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Every Christmas a star is lit on Cabot Tower overlooking the city. This year there is a new one.
(Signal Hill, St. John's)
Essential if one wants to fly in the right direction.
Whenever a significant change is made to an airframe it is necessary to Swing the compass to determine the small errors that residual magnetic fields in the structure have on the compass.
Those errors are recorded on the Compass Card. As can be seen from this card, the errors in this compass are only one or two degrees.
#76 Magnetic for 118 pictures in 2018
Transport for Macro Mondays
Compass from the Commuter, a diesel flat-top ferry built in 1960. She carried cars and trucks from Marblehead to Kelleys Island. Seen at the Maritime Museum of Sandusky, Ohio.
A large old compass.
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89/365 Compass
Early morning reflection.
Poznan, Poland
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In September, 2020, Compass Bus received fourteen Enviro 200s on hire from Mistral Bus and Coach for use on additional school services introduced to allow social distancing on service buses. A further three had been added by the year end. YY66 PCX had been new to Crosville in Weston-super-mare and was making itself useful on rail replacement between Chichester and Portsmouth today, 20th February 2021.
Barton Park, 24th November 2014, Noted outside Hants & Dorset Trims Paintshop, it departed back to Worthing 30 mins after this picture was taken.
This is my Silva compass. Part of its perspex base has broken off. It's little used now that Google Maps and OS maps online make instruments like this almost obsolete. However, it does not need batteries, nor does it lose its signal, so still useful as a backup. Probably about fifty years old now and still working.
Pilot G-Tec-C4 rollerball
One spot of Cass Art watercolour
Seawhite A4 concertina sketchbook
Inktober '21 No 16
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Compass design breaking through the chaos. This was worked for the online class with Sharon Boggon, run through joggles.com, class called Sumptuous Surfaces.
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!
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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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
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.
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!