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350251 & general view 090605 Liverpool Lime St
The Desiro family of units is probably one of the most successful of the recent additions to the British Multiple Unit world with over 300 units introduced over various platforms offered (185/350/360/380/444/450/700). They have more or less worked out of the box.
London Midland and later London North Western have 87 Class 350 units in various configurations which operate semi-fast and express services between London Birmingham Crewe and Liverpool.
Liverpool is the other end of the London Midland / London North Western network and has (at present) an hourly service post Covid.
350251 is seen at Liverpool Lime St underneath the train shed roof waiting to form a service back to Birmingham. 5th June 2009
A class 104 DMU crosses Kirkham Junction with the 0917 Blackpool South to Kirkham on 4th June 1983.
I can't recall this service, but I've written it down (and it's in the destination on the unit) Kirkham, so this was obviously before the through service to Preston & Colne from Blackpool South.
The lead at this point onto the Blackpool South line was double track, it later being rationalised to a single lead as soon as you left the junction. The signal box at St Anne’s on the line to Blackpool South was still open at this point, not closing until November 1983.
Equal heritage of note in the car park is the Lada!
Leaving Kontagora in the early morning, we drove towards a Kambari / Kamberi settlement near Genu. The road quality became progressively and we finally abandoned our vehicle at Genu and walked the rest of the way to our destination.
We camped for a night with the Kambari: in the afternoon of our arrival we twice walked the surrounding area, meeting
its inhabitants and leanring of their culture. The following morning we had a third opporuntity to explore and observe before starying our walk back to Genu and the vehicle.
The Kambari are an ethnic group that are much smaller than Nigeria's well known Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo/Ibo. Their belief system is usually referred to as animist (the region around Kontagora in northwestern Nigeria predominantly follows Islam) and many live in villages and settlements some distance from the main roads. Many of the women maintain their traditional style - jewelry, tattoos, brightly coloured textiles (and unlike their neighbouring cultures, they frequently do not cover their upper bodies when in their villages) - a trait that was less apparent among the men. They live off agriculture and sell their produce also to neighbouring towns and villages. The most popular crops produced are corn, millet, peanuts, beans, and rice. Nearly all of the locals keep chickens and goats for meat while the richer ones have cattle.
The Destination
By Christopher Prentiss Michel
The faded print was passed through our car window to a K'Cho woman walking along the side of the road. Smiling, she took the photo in her dusty hands, looked quizzically at the young couple in the picture; and shook her head “no” as she continued walking.
We were on our way Mount Victoria, ten thousand feet above sea level in the Chin State of Western Myanmar. This time of year, farmers burned thousands of acres of brush in anticipation of the upcoming planting season. The resulting smoke embraces the rolling hills and light green brush, creating a surreal, almost monochromatic landscape. The promise of cool mountain air, beautiful blue vistas and deeply authentic Myanmar drove us onward toward this mountain oasis. We took our 4x4 across unprepared roads, through small, fast-running streams, and straight into the past. I was on this journey with amateur photographer and friend, Mike Levinthal. We would be spending nearly three weeks photographing the people of rural Myanmar.
Leading our expedition was U Kyi Soe., a forty-year-old Burmese guide with a perpetual smile and a passion for photography. Kyi Soe carried a small vintage Canon camera in a belt-holster above his traditional Longyi. In this small satchel, he also carried a stack of photographs. “This is my passion,” Kyi Soe said, holding up the worn stack of prints. He liked to photograph people and then return the pictures, often taking months or years to complete the cycle. So, without asking, he would stop the car and show passers-by the tattered prints, hoping that someone knew the couple in the picture.
Our next attempt was at a weathered, bamboo teahouse plastered with red and white “High Class” paper whisky signs. Four men sat under the shade of woven palm fronds, trying to escape the 100+ degree heat. They hadn’t seen the young couple either. We drove on. And the stops continued.
This was beginning to feel like some strange Asian police-detective movie. After hours and hours of bouncing around in a sweltering, frequently stopping car, we were starting to feel queasy and anxious. Eating a tray of “delicious, lip-watering” Chinese wafer cookies hadn’t helped. At this pace, it was going to take us forever to arrive at our mountaintop destination.
It soon became clear that his task was a lot harder than it first appeared. Many of the people he’d photographed had been walking from their mountain village, sometimes two days there and back. But we kept trying. And, after many more hours in the car, Mike & I surrendered to the heat, giving in to the rhythm of the journey. It might have been a kind of delirium, but we began to lose track of time and started to make the most of these detours.
At a stop by a small village outside Saw, Mike & I were surprised to find a bright yellow sunflower field behind an old monastery. It was like a technicolor beacon against the faded landscape. We kicked off our shoes (customary in Asia), walked through the monastery and into the field. After a little while, we’d attracted the attention of the people in the village and quickly had lots of company. Although we couldn’t communicate with anyone (other than lots of mingalabas) laughter seemed to work just fine. After 30 minutes or so, we were ushered into the monastery for tea with the head Monk. It was a memorable moment.
Three hours later, we arrived at our “Mountain Oasis” only to find that this “promised land” was anything but. Five ramshackle wood huts sat on a smoky hillside. Entering my 2-cot hut, I was greeted by the room’s permanent residents, an active beehive and a 5-inch black spider. After momentarily pausing to consider which kind of bite hurts less, I opted for the bed opposite the hive. Turned out to be a good choice.
That night over a simple dinner of rice, chicken and tea (complete with a few unfortunate floating ants), Mike and I talked about how Kyi Soe’s detours had made the entire trip worthwhile. What had seemed like a distraction had been the entire point. I think Kyi Soe knew it all along.
One can’t travel in this part of Asia without being exposed to Buddhism. And on hot day in late March, I re-learned one of the Buddha’s great lessons: “It is better to travel well than arrive.” I don’t know where Kyi Soe is right now, but I can imagine him smiling as he looks through a stack of old photos.
Based closely on the Robert Heinlein novel, "Rocketship Galileo," this film was one of the first sci-fi productions to accurately portray, through detailed technical data, the process of space travel.
Starring John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien Moore, Grace Stafford, and Irving Pichel. Directed by Irving Pichel.
Destination Moon Full Feature
Producer George Pal assembled an impressive roster of behind-the-camera talent -- including noted science fiction author Robert Heinlein and artist Chelsey Bonestell -- for this pioneering sci-fi adventure. Scientist Dr. Charles Cargraves (Warner Anderson), former Air Force General Thayer (Tom Powers), and industrial tycoon Jim Barnes (John Archer) believe that it's time that the U.S. blazed new trails and found new adventures. Convinced that exploration of space is the wave of the future (and that America's dominance in space is vitally important if they are to continue to dominate the Earth), the three men begin planning and constructing a spaceship called "Luna" in the Mojave Desert that will take the men to the moon and back. However, anti-American forces begin flooding the press with propaganda against the moon mission, and finally the men make their way to moon without the aid of the federal government. While the men are thrilled to succeed in their mission, it turns out that they miscalculated the amount of fuel needed to return -- and that the rocket needs to drop a lot of weight if it is to return to Earth. Destination Moon won an Academy Award for Best Special Effects of 1950; the film also features a brief appearance by cartoon favorite Woody Woodpecker, who helps explain how rockets work.
Destination Moon isn't technically a B-movie. It was in color and it won an Oscar. But it's a worthwhile starting point for a trek through 50s B movies because it was one of the first 50s science fiction flicks -- a topic which the B-movie industry jumped into with gusto. Unlike a lot of later movies, Destination Moon has no monsters or alien civilizations. Instead, it presents a fairly serious story of a manned expedition to the moon.
A rocket into space was not new to movie screens -- Flash Gordon had been rocketing around since the 1930s -- but Destination Moon was the "Star Wars" wow-movie that really touched off a decade of space-themed science fiction movies. Sure, the pacing is slow by modern tastes, and the special effects are hardly special by today's standards, but set all that modernist elitism aside. Destination Moon is fun to watch for knowing that it was the Star Wars of its day.
Synopsis
Private industry moguls decide that men must reach the moon as soon as possible. They build a rocket which does, indeed, make it to the moon. Due to landing trouble, the crew burn too much fuel to take off from the moon and return. After lightening the ship of all non-essentials, the ship is still 160 pounds overweight. One of the crew must stay behind. With some ingenuity and desperation, everyone does blast off for the return to earth.
Like a great many 50s sci-fi films, anxiety over the Soviets and nuclear war is woven into the plot. When several industrialists question the need to risk their millions on the outlandish moon project, the General Thayer character says: "We're not the only ones planning to go there. The race is on! And we'd better win it, because there is absolutely no way to stop an attack from outer space. The first country that can use the moon for the launching of missiles will control the earth."
Even though those sinister "others" are never mentioned again during the movie, the urgency driving the whole plot is the space race to beat the Soviets for national security reasons! -- ten years before that actual race really started.
Destination Moon is quite naive on what it really took to get men on the moon. (A dozen industrialists build a rocket within one year, and launch a crew to the moon on their first shot.) But in 1950, just five years after the end of WWII, audiences didn't know all that. Destination Moon showcases American optimism about the future in space. Some industrialists' deep pockets, a few clever engineers with slide rules and some talented aircraft workers can get the job done! You have to admire their spunk.
Lego Sponge Bob, Patrick and Adventures of Tin Tin Destination Moon 19" Space Rocket.
365 Toy Project - 65/365.
Being a student in Hollands means that you can travel for free with the Dutch public transportation system. Despite notorious capabilities of Dutch trains to arrive on time on their destinations, the possibility of free traveling is one the greatest benefits of being a student to me. Holland isn't the biggest country in the world, but you can still spend hours traveling. The list with possible and interesting destination is quite large.
Traveling with trains doesn't give you as much freedom as traveling with a car. But it does have it's upsides and benefits. Imagine getting on a train, without knowing your destination. Just get a board and see where it takes you.
That's exactly what I did on 29 October 2011. It had nothing to do, so I went to the closest train station, not knowing where I wanted to go. The first outbound intercity was going Amsterdam Schiphol. So Schiphol became my destination to for that day.
Halfway I found out the batteries in my Canon Ae-1 Program were depleted. So the destination changed to Amsterdam Zuid, knowing there was a close by camera store. In Amersfoort I heard that the train couldn't go any further because of some technical Issues with the Schiphol tunnel and that I had to go via Amsterdam Centraal. So my destination changed again, knowing there's another camera store, that still sells that battery, close by.
After getting that battery I continued my journey to Amsterdam Schiphol, with an intentional transfer at Amsterdam Sloterdijk.
It sounds like I did an huge effort to get at Schiphol and I'm pretty sure many people would have hated it, especially when the NS (dutch railways) let them down. But I didn't need to get anywhere, I didn't need to be somewhere on time. I was just looking for a way to fill day, that otherwise would have been a boring one. And I found it. That day was awesome. I studied some during the +2 hour travels, met some great people, had even better conversations, was allowed to try an 600mm lens at Schiphol and, last but not least, it resulted in some great pictures taken in Amsterdam, at different train stations in Amsterdam and Schiphol Airport!
Kodak Portra 160NC (expired in 2007)
Canon Ae-1 Program
Canon lens FD 50mm 1:1.4
A photo of stuffed toys that inspired the protagonists of "Destination: Prague", a traveling game I'm developing for the NaNoRen0 2020 game jam.
You can find more about the game here: azardragneel.itch.io/destination-prague
Dusk at Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.
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From Hank Welles of Angling Destinations during a summer pack trip to our Beaver Lakes retreat.
Beaver Lakes is a Spear-O-Wigwam basecamp at the edge of the Cloud Peak Wilderness just east of Kearny Reservoir
I shall miss these Omnilinks having lived close by the route since it was created in 2003. Economic downturn may save these from scrapping.
oahu, hawaii
1973
polynesian cultural center
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
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Last night a 4 hour live show was broadcast from Ducketts Grove called 'Destination Truth' for the Syfy channel in the States.
Ducketts Grove is a local and favourite haunt of mine so its great to get that level of exposure in the USA.
I drove by a few days back and it was a total film set....hope it boosts tourist numbers too.
It prompted me to root through the archive and pull a shot out of Ducketts
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Every 8th grade of Aarhus Free School/Aarhus Friskole will travel to a destination on the globe. The destination is their own choice, but it is chosen by democratic rules and the amount of money they have earned by hard work. Some classes have cleaned the local stadium after matches, others have cleaned toilets by 'Sculptures By The Sea', some have distributed advertisement flyers all over the town, but all 8th grades have arranged 2 'All day long' festivals at the school. A - The Harvest Party: 'Høstivallen' and B - The Carnival: 'Fastelavnsfesten'. These festivals generate quite a lot of profit for the 8th grade. In fact these two festivals with the work of the 8th grade and their parents finance 80% of the tour.
Allow me to present the tour plan as of today:
January 10 2015 Departure from Aarhus Friskole at 02.30 am
Estimated time of departure from Billund Airport by
KLM 06.00 am
Estimated time of arrival Dar es Salaam at 10.25 pm.
Rental bus Bagamoyo est. transport 1.5 hours)
January 11 Stay at Bagamoyo: acclimatization, workshops,
performance with our band and much more
January 19 Domestic flight to MWanza
Stay in Bujora (just outside Mwanza). This is the
home place of the cultural group UTAMADUNI
group.
January 31 Bustrip to Arusha via Serengeti
February 2 Minisafari in the local area
February 3 Visit to a secondary school in Arusha
February 5 Departure to Denmark from Kilimanjaro Airport at
09.40 pm
February 6 Arrival at Billund Airport at 09.40 am
February 6 Arrival at Aarhus Friskole exactly at noon, 12.00