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By a designer called Okami Kaguya. One of those models created in 3D program and unwrapped in pepakura designer. Looks like some fold lines were removed and quite tricky to glue some of the tabs. Also a lot of black cut lines were showings and trickiest part is the closing off which is at the body. Printed onto 160gsm and nightmare to assemble can be found on /po archives.
Intermediate level - basic patchwork with minimal or no hand stitching, simple one-fabric purse frames
1. Outside, 2. Pretty {little} purse swap front, 3. Pretty Little Pouch Swap 2011, 4. ... hmmm ..., 5. pretty little pouch received - front, 6. Pretty {little} pouch swap ~ Send!~, 7. P{L}PS2-Received!, 8. pretty {little} pouch., 9. Elephant pouch, 10. Alien pouch, 11. Gathered clutch, 12. PLP3 received (2), 13. Practice pouch, 14. Prince Charming. (Explored), 15. Little Coin Purses, 16. Emmy clutch and 6x3 frame bag
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Schools' Trash to Fashion Awards 2013, Auckland, NZ
Dazzle Category Winner (intermediate age)
Jessie Riddle, Wainui Primary School
Garment: "house" couture
Trash used: building wrap, silt stop material
Inspired by a gown displayed at Te Papa
Intermediate Egret stands in the remains of Bird Billabong. At the end of the dry season, what was once a huge billabong teeming with wildlife is now a shrunken pool.
2012 Sejong Institute: Spring term
Wednesday 25th January 2012
The courses are divided into three levels: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.
The Korean language course, the Sejong Institute, at the KCCUK, is a social education course that not only teaches the Korean language but also introduces Korean culture to students.
The course has been reinvigorated and re-modeled so that it now includes a wider introduction to all aspects of Korean Culture. Although still catering for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced learners of Korean the course is very different to what has gone before. These three new courses focus upon and explore contemporary Korean Culture through the language with modules including, cuisine, music, fashion, movies, society and working in Korea to name but a few.
Upon completing the course students are able to express themselves in Korean on a vast range of topics.
All our courses are Free, kindly supported by the Sejong Institute.
Edgy and wild was the look that was created when shiny black lycra and red sequin fabrics were combined.. Specialty sequin fabric was used as the accent and on the belt. A rhinestone buckle completed the look.
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos Order PASSERIFORMES - Family MIMIDAE
The "American nightingale," the Northern Mockingbird is known for its long, complex songs that include imitations of many other birds. It is a common bird of hedgerows and suburbs, and has been slowly expanding its range northward.
Description
Medium-sized songbird.
Long tail.
Pale gray above, whitish below.
Bill thin.
Two white wingbars.
Large white patches show in wings in flight.
White outer tail feathers.
Size: 21-26 cm (8-10 in)
Wingspan: 31-35 cm (12-14 in)
Weight: 45-58 g (1.59-2.05 ounces)
Sex Differences
Sexes look alike.
Sound
Song is a series of varied phrases, with each phrase repeated many times in a row. Includes much mimicry of other bird songs and calls. Call a harsh dry "chew."
Conservation Status
Common and widespread. Populations may be declining in heart of the range, but range is expanding northward.
Other Names
Moqueur polyglotte (French)
Centzontle, Jilguero, Ruiseñor (Spanish)
Cool Facts
The Northern Mockingbird frequently gives a "wing flash" display, where it half or fully opens its wings in jerky intermediate steps, showing off the big white patches. No one knows why it does this behavior, but some have suggested that it startles insects into revealing themselves. However, it does not appear to flush insects, and other mockingbird species that do not have white wing patches use the display, casting doubt on this idea.
The Northern Mockingbird is a loud and persistent singer. It sings all through the day, and often into the night. Most nocturnal singers are unmated males, which sing more than mated males during the day too. Nighttime singing is more common during the full moon. In well-lit areas around people, even mated males may sing at night.
A Northern Mockingbird continues to add new sounds to its song repertoire throughout its life.
The Northern Mockingbird typically sings throughout most of the year, from February through August, and again from September to early November. A male may have two distinct repertoires of songs: one for spring and another for fall. One study found only a one percent overlap in song types used in spring and fall.
The female Northern Mockingbird sings too, although usually more quietly than the male does. She rarely sings in the summer, usually only when the male is away from the territory. She sings more in the fall, perhaps to establish a winter territory.
Sources used to construct this page:
Derrickson, K. C., and R. Breitwisch. 1992. Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos). In The Birds of North America, No. 7 (A. Poole, P. Stettenheim, and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.
Hayslette, S. E. 2003. A test of the foraging function of wing-flashing in northern mockingbirds. Southeastern Naturalist 2:93-98.
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Buick's intermediate Special and Skylark were slightly facelifted for 1965. The Special and upmarket Skylark offered 4-door sedans, wagons, 2-door "Sport Coupe" hardtops and 2-door sedans (marketed by Buick as "thin pillar coupes"). The Buick 225 V6 with 155 HP was standard, the 300 V8 optional (310 HP 2-barrel with regular fuel, 355 HP 4-barrel with premium).
This model has no front fender V8 badging, being a standard 225 V6. 13,828 Special 2-door sedans built with V6, 8,121 with V8, with factory delivered retail prices at $2,292 (V6) and $2,362 (V8).
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The Cripple Creek Gold District of central Colorado is famous for its unusual gold and silver mineralization. Precious metal mineralization occurs in the Cripple Creek Diatreme, the root zone of a deeply eroded volcano dating to the Early Oligocene (32 Ma). The dominant lithology at Cripple Creek is phonolite, a scarce, alkaline, intermediate, extrusive igneous rock. Cripple Creek gold can be found in its native state (Au), but it typically occurs in the form of gold telluride minerals: for example, calaverite - AuTe2, sylvanite - (Au,Ag)2Te4, petzite - Ag3AuTe2, krennerite - (Au,Ag)Te2, and nagyagite - Pb5Au(Sb,Bi)Te2S6). Silver also occurs in some Cripple Creek minerals, including sylvanite, petzite, krennerite, hessite - Ag2Te, tennantite - (Cu,Ag,Fe,Zn)12As4S13, acanthite - Ag2S, and argentian tetrahedrite - (Cu,Fe,Ag,Zn)12Sb4S13.
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The following are my personal notes from a 2007 presentation on Cripple Creek geology by mine representative Tim Brown:
The Cripple Creek District has four different pits being mined now, including the main Cresson Pit. The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company is an AngloGold Ashanti joint venture operation. The heart of the mining district is a 32 Ma diatreme. It erupted along a major structural feature - through deep cracks in a big shear zone along a syenite-augen gneiss contact.
Some Precambrian rocks occur in the diatreme.
There are three eruptive sub-basins to this diatreme - one in the north, one in the south, and one in the southwest. The diatreme consists of volcanic breccias and phonolites and lamprophyre breccias. The lamprophyre breccia is relatively small, but the margins have produced 2.5 million ounces of gold.
Types of gold mineralization in the Cripple Creek District:
1) Lamprophyre breccia-hosted gold mineralization - 2.5 million ounces of gold (Cresson Mine).
2) Au-Te rich, sheeted vein system - 4.3 million ounces of gold (Portland-Independence Mine).
3) Au-hydrothermal breccias
Most Cripple Creek rocks are phonolites (earlier intrusions) and trachytes. All are on the alkaline side of extrusive rock classification. Later intrusions are mafic. Finally, there are ultramafic lamprophyres.
When gold is poured here, ~30% of each button is silver.
The Cripple Creek diatreme is 4.3 miles in size, in an east-west direction, and 4 miles across in a north-south direction. Some of the old underground workings along the gold telluride vein systems reached down to 3000’ depth.
Structural features in the diatreme are probably related to the Rio Grande Rift.
This was an active volcano at one time.
There are lots of north-south trending veins & northeast-southwest trending veins here.
The district was discovered in 1891. It’s been producing gold for 110 years.
Geochemistry of altered & mineralized rocks in the Cripple Creek District - can see a characteristic enrichment of a certain suite of elements (Au, Te, Ag, Sb, W), especially gold. A similar pattern is seen in alkaline districts elsewhere. Ca, Na, Cs were systematically depleted. Mo is systematically enriched in all the mineralized zones. Other base metals have an erratic enrichment-depletion pattern.
High-grade gold ore rocks here are always associated with potassic alteration. But not all K-altered rocks have high-grade gold ore.
There are NE trends, E-W trends, N-S trends, and NW trends in the Cripple Creek area. On a resistivity map, can readily see the Cripple Creek Diatreme boundary.
Can also readily see the diatreme outline on a magnetic signature map, plus the syenite-augen gneiss boundary, trending northeast.
Gravity maps show ENE trends and a strong N-S trend (gravity low), which extends under Precambrian rocks at the surface.
Currently, gold mining at Cripple Creek is in surface pits. They may end up going underground to the diatreme pipe, below the already worked area.
Have drilled 3500’ down - not much gold, but did find carbonized wood! The carbonized log is though to have been originally a tree caught up in an eruption by the Cripple Creek Volcano, and got incorporated in the diatreme breccia.
300,000 ounces of gold per year is produced here. They’ve just passed the 3 millionth ounce of gold for the district.
Porphyritic phonolite bodies here have narrow rooted zones and they spread out above the root zones.
The mining area mostly has near-vertical features. There are some flat-lying sills.
There are syenite bodies in the diatreme - they are not exposed at the surface - they are pretty broken up.
An aphanitic phonolite dike, the Bluebird Dike, is in the main Cresson Pit.
There are 3 to 4 old, very long drain tunnels that kept the original subsurface mines free of water. Those mines tracked productive veins. The tunnels come out in the Squaw Gulch area. So, no water problems in the present mines.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt shut down the Cripple Creek District at one time - all nonessential mining was stopped during World War II.
The lamprophyre breccia body bifurcates at depth - it has a pair of pant legs.
Drill holes through the pant legs didn’t have much gold, but they are only small pinprick drill holes. Would like to redrill them.
Current pit operations - expect to bottom out at 1000’-1200’ depth. The expected life of the current mine is to 2012.
Old underground workings consistently go through the gradient between low & high resistivity areas.
Au:Ag ratios in the area range from 1:1 to 10:1.
The average grade of gold ore here is 2/3 of a ppm.
The modern land surface is ~100 to 1000-2000 meters below the level of the original active volcanic surface.
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Geologic unit: Cripple Creek Diatreme, Early Oligocene, 32 Ma
Locality: high wall of the Cresson Pit, north of the town of Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, southern Teller County, central Colorado, USA
2012-02-26
(#391) Aerangis luteoalba var. rhodosticta
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The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret or (in the Old World) great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret, with four subspecies found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world. It builds tree nests in colonies close to water.
Like all egrets, it is a member of the heron family, Ardeidae. Traditionally classified with the storks in the Ciconiiformes, the Ardeidae are closer relatives of pelicans and belong in the Pelecaniformes instead. The great egret—unlike the typical egrets—does not belong to the genus Egretta but together with the great herons is today placed in Ardea. In the past, however, it was sometimes placed in Egretta or separated in a monotypic genus Casmerodius.
The Old World population is often referred to as the great white egret. This species is sometimes confused with the great white heron of the Caribbean, which is a white morph of the closely related great blue heron.
The scientific name comes from Latin ardea "heron", and alba, "white".
The great egret is a large heron with all-white plumage. Standing up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, this species can measure 80 to 104 cm (31 to 41 in) in length and have a wingspan of 131 to 170 cm (52 to 67 in). Body mass can range from 700 to 1,500 g (1.5 to 3.3 lb), with an average of around 1,000 g (2.2 lb). It is thus only slightly smaller than the great blue or grey heron (A. cinerea). Apart from size, the great egret can be distinguished from other white egrets by its yellow bill and black legs and feet, though the bill may become darker and the lower legs lighter in the breeding season. In breeding plumage, delicate ornamental feathers are borne on the back. Males and females are identical in appearance; juveniles look like non-breeding adults. Differentiated from the intermediate egret (Mesophoyx intermedius) by the gape, which extends well beyond the back of the eye in case of the great egret, but ends just behind the eye in case of the intermediate egret.
It has a slow flight, with its neck retracted. This is characteristic of herons and bitterns, and distinguishes them from storks, cranes, ibises, and spoonbills, which extend their necks in flight. The great egret walks with its neck extended and wings held close. The great egret is not normally a vocal bird; it gives a low hoarse croak when disturbed, and at breeding colonies, it often gives a loud croaking cuk cuk cuk and higher-pitched squawks.