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If rumours are to come true such sights as this will become a thing of the past. DB has stated it will not overhaul any more Class 60s in preference re-gearing some class 66s. Wether GBRf follow suit remains to be seen. Seen here 60087 passes over the River Darwen on Pleasington Viaduct. The low frequency throb of the Mirlees MBM 3100 an unmistakable sound.
Boeing EC-135G, USAF s/n 62-3570 (c/n 18553)
"R.F. RADIATION" markings with red and white stripes surround the area from which the Very Low Frequency (VLF) trailing wire antenna was mounted. High-powered VLF radio equipment allowed command and control aircraft to communicate with ballistic missile submarines.
This aircraft was originally delivered as a KC-135A, and later modified for Post Attack Command Control System (PACCS) service.
PACCS ensured that the National Command Authority could maintain command and control in the event of a nuclear war. See:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Attack_Command_and_Control_System
Photographed at Davis-Monthan AFB
January 2000
(Scanned 35mm color negative)
me voy a amplificar,
soy una frecuencia,
con un millon de megaheartz... ♫
[Zoe - reptilectric - Ultimos dias]
With the S24 schedule well and truly under way, it is always interesting to see how capacity is adjusted especially as most flights will see either capacity or frequency increases.
United Airlines presence at London Heathrow is always one to keep an eye out on; for the current S24 schedule sees the carrier operating 20 daily flights, whilst the vast majority of flights are provided by High-J Boeing 767-300ERs from Chicago-O'Hare and Newark-Liberty, other flights are provided by either Boeing 777s or Boeing 787s.
For a long time, United Airlines has provided a daily flight between London Heathrow and Los Angeles; what was once operated by Boeing 777-200ERs a decade ago to Boeing 787-9s. Since last year's S23 schedule, United Airlines introduced a second daily flight (UA231/230) for the summer season only. As someone who has travelled on this flight, it was particularly popular upfront in both Premium Plus and Business. It is no surprise that United reinstated the second daily flight for the current S24 schedule.
As United reverted back to daily flights for the W23 schedule in winter, UA923/935 their long-standing flight did see capacity increase over to Boeing 787-10s from late-November 2023, the first time United has regularly scheduled Boeing 787-10s into London Heathrow since their introduction (excluding COVID-19), going back over to Boeing 787-9s on 1st May 2024.
Currently, United Airlines operates 71 Boeing 787s, which includes 12 Boeing 787-8s, 38 Boeing 787-9s and 21 Boeing 787-10s. United Airlines have 100 Boeing 787s on-order.
November One Six Zero Zero Eight is one of 21 Boeing 787-10s operated by United Airlines, delivered new to the carrier on 29th March 2019 and she is powered by 2 General Electric GEnx-1B76 engines.
Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner N16008 on short finals into Runway 09L at London Heathrow (LHR) on UA923 from Los Angeles (LAX), California.
Shown here is an artist rendering of a U.S. Air Force Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite in space. www.lockheedmartin.com/aehf
All time in One time: 12756km/7927 miles is the equatorial diameter of Earth.
What do you see behind the face of time?
There is a lot to be seen in the chart, a lot shared in WW facebook community page.
Jason Hummel Photography
On Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/Tacoma-WA/Jason-Hummel-Photography...
The 64 to Charnock started off life as part of the replacement for service 99 to the then Charnock Hall Estate, which until 1967 was just over the border in Derbyshire. As part of the rationalisation of services in Arbourthorne, it gained a lengthy diversion around Eastern Avenue to replace the old service 30, but at peaks, its old route, direct via City Road was operated under the number 74, the Eastern Avenue section being covered by service 72 at those times - confused?
Thankfully, Charnock now has the same bus every day (the 51) and its best ever frequency). Arbourthorne hasn't come out of it too well, however.
1862 was Leadmill based at this time and the 64 interworked with the 27 to Dyke Vale Road.
We know that all Prime numbers, after 2 and 5, end with either a 1, 3, 7 or 9 as their last digit.
If we look at the frequency of individual last digits we can see that 1, 3, 7, or 9 more or less occur at a similar frequency. However, as soon as we look at the frequency of the same last digit occurring twice in a row, we find that this is far less common and even less common for the same last digit occurring three times in a row.
Kannan Soundararajan and Robert Lemke-Oliver produced a paper in March 2016 on this apparent bias which received considerable attention in mathematical journals www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-prime-cons.... If you really want to dive into the maths, the full paper can be found here arxiv.org/pdf/1709.06168.pdf .
Lockheed Martin’s sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-6) protected communications satellite is encapsulated in its protective fairings ahead of its expected March 26 launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. AEHF-6 is part of the AEHF system -- a resilient satellite constellation with global coverage and a sophisticated ground control system -- that provides global, survivable, protected communications capabilities for national leaders and tactical warfighters operating across ground, sea and air platforms. The anti-jam system also serves international allies to include Canada, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Australia.
Edited Hubble Space telescope image of Saturn in October of 2023.
Original caption: This photo of Saturn was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 22 October 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 1365 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a phenomenon called ring spokes. Saturn's spokes are transient features that rotate along with the rings. Their ghostly appearance only persists for two or three rotations around Saturn. During active periods, freshly-formed spokes continuously add to the pattern. In 1981, NASA's Voyager 2 first photographed the ring spokes. Hubble continues observing Saturn annually as the spokes come and go. This cycle has been captured by Hubble's Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program that began nearly a decade ago to annually monitor weather changes on all four gas-giant outer planets. Hubble's crisp images show that the frequency of spoke apparitions is seasonally driven, first appearing in OPAL data in 2021 but only on the morning (left) side of the rings. Long-term monitoring shows that both the number and contrast of the spokes vary with Saturn's seasons. Saturn is tilted on its axis like Earth and has seasons lasting approximately seven years. This year, these ephemeral structures appear on both sides of the planet simultaneously as they spin around the giant world. Although they look small compared with Saturn, their length and width can stretch longer than Earth's diameter! The OPAL team notes that the leading theory is that spokes are tied to interactions between Saturn's powerful magnetic field and the sun. Planetary scientists think that electrostatic forces generated from this interaction levitate dust or ice above the ring to form the spokes, though after several decades no theory perfectly predicts the spokes. Continued Hubble observations may eventually help solve the mystery. [Image description: Planet Saturn with bright white rings, multi-colored main sphere, and moons Mimas, Dione, and Enceladus. Spoke features on the left and right sides of the rings appear like faint grey smudges against the rings’ bright backdrop, about midway from the planet to the rings’ outer edge. Above the rings plane, the planet’s bands are shades of red, orange and yellow, with bright white nearer the equator.]
Playing with smoke, part 1.
Choose a dust-free environment, or you spend ages removing the spots. Get the smoke source as far in front of the backdrop as you can (a black towel in this case). This means having the flash off-camera, but as it seemed best to have the flash pointing up from below the smoke you need that anyway. And try to keep the flash off the background.
Shooting from high up, at an angle, gives a nice mix of in and out of focus areas. Looking at some of the failures there are some fantastic rolls of turbulence.
I was using a josstick, but those small cones are probably better.
For some I had both a bright torch and the flash, so there's a mix of fluid motion and sharp-edged frozen curls.
Manual focus, pre-set before you turn the lights off! One or two second exposure, triggering the flash by hand. I was using ISO 100 and f/2 to f/5.6, with the flash at a variety of fractions of output.
I didn't get around to putting the smoke source on an upturned speaker to try to generate some waves, but I did create a couple of audio files with various frequencies of bass... uploaded them to my phone, and balanced the josstick on my phone... it wasn't powerful enough to influence the smoke. In the end I just waved my arms about to create some currents!
I played with white-balance quite a lot in post-process (I was shooting in raw of course), and some of the shots have lots more processing, while some are pretty much out of camera.
5.7.14
The 34 was in the midst of its transition to double deck at this time - the large batch of Enviro 400s had arrived a few months before, enabling a fleet cascade which was set to reduce the number of Scania single deckers - both artic and rigid.
The 34 was low priority over the summer for its new buses (cascaded from brown line 17) as its frequency drops out of term time and on this day I witnessed a few spare deckers out on the route. One of them was 765, which itself was the subject of a recent re-upload - www.flickr.com/photos/108834608@N06/48351954646/in/photol...)
Another was this, which you can even see in the background of the picture of 765. 988 in the days before it had its vinyl wrap and and was dedicated spare on the 17.
In fact given it's on the 34 here it would be directly swapping roles with the ex-17 N94s that would be coming to the 34 soon.
Then lo and behold, a few years later the rest of this batch of 10 plates are transferred onto the 34, while 988 gets rid of its wrap livery and is painted in the new style spare livery.
I found this old gem in a flea market near Ipoh old town couple of weeks back. Pretty cool retro looking radio though and it's still in pristine condition. Wonder if it's still working as the original box and user manual are still intact.
Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced by the European Space Agency to fill a missing link in current technology, helping to make future radar-observing and telecommunications space missions feasible.
“This integrated circuit is a low noise amplifier, measuring just 1.8 by 0.9 mm across,” explains ESA microwave engineer David Cuadrado-Calle. “Delivering state of the art performance, the low noise amplifier’s task is to boost very faint signals to usable levels.”
It could in the future be employed for both radar-based missions – where the faint signals are the radar echoes received by the instrument after they bounce off Earth’s surface and travel back to the satellite – and telecommunications missions – where the communication signals coming from Earth are amplified by the satellite and sent back to Earth for broadband access or broadcasting services.
“The amplifier was designed by ESA’s Radio Frequency Equipment and Technology Section, and built in gallium nitride on silicon, rendering it much more robust against high input power signals than previous designs. The manufacturing of the chip was done at MACOM’s European Semiconductor Centre (formerly OMMIC) in France.”
Driving the circuit design were the needs of a proposed ESA mission, an Earth Explorer candidate called Wivern, to follow on from the current radar-based cloud-profiling EarthCARE mission undertaken by ESA with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA.
Wivern – short for wind velocity radar nephoscope – would provide the first measurements of wind within clouds and precipitation while also delivering profiles of rain, snow and ice water to improve forecasts of hazardous weather and provide new insights into severe storms.
To achieve this Wivern would employ W-band radar signals. In practice this would involve transmitting thousands of watts of power, and the mission’s receive chain would have to withstand their leakage.
W-band also holds potential for future higher-frequency and higher-bandwidth satellite telecommunications.
David adds: “Producing this low noise amplifier was an exciting exercise for us because while such work is normally given to European industry or universities, in this instance, we knew exactly what we needed, and we had the skills to achieve it. Having this as an in-house project also gave us a chance to flex our chip design muscles.”
The low noise amplifier’s functionality was checked out at VTT Millilab, ESA’s external high-frequency laboratory, and was recently reported in the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters.
Credits: ESA-SJM Photography
Photo taken at Litang Horse Festival 2004. Different regions of Tibet have their own customs, dialect, and styles of ornamentation. Not sure which town or region these ladies were from, but their halos (or afros) of amber wee certainly very cool. Rich Tibetans have now stopped wearing the fur of endagered species after the Dalai Lama appealed to them to realise the damage it was doing, but tragically at the time of the 2004 festival many of these costumes could be seen with leopard or tiger furs in.
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Ornaments make up most of the life savings of many Khampa families, and so play an important role in Tibetan families' lives as well as in announcing the social status of the wearers. They are saved up for over many years and handed down for centuries from generation to generation within families. Until very recently, these families were nomadic and have to move every few months because of the snowy seasons in the Himalayas, so Khampas have always needed to store their wealth in portable form. So being unable to store wealth in the form of estates or houses or land or in a bank, for millenia wealth has been stored in art, precious fabrics, and particularly into ornaments.
Their culture is very conservative about the type of ornaments favored: for thousands of years jewelry made from amber, turquoise and coral have been worn because the stones are believed to hold spiritual power. Gold and silver and also naturally found in Tibet, and the use of these metals by the wealthy also goes back thousands of years. Their ornaments are very chunky, bold and colorful. While the gold earrings that Khampa women wear may have cost them a year or maybe several year's of their salary, ornaments carry so much social status in their society that probably didn't have to think twice about the purchase.
To the Khampa people these ornaments have the utmost sentimental value and significance, because they are the physical remnants of generations of their ancestors hard work or success. what these people are wearing is not just their life savings, but also their family history and treasure. this culture has been around for millenia - archeological finds from the 1st century AD in the khampa area unearthed ornaments that are essentially the same in design and materials as today's are. there are also beliefs that the stones provide good luck and protection to disease. dyed red coral is the most sought after stone, but interestingly tibet is very very far from any oceans - all the coral is imported by traders! Religious symbols from Tibetan Buddhism frequency form the designs of pieces, however archeological finds show that the role of ornaments in Tibetan society and peoples' lives long predate the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet. Indeed the beliefs of spiritual protection being provided by coral, amber and turquoise probably originate from the ancient shamanic Bon religion.
"So what happens when something in Heartlake City catches on fire?" Since there are no fire or medical services in the LEGO Friends theme I guess they'll just have to call the boys to put it out? This is the kind of absurd situation that arise when toy companies perpetuate ridiculous gender stereotyping.
Since 2005 LEGO has produced 27 firefighter kits for their regular LEGO City theme which is marketed to boys. Those sets include a total of 51 mini-figures. Only 1 of them is female.
www.brickset.com/browse/themes/?theme=City&subtheme=Fire
This image was created for Feminist Frequency's "LEGO and Gender" video web series:
www.feministfrequency.com/2012/01/lego-gender-part-1-lego...
• This transformative remix work constitutes a fair-use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of US Copyright Law.
36/365: lost frequency
everyone is walking on the edge of life
like a ghost of a shadow, barely alive
even time’s in a rush
but it’s going nowhere
everyone’s connected but no one is connecting
the human element has long been missing
tell me, have you seen it?
have you seen it?
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Selects of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Saturday - Weekend 1)
feat.
The Dead Ships
Ex Hex
The Black Madonna
Strangers You Know
Lost Frequencies
James Bay
Rhye
CHVRCHES
Disclosure (feat. Sam Smith)
Ice Cube (feat. NWA, O'Shea Jackson Jr., WC, Snoop Dogg)
Guns N' Roses
Zhu (feat. Bone Thugs N' Harmony)
and so much more!
Senior Airman Dustin Harris, left, and 1st Lt. John Day, center, discuss radio frequencies with a Soldier assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division during an exercise in frequency hopping at Fort Bragg, N.C. Frequency hopping is changing regular frequencies during transmission, a radio operation technique that ensures secrecy and protects against communication channel jamming. Day and Harris are tactical air control party members with the 14th Air Support Operations Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alexander W. Riedel)
Location: St. Luke's Garden, Tokyo, Japan.
Gear: Fujifilm X-T1 + Fujinon XF 55-200mm
Processing: Lightroom 5.5 + VSCO Film
Blessings from the eldest worshiper of the family.
My Experience of Chhath
I am a permanent resident of Kolkata, but I never witnessed the celebration of Chhath Pooja here. Lakhs of migrant residents from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and other states of India and Nepal as well, celebrated their most ancient festival along the bank of river Hoogly, the sacred river that flows through the city. On 6th November this year, around 2pm, I went to a famous ghat on the bank of river Hoogly opposite to Eden gardens. It was an unique photographic journey to witness how people performed their rituals with so much devotion and faith. I saw hundreds of devotees sitting on the banks quietly with their offerings to Sun God and some performing their rituals with half of their bodies immersed in the Ganges, and some with fire, called ‘Homas’. I was closely looking at them, and I was amazed by their dedication, devotion and complacency. Thousands of devotees were found proceeding towards the Ganges with their offerings, all cladded in bright clothes and ornaments, and many were found on their way to lay prone on the roads touching their whole body (Ashtanga or eight parts of the body) on the Earth and performing ‘Dondis’(Surya Namaskara -Sanskrit: सूर्यनमस्कार, Sun Salutation). Many of the family members, including newborn kids were found lying on the roads waiting for the main worshipper of the family to crossover their bodies as a way to get blessings from them. Most of the main family worshippers were found to be the eldest ladies of the family. Through Chhath, I rediscovered my religious India, in a new and beautiful way.
Chhath Pooja
Chhath is an ancient Hindu Vedic festival of worshiping Sun God, as the Rigveda contains hymns worshiping the Sun God and describes similar rituals.Historically it is native to eastern Uttar Pradesh, North Bihar of India and Mithila State of Nepal.The Chhath Puja is dedicated to the Sun and his wife Usha in order to thank them for bestowing the bounties of life on earth.The God is worshiped during the Chhath festival to promote well-being, prosperity and progress. In Hinduism, Sun worship is also believed to help cure a variety of diseases, including leprosy, and helps ensure the longevity and prosperity of family members, friends, and elders. Environmentalists claim that Chhath is the most eco-friendly Hindu festival.
Regions Celebrating Chhath
Although the festival is observed most elaborately in Mithila Province of Nepal,Terai-Madhesh region of Nepal, Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and UP, it is also more prevalent in areas where migrants from those areas have a presence.The festival is celebrated in the regions including but not exclusive to the northeast region of India, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, Gujarat, as well in various countries worldwide.
Timings
Chhath puja is performed on Kartika Shukla Shashthi, which is the sixth day of the month of Kartika in Bengali calender. This falls typically in the month of October or November in the Gregorian English Calendar.
History
The rituals also find reference in the Sanskrit epic poem Mahābhārata in which Draupadi is depicted as observing similar rites. It is assumed that the oldest Purohits were requested by the kings to come and perform the traditional pooja of the Lord Sun. They used to chant the ancient Rigveda texts and a variety of hymns for worshiping the God. In the ancient time of Mahabharata Chhath pooja was celebrated by Draupadi and Pandavas of Hastinapur (present Delhi) for solving their instant problem and regaining their lost kingdom. It is also assumed that the Chhath puja was first started by the Surya Putra (son of Sun God) Karna. He was a great warrior and had ruled over the Anga Desh (Munger district of Bihar) during the Mahabharata period.
Ethymology
The word chhath means sixth in Nepali, Maithili and Bhojpuri languages and the festival is celebrated on the sixth day of the month Kārtika of the Hindu lunar Bikram Sambat calendar.The word is a Prakrit derivation from the Sanskrit ṣaṣṭhi, meaning sixth.
The Goddess who is also worshipped during the famous Chhath Puja is known as Chhathi Maiya. Chhathi Maiya is known as Usha in the Vedas. She is believed to be the beloved younger wife of Surya, the sun god. The rituals signify rising sun as well as setting sun.
Rituals and Traditions of Chhath Puja
It is believed that worshipers of the Chhath take holy bath and follows a period of abstinence and become separate for 4 days from the main family. Throughout the period he is believed as the pure spirit and sleep on the floor having single blanket.
Devotees offer prasad to Sun at the Chhath such as sweets, Kheer, Thekua, bananas and other fruits included in a small bamboo tokari. The prasad is cooked without salt, onions or garlic with maintained purity. It is a four days festival which includes:
On the first day, devotees take bathe early in the morning in the holy water of Gange and bring some holy water to their home to prepare the offerings. The home and its surroundings should be cleaned at this day. They take only one meal a day known as kaddu-bhat cooked only by using the bronze or soil utensils and mango woods over the soil stove.
On the second day, the day before Chhath, devotees keeps fast for whole day and break their fast in the evening after sunset after the worship of Sun. They offer Rasiao-kheer, puris, fruits in the puja. After taking meal in the evening, they go on a fast without water for the next 36 hours.
On the third day (day of Chhath) they offer the Sanjhiya Arghya at the ghat of riverbank. After Arghya, they wear the single saree of turmeric color. Other family members are waiting for getting the blessings from worshiper. At the night of Chhath a vibrant event of Kosi is celebrated by lighting the lamps of clay diyas under the covering of five sugarcane sticks. The five sugarcane sticks indicate the Panchatattva (earth, water, fire, air and space) the human is body made up of.
On the early morning of the fourth day (Paarun), devotees along with their family and friends offer Bihaniya Aragh at the ghat of riverbank of Gange. Devotees end their festival through breaking the fast by having the Chhath prashad.
Six levels of purification in Chhath ( a belief)
The belief of fast and cleanliness of body on the festival identify the detoxification of the body and mind in order to set up the body and mind to accept the cosmic solar energy.
Standing in water with half of the body inside the water diminishes the escape of energy as well as facilitates the prana to elevate to the sushumna.
Then the entrance of cosmic solar energy takes place in the pineal gland, pituitary gland and hypothalamus (known as the Triveni complex) through the retina and optic nerves.
In the 4th stage Triveni complex gets activated.
After activation of the Triveni complex, spine gets polarized and body of devotee gets transformed into a cosmic powerhouse and gets the Kundalini Shakti.
At this stage the devotee is fully able to conduct, recycle and pass on the energy into entire universe.
Benefits of the rituals (a belief)
Devotee of the Chhath puja can improve the immunity of body.
A variety of skin infections can be cured through the safe radiations of sunlight.
It increases the fighting power of blood by improving the performance of WBC.
Solar energy provides the power to control the secretion of hormones.
Significance
Chhath puja has a special significance during the Sunrise and Sunset periods. The Sunrise and sunset are the most important periods of the day during which a human body can safely get the solar energy without any harm. That’s why there is a myth of offering the Sanjhiya Arghya and Bihaniya Arghya to the Sun at the Chhath festival. During this period the solar energy has low level of ultraviolet radiations so it is safe for the human body. People perform the Chhath puja in order to thank the Lord Sun for the lives on the earth as well as to get blessings.
The ritual of Chhath puja provides mental calmness (by detoxifying the body and mind), enhances the energy level and immunity, reduces the frequency of anger, greed and jealousy as well as lot of negative emotions. It is also believed that following the Chhath processes helps in slowing down the ageing process. Such beliefs and rituals of the Chhath make it the most significant festival in the Hindus ever.
[ Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhath and www.varanasi.org.in/chhath-pooja ]
I finally got round to finishing my radio alarm clock project. Most of the parts were reclaimed from old scrap electronics. It uses a repaired scrap transistor radio, and a >>very<< old RS 5volt 1amp encapsulated power supply. The speaker was liberated from a scrap television. I purchased the LCD screen and the ATmega for a song and wrote a program to connect everything together. The 6 micro-switches on the front allow the time/date and alarm time to be set. Toggle switches on the left of the picture function as volume control, LCD light on/off, mute/reset etc. It uses a crystal/frequency divider to keep the time accurate.