COA lays over on Cranleigh High Street between journeys on the 42.
Behind, Arriva Kent & Surrey 3926 (GK51 SZD) pulls up with a 53 to Ewhurst.
High Street, Cranleigh, Surrey.
Compass Travel ADL Enviro200 MMC YX21RTV is seen here crossing Old Steine, Brighton working the 37B to Bristol Estate.
Compass Bus - Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 - YN13 GDY seen on Woodbridge Road, Guildford operating service 25 to Cranleigh on July 18th 2022
Compass Royston - BM68 AHD seen in York operating a Rail Replacement service to Northallerton on October 25th 2025
American postcard by Fotofolio, N.Y., N.Y, no. RE17. Photo: Marcia Resnick, 1981.
John Belushi (1949-1982) was an American actor and comedian. Belushi was a member of the original cast of the sketch programme Saturday Night Live and later appeared in successful comedies such as Animal House and The Blues Brothers. He died at the age of 33 from the effects of an accidental overdose. He was the brother of actor James "Jim" Belushi.
John Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1949, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë, and his mother was also of Albanian descent. He grew up in Wheaton, where the family moved when he was six. Though a young hellion in grade school, John became the perfect all-American boy during his high school years where he was co-captain of the Wheaton Central High School football team and was elected homecoming king his senior year. He also developed an interest in acting and appeared in the high school variety show. Encouraged by his drama teacher, John decided to put aside his plans to become a football coach to pursue a career in acting. After graduation in 1967, John performed in summer stock in rural Indiana in a variety of roles from Cardinal Wolsey in 'Anne of a Thousand Days' to a comic detective in 'Ten Little Indians'. In the fall of his freshman year at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, John changed his image into a bad-boy appearance by growing his hair long and began to have problems with discipline and the structure of attending classes. In 1965, Belushi formed a band, the Ravens, together with four fellow high school students (Dick Blasucci, Michael Blasucci, Tony Pavilonis, and Phil Special). They recorded one single, 'Listen to Me Now/Jolly Green Giant'. Belushi played drums and sang vocals. The record was not successful, and the band broke up when he dropped out of Wisconsin. John spent the next two years at the College of DuPage, a junior college a few miles from his parents' Wheaton home, where his father began persuading him to become a partner in his restaurant, but John still preferred acting. He also attended the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater for a year, which inspired the famous Animal House scene of D-Day driving a motorcycle up the stairs. Belushi started his own comedy troupe in Chicago, the West Compass Trio (named after the improvisational cabaret revue Compass Players active from 1955 to 1958 in Chicago), with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas. Their success piqued the interest of Bernard Sahlins, the founder of The Second City improvised comedy enterprise, who went to see them performing in 1971 and asked Belushi to join the cast. At Second City he performed in various on-stage comic performances with others, who included Harold Ramis and Joe Flaherty. John loved his life at Second City where he performed six nights a week, perfecting the physical "gonzo" style of comedy he later made famous. A year later, John and his live-in girlfriend from his high school years, Judith Belushi-Pisano, moved to New York because John had joined the cast of 'Lemmings', a parody of Woodstock and a production of the humorous magazine National Lampoon. Besides Belushi, the young comedians Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest were also part of the cast. The off-Broadway rock musical revue was originally booked for a six-week run but played to full crowds for nearly 10 months.
In 1973, John Belushi moved to New York with his girlfriend Judy Jacklin. In that year, National Lampoon also began broadcasting the comedy radio show The National Lampoon Radio Hour. Belushi made regular appearances on the radio show, along with Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and his brother Brian. Jacklin, who also became producer of the programme, married Belushi in 1976. During a trip to Toronto to check out the local Second City cast in 1974, he met Dan Aykroyd. In 1975, Chase and writer Michael O'Donoghue recommended Belushi to Lorne Michaels as a potential member for a television show Michaels was about to produce for NBC called NBC's Saturday Night, later Saturday Night Live (SNL). Michaels was initially undecided, as he was not sure if Belushi's physical humour would fit with what he was envisioning, but he changed his mind after giving Belushi an audition. Many employees of The National Lampoon Radio Hour moved to Saturday Night Live. Belushi, Radner, Chase, Dan Aykroyd, George Coe and others made up the cast of the sketch programme's first season. The ground-breaking TV variety series made Belushi a star. His unpredictable, aggressively physical style of humour flowered on SNL. Two years later, Bill Murray also made his SNL debut. Over his four-year tenure at SNL, Belushi became one of the programme's best-loved comedians, thanks in part to his character Futaba, a samurai. With Aykroyd, Belushi created Jake and Elwood, the Blues Brothers. Originally intended to warm up the studio audience before broadcasts of SNL, the Blues Brothers were eventually featured as musical guests. In 1978, while still working on Saturday Night Live (1975), John appeared in the films Old Boyfriends (Joan Tewkesbury, 1978) and Goin' South (1978) which starred and were directed by Jack Nicholson. Director John Landis cast him in National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis, 1978) as the notorious, beer-swilling "Bluto" and he stole the movie which portrays college fraternity shenanigans at a small college set in the year 1962. Upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time magazine and Roger Ebert proclaimed it one of the year's best movies. Filmed for $2.8 million, it is one of the most profitable movies of all time, garnering an estimated gross of more than $141 million. In 1979, John Belushi along with fellow SNL regular Dan Aykroyd quit the series to pursue movie projects. They appeared together in Steven Spielberg's financially unsuccessful comic war film 1941 (1979) and the next year, in the massive hit The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980).
Around this time, John Belushi's drug use began escalating. Cocaine, which was ubiquitous in show-business circles in the 1970s, became his drug of choice. After he first experimented with cocaine in the mid-1970s, John almost immediately became addicted to it. His frequent cocaine sniffing binges became a source of friction between him and Judy, whom he married in 1976. John's love for blues and soul music inspired the "Blues Brothers". He and Aykroyd first appeared as Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, a pair of white soul men dressed in black suits, skinny ties, fedora hats and Rayban sunglasses, as a warm-up act before the telecasts of Saturday Night Live (1975). Building on the success of their acts and the release of their album "A Briefcase Full of Blues", John and Dan Aykroyd starred in the movie, which gave John a chance to act with his favourite musical heroes including Ray Charles, James Brown and Aretha Franklin. It became his best-known film. Using some of his money, John Belushi bought his father a ranch outside San Diego for him to live. John helped set up some of his Chicago friends with their own businesses and even financially helped his younger brother, Jim Belushi, who followed his older brother's path to both Second City and Saturday Night Live (1975). In 1981, John appeared in the film Continental Divide (Michael Apted, 1981), playing a hard-nosed Chicago newspaperman who finds romance in Colorado with eagle expert Blair Brown. That same year, John and Dan Aykroyd appeared again in the movie Neighbors (John G. Avildsen, 1981), which gave them a chance to reverse roles, with John playing a straight-arrow family man whose life is turned upside down when a wild family man (Aykroyd) moves in next door. However, neither film could repeat the success of The Blues Brothers. In 1982, John checked into a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont, a popular celebrity hotel in Los Angeles. John's drug use had been steadily increasing for over a year now, which alarmed his wife and friends, but he continued to promise Judy that he would quit someday. On 5 March 19872, John Belushi was found dead of a drugs overdose in his hotel room. He was 33. The local coroner gave the cause of death as a lethal injection of cocaine and heroin. Several years later, John's drug dealing/drug user companion during his final weeks, Cathy Evelyn Smith, was tried and sentenced to three years in prison for supplying John with the drugs. Close friend James Taylor sang "That Lonesome Road" at a memorial service at Martha's Vineyard cemetery where John was buried. Colleague and friend Dan Aykroyd wrote the screenplays for Ghostbusters and Spies Like Us. In both films, he had foreseen a role for Belushi. The role in Ghostbusters was eventually played by Bill Murray, and in Spies Like Us by Chevy Chase. Belushi was posthumously honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004.
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Compass Bus' DAF DB250/Wright Eclipse Gemini LJ05 BNK, which carries the company's corporate livery, is pictured here on Queens Road, Brighton, whilst working Brighton & Hove's 7X service to Brighton Station. 02/08/16
Previously with Arriva London South as fleet number DW126.
The summer of 2016 saw the introduction of a new limited-stop variant of service 7. The service, numbered 7X, provides a faster, more scenic link from Brighton Marina to Brighton Station. It runs at a 20-minute frequency along the seafront via Marine Parade stopping only at Paston Place (forCounty Hospital), then non-stop to the Sea Life Centre, Old Steine and North Street.
Due to staff shortages, Brighton & Hove worked closely with other local operators to support specific services. The company sub-contracted this service out to Compass Bus, using a pair of VDL DB250/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles recently acquired by the company, from Arriva London South.
In addition to this, Brighton & Hove also sub-contracted its 77 service out to Seaford & District. Closed-top double-deck vehicles were allocated on weekdays, and open-top / heritage vehicles were allocated on weekends.
This vehicle was leaving Crowborough Rail Station on KCC/ESCC Contracted Route 229 to and from Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
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Strobist Info: Nikon SB-600 on manual setting with power set at 1/4th and triggered with Nikon CLS from my Fuji.
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The Compass Racing Audi RS3 LMS TCR of Roy Block and Pierre Kleinubing navigates turn 7 during a wet IMSA Continental Tire Sportscar Challenge practice session at Watkins Glen International
This beautiful summer-blooming wildflower is rare in Ohio and is officially listed as endangered here.
The Geomantic Compass
The geomantic compass used in Feng Shui evaluations is called the luopan in Chinese meaning "all" and "bowl". It is said that all the knowledge pertaining to the physics and flow of energies of the planet is written inside the compass.
The original Geomantic Compass had 36 rings, whereas, the most recent ones are simpler and have from 8 to 24 rings. In these rings, aside from the needle always pointing North/South, we find the correct information to do a perfect feng shui evaluation. The concentric circles of the compass contain the numbers of the Magic Squares (9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1), the 8 Trigrams of the I Ching (Yiying) and their corresponding directions, as well as the Heavenly Stems and Earth Branches. Also in the circles are contained the 28 equatorial divisions which are an important part of the evaluation because they help determine not only the ideal site, but the correct place for that particular individual to live.
In order for a feng shui evaluation to be accurate and correct the compass must be used. This is because the individual must be evaluated as to their personal data first in order to proceed with the terrain (topography) and site evaluation for that particular person. For example, in South Florida we have flat land with some areas below sea level. We also have swampy grasslands which are not favorable because stagnant water can attract negative energies. Using the compass we can determine the correct site to avert the negative energies of the stagnant water. This also apply to areas crowded with buildings, particularly apartment buildings.
Looking for the lost path.
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This is an antique compass sitting on the joint of my mailbox. I think it gives off an absolutely New England vibe. For the rest of the Compass-Flower pictures, I will let the art speak for itself.
Steampunk Pointer - like a compass needle but points south. Ocean Beach, Bluff, New Zealand. Contax 139 Quartz, Carl Zeiss Vario Sonnar 3.3/28-85. Fuji C200
Compass Royston Scania K360 Irizar i6 UN66 VSN - ex Vision Travel, Widnes - heads down the A1M on 26th May, 2019. The Sunderland supporters onboard would return home disappointed after a defeat at Wembley.
Littlehampton Tescos on 8th October 2018 with Compass Bus Optare Solo SR YJ12 PMU on service 5 and DAF Wright Gemini LJ05 BNK on standby.
The diagrams show the folding of the Basic Compass Rose Module. This is just another variation of the Wind Rose Module. Do not use this module together with the Wind Rose Modules. I have not tried that but there is no harm trying. However, I cannot guarantee good results.
The assembly is similar to the "Snowflake Modules" posted earlier here - www.flickr.com/photos/61236172@N08/8487800798/in/set-7215... . Please refer to it if you are not familiar with the assembly. Leave a little gap between the edges of the cupboard fold [step 1] for easier assembling of the modules.
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