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What a great challenge as there as so many items that can fall into this subject. I have gone with my personal latest hi-tech technology; my iPad 2 - which I've kind of shown off before, so apologies!
Our Daily Challenge - TECHNOLOGY
Los equipos de investigación de Repsol colaboran con los líderes mundiales de Upstream para desarrollar soluciones innovadoras y disruptivas, que utilicen una tecnología nueva y avanzada. Estas iniciativas se centran principalmente en las áreas de caracterización avanzada, geomecánica, simulación y gestión de proyectos.
Repsol´s Upstream research teams work together with world leaders to develop innovative and disruptive solutions, using the latest and most advanced technology. These initiatives are mainly focused in the areas of advanced characterization , geomechanics , simulation and project management .
The trunks of ancient trees in the virgin forests of the Pacific Northwest have a considerably larger diameter at ground level than they do even five or six feet above the forest floor.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, loggers had the Herculean task of sawing through these giant trunks by hand. It was a two-man job.
It's an odious task for me just to saw through a 2-by-4 by hand, so I can't comprehend how the men had the strength and endurance to pull and push those widely spaced and wickedly long saw teeth back and forth across the living wood. Perhaps the loggers worked in shifts to fell a tree, but I can't imagine that the team who had been spelled would have been allowed to sit around and play Wordle until it was their turn again.
To make the job just a little bit less overwhelming, loggers sawed the trunk above ground level where it was not as thick.
In order to apply the greatest thrust to their huge, double-ended saws, loggers needed to hold the saw at waist level or higher. The only way they could do that was to carve sockets into the trunk far above ground level and insert long planks for to stand on while they wielded their saw.
In solving one problem the springboards created another, namely that of losing one's balance and falling to the ground. Loggers worked without a safety net literally and figuratively then. That was of little or no concern to the timber barons and their wives who lived and entertained in great style in their mansions in Portland and Seattle.
Cedar is renowned for its resistance to rot. Hence the springboard notches remain plainly visible in the stumps of the felled old-growth cedars for generations after the loggers have joined their victims in the compost of history.
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Close to Home ‘The great cedars call our names’ Willapa Bay’s Long Island is a Northwest treasure
Story by David Campiche
Sep 18, 2014
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The birds are quiet, hardly a peep. The large Harvest Moon that was forecast is buried in gray slurry, in subtle shades of silver and pewter. A fine mist wraps its cloak over the soft green landscape. Long Island rests in the middle of Willapa Bay. Here awaits a late summer dreamscape.
Like the September full moon, leaves are turning yellow and umber. Among the 16 people gathered at the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, the mood is speculative but optimistic. I came from Naselle, crossed the Naselle Bridge in a flurry, and headed south.
West of the bridge I could just make out the Herrolds’ oyster plant, their weather-worn dock and graceful wooden vessel. Gargantuan piles of oyster shells lay mounded on the shoreline. The two brothers are descendants of the Chinook culture and proud of it. They have worked this bay for oysters since childhood. The two families have protected both these pristine waters and a lifestyle that predates these oystermen.
Glenn Lamb is the executive director of the Columbia Land Trust. He and his staff have performed diligently in the Pacific Northwest. They have, in particular, a deep affection for Pacific County and the Long Beach Peninsula.
“It is all about wildlife, about restoring habitat,” he says. Lamb picks his words carefully. He is a careful and amicable man.
The organization outlines its parameters as, “Two states. One iconic river (the Columbia). 13,000 square miles of wonder.” Set in our backyard, the Columbia Land Trust projects hope with this succinct statement: “We conserve the Northwest you love.”
We are heading to the Don Bonker Cedar Grove, a 5,000-year-old copse of mostly ancient cedar trees on the west side of the island. U.S. Rep. Bonker saved that grove and then cemented public ownership of the entire island in the 1980s. In the grove are 274 acres of old-growth. The island is seven miles long and half as thick. In all of Pacific County, only 1 percent of the tall trees remain. Someday, as second-growth matures, the entire island will again rebound with a cornucopia of old-growth. This is Bonker’s gift to our grandchildren, to future generations.
Two capable assistants anchor our large barge-like craft at Smoky Hollow, and we make our way on an easy trail a half-mile to a trailhead that reads, “Cedar Grove.” Traveling the trail from the old logging road into the center of the grove is a quick route. One ponders the third-growth woods along the way, small timber the loggers call “pecker poles.” Don’t give up hope: Yards ahead is one of the treasures of the Pacific Northwest. In his long, fruitful tenor in Congress, Bonker left a legacy for you and me to enjoy. Today, the great cedars call our names.
Western cedars are referred to as cathedral trees. Lightning often strikes the tree tops. The resulting twisted limbs often bear shapes like giant candelabras. In this ancient copse, we are surrounded by massive and tall cedars. These trees preserve a quiet dignity. Perhaps, they project an elder’s wisdom, for they are old, very old, some 1,100 years. The landscape is like a natural church, but festooned with lichen, fern and a variety of mosses.
We stroll up the forested apse, a trail carved out by awestruck pilgrims who have ventured into this magical place since the advent of the Chinook civilization.
“Inspire love of place” — it doesn’t take much effort here. To see is to believe. The grove is much older than the trees in it. Like pilgrims coming to Mecca, we, the happy 16, have the rare privilege of standing amid this living and breathing antiquity.
The trip is short and fruitful. We traipse back to the scow and soon travel back to the refuge. By boat or kayak, Long Island is accessible to bow hunters, biologists and campers. Over a dozen campsites punctuate the island. The island provides infinite opportunities for photographers, or for those just seeking solace. Willapa Bay rolls through four tides a day. The Willapa was called Shoalwater Bay at the turn of the century. The shallow bay sustains that reputation. It also produces about 20 percent of the nation’s oysters. Those piles of bivalves are razor sharp. All that is to say: Beware of low tide, your unprotected hands, and the boat’s bottom.
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"Long Island cedars are living fossils"
By Rob Schubert
Longview Daily News
Apr 2, 2019
WILLAPA BAY — The term “living fossil” is one that mixes a sense of being out of place with one of awe and mystery. The coelacanth, a fish that lived alongside dinosaurs, was believed extinct until a living one was found in 1938. Another such living fossil is right around the corner, on Long Island.
That six-mile long island nestled in Willapa Bay is like stepping into the past. The 5,500-acre island includes 274 acres covered in cedar trees that were around when Constantinople became Istanbul in 1453. And unlike other forests, which are constantly in a state of flux due to development, fire or storms, this primeval grove has been untouched for thousands of years.
According to a 1985 article written in Washington Magazine by current Daily News editor Andre Stepankowsky, the first trees of the Long Island grove began sprouting about 4,000 years ago. While those first trees have not survived to this day, the average tree is still between 150 and 160 feet in height, with the oldest individual trees being roughly 1,000 years old. Old rotting cedars on the ground may have been sprouting when Julius Caesar was a child.
When studying forests, most of the discussion is about old-growth forests. The definition of this term varies depending on region, but in the Pacific Northwest, a forest reaches old-growth status when the majority of trees are more than 250 years old.
Old-growth forests already constitute a small fraction of all woodland in the area, but the Long Island grove is old enough to earn itself an entirely different distinction. These trees make up a “climax forest,” a steady-state system of self-reproducing trees so rare that before this grove was found, some researchers believed there were none still in existence. Usually, fire or windstorms interrupt the evolution of a forest to its final “climax” condition. But not at Long Island.
An aid in research
This well-preserved forest has allowed scientists to step into a snapshot of the ecosystem that once dominated coastal regions. Researchers from groups like the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington have used their rings to gain insight to the history of the area. A 1997 project, headed by David Yamaguchi and Brian Atwater, dated cedar stumps along the coast to 1699, which led them to believe a massive disaster occurred before spring of 1700, the same year that a massive tsunami hit Japan. In their report, researchers concluded, largely through comparative tree dating, that 1700 was the year of the last major earthquake in the region.
But the grove’s survival even through disaster is no mere stroke of luck; the trees were perfectly placed to avoid what felled similar groves around the region.
Long Island is tucked into Willapa Bay, with the Long Beach Peninsula shielding it from the worst winds off the Pacific, while the frequent fog and rain keep fire risk to a minimum. Additionally, its position on an island makes it very unlikely that wildfires started elsewhere will spread to the grove.
The location also spared the grove from heavy logging. While Weyerhaeuser Co. acquired the lands for logging from Northern Pacific Railroad in 1900, the cedar grove survived because its location inland on the south portion of Long Island was far more distant to the places where logs were rafted into Willapa Bay and, from there, to shore.
Weyco-federal pact
Weyerhaeuser began to log the grove in the early 1970s, but its moves were met with protests. The company ultimately agreed to a deal with the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the ancient cedars.
The pact originally required the government to pay Weyerhaeuser each year, and the cost was being met with growing resistance by the mid-1980s. Southwest Washington Congressman Don Bonker stepped in to broker a lasting deal in which the federal government purchased Weyerhaeuser’s timber rights and preserved the grove in 1986.
Today, the Long Island cedar grove is open to the public, but getting there is a challenge. There are no bridges or ferries to Long Island. Anyone who wants to visit needs to find their own transportation. Visitors to Long Island who arrive from the southeast are met with signs for the Don Bonker Cedar Grove Trail.
Bonker was also instrumental in the creation of the Mount St. Helens Volcanic National Volcanic Monument, the Columbia River National Scenic Area and Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, as well as many state parks and refuges he expanded.
In a 2005 interview with The Daily Astorian, he called the purchase of the cedar grove “special... a rare moment” among the many accomplishments in his legacy. It was preserving these special places, he said, that always meant the most to him.
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Hurricane Helene was a devastating tropical cyclone that produced a wide swath of damage and loss of life that extended from northwest Florida, US, where the storm made landfall on 26 September 2024, to Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina.
Hurricane Helene was closely monitored using Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar data to assess its wind field over the ocean surface. This technology plays a crucial role in understanding storm dynamics and predicting their impacts.
Satellite-based sensors, particularly those operating in microwave frequencies, can capture data on ocean surface wind speed and direction under various weather conditions. The Ocean Wind Field (OWI), derived from Sentinel-1, provided detailed estimates of wind vectors at 10 m above the ocean surface. This information is essential for meteorologists to analyse the storm's intensity and trajectory.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
CIA's Office of Advanced Technologies and Programs developed the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) fish to study aquatic robot technology. The UUV fish contains a pressure hull, ballast system, and communications system in the body and a propulsion system in the tail. It is controlled by a wireless line-of-sight radio handset.
For more information on CIA history and this artifact please visit www.cia.gov
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Candid street photography taken in Glasgow, Scotland. This guy seems to have his hands full with taking some camera phone shots while talking on another phone... and is that a smart watch on his wrist as well? Technology mastering him?
Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L'.
I suppose that a personality trait I have is being technology oriented. This is a shot of part of the motherboard of a dead Macbook. I just got done using its parts to resurrect another Macbook. Taken with a Canon 60mm USM Macro lens. Type L for a better view.
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Typing on a Digital Note Pad
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Technology can be a good thing until as most good things it becomes corrupt. Although a few people can afford to harvest organs via stem cell there will still be enough people where it will be less expensive to become part machine. Just how far will they go? Part machine or something more, for example if a robot is programmed to do a task, providing it runs properly the human element is gone. Hopefully we will learn before it is too late.
The dark and dank interior of the waiting shelter at Dalston's 1844-built station is a stark contrast to the vibrant school art wall mural depicting 'Britain's Energy Coast' in Cumbria, with DRS 37609 on the rear of the departing 2C34 14:33 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness passenger service, adding colour on Saturday 6 June 2015. Wind and class 37-generated power - old technology rules in Cumbria and there was no shortage of the former on this day!
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Street candid taken in Glasgow, Scotland. Two mobile phones, two laptop bags and an 'old school' telephone box, sometimes we can invest in technology a little too much.
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I made this image for my elective's final project. We had to comment on technology's impact on our daily lives
I had a moment when I was sitting at my desk working on my project when I noticed that I have an insane amount of technology within a few feet of my face. I was only using the desktop and the laptop, but still... technology was afoot! Needless to say, I need to tidy up my workstation.
Internet or Information technology conceptual image. With a globe placed in front of computer server cabinets
This is slightly older technology, but it is still used, and does the job well. This is part of the sound board at my church. I am not real smart when it comes to that type of technology, so I have no idea what each of the buttons and dials do, I just know they look interesting!
This image uses repetition, lines and shapes, balance, and rule of thirds.
I used the automatic setting on my Fujifilm Finepix camera. This photo used indoor lighting and was taken at 5:03 pm.
In Photoshop, I adjusted the brightness and saturation.
Day 41/365
So this was originally going to be a black and white photo....but then I obviously got distracted with all the pretty colors lol! Come connect with me over on www.facebook.com/katelinkinneyphotography
While utilising the reliable Victorian technology of a sturdy iron lamppost this left-handed Minehead fisherman holds the new electronic world in his hand.
The old tech is over a hundred years old, I guess the new might last about a hundred weeks!
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The Orion spacecraft will ferry astronauts to the Moon on NASA's Artemis missions. The European Service Module is ESA’s contribution to Orion and provides electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen as well as keeping the spacecraft at the right temperature and on course. In case of a problem during launch the European Service Module can also activate to fly the astronauts to safety. This infographic shows the steps of an untargeted abort.
Credits: ESA
Testing a new method of electromagnetic docking between two satellites in orbit.
Test einer neuen Methode zum elektromagnetischen docken zweier Satelliten im orbit.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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lessons to learn for middle aged women.
skiing injury + overenthusiastic charades = emergency arthroscopy.
bad news - no running for a while (again!)
good news - 2 weeks off work (daytime photography!)
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