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Thanks to the Nailbourne project, I now understand how the communities and landscape fots in along its length, though that a bubbling noisy stream can just vanish then appear miles away is very difficult to get your head round. The Nailbourne only fully flows in very wet years, but when it does, the beds that are dry now can be several feet deep.
But downstream of Littlebourne, where the Nailbourne becomes the Little Stour, it is wider, about six feet wide, clogged with reeds and weeds, but also was used to power to large mills. They both stand, one between Littlebourne and Wickhambreaux, and the other in Wickhambreaux itself, though is now just a house But is a large white clapboard building, with a large wheel.
These days, the village looks very prosperous, all grand houses or cottage conversions.
From here, the Little Stour makes its way over the marshes which centuries ago was the Wantsum Channel, so Wickhambreaux was almost a seaside town.
Od that the only features I remembered from my previous visits was the avenue of pollarded trees and the blue ceiling of the roof. Missed was the glorious glass, especially the fine east window, very art deco.
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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).
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WICKHAM BREAUS
LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.
Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.
At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:
In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.
Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.
Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.
Charities.
Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.
Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.
John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.
Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.
Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.
There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.
This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.
¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.
This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.
There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)
This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.
The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.
FLATware at Floor Length and Tux
November 17th, 2012
4125 W. Melrose St.
Chicago IL 60641
FLATware was the christening of the new Floor Length and Tux location. All previous FLAT participants were invited to present a "plate".
Jon Bollo, EC Brown, Matty Colston, Meg Duguid, Jacob C. Hammes, Chris Hefner, Brandon Heuser, Chuck Jones, Angela Lopez, Liz Nielsen, Stephen Nyktas, Catie Olson, Jonathan Ozik, Danielle Paz, Cole Pierce, Frank Pollard, Dawn Reed, Kristen Romaniszak, Julie Rudder, Kendrick Shackleford, Edra Soto, Bj Vogt, Carl Warnick, Brett Williams
Belle has been fully deboxed. Belle can free stand due to the stiffness of her full length inner skirt. But she isn't fully stable that way, so for all but the first few photos of her fully deboxed, I use a Kaiser stand to support her.
Detailed photos of the Belle and Gaston Doll Set, the second release of this year's Disney Fairytale Designer Collection. I got them from the store raffle on the release day of Tuesday September 20, 2016. They are #853 of 6000. As of Friday September 23, they are still available online, and in many stores.
I have not deboxed them yet, but show them in the display case, with the covers both on and off. I will add further photos when I debox them.
Belle and Gaston Doll Set - Beauty and the Beast - Disney Fairytale Designer Collection
$129.95
Item No. 6003040901407P
US Disney Store
Released in store 2016-09-20
Released online 2016-09-21
Purchased in store 2016-09-20
#853 of 6000
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The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia. It is the world's 12th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia. Its estimated length is 4,350 km, and it drains an area of 795,000 km2, discharging 457 km3 of water annually.
From the Tibetan Plateau the river runs through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. In 1995, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam established the Mekong River Commission to assist in the management and coordinated use of the Mekong's resources. In 1996 China and Myanmar became "dialogue partners" of the MRC and the six countries now work together within a cooperative framework.
The extreme seasonal variations in flow and the presence of rapids and waterfalls in the Mekong make navigation difficult. Even so, the river is a major trade route between western China and Southeast Asia.
NAMES
In English the river is called the "Mekong River", derived from "Mae Nam Khong", a term of both Thai and Lao origin. In the Lao-Thai toponymy, "rivers" translates to "mother of water", signalled by the prefix "mae", meaning "mother", and "nam" for water. In the Mekong's case, Mae Nam Khong means "khong, the mother of water". Many northern Thai and Laos locals refer to it as the "River Khong". Such is the case with the Mae Nam Ping in Chiang Mai which is known as the "Ping River". The Tonle Sap in Cambodia is a similar example, where tonle translates as "great lake" or "great river", making the Tonle Sap River an unnecessary repetition of what is in fact the "Sap River". In Khmer language, Mékôngk means "mother of water" translated as Mé "Mother" and kôngk for kôngkea "water".
COURSE
The Mekong rises as the Za Qu and soon becomes known as the Lancang (Lantsang) in the "Three Rivers Source Area" on the Tibetan Plateau in the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve; the reserve protects the headwaters of, from north to south, the Yellow (Huang He), the Mekong, and the Yangtze Rivers. It flows through the Tibetan Autonomous Region and then southeast into Yunnan Province, and then through the Three Parallel Rivers Area in the Hengduan Mountains, along with the Yangtze to its east and the Salween River (Nujiang in Chinese) to its west.
The Mekong then meets the tripoint of China, Myanmar and Laos. From there it flows southwest and forms the border of Myanmar and Laos for about 100 kilometres until it arrives at the tripoint of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This is also the point of confluence between the Ruak River (which follows the Thai-Myanmar border) and the Mekong. The area of this tripoint is sometimes termed the Golden Triangle, although the term also refers to the much larger area of those three countries that is notorious as a drug producing region.
From the Golden Triangle tripoint, the Mekong turns southeast to briefly form the border of Laos with Thailand. It then turns east into the interior of Laos, flowing first east and then south for some 400 kilometres before meeting the border with Thailand again. Once more, it defines the Laos-Thailand border for some 850 kilometres as it flows first east, passing in front of the capital of Laos, Vientiane, then turns south. A second time, the river leaves the border and flows east into Laos soon passing the city of Pakse. Thereafter, it turns and runs more or less directly south, crossing into Cambodia.
At Phnom Penh the river is joined on the right bank by the river and lake system the Tonlé Sap. When the Mekong is low, the Tonle Sap is a tributary; water flows from the lake and river into the Mekong. When the Mekong floods, the flow reverses; the floodwaters of the Mekong flow up the Tonle Sap.
Immediately after the Sap River joins the Mekong by Phnom Penh, the Bassac River branches off the right (west) bank. The Bassac River is the first and main distributary of the Mekong; thus, this is the beginning of the Mekong Delta. The two rivers, the Bassac to the west and the Mekong to the east, enter Vietnam very soon after this. In Vietnam, the Bassac is called the Hậu River (Sông Hậu or Hậu Giang); the main, eastern, branch of the Mekong is called the Tiền River or Tiền Giang. In Vietnam, distributaries of the eastern (main, Mekong) branch include the Mỹ Tho River, the Ba Lai River, the Hàm Luông River, and the Cổ Chiên River.
DRAINAGE BASIN
The Mekong Basin can be divided into two parts: the 'Upper Mekong Basin' in Tibet of China, and the 'Lower Mekong Basin' from Yunnan downstream from China to the South China Sea. From the point where it rises to its mouth, the most precipitous drop in the Mekong occurs in Upper Mekong Basin, a stretch of some 2,200 km. Here, it drops 4,500 metres before it enters the Lower Basin where the borders of Thailand, Laos, China and Myanmar come together in the Golden Triangle. Downstream from the Golden Triangle, the river flows for a further 2,600 km through Laos, Thailand and Cambodia before entering the South China Sea via a complex delta system in Vietnam.
UPPER BASIN
The Upper Basin makes up 24 percent of the total area and contributes 15 to 20 percent of the water that flows into the Mekong River. The catchment here is steep and narrow. Soil erosion has been a major problem and approximately 50 percent of the sediment in the river comes from the Upper Basin.
In Yunnan province in China, the river and its tributaries are confined by narrow, deep gorges. The tributary river systems in this part of the basin are small. Only 14 have catchment areas that exceed 1,000 km2, yet the greatest amount of loss of forest cover in the entire river system per square kilometer has occurred in this region due to heavy unchecked demand for natural resources. In the south of Yunnan, in Simao and Xishuangbanna Prefectures, the river changes as the valley opens out, the floodplain becomes wider, and the river becomes wider and slower.
LOWER BASIN
Major tributary systems develop in the Lower Basin. These systems can be separated into two groups: tributaries that contribute to the major wet season flows, and tributaries that drain low relief regions of lower rainfall. The first group are left bank tributaries that drain the high-rainfall areas of Lao PDR. The second group are those on the right bank, mainly the Mun and Chi rivers, that drain a large part of northeast Thailand.
Laos lies almost entirely within the Lower Mekong Basin. Its climate, landscape and land use are the major factors shaping the hydrology of the river. The mountainous landscape means that only 16 percent of the country is farmed under lowland terrace or upland shifting cultivation. With upland shifting agriculture (slash and burn), soils recover within 10 to 20 years but the vegetation does not. Shifting cultivation is common in the uplands of Northern Laos and is reported to account for as much as 27 percent of the total land under rice cultivation. As elsewhere in the basin, forest cover has been steadily reduced during the last three decades by shifting agriculture and permanent agriculture. The cumulative impacts of these activities on the river regime have not been measured. However, the hydrological impacts of land-cover changes induced by the Vietnam War were quantified in two sub-catchments of the Lower Mekong River Basin.
Loss of forest cover in the Thai areas of the Lower Basin has been the highest in all the Lower Mekong countries over the past 60 years. On the Khorat Plateau, which includes the Mun and Chi tributary systems, forest cover was reduced from 42 percent in 1961 to 13 percent in 1993. Although this part of northeast Thailand has an annual rainfall of more than 1,000 mm, a high evaporation rate means it is classified as a semi-arid region. Consequently, although the Mun and Chi Basins drain 15 percent of the entire Mekong Basin, they only contribute six percent of the average annual flow. Sandy and saline soils are the most common soil types, which makes much of the land unsuitable for wet rice cultivation. In spite of poor fertility, however, agriculture is intensive. Glutinous rice, maize and cassava are the principal crops. Drought is by far the major hydrological hazard in this region.
As the Mekong enters Cambodia, over 95 percent of the flows have already joined the river. From here on downstream the terrain is flat and water levels rather than flow volumes determine the movement of water across the landscape. The seasonal cycle of changing water levels at Phnom Penh results in the unique "flow reversal" of water into and out of the Great Lake via the Tonle Sap River. Phnom Penh also marks the beginning of the delta system of the Mekong River. Here the mainstream begins to break up into an increasing number of branches.
In Cambodia, wet rice is the main crop and is grown on the flood plains of the Tonle Sap, Mekong, and Bassac (the Mekong delta distributary known as the Hậu in Vietnam) Rivers. More than half of Cambodia remains covered with mixed evergreen and deciduous broadleaf forest, but forest cover has decreased from 73 percent in 1973 to 63 percent in 1993. Here, the river landscape is flat. Small changes in water level determine the direction of water movement, including the large-scale reversal of flow into and out of the Tonle Sap basin from the Mekong River.
The Mekong delta in Vietnam is farmed intensively and has little natural vegetation left. Forest cover is less than 10 percent. In the Central Highlands of Vietnam, forest cover was reduced from over 95 percent in the 1950s to around 50 percent in the mid-1990s. Agricultural expansion and population pressure are the major reasons for land use and landscape change. Both drought and flood are common hazards in the Delta, which many people believe is the most sensitive to upstream hydrological change.
WATER FLOW ALONG ITS COURSE
By taking into account hydrological regimes, physiography land use, and existing, planned and potential resource developments, the Mekong is divided into six distinct reaches:Reach 1: Lancang Jiang or Upper Mekong River in China. In this part of the river, the major source of water flowing into the river comes from melting snow on the Tibetan Plateau. This volume of water is sometimes called the “Yunnan Component” and plays an important role in the low-flow hydrology of the lower mainstream. Even as far downstream as Kratie, the Yunnan Component makes up almost 30 percent of the average dry season flow. A major concern is that the ongoing and planned expansion of dams and reservoirs on the Mekong mainstream in Yunnan could have a significant effect on the low-flow regime of the Lower Mekong Basin system.
Reach 2: Chiang Saen to Vientiane and Nong Khai. This reach is almost entirely mountainous and covered with natural forest, although there has been widespread slash and burn agriculture. Although this reach could hardly be described as "unspoiled", the hydrological response is perhaps the most natural and undisturbed in all the Lower Basin. Many hydrological aspects of the Lower Basin start to change rapidly at the downstream boundary of this reach.
Reach 3: Vientiane and Nong Khai to Pakse. The boundary between Reach 2 and 3 is where the Mekong hydrology starts to change. Reach 2 is dominated in both wet and dry seasons by the Yunnan Component. Reach 3 is increasingly influenced by contributions from the large left bank tributaries in Laos, namely the Nam Ngum, Nam Theun, Nam Hinboun, Se Bang Fai, Se Bang Hieng, and Se Done rivers. The Mun-Chi river system from the right bank in Thailand enters the mainstream within this reach.
Reach 4: Pakse to Kratie. The main hydrological contributions to the mainstream in this reach come from the Se Kong, Se San, and Sre Pok catchments. Together, these rivers make up the largest hydrological sub-component of the Lower Basin. Over 25 percent of the mean annual flow volume to the mainstream at Kratie comes from these three river basins. They are the key element in the hydrology of this part of the system, especially to the Tonle Sap flow reversal.
Reach 5: Kratie to Phnom Penh. This reach includes the hydraulic complexities of the Cambodian floodplain, the Tonle Sap and the Great Lake. By this stage, over 95 percent of the total flow has entered the Mekong system. The focus turns from hydrology and water discharge to the assessment of water level, over- bank storage and flooding and the hydrodynamics that determine the timing, duration and volume of the seasonal flow reversal into and out of the Great Lake.
Reach 6: Phnom Penh to the South China Sea. Here the mainstream divides into a complex and increasingly controlled and artificial system of branches and canals. Key features of flow behaviour are tidal influences and salt water intrusion. Every year, 35–50 percent of this reach is flooded during the rainy season. The impact of road embankments and similar infrastructure developments on the movement of this flood water is an increasingly important consequence of development.
Flows at Chiang Saen entering the Lower Basin from Yunnan make up about 15 percent of the wet season flow at Kratie. This rises to 40 percent during the dry season, even this far downstream. During the wet season, the proportion of average flow coming from Yunnan rapidly decreases downstream of Chiang Saen, from 70 percent to less than 20 percent at Kratie. The dry season contribution from Yunnan is much more significant. The major portion of the balance comes from Laos, which points to a major distinction in the low-flow hydrology of the river. One fraction comes from melting snow in China and Tibet and the rest from over-season catchment storage in the Lower Basin. This has implications for the occurrence of drought conditions. For example, if runoff from melting snow in any given year is very low, then flows upstream of Vientiane-Nong Khai would be lower.
In a large river system like the Mekong, seasonal flows can be quite variable from year to year. Although the pattern of the annual hydrograph is fairly predictable, its magnitude is not. The average monthly flows along the mainstream are listed in Table 3, providing an indication of their range and variability from year to year. At Pakse, for example, flood season flows during August would exceed 20,000 cubic metres per second 9 years out of 10, but exceed 34,000 m³/s only 1 year in ten.
RIVER MODIFICATIONS
The Mekong is already heavily dammed, with many more dams planned and under construction. China has already built 6 dams on the Mekong since 1995, and plans another 14 dams in the coming years. Downriver countries such as Laos are planning to build an additional 11 large dams on the Mekong, making it the fastest growing large river basin in the world in terms of hydropower construction.
NATURAL HISTORY
The Mekong basin is one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. Only the Amazon boasts a higher level of biodiversity. Biota estimates for the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) include 20,000 plant species, 430 mammals, 1,200 birds, 800 reptiles and amphibians, and an estimated 850 freshwater fish species (excluding euryhaline species mainly found in salt or brackish water, as well as introduced species). The most species richness orders among the freshwater fish in the river basin are cypriniforms (377 species) and catfish (92 species). New species are regularly described from the Mekong. In 2009, 145 new species were described from the region, comprising 29 fish species previously unknown to science, 2 new bird species, 10 reptiles, 5 mammals, 96 plants and 6 new amphibians. The Mekong Region contains 16 WWF Global 200 ecoregions, the greatest concentration of ecoregions in mainland Asia. No other river is home to so many species of very large fish. The biggest include three species of Probarbus babs, which can grow up to 1.5 metres and weigh 70 kilograms, the giant freshwater stingray (Himantura polylepis, syn. H. chaophraya), which can have a length of up to 4.3 metres, the giant pangasius (Pangasius sanitwongsei), giant barb (Catlocarpio siamensis) and the endemic Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas). The last three can grow up to about 3 metres in length and weigh 300 kilograms. All of these are in serious decline, because of dams, flood control and overfishing.
One species of freshwater dolphin, the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris), was once common in the whole of the Lower Mekong but is now very rare, with only 85 individuals remaining.
Among other wetland mammals that have been living in and around the river are the smooth-coated otter (Lutra perspicillata) and fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus).
The endangered Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) occurs in small isolated pockets within the northern Cambodian and Laotian portions of the Mekong River. The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) once ranged from the Mekong Delta up the river into Tonle Sap and beyond but is now extinct in the river, along with being extinct in all of Vietnam and possibly even Cambodia.
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學 名:Terpsiphone atrocaudata (Eyton)
英 名: Japanese Paradise-flycatcher
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The Japanese Paradise-flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata), also called the Black Paradise-flycatcher, is mainly migratory and breeds in shady mature deciduous or evergreen broadleaf forest of Japan (southern Honshū, Shikoku, Kyushu and the Nansei Shoto islands), South Korea, Taiwan (including Lanyu island) and the far north Philippines. It is a non-breeding visitor to mainland China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Sumatra, Indonesia.
There are three subspecies, the nominate T. a. atrocaudata which breeds through most of Japanese/Korean range, T. a. illex which is resident in the Ryukyu Islands, and T. a. periophthalmica restricted to Lanyu Island off southeast Taiwan.
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Quite possibly the most remarkable street in all Norwich, St Benedict's Street boasts 5 mediaeval churches within its short 500 metre length, and all of them either ruined or redundant.
St Laurence is easy to miss, quite a feat for a huge church; you approach the porch down some steep steps. I met who I thought was an old lady climbing down, but she turned out to be one of the volunteers, and she could remember the light and the glory of the church when in use.
Inside it is a vast empty space, empty except for a simple aluminium framed greenhouse in the middle of the nave. It was explained this was for the use of locals who used the space to grow seedlings, although to my eyes it hadn't been used for some years.
The fittings and furnishings are faded, and the roof looks to be in a worrying state, but after climbing the steep steps to the altar to look back west, it must have been a fine church in its day.
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One of the staggering experiences of the church explorer in Norwich is the sheer proximity of one church to another. In a little over four hundred yards, you can walk past five redundant medieval churches in the length of St Benedict's Street alone, from the back of St Gregory to the ruin of St Benedict itself. One of these churches, St Swithin, is now the Norwich Arts Centre, while St Gregory and St Margaret have occasional uses for exhibitions and concerts.
That leaves St Laurence, the biggest of the five, a grand and prominent landmark now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust; without their loving care it would be little more than a rotting corpse. As it is, it is quite the biggest empty shell in the middle of Norwich.
It was not always so, of course. This was one of half a dozen large city centre churches completely rebuilt during the 15th century. It took about sixty years, but nevertheless St Laurence is all of a piece, a textbook Perpendicular church. From St Benedict's Street it is not immediately clear quite how vast this building is; it is the third biggest medieval church in Norwich after St Peter Mancroft and St Andrew, bigger even than St Stephen. The clerestory is 12 windows long, and the mighty tower almost 120 feet high.
It is more imposing from Westwick Street, standing high above the street like a fortress. For pedestrians coming into central Norwich from Coslany, it is like a gateway to the city, far more impressive than the city walls. The spired stair turret on the tower is castle-like, especially in George Plunkett's 1938 images.
One of the most interesting aspects of the exterior is the west doorway, easily missed and seen only from the narrow St Laurence's Passage. The spandrils feature two exquisitely carved martyrdoms, quite undamaged by time or the hand of iconoclasts. One is that of St Laurence himself, and shows him tied to the gridiron while the fire is prepared (St Laurence being the patron saint of those who cook on barbecues) , and the other is of St Edmund shot full of arrows. You can see them on the left.
Above the passage, the great tower's height is accentuated by the narrowness of the gap to its left. And the unbroken length of the nave and chancel is so high, too; the north side drops away to Westwick Street, and the floor takes this as its level. You step down a flight of stairs into the south porch, which is otherwise hard against the street, thanks to widening for trams in the late 19th century, and then through a 15th century door down into the church itself..
The sheer scale of this building is only apparent once you are inside. The roof seems absurdly high, the 1490s hammerbeam roof lost far off in the shadows. The arcades are less elegant than forceful, and the unbroken line, with no chancel arch, marches purposefully eastward.
This is all accentuated by the fact that St Laurence is pretty much completely empty. Almost, but not quite. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, St Laurence underwent an extraordinary makeover.
In a city renowned for the excesses of its Anglo-Catholic churches, this was among the highest of the high. The sanctuary had always been raised above the level of the chancel because it goes over a large vault, shown in the old engraving on the left, as at Tunstead. But here the entire easterly third of the building was elevated by the late Victorians into a great platform, a flight of steps leading through a stone screen and then again to the sanctuary, until the altar was fully twelve feet above the floor of the nave.
George Plunkett's 1938 image shows the interior with Victorian benches and a passageway accentuating the view east.
The altar and reredos are now gone, but the painted panels that flanked them survive. They depict angels and Saints, but the most curious thing about them is that all the faces are drawn from the life, little Edwardian boys and youths cloaked out in contemporary clothes, but wearing nimbuses and holding gilded symbols, and older men with wings and in armour. It is all at once grotesque and fascinating. The reredos they flanked was the Parish war memorial, so they may be even later than they appear. The screen to the north aisle chapel has panels painted in a similarly naive manner. I strove to understand what it was that had possessed people to do this, but I could not.
There is a 15th century font contemporary with the rebuilding of the church, and a scattering of medieval glass has been built into an abstract design in the north aisle chapel. There were brasses, but these were removed; first to St Peter Hungate, and then into storage when the museum there closed.
St Laurence was one of the 24 Norwich churches recommended for demolition by the Brooke Report, a shocking possibility that galvanised Lady Harrod and others into forming the Norfolk Churches Trust to defeat the philistines. Under the circumstances, it seems ungrateful for us not to actually do anything with the place. My friend Tom tells me that this church has a wonderful acoustic, and in truth it is hard to see it ever having any use other than for performance or liturgy - it is simply too big for conversion into anything else. Its shell is recognised today as a vital part of the Norwich townscape, and that at least is now safe for future generations; but will it ever again be anything more than a shell?
Simon Knott, November 2005
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St Lawrence’s has a very dramatic site: owing to the steep slope down to the river, on its south side, it stands several feet below street level, but on the north, an equal height above it!
St Lawrence was a deacon in 3rd century Rome, who was martyred by being roasted alive on a gridiron.
The most notable feature of the exterior is the unique profile of the tower, with its corner turret. This very un-East Anglian feature dates from the restoration of the church in 1893. The tower itself is 112 feet high. The nave and chancel with their clerestorey run without a break under one roof. The clerestorey is faced with freestone. There is a very prominent rood stair turret on the south side, which marks the division between nave and chancel.. The west door has two carved spandrels: one of St Lawrence being roasted on a gridiron, and the other of the martyrdom of St Edmund: the Abbey at Bury St Edmund’s was the original patron of the church. The south door is the original mediæval one.
The church has long since been stripped of its furnishings, and now stands as an impressive empty space, flooded with light from the great windows and the clerestorey. With the exception of the font, which is of the 15th century, all the fittings were of late 19th or early 20th century date.
These fittings include the flight of seven steps up to the altar, and the reredos, which is a war memorial of 1921. It includes painted panels by Kingston Rudd, though inspection will reveal that many of them are unfinished, and so have a rather ’impressionistic’ effect. The figure painting is very much of the period.
The nave and chancel are in fact divided internally, which may indicate that the continuous clerestorey is a later addition. The nave pillars are octagonal, with rounded angles, and their capitals are wavy.
The roof is well seen from inside, and dates from 1498. There is some mediæval stained glass in a mosaic in the east window of the south aisle.
There were several brasses, but these have been removed to storage. On the east wall of the north aisle, however, is a brass plaque of 1891 to the memory of Sarah Glover, inventor of the Norwich Sol-fa, on which the later Tonic Sol-fa (‘doh, ray, me …’) was based; her father was curate here from 1811 to 1827. Sarah died in 1867, at Great Malvern, where she is buried.
The church was a centre of controversy in 1863, when the Rector, Edwin Hillyard, allowed ‘Father Ignatius’ (Joseph Leycester Lyne) and his ‘monks’, who had a house on Elm Hill, to take part in the services. The services were conducted in an extremely Ritualistic manner, with candles, incense, and vestments – all virtually unknown in the Church of England at this time. Large crowds attended for the spectacle, and there were riots in the street outside. Ignatius left Norwich in 1865, but Hillyard stayed until 1876. By then, the classical style reredos had been removed, and also the box pews (chopped up one night by Ignatius and his cohorts), and the altar steps and the screens inserted.
After Hillyard left, the church went into a decline, and was united with St Gregory in 1903; it was finally closed in 1968. After many years of uncertainty about its future, it came under the care of the Churches’ Conservation Trust in 19....
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As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person. Proverbs 27:19 (New Living Translation)
As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man. Proverbs 27:19 (English Standard Version)
As in water face answereth to face,.... As water is as a looking glass, in which a man may behold his own face and another's; or as the face in the water answers to the face of a man, and there is a great likeness between them. All things through water appear greater, as Seneca (m) observes, and so more clear and plain;
so the heart of man to man; one man's heart may be seen and discerned in some measure by another, as by his countenance; for though, as the poet (n) says, "frontis nulla fides", yet the countenance is often the index of the mind, though not an infallible one; wrath and anger in the breast may be seen in the face, as were in Cain's; thus Jacob saw some resentment at him in the mind of Laban, and judged he had some design of mischief against him by the change of his countenance; also what is in the heart of man is discerned by what comes out of it, by his words, and also by his actions; yea, a man may know in a good measure what is in another man's heart, by what he finds in his own: the word of God is a glass, or medium of vision, and like water, in which a man's face is seen, through which a man sees his own heart; the law is a glass, in which an enlightened person sees not only the perfections of God, the nature of righteousness, but also his sin, and the sinfulness of it; this glass mother magnifies nor multiplies his sins, but sets them in a true light before him, by which he discerns heart sins, and sees and knows the plague of his heart; and the Gospel is a glass, wherein he beholds the glory of Christ, sees and can discern whether Christ is formed in him, and he has the grace of the Spirit of God wrought in his soul, as faith, hope, love, repentance, humility, self-denial, &c. moreover, as the face seen in the water is similar to a man's face, so the hearts of men are alike, not merely in a natural sense, see Psalm 33:15; but in a moral and spiritual sense the hearts of unregenerate men are alike, and answer to each other; for they are all equally corrupted, one and depraved; the heart of every man is desperately wicked; the imaginations of the thoughts of the hearts or wicked men, one and all of them, are only evil, and that continually; their affections are inordinately the same, they love and hate the same persons and things; their minds and consciences are all defiled; their understandings are darkened; their wills are averse to that which is good, and bent on that which is evil: and so the hearts of good men are alike; they have all one heart and one way given them; their experiences agree as to the work of grace and conversion; they are all made sensible of sin, the evil of it, and danger by it; they are all brought off of their own righteousness, and are led to Christ to depend on him alone for righteousness, pardon, and eternal life; they are partakers of the same promises in the Gospel, and have the same enemies to grapple with, and the same temptations, trials, and exercises from sin, Satan, and the world; and they have the same things put into their hearts, the laws of God, the doctrines of Christ, and the several graces of the Spirit of Christ; so that there cannot be a greater likeness between a man's face and that seen in the water, than there is between the heart of one saint and another; the hearts of Old and New Testament saints, and of all in all ages and places, answer to one another. The Targum paraphrases it to a sense quite the reverse,
"as waters and as faces which are not like one to another, so the hearts of the children of men are not like one to another;'' (Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible)
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FLATware at Floor Length and Tux
November 17th, 2012
4125 W. Melrose St.
Chicago IL 60641
FLATware was the christening of the new Floor Length and Tux location. All previous FLAT participants were invited to present a "plate".
Jon Bollo, EC Brown, Matty Colston, Meg Duguid, Jacob C. Hammes, Chris Hefner, Brandon Heuser, Chuck Jones, Angela Lopez, Liz Nielsen, Stephen Nyktas, Catie Olson, Jonathan Ozik, Danielle Paz, Cole Pierce, Frank Pollard, Dawn Reed, Kristen Romaniszak, Julie Rudder, Kendrick Shackleford, Edra Soto, Bj Vogt, Carl Warnick, Brett Williams
Camera: Nikon 1 J4
Aperture: f/2.5
Exposure: ¹⁄₁₀₀ sec at f/2.5
ISO: 800
Lens: 1 NIKKOR 18.5mm f/1.8
Focal Length: 18.5mm (49mm in 35mm equivalent)
ANSBACH, Germany - German and American civilian employees were honored for 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years of service to the U.S. Army in a ceremony prior to a Town hall here, Feb. 23 in the Katterbach Theater on Bismark Kaserne.
In total, the honored employees - coupled with those not present at the ceremony - have racked up more than 900 years of service in support of the U.S. Army.
Col. Benjamin Jones, commander of the U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach (USAG Ansbach), speaking to the more than 200 family members, fellow employees and well-wishers as well as the participants, highlighted the importance of the civilian workforce in supporting the Soldiers' missions, and what the many contributions they make to providing stability and quality of life services to service members stationed in the Ansbach and Illesheim communities.
"You're an outstanding credit to USAG Ansbach, and to the U.S. military in Europe." said Jones, "For me, our professional workforce in Ansbach - German and American - truly embodies the tenants of the Army's Civilian Creed: Dedication to our Army, our Soldiers and Civilians; support of the mission; and providing the stability and continuity that enable Soldiers to concentrate on their missions, which is of special importance to Soldiers serving overseas, where so much surrounding them can appear new and unfamiliar when they first arrive in country.
Jones was unstinting in his praise for the awardees. "We would be hard-pressed to complete the Army mission without you. Know that the Soldiers of this community rely on you, appreciate you, and everything you do in support of them, and their families."
Also in attendance were Ansbach Mayor Thomas Deffner and Burgermeister Heinrich Förster from Illesheim who presented certificates to honor the awardees.
5 Years of Service Award Recipients: AGUIRRE, ELVA / ELSTON, SHANE R. / HAYNES, MCKENDRIC L. / PAOLETTI, ROBIN E. / DILL, JAMES S. / FESTA, FRANCESCA / OVALLE, JORDANIA E. / SUMMERS, JESSICA L.
10 Years of Service Award Recipients: CORNMAN, DAVID K. GUNN, ESZTER MURILLO, JUAN F SOWDERS, BIANCA / GIRALDO, SABRINA L. / MAYLE, JAMES M. / PERSOUER, NATHALIE / WINCKOWSKI, NICOLE M.
15 Years of Service Award Recipients: ANDERSON, MICHAEL E. / KLEIN, ANITA / MORMAN, ANNETTE POEHLMANN, GUENTHER SEEFRIED, JUTTA / DEIKUN, TRACY L. / KOCH, MICHAEL / OETTINGER, DIETMAR / ROELL, RUDOLF
20 Years of Service Award Recipients: BECKER, PETER / SCHNEIDER, HARALD / STETTNER, REINHARD / DILLARD, STEVEN T. / SPRINGER, CHRISTOPHER
25 Years of Service Award Recipients: JONES, MARK / STINGLEY, QUINCY LEE
30 Years of Service Award Recipients: BERNHARD, VERA EULER / MICHAELA PELZMANN / THOMAS SCHNEIDER / BARBARA CROWLEY / BRIAN JOHN / MICHEL KARL-HEINZ / PRICE, CLAUDIA
35 Years of Service Award Recipients: BARCO, SIMON / ENGELS, WINFRIED / JOPP, GABRIELE / KALLERT, RUDOLF / MANN, JUERGEN / NAWRATIL, CLAUDIA / STEINBAUER, WALTRAUT / WINTER, JOSEF/ BURNS, MONIKA / FALK, UWE / JOPP, HEINZ / KORN, GUENTER / MARTIN, INES / NIESSER, HARALD / WEISSENBERGER, THOMAS
40 Years of Service Award Recipients: BAILEY, JOYCE / HORNEBER, WILHELM / REINHARDT KLAUS / TANZER ERICH / WITT, ALFRED / ZIETLER, HEINZ / BRUECKNER, RAINER / MILLET, JR., NORBERTO / SUMMERS, CORNELIA / TORRES, ELIEZER / WOERRLEIN, DIETER
Photo by Michael Beaton, U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach Public Affairs (RELEASED).
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Call for package pricing.
Discount on lift quanities.
Call for pricing for short lengths.
1x10 bevel 3-6'....................$ 0.49/ft
1x8 bevel 3-5' ..................... 0.39/ft
1x8 channel 3-5'................... 0.49/ft
1x6 channel 3-5' ...................0.29/ft
Std and Btr 1x Boards / lin ft
1x2 sis 2e cedar ...........................0.25
1x3 ...............................................0.32
1x4................................................0.49
1x6................................................0.59
1x8................................................0.89
1x10............................................. .1.15
1x12..............................................1.99
2+ BTR sis or s4s 2x Boards / lin ft
2x4 s4s Regal stk..........................0.85
2x4 sis fascia stk......................... 0.89
2x4 clear decking D and btr...........1.99
2x6 sis 2e 2+ btr............................1.59
2x6 select s4s Regal deck..............1.49
2x6 clear s4s d clear 8’ only..........2.69
2x6 c/ D clear ...................................3.55
2x6 s4s fascia falldown..................1.29
2x8 sis 2e.......................................2.29
2x8 select s4s deck .................... 1.75
2x8 s4s fascia falldown ............... 1.05
2x10 sis 2e.....................................2.99
2x10 s4s fascia falldown .............. 1.35
2x12 sis 2e ....................................3.95
2x12 s4s fascia falldown.............. 1.75
2x2 s4s clr 3, 3.5, 4, 6,..................0.59
2x2 s4s clr 8 +-20..........................0.89
4x4 select 8-14’s4s.......................2.59
4x4 select s4s 6’............................1.19
6x6 #1 appearance grade .............5.25
6x6 rgh #2 structural ....................3.99 (lift 3.49)
Beams in Rough Cut Call for $
Full Rough Cut Cedar and Fir Call for current pricing.
4x12 full rgh #1 Appearance fir.......6.75
Call / email for short pricing specials on clears
Decking:...8-16’............................/lin ft
5/4x4 CLEAR r/edge ......................0.95
5/4x4 architect knotty KD sanded.0.55
5/4x4 stk radius edge ...................0.55
5/4x6 stk radius edge....................1.09
5/4x5 stk radius edge...................0.82
5/4x6 CLEAR r/ edge......................1.89
Value grades: Siding /lin ft
1x6 stk bevel 14’............................0.55
1x8 paint grade bevel siding.......... 0.59
1x8 stk retrimmed bevel stk..........0.65
1x10 paint grade bevel.................. 0.79
1x10 stk retrimmed bevel .............0.89
1x8 paint grade channel.................0.79
1x8 stk retrimmed channel ..........0.89
1x8 select stk channel.....................1.09
*Custom siding runs are available call for costs.
Select Siding grades:
11/16x6 stk bevel..........................0.55
11/16x8 stk bevel..........................0.84
11/16x10 stk bevel........................1.15
1x10 Forest Siding kd.....................1.99 rabbetted back
3/4x10 Rgh face CLEAR..................2.19
1/2x6 clear kd bevel s/face...........1.15
1/2x6 clear 3’-10’ s/face ...................0.55
1/2x6 clr kd bevel s/face f/ joint 6-15’.... 0.55/ft
1/2x8 C clear s/face bevel 3’-7’ ....... 0.55/ft
1x6 shiplap cedar stk rgh face..........0.99/ft
Haida Skirl Call for $
Panelling Tonue and groove /lin ft
1x6 t@g pine kd SELECT.................0.46
1x6 kd primed t/g .........................0.65
1x4 kd pine select t/g.....................0.39
1x4 kd primed pine t/g..................0.49
CEDAR v-jnt fencing 1x6 panelling
1x6 kd stk v-jnt 6’.......................... 0.59
1x6 kd stk v-jnt 5’..........................0.57
1x6 clear kd v-jnt 6’........................1.09
1x6 clear kd vjnt 5’.........................0.89
2” Decking: t/g
2x6 select kd s/f SPF......................0.95
2x6 kd s/f t/g FIR...........................0.99
2x6 t/g select cedar s/f.................2.15
Clear cedar soffit
1x4 clr s/face v- jnt t/g 3,4,5' .......0.49
1x4 clr s/face v jnt t/g 6 longer .. 0.99
1x4 clr t@g kd resawn flush face
3-10' or v-jnt................................. 0.59
1x4 clear flush t@g 1/8” gap 3 +.....1.09
1x6 s/face v-jnt t/g 3,4,5 .............0.89
1x6 s/face v-jnt t/g 6 and longer ... $ call
STK kiln dried V-jnt
1x4 stk v-jnt 6 and longer...............0.69
1x6 stk v-jnt 3-5’.............................0.69
1x6 stk v-jnt 6 and longer...............0.98
1x6 stk v-jnt 8 and longer...............1.09
CEDAR v-jnt fencing/ for panelling 5’ and 6’
1x6 kd stk v-jnt 6’.......................... 0.59
1x6 kd stk v-jnt 5’..........................0.57
1x6 clear kd v-jnt 6’........................1.09
1x6 clear kd vjnt 5’.........................0.89
Hemlock CLEAR panelling
1x4 t@g s-face VG Clear Hemlock....0.79
Kiln Dried Sidewall shingles 18”/ ctn or bundle
Sidewalls: ...... BEST BUY
Traditional 18” sanded 7” face natural 86/ctn
Traditional 18”sanded 7” face primed...96/ctn
Traditional 18” sanded 7” cedar tone Cabot....118/ctn
Shoreline #1
#1- v.g sidewalls natural ..............105/ctn
#1 primed gray or white ...............116/ctn
#1 stained Cabot cedar tone ........135/ ctn
#2 mixed grain naturals ............... 85/ ctn
#2 primed gray or white................95/ctn
#2 Cabot cedar tone.....................117/ctn
#3 sidewalls natural 5-1/2" exposure
Cottage cut. #3 natural cedar ....... 45/ bundle
#3 Primed ......................................50 / bundle
Custom staining is available. Call
Mill Trim Ends by the box.
1x4 t@g clr cedar 0.12/ft
1400 lineal ft/ per box $250 / box mill pick up.
Fencing Boards #2 no hole (stk)
(1x6 #3 n/hole best buy 6’....1.95 each)
(Dog eared also available.)
1x6 sis 2e 4’........................1.29 ea
1x6 sis 2e 5’........................2.25 ea
1x6 sis 2e 5’........................2.75 ea
1x6 sis 2e 6’.........................2.99 ea
1x8 sis 2e 4’.........................1.85 ea
1x8 sis 2e 5’........................2.95 ea
1x8 sis 2e6’.........................3.75 ea
Timbertech Decking : Package pricing available.
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5/4x6 RELIABOARD - cedar and grey 12,16,20
5/4x6 Twin Finish Grooved cedar,gray, redwood 12,16,20
5/4x6 Twin Finish solid cedar,gray, redwood 16, 20
5/4x6 Earthwood Evolutions Grooved
cedar,gray,redwood 12,16,20
5/4x6 Earthwood Evolutions Solid
Pacific rosewood teak or walnut 16,20
5/4x6 XLM Grooved River Rock,or Sandridge 16,20
5/4x6 XLM Mountain cedar 12,16,20
5/4x6 XLM Harvest Bronze, Harbor Stone,
Rustic Bark or Walnut Grove 12,16,20
5/4x6 XLM Solid River Rock or Sandridge 16,20
5/4x6 XLM Solid Mountain Cedar 16,20
5/4x6 XLM Solid Harvest Bronze, Harbor Stone,
Rustic Bark or Walnut Grove 12,16,20
Facia Board:
1x8 cedar gray redwood 12’
1x8 Pacific rosewood teak or walnut 12’
1x8 River rock sandridge 12’
1x8 Mountain Cedar 12’
1x8 Harvest Bronze harbour stone
rustic bark walnut grove12’
1x12 Twin Fascia Cedar gray, redwood 12’
1x12 Pacific rosewood teak or walnut 12’
1x12 River rock sandridge 12’
1x12 Mountain Cedar 12’
1x12 Harvest Bronze harbor stone,
rustic bark walnut grove12’
Call for railing options and pricing.
Hardware:
Concealoc Hidden Fastener 175 pcs/box
2.5” topLoc screws.100 sq. Ft / box
Cartage: Mill direct to site.
Best Rate has Van delivery as well as flatdeck
and crane companies on standby.
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High resolution original paintings from one of the most highly regarded French Impressionist painters, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). The young Renoir struggled with his family’s financial circumstances so he left music school and started out as an apprentice at a porcelain factory. While he studied art in Paris, he befriended the young impressionist painters: Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet, and Alfred Sisley. In the 1870s, Renoir became one of the leading painters in the Impressionism movement. His lively paintings mostly celebrated the beauty of feminine sensuality. We have gathered over 200 of his paintings from the public domain. Enjoy these high resolution public domain paintings. Download for free under the creative commons 0 license.
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Crank arm length and standard BSC pedal thread markings are stamped on the back of the arm. Around the spindle hole, the letter "B" and numeral "6" [not 9] indicates a February 1976 production date.
This specific model 99 crank arm style was in production from the 1972 through 1978 or 79 model years. In Stronglight's 1980 catalogue, the Model 99 was shown with somewhat modified contours and presented with an anodized finish.
The first days of shooting the full-length 3D feature film "amae saudade" are behind us. Shooting completion, as scheduled: Autumn/end of 2014
„amae” means joy and a sense of security resulting from being completely accepted by the other. This term lacks an equivalent both in Polish and English. It has got an equivalent in Japanese and Chinese, however. And old Chinese ideogram by means of which the word amae was written, presented a child sucking on its mother’s breast to emphasise the unity between the mother and the child in the early months of its life.
„saudade” is Portuguese auto-stereotype perceived as a national value; a kind of nostalgia and melancholy connected with valuing and cherishing the past; contemplation of passing away and the beauty of disintegration, received with subtle pride and joy, in a positive way. Saudade is not a temporary condition of the spirit, but is always present in the person whom it concerns.
Director: Wacław Mikłaszewski
Photography: Mario Suze
I felt really frumpy in the longer length, but I actually really like how it looks with a long skirt underneath. I think I'll make the longer version + long skirt in the fall.
I like the shorter length better because it will be more versatile in my wardrobe. I'll be able to wear it over short or long skirts, or just with tights or leggings. Plus, I just felt happier wearing it once it was pinned up. :)
After comparing these pictures to a dress I wear a lot, I realize that the longer version here is only slightly too long -- about 1-1.5" longer than my "bottom of the knees" length. Once I add a short skirt or petticoat under the shorter version of this dress, it will appear to be that length anyway. :)
Longer length = 27" skirt; shorter length = 23" skirt.
Full-length wall mirror corner detail. The bowtie detail was designed to add structural strength to the corners as well as provide some intrigue.
1975 Built by Philip & Son, Dartmouth.
Rego Expiry 1975
Designer Holman & Pye
Builder Philip & Son Limited (England)
Length 42' 3" - 12.87m
Beam 3.03m
Draft 2m
Displacement 9.43 Tonnes
Keel / Ballast Fin keel with skeg hung rudder. Integral keel with lead ballast
Hull Material Fibreglass/GRP
Deck Material Fiberglass - painted
Engine 50hp diesel (new 2013) with 28hrs.
Engine Make Beta
Fuel Type Diesel
Max Speed 8 knots
Cruise Speed 7 knots
Propulsion 3 blade fixed propeller
Fuel 265 litres
Water 220 litres
Galley U shaped galley to STBD with a near new 2 burner Plastimo Neptune S/S gas stove with grill and oven.
Refrigeration New (2017) eutectic 12v by Ozefridge.
Accommodation 99% refitted interior - lovely large wrap around leather U lounge in saloon, Galley to port and Nav station to STBD. Pilot berth to port side of salon. Moving forward there are two bunks to port with head compartment opposite. Large V berth in focsile.
Cabins Two
Berths Eight
Shower Not fitted but there is a grated floor and drain in the head, so can easily fit one.
Toilet Electric toilet with holding tank
Entertainment Sony Stereo with speakers.
Covers Bimini and dodger both ready for renewal
Ground Tackle Plough anchor with 85m chain and electric anchor windlass (located in well in bow)
Bilge Pumps Manual and electric
Electrics 2 x solar panels, 1 x engine start battery, 2 x house batteries
Electronics Raymarine ST4000 autopilot, Navman Tracker 5600 plotter, VHF radio, Radar, Brass Shatz tide clock.
Sail Inventory NEW mainsail and headsail by Quantum in 2013 (used twice).
Mast / Rigging Keel stepped alloy mast with new rigging in 2013.
Deck Gear Lewmar 55 3 spd primary winches, BBQ, Self Steering
Remarks Solid vessel with some cosmetic work to finish. Last slipped two years ago, so she is due to come out and topsides would benefit from a good polish. Some of the deck requires painting, some timber work to finish around the hatches, owner says batteries will be up for renewal as will the bimini and dodger.
AUSD$65,000
Lying Brisbane.
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Designed and built to compete with the Swan 43 in the early 70's a beautiful design though by modern standards lacks space and the privacy of aft cabins.
I remember going aboard one of these yachts at the 1973 (?) London Boat Show at Earls Court and have been smitten ever since. A bargain for someone who wants a big, basic cruiser/racer.
medievalpoc: 1. Philip van Dijk Jacobus Ioannes Eliza Capitein Dutch Engraving (1730s) Portrait of Jacobus Capitein; a black man seated half-length, wearing gown and bands, pointing at a book in front of him; after Philip van Dijk. Note: Lettered in lower margin with production details and two columns of five lines each, with Dutch verses by Swyghuizen: “P. van Dyk del.” and “P. Tanjé sculp.” and “Hoe heerlyk schetst de kunst hier CAPITEIN, den Moor? / … / …, die ‘t heil der heidnen is.”. 2. F. van Bleyswyck Jacobus Capitein Dutch (c. 1730) The Hague. Stichting Iconographisch Bureau. Jacobus Capitein was a Dutch celebrity in the mid-1700s. At the age of 11, in 1728, Capitein was brought to Holland to live with van Goch in The Hague. Van Goch treated him as an adopted son and gave him the last name of Capitein (Dutch for “captain”). Jacobus was placed in school and found to excel in the study of painting, reading and writing, mathematics and the classical languages. Capitein, who was baptized by the Dutch Reformed Church in 1735, let it be known that he wished to return to Africa as a missionary. His adopted father therefore allowed him in 1737 to attend the venerable University of Leiden in order to study theology and become a minister. Capitein’s doctoral thesis, The Agony of Asar, has been recently translated into English: This is the first dissertation written by an African slave. He was brought to Holland by his owner, freed, and educated at the University of Leiden with grants from wealthy burghers. Thereafter he returned to Guinea as a missionary. His analysis presents a sweeping intellectual genealogy of Western thought on the issue of slavery. It begins by discussing the authors of antiquity, using Seneca, Horace, and Justinian to show that slavery violated the principles of natural freedom and equality, and rebutting Aristotle’s doctrine of natural slavery. Capitein concluded from Genesis that slavery entered the world as injustice to all peoples, but argued that the freedom promised in the Gospels was spiritual, not corporeal, and therefore had no civic consequences. The book represents the first scholarly work by an African on slavery, connecting Western thought and African experience.
A-Line/Princess Scoop Neck Floor-Length Chiffon Evening Dress With Ruffle Inspired by 84th Oscar
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Midnight was fast approaching when I realized I hadn't taken my photo for the day. I told myself I was only going to take one shot, for better or for worse.
So you get me with bloodshot eyes from staring at a pc and the Xbox all day.
Brian and I both won our bids on Ebay! Yay! I got over 1000 35mm slides from the 60's. I am going to make a curtain from them and hang them on the french doors to block some of the harsh sun (picture a stain glass window) Brian was bidding on a Mamiya C330 camera with lenses and such. He got over $600 worth of equipment for half that price.
I was on pins and needles as it came down to last minute bidding wars on both our parts. I was already outbid on one set of slides from the 50's earlier in the day and was heartbroken! Reminded me of why I don't do Ebay. That was our day in a nutshell! Tomorrow (today) I get to go get my hair done finally!!!
On July 9, NU’EST will release its first official album Re:BIRTH.
Along with the announcement, NU’EST unveiled the album’s cover page, showing the members’ faces covered with a mask as they wore strait jackets, ringing up curiosity. This album will be the group’s first after all five members t...
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✦ BLACK LOTUS NAIL UPDATE – NEW LENGTHS ARE HERE! ✦
For the past days I’ve been working on something many of you have asked about — and it’s finally ready to share!
Our Claw and Coffin nails have officially expanded into new lengths to give you even more ways to perfect your look.
WHAT’S NEW?
✦ Short Claws – sleek, sharp, and finally available!
✦ Long Claws – dramatic, fierce, and unapologetically bold.
✦ Short Coffin – chic and versatile, your new everyday go-to.
✦ Long Coffin – elegant, edgy, and designed to steal the spotlight.
(Med remains the original length for both styles.)
SPECIAL RIGGING UPDATES:
✦ Short & Med Claws are now rigged for Male Legacy, so no one is left out.
✦ All nail styles (including Short & Toenails) are now fully rigged for nHumana as well.
And now we’d love to hear from you:
WHICH BODIES WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE BLACK LOTUS NAILS RIGGED FOR NEXT?
Drop your suggestions below
HUD COMPATIBILITY:
Every HUD you already own will seamlessly work across all lengths:
✦ Claw HUDs → Short / Med / Long Claws
✦ Coffin HUDs → Short / Med / Long Coffin
BASE UPDATES:
The Nail Base section at the Black Lotus Mainstore has already been refreshed with the new bases — so you can start styling right away.
More choice. More drama. More polish.
Whether you’re going subtle or going all out, you now have every length you need to make your nails part of the statement.
Available now at the Black Lotus Mainstore.
Nikon D40
Focal Length: 100mm
Optimize Image:
Color Mode: Mode Ia (sRGB)
Long Exposure NR: Off
High ISO NR: Off
2009/09/25 14:15:14.2
Digital Vari-Program: Portrait
White Balance: Auto
Tone Comp.: Auto
Compressed RAW (12-bit)
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
AF Mode: AF-A
Hue Adjustment: 0°
1/2000 sec - F/4
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Saturation: Auto
Color
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Chopwell Wood has miles of paths and old colliery railway tracks making it very popular with walkers and cyclists. There are four walking trails of varying lengths that criss-cross through the woodland, offering glimpses of the area’s industrial past including restored railway trucks that would have carried coal from the nearby collieries.
Cyclists of all ages and abilities can make the most of the well-surfaced routes. The network of blue graded trails make a great introduction to mountain biking and for a real adrenaline rush, the Powerline Mountain Bike Trail is a fast and exhilarating red graded trail and is part of the Super6 challenge in Northern England.
Chopwell is a village in the Gateshead district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Rowlands Gill and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Hamsterley. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 9,395.
In 1150, Bishop Pudsey granted the Manor of Chopwell to the first Abbot of Newminster. Newminster Abbey retained possession of the manor until the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.
Traditionally an area of coal mining, Chopwell was nicknamed "Little Moscow" because of the strong support for the Communist Party. Chopwell counts "Marx Terrace" (after Karl Marx) and "Lenin Terrace" (after Vladimir Lenin) among its street names, and during the 1926 General Strike the Union Flag at the council offices was taken down and replaced with the Soviet flag. Another notable street, site of the former Chopwell Junior School, "Fannybush Lane", was renamed "Whittonstall Road" by the local authority in the 1990s after its street sign was repeatedly stolen.
In 1974, Chopwell became part of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and the metropolitan borough of Gateshead, after previously being part of the administrative county of Durham.
Civil parish
Chopwell was formerly a township in the parish of Winlaton. From 1866 Chopwell was a civil parish in its own right, until on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished to form Blaydon parish; in 1931 the population of the parish had been of 9,784.
Gateshead is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since it was re-established in 2010 by Ian Mearns of the Labour Party.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to boundary changes, losing the Felling, and Windy Nook and Whitehills wards to Jarrow (to be renamed Jarrow and Gateshead East) and gaining from the (to be abolished) constituency of Blaydon three wards which incorporate the community of Whickham. Accordingly, it will be renamed Gateshead Central and Whickham, to be first contested at the next general election.
History
First creation
The seat was first created by the Reform Act 1832 as a single-member parliamentary borough. It was abolished under the Representation of the People Act 1948 for the 1950 general election and split into Gateshead East and Gateshead West.[4]
Revival
As a result of the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2010 general election, combining over half of the electorates of both of the abolished constituencies of Gateshead East and Washington West, and Tyne Bridge.
Boundaries
Under the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, the contents of the borough were defined as the Parish of Gateshead and part of the Chapelry of Heworth in the Parish of Jarrow.
1918-1950
The County Borough of Gateshead.
No change to boundaries.
2010–present
The Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead wards of Bridges, Chowdene, Deckham, Dunston and Teams, Felling, High Fell, Lobley Hill and Bensham, Low Fell, Saltwell, and Windy Nook and Whitehills.
Constituency profile
Under the current boundaries, the constituency is overwhelmingly White, and working-class; with 95% of its electorate identifying as White British and being in the top decile of constituencies for routine work. The area's politics are influenced by these demographics; with the exception of Low Fell, all of the wards that make up the constituency are safely Labour areas, and the constituency voted overwhelmingly to leave the European Union, like the borough as a whole.
Members of Parliament
Among famous representatives are James Melville KC who was Solicitor General for England and Wales before he died, while holding the seat, and international statesman Konni Zilliacus who assisted in creating peaceful bilateral relations during the Cold War, including though work at the United Nations.