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L249YOD was a Mercedes 709D / Plaxton Beaver B25F new as Plymouth City Transport number 249 in August 1993. Ten years later it passed to Travel Direct, and is seen in Paisley. The combined Hill/Hutchison Group fleet comprised of 31 vehicles which were broken down as follows:-
Ann Hill t/a Fairway Coaches 5 buses
Raymond Hill t/a Fereneze Travel 8 buses
William Hutchison t/a Travel Direct 6 buses
Pheonix Buses 12 buses.
The actual vehicles could move from fleet to fleet as required.
Ondanks dat ik niet direct stond te springen om eruit te gaan vanochtend, uiteindelijk ruim 2,5 uur genoten in het winterse landschap van oud reemst. Bovenstaande foto was ook direct een van de eerste scenes die ik er aantrof. Het fraaie winterse ochtendlicht met de bruine warme tones van de paarden vormen een mooi geheel met het besneeuwde landschap. Meer foto's van vanochtend bekijk je hier: nldazuu.com/winters-december/
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Soldiers of the Givati Brigade cooperate with the IAF helicopter squadrons
Photo by: Hagar Amibar
לוחמי חטיבת גבעתי מתרגלים שיתוף פעולה עם מערך המסוקים של חיל-האוויר
צילום: הגר עמיבר
Direct Rail Services Class 88 88008 is pictured leading Class 68 68016 at the head of the Mossend Down Yard to Daventry International containers as they join the slow line at Newcastle Central on May 1st 2021.
Selena Day Lowrider Cruise, Mission District, San Francisco, CA. April 20, 2024.
Kodak Portra 800, processed at Underdog Film Lab in West Oakland, scanned at home.
BGSU Band director works with the BGSU Marching Band on the last practice before their home debut. [Day 5 of week long photo challenge]
French postcard by Editions 'Humour à la Carte", Paris, no. ST-5. Photo: Alfred Hitchcock promoting Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock, 1976). Sent by mail in 1986.
British director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was known as 'The Master of Suspense'. He is one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema. He had his first major success with The Lodger (1926), a silent thriller loosely based on Jack the Ripper. Hitchcock came to international attention with The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), and, most notably, The Lady Vanishes (1938). His first Hollywood film was the multi-Oscar-winning psychological thriller Rebecca (1940). Many classics followed including Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), Rear Window (1954), North by Northwest (1959) and The Birds (1963). In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films which garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and 6 wins.
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, on the outskirts of east London, in 1899. He was the son of Emma Jane Whelan and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock. His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William and Eileen Hitchcock. Raised as a strict Catholic and attending Saint Ignatius College, a school run by Jesuits, Hitch had very much of a regular upbringing. In 1914, his father died. To support himself and his mother—his older siblings had left home by then—Hitchcock took a job in 1915 as an estimator for the Henley Telegraph and Cable Company. His interest in films began at around this time, frequently visiting the cinema and reading US trade journals. In a trade paper, he read that Famous Players-Lasky, the production arm of Paramount Pictures, was opening a studio in London. They were planning to film The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli, so Hitch produced some drawings for the title cards and sent his work to the studio. They hired him, and in 1919 he began working for Islington Studios as a title-card designer. Hitchcock soon gained experience as a co-writer, art director, and production manager on at least 18 silent films. After Hugh Croise, the director for Always Tell Your Wife (1923) fell ill, Hitchcock and star and producer Seymour Hicks finished the film together. When Paramount pulled out of London in 1922, Hitchcock was hired as an assistant director by a new firm run in the same location by Michael Balcon, later known as Gainsborough Pictures. He began to collaborate with the editor and "script girl" Alma Reville, his future wife. He worked as an assistant to director Graham Cutts on several films, including The Blackguard (1924), which was produced at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. There Hitchcock watched part of the making of F. W. Murnau's film Der letzte Mann/The Last Laugh (1924). He was impressed with Murnau's work and later used many of his techniques for the set design in his own productions. In the summer of 1925, Balcon asked Hitchcock to direct The Pleasure Garden (1925), starring Virginia Valli, a co-production of Gainsborough and the German firm Emelka. Reville, by then Hitchcock's fiancée, was assistant director-editor. In 1927, Hitchcock made his first trademark film, the thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) starring Ivor Novello. The Lodger is about the hunt for a serial killer who, wearing a black cloak and carrying a black bag, is murdering young blonde women in London, and only on Tuesdays. The Lodger was a commercial and critical success in the UK. In the same year, Hitchcock married Alma Reville. They had one child, Patricia Hitchcock (1928). Reville became her husband's closest collaborator and wrote or co-wrote on many of his films. Hitchcock made the transition to sound film with his tenth film, Blackmail (1929), the first British 'talkie'. Blackmail began the Hitchcock tradition of using famous landmarks as a backdrop for suspense sequences, with the climax taking place on the dome of the British Museum. He used early sound recording as a special element of the film, stressing the word "knife" in a conversation with the woman (Anny Ondra) suspected of murder. It was followed by Murder! (1930). In 1933 Hitchcock was once again working for Michael Balcon at Gaumont-British on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). It was a success. His second, The 39 Steps (1935), with Robert Donat, made him a star in the USA. It also established the quintessential English 'Hitchcock blonde' (Madeleine Carroll) as the template for his succession of ice-cold, elegant leading ladies. His next major success was The Lady Vanishes (1938), with Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. The film saw Hitchcock receive the 1938 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director.[
David O. Selznick signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, and the Hitchcocks moved to Hollywood. He directed an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1940), starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director. Hitchcock's second American film was the thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), set in Europe, and produced by Walter Wanger. It was nominated for Best Picture that year Suspicion (1941) was the first of four projects on which Cary Grant worked with Hitchcock, and it is one of the rare occasions that Grant was cast in a sinister role. In one scene Hitchcock placed a light inside a glass of milk, perhaps poisoned, that Grant is bringing to his wife, played by Joan Fontaine. The light makes sure that the audience's attention is on the glass. Fontaine won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was Hitchcock's personal favourite. Charlotte "Charlie" Newton (Teresa Wright) suspects her beloved uncle Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten) of being a serial killer. Hitchcock was again nominated for the Oscar for Best Director for Lifeboat (1944) and Spellbound (1945), but he never won the award. Spellbound (1945), starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, explores psychoanalysis and features a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí. Notorious (1946) stars Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, both Hitchcock regulars, and features a plot about Nazis, uranium, and South America. After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with Strangers on a Train (1951), based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith. In the film, two men casually meet, one of whom speculates on a foolproof method to murder. He suggests that two people, each wishing to do away with someone, should each perform the other's murder. Farley Granger played the innocent victim of the scheme, while boy-next-door" Robert Walker played the villain. I Confess (1953) was set in Quebec with Montgomery Clift as a Catholic priest. It was followed by three colour films starring Grace Kelly: the 3-D film Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955). From 1955 to 1965, Hitchcock was the host of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. With his droll delivery, gallows humour and iconic image, the series made Hitchcock a celebrity. in his films, Hitchcock often used the "mistaken identity" theme, such as in The Wrong Man (1956), and North by Northwest (1959). In Vertigo (1958), James Stewart plays Scottie, a former police investigator suffering from acrophobia. He develops an obsession with a woman he has been hired to shadow (Kim Novak). His obsession leads to tragedy, and this time Hitchcock does not opt for a happy ending. Vertigo is one of his most personal and revealing films, dealing with the Pygmalion-like obsessions of a man who crafts a woman into the woman he desires. Psycho (1960) was Hitchcock's great shock masterpiece, mostly for its haunting performances by Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins and its shower scene, and The Birds (1963) became the unintended forerunner to an onslaught of films about nature-gone-mad, and booth films were phenomenally popular. Film companies began to refer to his films as 'Alfred Hitchcock's': Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972), and Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976). During the making of Frenzy (1972), Hitchcock's wife Alma suffered a paralysing stroke which made her unable to walk very well. In 1979, Hitchcock was knighted, making him Sir Alfred Hitchcock. A year later, in 1980, he died peacefully in his sleep due to renal failure. Hitchcock was survived by his wife and daughter. After the funeral, his body was cremated. His remains were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
Sources: Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Direct Rail Services Class 37/0 37069 and 57/3 57312 diesel-electric locomotives at Coulderton on the Cumbrian coast railway line with 6M60 the 13:23 Seaton-on-Tees to BNFL Sellafield nuclear flask train.
Photo André Knoerr, Genève. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
Utilisation commerciale soumise à autorisation spéciale préalable.
La Re 620 022 tracte un train bloc de bennes ACTS.
La Re 6/6 11652 a quitté la Suisse en avril 2024 en direction de la Suède vers laquelle seize autres Re 6/6 pourraient suivre.
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The Menindee Lakes is a natural series of lakes that fill with water when the Darling-Baaka River floods. In the 1960s, a series of engineering projects augmented the Menindee Lakes, allowing water to be directed into the lakes and held back or released. This ensured a reliable water supply for the city of Broken Hill, the township of Menindee and secure supply of water for the Lower Darling River and supply to South Australia.
The Menindee Lakes system provides important habitat, nursery and recruitment for native fish, such as the Murray Cod and Golden Perch. It is important habitat for a huge variety of native and migratory bird species. The Menindee Lakes system is vital to the communities of the Far West, providing recreation and amenity, as well as attracting tourism, recreational fishing, horticulture and viticulture.
The Darling-Baaka River is central to the cultural, spiritual and economic lives of the Barkindji people.
The health of the Menindee Lakes and the Darling-Baaka River are intimately linked. The lakes fill from the Darling-Baaka River and water stored in the Menindee Lakes keeps the Lower Darling flowing during dry times. The Great Darling Anabranch is a series of ephemeral creeks, billabongs and lakes that wind their way to the Murray River to the west of the main Darling-Baaka River Channel.
Irrigation expands:
There has been a rapid expansion of irrigation along the rivers in the Northern Basin of the Murray Darling Basin, particularly cotton. Irrigation of cotton has expanded by 4,000% since the 1970s. In 1971 Australia grew 81,000 bales of cotton. By 2012 Australia grew 5.3 million bales. Irrigation dams - Wee Waa
Much of the cotton is grown along the rivers of the Murray Darling in very large irrigation enterprises, with most of the cotton grown on tributaries of the Darling-Baaka River.
Large private storages were built to hold water and other structures were built to capture flood waters. Water licences and water sharing plans allow irrigators to suck huge quantities from the tributaries of the Darling-Baaka even when flows are modest.
The result has been that low and medium flows have virtually stopped flowing down the Darling-Baaka River. Only the largest floods that cannot be captured upstream, or specially protected environmental flows, now make it down to the Menindee Lakes and Lower Darling-Baaka River.
An easy target?
After the Millennium Drought exposed just how over-allocated the river systems of the Murray-Darling Basin were, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed between the Commonwealth and the states. The Plan aimed to make the Murray-Darling Basin system more sustainable by returning more water to the rivers through buying back water licences and other measures to recover water for the environment.
Menindee Slogan Bus:
The irrigation industry views the water flowing into the Menindee Lakes as wasteful and unproductive (not growing crops). They would prefer water to be taken from the Menindee Lakes to meet the targets under the Basin Plan rather than for the irrigation industry to be compelled to use less water. The industry points to the volume of water that evaporates from the Menindee Lakes each year as a key reason to reduce the amount of water flowing into and being stored in the lakes. The amount of water that evaporates from shallow private storages in equally hot and dry climates is rarely mentioned.
Scientists and environmentalists view the water that flows down our rivers, fills wetland and billabongs, and spills over floodplains as highly productive for nature and vital for sustaining complex ecosystems that have evolved over eons. These flows are also vital for replenishing underground aquifers and for sustaining downstream communities and Indigenous cultures.
Some politicians view the Menindee Lakes as an easy target. The population around Menindee is sparse, without much economic or political clout. The birds, fish and wildlife can not vote, lobby or protest. Taking water from the Menindee Lakes system is seen as politically easier than seeking to recover water from loud, well-connected and politically savvy irrigators. The location of the Menindee Lakes in a remote part of NSW that is out of sight and out of mind for many citizens located on the eastern seaboard also makes it hard for the issue to gain political traction.
A plan to decommission the Menindee Lakes:
After the Menindee Lakes filled from a major flood event in Queensland and NSW 2012, they were rapidly emptied by the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Government. Usually the lakes would hold water for many years after they filled, but by 2014 they were emptied. As a consequence, Broken Hill was in danger of running out of water and the government announced a plan to drill bores to supply the city with low-quality bore water. Locals were outraged at this plan and were concerned that the Menindee Lakes had been deliberately drained so quickly as part of a plan to justify the decommissioning of the lakes.RIP Menindee Lakes
Another flood filled the Menindee Lakes in late 2016, but again they were rapidly drained, almost inexplicably into a flooding river. By then end of 2017 they were again dry just as drought started to bite and Broken Hill was facing another artificial water shortage.
Flush with cash from privatising the electricity networks, the NSW Government spent $500 million building a 270 kilometres water pipeline from the Murray River at Wentworth to Broken Hill. This ended the city’s reliance on the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes for water supply. Cotton Australia applauded the construction of the pipeline saying in their Annual Report, "The pipeline is a win for the community, the environment and irrigating farmers, and a solution Cotton Australia and its allies have long lobbied for." Meanwhile the local community was concerned that the pipeline would allow the NSW Government to decommission the Menindee Lakes without worrying about Broken Hill's water supply.
Sure enough, plans to reconfigure the Menindee Lakes are back on the table as a project to 'recover water from the environment' under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism. The NSW Government wants to save up to 100 gigalitres of water each year by reducing the volume water stored in Menindee Lakes by up to 80%. A range of proposals have been put forward for consultation.
The Darling River Action Group has labelled the plans as 'ecological genocide.' They strongly oppose the huge reduction in habitat that will occur if reconfiguration plans go ahead. They worry that changing the times between and length of inundation in the lakes will have a major impact on fish breeding and birdlife. The Barkindji native title holders are also strongly opposed to the plans, with significant concerns about the impact on their culture, community, environment and sacred sites.
Fish kills and dry rivers and lakes:
Fish Kill Menindee In the teeth severe drought, predictions of environmental catastrophe on the Darling River came true as millions of fish floated dead on the surface. Hot weather and a lack of flows led to a blue-green algae bloom that stripped the water of oxygen when it died, suffocating many millions of fish along a length of the Darling-Baaka River. Images of giant Murray Cod many decades old floating on the surface of a stagnant, bright green river shocked Australians. If water had been stored in the Menindee Lakes, a flow of water in the Darling-Baaka River could have been maintained and millions of fish and other creatures would have survived. It was noted that the very large mature Murray Cod that had died would have survived numerous previous droughts, so what had changed?
A report by the Australian Academy of Science concluded:
The conditions leading to this event are an interaction between a severe (but not unprecedented) drought and, more significantly, excess upstream diversion of water for irrigation. Prior releases of water from Menindee Lakes contributed to lack of local reserves.
A small flow in mid-2019 led to a partial revival of the Darling-Baaka River and water in the upper lakes of the Menindee Lakes system. However, the Menindee Lakes and Darling-Baaka River face three major threats:
1) The proposed re-configuration of the Menindee Lakes system;
2) The continuing overallocation of water extraction licences in the Northern Basin of the Murray-Darling system;
3) The extent and proposed licencing of floodplain harvesting, which is capturing huge quantities of water before it can even reach the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River.
Source: Save Menindee Lakes (www.savemenindeelakes.org.au/the_history)
A wave of anarchist violence has been crashing through the streets of Portland, Oregon, since June 2020.
The criminals are not the Black Lives Matter movement. Neither are they "Antifa," whatever that is.
No, paradoxically, they are surprisingly well organized for people who pose as anarchists. They use Twitter to incite, plan and celebrate their "autonomous" direct actions.
Like extremists on the right, anarchists torture language and traffic in lies. For example, they insist on Twitter that damaging property is not a form of violence, though the way they smash windows, set fires, tag buildings and pull down beloved statues of great Americans such as Abe Lincoln very clearly is.
Justifiable anger over unchecked organized vandalism is met with the accusation that victims of anarchist riots care more about property than human lives. This rhetorical dodge is meant to play on liberal guilt and depends on people not recognizing a false binary when they hear one.
Callow, ignorant youth who have never been responsible for anything more economically complex than a skateboard shrug off their criminal responsibility for significant vandalism on the ground that business owners have property insurance.
They have no inkling of the real-world consequences of their actions such as the cancellation of a business's insurance or a ruinous increase in premiums.
You won't find anarchists at the negotiation table articulating their objectives or making concessions in the interest of advancing reforms. Anonymous violence under cover of darkness is their only form of argument and persuasion.
Not only do anarchists flout laws duly promulgated under our democratic system, they deprive citizens' of their constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression by harassing and attacking members of the public and journalists for daring to capture photos or videos of anarchists in the act of committing crimes.
What are the anarchists' non-negotiable demands? They seek extremist outcomes such as total abolition of police and prisons that would never be approved by a majority of legislators or of voters in a free and fair election.
Portland's hapless and incompetent mayor lacks the political will to shut down Portland's anarchists.
The police, for reasons known only to the union leadership and insubordinate members of the rank and file, won't act decisively to interdict anarchist direct actions before they gain maximum destructive momentum.
Our deluded county prosecutor has contributed significantly to the damage in downtown Portland as a result of his ill-conceived policy not to prosecute most of the "alleged" wrongdoers the police arrest during anarchist rampages.
In true Portland form, we put a flower on it and carry on.
Stringer's T445 WWT is picking up in Castleford. It is a Mercedes Vario O814D with Plaxton Beaver 2 bodywork, obtained new in 1999.
Subsequent operators have included Speedwell, Glossop; Gibson Direct, Renfrew and Stagecarriage, Grangetown.
Juvenile
Juvénile
This little one was alone and coming directly at me
Ce petit canard était tout seul et venait directement à moi
Photo taken while aboard my kayak
Photo prise tout en étant à bord de mon kayak
Parc National des Îles-de-Boucherville, Boucherville, Québec
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Direct Rail Services Class 57 No. 57301 'Goliath' passes Stratford working the 5Q78 10:19 Ilford E.M.U.D. to Newport Docks (Sims Group) stock movement of London Overground Class 315 units Nos. 315858 and 315814 for scrap
Direct Rail Services Class 88 88008 Ariadne working 4S43 Daventry Int Rft Recep to Mossend Euroterminal
Direct Rail Services 37423 "Spirit of the Lakes" at Brock near Garstang on the 2C47 from Preston to Barrow-in-Furness.
*But it's Capricorn season what are you thinking?*
With a carry capacity of 14.3K TEU, MSC Aries has more than enough containers for the APM Terminal at Pier 400 to work for the next few days, as the VLCS direct from Shanghai, China takes the viewers choice spot for the duration of it's stay at the Port of Los Angeles.
Direct Rail Services Class 37s No's: 37218 + 37409 TnT Scotrail Liveried 68007 is seen arriving into Stockport with the "Blue-Boys on Tour" Pathfinder Railtours Charter from Newport(South Wales) - Blackpool North via Blackburn - 9th Feb 2019
Direct Rail Services no. 57312 screams through Nuneaton, working 1Z57 Liverpool Lime Street-Wembley Central, full of more Liverpool FC fans for the game against Man City. Northern Belle stock was used, with 57310 "pride of Cumbria" bringing up the rear.
Direct scan from album. Rollei 6008i, 50mm lense, self-timer, ran like crazy to sit beside her.
I like this because it makes me look much more handsome than the real me, whilst she is less bueatiful in this pic! ; )
A Scottish vibe on display during the 2015 Direct Rail Services open day at Carlisle Kingmoor depot, as Class 37 loco 37401 'Mary Queen of Scots', and Scotrail blue stripe liveried Class 47 loco 47712 stand side by side at the depot
Fukuoka City JAPAN / Sony A7R.2 × Summilux-M 35mm F1.4 / mokuu.cc/2015/11/post-1817.html / JS J1 25 014