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Upper body of a Mertens' Water Monitor, Varanus mertensi, in the Umbrawarra Gorge Nature Park between Katherine and Pine Creek in Australia's Northern Territory (NT). This species is currently listed as vulnerable in the NT.
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Monitoring long-term alpine ecology plots on Mt. Dunderberg on the Bridgeport Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest for the Global Observation And Research In Alpine Environments (GLORIA) Project. This plot location was established in 2004 and is resurveyed every five years by agency personnel and volunteers working with the GLORIA group. Panoramic featuring Mono Lake on the left, Mt. Dunderberg summit near the middle, and sections of the Hoover Wilderness from the center to the right. Forest Service photo by Tim Kellison.
Saw this reptile dashing through a grassy stretch at the Chinese Garden in Singapore. I was caught offguard and was a tad late in setting up my camera so I did not manage to shoot it at full length. Slow on the draw, tsk tsk.
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The HP monitor is developing some problems so it was time to replace it. I have to get used to the new screen layout (16:9 vs the HP's 16:10 ratio) but the higher resolution is very nice! Plus less energy used and a lot less heat generated, much comfier to work in front of.
El monitor Huáscar es un buque de guerra del siglo XIX de destacada participación en la Guerra del Pacífico. Fue construido en el Reino Unido en 1864 por orden del gobierno peruano y sirvió en la Marina de Guerra del Perú hasta el 8 de octubre de 1879, día en que fue capturado por la escuadra chilena en el combate naval de Angamos. El Huáscar sirvió activamente en la Armada de Chile hasta 1897, año en que fue dado de baja. Actualmente sirve como museo flotante en el puerto chileno de Talcahuano. Es una de las pocas naves de guerra de su época que aún permanece a flote.
Maureen Alai, Ron Baskett and Matthew Simpson of the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory monitor gases emitted from Kilauea, the youngest and southeastern most volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea originally erupted in 1983 and continues to spew gases and magma. NARAC provides tools and services that map the probable spread of hazardous material -- nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or natural emissions -- accidentally or intentionally released into the atmosphere. The center provides atmospheric plume predictions in time for an emergency manager to decide if taking protective action is necessary to protect the health and safety of people in affected areas. Photo by Jacqueline McBride/LLNL
A diver explores the wreck of the USS Monitor, located in the depths of Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: NOAA
I was hiking (with Dave, Ken, and two guards) to a site we suspect has archeological significance (more later on that) and we saw a large lizard monitoring our approach. It ducked into a cave several feet tall, and we could only see the tip of it's tail.
We finished our hike and circled back around. He (based on size, didn't get close enough to lift the skirt) darted back in the cave, but we managed to get a couple shots of him.
He's probably a Bengal Monitor, based on the region. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanus_bengalensis
Phone apps can make kids addicts and destruct their mental health. Get TheWiSpy to monitor apps and games installed on your kids' phones.
Monitoring long-term alpine ecology plots on Mt. Dunderberg for the Global Observation And Research In Alpine Environments (GLORIA) Project. This plot location was established in 2004 and is resurveyed every five years by agency personnel and volunteers working with the GLORIA group. Photo displays surveyors collecting data, mostly volunteers, with Mono Lake in the background. Forest Service photo by Tim Kellison.
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July 9, 1862. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor on the James River, Virginia. From photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy. Wet collodion glass negative, left half of stereo pair. Photographed by James F. Gibson.
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Nile monitors are also known to be reproducing in two areas of the state. Currently, the City of Cape Coral is removing this species where they occur on the west coast. FWC staff and our partners have been aggressively removing Nile monitors on the east coast, with over 60 removed since 2011.
3D Cross view- To view, sit back from your monitor 2 feet and place your index finger about 10 inches in front of your eyes and focus on your finger. This will cause your eyes to go comfortably cross eyed. Keep that same cross eyed focus and notice there are now 3 photos in the back ground. Do not let your eyes leave the cross eye as you look at the middle picture which has appeared. Now increase or decrease how much your eyes are cross eyed until the image pops into 3D. Your eyes will want to leave the cross eye, but fight that urge. This is an acquired skill and takes practice. Stop if it's uncomfortable.
Preparing to monitor long-term alpine ecology plots on Mt. Dunderberg on the Bridgeport Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest for the Global Observation And Research In Alpine Environments (GLORIA) Project. This plot location was established in 2004 and is resurveyed every five years by agency personnel and volunteers working with the GLORIA group. Photo is looking south toward the Inyo NF and Yosemite NP. Forest Service photo by Tim Kellison.
A staff member from the Ministry of Agriculture looks at the locust swarm in Ceel-Gaal village, in Salal region, Somaliland.
The Ministry of Agriculture are monitoring the problem, and digging holes in which to trap the locusts.
Locusts are harmless when solitary, but become voracious when they congregate in groups and become more abundant.
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My first morning in the desert barely qualified since a very late start got me to the first feature in Canyonlands at quarter to noon. Almost as perfectly out of the Golden Hour as you can get. Still, lemons and lemonade...
It was a very hot day (33C) and I did a walk a little later that I thought would be my last due to poor preparation. But that's another photo!
Locusts can be seen covering the ground in Ceel-Gaal village, in Salal region, Somaliland.
Locusts are harmless when solitary, but become voracious when they congregate in groups and become more abundant.
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I just got a great deal from the Dell Outlet on a refurb'ed monitor. It arrived this afternoon, and now I can start paying my Dell Support Dues.
The yellow page says:
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
DVI, VGA, USB, Power, or DisplayPort Cables have not been included with this replacement display.
Please retain the cables received with the original display
But this isn't a replacement display. It's a refurbished product and should come with the appropriate cables. And it did come with three cables: the three you see here, and a white booklet full of legalese in 2 languages. The problem is that one of the power cables ought to be a DVI cable.
I spent 47:06 on the phone with Dell telling four representatives about this. Each one acted like they had never heard of my case before, and did not have a CRM system to read the notes entered by the previous rep. The third rep kept insisting that the parts would all have P/N part numbers on them. Perhaps they do - invisible ones. She also insisted that since the bar code numbers on the two power cables have different numbers, they must not both be power cables. She asked me to verify that one of them wasn't really a DVI cable. Then she transferred me to the 4th person, who got my information (again) then told me she would put me on hold for 1-2 minutes. Instead she put me on hold for 3-4 minutes of silence at the end of which I got a dial tone. I don't know if they lost my call or if I'd just used up my daily quota of DELL or what.
During the time the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company operated, as many as eight monitors were in use at the same time. Fashioned after Civil War cannons, the large monitors could weigh as much as 1 1/2 tons. The large monitors in the Diggins were capable of using 25 million gallons of water in a 24 hour period or over one million gallons an hour. The wooden box toward the rear of the monitor was loaded with rock to raise the barrel of the monitor and act as a counter balance created by the bucking water pressure leaving the nozzle.
The blasting power of a monitor or water cannon came from elevation drop alone. No mechanical devices were used. The water that came from a nearby resovoir exited in large pipes then graduated down in size until they reached the monitor and through a 10 inch nozzle. A large monitor would blast water at approximately 5,000 pounds per square inch, enough pressure to move a boulder the size of a small car. Different sizes of monitors had various functions. Large monitors were used to bring down the mountain, while small monitors were used to keep the debris moving down the sluice or long toms used to collect the gold and then on to the final exit point.
The miner that operated the monitor was known at the “piper.” He was paid the most for he had to know how to operate that big monster properly. If he didn’t, cave-ins occurred catching men unprepared thus causing injury and even death.
Legend has it that a miner with a dirty shovel set his tool into the stream of the water exiting from the cannon and the force of the water against the shovel moved the monitor’s aim with the greatest of ease and thus led to the invention of the ball and socket design we know today.
Monitors were made at the Joshua Hendy and the Parke and Lacy Company in San Francisco. Also monitors and hydraulic equipment were made locally in the Nevada City Foundry. The Malakoff mine pit on the San Juan Ridge is a testimony to the avarice that was part of the California gold rush, and to one of the nation's first environmental protection measures.
In 1850 there was little gold left in streams. Miners began to discover gold in old riverbeds and on mountainsides high above the streams. In 1851, three miners headed northeast of what is now Nevada City for a less crowded area to prospect. One miner went back to town with a pocket full of gold nuggets for supplies and was followed back by many prospectors. These followers, however, did not find any gold and declared the area "Humbug", thus the stream was so named "Humbug Creek". Around 1852, settlers began to arrive in the area and the town of "Humbug" sprang up. These miners could not decide how to move the dirt to a place where there was water.
By 1853 miners invented a new method of mining called hydraulic mining. Dams were built high in the mountains. The water traveled from the reservoirs through a wooden canal called a flume that was up to forty-five miles long. The water ran swiftly to the canvas hoses and nozzles called monitors waiting in the old river beds. The miners would aim the monitors at the hillsides to wash the gravel into huge sluices. Over time the monitors became bigger and more powerful. Their force was so great they could toss a fifty pound rock like a cannonball or even kill a person. Over 300 Chinese worked on this project and two Chinese settlements existed in North Bloomfield (Humbug).
In the late 1860s, the towns of Marysville and Yuba City were buried under 25 feet of mud and rock, and Sacramento flooded repeatedly. The farmers in the valleys complained about the tailings that flooded their land and ruined their crops. Thousands of acres of rich farmland and property were destroyed as a result of hydraulic mining.
By 1876, the mine was in full operation with 7 giant water cannons working around the clock. The town had grown to a population of around 2000 with various business and daily stage service.
In 1880, electric lights were installed in the mine and the world’s first long distance telephone line was developed to service the mine, passing through North Bloomfield as it made its way from French Corral to Bowman Lake.
By 1883, San Francisco Bay was estimated to be filling with silt at a rate of one foot per year. Debris, silt, and millions of gallons of water used daily by the mine caused extensive flooding, prompting Sacramento valley farmers to file the lawsuit Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company. On January 7, 1884 Judge Lorenzo Sawyer declared hydraulic mining illegal.
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Biologists Eric Robinson and Sue Murasko plot the course for flow-through monitoring on the Indian River Lagoon. Flow-through monitoring allows researchers to measure salinity, temperature and chlorophyll fluorescence (an indicator of algae biomass) in surface waters while the research boat is in transit. Although many agencies monitor water quality at fixed locations, FWC’s flow- through mapping system provides a snap-shot of water quality throughout the Indian River Lagoon system in real time.