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woman with an infrared remote control pointing it at the viewer while changing channels on the television
17 Jan 2015 | Lego Challenge 17/365
Homer Simpson discovered the universal remote function on his TV remote, much to the horror of C-3PO.
Sustenpass/Switzerland
Taken near Cafe Sustenbruggli in Chli Sustli at the eastside of the Sustenpass.
Have a nice Weekend!
Matthias
Only 2 people exploring this deserted and remote West Australian beach - Lights Beach bordered by the Southern Ocean.
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this guy was playing with a remote control plane. It looks like he's fishing or damning the sky, storm clouds gathering
oh my, how i do love my remote. although it is not helping me get my exercise. taking self-portraits use to be such a great deal of work, running back and forth to the camera.
Tico taking charge of the remote control again. He was changing the channel to watch is favourite programme, the meows (news)!!
Through the energetic and wise leadership of the Great Comrade General KJI, the once-remote and inaccessible Mt. Chilbo has been turned into a pleasure park for the people to enjoy. Here we can see a marker at a scenic overlook
This is the cube that Dave usually sits in when visiting the Pasadena office. Plenty of space -- but an open fishbowl, traffic on two sides, and right outside his boss's office ...
The keyboard on the back of the remote. Very useful (and also necessary for some aspects of the software, such as the web browser).
It also feels great to use - the keys are silent, and feel just right to press. On the front, however, the keys make a soft clicking sound when pressed.
The only complaint I have is that you can't see the keys very well in the dark, which is annoying - especially if you (for example) have a projector, and usually watch stuff in the dark.
The wheel was a handy little invention and so was the flush toilet but remember those dark days of yesteryear when we actually had to get off our butts and go to the tv to change the channel? yech (I managed to get Flo, from Progressive Insurance in the shot-what are the chances? )
ODC1, inventions
Welcome to the northwestern-most point in the lower 48 states! Patos Island is a wild and remote 200-acre island in the beautiful Salish Sea. The mountains of Canada and the spectacular Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges provide scenic backdrops to this special area. Recreational activities include hiking, camping, boating, sea kayaking, watching wildlife, and viewing wildflowers along the beaches, wooded areas, and at overlooks. The BLM cooperatively manages the area with Washington State Parks. Patos Island Lighthouse, built in 1893, stands on the western-most end of the island, providing light and reference to mariners.
Know Before You Go:
-Patos Island is open YEAR ROUND.
-Limited mooring buoys and campsites in Active Cove are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Patos Island is only accessible by watercraft.
-Washington State Park fees apply
-Patos Island is very primitive and there is no fresh water available on site.
-On October 7, 2014, San Juan County became the first County in the U.S. designated as a voluntary “Leave No Trace” Area.
Directions:
Patos Island State Park is located five miles northwest of Orcas Island in San Juan County. It is accessible only by boat and there is no commercial ferry service to the park. The nearest launch sites are at Point Roberts Marina (13 miles north), Blaine Harbor (11 miles northeast), and Squallicum Harbor in Bellingham (24 miles east).
Point of Interest:
Keepers of the Patos Light are a nonprofit partner group that operates a small interpretive museum during the summer weekends from June through September, based on weather and available volunteers.
Contact:
San Juan Islands National Monument
37 Washburn Place
Lopez Island, WA 98261
360-468-3754
BLM_OR_SP_Mail@blm.gov
The 64-mile Seminoe-Alcova Back Country Byway lies in south central Wyoming. As you travel, you'll pass pronghorn-grazed prairie, stark desert, and you'll climb the rugged Seminoe Mountains. Although the road is in a remote area, the amazing transformations in the landscape are worth the back-country journey.
Attractions along the byway include Alcova and Pathfinder reservoirs, Seminoe Reservoir, the Seminoe and Pedro mountains, and Seminoe State Park. With the building of Seminoe Dam and the upgrade of the road, fishermen and boaters began visiting the area.
On your trip, you might see a variety of wildlife in the area, including mule deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, golden and bald eagles, pelicans, and ferruginous hawks. You'll cross rugged mountains and the Miracle Mile, a blue-ribbon trout fishery of the North Platte River. There's a huge sand dune along the way, part of the Killpecker Sand Dunes, a dune field which reaches from western Wyoming into Nebraska.
BLM photo by Bob Wick.
DIRECTIONS
To begin at the northern end (Alcova, Wyo.): Begin at junction of Wyoming Highway 220 and Kortes Road (Natrona County 407) and drive south. Continue on County Road 407 until the Carbon County Line where the road becomes County Road 351.
To being at the southern end (Sinclair, Wyo.): Begin at the town of Sinclair, Wyo., at the junction of Interstate 80 and Carbon County Road 351, exit 219. The byway follows County Road 351 north into Natrona County and ends at Alcova, Wyo. Please note that there are very few services and no gas available along this route.
LATITUDE / LONGITUDE
41.781455, -107.123184
PHONE 307-328-4200
EMAIL rawlins_wymail@blm.gov
ADDRESS Rawlins Field Office
1300 3rd St.
Rawlins, WY 82301
When Britain was the ruling colonial power in this region of the Arabian Peninsula, up to 1967, this part of the Hadhramaut region was a remote hinterland, reachable only by donkey or camel. Ar Ribat lies at the extreme southern end of Wadi Doan, a dried-up river valley bordered by rocky mountains that narrows and deepens until it reaches a cul-de-sac at Ar Ribat.
Hemmed in by 2,000-foot rock massifs, Ar Ribat seems, by measure of its beauty and mystery, altogether more like a place to stay than to leave. Yet Ar Ribat's villagers, driven by poverty, have migrated for centuries -- in recent decades, mostly northward, out of Yemen and across the vast desert known as the Empty Quarter that forms a barrier between here and Saudi Arabia.
One migrant, in 1931, was a baggage carrier bound for Jiddah, the Saudi Arabian port city that is a gateway to Mecca, Islam's holiest place. His name was Muhammad bin Laden. In time, he and his brothers founded a construction company, now known as the Bin Laden Group, which prospered by building roads and palaces under the patronage of the Saudi royal family, and made the bin Ladens a fortune estimated at billions of dollars.
But what has drawn attention to Ar Ribat is not Muhammad bin Laden, who died in the 1960's, so much as Osama, the 17th of his 51 children. Osama bin Laden, in recent years, has been America's most wanted terrorism suspect.
The only remaining member of the bin Laden family living in the village is Khaled al-Omeri, a 30-year-old second cousin of Osama, who runs a small grocery store, having failed to secure a niche in Saudi Arabia as an automobile mechanic. He, his wife and five children share a three-room apartment in a large, ramshackle home that belongs to Abdullah bin Laden, his grandfather.
The home, with rotting wooden shutters and rain-stained walls, is known among villagers as the bin Laden house, and the dirt track that runs past it, on the edge of the dried-up riverbed running through the village, is called Bin Laden Street. Nearby is a one-room office for the Bin Laden Group, overseeing a project to bring piped water into Ar Ribat; the project is the bin Laden family's gift to their ancestral home.