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It's been a while since I had my last upload with a power tower. I guess some 5 days ago? I like how big they seem here and how the wires are kinda pressurize the whole picture.
Today I have been learning the entire day for my 1st examen tomorrow morning and I am going to continue, too. So I won't be flickering around tonight, but I am most likely catching up tomorrow.
I took this shot back in January. Dunno, I haven't found anything better today.
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 37218 stands with 4 Ex-Anlgia liveried Mk2s in the Ely Goods Loop, working the 5Z29 1527 Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings to Wymondham Sidings. The 4 Mk2s were bound for the Mid Norfolk Railway for use on the Santa Specials.
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This is a photo I took that captured the entrance to the Red Fort. The Red Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Agra, India. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled city.
The Red fort was the site of a battle during the Indian rebellion of 1857, which caused the end of the British East India Company's rule in India, and led to a century of direct rule of India by Britain.
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes' and 37606 creeps past Ely with the 3S01 0922 Stowmarket D.G.L. to Stowmarket D.G.L. RHTT circular. (via Cromer and Great Yarmouth.)
Australia's Marnus Labuschagne just grounds his bat in time as the throw comes in. Seen during the ICC World Test Championship Final against India at The Oval.
Direct Rail Services Class 37 37423 "Spirit of the Lakes" awaits departure from Preston on the 2c47 1004 Preston - Barrow in Furness on 15/03/2018
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 37038 passes Ballast Pit LC (north of Waterbeach) with the 5Z07 1200 Bounds Green T&R.S.M.D to Norwich C.Pt. T.&R.S.M.D light engine movement. Taken at 18:12.
Scanned IR lith print.
Rolleiflex T w/ Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei IR filter (cutting @ 700 nm).
Morning of Oct 12, 2024.
Rollei IR 400 in Adox Adonal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on Foma Retrobrom 151 Sp FB and developed in Moersch Easy Lith (25A+25B+150OB+700H2O) @ 30°C.
Untoned.
Foma Snowballs.
I know this is not a political platform. But war is hell, regardless. A drop of concentrated developer right into the exhausted lith developer brings out a chemical reaction similar to the explosion of a drone strike, a missile hit or whatever your mind can imagine hitting defenceless civilians (or soldiers for that matter). People die in Europe because of this. Every day.
Direct Rail Services Class 66 diesel locomotive 66424 "Driver Paul Scrivens 1969-2021" attracts the attention of spotters as it basks in the afternoon winter sunshine at Stafford station having arrived as 0Z66 from Crewe Gresty Bridge where it would return 10 minutes after arrival.
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'I wish the sun would never rise. I love these wicked nights.'
From: Pale Flower (1964), a Japanese film noir directed by Masahiro Shinoda.
We were sitting in the dark watching a movie about a girl. A girl who had just seen a movie. Now waiting for the mysterious Mister X. The tension was unbearable. Of course, we realized it was just a movie. We reached for the popcorn. We knew she had a gun. But was it loaded?
Are you enjoying the movie?
Femme Fatale: ZodaZoul
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The image title is borrowed from a 1957 British crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Griffith Jones, Lisa Gastoni and Vincent Ball.
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The cinema in the background is the much-loved Scala Cinema, located in Bangkok’s Siam Square - perhaps the most beautiful movie theater in Southeast Asia, with a stunning art déco interior, holding a thousand seats with red velvet upholstery and the last stand-alone cinema in Bangkok.
Scala was named after Milan’s opera house and opened on 31 December 1969 and closed on 5th July 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, showing, as its last film, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso.
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Thatching methods have traditionally been passed down from generation to generation, and numerous descriptions of the materials and methods used in Europe over the past three centuries survive in archives and early publications.
In some equatorial countries, thatch is the prevalent local material for roofs, and often walls. There are diverse building techniques from the ancient Hawaiian hale shelter made from the local ti leaves (Cordyline fruticosa), lauhala (Pandanus tectorius) or pili grass (Heteropogon contortus).
The multi-tiered Meru towers of Besakih temple, Bali, uses black ijuk fibres.
Palm leaves are also often used. For example, in Na Bure, Fiji, thatchers combine fan palm leaf roofs with layered reed walls. Feathered palm leaf roofs are used in Dominica. Alang-alang (Imperata cylindrica) thatched roofs are used in Hawaii and Bali. In Southeast Asia, mangrove nipa palm leaves are used as thatched roof material known as attap dwelling. In Bali, Indonesia, the black fibres of Arenga pinnata called ijuk is also used as thatched roof materials, usually used in Balinese temple roof and meru towers. Sugar cane leaf roofs are used in Kikuyu tribal homes in Kenya.
Wild vegetation such as water reed (Phragmites australis), bulrush/cat tail (Typha spp.), broom (Cytisus scoparius), heather (Calluna vulgaris), and rushes (Juncus spp. and Schoenoplectus lacustris) was probably used to cover shelters and primitive dwellings in Europe in the late Palaeolithic period, but so far no direct archaeological evidence for this has been recovered. People probably began to use straw in the Neolithic period when they first grew cereals—but once again, no direct archaeological evidence of straw for thatching in Europe prior to the early medieval period survives.
Many indigenous people of the Americas, such as the former Maya civilization, Mesoamerica, the Inca empire, and the Triple Alliance (Aztec), lived in thatched buildings. It is common to spot thatched buildings in rural areas of the Yucatán Peninsula as well as many settlements in other parts of Latin America, which closely resemble the method of construction from distant ancestors. The first Americans encountered by Europeans lived in structures roofed with bark or skin set in panels that could be added or removed for ventilation, heating, and cooling. Evidence of the many complex buildings with fiber-based roofing material was not rediscovered until the early 2000s. French and British settlers built temporary thatched dwellings with local vegetation as soon as they arrived in New France and New England, but covered more permanent houses with wooden shingles.
In most of England, thatch remained the only roofing material available to the bulk of the population in the countryside, in many towns and villages, until the late 1800s. Commercial distribution of Welsh slate began in 1820, and the mobility provided by canals and then railways made other materials readily available. Still, the number of thatched properties actually increased in the UK during the mid-1800s as agriculture expanded, but then declined again at the end of the 19th century because of agricultural recession and rural depopulation. A 2013 report estimated that there were 60,000 properties in the UK with a thatched roof; they are usually made of long straw, combed wheat reed or water reed.
Gradually, thatch became a mark of poverty, and the number of thatched properties gradually declined, as did the number of professional thatchers. Thatch has become much more popular in the UK over the past 30 years, and is now a symbol of wealth rather than poverty. There are approximately 1,000 full-time thatchers at work in the UK, and thatching is becoming popular again because of the renewed interest in preserving historic buildings and using more sustainable building materials.
Dernier des quatre Super Hercules C-130J commandés, en janvier 2016, par la Direction générale de l’armement (DGA). . Le premier avion ravitailleur KC-130J a, quant à lui, été réceptionné en septembre 2019.
Ces deux KC-130J offrent à l’Armée de l’air une capacité unique en Europe. En permettant le ravitaillement en vol des hélicoptères H225M Caracal, elle permet une plus grande allonge et une permanence accrue. Ils seront mis en œuvre par l’escadron de transport (ET) 2/61 "Franche-Comté" de la base aérienne 123 d’Orléans-Bricy déjà dotée des deux C-130J-30.
Ces quatre C-130J ont vocation à rejoindre la base aérienne 105 d’Évreux d’ici l’été 2021. Ils seront mis en œuvre aux côtés de six Super Hercules allemands au sein d’une unité binationale franco-allemande.
Entre Voves et Bonneval, derniers instant de la journée.
Alors que le TGV file vers la ville lumière je me dirige vers une ville beaucoup moins pimpante: Vendôme.
Op verzoek van de gemeente Groningen herstart VAM in 1998 het vervoer van huisvuil per trein. Direct na de opening van de aansluiting in september 1998 start ACTS een dagelijkse afvaldienst naar Wijster. Vervoerd wordt GFT-afval, grof huishoudelijk afval en RDF, een restproduct van de vergistingsinstallatie die biogas produceert.
Vanaf 2001 wordt het RDF middels een wekelijkse rijdende afvaltrein naar Schwarze Pumpe in Spreewitz afgevoerd. Twee jaar later komt er tweemaal per week een RDF-trein bij naar Bremen. De trein naar Spreewitz vervalt herhaaldelijk, die naar naar Bremen stopt in het voorjaar van 2009. In de loop van 2010 wordt het vuilvervoer bij Vagron geheel gestopt.
In 2008 werden naast de Vagron-containers beladen met RDF naar Bremen ook containers meegenomen vanuit Veendam. De containerdraagwagens en afvalwagens werden in Onnen gecombineerd en vanaf daar tweemaal per week via de grensovergang bij Nieuweschans afgevoerd naar Leer en Bremen.
Op 6 juni 2008 is ACTS-loc 7107 na de kruising met Arriva uit Leer vertrokken met trein 47728 richting Leer en passeert hier de brug over de Westerwoldsche Aa. Rechts is een deel van de Oude Remise, een voormalige locomotiefloods van de Staatsspoorwegen, uit 1876 te zien. In 1996 werd het gebouw opgenomen in een reeks van industriële monumenten in de provincie Groningen. De Oude Remise herbergt ondermeer een koffieschenkerij, de Stichting Bruisend Bad Nieuweschans, een toeristisch informatiepunt, een kunstencentrum en museum De Graanrepubliek gevestigd.
DRS Class 68 68018 "Vigilant" + 68003 "Astute" passes Woodacre on 6k73 1702 Sellafield - Crewe Coal Sidings on 08/07/2025
Direct Rail Services (DRS) 68002 'Intrepid' and 68017 'Hornet' rumble through Huntingdon working the 'The Return of the Settle and Carlisle Railway' 1Z68 0818 London Kings Cross to Carlisle.
Direct in het blok achter de 185 302 komt opnieuw een UC aangerold. Ditmaal met een oudgediende in de vorm van DB Cargo 151 088. Kamp-Bornhofen, Kamp-Bornhofen.
Direct Rail Services 37218 leads 37609 through Coppenhall, Crewe, working 6K74 Sellafield BNF - Crewe Coal Siding.
Weathered Direct Rail Services Class 37 locomotives 37059 and 37069
0K69 09.32 Wembley Light Maintenance Depot to Crewe Gresty Bridge
Colton, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Direct Rail Services Vossloh/Caterpillar UK Light Class 68 68023 'Achilles' diesel-electric locomotive crossing Eskmeals viaduct on the Cumbrian coast railway line with NENTA Train Tour's 'The Lakes, Shap & Cumbrian Coast Circular' 1Z89 the 14:13 Carlisle to Norwich railtour train.
The growth of online delivery services like Fresh Direct has truly been phenomenal. On a daily basis ,throughout the city, tractor trailer trucks arrive and unload these brightly colored boxes filled with supermarket items to be sorted and then delivered to the tenants of surrounding residential buildings. It is true that Covid 19 has made in- store shopping less attractive but online services like Fresh Direct are a trend likely to continue well after after the pandemic subsides.
The Hassan II Mosque is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the second largest functioning mosque in Africa and is the 7th largest in the world. Its minaret is the world's second tallest minaret at 210 metres. Completed in 1993, it was designed by Michel Pinseau under the guidance of King Hassan II and built by Moroccan artisans from all over the kingdom. The minaret is 60 stories high topped by a laser, the light from which is directed towards Mecca. The mosque stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic Ocean; worshippers can pray over the sea but there is no glass floor looking into the sea. The walls are of hand-crafted marble and the roof is retractable. A maximum of 105,000 worshippers can gather together for prayer: 25,000 inside the mosque hall and another 80,000 on the mosque's outside ground.
The mosque is located at Bd Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah in Casablanca. The 9-hectare complex nestles between the harbor and the El Hank lighthouse. From the nearest train station at Casa-Port it is about a 20-minute walk to the mosque. The ten-lane boulevard with shopping avenues has its at the southern facade of the mosque and extends to the gates of the Palace Oued el Makhazine in the middle of the city. The basilical plan of the mosque justifies this layout of the boulevard.
The mosque rises above the Atlantic Ocean. The building is built partially on land and partially over the ocean. This siting was accomplished by creating a platform linking a natural rock outcrop reclaimed from the sea, where the Orthlieb Pool had previously been located. Two large breakwaters were also built, to protect the mosque from the erosive action of the ocean waves, which can be up to 10 metres in height. A temporary pier 800 metres in length had to be erected to protect the foundations of the pillars from the sea during the construction period. Its environmental advantage is that it is free of noise and pollution and receives a fresh breeze from the sea.
Apart from the mosque, other structures in the area are a madrasa (Islamic school), hammams (bathhouses), a museum on Moroccan history, conference halls, and a very large library said to be the "most comprehensive in the Islamic world." The 41 fountains in the courtyard are all well decorated. The garden around the mosque is well tended and is a popular location for family picnics. The traditionally designed madrasa occupies an area of 4,840 square metres including the basement. Two stories in height, it is constructed in a semi-circular shape, with abutting qibla wall and the mihrab section.
The historical context of the mosque began with the death of King Mohammed V in 1961. King Hassan II had requested for the best of the country's artisans to come forward and submit plans for a mausoleum to honour the departed king; it should "reflect the fervor and veneration with which this illustrious man was regarded." In 1980, during his birthday celebrations, Hassan II had made his ambitions very clear for creating a single landmark monument in Casablanca by stating
I wish Casablanca to be endowed with a large, fine building of which it can be proud until the end of time ... I want to build this mosque on the water, because God's throne is on the water. Therefore, the faithful who go there to pray, to praise the creator on firm soil, can contemplate God's sky and ocean.
The building was commissioned by King Hassan II to be the most ambitious structure ever built in Morocco. It was designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau who had lived in Morocco, and was constructed by the civil engineering group Bouygues.
Work commenced on July 12, 1986, and was conducted over a seven-year period. Construction was scheduled to be completed in 1989 ready for Hassan II's 60th birthday. During the most intense period of construction, 1400 men worked during the day and another 1100 during the night. 10,000 artists and craftsmen participated in building and beautifying the mosque. However, the building was not completed on schedule which delayed inauguration. The formal inauguration was subsequently chosen to be the 11th Rabi' al-Awwal of the year 1414 of the Hijra, corresponding to 30 August 1993, which also marked the eve of the anniversary of Prophet Muhammad’s birth. It was dedicated to the Sovereign of Morocco.
Trundling round from Soho South Junction and joining the queue into Birmingham New Street, 57314 Conwy Castle leads 1Z77 Liverpool Lime Street to Stratford-upon-Avon.
Sunset at Vancouver, Washington's Grant Street Pier designed by public artist Larry Kirkland. He chose to not rely on traditional pilings for support. Rather, the pier is suspended some 90 feet over the river from cables. This pier is part of a 32-acre new development along the Columbia riverfront.
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