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A consist for the books, 3121 still in BN paint moves the power from the previous days M-GALCHI which was 3 former ATSF locomotives, two of which still in Santa Fe paint.
Back end of a Chevy Impala (I think it was a '63) at the Rolling Sculpture Car Show in Ann Arbor, Michigan. More to come.
Named after an arcade favorite of mine from the 1980's.
"Rolling Thunder" was an Bond like side scrolling shooting game with so much style, and bright-garish colors popping out at you, That you almost forgave how impossible the difficulty was....almost!
The July 10, 2015 Rolling Sculpture car show in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. This show with a great variety of cars always takes place on the second Friday in July.
The owner chalks this wonderful marque on the pavement every year.
All of my classic car photos can be found here: Car Collections
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Rolling is a common behavior seen when whales are socializing in a group. The whale on the right, part of a group of four, has rolled completely belly-up! December 29, 2018
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken under NOAA permit 20556-01
Cows graze on pasture on the rolling landscape of England's Dorset Downs hills on an early spring day.
The hills around the Livermore Valley are covered with a thick carpet of green this time of year. If you added a few rock walls, you might think you were in Ireland !
This is the view just outside the Wente Vineyards Tasting Room (also the location of a top-rated golf course)
Cover up of a small piece of tribal ,the rest is all her respect for Keith Richards .Done by John @ Spacey's Bizarre Ink ,36 West Port ,Edinburgh, UK.
Many small people
who in many small places
do many small things
that can alter the face of the world
African saying
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Olympus OM-1 | Neopan 400 | Rodinal
Now this is what I would call a rolling road block!
Even on the bike this guy is hard to get around.
On Texas State Highway 809, in Deaf Smith County, Texas (great county name!)
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Shattered ice amidst rocks and sunken leaves in a very shallow pond on a small island in the Bow River.
Thanks to The Rolling Stones for the photo title!
When I was in high school, in the mid 70's, I used to drive over the hill from Pacifica after some very late nights, for fresh donut
The Rolling Stones @ Madrid
Concierto en el estadio Santiago Bernabeu el pasado 25 de junio de 2014.
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Rolling upright wire shelving. Assembles into an H footprint with 4 wheels, supports merchandise pegs and racks and shelves.
//What a disaster
William Saunderson-Meyer says the floods just another blow to a province that was already on its knees
KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster to try to cope with the devastating floods of the past week.
This is normally a temporary mechanism of which the primary purpose is to facilitate speedy national government assistance to hard-pressed provincial and local authorities. It also triggers the release of emergency funds from the National Treasury.
But in KZN’s case, they might as well make it permanent. This is a province that has been on its knees for some time and it ain’t getting up any time soon.
After all, KZN hasn’t even staunched the bloodied nose it suffered nine months ago. That’s when one wing of the African National Congress government — the Radical Economic Transformation followers of former president Jacob Zuma — tried to bury the other — the so-called reformists led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
KZN hasn’t even properly tallied the body blows it suffered then. The official estimates for the insurrection were 45,000 businesses affected, R50bn in economic damage, 129,000 jobs lost, and 354 killed.
These estimates are probably on the low side. For example, the number of people who were killed in the mayhem doesn’t include the many whose bodies were simply never found and counted.
And the true economic cost is incalculable. There’s been substantially increased emigration of minorities, cancelled investment, and the loss of international confidence in KZN as a safe tourist destination. In at least a dozen small, country towns, all the business infrastructure was destroyed, paradoxically by the very people who worked and shopped in those buildings.
Now the floods. The death toll is over 300 and still rising. Some 6,000 homes have been destroyed and road, water sewage and electrical infrastructure uprooted. As I write this, roaming mobs are opportunistically plundering container depots, stranded trucks, abandoned homes and vulnerable businesses, reportedly unhindered — as was the case during last year’s riots — by the police and army.
Naturally, no disaster is complete without a scapegoat. Ramaphosa, as is his style, was quick off the mark to finger the culprit — climate change.
“This disaster is part of climate change. It is telling us that climate change is serious, it is here,” Ramaphosa told reporters while inspecting a devastated Durban. “We no longer can postpone what we need to do, and the measures we need to take to deal with climate change.”
What balderdash. Whatever role climate change may or may not have played in the larger scheme of things, it’s nonsense to pin on it responsibility for the plight of KZN. That lies with the ANC government.
First, this was not an unforeseeable bolt from the heavens. The forecasters warned months back that this was likely to be an exceptionally wet summer because of the La Niña weather pattern that occurs every few years.
There are also historical precedents for extreme weather in KZN, which a prudent administration would have taken note of.
In 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina wreaked havoc in a swathe from Mozambique, through Swaziland to KZN. Although the current downpour is worse, the scale is nevertheless in the same ballpark.
This latest storm — as yet unnamed — dumped 450mm of rain on Durban in 48 hours. Domoina let loose 615mm in 24 hours on Swaziland and northern KZN.
But the true difference between those events, 38 years apart, lies in the lack of preparedness on the part of today’s authorities. In 1984 the SA Air Force deployed 25 helicopters to airlift people to safety. In the 2000 Mozambique floods, 17 SAAF helicopters rescued more than 14,000 people.
This time, according to a News24 report, the SA Police Service and the SAAF, combined, have been unable to put a single chopper in the air. The erosion of South Africa’s military means that of the SAAF’s 39 Oryx helicopters, only 17 are serviceable.
Durban-based 15 Squadron has not a single helicopter available for search and rescue — they are reportedly primarily used as VIP transport — but two SAAF choppers supposedly have been despatched from Gqeberha to help. The SAPS airwing has only one serviceable helicopter but “the pilot on duty has been booked off sick”.
Second, throughout the province, local government is also in a state of disaster and unable to do its job. The scale of the KZN impairment can be measured in the flood destruction of homes.
Some 4,000 shanties have been destroyed, many because officialdom was too lax to forbid building on the floodplain and against precariously unstable hillsides. Another 2,000 of the homes swept away were so-called RDP houses, shoddily built during the kickback-and-steal bonanza of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme of the late 1990s.
In Durban, the eThekwini metro is bloated and inert. It carries a rates and services debt of R17bn, of which R1bn is owed by the national government.
Durban is also infamously corrupt. Former mayor Zandile Gumede — along with 21 co-accused — is facing fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges in connection with a R320m municipal tender.
Yet at the weekend, even as the rain was bucketing down, she won the ANC’s regional leadership contest hands-down, despite the party’s supposed “step-aside when accused” rule.
The ANC-aligned Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has no illusions about the party it supports. It issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that unlike the plundering of Covid-19 emergency relief funds, the KZN disaster funds were not stolen or misused.
Fat chance. The ANC has already announced that its parliamentary constituency offices in KZN would become “hubs for humanitarian support” and appealed for the donation of relief supplies. Watch the trousering by the ANC’s public representatives of anything that the public is dumb enough to leave with them.
It’s in KZN where the ANC’s brazen indifference to the law and antipathy towards the Constitution is at its most obvious and most destructive.
On Monday, Zuma's corruption trial once again failed to take off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court when he successfully blocked the process with another round of delaying legal actions. His lawyers also had some carefully threatening words for the judiciary in a separate Supreme Court of Appeal action.
They urged SCA President Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest corruption prosecution challenges. They warned that last year’s deadly July unrest was “in part, traceable to a perceived erroneous and unjust judicial outcome” that put Zuma briefly in prison for contempt of court.
“When such conceived mistakes are committed, the citizens (wrongly) feel entitled to resort to self-help…”
Floods, fires and locusts are devastating but at least happen relatively rarely. The ANC, alas, is a seemingly unending plague.
It took two very savvy and talented people to assemble this variable height table. (In fact the directions suggested “cooperative assembly”)
I love it bc it can be used anywhere where there’s light. Used it yesterday and today to take a bunch of pictures for the MM theme of plastic already.
After driving Route 61 out of Vicksburg and finding little to eat for nearly an hour, we stopped at a Mexican restaurant in Rolling Fork, Mississippi
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I was a little hesitant to stand too close to these. One of the greatest freak accidents of all times was perpretrated by a bale of hay just like this one. A member of the 70's rock band ELO was killed when a rolling bale of hay crushed his van as he was driving. Which goes to show that when it is time to go it is time to go even it means the grim reaper has to resort to unusual means such as squashing you with a bale of hay.
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