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This is an old monitor which serves as the base for the new bed. Muahahahaha. The story takes an evil turn to scrapping an old monitor.
The Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator), also called common water monitor, is a large varanid lizard native to South and Southeast Asia. It is one of the most common monitor lizards in Asia, ranging from Sri Lanka and coastal northeast India to Indochina, Malay Peninsula, and Indonesian islands where it lives close to water. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. The Asian water monitor is also called Malayan water monitor, common water monitor, two-banded monitor, rice lizard, ring lizard, plain lizard and no-mark lizard, as well as simply water monitor. The local name in Sri Lanka is kabaragoya, denoting a subspecies with distinct morphological features. The Asian water monitor is widely distributed from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, the Chinese Guangxi and Hainan provinces, Malaysia, Singapore to the Sunda islands Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo and Sulawesi. It inhabits primarily lowland freshwater and brackish wetlands. It has been recorded up to an altitude of 1,800 m. Asian water monitors are semiaquatic and opportunistic; they inhabit a variety of natural habitats though predominantly this species resides in primary forests and mangrove swamps. It has been noted that these monitors are not deterred from living in areas of human disturbance. In fact, they have been known to adapt and thrive in agricultural areas as well as cities with canal systems (such as in Sri Lanka, where they are not hunted or persecuted by humans). This species does not thrive in habitats with extensive loss of natural vegetation and aquatic resources. Habitats that are considered to be most important to this species are mangrove vegetation, swamps, wetlands, and altitudes below 1000 meters. 16135
For better images and chatting with my flickr-friends my new Easter gift - something programms are missed.
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Für bessere Bilder und Kommunikation mit meinen flickr-Freunden mein nagelneues Ostergeschenk.
The USS Monitor was the revolutionary all iron design with the world's first nautical rotating gun turret. It was designed by John Ericsson and financed and promoted to the Navy by Madison's Cornelius Scranton Bushnell. When the Union learned that the Confederates were building an iron clad ship to fight against Federal blockades of Southern ports, it quickly countered with the Monitor. See www.madisonhistory.org/uss-monitor/ for the whole story. The Monitor's most notable engagement was against the CSS Virginia (a.k.a USS Merrimack) during America's Civil War at Hampton Roads, Va. in March of 1862.
This is a large (1/4"=1' scale) museum-quality wooden model of the USS Monitor in its battle-ready appearance. The model was built in the early 1970's by Arthur G. Henning, Inc, 17 South 3rd Ave., Mount Vernon, NY 10550, to exact measurements from archival blueprints. It is a duplicate of the model ship on display at the Smithsonian, which the Henning firm also produced. According to the firm, ours has more detail inside the turret. The ship model includes an anchor and the Ericsson-designed propellor. Painted flat black with red-lead colored hull. The ship model is 43 1/2" long X 10 3/4" wide X 6 1/2" high. It was commissioned by Dr. Philip S. Platt, a previous MHS President, in 1974 for $1,200. It was donated by him to be part of the 1974 MHS exhibit about Cornelius Bushnell and the Monitor.
ACC# 1974.016.002
See other USS Monitor-related images at flic.kr/s/aHBqjzRDR2. (Photo credit - Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
Back to the Dockyard now! This is a shot of HMS Monitor in her dock, with HMS Victory and one of the buildings I worked in in the background.
Info below!
HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy built in 1915. She saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS Minerva and Hulk C23 during her long life. She passed to Hampshire County Council in the 1980s and was restored to original condition and is now located at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War and the only surviving ship from the Gallipoli Campaign.
Los Angeles Zoo - Los Angeles, California - Lucha the jaguar was born at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 6/3/11 to Kanga (Mom) and Jutai (Dad). He moved to the Los Angeles Zoo on 1/14/14 and resides in the Rainforest of the Americas Exhibit.
His father, Jutai, was born in the wild in Belize and resides at the Philadelphia Zoo. Jutai is currently the most genetically valuable male jaguar in the North American Species Survival Plan. Lucha is his only offspring and, as such, is also genetically valuable to the captive jaguar population.
His mother, Kanga, passed away on 3/18/14.
Plenty room for a view:
De per 9 december opgeheven Intercitydienst Amsterdam - Brussel bood prachtige vergezichten. Door het raam van een ICR-buurlandrijtuig laten wij u nog een laatste keer meegenieten van het Noord-Brabantse landschap tussen Moerdijk en Roosendaal. Toegegeven, vergeleken met de Fyra duurt de reis wat langer, maar een treinreis (zeker zonder gehinderd te worden door kennelijk noodzakelijke anti-geluidschermen) kan op zich ook al een genot zijn.
The Intercity Service Amsterdam - Brussels, due to be ended on December 9, 2012 offered beautiful views. Through the window of an ICR carriage we show you one last time how to enjoy the North Brabant landscape between Moerdijk and Roosendaal. Admittedly, compared with Fyra the trip takes a little longer, but a train trip (especially without being hindered by necessary noise barriers) in itself can be a delight.
NS-ICR buurlandrijtuig 50 84 10-70 484-7
Oudenbosch (NL) - 5 december 2012 / December 5, 2012
© 2012 Amsterdam RAIL - All Rights Reserved
37057 Barbara Arbon has just pulled up at Audley End, working 1Q90 15.15 Derby RTC - Ferme Park Network Rail Infrastructure Monitoring train. 37175 is on the rear.
This four-weekly working runs via Melton Mowbray, Peterborough, Ely and Cambridge, before reversing here to return to Cambridge (via Whittlesford Down Loop) and then run up the West Anglia route (via Great Chesterford Up Loop) to Liverpool Street. It then normally visits the Hertford East, Chingford and Enfield Town branches, but on this occasion that was followed by a trip from Liverpool Street to Barking, before running via Cannonbury to Ferme Park.
This was the first frame I took of this working on this occasion, with the driver having been quick to switch off the high intensity headlight but having yet to switch off the other headlights; later frames of 37057 had no lights illuminated. The train pulled up slightly further along the platform than I expected, so I was a little closer than I really wanted to be (I did move back).
Unfortunately, the station lighting here is very bright, and flare from the lights often causes problems - especially when it is slightly misty (there was some drizzle in the air). On this occasion, I thought I'd not managed to get anything reasonable as a result, but Photoshop came to my aid when processing shots at this end. However, there was still too much flare in the photos I took at the other end of the train, and I've not managed to produce anything satisfactory of 37175 on this occasion.
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This Poor monitor was on the receiving end of a angry nurse, what she threw at it iam not sure(probably a patient).
Well, the final hours of 2008 are ticking away, so in celebration of the pending calendar turnover I have uploaded my 2009 Year of Astronomy design in wallpaper format free for download in various sizes for your monitor and iPhone/iPod. Here are the links:
So once again from Signalnoise, have a safe and happy New Year!
©2008 James White. All rights reserved.
Perceptum never took to monitors as eagerly as the Vinlanders (who had invented the ship type as a substitute for ocean-going battleships), at least not during the Imperial era. The Marina Imperiale (Imperial Navy) exercised a budget big enough to maintain an enormous trans-oceanic Battlefleet that could respond to crises and strategic threats anywhere in the world. Modern Perceptum, with its much reduced navy and economic base, didn’t have that luxury.
The Grande Marina (Grand Navy) operated a much smaller Battlefleet, and thus turned to the monitor as a cheap method of providing big guns to the defense of its colonial possessions. Those built in the 1880’s were ugly, flawed but powerfully armed gun platforms. Those, like the Pugilist class, that were built during and after the Great Re-Armament were armed with smaller, cruiser-sized guns but were better able to traverse treacherous and shallow waters. More importantly, they had larger secondary batteries and were maneuverable enough to tango with torpedo armed ships that would have easily sunk preceding classes of Perceptan monitors.
But unlike their predecessors, the Pugilists were largely incapable of traversing the open ocean safely, limiting them to riverine and coastal operations.
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I've moved to a different group at the same company, but with the position
change I'm receiving a new computer and monitor. I've replaced the 17" one
I had with the new 24" widescreen. Pretty nice.
Monitor Memorial
sculptor: Antonio De Filippo, 1938
dedicated: November 6, 1938
Monsignor McGolrick Park
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
inscription:
ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE / STATE OF NEW YORK / TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF THE / MONITOR AND MERRIMAC / MARCH 9TH, 1862 / AND IN MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THE MONITOR / AND ITS DESIGNER - JOHN ERICSSON