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Having been associated with the DfT sponsored hire arrangement between Direct Rail Services and Northern Rail almost since its inception in May 2015 37 401 'Mary Queen of Scots' is seen passing the terraced cottages at Comley Bank on the approach to Aspatria station. She is working train 2C45 the 09.18 Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle on a grey damp winters morning.
Northern Rail are keen to dispense with this hire arrangement ASAP but it has been subject to a DMU cascade from ScotRail and Anglia releasing suitable class 156 DMU's to Northern which have been delayed. There have been several dates suggested for the final day but one has passed already namely the timetable change on the 8th December. Another possible end date was mid January but a new date of the 28th December is being banded about after 4 x 156's arrived from Scotland in mid December. That said the contract doesn't formerly finish until the end of March 2019, there was never an intention to run them to the bitter end so the two class 37 diagrams could finish at very short notice. I guess the motto "Catch them while you can" holds true. The four year hire period was deemed long enough for Northern Rail to obtain replacement stock after a botched cascade by the DfT in 2015 saw TPE 170's go to Chiltern to be replaced by 156's from Northern who were already short of units to the point it left an operational shortfall of stock.
The Columbia Center, formerly named the Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center, is a skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The 76-story structure is the tallest building in Seattle and the state of Washington, reaching a height of 933 ft (284 m). At the time of its completion, the Columbia Center was the tallest structure on the West Coast; as of 2017 it is the fourth-tallest, behind buildings in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Columbia Center, developed by Martin Selig and designed by Chester L. Lindsey Architects, began construction in 1982 and was completed in 1985. The building is primarily leased for class-A office spaces by various companies, with the lower floors including retail space and the upper floors featuring a public observatory and private club lounge. The tower has the highest public viewing area west of the Mississippi River. It occupies most of the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Cherry and Columbia Streets.
Columbia Center was designed by Washington architect Chester L. Lindsey. The base of the building is clad in Rosa Purino Carnelian granite. The building's structure is composed of three geometric concave facades with two setbacks, causing the building to appear like three towers standing side by side.
Ground level elevation on the Fifth Avenue side of the building is higher than on the Fourth Avenue side; the part of Cherry Street it faces was identified as one of the steepest streets in the Central Business District with a slope of 17.1%. The tower was originally designed to be about 306.5 m (1,006 ft), but federal regulations by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would not allow it to be that tall so close to the nearby Sea-Tac Airport. Although city land use regulations at the time were intended to limit skyscrapers to about 50 stories, the developer, Martin Selig, obtained the necessary permits for a 76-story skyscraper due to a part of the law that allowed bonus height for providing retail space with street access. Because three separate stories could access the street on the sloped site, the developers were allowed a bonus for each of the three stories they set aside for retail, which was reportedly an unintended loophole in the law. There is an observation deck on the 73rd floor which offers views of Seattle and environs. The top two floors of the building (75th and 76th) are occupied by the private Columbia Tower Club, which houses a restaurant, bar, library, and meeting rooms. The 40th floor is accessible to the public and features a Starbucks cafe. An underground concourse connects the building to the nearby Seattle Municipal Tower and Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza.
The tower, originally proposed as Columbia Center, opened under the name Columbia Seafirst Center after its largest tenant and financier, Seafirst Bank, and then changed to the Bank of America Tower, when Seafirst, which had been owned by Bank of America since 1983, was fully integrated into Bank of America. That name gave it the nickname "BOAT" (Bank of America Tower). In November 2005, the building's name was changed back to Columbia Center after the bank reduced its presence in the building. Bank of America still maintains office space within the building, but has since closed the bank branch at the base of the tower.
Development and construction
Martin Selig, a local real estate developer who had recently opened the Fourth and Blanchard Building, announced plans for a 75-story office building at 4th Avenue and Columbia Street in October 1980. The $120 million project, named the "Columbia Center", would be funded by the Seafirst Mortgage Company and constructed by Howard S. Wright. Selig borrowed $205 million in 1981 to develop the property. The Columbia Seafirst Center, as it came to be known, was constructed by Howard S. Wright starting in 1982 with a 120-foot (37 m) deep excavation hole that required 225,000-cubic-yards of dirt and soil to be removed. This was one of the largest foundations for a building in Seattle along with concrete footings extending 134 feet (41 m) below street level. While the structural steel of the building was built at a rate of 2 floors per week, the building itself was completed on January 12, 1985,[10] and opened on March 2 of that same year. U.S. Steel Corporation was contracted to provide 16,000 short tons (15,000 t) of steel for construction. It was approximately 50% taller than the previous tallest skyscraper in Seattle, the 630-foot (190 m) Seattle First National Bank Building (now Safeco Plaza) that opened in 1969.
Financial issues and height controversy
Selig continued to own and manage the building until 1989, when financial problems forced him to sell it to Seafirst Corporation for $354 million. Management was taken over by the Tishman West Company of Los Angeles.
Controversy regarding the skyscraper's size contributed to the passage of a 1989 law called the Citizen's Alternative Plan (CAP) that enforced more stringent restrictions on the size of buildings in Downtown Seattle. In 1990, after rejecting earlier plans for 300-foot (91 m) antennas, Seattle and the FAA granted permission to erect two 192-foot (59 m) antennas on top of Columbia Center, which were expected to be used for broadcasting radio and television throughout the region. Though the FAA was originally worried about the tower's height encroaching the airspace, they deemed the addition of the antennas not problematic. The antennas were not built before the permits expired in 1994, however.
Ownership changes
EQ Office bought Columbia Center from Seafirst in 1998 for $404 million. The New York State Common Retirement Fund bought a 49.9% stake in the building and then several years later sold its share back to EQ Office. In 2007, Columbia Center was sold by EQ Office to Boston-based Beacon Capital Partners for $621 million; Beacon later defaulted on a loan in 2010, the height of the Great Recession, at a time when vacancies reached 40%. On August 7, 2015, Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners purchased the building for $711 million.
Renovations
On July 1, 2013, the Columbia Center's observation deck, known as the Sky View, was remodeled from 270 degrees to a 360 degree viewing area. The observation deck underwent further renovations in 2018, adding two express elevators and a new lounge. The 4th Avenue entrance was also renovated.
(Wikipedia)
Das Columbia Center ist das höchste Gebäude in Seattle und im US-Bundesstaat Washington. Mit einer Gesamthöhe von 285 Metern war es bei der Fertigstellung 1985 der höchste Wolkenkratzer westlich des Mississippi, wurde allerdings 1989 durch den U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles mit 310 Metern übertroffen. Die Höhe des Columbia Centers beträgt einschließlich einer Antennenkonstruktion auf dem Dach 295 Meter. Diese wird jedoch nicht als Teil des Gebäudearchitektur angesehen, und somit nicht zur formalen Höhe gewertet.
76 oberirdische Etagen dienen als Büroraum, die sieben Kellergeschosse werden vielseitig genutzt. Der Wolkenkratzer sollte ursprünglich etwa 306,5 Meter hoch werden. Die FAA erlaubte die Höhe nicht, da sich das Gebäude dafür zu nah am Flughafen Seattle/Tacoma befände, wodurch ein höheres Sicherheitsrisiko entstünde. Es wurde in das Projekt Raum für die Öffentlichkeit und Einzelhandel einbezogen, damit die zulässige Höhe nicht zu sehr eingeschränkt werden kann. Das 73. Stockwerk dient nun teilweise als Aussichtspunkt, von dem sich Seattle und seine Umgebung überblicken lässt. Der Columbia Tower Club verteilt sich auf die beiden obersten Stockwerke (75 und 76) und besteht aus einem Restaurant, einer Bar, einer Bibliothek und einigen Tagungsräumen. Ein unterirdischer Gang verbindet das Columbia Center mit dem nahegelegenen Seattle Municipal Tower und dem Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza.
Mehrere größere Unternehmen mieten Büros im Columbia Center. Dazu zählen vor allem die Bank of America, Heller Ehrman LLP und Amazon.com.
Ursprünglich trug der Wolkenkratzer seinen heutigen Namen. Später wurde er nach der dort ansässigen Seafirst Bank als Columbia Seafirst Center bezeichnet. Diese gehörte seit 1983 zur Bank of America, wurde im Laufe der 1980er Jahre jedoch vollständig integriert. Daher bekam das Gebäude den Namen Bank of America Tower mit dem Spitznamen BOAT. Im November 2005 wurde es wieder in The Columbia Center (TCC) umbenannt.
Am 16. Juni 2004, noch vor Herausgabe ihres 9/11 Commission Report, machte die Untersuchungskommission zum 11. September 2001 nicht in die Tat umgesetzte Pläne der Terroristen bekannt, die vorsahen mit zehn entführten Passagierflugzeugen die höchsten Gebäude in Kalifornien und im Staate Washington zu beschädigen bzw. zu zerstören. Neben dem Columbia Center in Seattle habe auch der U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles zu den Zielen gehört.
(Wikipedia)
So on a whim I watched Judas Contract, the newest movie from DC's animation studios, and as someone who's never read the story it's based on, and isn't actually a Titans fan, I honestly thought it was pretty good. Bizarrely enough it may be one of DC's best animated movies to come out after the Flashpoint movie.
Anyways, here's some figs.
Brother Blood: I didn't originally intend on making him but he had an interesting presence in the movie (at least until he turned into generic supervillain number six-million) so I ran with it. Elrond head, Indiana Jones torso, two capes, Glam Rock Bats legs.
Slade is an Onlinesailin in Ninjago armor.
Terra: Harry Potter head, CMF Amazon warrior torso.
Beast Boy: Put together this outfit after I used all the black and purple Beast Boy parts to make better figs. Clone armor, CMF robot legs.
Nightwing: Now with LBM Bruce Wayne hair.
Starfire is official, and Raven I posted long ago.
I didn't include Blue Beetle cause I killed his fig almost as soon as I got it (and also he had no bearing on the film whatsoever) or Damien cause it'd just be the official fig.
Let me know what you thought of the movie!
Cheers!
All eyes are now firmly focused on East Anglia for regular Class 37 passenger action following the end of the Cumbrian Coast contract......but for how much longer remains to be seen.
37558 (tail) + 37405 (top) arriving at their destination on 1/9/18 with 2P28 - 16.40 - Norwich to Great Yarmouth service.
"The morning air breathes a new and laughing energy into veins and marrow. If every day is a repetition of life, every dawn signs, as it were, a new contract with existence. At dawn everything is fresh, light, simple, as it is for children. At dawn spiritual truth, like the atmosphere, is more transparent, and our organs, like the young leaves, drink in the light more eagerly, breathe in more ether, and less of things worldly."
Henri Frederic Amiel, Journal Intime, 1885
Find out who is about to draw a contract with the Devil...for the 10th time.
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Be warned! It's storytime this time, so feel free to skip to only look at the credits. ;)
Room inspired by two of my favourite storybloggers: Devin Vaughn and Aarya Phantomhive. :D Make sure you check them out. ♥
After seeing out the DRS contract with Network Rail 37407 and 37419 were today reunited on the South Yorkshire RHTT .
37419 had been putting in the miles since Saturday and today was 37407 's first day .
The pair are seen at Meadowhall Interchange starting to accelerate having had a signal change whilst working the 3S11 0331 York Thrall Europa - Sheffield .
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From my collection…
If you submitted this shot to one of the photo sites that have screeners, it would most likely be rejected for being “unlevel.” It isn’t, though. The photographer was on Southern Railway’s famous Saluda Grade, just below safety track No. 1. You can see the pole line ascending the steep grade of the runaway track (yes, there was a dispatcher phone box at the end, since some form of communication might be necessary if a train had been directed into the safety track). From the sun angle, this is probably train No. 9, the westbound “Skyline Special.” The motive power is Ts-1 class Mountain-type No. 1462. Just seven cars back, a burly Ss 2-10-2 is pushing. All that horsepower was necessary because Saluda—the steepest normal adhesion mainline railroad grade in the US—averaged about 4.7 percent. At this point, the grade is about 5 percent. This scene was captured on Kodachrome film in August 1947. Unfortunately, the original photographer is unknown.
In December 2001, Norfolk Southern took the line out of service as traffic via the Asheville gateway continue to decline. In a contract signed August 5, 2024, Saluda Grade was sold to the Saluda Grade Trail Conversancy, with plans to convert to a rail trail. The 97-car Belmont unit coal train that originated in Appalachia, Va. came down this grade (loaded) for more than 30 years, using seven SD-type locomotives. Thankfully, the empty train went upgrade.
Stoned? Karolin Stone My Allure finally arrives... she had a veeeeery long journey seeming to have fitted in a detour via Canada?!? Ok, understood, she’s a jet setting model but still, a contract is a contract Karolin! ... I’m very happy that this doll at least has no glaring flaws. Her left eyelash needs pushing up a bit but she’s otherwise fine. Her hair sadly isn’t bum-length like some people have had but at least it is the length shown in the promo pics... 😒
DSC_2138 - DP194 - EU53 PXZ - Transbus Dart SLF/Transbus Pointer - Go-Ahead London General - Victoria, Buchingham Palace 08/01/18
光，20130808
光，在面向著未來的方向時出現，
感覺是要我向前走
而我也只是好奇
在那光底下到底有什麼？
The light, Aug. 8th, 2013.
I saw the light and I faced it.
I thought I should move toward it.
Maybe, I was just curious about what is there?
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mercenary mech contract bounded, payment will be completed at the end of the task, no refunds.
later today you'll see the debut of the Mframe prototype mech.
on a side note: Go buy nexo knights, lets keep this theme alive! it is super awesome
Local rock band Triggered Response contracted me back in December to do their first serious photoshoot. They wanted to take some explosive imagery that showed them off as a band so the idea to have this series of water explosions was born. Minus a flooded room, the shoot went off AMAZINGLY ^_^
Over 10 hours of photoshop was invested into the shot to blend the 8 or so images together! If the interest is there, I can prepare a short Tutorial showing how it's done!
In the mean time, I invite you guys to come check out the Making of Video by Eva Jinn Productions: vimeo.com/19996118
Credits:
Clients: TRIGGERED RESPONSE - http://triggeredresponse.com/
Kayla St. Cartier - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Abdiel Friedman - Lead Guitar
Alan Pick - Bass Guitar
Patrick N. Perrin - Drums
Makeup:
Lisa-Marie Charron
Assistants:
Anick Morel Photographie
Linda Zheng
Christine Claire Delta
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Be careful what you sign....
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Inspired by Mr X's recent series of still lives.
Headless horse courtesy of Moriarty.
Nick Lang Contracting SW Ltd,Pencoed
Scania R620 6x2 (Top) V8 (LHD)
New to Davie Malcolm
Also Operated by Ontime Logistics and Ray White
Pembrey Race Circuit,nr Llanelli is the Location
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This is one of my original lawn contracts. I've been maintaining this lawn since the mid 90's. We just power raked and top seeded this lawn three weeks ago so it will be a few more weeks until it's in it's best condition. I'll be fertilizing these lawns next week too. No photo editing on these photos either. I'm just really happy with how they are taking shape. 😃
I hope everyone has a great weekend as well.
This series is about discovering the truth so I’m about to hit a new level of honesty with you all. I hope you’re ready because man oh man, I’m not even sure if I am.
You can only run into a wall so many times before there is a break. Most people believe it’s up to chance whether or not it is you who breaks or the wall. I believe I have smashed my head against the same wall for so long that it was when I said “this hurts” that the pain began. It was my choice to believe that. It was my choice to believe in the pain more than the healing. I wanted to sulk and pout. I wanted to dwell in my own self-pity because I blamed the wall for being there…not myself for hitting it. I was exhausted and frustrated. Frustration started around my veins and weaved itself thickly through, making a net with itself. The lies I believed were getting caught in the nets and were clotting themselves. My blood couldn’t run through and slowly my life was failing.
What happened after?
How did I fix it?
I found the courage to sign the contract, dedicating my life to God. I made the choice to go under his knife so he could restore in me a new life. My heart was suddenly pumping with the blood that was once shed for me…all throughout my body. The clots could not stand against the purity, the strength or the mercy. I don’t think I could ever explain the feeling but what I can say is I watched the wall crumble. Yes, I watched it. I did nothing but watch as the power of God broke it down for me.
I’m not here to sugar coat anything and my bluntness has always been something some of you say you admire. So here it is.
The lie: When bad things happen, it’s not of God. God only wants me to be happy.
The truth: In Ecclesiastes 3 it says there is a time for everything, for every purpose under heaven. “A time to weep, a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to gain and a time to lose.” Ecclesiastes 3: 4-6
Yeah here’s the deal. The Word is the truth. I believed a lie that God didn’t care about me or that he was angry at me because my life became difficult. I expected him to bless me and love me because I was told “God is love”. Yes, God is love but He is still GOD.
The question to ask yourself is, what lies have you been believing because you haven’t poured yourself into the Word? How can we truly know the truth or the lies that are holding us down if we are just “getting by” as Christians?
(I chose this picture because it just makes me smile. Reminding me joy comes in the morning)
Arriva Mobility Solutions, s.r.o. (Deutsche Bahn group): Since November 15, 2021, this company has been providing suburban bus service in the Bratislava area. For this new contract, 200 buses were acquired, put into service between 2021 and 2022. They are models SOR CN 10.5 (ten buses, numbers 8521-8530), SOR CN 12.3 (100 buses, numbers 8551-8650), Iveco Crossway LE Line 12M (80 buses, numbers 8701-8780) and Iveco Crossway LE Line 14.5M (ten buses, numbers 8801-8810). The fleet is complemented by some older buses of the Rošero-P First FSLEI and Irisbus Crossway LE 12M models.
Here we see number 8730 (Iveco Crossway LE Line 12M, registration number BT 842FB) leaving the Mlynské Nivy bus station.
Spanish postcard by Raker, no. 1096, 1964. Stella Stevens in The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis, 1963).
American comedienne Stella Stevens (1936) starred as a voluptuous platinum blonde with a deep sultry voice in many Hollywood films of the 1960s. During the decade she was one of the most photographed women in the world.
Stella Stevens was born Estelle Caro Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1936. While attending Memphis State College, Stella became interested in acting and modelling. While performing in a college production of Bus Stop, Stevens was discovered and offered a contract with 20th Century Fox. Her film debut was a bit part in the musical Say One for Me (Frank Tashlin, 1959), but her appearance in Li'l Abner (Melvin Frank, 1959) as Appassionata Von Climax is the one that got her noticed. In 1960, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. Then her centerfold spread in Playboy was one of the most popular issues. The following years, she co-starred with Bobby Darin in Too Late Blues (John Cassavetes, 1961), Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! (Norman Taurog, 1962), Glenn Ford in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis, 1963), and Dean Martin in the Matt Helm spy spoof The Silencers (Phil Karlson, 1966). One of her best parts was as Glenn Ford's drum-playing girlfriend in The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (Vincente Minnelli, 1962). On TV, she appeared in the series Surfside 6 (1960), Ben Casey (1961) and the soap opera General Hospital (1963).
By the late 1960s, Stella Stevens' career had leveled off and she was appearing in roles based on her looks. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Despite consistently good work, Stevens never achieved the full stardom that she deserved: When she posed again for Playboy in 1968, she admitted that it was purely to get people to attend her films." One of her best performances was opposite Jason Robards in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), where she played Hildy, and showed that her talent was more than physical. In 1972 she starred in Irwin Allen's The Poseidon Adventure with Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, and Shelley Winters. Stevens played the role of Linda Rogo, the "refreshingly outspoken" ex-prostitute wife of Borgnine's character. She also starred in Blaxploitation films like Slaughter (Jack Starrett, 1972) with Jim Brown as a black Vietnam Veteran and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (Charles Bail, 1975) opposite Tamara Dobson. Notable is also the comedy Nickelodeon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1976), starring Ryan O'Neal. In the 1970s and 1980s, Stella became a fixture in movies made for television and appeared in a number of television series. Her big screen career slowed during that time, but she continued to appear in a number of straight-to-video films. Stevens produced and directed a documentary profiling a variety of women from many walks of life, entitled The American Heroine (1979). She also directed the inexpensive Canadian feature The Ranch (1989). On TV, she appeared in the critically acclaimed miniseries, In Cold Blood (Jonathan Kaplan, 1996), based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. Her television career continued into the 2000s when she appeared in an episode of the sitcom Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1954, the 16-years-old Stella Stevens had married electrician Noble Herman Stephens and the couple had a son, actor Andrew Stevens. They divorced in 1957 but Stella and her son retained a variation of her ex-husband's surname as their own professional surnames.
Sources: Tony Fontana (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Bright Lights Film Journal, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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The 6E70 BR Railfreight Distribution Contract Services train comprising empty chemicals tanks being returned to Teeside from the West Midlands was recorded passing Milford South. RfD Class 47/3 47349 had charge of the 11:35 Bescot Yard to ICI Haverton Hill Exchange Sidings.
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