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Dad Goose is guarding while Mom Goose is nesting (you can see the nest on the right hand side, about 1/3 of the way down.) Goslings are due around May 1st.
This is a fun Harry Potter-themed MOC I finished in 2023.
It started as a set adaptation of 75980 Attack on The Burrow: first I wanted to create a 360* look, instead of a playset with an open backside. I decided to change much of the interiors as I wanted to add seperate rooms that needed to be accessible by a staircase. This meant a complete make-over of the set as a whole, which was a great puzzle to solve. I added double hinges to the folding mechanism, so that the dinner table and the master bedroom are bigger once opened.
The original house in the movie is only shown in a single shot, but it looks so whimsical and lived in. It was a great joy to put this MOC together.
eerie mist on the ballona wetlands.....
lincoln blvd and playa vista in the background.....
Playa Vista Quicksand
A rare court ruling against the developer puts the kibosh — for now — on a vast Phase Two
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
IF YOU LISTEN TO THE DEEP-POCKETED executives behind massive Playa Vista — a controversial minicity plopped by City Hall planners onto the Ballona Wetlands near Playa del Rey that has swamped Lincoln Boulevard and helped gridlock many Westside intersections — a stunning appeals-court ruling last week halting construction is merely an irritating hiccup.
But in 20 years of legal battles over the biggest residential construction project in city history, whose cheek-by-jowl, $3,000-per-month apartments have ushered in East Coast densities and tiny patches dubbed green space, last week’s decision by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal could wreak havoc on the extensive Phase Two. It couldn’t come at a more uncertain time for developers, or at a better time for Westsiders who hate the hulking, multistory community, as Southern California confronts an iffy housing market — and as some Angelenos begin to decry a crush of overbuilding citywide.
“The modifications are relatively minor,” sniffs Steve Soboroff, president of Playa Capital, pledging unequivocally that Playa Vista “will continue to completion.”
In fact, the 114-page brief written by the three judges on the Court of Appeal is anything but minor. The jurists didn’t just snatch away the keys for the bulldozers, handing the project’s opponents their biggest courtroom victory in roughly two decades. The three judges also ordered the city of Los Angeles to “vacate” long-standing approvals by the Los Angeles City Council for the second and final phase — and to decertify Playa Capital’s massive, multimillion-dollar environmental-impact report.
The court says that the EIR — years in the writing, and which contains hundreds of paragraphs that set off word-by-word fights between federal and local agencies, environmental organizations and politicians — must now “revise” analysis of land-use impacts, “discuss” better preservation at the site, and “identify” and “analyze” the disposal and environmental impacts of wastewater.
In other words, developer Playa Capital, for now, is screwed.
“The court stopped the development cold,” says Doug Carstens, an environmental attorney with the Santa Monica–based law firm Chatten-Brown & Carstens. “It’s a sweeping decision.”
Carstens worked as co-counsel at the trial that culminated in last week’s appellate ruling. At the trial last year, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger found that the city and Playa Capital followed proper approval procedures and that the environmental-impact report was valid. But the appellate court overturned Highberger’s decision last Thursday.
“People have been through a long, hard struggle,” says Carstens, “and they’ve been vindicated by the [state appeals] court.” Sabrina Venskus, who with Brian Acree was lead attorney for the appeal case, adds that from a land-use and planning perspective, “This is an important decision from the court of appeals not just for this particular project, but for development projects all over California.”
From the start, developers, environmentalists and journalists have described Playa Vista as one of the most expensive, highly studied and fought-over mixed-use projects in Los Angeles — with a price tag between $4 billion and $7 billion. After years of negotiations and studies, the 3,246-unit first phase of imposing condos, pricey apartments and $1.9 million homes with postage-stamp yards is nearly complete. The final phase — 111 acres of proposed housing, retail and office space dubbed “The Village at Playa Vista” — now sits at the red-hot center of the dispute.
BY NOW, THE TWO WARRING SIDES are sick of each other. Playa Capital Co. and the city are the defendants in the current lawsuit; the Ballona Wetlands Land Trust, Surfrider Foundation, city of Santa Monica, Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribal Council of San Gabriel and Ballona Ecosystem Education Project are the plaintiffs. Playa Capital has won most of the 19 or so lawsuits over the past 20 years. It wasn’t until 2005 that things stopped consistently going Playa Capital’s way. That year, environmentalists won a comparatively minor appellate-court decision forcing the city to someday fix a methane-gas removal system installed beneath the housing, which sits atop an ancient riverbed and pockets of potentially explosive gas.
Soboroff describes the environmentalists as a “small group of people” who are “extremists.” Rex Frankel, director of Ballona Ecosystem Education Project, counters that Soboroff is a “desperate man” who heads a project that’s “one of the biggest examples of corporate welfare in the history of Los Angeles.”
So when last week’s ruling was handed down, both sides grabbed for their glory. Playa Capital released a press statement touting the appellate court as having sided with “the city and Playa Capital on the vast majority of issues raised,” with Soboroff sniping, “Despite the professional project opponents, we remain confident that the Playa Vista vision will ultimately be realized.”
Frankel sent out a three-page missive the same day, declaring that “the court’s landmark ruling is a major victory for the citizens of Los Angeles, the environment, civil rights of Native Americans, and overall quality of life.” Frankel throws his own verbal jab, saying, “The court didn’t accept the developer’s masquerade about benefits to the public that didn’t actually exist.”
Indeed, the state appeals court was very specific in the three areas that went against Playa Capital and City Hall. Wrote the judges, “The misleading analysis of land use impacts, failure to discuss preservation in place of historical archeological resources, and failure to properly analyze wastewater impacts rendered the EIR as a whole deficient.” Those problems “collectively are not severable from the project as a whole. The City can achieve full compliance with CEQA [the California Environmental Quality Act] only by vacating the project approvals that were based on the certified EIR and revising the EIR to remedy these deficiencies. Only then can the City . . . grant the project approvals.”
“It’s a very thorough, well-supported opinion,” says Frank P. Angel, a highly regarded Santa Monica–based environmental lawyer, who is not involved in the case. “It requires definite measures that need to be followed up.”
Angel believes construction will be delayed several months, at a minimum, to fix the environmental-impact report and then guide it through a City Hall approval process that includes a public-comment period, planning-department hearings and council meetings — all potentially contentious and heavily lobbied. “A rush job on this EIR won’t do,” says Angel. “It’s not a matter of one or two months.”
Steve Soboroff, though, sounds like a man who doesn’t plan to satisfy the appellate court. “The idea of now going back and changing that plan is not good public policy,” he says, “and it’s not going to happen.” He ridiculed the appellate court as having merely “found some flint” — small issues in the EIR upon which to base their ruling.
Playa Capital, according to Soboroff, is looking at legal options that might release the project from construction limbo and push it forward. The developer is uncertain if he’ll seek an appeal with the California Supreme Court or request a rehearing with the appeals court. The city, according to City Attorney’s Office spokesman Nick Velasquez, is “still reviewing its options.”
Frank Angel and Doug Carstens, however, note that the state Supreme Court considers only 5 percent of the appeal requests it receives. And since the appellate court’s ruling was “not published,” meaning it doesn’t set any precedent for other cases, the Supreme Court will probably be even less interested in Playa Capital’s appeal. “It’s highly unlikely,” says Angel.
In the meantime, Soboroff says, Playa Vista workers will face job cutbacks, and Westside renters and buyers will have to wait longer for the Village’s new housing, slated to rise between the 405 freeway and what remains of the wetlands.
“[The Village] is for working people,” Soboroff says excitedly during a phone interview. “It’s work-force housing!” When Rex Frankel hears these things, he can only laugh. “For Soboroff to claim he’s for the workingman is ridiculous,” he says with a chuckle. “It’s a super-rich man’s community.”
It’s still unclear if the appellate court’s ruling means the end of development at Playa Vista. Frankel, of course, hopes so. Soboroff says no. Eric Sussman, a real estate expert and award-winning lecturer at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management, also thinks not, citing pressure for housing on the Westside and Playa Capital’s tenacity.
“There hasn’t been a roadblock they haven’t encountered,” says Sussman. “I doubt it would kill the project entirely. I would be very surprised.”
Then again, the environmentalists haven’t gone away either, and now they’ve had their first big victory in the court of appeals, following their more modest victory over methane control. Frankel, who’s been fighting the Ballona Wetlands battle for 22 years, calls it “karmic payback.” The momentum, so long on the side of Playa Capital, may be shifting.
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Aaron puts a golden jar with manna into the Ark of the Covenant, as a reminder of the Israelites' wanderings in the desert,(Exodus 16,32).
Verdun altarpiece at Klosterneuburg Monastery near Vienna
The Verdun Altar was made in c.1181 and it is named after the artist & craftsman Nicholas of Verdun. The altarpiece is divided into one central panel and 2 wings and comprises 51 copper squares. It is split into 3 rows due to biblical reference. The middle row shows the life and passion of Jesus, while the adjacent rows above and below illustrate the life of Abraham, Moses, Noah or Samson and other topics fitting to the elaborate program of "parallel" scenes. The Medium used for this work is called champlevé enamel work where a metal base with compartments is filled with enamel.
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_of_Verdun
or in German, but with the scheme of the elaborate program:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verduner_Altar
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Simply put, the 1968 Petri Color 35 is a design masterpiece. It came two years after the Rollei 35 and is the camera that the Rollei 35 should have been. Where the Rollei 35 is odd and hard to work, the Petri Color 35 shines in originality and ease of use. Of course all of this is VERY odd, since saying a Petri had a much better design than a Rollei is something like saying Yugo had a much better design than Ferrari. I don't have a clue how the Color 35 design came to Petri, but I bet it's a fascinating story. According to the Collector's Guide of Japanese Cameras, the Petri Color 35 has the distinction being the first Japanese camera to have the distance scale and exposure scale in the viewfinder.
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Richmond Castle in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, stands in a commanding position above the River Swale, close to the centre of the town of Richmond. It was originally called Riche Mount, 'the strong hill'. The castle was constructed from 1071 onwards following the Norman Conquest of England, and the Domesday Book of 1086 refers to 'a castlery' at Richmond.
In 1069 William the Conqueror had put down a rebellion at York which was followed by his "harrying of the North" – an act of ethnic cleansing which depopulated large areas for a generation or more. As a further punishment, he divided up the lands of north Yorkshire among his most loyal followers. Alan Rufus, of Brittany, received the borough of Richmond and began constructing the castle to defend against further rebellions and to establish a personal power base. His holdings, called the Honour of Richmond, covered parts of eight counties and amounted to one of the most extensive Norman estates in England. The Dukes of Brittany became the owners of the castle as Earls of Richmond though it was often confiscated for various periods by English Kings.
A 100-foot (30 m)-high keep of honey-coloured sandstone was constructed at the end of the 12th century by Duke Conan IV of Brittany. The Earldom of Richmond was seized in 1158 by Henry II of England. [a] It was King Henry II who probably completed the keep which had 11-foot (3.4 m)-thick walls. Modern visitors can climb to the top of the keep for magnificent views of the town of Richmond. At the same time that the keep was probably completed, Henry II considerably strengthened the castle by adding towers and a barbican. Henry III and King Edward I spent more money on the site including Edward's improvements to the keep interior.
In addition to the main circuit of the wall, there was the barbican in front of the main gate which functioned as a sealed entry space, allowing visitors and wagons to be checked before they gained entry to the castle itself. On the other side of the castle, overlooking the river, was another enclosure or bailey called the Cockpit, which may have functioned as a garden and was overlooked by a balcony. A drawing of 1674 suggests there was another longer balcony overlooking the river side of Scolland's Hall, the Great Hall.
Richmond Castle had fallen out of use as a fortress by the end of the 14th century and it did not receive major improvements after that date. A survey of 1538 shows it was partly in ruins, but paintings by Turner and others, together with the rise of tourism and an interest in antiquities, led to repairs to the keep in the early 19th century.
In 1855 the castle became the headquarters of the North Yorkshire Militia, and a military barracks block was constructed in the great courtyard. For two years, from 1908 to 1910, the castle was the home of Robert Baden-Powell, later founder of the Boy Scouts, while he commanded the Northern Territorial Army but the barracks building was demolished in 1931.
The castle was used during the First World War as the base of the Non-Combatant Corps made up of conscientious objectors – conscripts who refused to fight. It was also used to imprison some conscientious objectors who refused to accept army discipline and participate in the war in any way. These included the "Richmond Sixteen" who were taken to France from the castle, charged under Field Regulations, and then sentenced to death, but their death sentences were commuted to ten years' hard labour.
As presented today Richmond Castle has one of the finest examples of Norman buildings in Britain including Scollands Hall, the Great Hall of the castle. The keep has a restored roof and floors but is shown with the original 11th-century main gate arch unblocked. This arch is now in the basement of the later 12th century keep which was built in front of it, the main gate then being moved to its present position which was dominated by the adjacent keep while the original arch we see today was filled-in to secure the keep.
The castle is a Scheduled Monument, a "nationally important" historic building and archaeological site which has been given protection against unauthorised change.It is also a Grade I listed building and therefore recognised as an internationally important structure. Today the castle is in the care of English Heritage which publishes a guidebook written by John Goodall PhD FSA. English Heritage provides a visitor centre for the castle with an informative exhibition containing artefacts form the castles history, they also hold regular events there throughout the year.
According to legend, King Arthur and his knights are sleeping in a cave underneath the castle. It is said that they were once discovered by a potter named Thompson, who ran away when they began to awake. Another legend tells that a drummer boy
Payson is a town in northern Gila County, Arizona, United States. Its location puts it very near to the geographic center of Arizona. Payson has been called "The Heart of Arizona".
Payson had its first rodeo in 1884. Payson considers its rodeo the "world's oldest continuous" as it has been held every year since.
In 1918 author Zane Grey made his first trip to the area surrounding Payson. He would come back with regularity through 1929, and would purchase two plots of land near Tonto Creek, including 120 acres (49 ha) from Sampson Elam Boles under Myrtle Point. Grey wrote numerous books about the area and also filmed some movies, such as To the Last Man, in the Payson area in the 1920s.
"Zane Grey Country" is a term for the area around Payson, Arizona. This term was most often used in the 1970s and 1980s, and appeared in the header of the local newspaper, The Payson Roundup. In recent times it has fallen somewhat out of favor, as the term "Rim Country" has become more popular among locals.
Ninety-seven percent of the land around Payson is under the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service (Payson is surrounded by the Tonto National Forest) or by tribal governments. Consequently much of the land is available for hiking, horseback riding, fishing and hunting activities. Tonto Natural Bridge, the largest known travertine natural bridge in the world, is located just northwest of Payson in Tonto Natural Bridge State Park, a unit of the Arizona State Park system. The area incorporates three golf courses, two of which belong to private country clubs. Mazatzal Casino, a tribal casino, is operated by the Tonto Apache Indian Reservation near the south end of the city.
The Payson area is a popular destination for rockhounds. In various areas surrounding the community can be found quartz crystals rivaling Herkimer diamonds in quality, geodes, agate, and onyx. Fossils are commonly found in the Paleozoic strata that is exposed along the Mogollon Rim to the north and west of Payson along State Route 87 and State Route 260.
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I put the carboys in the cart before I started filling them with new wine from the primary fermenting containers (one of them - a stainless steel cook pot - is pictured on the ground). Minimizes heavy lifting of very fragile objects.
Because I only had one full day in New York I took back to back Hop On Hop Off Buses. Some of the images are not very good as the bus would go over bumps etc,.I have kept them in as memorises of the day. I only got off the bus once so most of the photos were taken as we were travelling along. Sadly I just didn't have time to have a good walk around.
I woke to a lovely sunny day and not too cold with around 16c. As the day went on it clouded over a bit and cooled down. November 7, 2018 USA.
Teal cardigan: J Crew
Gray tee: Mossimo Supply Co.
Jeans: American Eagle
Gold flats: Mossimo Supply CO.
Bird heart pin: Etsy
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) poses for a picture with a man while skiing in the Krasnaya Polyana resort outside Sochi on January 4, 2009. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ KREMLIN PRESS SERVICE (Photo credit should read ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
Put this dress on to go out for a drive and Sunday lunch by the river. It's a dress I have not worn for a while, nice and cool.
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Celebrities put on their wellies and brave the mud and rain for the first day of Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, UK. 27/06/2008
Pictured: TV Presenter Alexa Chung and boyfriend Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys
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I'd put these aside for a couple of weeks, only wearing them occasionally as I had several other choices.
Then a friend who turned me on to this filled his sole full of staples for a few hours and I had to compensate. He goes for insertion depths I couldn't begin to tolerate, but I go for duration, can I wear them all day?
Up to now, I never had much stuck in my heel, only a couple of staples through the sole that only hit my heel if I stepped down hard or on a stone. But I had a thought: What about sticking shorter staples, like you use to staple sheets of paper together just through the insole. I could put them through the heel or actually anywhere.
first tried a couple through each heel and found I could wear the shoes for extended periods with the staples stuck into my calloused heels. Not enough to draw blood (usually) but stuck well into my heels Pain but not intolerable, particularly after they had been on for a few hours.
So two staples per heel worked so I kept adding more, in the heel, the midfoot, and even in a couple forefoot areas that the other staples didn't reach.
Now that I'm used to them, I've worn them out shopping, wherever. The pain level is higher on rough surfaces outside, but well within my tolerance.
So if you want something different, give this a try. I will tell you with the staples through the insoles, the pain will depend on how thick and how stiff the insoles are. Good luck being able to do this with thin or soft insoles. But give it a try and post the photos. Just be careful to avoid infection. If you break the skin, apply some disinfectant.
'Heave heritage, put up a parking lot '.
Welcome , or an unwelcome sight, to Greenlane Clinical or Cynical centre ? in Auckland. Building ten is coming down for the lack of advocacy , or interest ,solidly built in the 1920s....the rationale since the Christchurch Earthquakes of late 2011/Feb 2012 insurance has hugely increased so too the idea of earthquake proofing older, if solid buildings.
One reason I like to travel is for the appreciation of architecture. This is not often valued in Auckland though. It is not officially the central areas second hospital any more , despite its history of heart surgery and the National Women's hospital as most 'health users' are now day patients. The more ideal view behind is on an official website ...
www.adhb.govt.nz/gcc/gcc_history.htm
"Even if a building was worthy of preservation, Aucklanders could not expect the board to preserve it. "In Auckland we are very good at destroying buildings given by benefactors, which would make any potential benefactor think twice."
Heritage advocate Helen Geary, who was part of the two-year battle to save Building 5 (see panel), said Building 10 was also of heritage interest and should at least be properly recorded. "In an ideal world it would be great to keep it because all heritage is significant, but it's on a hospital site and it's difficult to save everything."
She recommended the board photograph the interior and salvage the woodwork panelling, staircase and old fanlight windows.
She would be interested to hear of the board's plans for the three Category 1 listed buildings, in particular the Costley Home. "To my knowledge it's not being maintained and is neglected."
Board communications manager Mark Fenwick said the future needs of ........ the future needs of Aucklanders were at the "forefront of planning. We have identified the Greenlane Clinical Centre site as a key future-health services development site, offering a large area of flat land in a good location for developing new clinical facilities."
'Heave heritage, put up a parking lot' (2011)
www.nzherald.co.nz/aucklander/news/article.cfm?c_id=15033...
www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=SEE...
Building 5 was saved with a campaign earlier on....though there had been claims for a 'speedy demolition because it might have asbestos'...
www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/393705...
Put the NXT brick piece on top of the pen holder element. Put the axis of the height adjustment for the pen into the motor.
Well, Gents -- It's been a little more than seven hours since your Frontier Airlines non-stop flight from Denver International Airport touched down at McCarran International Airport -- And you've been very busy. It's taken you six hours to get into your hotel room, but now all of your busy work is done, you have put away your Vegas 'GO-Bag' and you are officially free to go anywhere you want and do anything you want to do.
So what do you want to do about 'Happy Hour?'
So how about cold beer and a tall-piled Corned Beef Sandwich at Greenberg’s Deli?
Park the car, put the cam on tripod, point and shoot.
Then spend many hours to get the post-processing right, heh. Not a thrilling picture, but i'm learning how to make it so :)
Cassiopea in front of the Milky Way (the "W" is 45° counterclockwise), M31 (Andromeda) on bottom right, Double Cluster on bottom.
Processing : 3300k WB, heavy NR, contrast boost, hightlights and blacks reduced, whites increased. Also disabled the sharpening (very important, else you cannot distinguish big stars from background noise). I have some hard time removing the vignetting, since the Milky Way have its own glowing.
I still dont get the right WB somehow :( but I like that excess of blue.
