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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area biologists are using remote camera traps to study the 2013 Springs Fire's impact on wildlife. These camera traps are located in Rancho Sierra Vista and Point Mugu State Park. This is a bobcat.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area biologists are using remote camera traps to study the 2013 Springs Fire's impact on wildlife. These camera traps are located in Rancho Sierra Vista and Point Mugu State Park. This is a bobcat.
Full sized remote controlled digger. Remote control by Laing Plc. Lightweight artificial rocks by artificialrocks.co.uk.
My homemade wired remote I made for my Rebel XTi. It's made entirely out of parts from Radio Shack and is MUCH cheaper than Canon's wired remote.
Project box $2.29
Switch $2.99
2x button = $4.58
Cable $5.49
Not shown: Right-Angle 3/32" Stereo Headset Plug, cat no. 274-298, $2.79
Wire + Solder = negligible cost.
Total = $18.14 if you have all the necessary tools (drill with 1/2" and 3/4" bits, soldering iron, screwdriver, needle-nose pliers may be needed for wire manipulation)
In contrast: Canon Remote Switch RS-60E3 = $30.00
Rugged coastline by Kelingking Beach, in Nusa Penida, Klungkung Regency, Bali, Indonesia.
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Magic Screen, Pee-wee's walking and talking flat screen monitor was recreated by The Chiodo Brothers and robot expert Mike Regan. Her complex remote controlled system allowed puppeteer Victoria Johnson to move the puppet all over the stage. Magic Screen was voiced offstage by puppeteer, Lori Alan.
The puppets from The Pee-wee Herman Show were produced by The Chiodo Brothers, and created by The Chiodo Brothers, Swazzle, and Alex and Wonderland.
It lurks in the darkness, its power contained and awaiting my command. It is my most favoritest remote in the world, my Logitech Harmony. It can control anything. Even your MIND.
Yes, I believe I had some wine tonight.
Mounting the remote. This doesn't fit well with the bottom of my steering wheel, and it would probably be a good idea to hack the controller board up and put it in a smaller case
Fukushima Daiichi: Two Years On
Pressure gauges are monitored via CCTV from desktop and laptop computers in the Emergency Response Centre. Instruments in many parts of the plant have to be monitored remotely by CCTV because of high on-site radiation. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. 18 December 2012
Photo Credit: Gill Tudor / IAEA
More photos from our annual visit to Bird Island | Seychelles - a privately owned, remote, coral sand cay island situated in the Indian Ocean just south of the equator, some 1200km off the East African coast - the northernmost island of the Seychelles archipelago.
Crab Plover (Dromas ardeola)
An unusual black and white wader with a large black bill and long, bluish-grey legs. Adult birds have a pure white head, body and wings, but with black flight feathers and mantle, whereas immature birds have dark streaking on the back of the head, grey mantle, wings and tail. Breeds on islands from Somalia, to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf between May and July, which is later than other shorebird species that may compete for its specialist food source. Outside the breeding season, the birds move south along the East African coast (mainly Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania) with some reaching the Seychelles, Comoros and Madagascar.
Given that these birds have such a relatively restricted range we consider ourselves lucky to have seen and photographed them on each of our last few annual visits to Bird Island. On each previous occasion there have only been 3-6 birds present on the island, whereas this year there were 7 birds during our first week with another 4 joining them towards the end of our stay. They generally keep together in a mixed group of sub-adult and immature birds, mainly just standing around, or patrolling the shoreline at low tide for crabs. They’re normally on the remotest part of the beach keeping themselves well away from human presence.
Last year I noted that the various shots we have of these birds may give the impression that they are easy to photograph – they’re not! Without doubt that was the same situation this year. In fact I managed far fewer shots than in previous years and hardly a single good flight shot. But, one afternoon I got lucky, and found the original group of 7 birds together on a part of the beach that catches the late afternoon sun. I was very fortunate as I was totally alone with these birds for almost an hour, slowly gaining their confidence as I edged closer. I managed to get quite a lot of pretty decent photos with detail I have not previously achieved. I will be lucky to have that opportunity again. I’ve limited myself here to just six photos - the first five were all taken within a few minutes of each other during that one session, with the other being a group photo of 5 birds, which shows the normal long distant quality of shot that you get.
Routemaster bus RML2735 (SMK 735F) at Gore Cross with an early evening trip to New Zealand Farm Camp.
Imberbus 2013
3rd August 2013.
Marines, Soldiers, sailors and airmen stand together as U.S. Air Force Chaplain (Capt.) Aaron H. Klaves, assigned to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, offers words of inspiration during a ceremony at the wreckage site of two downed helicopters off the northern coast of Djibouti, May 30, 2011.
Photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Dawn M. Price
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More than 35 Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) servicemembers climbed aboard two CH-53 Super Stallion Helicopters on May 30, Memorial Day, and traveled to some of Djibouti’s most remote regions to honor CJTF-HOA members who lost their lives in two separate aircraft accidents.
This memorial flight, as it has come to be known, held a considerable level of importance for one of the passengers, U.S. Air Force Chaplain (Capt.) Aaron Klaves, who led the joint-service members through short devotionals at each location.
“This event is one of significance and weight,” Klaves said, before climbing aboard one of the large helicopters parked on the Camp Lemonnier flight line. “We’re on this mission to pay tribute to men and women who gave their lives in service to their country. What could be more important?”
The group’s first stop was atop a rocky plateau in the Godoria Range along Djibouti’s northern coast. On June 23, 2003, two CH-53 helicopter crews were gathered around their aircraft on this high ground to observe a B-52 Stratofortress on maneuvers when an M117 general purpose bomb exploded, killing U.S. Marine Capt. Seth Michaud and injuring eight others.
The second leg of the mission took the group to a desolate beach on the Gulf of Aden where, on Feb. 17, 2006, two CH-53 helicopters collided in mid-air, killing eight Marines and two airmen, and injuring two others.
At each accident site, CJTF-HOA servicemembers talked quietly among themselves while some looked out in silence over the Red Sea. At the Godoria plateau, others touched the twisted remnants of the helicopters as if to confirm that the events actually occurred.
During the devotionals, Klaves read aloud the names of those who perished and a wreath of flowers was laid near each wreckage site.
“Our job is inherently dangerous,” U.S. Navy Religious Programs Spc. 2nd Class James Decker said. “It’s noble to defend your country and this event presents us with a moment to say ‘thank you.’ What you hope to happen on Memorial Day is for Americans to understand and appreciate the decision her young men and women make to serve their country.”
U.S. Marine Capt. B.P. Sanders, HMH 464 CH-53 pilot and section lead for the memorial flight, had never visited the accident sites before.
“This memorial flight brings with it a constant reminder of those we have lost,” Sanders said. “It was the best mission I’ve flown here so far – a mission of honor and fulfillment. It really shines a light on their sacrifice.”
CJTF-HOA members have participated in annual memorial flights since Memorial Day 2004.
The Thing from Another World 1951
Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!
—Ned “Scotty” Scott
www.youtube.com/v/T5xcVxkTZzM Trailer
This is one of the major classics of 50s sci fi movies. Released in April of 1951, it was the first full-length film to feature a flying saucer from outer space, which carried a hostile alien. The budget and the effects are typical B-grade stuff, but the acting and pacing are well above the usual B levels. Kenneth Toby and Margaret Sheriden star. James Arness (more known for his westerns) plays The Thing.
Howard Hawks' early foray into the science fiction genre took advantage of the anti-communist feelings of the time to help enhance the horror elements of the story. McCarthyism and the Korean War added fuel to the notion of Americans stalked by a force which was single of mind and "devoid of morality." But in the end, it is American soldiers and scientists who triumph over the evil force - or the monster in the case of this film. Even today, this is considered one of the best of the genre.
Film review by Jeff Flugel. June 2013
There's not a lot new or particularly insightful I can offer when it comes to discussing the seminal sci-fi flick, The Thing from Another World that hasn't been written about ad naseum elsewhere. One of the most famous and influential of all 1950s creature features, it kicked off more than a decade of alien invasion and bug-eyed monster movie mayhem, inspired a host of future filmmakers (one of whom, John Carpenter, would go on to direct his own version of the story in 1982), and remains one of the best-written and engaging films of its kind.
Loosely (and I do mean loosely) adapted from John W. Campbell's novella, "Who Goes There?," The Thing is legendary director Howard Hawks' lone foray into the science fiction/ horror genres, but it fits comfortably into his filmography, featuring as it does Hawks' favorite themes: a group of tough professionals doing their job with ease, good-humored banter and practiced finesse; a bit of romance with a gutsy dame who can easily hold her own with the boys; and lots of overlapping, razor-sharp dialogue. Featuring a script by Charles Lederer and an uncredited Ben Hecht, The Thing is easily the most spryly written and funniest of all 50s monster movies. In fact, it's this sharpness in the scripting, and the extremely likeable ensemble cast of characters, rather than the now-familiar story and somewhat unimaginative monster design, that makes the film still feel fresh and modern to this day.
There's likely few people out there reading this who don't know the story of The Thing like the back of their hand, but here goes...When an unidentified aircraft crashes close to a remote research station near the North Pole, Captain Pat Hendry (Kenneth Tobey, in the role of his career) and his squad are dispatched there to investigate. Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) heads the scientific contingent there, and he informs Hendry that he thinks the downed craft is possibly "not of this earth." A joint team of soldiers and scientists head out to the crash site and find an actual, honest-to-goodness flying saucer lying buried under the ice.
The spaceship is destroyed while the men try to melt the ice around it with thermite bombs, but they find a lone, 8-foot-tall extraterrestrial occupant frozen nearby and bring the body back to the outpost in a block of ice. Dr. Carrington and his crew of eggheads want to study the thing, but Hendry is adamant that it should be kept as is until he gets word from his superior in Anchorage, General Fogerty. It wouldn't be a monster movie without something going pear-shaped, of course, and before you know it, a careless mistake results in the creature being thawed out of his iceberg coffin and going on a bit of a rampage, taking out a number of sled dogs and a few unsuspecting scientists along the way. The rest of the film details the tense battle between the surviving humans and the coldly intelligent, remorseless alien invader, which seems virtually unkillable, impregnable to cold, bullets and fire...
The set-up for the film, and how everything eventually plays out, might seem overly familiarly nowadays, but in 1951, this was cutting-edge stuff, at least in cinemas. The Thing plays as a veritable blueprint of how to make a compelling "alien monster-on-the-loose" movie. Howard Hawks not being particularly well-versed, or even interested in, science fiction per se likely worked to its benefit, as he ended up making, as he so often did in his other films, what is first-and-foremost a well-oiled entertainment, rather than simply a genre exercise.
Typical of a Hawks film, The Thing is meticulously designed, composed and shot, but in such a way as to appear offhand. Hawks almost never went in for showy camera angles or flashy effects. His technique was nearly invisible; he just got on with telling the story, in the most straightforward, unfussy way. But this easy, seemingly effortless style was very carefully considered, by a shrewd and knowing mind. As Bill Warren, author of one of the best (and certainly most encyclopedic) books about 1950s sci-fi filmmaking, Keep Watching the Skies, notes in his detailed analysis of the film:
As most good movies do, The Thing works in two areas: sight and sound. The locale is a cramped, tunnel-like base; the men are confined within, the Thing can move freely outdoors in the cold. Compositions are often crowded, with more people in the shot than seems comfortable, reinforcing the idea of confinement After the Thing escapes, only the alien itself is seen standing and moving alone.
This feeling of a cold, hostile environment outside the base is constantly reinforced throughout the film, and a real tension mounts when, towards the climax, the highly intelligent Thing, itself immune to the subzero arctic conditions, turns off the compound's heating, knowing the humans inside will quickly die without it. (The freaky, otherworldly theremin-flavored music by Dimitri Tiomkin adds a lot to the eerie atmosphere here.)
As groundbreaking and well-structured as the plot of The Thing was (and is), what makes the film play so well today is the great script and the interaction of a bunch of seasoned character actors, who toss off both exposition and pithy bon mots in such a low-key, believable manner. This is a truly ensemble movie, and the fact that it doesn't feature any big name stars really adds to the overall effect; no one really hogs all the limelight or gets the lion's share of good lines. Hawks was a director who usually worked with the biggest names in the business, but, much as in the earlier Air Force, he was equally at home working with a cast of rock-solid character actors.
All this talk of Howard Hawks as director, when it's actually Christian Nyby who is credited with the job, has long been a source of speculation with fans of the film. Todd McCarthy, in his bio Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, seems to clear the issue up once and for all (though really, after viewing enough Hawks films, the results speak for themselves):
The perennial question surrounding The Thing From Another World has always been, Who actually directed it, Christian Nyby or Howard Hawks? The sum of participants' responses make the answer quite clear. Putting it most bluntly, (associate producer) Ed Lasker said "Chris Nyby didn't direct a thing. One day Howard was late and Chris said,'Why don't we get started? I know what the shot should be.' And I said, 'No, Chris, I think we'll wait until Howard gets here." Ken Tobey testified, "Chris Nyby directed one scene. Howard Hawks was there, but he let Chris direct one scene. We all rushed into a room, eight or ten of us, and we practically knocked each other over. No one knew what to do." Dewey Martin, Robert Cornthwaite and Richard Keinen all agreed that Hawks was the director, and Bill Self said, "Chris Nyby was a very nice, decent fellow, but he wasn't Howard Hawks."
Nyby had been Hawks' editor on a number of films, and Hawks apparently decided to help his collaborator establish a name for himself by allowing him directorial credit on the film. This seemingly altruistic gesture didn't mean that Hawks wasn't involved in virtually every aspect of the making of the film, however, and ultimately, The Thing did little for Nyby's directing career, at least on the big screen (he did go on to a long and busy career directing for numerous television programs, however.)
Bill Self was told at the time that Hawks didn't take directing credit on The Thing because it was planned as a low-budget film, one in which RKO didn't have much confidence. But, as critics have been saying ever since it was released, The Thing is a Howard Hawks film in everything but name. The opening scene of various members of the team bantering is so distilled as to be a virtual parody of Hawksian overlapping dialogue. Even more than Only Angels Have Wings, the picture presents a pristine example of a group operating resourcefully in a hermetically sealed environment in which everything in the outside world represents a grave threat. (3)
In addition to all the masculine camaraderie and spooky goings-on, one of the best aspects of The Thing is the fun, charming little tease of a romance between Capt. Hendry and Nikki (top-billed Margaret Sheridan). Nikki works as Prof. Carrington's assistant and is not merely the requisite "babe" in the film. True to the Hawksian norm, she's no pushover when it comes to trading insults with the men, nor a shrinking violet when up to her neck in perilous situations. Unlike most actresses in 50s monster movies, she doesn't utter a single scream in The Thing
and in fact, it's her practical suggestion which gives Bob, Hendry's ever-resourceful crew chief (Dewey Martin), the notion of how to finally kill the monster. Lederer and Hecht's screenplay hints at the backstory to Nikki and Pat's relationship in humorous and oblique ways, and their flirtation amidst all the chaos adds sparkle to the film but never gets in the way of the pace of the story. One nice little throwaway exchange near the finale encapsulates their verbal give-and-take, as Nikki playfully pokes the temporarily-befuddled Hendry, as his men scurry about, setting Bob's plan in motion.
Nikki: Looks as if the situation's well in hand.
Hendry: I've given all the orders I'm gonna give.
Nikki: If I thought that were true, I'd ask you to marry me.
Sheridan, a former model signed to a 5-year contract by Hawks, is quite good here, but after The Thing her career never really caught fire and she retired from acting a few years later. The closest thing to a star turn in the film is Kenneth Tobey as Capt. Hendry. Tobey racked up an impressive number of credits throughout his nearly 50-year-long career, generally as gruff, competent military men or similar types, and he was always good value, though it's as Capt. Hendry in The Thing that he truly shines. He consistently humanizes the no-nonsense, take charge man of action Hendry by displaying an easygoing approach to command. Most of Hendry's men call him by his first name, and delight in ribbing him about his budding romance with Nikki, and he responds to all this joshing in kind. When things get hairy, Tobey's Hendry doesn't have to bark his orders; it's clear that, despite the friendly banter, his men hold him in high esteem and leap to do his bidding at a moment's notice.
Many of the other members of the cast, while none of them ever became household names, will likely be recognizable from countless other roles in both film and television. Hawks gave Dewey Martin co-star billing in The Big Sky a few years later. Robert Cornthwaite kept busy for decades on stage and television, as well as in supporting roles in films such as Monkey Business, Kiss Me Deadly and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? John Dierkes (Dr. Chapman) and Douglas Spencer (Scotty) both had juicy roles in the western classic Shane, as well as many other movies too numerous to name. Sharp-eyed viewers will also recognize Eduard Franz, Paul Frees (he of the famous voice) and Groucho Marx's right-hand man on You Bet Your Life, George Fenneman, in pivotal roles. And of course we mustn't forget 6' 7" James Arness (years before becoming renowned as Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke) as the hulking Thing.
A quick note on the "remake": John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), a bleak, grisly and brilliant take on the story, was a box-office dud when first released, but has since attained well-deserved status as a modern classic. While most fans seem divided into two camps - those who love the more restrained, old-fashioned thrills of the original, and those who prefer the more visceral, paranoiac Carpenter version - I happen to treasure both films equally and revisit each of them often. The Carpenter version is by far the gutsier, unsettling one, emphasizing as it does the "trust no one," shape-shifting "the alien is one of us" scenario imagined by John W. Campbell, but the Hawks' film is the most fun, with a far more likeable array of characters, working together to defeat an implacable menace. Each has its own clear merits. I wouldn't want to do without either film, and frankly see no need to choose one over the other.
"Every one of you listening to my voice...tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are: Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies.”
Acting Credits
Margaret Sheridan - Nikki Nicholson
Kenneth Tobey - Captain Patrick Hendrey
Robert Cornthwaite - Professor Carrington
Dewey Martin - Crew Chief
Douglas Spencer - Ned "Scotty" Scott
Eduard Franz - Dr Stern
Robert Nichols - Lieutenant Ken Erickson
William Self - Colonel Barnes
Sally Creighton - Mrs Chapman
John Dierkes - Dr. Chapman
James R. Young - Lieutenant Eddie Dykes
Norbert Schiller - Dr. Laurenz
William Neff - Olson
Allan Ray - Officer
Lee Tung Foo - Cook
Edmund Breon - Dr. Ambrose
George Fenneman - Dr. Redding
Tom Steele - Stuntman
James Arness - The Thing
Billy Curtis - The Thing While Shrinking
The remoteness of the railways in Scotland is captured here as we rise from Loch Eilt and into the pass towards Glenfinnan, onboard class 37/0 locomotive 37033 (D6733, 37719), at the head of SLOA's 'Winter Highlander' the 13.40 Mallaig-Fort William charter.
My dad and i missed lunch on the train because we were lucky enough to have a cab ride in this locomotive from Mallaig to Glenfinnan.
New to Hull as D6733 on 20/03/62 withdrawn 09/07 cut up 11/08 by EMR Kingsbury
9th February 1985
Remote
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These pictures show how the remote switches that I make for CHDK / SDM are made.
I sell these switches as well as the components to build them yourself.
Prices for assembled remotes are:
€ 25.- for a remote with a single cable
€ 30.- for a remote with a double cable for stereo photography.
You can specify your desired cable length and plug orientation.
If you want to build your own, I also sell a set of two of these LED lights (including batteries) plus 4 usb plugs and 10cm of heat shrink tube for US$ 10.-
Payment can be made via Paypal.
18 frame ChemCam Remote MicroImager mosaic of the upper reaches of Mt. Sharp. This mosaic captures two major geologic units of Mt. Sharp: the Upper Sulfate Unit and Upper Yardang Unit. The hill in the foreground is an outcrop of the Upper Sulfate Unit, composed of rocks deposited in Gale Crater as the Mars transitioned into an acidic and extremely arid planet. The ridgeline in the background is the Upper Yardang Unit, which is thought to be a large dust deposit from relatively recently in the Martian past. This unit is now being eroded by the wind, forming long, deep linear troughs called yardangs.
This mosaic was taken to study an outcrop in detail from a distance. ChemCam uses a small telescope to collect the light produced by laser zaps on the rock to understand their composition. This telescope is often repurposed to study outcrops in the near-distance, where the resolution exceeds that of orbital imagery, but where Curiosity will never traverse by. The RMI images are monochromatic, but can be colorized if MastCam images were also taken.
Image Credit: NASA / JPL / LANL / MSSS / Justin Cowart
These images represent three distinct visual sensing techniques. The top picture represents a true-color image, the middle an infrared image, and the bottom an elevation image. The images were taken in March 2008 over Hatteras Island, North Carolina.
To learn more about remote sensing, visit:
Remote Sensing Division, National Geodetic Survey
Coastal Remote Sensing Program, NOAA Coastal Services Center
(Original source: National Ocean Service Image Gallery)
Doctor Who's robotic dog K-9 rendered in Meccano. The dog is remote controlled (probably like its TV counterpart)
Data entry keyboard