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This is the most remote Police Station in Tasmania. The staff here are responsible for the Tasmanian Central Highlands. Crime is not the issue up here (apart from the occasional stock wrangler). Most of the work has to do with keeping safety and search and rescue operations.
High angle view of the medieval town of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, in southern Croatia.
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One of the Conrail Pavonia Remote Jobs pulls past Pennsauken's 36th Street Station with a pair of NS High Hood GP38-2s, 5235 and 5225. January 3, 2018.
Model of town made from glass bottle fragments.
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.
Industrialist Charles M. Schwab bought the Montgomery Shoshone Mine in 1906 and invested heavily in infrastructure, including piped water, electric lines and railroad transportation, that served the town as well as the mine. By 1907, Rhyolite had electric lights, water mains, telephones, newspapers, a hospital, a school, an opera house, and a stock exchange. Published estimates of the town's peak population vary widely, but scholarly sources generally place it in a range between 3,500 and 5,000 in 1907–08.
Rhyolite declined almost as rapidly as it rose. After the richest ore was exhausted, production fell. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the financial panic of 1907 made it more difficult to raise development capital. In 1908, investors in the Montgomery Shoshone Mine, concerned that it was overvalued, ordered an independent study. When the study's findings proved unfavorable, the company's stock value crashed, further restricting funding. By the end of 1910, the mine was operating at a loss, and it closed in 1911. By this time, many out-of-work miners had moved elsewhere, and Rhyolite's population dropped well below 1,000. By 1920, it was close to zero.
After 1920, Rhyolite and its ruins became a tourist attraction and a setting for motion pictures. Most of its buildings crumbled, were salvaged for building materials, or were moved to nearby Beatty or other towns, although the railway depot and a house made chiefly of empty bottles were repaired and preserved.
The town is named for rhyolite, an igneous rock composed of light-colored silicates, usually buff to pink and occasionally light gray. It belongs to the same rock class, felsic, as granite but is much less common
the Bottle House, which the Famous Players Lasky Corporation, the parent of Paramount Pictures, restored in 1925 for the filming of a silent movie, The Air Mail.
Corrour station, located on the edge of Rannoch Moor, is the highest station on the UK network at 1340ft above sea level. It was opened in 1894 by the North British Railway on the West Highland line to Fort William at a remote location, a 10 miles walk from the B846 road.
Reaching these dunes can require some serious four-wheeling. There were patches of sand verbena visible in spring 2016. All the more reason to make the effort if we get profuse wildflowers in this area of Death Valley National Park this year. We may visit here in our annual spring Death Valley backcountry trip in mid to late March, 2026.
Early May 2020: the authorities strongly suggested that those who could work from home, should do so.
My wife was an "early adopter" and was quick to establish a "home office."
Due to my line of work, I could unfortunately not "harvest the benefits" of that, but worked weird shifts and long hours in order to be able to be home too, to the extent possible.
Now, almost three years later, "hybrid working" is a well working concept at many workplaces so she's at the home office a couple of days a week.
For me, remote work is not possible, so I've figured out my own "hybrid" work model: as little as possible and strategically planning hard to get fired.
Unfortunately, my bosses are not exactly keen on the latter.
These more than 10,000 identification tags (dog tags) represent those service members from North Carolina who have died far from home in their efforts to protect human rights and freedoms.
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"a lost masterpiece - the definitive, greatest rendition of "On Broadway" ever in the universe's history. once you hear it, it's stuck in your brain forever! dreamy..."
Who needs broadband when you can stand here and wait for a call. On the road to Ockle with the islands of Eigg and Rhum just off the coast.
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13/52 for the group 2023 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: M is for Monochrome
Taken on our walk on Monday, a rare day of beautiful sunny weather. Out of the photos I took this seemed like the best one for a black and white conversion.
Like many families right now, we're doing 'remote learning', and today one of Frost Juniors school tasks was to "Make a Star Wars movie set" out of LEGO.
This is his photo. His idea was to make a cool photo showing his two favourite figures battling above lava. We set it up on our kitchen table using only basic household items.
Along the way, we talked about concepts such as framing, and lighting. What to put in the shot, and what to leave out. Where the focus of the shot should be, and how to best achieve it. About how we could separate Kylo from the background using effective lighting, and how those lighting effects could be achieved. And just generally had fun playing together.
How was your day? Are you remote learning too? Hows it going in your house?
That's the first word that comes to mind when describing the view from the South Rim. It makes me feel as if I'm overlooking an area that has been seen but not explored by man. I think there's one trail (unseen here) that passes through, but it's not for day hikers such as myself.
The region is described as the "South Rim", which I actually haven't reached yet. This scene is from the southwest portion of the trail, looking west. The ridges faintly seen in the distance are in Mexico, with the Rio Grande flowing from right to left just in front of them.
Big Bend National Park, Texas.