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works well, but difficult to photograph like it looks.
Camera Model: Canon PowerShot G12
Original Date/Time: 2013-06-14T15:54:28
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Lit with UV torch, see glow on wall. Looks brighter than this, and glows...
"Various Vaseline glassware glowing under a few UV black lights" from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass
Uranium glass became popular in the mid-19th century, with its period of greatest popularity being from the 1880s to the 1920s.
The first major producer of items made of uranium glass is commonly recognized as Austrian Franz Xaver Riedel, who named the yellow (German: Gelb) and yellow-green (German: Gelb-Grün) varieties of the glass "annagelb" and "annagrün", respectively, in honor of his daughter Anna Maria. Riedel was a prolific blower of uranium glass in Unter-Polaun (today Dolni Polubny), Bohemia from 1830 to 1848.
By the 1840s, many other European glassworks began to produce uranium glass items and developed new varieties of uranium glass. The Baccarat glassworks in France created an opaque green uranium glass which they named chrysoprase from its similarity to that green form of chalcedony.
At the end of the 19th century, glassmakers discovered that uranium glass with certain mineral additions could be tempered at high temperatures, inducing varying degrees of micro-crystallization. This produced a range of increasingly opaque glasses from the traditional transparent yellow or yellow-green to an opaque white. During the Depression years, more iron oxide was added to the mixture to match popular preferences for a greener glass.[7] This material, technically a glass-ceramic, acquired the name "vaseline glass" because of its supposedly similar appearance to petroleum jelly. Today, a few manufacturers continue the vaseline glass tradition: Fenton Glass, Mosser Glass, Gibson Glass and Jack Loranger.[8]
US production of uranium glasses ceased in the middle years of World War II because of the US government's confiscation of uranium supplies, and did not resume until 1958.
Riihimäki Glass produced uranium glass designer pieces after World War II.
The normal colour of uranium glass ranges from yellow to green depending on the oxidation state and concentration of the metal ions, although this may be altered by the addition of other elements as glass colorants. Uranium glass also fluoresces bright green under ultraviolet light and can register above background radiation on a sufficiently sensitive Geiger counter, although most pieces of uranium glass are considered to be harmless and only negligibly radioactive.[3]
It is argued that the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, which was built in 1833, is not only the oldest wooden church in Newfoundland, but also the oldest in North America still standing. The tower was added in 1880.
This church is in the quaint village of Trinity, on Trinity Bay in Newfoundland, Canada. The town has been of historical significant place in Newfoundland for over 400 years. The harbor at Trinity was first used by fishing ships around the 16th century. The Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real named the location "Trinity" as he arrived on Trinity Sunday, Historical accounts do not agree as to the year recording the year of his arrival as as 1500 or, 1501. Which you believe depends on which account you think is accurate.Fishermen from the West Country of England began using Trinity as a summer station in the migratory fishery in the 1570s. Summer fishermen continued to be primarily from the Channel Islands, especially Jersey, and Weymouth in Dorset until a permanent settlement was established. Trinity was settled by merchants from Poole, England during the 18th century, citing reasons such as the easily defensible harbor and abundance of shore space for fishing premises. Trinity was the site that Sir Richard Whitbourne held the first court of Admiralty in 1615, establishing the first court of justice in North America.The merchant trade in Trinity was significant and dominated the social and economic life from Baie Verte to White Bay. Newfoundland. At times, merchants in Trinity exported upwards of 30-40% of cod, train oil, and seals produced in Newfoundland. By the late 18th Century, the merchant firms in Trinity were operatoring 35 ocean-going ships, exporting 100,000 quintals of dried cod and supplying about 6,000 inhabitants. A fort was established at Admiral's Point near Trinity in order to protect the assets of the merchants. Due to Trinity's prominence in the British-Newfoundland trade, it was attacked and twice captured by the French in the Anglo-French Wars of 1696-1713, first in 1696 and again in 1705. Both times, the properties of the residents were burnt. Trinity was again captured by miral de Ternay. and his French troops during the Seven Years War.Trinity was the site of medical research, including the This quaint village; Trinity, on Trinity Bay ihas been a place of historical significant in Newfoundland, Canada for over 400 years. The harbor at Trinity was first used by fishing ships around the 16th century. The Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real named the location "Trinity" as he arrived on Trinity Sunday, Historical accounts do not agree as to the year recording the year of his arrival as as 1500 or, 1501. Which you believe depends on which account you think is accurate.
Fishermen from the West Country of England began using Trinity as a summer station in the migratory fishery in the 1570's. Summer fishermen continued to be primarily from the Channel Islands, especially Jersey, and Weymouth in Dorset until a permanent settlement was established.
Trinity was settled by merchants from Poole, England during the 18th century, citing reasons such as the easily defensible harbor and abundance of shore space for fishing premises. Trinity was the site that Sir Richard Whitbourne held the first court of Admiralty in 1615, establishing the first court of justice in North America.
The merchant trade in Trinity was significant and dominated the social and economic life from Baie Verte to White Bay. Newfoundland. At times, merchants in Trinity exported upwards of 30-40% of cod, train oil, and seals produced in Newfoundland. By the late 18th Century, the merchant firms in Trinity were operating 35 ocean-going ships, exporting 100,000 quintals of dried cod and supplying about 6,000 inhabitants. A fort was established at Admiral's Point near Trinity in order to protect the assets of the merchants. Due to Trinity's prominence in the British-Newfoundland trade, it was attacked and twice captured by the French in the Anglo-French Wars of 1696-1713, first in 1696 and again in 1705. Both times, the properties of the residents were burnt. Trinity was again captured by Admiral de Ternay. and his French troops during the Seven Years War (1756-1763).
Trinity was the site of medical research, including the introduction of the smallpox vaccine to the new world in 1798 by John Clinch, a boyhood friend and medical colleague of Edward Jenner.
Religious activities in Trinity date back to the early years. The first parochial church was built in 1729 and Rev. Robert Kilpatrick, the first missionary of the Society for Propagation of the Gospel, arrived. During a tumultuous time in Trinity's history, a visiting Methodist preacher, John Hoskins, was tarred by sailors in 1780 - a resident Methodist preacher did not arrive until 1816. Construction on a new parish church began in 1820 and housed the Rev. Aubrey Spencer who later became the first Church of England bishop of the diocese of Newfoundland and Bermuda. In 1827, St. Paul's Church in Trinity was consecrated by Bishop Inglis of Nova Scotia. For this occasion, the hymn "We Love the Place, O Lord" was composed by Rev. William Bullock and has since gained widespread use.
As fishing declined and limits were placed on catches, the town declined in population also. Over recent years the main industry has switched from fishing to tourism.introduction of the smallpox vaccine to the new world in 1798 by John Clinch, a boyhood friend and medical colleague of Edward Jenner.Religious activities in Trinity date back to the early years. The first parochial church was built in 1729 and Rev. Robert Kilpatrick, the first missionary of the Society for Propagation of the Gospel, arrived. During a tumultuous time in Trinity's history, a visiting Methodist preacher, John Hoskins, was tarred by sailors in 1780 - a resident Methodist preacher did not arrive until 1816. Construction on a new parish church began in 1820 and housed the Rev. Aubrey Spencer who later became the first Church of England bishop of the diocese of Newfoundland and Bermuda. In 1827, St. Paul's Church in Trinity was consecrated by Bishop Inglis of Nova Scotia. For this occasion, the hymn "We Love the Place, O Lord" was composed by Rev. William Bullock and has since gained widespread use.
As fishing declined and limits were placed on catches, the town declined in population also. Over recent years the main industry has switched from fishing to tourism.
Original Caption: Farrell family. They had discontinued the brush making, but sent to a neighbor for materials and posed for me, just as they had been doing it. The little 5 year old on the right is very deft. Her eyes seemed to be troubling her. The father complained of the little money there was in the work. New York City, February 1912
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 102-LH-2827
Photographer: Hine, Lewis
Subjects:
Child Labor
National Child Labor Committee
Working Conditions
Factory
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but there is fungus.
Fungus growth inside a Minolta Celtic 135mm lens, illuminated with LED light and captured on Panasonic DMC-LX7. (Can you see the upside down Man in the Moon?)
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2013 All Rights Reserved.
My images are not to be used, copied, edited, or blogged without my explicit permission.
Please!! NO Glittery Awards or Large Graphics...Buddy Icons are OK. Thank You!
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Thanks for coming over and playing with Kiki and me, my Flickr friends! Have a fine day!
Expecting the southbound, but the northbound appeared first coming out of what is called Tunnel 28. Kept hearing its horn in the distance and it sounded like it was coming from the south, but I thought it might be the SB echoing off the hills. Managed to totally screw up the other shots of it coming out of the tunnel by not keeping the tunnel fully in frame. Still making rookie mistakes with trains. Decent lighting here. Maybe railpictures worthy, but it could have been zoomed out a little.
Here is one on there already. Same engine even.
Not a fan of mixing rain and cameras but this was one of those times you just can't pass up.
I spent a bit over two hours watching this guy fishing but every time it surfaced it was not where i was expecting it to. Twice it broke the surface with a small fish which it had eaten before i could adjust to where it was.
Just when i was about to give up for the day it surfaced from a dive about twelve feet from where i was sitting and climbed out on the bank to preen and dry out.
Never realized just how visually stunning these guys are.
Please share. :)
Australasian darter. Anhinga novaehollandiae
As well as Australasian darter, common names given to the species include darter, diver, needle-beak shag, shag, and snake-bird. The indigenous people of southwestern Australia called it mimal.
The Australasian darter forages in water, often with only its head and neck exposed. Its feathers soak up water in spaces between them, allowing the bird to reduce its natural buoyancy and swim underwater. It eats a wide variety of fish, invertebrates including freshwater shrimp, worms and cephalopods, and insects.
They breed throughout its range on or near bodies of fresh or inland salt water. Breeding process will takes place once a year, or twice on rare occasions of two floods in the one year. Breeding takes place in spring in southern Australia, during the wet season (January to March/April) in northern Australia.
The nest is a large, wide dish-shaped structure made of sticks and lined with reeds, leaves and rushes, often located in the branches of a partly submerged tree or tree overhanging water. Darters often build their nests in cormorant colonies, where the nests can be distinguished by their larger size and lack of guano.
Having been awake for around 32 hours at this point, I had a headache, was knackered but happy to have arrived in Windhoek
but it isn't that dirty. apparently a viagra massage is supposed to invigorate the circulatory system, leading to all sorts of benefits.
Sorry, but I couldn't imply those small pneumatic suspensions two support the "lid"'s weight. This mission is done by two extra 1 x 12 black plates.
Tagged by various (BUT BUGGED BY LAURAS OUO <3
1. What sculpt is/was your first doll?
Volks Syo (HYBRID) but I did buy him around the same time as my old Abio Angel San. Jangy arrived first.
2. Do you still own this doll?
Yas =3= I sold the San though.
3. Was your first doll your grail?
I don't think I knew enough about the hobby to really consider him my grail X3
4. How long did you have to wait from the moment you decided on the doll to actually buying?
About 3 days 8D?
5. Did you buy it or was it a gift?
I bought it but it was with money I was given... so both? 8D
6. Why did you choose the doll you did as your first?
Impulse I suppose. I just loved his big squidgy head.
7. Did you have a character in mind as soon as you saw the doll or did it develop after arrival?
Oh man, IDEK anymore XD At the time I was really into pixel art and I was constantly pixelling a zillion characters. I guess his design was something I planned before but he didn't have much of a personality back then.
8. Do any of your friends own the same sculpt?
No, WHY GUYS? WHY? I think Syo/Shou is really unpopular in general ;_;
9. If you could go back and change your decision to buy the doll you did as your first, would you?
Not really
10. How did you learn about BJDs?
A friend of mine sent me a photo of Jun and Shiro Tachibana and some custom School A's and that was it. XD OBSESSING EVER SINCE
I'm not going to tag anyone cause I think Laura tagged erryones already.... ;_;
I'M SORRY IF YOU DON'T CARE/THIS TOTALLY BORED YOU.ITS LAURA'S FAULT. AND AIN. AIN TAGGED ME TOO
not a great shot but i thought it was a great excuse to add a link to the tigertime website
such stunning cats and such incredibly sad stories about their plight, there is information all round the area regarding the numbers left and the threat they face from poachers and deforestation – can you imagine if they became extinct?
from the site :
"signing this petition will help us to put real pressure on the chinese government. the more people that sign, the more chance that they will listen. please do this now, to prevent the loss of the last 3200 tigers that are left in the wild" samantha fox - a passionate supporter of tigertime
(there are some desperately sad photos on the main site)
please sign tigertime petition here
(please pass-on/re-post/tweet/share the petition link too)
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
I already did this one year ago, but I did change a little so I decided to do it again ;p
Random Questions:
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Fave color? Orange and Blue.
Biggest dream? I don't really have one, though I think it would be awesome to be able to bend elements.
Lucky or favorite number? 7 and 2.
Celeb crush? Marthe De Pillecyn xD I don't even know if you can call her a celeb, but most Flemish and Dutch people will know her.
Sexuality? Straight. I've already had a girlfriend so I'm pretty sure I'm straight.
If you could meet anyone on earth, who would it be? Marthe De Pillecyn ;D
Middle name? Daniël.. I know it's ugly ;)
Believe in love at the first sight? Not really to be honest.
Allergies? I have an allergy for some kind of glue.
Addiction? F.C. De Kampioenen and Minecraft.
Fave serial killer? I don't really have one, though I do like to watch Horror/Thriller movies.
Birthday? 03/09
Best friends? My ex-girlfriend, two of my friends I met when I was 2, and a friend I met 4 years ago. (All of them are girls, 'cause I always feel like I can tell much more to them. I also have a lot of friends that are guys, but I don't think they're thé friends for the rest of my life)
Fave food? Pizza from Dr. Oetker.
Milkshakes or yoghurt? None.
Cheetos or fritos? Cheetos.
Favorite social media site? Facebook, Flickr and Youtube.
Current mood? Normal.
Age? 13.
Have you ever stolen anything? When I was little, I've stolen some stuff for my dolls.
When did you get your first kiss? I think when I was 4, but I'm not sure. But i did get my first kiss around that age.
What is the weirdest food you like? It depends on what you call weird, though I mostly only like Belgian and Italian food.
Have you ever cheated on somebody? No.
How long have you waited before you took a shower? I take a shower everyday, so i took my last shower yesterday.
Ever been in love with 'just a friend'? Yeah :/ At the moment I'm in love with a girl of my class, but we're just friends... :( :p
How many girls have you dated? Only 1 I think.
What is your favorite movie? The movies of F.C. De Kampioenen, The Conjuring and Interstellar.
Do you remember a lot of your dreams? I only remember my dreams when it was a nightmare.
What do you like about yourself? I'm pretty good in learning languages.
What is your favorite sport? I don't really have one ;p
Do you smoke? Nope.
Do you drink? No, I'm only 13 lol.
Do you like to play video games? Hmm.. I'm not really sure, but I do like to play Minecraft :p
What do you think of Valentine's day? It's a normal day to me.
How do you feel about tattoos? They're okay.
Do you like anyone? Yes ;)
Have you ever broken a bone? Yeah, already 4 times.. :'(
If you could live anywhere, where would it be? I don't know. Belgium is fine for me ;D
What is your biggest regret? I don't really know :p
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I hate that I cry pretty fast.
What was the name of your favorite toy as a kid? Playmobil, Barbie, Winx and Lego. But I'm pretty sure I started liking that girly stuff because my best friends were girls. Because I also really liked to play with toys for guys with my older brother.
What is the name of your favorite sugary cereal? I don't really eat cereal, so i have no idea.
Boxers or Briefs? Boxers.
Do you like cheese? Yep.
Who are you talking to right now? Nobody.
When did you go to sleep last night? I think it was something around 1:30 am.
Do you have armpit hair? No xD
What is your favorite TV show? F.C. De Kampioenen, Avatar The Last Airbender/ The Legend of Korra and Hallo k3.
What is your longest relationship? 5 years.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be? I'd like to go to Scandinavia one day.
Favorite song(s)? Can't be tamed by Miley Cyrus, 10.000 Luchtballonnen by K3 and Smoking Gun by Natalia.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I'm not sure yet.
What is the naughtiest thing you've ever done? I don't remember xD
What is your favorite animal? Cats ;D
Would you rather have love or a million dollars? Both lol.
How many kids do you want? 3 or 4.
Do you like messages? Yes haha :D
I won't tag anyone. If you'd like to do it again too, you can always do it. You don't need to be tagged :p
Albi the Cockatiel.
This was his favourite paper bag. He was extremely possessive of it. He was an extremely friendly and affectionate bird, but if he was in his bag and heard footsteps nearby, he'd run straight out to bite your feet.
These details are repeated on each photo, so if you've read it once, firstly thank-you, secondly you don't need to read it again.
I'm uploading these in the absence of anything new.
I took care of Albi while his owner (next door neighbours daughter) started to reproduce. Human babies and birds don't mix these days.
As long as I was in and able to keep an eye on him, he pretty much had the freedom of the house rather being caged up. Like all birds you do have to keep an eye on it, otherwise it will eat the house. I learned this the hard way when I had a pair of Golden Mantled Rosella Parakeets (or Teenage Mutant Ninja Budgies as I named them) with the very good (but naive) intention of giving them complete freedom of the house. This freedom was ended when I came home after a couple of hours out. They’d chewed all the way round a light shade which had collapsed onto the coffee table below. Picture frames chewed and chunks of wallpaper removed. Bits of sofa chewed off. Every house plant (10 or 12) shredded down to the soil. Electric cable chewed. I was impressed by the amount of damage done in a couple of hours, but also a bit annoyed.
Anyway, back to Albi. He was a very friendly bird that would happily sit on your lap to watch telly. He liked to sleep on your head, but woe betide if you dared move - if you woke him up, this would result in your head getting a severe beak battering.
He was a dancer, and a whistler. His favourite tune to whistle and dance to was the Addams Family theme.
He had to be caged at meal times though, because he always wanted to share your meal by landing on the plate and digging in, whatever you were eating. He would even use his head to push your lips apart and literally take the food from your mouth.
I had him for 2 years. But sadly : One really snowy winters day, some of the neighbours and myself were clearing the road and pavement (no gritters for our street). He was watching us intently from the front window. I went in and out the back door a few times, but one of the times, he'd moved to the back of the house to greet me, and as soon as I opened the door, he flew out. I watched him spiral upwards in ever increasingly sized circles. Being such a tame and dependent bird, I honestly thought he'd return. But he'd never have survived that cold night. It was below freezing all day. Even in the unlikely event he had survived the night, there are too many cats and magpies around. I did wander the neighbourhood for a few days, and left the cage out in the back garden with food in it, but all to no avail.
This girl had flat straight hair. But as she passed by me (I was already about to take her shot anyway) a hard blow of wind messed up her umbrella and almost flipped it upside down. And it lifted flocks of her hair forward and up, like a punk hairdo!
:-)
I think I love umbrella shots so much that I have developed a natural magnet for great picture opportunities with them involved. Lucky me!
West 13th Street
New York
Taken with a 3G iPhone
...but maybe more than all the tall eye-catching buildings on the one hand - on the other hand the faces of the people in the Big Apple are the most important impressions...
The day got away from me, but I knew that my last chance would present itself better if I went out following some evening light. No game plan, but the play was good.
95:366
the world carries on without you
but nothing remains the same
i'll be lost without you
until the last of days
- a fine frenzy, last of days
obvious answer to wanting a shot outside and it being 9 PM: leave your headlights on and point them towards the shot. haha
today was the viewing for my piano teacher's husband. i stood in line for over an hour because pretty much everyone loves her/her family, so the crowd was huge... this was at the second viewing, too. all these people that knew each other, laughing and talking and smiling, and me all alone just sitting there thinking about people dying and disappearing from your life and the void that they leave...
i saved this in my phone while i was waiting:
people are talking and pushing and hurrying and happy, and i just don't understand it because jamie died, someone is dead. isn't this a little disrespectful? stop gossiping for five minutes and just sit here and think, think about karen and how her life will never be the same because jamie is dead. just slow down for a second. just slow down.
a woman is standing so close behind me that she bumped into me when she turned around.
jamie never gets to stand in a line again.
you're all such fucking pigs.
____
so what do you do when the spot beside you that's been kept warm at night for the majority of your life is suddenly empty?
what do you do...?
Windhoek is a quiet place, but every now and then a performance brings much of the music-loving public in the country together. So you end up with 300 people packed in the diminutive Warehouse Theatre on Tal Street. The venue's name comes from its previous incarnation as a brewery warehouse. The brewery was decomissioned a long ago and the building was divided between the Crafts Centre and the Warehouse Theatre. The Crafts Centre is a hub for businesses marketing local and not-so-local artifacts to visiting tourists and the only decent coffee terrace in Namibia. Amazingly, neither places has much of a web presence, although the Theater maintains a Facebook page, www.facebook.com/WarehouseTheatreWindhoek.
The Theater started its February 2013 schedule with a performance by Albert Frost, a South African blues guitar musician. Albert's solo style was quite unlike anything I've seen before in that he would use a guitar to create a loop that he would use as a background for the next guitar, with which he would make an intro and then create another loop, and so on. To the end, each song envolved into a complex performance, but had to work hard for it, too - Windhoek's evenings rarely go below 35C these days and the venue was steaming. Albert can be found online here www.albertfrost.co.za and on Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/Albert-Frost/22944713621.
Snipe make a weird noise known as drumming, but it does not sound like a drum. It is a humming vibrato sound, a bit like a wobble board, popularised by Rolf Harris in the 1960s. You can have a listen here on Xeno Canto www.xeno-canto.org/595646 . During the early years of the twentieth century debate raged as to whether this sound was produced vocally or mechanically as wind rushed past the outer tail feathers.
The conundrum of how the sound was produced was finally laid to rest at a British Ornithologists Club dinner in 1931 when Sir Philip Manson-Bahr twirled a cork with snipe feathers on a string around his head and reproduced the humming sound. This was in the very public Pagani's Restaurant in London and apparently the whole room resonated to the sound of a drumming Snipe. Others had suggested it was the tail feathers that produced the sound much earlier but it was Manson-Bahr's theatrical demonstration that finally convinced all doubters. So the humming noise is produced by air whizzing past the outer tail feathers but the vibrato is produced by the wings flapping and varying the air flow across the tail feathers.
Photographing a drumming Snipe is fiendishly difficult as they are usually very high, and they display over a large area. Early mornings and late evenings in spring are when they drum most. This is my most successful effort to date but it shows the stiff outer tail feathers spread wide as the Snipe tumbles through the air.
Other species of Snipe around the world also drum, but differences in the structure of the stiff outer tail feathers, and differences in the way the birds flaps its wings across the feathers, produces different sounds. The closely related Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) from North America was until recently considered to be the same species as the Snipe in Britain, but differences in the tail feathers and a different drumming display were part of the evidence for a taxonomic split. (As a post script, I managed to photograph Wilson's Snipe drumming and they clearly have two pairs of outer tail feathers splayed to make their different noise. Not one pair like our British Snipe.)
THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1382873
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1953
County: Somerset
District: Mendip (District Authority)
Parish: Wells
Diocese of Bath and Wells
National Grid Reference: ST 55207 45781
Details
WELLS
Bishop's Palace and House. Begun in c1210 by Bishop Jocelyn but principally from c1230, restored, divided and upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey 1846-54; north wing (now Bishop's residence) added in C15 by Bishop Bekynton, modified C18, and c1810 by Bishop Beadon. Local stone, roughly squared and coursed, with Doulting ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, stone chimney stacks. PALACE EXTERIOR: the main palace now used for public functions and meetings is in 2 storeys with attics, in 7 bays. Plinth, string course between floors, wide buttresses with 2 offsets to bays 2 and 6, coped gables to bays 2, 4 and 6, paired octagonal stacks with openwork cappings to bays 3 and 5. Ground floor has 2-light trefoil-headed plate tracery windows to all but bay 4, similar windows to first floor with added quatrefoil windows with trefoil-arched labels, smaller versions of these windows to attic gables; central porch added c1824, has angled corner buttresses, gable with string and central panel of arms crowned with a mitre, the entrance through a moulded pointed- arched door flanked by two early C19 light fittings. The E wall is in 5 and-a-half bays, with large buttresses to 2 stepped offsets. The first 2 bays have lancets to the ground floor only, but bays 3, 4, and 5 have large 2-light windows with quatrefoil over, and lancets to the ground floor. The last half-bay has a corner stair-turret with stepped offsets. Far right is a deep gabled wing with a large stone-mullioned oriel above a panelled apron with shields of arms, carried on a deep moulded bracket, and with very large buttresses. A tower is set-back from this, adjacent to the moat, with 2 and 3-light cusped casements on 3 floors. PALACE INTERIOR: the original plan was with hall, solar, gallery and undercroft, the long range divided by a spine wall at each level; this remains the layout, with the addition of an upper floor (not inspected). The ground floor is entered through the central porch to a narrow gallery in 6 bays of quadripartite ribbed vaulting, carried on corbel capitals. In the central wall is a large C16 stone fireplace, brought in the late C19 from the former solar. The S wall has a doorway with Y-tracery to its head, and a corner door gives to Bishop Burnell's chapel (qv). The floor is of stone flags. At the N end is a very fine Jacobean open well stair with large square newels, including a double newel at the top landing, supporting carved griffons and with openwork pendants, panelled plaster soffite, painted dado panelling, and a compartmented ceiling with pendants. The undercroft beyond the wall is in 2x5 bays with a central row of Purbeck shafts to quadripartite vaulting, on faceted responds; there is a large stone fireplace of C15 design in the spine wall. The first floor, within Jocelyn's shell, has C19 detailing; Ferrey complained that much of the work to the ceilings was '.... done by an upholsterer from Bath....', but detailing is very rich, and good replica C19 patterned colourful wallpapers were installed c1970. On the E side is a suite of 3 rooms, with compartmental ceilings. The square room at the head of the stairs has a stone basket-arch fireplace with triple cusping, and retains some C18 panelling, and six 6-panel doors. The long central room has a 24-panel ceiling, and three C19 lighting pendants; at its S end a very rich pair of panelled doors opens to the square S room, in which are visible in the E wall remains of the original windows, which have been blocked externally. This room has no fireplace. The long gallery to the W of the spine wall has two fireplaces, dado panelling, and a ribbed panelled ceiling. The windows are in deep embrasures, and there are three 9-panel C19 doors. BISHOP'S HOUSE EXTERIOR: returns at the N end, being backed by the moat wall. It is in 2 parallel ranges, with a very narrow courtyard partly filled by C20 building, a cross wing containing a former hall, and opening to a porch at the S end, and a square tower on the NE corner. The S front is crenellated, and has 4 windows on 2 storeys with attic, all flush 2-light stone mullioned casements with cusped heads to the lights; at first floor 2 of the windows have C19 cast-iron small-paned casements, and there are 4 casement hipped dormers behind the parapet. To the left, in a lower wall with raked head are 2 similar casements, and set forward to the right, fronting the 3-storey N/S hall range is a low square tower with two 2-light plate-traceried windows as those in the adjacent Palace, and a round-arched C16 stone outer doorway with moulded and panelled responds and a large keystone with diamond embellishment. The porch is stone paved, with a stone bench to the left, and the inner doorway is a C15 stone 4-centred moulded arch with rosettes, hood-mould, and small diagonal pinnacles at the springing and key, above a carved angel keystone, containing a fine pair of early doors with panel, muntin and mid-rail, all with nail-heads. At the left end is a wide archway into the courtyard, on the site of the gateway seen in the Buck view. There are various lofty yellow brick stacks, including one very large stack to a coped gable in the rear range. BISHOP'S HOUSE INTERIOR: has been subdivided several times; in the front range are 2 plain rooms, then the inner hall to the porch, with the C15 doorway, a shell niche, and a stone arch matching that to the outer doorway of the porch; this gives to the main stair. N of the hall is a fine C15 oak screen with narrow panels and moulded muntins and mid-rail, and a central round-arched C20 doorway of C16 style. To the right is a large 3-light stone casement with transom, and to the left is a stone-flagged cross passage which runs through to a doorway at the moat end. The inner hall has 3 windows as in the outer hall, and the inner side of the screen has raised and moulded panels, and all members embellished, including small-scale chevron to the bressumer; the central C16 doorway has raised diamond keystone and enrichment. A dining room to the N has a peaked moulded wooden rere-arch, and opens in the NW corner to a small square study in the tower. This has a stone alcove in the N wall with a 3-light C16 casement, and in the corner access to a stone spiral stair rising the full height of the tower. There are many 6-panel doors, with raised mouldings, and with square centre panels. The main staircase is C20 with heavy turned balusters to the first floor, and a C19 straight flight with stick balusters in the upper flight. At first landing level the window contains fragments of mediaeval and C16 stained and painted glass; there is a second straight-flight stair between the ranges to the W. Rooms at first floor are generally plainly detailed; the N range had an extra floor inserted, and one bathroom has the lower part of one of the mediaeval oriels in its N wall. The second floor has a through corridor, and has many early 2-panel doors with raised mouldings. The square end room to the tower has a low relief plastered ceiling to a central rose, the window has early crown glass and a scratched date of 1822. Two of the bedrooms contain the upper parts of the oriels, and these have stone vaulted soffites, one including a carved angel keystone. Over the S range is a 6-bay collar and 2-purlin roof with original rafters, formerly with plaster; the space has 4 dormer windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the complex building history, coupled with a splendid setting within its walled moat, makes this Palace an outstanding historic and visual document, with one of the most remarkable structures of the mediaeval period which '...represent the grandest aspect of the mediaeval way of life'.(Barley) The first-floor hall represents an outstanding example of its type, contemporary in date with those at St David's, Dyfed, and Southwark, London. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 312; Colchester LS: Wells Cathedral: A History: Shepton Mallet: 1982-: 227-244; Wood M: The English Mediaeval House: London: 1965-: 24 (PLAN); Bony J: The English Decorated Style: London: 1979-: PASSIM; Parker JH: Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells: Oxford: 1866-; Barley M: Houses and History: London: 1986-: 60-63).
Listing NGR: ST5522445760
So Live It Up On Your Birthday
Some Advice On Your Birthday
From a big fold out birthday card by American Greetings.
This kind of illustration reminds me of Virgil Partch.
But wait! They had to draw blood a second time. Check out www.flickr.com/photos/chrisandbabs/4292302383/in/set-7215...
Unbelievable but true: A Tuk-Tuk-Line is part of the Zurich Transport Network!
Due to track construction, a part of the tram line 13 is out of order from July 2012 to August 2012. In this time Electro-Tuk-Tuks are connecting the Meierhofplatz with the Winzerstrasse stop in Zurich Höngg.
Unglaublich aber wahr: Wegen einer Gleisbaustelle ist ein Teil der Tramlinie 13 in den Monaten Juli und August 2012 ausser Betrieb. Während dieser Zeit verkehrt zwischen den Haltestellen Meierhofplatz und Winzerstrasse ein Ersatzbetrieb mit Elektro-Tuk-Tuks. Eine wirklich aussergewöhnliche Lösung des Zürcher Verkehrsverbundes!
Further pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/hrs51/sets/72157630882209406/with/7...
But quitting isn't difficult. Smoking - the addictive substance in tobacco - is really addictive as heroin or crack, based on the American Society, as well as before succeeding the typical person efforts to quit six times.You were practically smoking throat and your gums, if you used. Your gums
(Ai Yazawa)
Tonight, the moon is hidden altogether. It’s presence is given away only by its light passing through the clouds, and then again through the trees. But that is more than enough proof that she is there, tugging at the oceans - and at hearts everywhere.. After all, our bodies are mostly water, blood and bone, aren’t they?
Why wouldn’t we be effected just as strongly as the ocean as the moon sweeps from horizon to horizon.. Maybe that’s why we toss and turn in our beds on moonlit nights… or maybe not..
The game may be beautiful, but these World Cup-themed iPod hoodies sure ain't.
At least they had the decency to put the Trinidad & Tobago model in the middle of this shot, between Brasil (whom we wish we could be), and the USA (whom we wish we had beaten in that ill-fated 1989 qualifier).
Via iLounge.
1. Untitled, 2. Pinkle Toein', 3. The Three Perspectives {red}, 4. 3:365 ...These boots are made for walking, 5. anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again., 6. Bench Monday - Hibernate, 7. gifts, 8. My first bench monday shot :-), 9. All I want in 2010 is :
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Bella Cosa. Sounds a bit like some kind of mundane pasta chain - but turns out to be a pretty mind-blowing place for Italian fine dining (which is a thing I have just recently become exposed to). Itâs also a pizzeria. Whatâs the score? Two floors, two different offerings. Upstairs lives the restaurant, with a glass front that offers sky facing views of the city. Here you shall find fascinating things - The Wine Room: which sits 14 and does exactly what it says on the label. If I ran this place Iâd call in âThe Wine Porn Roomâ, but as you can tell, nobodyâs let me run a fine dining restaurant yet (and they have their reasons...). On the subject of wine, you probably wouldnât expect it, but Iâm gonna put it out there and say that Bella Cosa have one of THE most comprehensive Italian wine lists in the city - each of Italyâs 21 winemaking regions is represented to one extent or another. They also have an extensive selection of grappa, including an amarone grappa which is, without a doubt, the best grappa I have ever tried.
Downstairs is where you find the pizzeria (with its stone ovens) and the central bar. Thereâs a bit theyâre calling âThe Chefâs Isleâ where you can watch Bella Cosaâs chefs doing their thing in the open kitchen. Kinda like Benihana but I suppose with less culinary theatre. Downstairs stays open a little later than upstairs, closing at 23:00 Monday to Sunday - last orders on dinner upstairs are at 22:00. As you can see, theyâve taken to celebrating alcohol in its many forms by using old Italian beer glasses as vases for flowers, and enshrining expensive bottles of cognac and champagne on the walls. Downstairs also has a âliving wallâ - made up of what looks like ivy or something related to it. Green walls are the shit, in this writerâs humble opinion. Another thing I should probably mention is that if youâre interested in the Italian craft beer movement, these guys have a very large and exciting selection. Head back upstairs to the âartisan beer cornerâ to see what I mean.
One last thing to mention is Bella Cosaâs head chef Kentaro Torii (who by, all accounts, is a pretty talented guy) has had his say on everything from the interior design of the building (though the actual design can be credited to a chap called Francesco Pizza) and the style of the plates used with each dish. Is that a Japanese name you hear? Yes indeed it is. Kentaro was born in Yokohama, but early on developed an obsession with Italian culture and food that saw him emigrate to Florence, where he absorbed the language, the culture and the cooking. He later moved to Sardinia and focused on seafood, before stints in other parts of Italy, and eventually the Micronesian island of Saipan (yup). What do you get with this guy? Presumably, Italian soul and Japanese efficiency. And now heâs in Canary Wharfâs South Quay and weâre very happy to have him...
Certainly you deserve better but this is the best I could do handheld with limited light during my lunch break.
The frost hanging is about the same length as my pinky's fingernail. But as you know, one little snowflake with ten trillion of its cousins makes for quite the shovel full. The same is true of hoar frost and its affect on trees, cars and anything else left outdoors during a winter fog.
I thought you might like to see what that pretty frost looks like up close.
View On Black (I can take a hint!)