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The first steps in building a nether reactor. After the nether core is built, you need 4 blocks (36 ingots) of gold.
Nether Winchendon House is a medieval manor house, situated in the Chilterns, that was remodelled in the 18th century in the "Strawberry Hill Gothick" style
I know, there's no creepers nor skelettons in the Nether. But I wanted to draw some... just for the hell of it.
Sedos presents Jennifer Haley’s award-winning thriller The Nether
Bridewell Theatre
26-30 September 2017
www.sedos.co.uk/2017/nether.htm
Photo by Stephen Russell
Flint from the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.
Flint is the "official" state gemstone of Ohio (actually, there's no such thing as "official" anything). "Flint" is sometimes used as a lithologic term by modern geologists, but it is a synonym for chert. Flint and chert are the same - they are cryptocrystalline, quartzose sedimentary rocks. Rockhounds often assert that flint is high-quality while chert is low-quality. Some geologists assert that "flint" implies a biogenic origin and "chert" implies a chemical origin.
Many cherts do have a chemical origin - chert nodules are moderately common in some limestone units. The nodules form during diagenesis - pre-existing silica components in the carbonate sediments are dissolved, mobilized, and reprecipitated as chert masses. Some cherts do have a biogenic origin - for example, radiolarian cherts (rich in radiolarian microfossils) or spicular cherts (rich in siliceous sponge spicules).
The most famous flint deposit in Ohio is Flint Ridge, in Licking County. At this locality, the Middle Pennsylvanian-aged Vanport Flint is exposed in several places. The geologic literature on the Vanport Flint is relatively sparse, with inaccurate, incomplete descriptions and characterizations. For example, the literature describes the Vanport as a sheet of flint at Flint Ridge - it's actually a meganodule horizon. Other descriptions refer to the chert as the remains of siliceous sponges. In reality, siliceous sponge spicules are quite scarce in Vanport samples.
Two graduate student projects during the 2000s, conducted at two different universities, had very different conclusions & interpretations about the origin of the Vanport Flint. A 2003 study concluded that chert at Flint Ridge is biogenic in origin. A 2006 study concluded that the chert is chemical in origin.
Modern flint knappers value the Vanport Flint for being multicolored and high-quality (= very few impurities). With artificial heating, the flint is more easily knapped into arrowheads, spear points, and other objects. Prehistoric American Indians quarried the Vanport Flint at many specific sites on Flint Ridge. Old Indian flint pits can be examined along hiking trails in Flint Ridge State Park ("State Memorial"). Many authentic Indian artifacts found in Ohio (arrowheads & spearpoints - "projectile points") are composed of Vanport Flint.
Stratigraphy: Vanport Flint, Allegheny Group, upper Middle Pennsylvanian
Locality: Nethers Flint Quarries - flint pit in the woods on the southwestern side of Flint Ridge Road, eastern Flint Ridge, far-western Muskingum County, east-central Ohio, USA (vicinity of 40° 00.137’ North latitude, 82° 11.544’ West longitude)
Sedos presents Jennifer Haley’s award-winning thriller The Nether
Bridewell Theatre
26-30 September 2017
www.sedos.co.uk/2017/nether.htm
Photo by Stephen Russell
The church of Saint Mary is the parish church of the village of Nether Stowey near Bridgwater in Somerset. The church can be found next to Stowey Court a little outside the village. Since the end of the 1960s the church has been 'cut off' from the village by the A39 bypass.
The church has a number of Victorian stained glass windows, two of which are in areas not open to the general public. This picture shows a detail from the East window of the church which depicts the Ascension of Christ. The window was made by Ward and Hughes of London and dates to 1886. In the picture can be seen the central figure of Christ as He ascends to Heaven.
1870s floral window on the north side of the nave at Nether Whitacre.
The main panels contain eucharistic wheat and grapevine and roses with lilies respectively.
These photos are of a single kotuku in the small mudflat and bay of the Hutt river near its confluence with the sea at Petone, neighbouring the Hikoikoi Reserve. As well as watching it stalk prey through the shallow waters of the bay, I was intrigued by its behaviour playing with sticks, as if contemplating nesting. Perhaps it was a young male practicing (males build a preliminary nest platform in the breeding season).
Kotuku - white heron or great egret
A cosmopolitan bird found worldwide in tropical and temperate regions. Of the four or more subspecies, the range of the largest, Egretta alba modesta is found in India, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Geographically and climatically New Zealand is near the extreme limits of its range.
In New Zealand it is a rare bird, and probably always has been. However the species was almost exterminated to satisfy the demand for feathers for women’s hats after its only breeding site on the banks of the Waitangiroto Stream, near Okarito in South Westland was discovered in 1865. By 1941 there were only four nests when it was declared a reserve and patrolled at breeding time. The numbers have now stabilised with a permanent population of around 100 to 120.
Outside of the breeding season these birds disperse widely throughout the country, frequenting shallow waters along the margins of rivers, inland lakes, swamps and coastal estuaries. Its long legs, bare of feathers well above the ankle joint, and long spreading toes fit it especially for wading on a muddy bottom. They are solitary feeders. At night when not feeding they roost in trees. Their voice is the typical heron croak in flight or when disturbed.
Kotuku food consists of mainly small fishes, including eels. Standing in water as deep as its long legs will allow without wetting its feathers, it remains perfectly still until a fish comes within reach, then with lightning like rapidity it strikes and at once swallows its prey. In addition to fish, its food includes, frogs, tadpoles, insects and even birds. I have witnessed a kotuku break a hole in the roof of an aviary and snatch out several canaries.
Their only nesting site in New Zealand on the banks of the Waitangituna Stream. White heron tours are now a major eco tourism industry for the nearby town of Whataroa.
Adult birds start arriving from all over the country around August and take part in elaborate courtship displays. Males build small platforms from which they advertise themselves to females. Displays of the male include a spectacular raising of the nuptial plumes, with the neck erect, the bill snapping and the wing feathers flicking. Once a female is attracted, the pair preen each other and intertwine their long necks, wings and bill. The female builds the real nest platform. The nests are placed in trees or in the crowns of tree ferns near to or overhanging water and at various heights from three to thirteen metres. The nests are well built of sticks and fern fronds. Three to five eggs are laid in September or October and the young are ready to fly in December and January.
The feathers of Kotuku, like the Huia, were highly prized by Maori and were used to adorn the heads of chiefs both in life and after death. The feathers were kept, as were Huia feathers, in elaborately carved boxes.
In Maori oratory, the most telling compliment is to liken someone to Kotuku. It symbolizes everything rare and beautiful. It was said that Kotuku is an inhabitant of the nether world, the spirit land of Reinga, and that an old funeral chant ends with these words to the departed: “Ko to kotuku to tapui, e Tama e – Kotuku is now thy sole companion, O my son!”. So seldom does Kotuku appear in any locality that “rare as the Kotuku” has passed into a proverb among Maori.
Details: Length 92 cm., weight 900 g., entirely white in non-breeding plumage, iris and bill yellow, legs and feet black. In August the adult birds undergo a change, growing long white feathers of loose texture which lie over the back, wings, and tail like a bridal train. These are the nuptial or breeding plumes. The bill becomes black and the facial skin green.
View of the nave looking westwards, showing the curiously off centre west window in the space beyond the tower arch, the only original parts of the present structure.
St Giles church in Nether Whitacre possess a short red sandstone west tower of 16th century date, but was otherwise entirely rebuilt in the 1870s, with nave and chancel (plus north chapel/vestry) very much of their time.
It is however worth visiting for some small elements of 14th century glass and a wall monument of 1775 (in the vestry so normally difficult to see)..
It is also, happily, one of the very few churches in the north of Warwickshire that are kept regularly open and welcoming to visitors.
Anne wife of Sir Thomas Hutton 1620 flic.kr/p/7LMaxF younger brother of Sir Timothy Hutton at Richmond flic.kr/p/5nn5Pz and son of Matthew Hutton Archbishop of York 1606 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/1q21Ag and his second wife Beatrice, daughter of Sir Thomas Fincham. His sister Thomasine was the first wife of William Gee 1611 is at York www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Y9ir69
Thomas married Anne 1651-2 flic.kr/p/7LM7Qp daughter of Sir John Bennet of Dawley
Children -: (2 sons and 3 daughters in total)
1. Richard Hutton of Poppleton (1613-1648) married firstly Ursula daughter of Sir Edmund Sheffield, son of 1st Earl of Mulgrave and secondly Dorothy 1687 flic.kr/p/7LMkki daughter of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Cameron
2. Elizabeth Hutton (1619-1661-2) married firstly John Robinson of Deighton and secondly Edward Bowles of York
Nether Poppleton church Yorkshire
The real treasure of Nether Whitacre church is this superb early 14th century kneeling angel using a censer, situated in the tracery of the south chancel window.
It appears to be in reasonably good condition and has an especially fine head.
It is possibly a composite of two mirror image tracery figures from the old church since parts of the present figure (notably his lower half) appear to be painted on the outer face, suggesting they had been reversed at some stage.
Nether Winchendon House is a medieval manor house, situated in the Chilterns, that was remodelled in the 18th century in the "Strawberry Hill Gothick" style
St Giles church in Nether Whitacre possess a short red sandstone west tower of 16th century date, but was otherwise entirely rebuilt in the 1870s, with nave and chancel (plus north chapel/vestry) very much of their time.
It is however worth visiting for some small elements of 14th century glass and a wall monument of 1775 (in the vestry so normally difficult to see)..
It is also, happily, one of the very few churches in the north of Warwickshire that are kept regularly open and welcoming to visitors.