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In the middle of the Californian desert on our Route 66 expedition, on the road heading off the freeway towards Amboy. At this point we realised that the freeway was probably the better choice - we were out of our depth - and did a "U-y".
It's a very punny car that turned out pretty cool. Old remote glued to the top there, some wood added to the sides to create wheel wells.
Rasped and sanded the square shape to mostly match the remote lid (Nathan is 8 so not so bad with some help from dad). Note the blue LED. We would have lit that thing but it would put us overweight and we'd have no way to easily turn it on and off.
My son Nathan and I did the work together - great times!
Good ol' Yogi's last trip before he passed away in July of this year. He traveled to 38 forest service rentals all over the Pacific Northwest. This trip marks the end of the "Musgrove and Yogi" story.
The Hogan Cabin can be rented from the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in Montana for $25 a night.
February 2017
Swimming in a river to reach a forest inventory plot in Sundarbans, Bangladesh.
©FAO/Mondal Falgoonee Kumar
St Margaret of Antioch, Cowlinge, Suffolk
Given its proximity to the Cambridgeshire border, some people would argue that this Suffolk church is closer to civilisation than most, and yet St Margaret of Antioch, Cowlinge, has a decidedly remote feel to it. Gentle hills enfold these pretty villages, and St Margaret stands distant from the houses it serves. Cowlinge, pronounced coo-linj, stands about a mile north of the Haverhill to Bury road, not far from the better-known Denston. You approach it up a track from the north, where it is rather hemmed in, but the graveyard opens up widely beyond on the other side.
The first impression is one of redness. From the outside, Cowlinge seems a rather pretty accretion of centuries' work, its tower a typical red brick 18th century rebuilding - there are similar ones across the county at Grundisburgh and Layham. The chancel and nave appear to have met each other by chance as much as intention, and all is pleasantly patched up, with solid red-brick buttressing and just about every kind of window you can think of. There are aisles, there is a clerestory, but this is not a grand church. Rather, it is the kind of building a DIY enthusiast might put together if he wanted a late medieval one in his back garden.
And somehow, this makes it beautiful, especially if seen from the south-east or north-east. You might expect the interior to be similarly ramshackle, but you step through the north door into cool whiteness, and as you walk through this treasure chest of a church, unusual vistas open up at each turn. This is a complex church.
Facing east to start with, the first impression is of the wall-painting above the chancel arch, and the gated rood screen beneath. There are gates in the screens at nearby Withersfield and Denston, but unlike those these doors rise to the full height of the screen. The screen itself is perhaps not as beautiful as the parclose screen enclosing the chapel in the south aisle. Mortlock points out how similar it is to the one up the road at Dalham. The paleness of the wood is very pleasing.I thought it compared very well with the parclose at Dennington, which has been repainted gaudily. Another good parclose of the same age is at Westhorpe. A memorial window contains 1920s glass by Christopher Webb of Christ with the fishermen at Galilee.
One the wall beside the parclose in the south aisle is a small exposed area of wall painting. It appears to be an unbearded male saint holding something that may well be a chalice, in which case it is St John the Evangelist. The better-known wall painting here is the one I mentioned earlier, above the chancel arch. It is often referred to as a doom, but it is organised rather differently to others of its kind. Instead of the day of judgement, with God in Majesty overseeing the parting of the ways into hell on his right and heaven on his left, it depicts St Michael, to the south of the arch, balancing a set of scales in which a sinner is being weighed against his sins.
St Michael is a common feature of doom paintings - he appears nearby at Stoke by Clare and on the famous doom at Wenhaston. The unusual aspect of this one, however, is to the north of the arch, where the Virgin Mother of God stands. She reaches out with a wand, and tips the balance of the scales. Simon Jenkins, in his England's Thousand Best Churches, suggests that she is tipping the balance in the favour of the virtuous. This is, of course, exactly what she is not doing. The virtuous had no need of intervention; the good in them would outweigh their sins in any case. Mary is intervening on behalf of sinners who have prayed to her for her help, and she is tipping the scales in the favour of those sinners. It represents the efficacy of intercessions to Our Blessed Lady, and as such it was anathema to the 16th century reformers.
In common with other wall paintings, this priceless art treasure was whitewashed over rather than destroyed. It would be interesting to know when this happened. We know that during William Dowsing's iconoclastic progress through Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in 1644, he found no wall paintings still in existence. It has always been assumed that they were covered by the Anglicans when the new Church of England took possession of our parish churches a century earlier. But I do wonder if they might have been done away with a century before even that, perhaps around the middle of the 15th century, when the ruling classes were enforcing orthodox Catholic dogma in the face of the superstitions of the ordinary people. Part of this process involved setting up larger roods at the east end of the nave, and I think this wall-painting may have been covered before that happened here.
The chancel arch beneath the doom is also extensively painted, and also of interest on all of the pillars a large amount of medieval graffiti, some of which is described as being consecration crosses. This, of course, cannot be so, for the medieval church ordered its liturgical needs rather better than this, and these are no doubt the work of some bored 17th century vandal.
Stepping through into the chancel, it is at once one of the loveliest in Suffolk, and one of the most dominated, since Peter Scheemakers' ugly 18th century memorial for Francis Dickins glowers against the north wall. Dickins was responsible for the building of the tower. The figures are life size, and the monument is wholly secular, even pagan. They look like nothing so much as a couple on their way to a toga party pausing to pose with the FA Cup.
Near the north door, a plaque on the wall records the visitation of 1618 when permission was given for the local house of correction to set up seating here for its inmates. There are still banked benches below, but these are later, and were probably intended for the village schoolchildren. Seating on a similar scale can be seen at nearby Kedington, divided there into boys' and girls' sections. On a somewhat larger scale they can also be seen at Laxfield.
A fine view of this church can be had by climbing to the spacious gallery beneath Dickins' tower. Once up here, the space is dominated by another huge classical memorial to Dickins and above it a George II royal arms, which also records that George Finton and Henry Seabrook were the churchwardens who set it up in 1731.
St Margaret is everything a historic church should be. Well-ordered, welcoming, suited to its Protestant present and mindful of its Catholic past. It used to be left open all the time, but a traumatic assault on the building some five years ago by a mentally ill man suffering from a religious mania, during which both screens and the altar were set fire to, means that it is now kept locked, but with a very cheerful churchwarden who was most happy to come and open up.
Remote location of telephone box.
The South Deeside Road was the original road used by Queen Victoria en route, by horse and carriage, to Balmoral Castle after arriving at Ballater Railway Station in the mid to late 1800's.
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I am sure the telephone box was not there in those days!
I think the antenna make it - standing beside the li´l rat makes her look like a rc- toy-car for li´l boys - looks to funny ! ;o)
Teaching can sometimes involve a battle of one person's will against many others. With this new fangled remote control, teachers need never worry about being out of control ever again.
(Better than the ipad).
Belkin 10-port switched outlets. that remote control down there activates/deactivates the switched outlets (8 of em). the two outlets up top are always-on.
I got this from Amazon for like $35 so that I could wire up my home theatre and easily shut everything down when I'm out of town. Unfortunately, the remote came DOA from the factory, so my Saturday project was spoiled. The gigabit switch was $40 from Amazon - I have the same 10/100 tucked away behind my plasma right now and since most of my network is gigE, I decided it was time to finally upgrade that switch.
This is a typical delivery vehicle carrying fuel and other supplies to the small villages of this remote region of south Morocco.
Driving from the running board as always, Eddie Lenahan eases his old Ruston towards the wagon tippler. Gilltown, Co Kildare 26/10/2011
SPC Mahon operates the tank using the Omnitech Panther Remote Robotic System which lends the machine its name.
Nikon D70, Sigma 12-24.
Camera is attached to ceiling with Impact Super Clamp. Triggered by IR Remote ML-L3.
2 SB-26 attached to ceiling with Spring Clamp, and aux-powered by Nikon SD-8.
Flashes syncs with alienbees cybersync. Not a single misfire. Thanks Paul C Buff! )
See this and this for detailed setup shoots.
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Mapmaker: Royal Geographic Society
Published: 1899
A fine map from the great Royal Geographical Society that strove to understand some of the more remote regions of the world. This map Lake Urmia Basin, spans from Tabriz and Urmi, south into the hills. Notes the major rivers and tributaries, as well as towns and cities.
Urmia (Turkish language: Urmu, Urmiyə, اورمیه; farsi: ارومیه) variously translitterated as Oroumiyeh, Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh, is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577,307, with 153,570 households.
The city lies at an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chay river (City River). Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran. The population is mainly mainly Azerbaijanian Turkish(85-90%), with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.
Urmia is situated on a fertile plain called Urmia Plain, on western side of Lake Urmia; and eastern side of Turkish border and marginal range of mountains.
Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (especially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.
Urmiye (Türkçesi:اورمو, Urmu, اورمیه, Urumiyə;Farsça: ارومیه, Orumieh), İran'ın Batı Azerbaycan Eyaleti'nin yönetim merkezi olan şehir. Şehir, bağlı olduğu eyaletin orta kısmında, Urmiye Gölü ile Türkiye sınırı arasında, kendi adıyla anılan ovada kuruludur. Nüfusu 2006 yılı verileriyle 577,307 kişidir ki Urmiye ülkenin en büyük 10. şehridir.
Urmiye şehrinde nüfusun çoğunluğunu (tahmini 90%) Türklerdir, azınlık kısmınıysa Kürtler, Süryaniler ve Ermeniler oluşturuyor.
Antarctica: as remote as it gets on Earth. Concordia research station is a collaboration between the French Polar Institute and the Italian Antarctic programme. It is one of only three bases that is inhabited all year long, and is located at the mountain plateau called Dome C. Pictured in this image is the astronomical observatory near the base.
As well as offering around nine months of complete isolation, Concordia’s location at 3233 m altitude means the crew experience chronic hypobaric hypoxia – lack of oxygen in the brain. During the Antarctic winter, the crew of up to 15 people also endure four months of complete darkness: the sun disappears from May and is not seen again until late August. Temperatures can drop to –80°C in the winter, with a yearly average of –50°C.
As a station set in Earth’s harshest space, Concordia is an ideal stand-in for studying the human psychological and physiological effects of extreme cold, isolation and darkness.
Credits: IPEV/PNRA/ESA–S. Thoolen
A classic remote Scottish winter climb that we snatched between two days of bad weather three years ago.
The first Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste Shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM.
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With it, I'm in control. I choose what happens. Without it, I'm at the mercy of reality, but with it, I alone decide my fate...
But sometimes, when the batteries run out, I have to press REALLY hard to make it work :(
Terryville's #13 Mike Garrow and Gilbert's #32 Zac Tuozzo on Tuesday night, Feb. 19, 2008 at Terryville High School. Mike Orazzi-The Bristol Press.
Strobist: One AlienBee 800 bounced off the ceiling at 1/16 th power. Set off with AB remotes.
VAZIANI, Country of Georgia, August 2, 2017 – Georgia Army National Guard 1st Lt. Robert Chubarov and 2nd Lt. Jared Linson of the 810th Engineer Company oversee construction of a rifle range at the Vaziani Training Area near Tbilisi, Georgia during exercise Noble Partner 2017.
Georgia National Guard photo by Capt. William Carraway / released