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Acushnet, MA
January 22, 2022
Abstract details of a Blue Microphone at f/1.2, 50mm and extension tubes.
Hair~ Stealthic - Haunting (Store)
Vest~ CHUCK'S DESTROYED VEST BLUE (TMD November Round)
Pant~[ VERSOV ] CHINOV_LIGHCREAM (Store)
This thing has been sitting on a sleeper spur line in Bealville for a week or so now. There are curtains in the windows, it probably has a jaccuzi, you'd think they'd be able to arrange for a terl. Used for track maintenance on heavily used lines, this particular line goes to the Tehachapi Loop which accommodates 35 trains a day & sometimes more. Apparently the machine tamps & stabilizes the earth (and 1, 2, or 4 railroad ties) by using a horizontal vibration of high frequency. You learn something every day.
An interior shot gleaned from Plasser & Theurer product information:
www.plasseramerican.com/en/p_tamping/00picture.htm#094xdy...;
Husband thinks there are vending machines in the cabinets on either side of the walkway. :)
Thanks to a fun collaboration with a sweet dolly friend, Prickly Bird finally has a name: Quinnley.
The name combines all we see in this particular Poppy: a bit snobby, dramatic, regal and maybe even a tiny bit vulnerable. The name came after I hoped a photo might help me find another dimension to this Poppy than potential schemer (which would ensure she'd get to stay here a bit longer, too).
Quinnley even has a bit of an adventure in store this year: She'll be refusing to join my "lower-class" Play Poppys but won't be content languishing on a shelf either. We'll keep you updated as her plans unfold... :)
Doll: Pretty (Prickly) Bird Poppy Parker
Gown: High Frequency Kumi
Sash and gloves: Vintage Mattel
Crown: purchased on ebay several years ago
Earrings: New York Poppy Parker
I shot this roll of film over ten years ago, perhaps even earlier than that. I'm not sure why, but at the time the images meant something to me, much like the memories I have of that time mean something to me now. I suppose that is how this sort of thing goes. The past becomes less and less relevant as the present moves forward in time and a perception of the past replaces what was really there. Holding the images between my fingers made that clear to me for some reason, perhaps because they are just things that I control.
To show this, I used f/3.2 to make the film separate from the reality of the room I was in. What images the film holds are not really there for me for some reason and the strange f/stop effect that comes out when shooting almost directly into the light source shows this well enough. The image was shot in monochrome and is direct from the camera except for jpeg compression. I hope you like the result.
Dilmun is associated with ancient sites on the islands of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, the Cradle of Civilization.
Dilmun (sometimes transliterated Telmun) is associated with ancient sites on the islands of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Because of its location along the sea trade routes linking Mesopotamia with the Indus Valley Civilization, Dilmun developed in the Bronze Age, from ca. 3000 BC, into one of the greatest entrepots of trade of the ancient world.
There is both literary and archaeological evidence for the trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley (probably correctly identified with the land called Meluhha in Akkadian). Impressions of clay seals from the Indus Valley city of Harappa were evidently used to seal bundles of merchandise, as clay seal impressions with cord or sack marks on the reverse side testify.
A number of these Indus Valley seals have turned up at Ur and other Mesopotamian sites. "Persian Gulf" types of circular stamped rather than rolled seals, known from Dilmun, that appear at Lothal in Gujarat, India, and Faylahkah, as well as in Mesopotamia, are convincing corroboration of the long-distance sea trade. What the commerce consisted of is less sure: timber and precious woods, ivory, lapis lazuli, gold, and luxury goods such as carnelian and glazed stone beads, pearls from the Persian Gulf, shell and bone inlays, were among the goods sent to Mesopotamia in exchange for silver, tin, woolen textiles, olive oil and grains. Copper ingots, certainly, bitumen, which occurred naturally in Mesopotamia, may have been exchanged for cotton textiles and domestic fowl, major products of the Indus region that are not native to Mesopotamia - all these have been instanced.
Mesopotamian trade documents, lists of goods, and official inscriptions mentioning Meluhha supplement Harappan seals and archaeological finds. Literary references to Meluhhan trade date from the Akkadian, the Third Dynasty of Ur, and Isin - Larsa Periods (ca. 2350 - 1800 BC), but the trade probably started in the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 2600 BC). Some Meluhhan vessels may have sailed directly to Mesopotamian ports, but by the Isin - Larsa Period, Dilmun monopolized the trade. By the subsequent Old Babylonian period, trade between the two cultures evidently had ceased entirely.
The Bahrain National Museum assesses that its "Golden Age" lasted ca. 2200 - 1600 BC. Its decline dates from the time the Indus Valley civilization suddenly and mysteriously collapsed, in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. This would of course have stripped Dilmun of its importance as a trading center between Mesopotamia and India. The decay of the great sea trade with the east may have affected the power shift northwards observed in Mesopotamia itself.
Evidence about Neolithic human cultures in Dilmun comes from flint tools and weapons. From later periods, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, pottery and even correspondence between rulers throw light on Dilmun. Written records mentioning the archipelago exist in Sumerian, Akkadian, Persian, Greek, and Latin sources.
Dilmun, sometimes described as "the place where the sun rises" and "the Land of the Living" is the scene of a Sumerian creation myth and the place where the deified Sumerian hero of the flood, Ziusudra (Utnapishtim), was taken by the gods to live for ever.
There is mention of Dilmun as a vassal of Assyria in the 8th century BC and by about 600 BC, it had been fully incorporated into the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Dilmun then falls into deep eclipse marked by the decline of the copper trade, so long controlled by Dilmun, and the switch to a less important role in the new trade of frankincense and spices. The discovery of an impressive palace at the Ras al Qalah site in Bahrain is promising to increase knowledge of this late period.
Otherwise, there is virtually no information until the passage of Nearchus, the admiral in charge of Alexander the Great's fleet on the return from the Indus Valley. Nearchus kept to the Iranian coast of the Gulf, however, and cannot have stopped at Dilmun. Nearchus established a colony on the island of Falaika off the coast of Kuwait in the late 4th century BC, and explored the Gulf perhaps least as far south as Dilmun/Bahrain.
From the time of Nearchus until the coming of Islam in the 7th century AD Dilmun/Bahrain was known by its Greek name of Tylos. The political history for this period is little known, but Tylos was at one point part of the Seleucid Empire, and of Characene and perhaps part of the Parthian Empire. Shapur II annexed it, together with eastern Arabia, into the Persian Sassanian empire in the 4th century.
Unlike Egyptian and Mesopotamian tablets and cylinders, the Dilmun legacy has been discovered on circular seals. The primitive forms of images carved on the seal indicate they were used as charms or talisman. Carved on wood, soapstone shells or metal, these images clearly define a complex society. Temples in the center of the agrarian village, towns, city-states, religious, and economic cultural life. All facets of the emergence of an evolutionary society are reflected in the inscriptions about the seals.
Impressions found on pottery and property is a probable usage of the seals. Burying them with the dead was probably to avoid misuse. Tiny fragments found impressed, suggest identifying property. Clearly there was an intrinsic value; each seal tells a story, has an identity.
Seals depict Enki, God of wisdom and sweet water. Gilgamesh as a massive and heroic figure, the 'Bull of heaven' hat. Ladies of the mountains 'Inanas' servants wearing her triangle signs depicting space for her power. 'Nana' is the moon god who was also named 'sin'. Symbol was the bull of heaven head. Inana, goddess of immortality.
From the dreams of Gilgamesh, to the philosophy of life. Seals depicting a harmonious life with nature and god are painted here in the colors and form I hope you enjoy. The colors naturally excite and stimulate, often sexually. Indisputably the ancient myths of immortality and resurrection influenced Dilmun beliefs and are abundantly supported in the seal designs, represented by gods of the sun and moon.
The Mesopotamian texts described Tilmun as situated at the 'mouth' of two bodies of water. The Sinai peninsula, shaped as an inverted triangle indeed begins where the Red Sea separates into two arms - the gulf of Suez on the west, and the Gulf of Elat (Gulf of Aqaba) on the east.
The texts spoke of mountainous Tilmun. The Sinai peninsula is indeed made up of a high mountainous southern part, a mountainous central plateau, and a northern plain (surrounded by mountains), which levels off via sandy hills to the Mediterranean coastline. Sargon of Akkad claimed that he reached as 'washed his weapons' in the Mediterranean; 'the sea lands' - the lands along the Mediterranean coast - 'three times I encircled; Tilmun my hand captured'. Sargon II, king of Assyria in the eighth century BC, asserted that he had conquered the area stretching 'from Bit-Yahkin on the shore of the salt Sea as far as the border of Tilmun'. The name 'Salt Sea' has survived to this day as a Hebrew name for the Dead Sea - another confirmation that Tilmun lay in proximity to the Dead Sea.
The cradle of civilization is sometimes referenced by the name Dilmun, or Tilmun. Here, it was said, the god Ea and his wife were placed to institute 'a sinless age of complete happiness'.
Here too animals lived in peace and harmony, man had no rival and the god Enlil `in one tongue gave praise'. It is also described as a pure, clean and `bright' `abode of the immortals' where death, disease and sorrow are unknown and some mortals have been given `life like a god', words reminiscent of the Airyana Vaejah, the realm of the immortals in Iranian myth and legend, and the Eden of Hebraic tradition
Although Dilmun is equated by most scholars with the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, there is evidence to suggest that a much earlier mythical Dilmun was located in a mountainous region beyond the plains of Sumer.
But where exactly was it located Mesopotamian inscriptions do not say; however, the Zoroastrian Bundahishn text and the Christian records of Arbela in Iraqi Kurdistan both refer to a location named Dilamƒn as having existed around the head waters of the Tigris, south-west of Lake Van - the very area in which the biblical Eden is said to have been located.
Furthermore, Ea (the Akkadian Enki) was said to have presided over the concourse of Mesopotamia's two greatest rivers - the Tigris and Euphrates - which are shown in depictions as flowing from each of his shoulders.
This would have undoubtedly have meant that the head-waters, or sources, of these rivers would have been looked upon as sacred to Ea by the cultures of Mesopotamia's Fertile Crescent.
- Zecharia Sitchin The Stairway to Heaven
Dilmun was allegedly a magical land, the birthplace of the gods and the place where the arts of civilization where said first to have been transmitted to men. It was the subject of many legends told by the Sumerians, the people of southern Iraq; it was famed as a land where death and disease were unknown and men and animals lived at peace together.
It was the home of the Sumerian king who was the origin of the myth of Noah, the immortal survivor of the Great Flood, a story retold in the Qu'ran and the Bible.
The first great hero of world literature, Gilgamesh the king of Uruk, journeyed to Dilmun in search of the secret of eternal youth.
He found it deep in the waters of the Persian Gulf, off Bahrain, but lost it when the flower which restored the youth of those who sought it, was stolen by a snake, lurking in a pool as Gilgamesh returned to his kingdom; this is the reason why the snake sloughs his skin.
Symbolism - All is Myth and Metaphor in our reality
* water: flow of consciousness - creation
* restore to youth: move out of the physical body and return to higher frequency forms of sound, light, and color
* snake: DNA - the human bio-genetic experiment in time and emotion
* kingdom - Leo - Lion - King - Omega - closure
Dilmun was also the center of the most important trade routes of the third and second millennia BC. The most important commodity was copper for which Dilmun was famous and the dates for which Bahrain was always celebrated, from ancient times until the present day.
Because Dilmun was so sacred a land, there were many temples built there, the impressive remains of which can be seen today. The largest and most splendid temple surviving in Western Asia is at Barbar on Bahrain's northern shore.
The most famous of all Bahrain's rich archaeological heritage are the 200,000 grave mounds which are a feature of the landscape in the northern half of the island and which, by their size and quality of construction, show how prosperous Bahrain must have been in ancient times.
Dilmun continued to be the most important center of trade in the Gulf region throughout its history.
After the Sumerians, the Babylonians, Assyrians, even the Greeks, settled on the islands, because of their strategic importance in the movement of merchandise, north and south, east and west, by sea and by the land routes to which the seas gave access.
The records of their diplomatic relations with the kings of Dilmun, some of whose names are known from the records, testify to the importance of the islands throughout antiquity.
All left evidence of their presence, preserved today in the Bahrain National Museum and in the immense archaeological sites in which Bahrain is particularly rich.
Bahrain is an open-air treasure house of the past, a unique heritage from the earliest times when men first began to keep records of their hopes, fears and achievements.
It is the contemporary of ancient Egypt with Sumer and the peoples who succeeded them, of the great cities of the Indus Valley.
Source: www.crystalinks.com/dilmun.html
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AI Midjourney render using acrylic paint, colored pencils and black ink. Post work (composition) done with Photoshop and Gigapixel AI.
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This was the least intricate of tonight's shots but my favourite on reviewing them all.
Difuser between me and the camera. Light blade on strobe swept as constantly as possible across the back of my hand.
This is number 342 of my 366.
Haven't played with these guys in a while. This is the best time of year for them: we start having more colorful sunsets, and the ice that remains out on the lake helps keep the water still closer to shore. These pilings actually launched my ice fixation years ago when I noticed the elaborate frozen coats they grow in the winter. And then they became a year-round obsession themselves. By the way, there's no monkey-business here other than darkening the pilings a little to make them solid black. This is how it looked.
This first picture (better large) gives a broad view of a glacial calving. Calving of glaciers is often preceded by a loud cracking or booming sound before blocks of ice up to 200 feet high break loose and crash into the water. The entry of the ice into the water causes large, and often hazardous wakes. The wakes formed in locations like Johns Hopkins Glacier can be so large that boats cannot approach closer than two miles. These events have become major tourist attractions in Alaska.
The following pictures show the beginning to end of an episode of calving. The second shows the beginning burst of ice, the third shows one of the chunks that is breaking off, the fourth shows the large splash into the fjord, and the last shows the receding splash. (The little black objects in the water are seals that like to float on the chunks of ice!)
Many glaciers terminating at oceans or freshwater lakes naturally calve, and seeing this glacial calving is really exciting, but the thought that global warming is adding to the frequency of the calving puts a bit of a damper on that excitement.
Holding my ground perched atop a ridge alongside Route F-360, a spectacular view of the narrowing Aconcagua River basin paralleling the coastal mountain range would keep me company throughout the morning. Despite the arid climate, pastures and villages line the banks of the dry riverbed all the way to the Pacific Ocean, a fine co-existence of man and nature. From Carolmo and Concón, the Seventh Subdivision hugs the slopes of the mountains along the northern rims of the valley, snaking between fields, hills, and many front doorsteps. Much of the line is dotted with picturesque scenes such as this, and that’s not including the beachside sector to the west… [wink-wink, nudge-nudge]
An unanticipated two-hour wait would be stomached while waiting for the next expected train through El Manzanar. As for why it took so long for Train 50.951 to appear, I don’t exactly know why. 50.951 and counterpart train 50.950 do execute a crew swap along the Seventh Subdivision, typically at Colmo—maybe there was a delay with 50.951? What if the swap was done further west at Ritoque? Not having access to the road channel frequencies definitely didn’t help ease the anxiety, but it is what it is. I had the views of the valley to keep me company.
Regardless of why they were delayed, FEPASA Train 50.951 finally rounded the corner by the PK12 kilometerpost up the road at 12:15, dragging their feet the whole way past my location. FEPASA SD40-2M D-3304 does the honors powering the morning eastbound “Tortolas” service through El Manzanar, comprised of 37 pairs of empty concentrate tubs. The train originates out of the Port of Las Ventanas, transporting the aforementioned empty tubs east towards the Las Blancas transload facility, where the empties are swapped for loads set for export out of Ventanas. The engineer would throw his motor into notch 8 once they were past the cameras, speeding off towards San Pedro.
Some of y’all might be thinking that D-3304 looks distinctly North American, despite it residing in a completely different continent; if you don’t know already, the reach of EMD knows no bounds. The unit began its life in June 1980, built as SD40-2 #7212 as part of Order No° C423 for the Burlington Northern. It survived through the BNSF merger until 2003, bouncing around in lease service under First Union Rail [FURX] and National Rail Equipment [NREX]. FEPASA would purchase the unit, along with two sister ex-BN EMDs [7237, 7275] in 2013 as part of their second batch of SD40-2 acquisitions. All three were shipped together to Chile, rebuilt at Casagrande Motori in Santiago, and reclassified as SD40-2M’s—thus completing the roster of six “new” EMDs for the railroad.
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El Manzanar, Región V, Chile
EFE Subdivisión 7
Date: 06/10/2022 | 12:15
ID: FEPASA 50.951
Type: Empty Copper Concentrate
Direction: Eastbound
Car Count: 37
1. FEPASA SD40-2M D-3304
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Laurence Larson
Album-Frequency
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SuQiH_vJJw
Oh, it turns out that your frequency is so close
Maybe you have already appeared in my dreams
How much a miracle is needed
In this vast sea of people
Hope everything happens to be so lucky
Just fall in love with you
Baby girl I'm falling
Cupid takes love with one arrow
Transfer to my dream
Think & fall in love but I
Doubting that I think too much
Why always pass by
Arrived at the meeting place
Feel that your frequency is slowly approaching
Familiar yet unfamiliar positioning
How many chances to meet
Don't want to hesitate
I don't wanna go I'm feeling lonely
The seat of the first meeting, drinking coffee with your beauty
I just gotta say
A smile is enough to make me intoxicated for you
Oh, it turns out that your frequency is so close
Maybe you have already appeared in my dreams
What a miracle is needed in this vast sea of people
Hope time can be suspended
So that I can find it
Your frequencies attract each other
Just let me listen to your voice
How much courage is needed in this vast sea of people
I hope everything is so lucky I just fall in love with you
(You know I love you)
(I love you)
(I don't know what to do without you)
If I meet you next time, I will believe my eyes
It’s like the arranged plot makes me fall into the trap of love
Enchanting and unbelievable, I believe it’s an angel
To travel hand in hand like this, from night to dawn
Familiar and unfamiliar positioning, how many opportunities to meet?
Don't want to hesitate
I don’t wanna go I’m feeling lonely
The seat of the first meeting, drinking coffee with your beauty
I just gotta say a smile is enough to make me intoxicated for you
Oh, it turns out that your frequency is so close
Maybe you have already appeared in my dreams
What a miracle is needed in this vast sea of people
I hope the time can be suspended so that I can be well
Find your frequency attracts each other
Just let me listen to your voice
How much courage is needed in this vast sea of people
I hope everything happens to be so lucky I just fall in love with you
(I don't know what to do)
(I'm just waiting for the moment I can hold you in my arms)
(So listen to your melody)
(I'm just waiting for the moment I can call you mine) every day
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Sunrise over the small cove of Lurline Bay in Sydney, Australia.
Nikon D800 & Nikkor 16-35mm, Lee 1.2 GND filter. PP in PS CC using Nik Software and luminosity masks.
Keeping a launcher in flight connected with the ground is one of the toughest jobs an antenna can have. Having to contend with high temperatures, vibration and atmospheric slipstream is hard enough, but shifting atmospheric pressure levels as the launcher heads into the vacuum of space (and potentially back again) can risk dangerous electrical discharges called corona – being tested for here.
The antenna design being tested at ESA’s High Power Radio Frequency Laboratory in Valencia, Spain, is one of a quartet that is about to see service on Spain’s Miura 1 sub-orbital micro-launcher, developed by the PLD Space company. But the four antennas are also undergoing a separate test campaign to qualify them for wider future uses.
“There are four different antenna types in all, each being flown in pairs aboard Miura 1,” explains ESA antenna engineer Victoria Iza.
“One is a Global Navigation Satellite Signal antenna, using satellite navigation signals to track the launcher’s position; one is an S-band antenna to transmit telemetry plus C-band and UHF antennas that both serve the security system that will end the flight safely in case of malfunction, operating on a redundant basis.
“Built by Spain’s Anteral company, this quartet of conformal dielectric antennas – each roughly the size of a smartphone and made to fit around the hull of the upper stage – has already been qualified as part of the avionics bay of the Miura 1. But with the number of European small launchers increasing rapidly, supported by ESA’s Boost! programme, the potential is there for these antennas to find wider uses, so they are being put through a separate qualification programme.”
Taking place through ESA’s General Support Technology Programme, helping develop promising new products for space and the open market, the antennas are currently undergoing environmental testing including thermal vacuum where they are exposed to sustained vacuum and temperature extremes – and vibration tests.
These antennas have to sustain harsh thermomechanical environments during launch, orbital flight and eventual return to Earth, so the project has been supported on the ESA side by structures engineer Goncalo Rodrigues and thermal engineer Miguel Copano.
Key stress factors are vibrations propagating from the launch vehicle jet engines, shocks resulting from the fairing and stages separation and the extreme temperatures resulting from aerothermal fluxes and – once in orbit – alternating Sun and cold space exposure.
To check the antennas designs can not only survive but go on operating as intended, the team employed a combination of computer simulations and on-ground test facilities including electro-magnetic shakers, pyro-shock tables and thermal-vacuum chambers.
“Most of the testing has been carried out at the Public University of Navarra, UPNA, but ESA’s High Power Radio Frequency Lab was used for corona discharge testing,” adds Victoria.
“When a radio frequency antenna is surrounded by a vestigial amount of atmosphere – as when a launcher is either leaving or returning to a planetary atmosphere – then there is the potential for this air to become ionised by the radio signal, risking damaging lightning-like discharge.
“The antennas were placed in this glass container so that their surrounding air levels can be changed while the antennas are in operation; the glass does not impede the radio signals. Our full test campaign will conclude soon, hopefully helping the antennas to find fresh markets, not only for launchers – for instance, their demonstrated robustness means they could also be used aboard planetary landers.”
"For Anteral, the development of these antennas is key to our positioning in the small launcher market,” explains Fernando Teberio, Chief Technology Officer of Anteral.
Anteral CEO Itziar Maestrojuan notes: “Thanks to the support from ESA we have been able to fully qualify the antennas that will be used on Miura-1 and hopefully on many other launchers and different applications where reliability is a key parameter.”
Credits: Anteral