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WEMBLEY 26/02/2023 Newcastle United vs Manchester United. Around 160 coaches turned up for the Carabao Cup Final and as usual a good selection of makes and models of varying ages came to have their photos taken by the assembled bus photting community. Highlights for this visit were a pair of McGill's Tourismos, a 1994 Jonckheere Monaco that has recently been on a couple of aid trips to Ukraine, 3x new Volvo 9700s for Sky Coaches, a mysterious Van Hool Astromega, and a suitably decorated minibus in NUFC colours!
Compass design breaking through the chaos. This was worked for the online class with Sharon Boggon, run through joggles.com, class called Sumptuous Surfaces.
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Compass Bus - Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC - YX68 UJW seen in Brighton operating service 37B to Bristol Estate on July 14th 2021
The Golden Compass is an anti-Christian movie, based on an anti-Christian book. I agree with this, having read and enjoyed all three books in the series. Note I say enjoyed. I’ve read all sorts of heretical books. They didn’t prevent me from eventually rejecting atheism and finding faith any more than the New York Times did.
Compass in particular is not just any sort of heretical book. It is Gnostic in its theology. The God of Christianity who created the world and angels and the carnal and spiritual natures of man is split, in the Gnostic conception, onto two gods: The Creator who begat angels and human spirits then withdrew from his creation; and the Demiurge who imprisoned the spirit sparks of mankind in gross matter and doomed them to hell while demanding worship as Yahweh. Gnosticism, then, reverses the moral relation between Lucifer the Lightbringer and Yahweh the Demiurge. Obviously this leads directly to Satanism and all sorts of dangerous moral choices. So the fact that Pullman went into Gnosticism didn’t phase me, for I had already encountered the glamor and falseness of the Gnostic worldview, and rejected it.
The Gnostic worldview, and its moral inversion, is also on display in National Geographic’s terrible mistranslation of the Gospel of Judas, a gnostic text that was published last year, and retranslated this year, reversing almost all the controversial conclusions.
And of course the whole conceit behind The DaVinci Code, with Jesus shacking up with Mary Magdalene and founding the Merovingian dynasty, was more Gnostic (in the sense of “hidden knowledge”) claptrap spawned from the same conspiracy theorizing that inspired Holy Blood, Holy Grail. It reduces Jesus to just an ancestor of a European King, rather than the Son of God, and is typical of the Arian heresy that has somehow found its resurgence not only in many modern-day Christian sects but also in Islam.
Back to Pullman. The book that the His Dark Materials reminded me of most was Job, by Robert A. Heinlein, which I read probably 20 years ago. The conceit behind Job is that God and the Devil have a wager over whether the protagonist will end up in Heaven or Hell. The twist is that Hell is actually a nicer place, run by a nicer guy, than Heaven.
I believe that one should find inspiration in the knowledge of what one opposes, not in remaining ignorant of it.
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The second 'Honk for Hope' UK coach event took place in Blackpool on 14/07/2020 and attracted around 200 coaches for a convoy along the M55 and along the Promenade before returning to the South Car Park at the end of Yeadon Way.
The purpose of the event was to raise awareness of the plight many operators currently find themselves in. The UK government has offered no financial help to coach operators due to the Covid pandemic almost wiping out their businesses.
The event was very well organised and attracted plenty of media coverage along with enthusiasts possibly enjoying their only event this year!
Compass Bus provide a network of services across the South Downs National Park in East Sussex and West Sussex. ADL Enviro200 GX13FSO has now received an allover advert to promote 'Discover South Downs National Park', and is seen here at Lewes Station on rail replacement to Three Bridges.
Compassing the Bellwether 2009
Cut paper on birch panel.
Part of the "Ways of Seeing" show at Black Rat Press.
She left yesterday on her adventure - over a year long! First stop is with luckybells in Ohio!
In addition to her T-shirt and sweater outfit that I made, she has a custom box with a protective quilted blanket (great for packing and sleeping! :D), and of course, her dearest confidante, Teddy.
One of three Compass Bus Enviro 200s operating in Stagecoach "Connect 7" colours in Worthing. YY66 PGK was today operating a service 16.
13th April 2023.
This ex Newport Bus Dennis Dart SLF Plaxton Pointer is a surprise recent arrival at Compass Bus. KU52 YKV was new to Thorpes in London as a dual-door bus. It was seen in Lancing this afternoon 17th March, 2023, on a 16 service. Not a camera trick - the front destination was not working.
This image of the COSMOS Legacy Field captured by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) highlights the galaxy MoM-z14, with compass arrows and colour key for reference. MoM-z14 is currently the farthest galaxy Webb has detected.
The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky. Note that the relationship between north and east on the sky (as seen from below) is flipped relative to direction arrows on a map of the ground (as seen from above).
This image shows near-infrared wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-light colours. The colour key shows which NIRCam filters were used. The colour of each filter name is the visible-light colour used to represent the infrared light that passes through that filter.
[Image description: A wide field of view showing deep space, dotted with many small galaxies and a few foreground stars that display six diffraction spikes. One galaxy is highlighted with a magnified image in a graphic pull-out box in the lower right corner. The galaxy is labeled MoM-z14 and appears as a blurry yellow blob with a small red area at its top. At the bottom left are compass arrows indicating the orientation of the image on the sky. Below the image is a color key showing which NIRCam filters were used to create the image and which visible-light color is assigned to each filter.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Naidu (MIT), Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI); CC BY 4.0
Thirty years ago, as a painter, I had a studio. That fairy tale come true lasted for four years and three months before I went into the Navy. I always wanted another studio, a devil may care place to dream and create. For a couple of decades, it remained an elusive fairy tale dream. Now I find myself in the fairy tale again.
I wore green at work today for St. Patrick's Day. After work, I attacked the West wall, all 100 feet of it, with a vengance. Underneath the paneling and wallpaper I found eggshell blue to complement the institutional green on the East wall.
The Rogue Players: Saint Patrick's Day
Compass
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges." - Michelangelo
The compass jellyfish, Latin name Chrysaora hysoscella, has a saucer-shaped bell, with 32 semi-circular lobes around the fringe, each one with a brown spot. On the upper surface of the bell, 16 brown V-shaped marks radiate outwards from a dark central spot. The mouth, the only opening to the exterior, is located on the centre of the underside of the bell, and is surrounded by 4 arms.
The stinging cells and venom of Chrysaora hysoscella are strong and can produce painful, long lasting weals in humans.
Compass Royston - Scania Berkof - M40 CRT seen outside Middlesbrough Rail Station operating a Rail Replacement service on behalf of Northern on November 1st 2020
Compass Royston NH16GEH, a 2016 Mercedes-Benz Tourismo, was seen on Anlaby Road on a coach holiday to Wales- i'm assuming this was operating on behalf of National Holidays. New to National Holidays. Nice to see the ex National Holiday coaches are still running around the country on holidays.