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This is the Pont du Gard, a famous Roman Aqueduct on the Gardon River in France.
This monumental structure spanning the Gardon River valley is 275 metres long, 49 metres high, 6 metres wide at the base, 3 metres wide at the top and has a total of fifty three arches. It is only one part of a fifty kilometre aqueduct which supplied Roman Nimes with fresh water. It is estimated to have carried twenty thousand cubic metres per day.
It was built using six-ton stone blocks, coloured a delicate shade of pink, laid dry, and is a technological and aesthetic masterpiece.
Through poor maintenance, the aqueduct gradually became unusable in the 9th Century.
But the many times restored Pont du Gard, still remains its haughty air even after nearly two thousand years.
From a tourist book on La Provence (English version)
Begun around 19 BC, this bridge is part of an aqueduct which transported water from a spring near Uzes to Roman Nimes. An underground channel, bridges and tunnels were engineered to carry the 20 million litre (4.4 million gallon) daily water supply 50 km (31 miles).
The three-tiered structure of the Pont du Gard spans the Gardon valley and was the tallest aqueduct in the Roman empire.
Its huge limestone blocks, some as heavy as 6 tonnes, were erected without mortar. The water channel covered by stone slabs, was in the top tier of the three. Skillfully designed cutwaters ensured that the bridge has resisted many violent floods.
It is not known for certain how long the aqueduct continued in use but it may still have been functioning as late as the 9th century AD.
The adjacent road bridge was erected in the 1700s.
Taken from DK Eyewitness Travel: Provence & The Cote D'Azur
Details of the stonework.
Dancing Rabbit is located in a county that has no building codes, which gives members a great deal of leeway in deciding what to build. They do have an environmental covenant that disallows lumber, except for reclaimed lumber and locally harvested wood. Many structures utilize clay taken right out of the ground, often combined with hay bale construction.
This picture shows an individual's "summer cottage" made of reclaimed lumber.
After some fiddling i now manage to store data structurally in Liferay's structures, and lift it to the website using Velocity templates.
The external ear contains the auricle, ear canal, and tympanic membrane. The middle ear contains the ossicles and is connected to the pharynx by the Eustachian (or auditory) tube. The inner ear contains the cochlea and vestibule, which are responsible for audition and equilibrium, respectively. (Image credit: "External, Middle and Inner Ear" by Chiara Mazzasette is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / A derivative from the original work)
Acrylic marker and ink on paper 9.85" x 13.85" 4.14.2025. www.saatchiart.com/en-jp/art/Drawing-Deserted-Structure-a...
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On May 11th at 11:41am, the McHenry Township Fire Protection District responded to 1304 N. Park St. for a reported structure fire. Caller advised they smell smoke and possibly see flames on the roof.
At 11:55am, MTFPD activated MABAS Box #5-1241 to the second level for the structure fire.
Units Due:
Engines: McHenry, Richmond, Wauconda, Fox River Grove, Nunda Rural
Tenders: Fox Lake
Squads: Wonder Lake
EMS: McHenry, Lakewood
Chiefs: Spring Grove, Richmond, Wonder Lake, Crystal Lake
Special Equipment: Rehab North, Salvation Army Canteen
Change of Quarters (St.#): Cary Engine and Chief (1), Woodstock EMS (1), Lake Villa Engine (2), Spring Grove EMS (2)
At 12:34pm, the MTFPD upgraded MABAS Box #5-1241 to the third level for the structure fire.
Units Due:
Engines: Grayslake, Algonquin, Antioch
Trucks: Round Lake
Squads: Marengo
EMS: Huntley
Chiefs: Fox Lake, Wauconda
Special Equipment: Air 5, UCP 13
At 1:17pm, the MTFPD struck out MABAS Box #5-1241 by the authority of command.
News obtained from the Northwest Herald: McHENRY – A structure fire at the Polish Legion of American Veterans on 1304 Park St. in McHenry took roughly two and a half hours to extinguish Sunday afternoon, but no one was injured during the annual Mother's Day brunch.
McHenry Township Fire Battalion Chief Joe Krueger said firefighters received a call at 11:41 a.m. for the fire, which was called in while members of the post were cooking for a Mother's Day brunch. Krueger said a Level 3 MABAS box alert was called, bringing assistance from multiple departments in Lake and McHenry counties.
With heavy smoke coming through the roof, McHenry Township Fire Chief Tony Huemann said the first wave of firefighters made an aggressive move and ran hoses inside the building before Krueger deemed the situation too dangerous and pulled out the firefighters. Responders then fought the blaze defensively from the outside of the building, Huemann said.
No civilians or firefighters were injured and the fire was contained to the single building. Some emergency crews began to leave the scene at 3 p.m. The building has "substantial" damage, Krueger said, with most of the back and back roof completely destroyed.
Dan Lisi, first vice commander of Polish Legion of American Veterans Post 188, said he and other members were cooking a Mother's Day brunch at the same time a roofing company was doing work on the building when a breaker popped around 11:30 a.m.
Other breakers started popping and the fire started, Lisi said. He said 70 people were inside the hall, and everybody exited safely and without injury.
Krueger said the cause of the fire is still under investigation. Representatives from the roofing company on scene declined to comment.
Lisi said the post has 144 members and has been in the building since 1980.
8-10-2015
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Meadow, Stricklands Crossroads, Blackman's Crossroads, Newton Grove, Bentonville
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Crews gossip by the shed on Peter Cunningham's 7mm (1:43 - British O) layout, which represents a Great Eastern Railway line in the 1910s-1920s time frame. The models are a mix of kit and scratchbuilt.
Peter believes the rewards of such projects, properly explained, will encourage more adults in their 30s and 40s to take up the hobby - and that this is a better strategy than trying to turn children into model railway enthusiasts.
Peter is our guest on Episode 11 of The Model Railway Show.
Architecture
Today we are back in the Loop and at another structure on which several famous architects separately invested their time (like Monadnock, Day 13). The Rookery was built in 1888 and stands at 209 S. LaSalle, near the head of the LaSalle Street Canyon created by the Board of Trade (and makes up my favorite stretch of street in the city. Extended sidebar here: if you’re in the area, the absolute greatest is to stand in the middle of LaSalle just north of Washington and stare south – on a Sunday at like 7:30am, there’s nobody around. It makes me feel like I can fly… maybe that’s why so much of the Batman movies were filmed on this stretch. Okay, back to the business at hand). The Rookery was built by the adored pair of Burnham and Root. Like Mies with his Crown Hall, the duo appear to have spent a bit of extra time on the structure, as it was to become their future home. As such, they used primary LEED building techniques, leaving the entire center of the building open to allow more open space, freer movement of air, and the use of natural lighting (okay, there was no LEED, but it’s funny how close they came to today’s ideal principals of Green Development – because they were designing with themselves in mind?).
According to legend, the Rookery was named for the temporary City Hall that occupied the site after the Chicago Fire. Akin to the City’s nickname of the Windy City (not anything to do with weather), the building was called as such not just for the pigeons and birds that roosted in the old building, but also for the residence of the rooks (shady politicians). The fact that the structure was to be on city land may have been a problem, but part of the conglomerate assembled to complete the structure included local real estate man, Owen Aldis. Mr. Aldis happened to be an old family friend of Carter Harrison, the current mayor (and eventual 5-time mayor) of the city. Against all odds, the process reportedly moved swimmingly through the city and even more surprisingly, concluded with a 99 year lease to the Rookery’s owners for a non-increasing fee of $35,000 annually (and the city was on the hook for state property taxes). Not bad when the same amount 100 years later would have cost about $400,000 once inflation is thrown into the mix. Unique for the time, the building was created entirely for commercial lease space and contained around 600 offices.
Burnham and Root’s building is supported with steel columns on the first two floors, which then transition to load-bearing masonry above (another transition structure like the Monadnock). As a geotechnical engineer myself, of particular interest to me is Root’s innovative design for the support of the structure. Deep foundations hadn’t yet been developed, so a creative method had to be invented to support such a massive and heavy structure on Chicago’s 50 foot thick layer of soft clay. Root’s incredible mind arrived at a solution called a grillage foundation. His idea was to use criss-crossing steel rails and beams and then encase them in a massive block of concrete. This way the loads would be distributed over a large area - today a very similar method is still being used and is called a mat foundation.
When the Rookery was set to open in 1888, there weren’t many potential tenants would consider leasing space so high into the sky. As a marketing tool (and also most likely for the views and low rents) Burnham and Root moved their offices to the 11th floor of the building. Their presence was a sign of confidence in their design and helped allay fears of potential clients, but it also provided unobstructed views of the swelling city to the men.
By 1905, the owners had decided that the ornate ironwork in the lobby had gone out of style. In order to bring it up to date, they hired another successful Chicago architect who had been in residence in the Rookery: Frank Lloyd Wright. Looking at the lobby, Wright’s influence isn’t plainly evident – he wanted to maintain general agreement with Root’s intentions for the space. He removed much of the ironwork and replaced it with gold-inlaid white marble using Root’s designs from elsewhere in the building to complete the detailing. It was to this state that the building was restored in the early 1990s. There had been one other major rework of the building in the 1930s to an Art Deco aesthetic, and much of this was reversed and the building was restored to the appearance it had in 1910. The lobby is the only surviving urban work by Wright.
In order to get most of these shots (and some of the stories), we took a tour of the building with the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. The tour was only ten bucks and was wonderful – I definitely recommend it (here: gowright.org/rookery.html).
Nov. 13, 2103. Contractor crewmembers prepare for the removal of pilings by first placing protective booming around each or dolphin (group of pilings).
In November 2013 DNR started removing nearly 900 derelict, toxic, creosote-treated pilings and 5000 square feet of old dilapidated dock and other structures along a 40-mile stretch of shoreline in eastern Jefferson County. They are being removed to help clean up the marine waters of dangerous chemicals like creosote which used to be used as a wood preservative and has been found to contain highly toxic chemicals. These chemicals continue to leach into the marine waters long after the lifespan of the wooden structures. Photos during removal at Port Ludlow.
Evidence of dune-like structures in the surface dust of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Features like this may be the result of localised gas-driven transport of surface dust. The image was taken by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 23 August 2014.
A labelled version of this image is available.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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CANOGA PARK- The Los Angeles Fire Department battled a Major Emergency Structure Fire in the west San Fernando Valley on Monday, October 18, 2021.
The fire at 8423 Canoga Avenue in Canoga Park, was first noted at 12:18 PM by an LAFD Paramedic Ambulance crew returning from a nearby emergency. Within moments of their reporting the fire, flames were through the roof of the 125' x 125' one-story industrial building that also housed an adjoining but unrelated business at 8425 Canoga Avenue.
As that first-arriving LAFD Paramedic crew circled the structure to gain situational awareness and guide fellow responders, they encountered the first of three adult male civilians with severe burn injuries outside the burning building. Two proved to be in critical condition and the other in serious condition. All three were taken to area hospitals. Sadly, one of the critically injured men died later while undergoing hospital care.
The rapid spread of intense flames and multiple explosions heard within the building guided first-arriving firefighters to quickly commence defensive operations, applying multiple large diameter hose streams from the exterior, including two from atop extended aerial ladders, to prevent flames from extending beyond the well involved structure.
With the exception of a forty square-foot section of the roof at 8427 Canoga Avenue destroyed by surface fire, the tactics proved successful in holding the blaze to the pair of unrelated businesses under one roof at 8423 and 8425 Canoga Avenue.
It took 150 Los Angeles Firefighter just 75 minutes to extinguish the flames.
Firefighters remained active through the night extinguishing hotspots and minimizing hazards at the structurally compromised building with the help of LAFD's robotic firefighting vehicle and heavy equipment.
At daylight Tuesday, LAFD crews resumed a systematic search within the largely destroyed premises. During their methodical search among tons of burnt debris inside the structure, firefighters discovered the remains of an adult male, bringing the overall patient count to four, with a total of two deceased and two remaining hospitalized.
No other injuries were reported.
Scientific testing of materials inside the building of fire origin yielded positive results for hemp, and it appears that the operation inside involved the extraction from hemp, not dissimilar to that used in the Butane Honey Oil extraction process.
Though the business was a legal enterprise, the operation inside appeared to be illegal, as it did not adhere to established permitting processes and safety requirements.
Pursuant to protocol, the fire's cause remains the focus of a joint active investigation by the Los Angeles Fire Department, Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force (L.A. Impact).
A positive identification of the dead men, as well as the cause, time and manner of their death will be determined by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner.
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The Harbor structure is the longest structure on the project. Its girders, made of recycled steel, were fabricated in Tigard, Oregon.
The structure is designed to carry light rail trains and buses between downtown Portland and South Waterfront. The structure travels above and below several roadways, meaning traffic will not need to stop as transit passes.
Licensed for all uses by TriMet.