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Bay window addition in breakfast nook.
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The most recent addition to my familiy: A group of Betta smaragdina, also known as fighting fish. They are labyrinth fish, which can breath atmospheric oxygen, so they do not need any pumps etc. Very simple and fun to keep!
4/6/12
I relaxed during the day today, then worked 5-9pm. This is another addition to my room that Andy and Nikkie gave me, the same day that he built my PC. It's their old mini fridge!
After work I came home and played video games. I then went to Banana Max, a bar up in York, with Miah, Nik, and Bekah. We saw Ryan Wood there too, which was awesome because we hadn't seem him in a while. We all had a good time. I ended up staying at Miah's rather than driving home. Nik gave me a ride to my car the next morning.
This temporary opening is needed because county inspectors will not climb through windows as the electricians and plumbers have been doing. Later this opening will be enlarged and the full-width entry door will be fitted.
Taken in the Egyptian room at Kingston Lacy. The enthusiasm for all things Egyptian stemmed from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt when he took scholars in addition to the military. William John Bankes acquired these and other artifacts on show in the room in addition to the obelisk from Philae now in the grounds of the house.
New Bauer swirls. See what happens when you leave pottery unattended? They multiply! Total swirl pot count at 30 now. It IS a sickness.
Unlike most of Coupeville’s early settlers, Colonel Granville Haller was neither a farmer nor involved in maritime commerce. He was a career military man who fought in the second Seminole War in Florida, the Mexican-American War, the Indian Wars on Puget Sound of the 1850s, the “Pig War” on San Juan Island and in the Civil War. Relieved of duty following the Battle of Gettysburg (allegedly for making dismissive comments of Lincoln’s handling of the war effort) Haller returned to Puget Sound, settling on Whidbey Island. In 1866, he moved to downtown Coupeville and constructed the Haller House: a two-story Georgian structure connected to an existing one-story house of plank construction already present on the site. Haller sold the house in 1879, opting to relocate once again, this time to Seattle. For the next 125 years, the house served as a private residence but witnessed very few alterations. The plan is primarily intact, as are many of the finishes, providing a rare glimpse into mid-19th century domestic life. The last residents left in 2006 and the house is currently on the real estate market. Though designation as a landmark within the Central Whidbey Island Historic District may offer protection for the exterior appearance of the Haller House, occupancy codes will compel any buyer to make significant alterations to the interior. Fearing a loss of historic integrity, residents of Whidbey Island formed the Friends of the Haller House. Their goal is to acquire the house and ultimately help tell the story of the Civil War’s impact on the northwest.
Link to the Haller House Most Endangered video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=celiGtEb20w
Link to the 2013 Most Endangered List video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WksJ6Pp-YU
New addition to our new Retro Racers range, the stunning Martini Racing Lancia 037. View more here: www.unlap.co.uk/t-shirts/rallying-tshirts/lancia-037-mart... See the full gallery on Posterous ... >> blog.unlap.co.uk/latest-addition-martini-racing-lancia-03... >> www.unlap.co.uk
Dear Christina,
Our newest addition to the family arrived yesterday - and she's gorgeous! Kerry (my friend who purchased her through Etsy for us) sent the box over to my house, but I wouldn't open it without her. So she ran right over, and we opened it together. I quite literally started crying. My husband just kept feeling her hair, and Kerry wants her for herself. She is quite literally THE doll I would have had custom ordered. I LOVE her, and my little girl will too! Her birthday dinner is next week, so we'll be sure to take a picture of her with her new sweetheart and send it to you.
My dear, you have gone so above and beyond! Thank you so much for the little extras. It's very sweet of you to include a sweater and shoes for a birthday present for Abbie, totally unexpected, and so wonderful. Her shoes match her dress perfectly - did you have to make them specially? I hope it wasn't trouble for you.
You truly have a gift. I know you probably get many, many emails like this, but I haven't the words to express it differently. I can feel the love you poured into her when I hold her. You aren't just good at making dolls, you are good at sharing your heart. I don't know if you call it magic, or love, but I thank you for sharing a little piece of yourself with others.
We will love and treasure her forever, and try to share love with others as you do.
Smiling through tears,
Dayna M
PS - We'll be back, I've got 3 nieces I'd like to order for in the future. :)
Minster Church of St Peter and St Paul and Chapter House, Churchside, Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire
Grade I Listed
List Entry Number: 1160491
HOWDEN CHURCHSIDE SE 7428 (south side)
12/98 Minster Church of St Peter and St Paul and 16.12.66 Chapter House
GV I Collegiate church including the Grammar School and attached chapter house. Begun c1270-1275 with transepts. Nave finished c1300 with west front completed between 1306 and 1311. Choir, also often referred to as chancel, completed between 1320-1340. Chapter house begun 1340-49, and recommenced after a long intermission in 1380, with the addition in the early C15 of a ground-floor chapel or vestry and its vestibule, 2 chambers above and an access stair. Tower begun late C14, with upper stage of late C15. Grammar school c1500. Restored 1840's and 1850's. Restoration of chapter house underway at time of resurvey (1987). Endowments: by John de Howden (d1272); of £10 by Henry de Snaith, Canon of Howden, Lincoln and Beverley for Chapter House in 1380; of £40 by Walter Skirlaugh, Bishop of Durham for tower in 1406. Magnesian limestone ashlar, copper and timber roofs. 6-bay aisled nave with grammar school to two westernmost bays on south side and porch to third bay; central tower with north and south transepts, both with east chapels; 6-bay aisled choir with chapter house, linking passage and chapel or vestry to south. West front: pointed doorway with thin shafts, leaf capitals and thin filleted rolls flanked by 2 panels of blind arcading with quatrefoils to spandrels. Above is a tall 4-light window, with lights grouped in pairs and an inserted Perpendicular transom; tracery of pointed trefoils and quatrefoils, with a large cusped quatrefoil enclosed in a square with convex sides to the apex. Above the window is a crocketed gable with cusped statue niche, and flanking it are 2 panels of blind arcading with 3 trefoils to their apexes and crocketed gables. The nave is flanked by gableted buttresses with 2-light blind arcading with figures under canopies. Surmounting the buttresses are hexagonal pierced turrets with crocketed spirelets. The aisles each have 3-light windows with tracery circles divided into pointed and rounded trefoils. Blind parapets flanked by buttresses surmounted by turrets similar to those of nave but differently aligned. To extreme right is the west window of the Grammar School with an inserted pointed C19 three-light window, an outer buttress and a low pediment above the parapet. Aisles: 3-light windows throughout. The westernmost bays alternate between Y tracery infilled with quatrefoils and pointed trefoils, and pointed lights with a group of 3 pointed trefoils above. The easternmost bay has tracery of 3 encircled quatrefoils. The bays are divided by stepped, gabled buttresses. Above is a corbel table of heads and foliage, in alternate bays beneath a plain parapet. Paired 2- light clerestory windows with quatrefoil tracery. South porch: 2 storeys, south doorway of 2 orders with narrow shafts, leaf capitals and filleted rolls beneath a crocketed gable with beast stops. Above is a square-headed 2-light window with trefoils above each light. Porch flanked by buttresses with crocketed finials. To the left are the 2 bays of the grammar school with low small trefoiled windows and above them large 4-light basket-arched windows with Perpendicular tracery cut by 4-centred arches. To extreme left: a narrow door beneath a 4-centred arch. South transept: south doorway of 2 orders with shafts, stiff leaf capitals and roll-mouldings. Above a 4- light window with lights grouped in pairs, inserted Perpendicular transom, and encircled quatrefoils and a large encircled sexfoil to head. Small quatrefoil above. Flanking stepped gabled buttresses. West side: two 2- light windows with encircled quatrefoils and stepped gabled buttresses. East side: chapel, whose south front has 2-light windows with encircled quatrefoils, but whose east front has inserted 3-light Perpendicular windows. North transept: north front similar to south transept south front except that shafts and capitals are absent from the doorway which has continuous roll mouldings. The west side is the same as that to the south transept. The windows on the east side are blocked and the polygonal east chapel is ruinous. Tower: octagonal stair turret to north-west angle. Lower stage has very tall 3-light double-transomed windows with flanking stepped and gabled buttresses. Upper stage: 3-light single-transomed windows. String courses between stages. Embattled parapet. Choir now ruinous: 3-light windows with 3 quatrefoils where tracery survives. East end: tall central window with no surviving tracery has gable above breaking into upper 4-centred-arched window, flanked by climbing statue niches. The whole is flanked by stepped buttresses with statue niches to each stage. Aisles: pointed windows with no surviving tracery with crocketed gables above, and outer stepped buttresses. Chapter house: 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery where surviving, with crocketed ogee gables above. Stepped buttresses to angles with shields to upper sections. Foliage frieze with moulded cornice above. C20 timber roof. Interior: west end of nave has blind arcading with shafts and leaf capitals to paired trefoiled arches with quatrefoils in the spandrels. Very tall arcade on quadripartite filleted piers with octagonal capitals. Part of Norman corbel table reset in north-west wall of arcade. Very plain clerestory with inner passage. Decorated octagonal font with ogee gables and finials. 2 medieval parish chests to north aisle. Fine C20 pulpit with richly carved sounding board by Elwell of Beverley. Compound crossing piers have round capitals and octagonal abaci. Very fine Decorated pulpitum with basket-arched central opening with open work quatrefoils to jambs and arch, crocketed ogee-arched gable with finial and quatrefoil to tympanum. Flanking pairs of statue niches containing contemporary figures and balustrade above with open trefoiled lights above doorway and blind trefoiled lights above niches. Screens in transepts are part of original pulpitum with 4-centred-arched doors flanked by statue niches containing figures originally in east wall of choir. South transept: C14 statue of the Virgin; brass to a knight of 1480; chest tomb with shields and beasts heads, now supporting late C13 statue. North transept: royal arms of 1718. Saltmarshe Chapel: decorated tomb recess with ogee arch and finial flanked by statue niches with nodding ogees, containing recumbent figures of a knight, possibly Sir John Metham (d1311) and his lady, not original to the recess. Chest tomb in centre has trefoiled panels to sides containing figures, and supports recumbent knight in chain mail, possibly Sir Peter Saltmarshe (d1338). Choir interior: anomaly to west end where there are early round capitals to responds which have later been raised and given leaf capitals. The lower capitals may represent the arcade of the earlier choir. Niches to jambs of main east window. Cusped ogee-arched doorway with dogtooth to hollow-moulded jambs leads to passage to chapter house which has quadripartite vaulting. Chapter house: stalls have cusped ogee arches with crockets and finials and quatrefoil diaperwork to their backs. Perpendicular screen across north window. Alex Gordon Partnership, Howden Minster Chapter House - Analysis, 1986; Keeton, Revd B, A Guide Book to Howden Minster, 1982, Pevsner N, Yorkshire: York and The East Riding, 1972, Sharland J S, The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Howden, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE7478128253
On Tuesday, February 7th, 2017, a group of staff, parents, and students from the SAS family went to Albany for the NYS Charter School Advocacy Day. The intention of this event was to showcase SAS and other charters in NYS and to help build new relationships with those that create the laws that govern our schools. In addition, We sought to enhance the long-standing partnerships with the many lawmakers that have supported the amazing work done at SAS and other charters. The group was led by our amazing administration team that was represented by Dr. Kocak (School Director), Mr. Cetin (Assistant Director), Mr. Yavuz (Dean of the Middle School) and Mrs. Smith (Dean of the Elementary School). They were joined by nine of our dedicated parent partners with right students ranging from grades 2 through 10 as well as Mr. Carter a teacher from the Middle School.
What was our goal? Well, outside of the demonstration of what makes SAS great, we sought to describe what equitable funding could mean to their schools and futures! Many do not realize that charter schools only receive a fraction per pupil of what traditional public schools receive. As the per student amounts of aid have risen for traditional public schools, charter school funding have been frozen for many years. These issues combined with the unsubsidized building costs that charter school face diminish our potential. In addition, the state cap on charter enrollment makes it difficult for us to share our strengths with the community. Even with these circumstances, the accomplishments of SAS are amazing. Our graduation, college readiness, and college acceptance rates are things that any school should be proud of.
Our group met directly with Assemblywoman Pamela Hunter and Assemblyman William Magnarelli. The senior staff of Senator John Defrancisco and Senator Valesky met with our group to hear our concerns as these representatives were in chamber. These dedicated public servants listened to our staff, parents, and students talk about what it is to be at SAS and how our student-centered approach has yielded great results! As more and more lawmakers see what we have accomplished, we hope to make funding for SAS equitable with traditional public schools and present even more opportunities for our amazing students to shine bright! Go ATOMS!
#SASAtoms #SASCS
n addition to Navy students, VT-35 train pilots from the Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marines. The station employs officer, enlisted and civilian personnel serving in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and the military services of numerous NATO/Allied/Coalition partnet nations
Operated out of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi ,TX
Built as Beechcraft UC-12B Huron 161517
IMBIBE at the Western Addition Branch Library. Friends of the SFPL's Member-exclusive, after-hours, library cocktail party. Sponsored by 21st Amendment Brewery and SNAP Ginger Liqueur, with music by the Broun Fellinis. Photo by Natalie Schrik
More info at friendssfpl.org/?IMBIBE.
In addition to placing their paint-covered hands on a white car, each child's handprint was included in a collage to commemorate the occasion.
So, this is the newest addition to my doll family. His (her?) name is Pamplemousse. It's my second doll from Soom and the first one directly from the company.
I was a bit anxious when I got him, wondering if the white skin was a bit too white, but when I got Pamplemousse back from the make-up I was proved wrong by ever-so-talented Fyrd8th, who painted Pamplemousse and actually is to blame about the idea of getting a new doll from Soom... :D
Fyrd8th gave me a box of body lotion and such from Bodyshop as a present and the products were had the scent of pink grapefruit, pamplemousse in French. I just fell in love with the word and so the Idea of getting a doll named Pamplemousse was born.
Pamplemousse is a lot different than my other little ones. He's bossy, a little prince(ss) and a bit of a snob, but deep down he's just unsure and sensitive, gentle even.
This is the first proper photoshoot of him, and as you can see, he's quite a charmer. I'm still trying to find the best ways to take photos of him, but it seems I might have to experiment a bit more.
I don't mean they're old. All the buildings, except the liter colored one, have the dates of construction on top.
SSA Semester 4 Project 2: Morgan Library Addition by Renzo Piano / Precedent Study Model (Artur Dabrowski + David Hong)
IMBIBE at the Western Addition Branch Library. Friends of the SFPL's Member-exclusive, after-hours, library cocktail party. Sponsored by 21st Amendment Brewery and SNAP Ginger Liqueur, with music by the Broun Fellinis. Photo by Natalie Schrik
More info at friendssfpl.org/?IMBIBE.
Two new additions to the Queen's Gate collection, Dizzy from Guilty Gear and Iroha from Samurai Shodown. Back in the day (2009 ish) both these characters were very popular in their respective franchises, which is why they were chosen. Samurai Shodown actually had several well known ladies, but I believe that Iroha was the most naked of them all.
So the entire Queen's Gate line was handled by Hobby Japan, who I guess held the master license for all things Queen's Blade but like the guest characters, the statues were also made by various companies. In this case, Dizzy was made by Kotobukiya at a stage when they were still on my love/hate list, and Iroha was from Volks, the company that made that BJD Xenosaga 3 KOS-MOS I'll never be able to afford.
One of the more amusing things for me upon opening the box is that despite both characters being basically the same height, both statues being made in the same scale, and both basically cost the same, one is Shaq and the other is Kevin Hart.
The difference in height is HILARIOUS.
Of the two, Dizzy is certainly the more colourful design. A mish mash of several themes, the overall sculpt and pose isn't bad, highly simplified compared to other statues of her back in the day, like that excellent Alter piece. You get some pretty good sculpting on the4 wings and hear, and the face is suitably adorable.
Likewise, Iroha features a pretty good sculpt and pose (though now the more I think about it, this was probably guided by the art books). She's not as complex as Dizzy, but she's rocking her trademark Maid outfit along with her twin swords. Some nice fabric detailing, along with the bow on her back.
Having said that, the whole point of this series is to have some curvy ladies that don't cast off (and lets face it, if they did cast off they probably wouldn't be this curvy). Both ladies appear to be more busty than they typically are depicted. The hips are curvier too, but nowhere as exaggerated as the bust.
Because these were 2009-ish statues, and not super expensive ones at that, you get what I would call typical quality for the era. The sculpting isn't bad, but some less than stellar paint work can obscure that work. Some assembly gaps cap be observed that, like with the seam lines on the hips and breasts, could have used a bit more sanding to make it more pristine. Decal work on the faces is great, but not so much on the other parts of the body. Loss of quality on areas with finer parts like fingers (especially on Iroha) are prominent and common.
Build Quality, however, does not appear to be a problem. Yeah, the tolerances on the parts that you need to connect could be better, but overall it's not too bad. More importantly, both statues did not exhibit any of the pre-2012 leaning
An interesting set of additions to some row houses in Alvin, Texas. It appears the landlord added bathrooms after the fact. Wonder what the people used before the additions!
October, 2005 - John completed the interiors of both the kitchen expansion and the new bathroom before tearing down the old exterior wall, to keep the cats out of trouble and dust out of the house while construction was going on. It worked very well. Life continued normally in the house during the year of construction work on the addition, and then - voila!
Interestingly, I had reason to be curious about the age of our electric range when it went "Bzzzzzzt" and sent off a bunch of sparks while I was cooking dinner last night. It melted part of the burner. John's off to get a new stove today. I think we had the stove for a couple of years before the addition was completed, so it's getting oldish. All of the appliances visible in the photo have been replaced now, thought they were new then - microwave, dishwasher and vacuum cleaner. Oh yeah, the kitchen faucet too. Sigh. We also had to replace our refrigerator earlier this year.
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Komodo dragon
Emerging from its burrow, a Komodo dragon starts out the day with a soak in the sun. Then it sets off on a hunt for food, perhaps a deer or wild pig. With its belly full, the lizard takes a break during the midday heat before the search for supper begins.
The Komodo dragon is the top predator on the Indonesian islands it inhabits.
•When it comes to a dragon’s menu, anything’s game as long as it’s made of meat, dead or alive.
•Tasting the air with its forked tongue, the dragon picks up the scent of prey and heads in that direction.
•Hiding along a trail, the dragon sits and waits. As prey wanders near, the dragon ambushes and seizes it with 60 sharp, serrated teeth. Venom from ducts between the dragon’s teeth seeps into the bite wounds.
•If the prey gets away, the dragon simply follows its scent trail until the venom finishes up the job.
•In addition to its important ecological role as a predator, the Komodo dragon also scavenges on any carcasses it comes upon.
•Despite the dragon’s dominance atop the food chain, it faces competition from people who hunt the same animals it needs to survive.
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Fact File
Length: Up to 10 ft
Weight: More than 175 lbs
(up to 350 lbs after a big meal)
Lifespan: More than 50 yrs
Habitat: Grasslands and rainforest
Diet: Wild pigs, buffalo, deer,
other animals, and carrion
Status: Species at Risk (IUCN-Vulnerable)