Janell & Angelo Madonna Your search is over! We have enclosed pictures of the bathroom in our recently purchased 1960's home. A few reasons this bathroom is in need of a remodel:1) The bathtub frightens small children and some adults.2) The bathtub is, shall we say…generously proportioned, should be good for soaking - right? Let's rethink that while sitting on a few 1x1 mosaic tiles. Ahhh, now you see what I mean? Not such a great idea for the interior of a bathtub!3) Although it's difficult, look away from the tub. Notice the other tile in the room? The walls are tile, the countertop is tile, and even the window ledge is tile! Who doesn't dream of brown grout, bumpy tile countertops, brown sinks and wooden faucets?4) The final designer touch has got to be the plush peach carpet. That carpet just brings a breath of fresh air to the room. There's nothing like thick carpeting to make a bathroom feel squeaky clean!Thanks for considering our treasure in your search for America's ugliest bathroom!
LONDON (Reuters) - The secret of carrier pigeons' uncanny ability to find their way home has been discovered by British scientists: the feathered navigators follow the roads just like we do.
In an internal memorandum distributed on Wednesday, the department declared 'Courier New 12' - the font and size decreed for US diplomatic documents for years - to be obsolete and unacceptable after February 1. ...The memorandum offered no explanation for the exceptions, leaving foreign service officers to speculate as to whether the White House, US treaty partners and telegram readers are not yet able to handle the change.
DALIAN, China - Hidden in a maze of factories in the heart of this northeastern Chinese port city is the house Gunther von Hagens built — and, for many, a place where nightmares are created. Inside von Hagens' sprawling, well-guarded compound, behind a leaning metal fence pocked with holes, are more than 800 human beings — 200 of his staffers and 645 dead bodies in steel cases from almost a dozen nations. The anatomist, whose exhibits of preserved human corpses have riled religious leaders in Europe and attracted the curious and the outraged across the world, set up shop here three years ago to process bodies for his shows.
'It's interesting that Leonardo used layers ... to create unbreakable objects. In the case of oil painting, for example, linseed oil is the binding agent. This oil polymerizes slowly on contact with the air, forming a resistant, waterproof polymer similar to linoleum. 'This shows once again Leonardo's great innovative input--although obviously it doesn't add anything to our knowledge nowadays,' Alessandro Bagno, professor at Padova University's department of organic chemistry, told Discovery News.
Lost in the brouhaha over the Jets stadium and the Bloomberg administration's plan for a revitalized West Side is a broad swath of privately owned buildings in the 30's and 40's that the city wants to demolish to make room for a broad, park-like boulevard.Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff's ambitious plan calls for the city to invoke eminent domain to clear away the middle of every block from 33rd Street to 42nd Street, between 10th and 11th avenues, in order to create this long, landscaped, car-free Champs Elysees. Mr. Doctoroff, the city's deputy mayor for economic development, hopes to see tall office buildings and residential towers sprout up along both sides of the park....And were it not for one pesky building, he would be looking at the easiest land grab since the city took Robert Moses' bulldozers away from him.Federal Express, the international shipping company, is gearing up for a fight over its World Service Center, which stands in the path of the wrecking ball.The shipping company doesn't own the building in which it is housed, a 65,000-square-foot facility at 528 West 34th Street. However, over the last 15 years, FedEx has put $54 million worth of renovations into the facility, and sources in Community Board 4, which represents that district, said that FedEx has told them it would cost upwards of $140 million to relocate.
Ever think architects talk a load of rubbish? Well now is your chance to measure yourself up with them! This is an open call to HOME owners and all budding designers to submit material which they think a HOME is or should be.
The Jackson-Timberlake moment drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever measured. TiVo said viewership spiked up to 180 percent as hundreds of thousands of households used TiVo's unique capabilities to pause and replay live television to view the incident again and again.
Two slutty decades later, Darling Nikki is back, having been faithfully remade by the multi-platinum modern rock band the Foo Fighters. Meant as a B-side to the Foo Fighters' single "Have It All," the new version of Darling Nikki has instead become a breakout radio hit: Locally, WHFS counts it among its most played and most requested songs this month, and on Los Angeles' KROQ, the tastemaking station of mallternative-skateboarding teen chic, the song has been played several times a day since early October.
The design incorporates a number of energy-saving features. Two 45-foot wind towers and screen walls provide air pre-cooled by 10 degrees to the air-conditioning system, thereby reducing the amount of energy required for cooling. Says Grover: "This is called the 'venturi effect' in modern buildings. It helps pre-cool the air." Pointing out the jali (lattice) work in a photograph of the Taj Mahal, he explains: "It's not the first time for India. We have been doing it since ancient times."The Rs 6 crore structure also has photovoltaic panels built into it to generate solar energy that takes care of 20% of the building's annual energy requirements. Likewise, the electrical fixtures have been automated to save power; 90% of the building does not require any artificial lighting during the day because its circular design allows sunlight to reach every part of it. The building also boasts variable speed motors for its blowers and pumps, and the elaborate use of sensors feeding back to the controls. Thanks to its circular design, fewer materials were used in the building's construction. Those that were, were recycled and eco-friendly -- broken mosaic tiles, steel, wood, glass, fly ash brick, oil-and CFC-free equipment and the locally-available bettum cherla stone. Inside, all the carpets and paint are non-toxic. The workers employed in the building's construction were all local people. Water is regarded as a precious resource -- the building employs water-harvesting methods and wastewater is treated on-site and diverted for storage, to a water body on the edge of the plot, to be used for the garden. Here again there is a harking back to ancient architecture. "The root zone water regeneration system we have used in the GBC is very common in Mughal gardens," says Grover. ...Grover's design received an unprecedented 'Version 2 Platinum' rating, credited with 57 of the 62 parameters it competed in, under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), a system of rating environmentally conscious buildings. This is the highest possible award for sustainable design, ahead of 'Version 1 Platinum', won by only three other buildings in the United States. In fact, the Indian design was considered so revolutionary that the USGBC had to upgrade its rating system to recognise its unique characteristics.