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I love the catwalk going straight to the upper levels, the long smokestack, and the vegetation growing on top of the structure. What’s the story behind those broken windows? Who worked there? I scouted the place on my own back in 2009. I had noticed a small passage going under the building. Alas, it looked pretty unsafe and darn close to a small, very functioning electrical power plant. I pondered my options and figured I’d rather get my BFF Bennett get electrocuted first, a year later. More on the blog.
This big almost-SHIP has been finished for some time and was displayed at Bricks Cascade 2017. Relative to most of my builds it has a pretty involved function! These WIP shots show the gradual process of paring down and refining this mechanism to boost performance and minimize the space it takes up. More pics coming I don't know when, hopefully soon!
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The crematorium functioned from August 1940 until July 1943. The German authorities calculated that 340 corpses per day could be cremated here. For a time, they used one of the rooms in this building as the first gas chamber, where they killed thousands of newly arrived Jews and several groups of Soviet prisoners of war with Zyklon-B.
On the sign outside here it says: Before the war this building was a munitions bunker. From 15 August 1940 to July 1943 the SS used it as a crematorium. In the autumn of 1941, the largest room, which had been designed by the camp authorities as a morgue, was adapted for use as an improvised gas chamber, the first of its kind in Auschwitz. Using the gas produced by pellets of Zyklon B, many thousands of Jews were murdered here by the SS within hours of their arrival at Auschwitz. Several groups of Soviet POWs were also murdered here in this way, as were sick prisoners whose return to work was considered unlikely. Poles from outside the camp who had been sentenced to death by the German summary court were shot here.
After the establishment of Auschwitz II-Birkenau of two more improvised gas chambers in spring and summer of 1942 for the mass murder of the Jews, the gassings here were gradually stopped. Later, with the completion in Auschwitz II-Birkenau of four purpose-built gas chambers with crematoria, the burning of corpses here was also stopped (July 1943). The building was subsequently utilized for storage, and then as an air-raid shelter for the SS. The incinerators, chimney, and some of the walls were dismantled, and the holes in the roof through which the SS had poured Zyklon B were sealed.
After the war, the Museum partially reconstructed the gas chamber and crematorium. The chimney and two incinerators were rebuilt using original components, as were several of the openings in the gas chamber roof.
Believe it or not, I had not visited St Augustine's before. Not through want of trying, I had followed the signs from the city centre several times, but they peter out. However, a few months ago, we parked in a different place so I could visit a camera shop, and there was the entrance.
So, a few weeks back, after visiting the Cathedral, we headed to the Abbey. I really did not know what to expect, I have been to other ruined abbeys, but this is on a grander scale than all the others, and it seemed to me, the destruction more complete.
But it was here, in Canterbury, that St Augustine set up his mission, built his church and, in time, was buried.
Looking at the site now, and with the cathedral so close, Canterbury was little else other than church.
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St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England.[2] The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation. After the abbey's dissolution, it underwent dismantlement until 1848. Since 1848, part of the site has been used for educational purposes and the abbey ruins have been preserved for their historical value.
In 597, Augustine arrived in Anglo-Saxon England, having been sent by the missionary-minded Pope Gregory I to convert the Anglo-Saxons.[4] The King of Kent at this time was Æthelberht or Ethelbert. Although he worshipped in a pagan temple just outside the walls of Canterbury to the east of the city, Ethelbert was married to a Christian, Bertha. According to tradition, the king not only gave his temple and its precincts to St Augustine for a church and monastery,[4] he also ordered that the church to be erected be of "becoming splendour, dedicated to the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and endowed it with a variety of gifts." One purpose of the foundation was to provide a residence for Augustine and his brother monks. As another, both King Ethelbert and Augustine foresaw the abbey as a burial place for abbots, archbishops, and kings of Kent.[5]
William Thorne, the 14th century chronicler of the abbey, records 598 as the year of the foundation.[5] The monastic buildings were most likely wooden in the manner of Saxon construction, so they could be quickly built. However, building a church of solid masonry, like the churches Augustine had known in Rome, took longer.[6] The church was completed and consecrated in 613. Ca. 624 a short distance to the east, Eadbald, son and successor of Ethelbert, founded a second church, dedicated to Saint Mary which also buried Kentish royalty.[7] The abbey became known as St Augustine's after the founder's death.[8]
For two centuries after its founding, St Augustine's was the only important religious house in the kingdom of Kent.[9] The historian G. F. Maclear characterized St Augustine's as being a "missionary school" where "classical knowledge and English learning flourished."[10] Over time, St Augustine's Abbey acquired an extensive library that included both religious and secular holdings. In addition, it had a scriptorium for producing manuscripts.
Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 to 988, influenced a reorganisation of the abbey to conform to Benedictine rule. Buildings were enlarged and the church rebuilt. Dunstan also revised the dedication of the abbey, from the original Saints Peter and Paul, by adding Saint Augustine in 978.[12] Since then, the abbey has been known as St Augustine's.
The invading Danes not only spared St Augustine's, but in 1027 King Cnut made over all the possessions of Minster-in-Thanet to St Augustine's. These possessions included the preserved body of Saint Mildred. Belief in the miraculous power of this relic had spread throughout Europe, and it brought many pilgrims to St Augustine's, whose gifts enriched the abbey.
Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, William the Conqueror confiscated landed estates, but he respected Church property.[15] At St Augustine's Abbey, the Anglo-Saxon buildings were completely reconstructed in the form of a typical Norman Benedictine monastery.[8] By 1100, all the original buildings had disappeared under a Romanesque edifice. There was further rebuilding as a result of the great fire in 1168.[16] The fire's destruction accounts for the paucity of historical records for the preceding period.[17]
From about 1250 onwards was a period of wealth in which "building succeeded building."[18] Boggis' history calls this period a time of "worldly magnificence," marked by "lavish expenditures" on new buildings, royal visits, and banquets with thousands of guests. In addition, the papacy imposed many levies on the abbey. The large debt that was incurred by these expenditures might have swamped the abbey had it not been for generous benefactors who came to the rescue.[19]
The cloister, frater (refectory) and kitchen were totally rebuilt. A new abbot's lodging and a great hall were added. In the early 14th century, land was acquired for a cellarer's range (living and working quarters for the cellarer who was responsible for provisioning the abbey's cellarium), a brewhouse, a bakehouse, and a new walled vineyard. A Lady chapel was built to the east of the church.
The abbey gatehouse was rebuilt from 1301 to 1309 by Abbot Fyndon. It has since been known as the Fyndon Gate or the Great Gate. The chamber above the entrance was the state bed-chamber of the Monastery. In 1625, Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria slept in this chamber, following their marriage in Canterbury Cathedral.[20] In 1660, after the Restoration, Charles II and his brothers, the Dukes of York and Gloucester, stayed in the gatehouse on their way to London.[21]
Fyndon's gate suffered such damage by German bombs during the Second World War that it had to be rebuilt.[20] The gate faces a small square known since the reign of Charles I as Lady Wootton's Green."[21] Statues of Æthelberht of Kent and Queen Bertha stand on the green.
Boggis describes the early 16th century leading up to the Dissolution of the Monasteries as "days of decadence". Although the abbey owned estates throughout Kent amounting to 19,862 acres, Boggis holds that "historical evidence proves conclusively that even if Henry VIII. had never dissolved them, the English monasteries were already doomed." The "extortionate exactions" of the Papacy would lead to bankruptcy.[22]
However, the English Reformation accompanied by the Dissolution of the Monasteries happened before bankruptcy. The Reformation replaced the Pope (a cleric) with a Monarch (a layman). Actions by the Parliament's House of Commons strengthened the power of the laity versus the power of the clergy. These actions were part of the English Reformation’s "great transfer" of power, both economic and religious, from Ecclesiastical to Secular authorities.[23]
As part of the "great transfer," Parliament gave King Henry VIII authority to dissolve the monasteries and confiscate the property for the Crown. The rationale given was "that the religious houses had ceased to apply their property to the specific religious uses for which it was originally given."[15]
On 30 July 1538, the King's Commissioners arrived to take the surrender of St Augustine's Abbey. The last abbot and monks complied and left the abbey. The abbey, with its site, its goods, buildings, lands and all other possessions, became the property of the Crown. This dissolution ended over 940 years of monastic presence.
During the rest of Henry's reign, St Augustine's Abbey was held by the Crown with some of its buildings converted into a royal residence. However, in other parts of the abbey dismantling and sale of material began in 1541.[25] Some of the stone was used in the fortifications of the Pale of Calais, but more of it was sold locally. The library, containing two thousand manuscripts, was destroyed and the treasure plundered.[26]
The royal residence was used occasionally by the royal family as late as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, during which the buildings were leased to a succession of noblemen.[25][26] In 1558, Elizabeth leased the palace to Henry Lord Cobham. During Lord Cobham’s possession, the Queen kept her court here while on one of her royal progresses.[27] Lord Cobham was a resident of Kent who had served her faithfully as a diplomat and parliamentarian.[28] On the attainder of Lord Cobham for treason in 1603 under the reign of James I, the residence was granted to Robert Cecil, Lord Essenden.[27]
After Cecil died in 1612, the residence passed to Edward, Lord Wootton of Marley (sometimes spelled "Wotton").[29] Lord Wootton employed John Tradescant the elder to lay out formal gardens. Wootton died in 1626, but Lady Wootton lived on in her palace until her death in 1658. The open space before the gateway is still known as Lady Wootton's Green.[30]
Sir Edward Hales (1626–1684) took possession of the property after Lady Wooton’s death, to be followed by his son Sir Edward Hales (1645–1695). Rather than conserving the property, these new owners dismantled the buildings and carried used stones to build a new house at Hales Place.[29]
From then on until 1844, the desolation continued until it had engulfed the church, cloister, kitchen and refectory.[31] Other parts of the site suffered degradation. From 1770 to 1844, the Alfred Beer & Company brewery operated within the abbey precincts.[32] In 1804, a portion of the site was divided into lots and sold. The Great Court was used as a bowling green and skittle ground. Ethelbert's Tower, the remaining tower of the Norman abbey, was taken down in 1822.[26] Robert Ewell, in his Guide to St. Augustine’s Monastery and Missionary College wrote that in the first half of the 19th century, the abbey "reached its lowest point of degradation".
The condition of the abbey did not go unnoticed. In 1844 a rich young landowner, member of parliament, and generous churchman, Alexander James Beresford Hope, visited the ruins, found them deplorable, and bought them. Inspired by the missionary zeal of the Reverend Edward Coleridge, Hope and other donors gave additional money to restore and construct buildings for the establishment of a college to train young men as missionaries in the British colonies.[26] They envisioned a dual purpose for the college: (a) to educate missionaries and (b) to excavate and preserve the abbey remains.[33] St Augustine's Missionary College remained in existence until 1947.[34] However, on the night of 31 May 1942, its buildings were so badly damaged by a German blitz that the College ceased operations.[35]
English Heritage entrance on Longport to St Augustine's Abbey ruins[1]
From 1952 to 1967, the Missionary College buildings were used as The Central College of the Anglican Communion.[36]
Since 1976, the college buildings (plus some new ones) have been used by the King's School, Canterbury, for boarding houses and the School Library. This part of the St Augustine's Abbey site was purchased by the School in 1994.[37]
The ruins of the abbey are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site[38] in the care of English Heritage.
On November 15-16, 2018, the Ford School and Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted "Functions and Firms: Using Activity and Entity-based Regulation to Strengthen the Financial System" featuring Keynote speaker Jelena McWilliams, Chairman of the FDIC. Over the course of two days in Washington DC, the U.S. Office of Financial Research and the University of Michigan’s CFLP brought together regulators, policymakers, lawyers, economists, financial institutions, investors, financial technology companies, and experts on data science, cybersecurity, and finance to discuss core principles for financial regulation.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2018/functions-and-firms-usin...
This photo is available for free under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory photo credit may be attributed to: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
On November 15-16, 2018, the Ford School and Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted "Functions and Firms: Using Activity and Entity-based Regulation to Strengthen the Financial System" featuring Keynote speaker Jelena McWilliams, Chairman of the FDIC. Over the course of two days in Washington DC, the U.S. Office of Financial Research and the University of Michigan’s CFLP brought together regulators, policymakers, lawyers, economists, financial institutions, investors, financial technology companies, and experts on data science, cybersecurity, and finance to discuss core principles for financial regulation.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2018/functions-and-firms-usin...
This photo is available for free under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory photo credit may be attributed to: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
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Highlighting Drillr's actuated drill, ToxiCoptr's ball dropper (ball is held snugly in harness but pops out with a gentle flick)
Looking more like a box truck or transit bus, this GE Transportation Class 70 PowerHaul locomotive is seen arriving in Hagerstown, MD on its way from the plant in Erie, PA to Norfolk, VA where it will continue to England via ship.
This is a fully functional clock, built for LEGO Ideas. If you like it, be sure to go support it right here (it'll only take a moment!). Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed it
MOC with LEGO Technic and Power Function elements.
creation time : 2009 Dec ~ 2010 Feb 20th
size(in studs) : W x L x H = 12 x 27 x 10.5 (height measured without weapon)
weight : 477g (measured with weapon)
battery : 8878
drive : M motor, differential in the rear
steering : M motor, worm+clutch gear, maximum steering angle of about 40 degree.
return-to-center : was not applied (and so, it is hard to maneuver )
weapon : zamor sphere shooter
etc : gullwing door, opening bonnet(hood), towball at front and rear, Vladek driver, spare tire
This was exhibited at the [2nd BrickInside Power Function Racing Contest] held in Seoul, South Korea on February 20th. Other participants' works were great and I did not get any prize : )
[added on March 8]
The steering part has changed and
there's a video with modified version 1.1 on YouTube
Electrical function generator from Wavetek. Used to send a well-known signal to the polysomnographic system in order to check if the latter correctly worked (it didn't).
Trish came to the A's/Giants game unprepared for the cold weather (don't ask me how, as she grew up in Nor Cal and shouldn't have been surprised that it gets cold in SF by the bay...). Since she came to the game wearing no socks and these tiny shoes, a few innings into the game I had to go buy her some socks to warm her up. One of the few times you'll see Trish compromise fashion for function.
Students can learn about Graphing Exponential Functions and how to plot them. They can get help from the online Calculus tutors to learn the steps involved and solving problems and graphing.In math exponential is the function ex, where e is the digit such to the significance ex the same its contain consequent.
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Lane Brooks, then Chief Operating Officer at the nonprofit organization Food & Water Watch, stands underneath a swivel camera in an attempt to avoid being seen by said camera during an office function.
Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Please provide artist attribution, as well as a link to the original photo and to the license terms.
*Turbo & auto function
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* Compatible with windows 98/me/2000/xp/vista/7
On November 15-16, 2018, the Ford School and Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted "Functions and Firms: Using Activity and Entity-based Regulation to Strengthen the Financial System" featuring Keynote speaker Jelena McWilliams, Chairman of the FDIC. Over the course of two days in Washington DC, the U.S. Office of Financial Research and the University of Michigan’s CFLP brought together regulators, policymakers, lawyers, economists, financial institutions, investors, financial technology companies, and experts on data science, cybersecurity, and finance to discuss core principles for financial regulation.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2018/functions-and-firms-usin...
This photo is available for free under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory photo credit may be attributed to: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. The settlement was founded by Spaniards of the Franciscan order on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become 21 Spanish missions in California. San Gabriel Arcángel, named after the Archangel Gabriel and often referred to as the "Godmother of the Pueblo of Los Angeles", was designed by Father Antonio Cruzado, who hailed from Córdoba, Spain. Cruzado gave the building its strong Moorish architectural influence. The capped buttresses and the tall, narrow windows are unique among the missions of the California chain.
Mission San Gabriel was founded on September 8, 1771 by Father Junipero Serra. The planned site for the Mission was along the banks of the Río de los Temblores (the River of the Earthquakes—the Santa Ana River). The priests chose an alternate site on a fertile plain located directly alongside the Rio Hondo in the Whittier Narrows.
The site of the Misión Vieja (or "Old Mission") is located near the intersection of San Gabriel Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue in Montebello, California (known to the natives as Shevaanga). In 1776, a flash flood destroyed much of the crops and ruined the Mission complex, which was subsequently relocated five miles closer to the mountains in present-day San Gabriel (the native settlement of 'Iisanchanga). The Mission is the base from which the pueblo that became the city of Los Angeles was sent.
Well over 25,000 baptisms were conducted at San Gabriel between 1771 and 1834, making it the most prolific in the mission chain. In its heyday it furnished food and supplies to settlements and other missions throughout California. A majority of the Mission structures fell into ruins after it was secularized in November 1834. The once-extensive vineyards were falling to decay, with fences broken down and animals roaming freely through it.
The Mission's chapel functioned as a parish church for the City of San Gabriel from 1862 until 1908, when the Claretian Missionary Fathers came to San Gabriel and began the job of rebuilding and restoring the Mission. On October 1, 1987 the Whittier Narrows Earthquake damaged the property. A significant portion of the original complex has since been restored.
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This is one of those odd conundrums that often troubles me. When form and function meet and reinforce each other, I don't have a problem. Examples of this are my current camera, my Swiss Navy knife, and dare I say it, my Beretta.
When form and function diverge and do not reinforce each other I have big issues choosing between more stylistic design and the delivered functionality of a product or object. In some cases the tension for me is tangible and on-going. Software wise Lightroom is a great example. It is excellent, but the raw convertor for my camera sucks, and the lack of spell checking for tags and meta-data drives me nuts, I'm constantly looking for an excuse to change to another tool.
The lighters above are another excellent example.
Bic
It just works and keeps working until it runs out of fuel. It is inexpensive, you can instantly see how much fuel it has, and it'll still work after days immersed in water (I know, I've done it). These lighters work so well that every emergency kit we have (and we have several) includes at least one.
It does have problems and limitations though. Any wind will blow it out, it is disposable, looks awful, and feels what it is - cheap.
Ronson
This lighter has a fierce flame that'll keep going in almost any wind, it is refillable, and it lights every time. It uses a Piezo igniter which shouldn't wear out quickly - though how water resistant it is, I've yet to find out.
The Ronson has several problems, but my issues with it are mainly aesthetic. There is no way to check how much fuel it has, the case is made out of some horrid, cheap metal, it is heavy, has an odd unsatisfying shape, and it looks awful, especially as the coating wears off.
Zippo
This lighter is light and a joy to hold, use and look at. It wears well, after many years of use mine still looks quite new. And finally, it makes a most satisfying noise when you open and close it.
The Zippo has many problems though. It is supposed to be windproof, and it is, but only up to a point, you cannot tell how much fuel it has, the fuel evaporates quite quickly if the lighter isn't used, it cannot be used on its side (a requirement for lighting a campfire), and will not light at all if wet.
Logically the Ronson or the Bic should be my EDC (EveryDay Carry). However, I've never carried the ugly and inexpensive Bic except in my emergency kits. I love the Zippo and want it to be my EDC lighter, to date I've either kept re-filling the Zippo, wasting fuel as it evaporates, or I carry the ugly, but serviceable Ronson, which I dislike.
Good News
After writing this, I decided to repeat a search I did a couple of years ago - searching for butane inserts for Zippo lighters. Great news: now there are several inserts to choose from. It looks like when the original manufacturer fails to improve or fix a fault in their otherwise brilliant design, someone else will step into the breech to do so. It won't be perfect (the butane container on the one I've picked isn't transparent so you cannot see how much fuel is left) but it is a step in the right direction.
If only …
It's a shame no one has resurrected the design of my old PDA, I'd love to have that form-factor with a modern screen and capabilities - I'd even put up with the Android operating system. I always thought there would be a market for a titanium cased version too.
June 5, 2017 | www.breakfastinamerica.me | Copyright © 2017 Gary Allman, all rights reserved
While visiting Henderson Nevada for a family function snuck off to take some long exposure shots of Hoover Dam. I was not sure this three shot panorama of this great Dam would work but it stitched together perfectly.
The Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is an incredible engineering marvel.
• The bridge is the longest and highest arched concrete bridge in the Western Hemisphere
• The second-highest bridge of any kind in the United States
• The world's tallest concrete columns of their kind
It is perched 890 feet above the Colorado River, wedged between rock cliffs that form Black Canyon, with commanding views of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead.
Thanks for stopping by comments and favs welcome!
Annually Stihl hosts a function at Stellenbosch where each student gets a Stihl jacket. The staff and students are: Pierre Ackerman, Maxine Steyn, Yvette du Buisson, Gideon Froneman, Deswin Titus, Elizabeth Gleasure, Hlengiwe Ndlovu, Stephan Rust , Conwill Davids, Nomzamo Kunene, Jaco-Pierre van der Merwe, Gert Fourie, Gerard Lindner, Kevin Richards (Stihl representative), Andrew Perkins, Dwayne Maloy, Ben du Toit, Corien van Schoor, Henri van Brakel, Mark February, Anton Kunneke, Thomas Seifert, Wilmour Hendrikse
Chinese patient tested with Quark PFT (www.cosmed.com/quarkpft), COSMED pulmonary function testing laboratory. The spirometry test was performed at Taian Central Hospital Branch of the Occupational Disease Hospital (Taian, China)
The Stieltjes constants are the constant coefficients of an infinite linear differential equation with (it) as the variable when the solution of the equation at the 0th derivative is equal to the limit as t approaches zero for the Riemann zeta function at s = 1+it.
The even indexed Stieltjes constants are equal to the limit (as t approaches 0) of the real part of the even derivatives OR the slope (at t = 0) of the imaginary part of the odd derivatives.
The odd indexed Stieltjes constants are equal to the negative limit (as t approaches 0) of the real part of the odd derivatives OR the negative slope (at t = 0) of the imaginary part of the even derivatives.
These relationships satisfy the Cauchy - Riemann equations for the derivatives of a complex function.