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Caliper Studio designed, fabricated and installed this custom stair for a client in Nebraska. The top flight of the stair is composed of 1/2" thick steel plate stringers clamped around butcher block red oak treads. The outside stringer is hung with 1/2" diameter rods at 4" on center. All steel components are blackened.
Special thanks to Advanced Design and Construction of Omaha for install assistance. Treads by Ethan Ames.
I installed the meter box and mast to the wall. Added some cloth wrapped conduit made from squished-to-oval solder with some texture applied with a file. Finished with thickish acrylic paint that I picked at with a toothpick to simulate crumbly insulation. I found numerous photos showing this stuff just looping up thru holes in the siding. Guess it worked. Still needs some clamps though, to bring it up to code.
Bicester Classic & Vintage Cars and Motorcycles - 11 April 2018
Lot n° 50
Brightwells Auctions
Bicester Heritage
Buckingham Road
Bicester
Oxfordshire
England
March 2018
BOJ has led an exciting life. Emerging from the factory as a 105 saloon, it was pressed into competition early on, with photos on file of the car being hurled around an airfield track in the early 1950s.
By 1955, its owner felt that the bodywork had had enough as it was discarded and the chassis shortened by 12”. Photographs of the stripped chassis show that stiffening bars were fitted on top of the chassis to accommodate a low-slung two-seater body along the lines of a Lotus 7. In order to achieve this, the constructors, who looked very pleased with themselves in the photos, had cleverly located the radiator at the rear of the car. It must have cut quite a dash in and around London.
BOJ was still in active use in 1966 when its then owner Mr Michael D B McGrath of Queens Gate Gardens in London (according to the buff logbook) converted it again to its current, more traditional body style. It was fitted with the lightweight alloy body on a tubular frame that it wears to this day.
More owners came and went, including well-known VSCC racer Roger Saul of Mulberry fame, who acquired it in 1972. Further photos on file shown him with the car, improving the rudimentary bodywork and generally sorting it thorough.
A continuation logbook shows further owners, the car coming into the hands of David Roxburgh in around 2005 having spent 20 years living in Ireland. He was to set about a major overhaul between 2009 and 2013, with bills on file for over £ 50.000.
Much of the work was carried out by Priory Vehicle Engineers, who looked after the engine work, with further bills from Foppe G d’Hane of Woodbridge, a well-known Talbot and Vauxhall fettler and parts supplier.
The major elements consisted of a full engine rebuild, including new white-metal, Tuftriding the crank, a grind, new Arrow rods, new liners, pistons and rings. Replacement followers were fitted, with a Blydenstein camshaft and new springs. The water pump was overhauled, along with the oil pump and a new high capacity starter fitted. The car also now sports a Cecil Schumacher oil filter conversion.
The chassis was also checked over, with rebuilds of the suspension, brakes and steering box. The radiator was recored and a new, taller 4:1 final drive installed to make the most of the car’s modest 1.156 kg dry weight and new-found power.
Wheels were checked and rebuilt as necessary and the car fitted with a Tony Law 6 into 2 exhaust….you can see how the costs mounted up.
With its triple SU carburettors on a purpose-built manifold and pre-selector gearbox, the current owner reports that it goes extremely well, adding that it is a very well-known car in Talbot circles and is a pleasure to drive.
With potential to be a front-runner in VSCC and historic racing, BOJ has had all of the expensive work and development done to it. Its three-litre engine, which has done little since its full rebuild, is both docile and extremely powerful, its catalogue estimate looking extremely enticing given the amount of work that has gone into making BOJ the performance car that it is, and a genuine 105 to boot.
The history file is impressive, with lots of correspondence, interesting photos and the afformentioned large sheaf of bills. If you are thinking of getting a pre-war sports car to get into some serious competition - this is the car for you...
Do you know the series of German battle tanks? See Leopard ;-)
The Mac OS X Leopard Installation Manual uses 3(!) pages to guide you in installation.
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History of the Austrian Province of the Order
About four centuries of eventful events
The history of the Order in Central Europe has its roots on the Tiber Island in Rome. There runs the dynamic, just now by the Pope confirmed Hospital Fraternities Order of St John of God since 1584 a Hospital. In this Hospital 1604 some of the staff of Prince Karl I of Liechtenstein, Envoy of Emperor Rudolf II in Rome, that have fallen ill from malaria are so excellently treated, that the prince shall ask the General Superior to send him some brothers for his territory in Lower Austria and Moravia. Those brothers take over in 1605 under the leadership of Fr John Baptist de Cassinetti the hospital to Saint Barbara in Feldsberg, the residence of the prince.
The second step follows with the delegation of Brother Gabriel Ferrara, an in Italy highly respected surgeon, to Vienna. He installs in 1614 on the road "towards Tabor" a small hospital with 20 beds. Through him Vienna became the starting point for further operations. Already in 1615 another house was founded in Graz. This is followed by Prague in 1620 and 1622 in Neuburg an der Donau. Those foundations form the framework for the further expansions of the Order in the countries of Central Europe.
The first generation of the brothers consists primarily of Italians who are struggling with social difficulties. The brothers win but by their exemplary nursing more and more prestige because their hospitals differ significantly from the in this country already existing hospital facilities, predominantly being hostels, retirement homes and infirmaries - as the Holy Spirit hospitals in Vienna and Graz. The branches of the Hospital Brothers are exclusively hospitals and therefore represent, regardless of their size of first 12 to 20 beds, in the countries of Central Europe the first hospitals in present-day understanding. One of the biggest sponsors was Emperor Ferdinand II, in 1624 the Vienna home endowing with the privilege to be allowed to collect alms in all Habsburg lands.
Due to the Thirty Years' War, the construction initially was just tough. In this by wars and pestilence devastated time, the Brothers of Charity are always to be found where their help is desperately needed. Many of them lose, as a result, their lives - as in 1679 with the great plague in Vienna.
Garden front of the Graz hospital in 1790
Establishment of the "Province of St. Michael the Archangel"
The six hospitals, Feldsberg, Vienna, Prague, Graz, Neuburg an der Donau and Triest, 1659 are raised to the province of the holy Archangel Michael. Until that time, still dominate Italians and some Spaniards that provide about half of the brothers in the convents of the Order in the countries of Central Europe. The exemplary commitment of the brethren but is bearing fruits, and many locals are joining the Order. From 1680 to 1700 a total of 165 brothers are making their profession.
At the end of the 17th Century in all plants of the brothers extensions and conversions are necessary. It develops a certain type of building with church, monastery, hospital and pharmacy in a front. The monks themselves are the nurses and surgeons. For internal diseases a postdoctoral secular physician is appointed who has the title "Spitalsphysikus (hospital physician)".
In principle, the sick are cared for free of charge. For daily maintenance ensure the collections. Despite the collection privilege and other privileges, the Order for the maintenance of the patients, for necessary purchases and for structural measures is dependent on contributions of the respective local lords and donations of wealthy nobles as well as civic benefactors.
Heyday
Within a few decades, doubled the number of the hospitals: Münster, Timisoara, Wroclaw, Eger, Neustadt/Silesia and Proßnitz are significant start-ups. The quality of training of the young brothers is leveled to those in the Latin countries, and since 1718 training centers in Prague and Feldsberg (Valtice - Czech Republic) are being built.
In addition to the imperial family and the Prince of Liechtenstein, other noble houses build on their dominions hospitals. The branches of the Order reach at the end of the 18th Century from Westphalia to the territory of today's Romania. The 31 hospitals of the province with about 500 monks represent a nationwide, well organized and cooperatively-led "network of Hospitality".
Towards the end of the 18th Century occur profound changes in the from Vienna led province. The Age of Enlightenment, the Josephinism, the side effects of the French Revolution and the changes in the Napoleonic period shape the processes strongly. 1781 Emperor Joseph II dissolves the German branches outside of the Habsburg patrimonial lands from the Provincial Association. The branches in the Habsburg lands themselves he separates from the Order leadership in Rome. Although he promotes the Order, but it comes to the isolation of the individual convents.
View of the Johannes von Gott Care Center in Kainbach in the 19th century
"Vienna and Graz Province"
1853 the province can again be linked to the General Curia in Rome and to reform-minded brothers in 1859 the Graz Convention is passed. This built in Algersdorf at Graz a convalescent home, which later on develops into the Hospital Graz-Eggenberg. In Kainbach at Graz 1875 a nursing home for the chronically ill is established and in 1876 in St. Veit an der Glan a new hospital built. Thus, the conditions for an own province are given, which in 1879 as the Inner Austrian province to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is established.
Due to the increase of Slovenian brothers in Graz the next step was to build in Kram in Rudolfswerth/Kandia a hospital, which is opened in 1898. From this house with its auxiliary facilities in Vrbinje, Kamnik and Stari Grad develops after the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire a separate Yugoslav General Delegation, whose existence in 1948 comes to an end by the state confiscation of religious institutions.
Archduke Leopold Salvator visits wounded people in the hospital Graz in 1915 .
Well-trained and recognized personalities lead in this period the Province of Vienna, including Celestine Opitz (1810-1866), who is also a great pioneer of the anesthesia surgery, and his student Johannes de Deo Sobel (1839-1903), who is able to bring the surgery in Prague to the most modern stand. These religious men know how to combine the requirements of progress in medicine with the care of the sick in the sense of the order's founder. The time of the great ancient wards once and for all is over, significant new buildings complement or replace the old hospitals in Vienna, Feldsberg, Linz and Graz.
1914 belong to the Austro-Bohemian Province 15 hospitals with a total of 1,550 beds. However, the World War brought lasting changes, because the majority of hospitals is converted into military hospitals and largely deprived of the power of disposition of the brothers. Due to the going to pieces of the Danube Monarchy the for centuries solid unit with Bohemia and Moravia goes astray, which is 1919 canonically separated, too.
Frater Medardus Oszmeyer treats a patient in the dental clinic in Vienna, 1937
Hardships after the First World War
The Viennese province remain next to the hospital in Vienna Leopoldstadt still the hospital in Linz and the convalescent home in Vienna Hütteldorf. In order to remain Province, in Kritzendorf in 1919 a fourth Convention is built. In 1922 comes the hospital in Eisenstadt because of the integration of the German-speaking areas of western Hungary (Burgenland) to the Vienna province. Only with great difficulty operation in the hospitals can be started. Now that all have to fight for the existence and the old foundation and support funds are worthless, the Order has virtually no resources. The closure of the Viennese house can be avoided only by support from foreign aid agencies. Fortunately, the Vienna City Administration allows an annual public collection.
Soon it comes to the expansion of the province: 1923 through the acquisition of Salzburg's troops Hospital and 1931 by the opening of the Kneipp spa hotel in Schärding. Another convent was founded in Walding at Linz, where a brothers holiday house is installed. As fourth foundation Wien-Gersthof comes along where a maternity ward is taken over and from 1936 on a general hospital is run.
Hospital Bad Kreckelmoos near Reutte in Tirol, 1950
Something similar happens with the Graz province. It can build in 1925 a small hospital in Kreckelmoos near Reutte despite difficult financial circumstances. For the first time gynecological departments in 1926 in St. Veit and Linz are opened. The hospitals of both provinces in this time are literally Hospitals of the poors - the distress in the cities is great, and the brothers themselves are living in modest conditions.
The outpatient clinics, where medical help is available free of charge, are constantly crowded, and also among the hospitalized patients, there are many who are totally destitute and absolutely not are able to pay anything, but nonetheless are looked after free of charge to the best of their knowledge and belief. Especially in Vienna and Graz are - despite of all its own financial woes - even hundreds of hungry people fed daily with a warm meal.
Reconstruction after the Second World War
The next turning point occurs at the time of National Socialism and the Second World War. Except for the Viennese house, all branch offices are expropriated. The main event of this period is the merger of the two in Austria located provinces for "Austrian province" in 1951.
Some facilities have been made soon after the war, so Gersthof 1945, the hospital in Nazareth in 1959, Kreckelmoos 1961 and Hütteldorf 1962. Since then, the brothers lead seven hospitals (Vienna, Graz, Linz, Eisenstadt, Graz-Eggenberg, St. Veit, Salzburg), two nursing centers (John of God Care Center in Kainbach, retirement and nursing home in Kritzendorf) and a spa (Kneipp and health center in Schärding). Since 1978 the Order in Vienna also has its own "school for general health and medical care".
Order and works newly profiled
With the creation of central structures, as in 1975 with the computing center of the province in Eisenstadt, important organizational requirements for responsible economic activity are created. Modernizations concern since the mid-70s all of the facilities. They entail the opening of new departments, and also the appearance of all of the houses changes to this day continuously.
Although traditionally the focus of the work of the Brothers of Charity in the Austrian Province of the Order lies on the hospital sector, becomes the caring for people in the sense of the "option for the poor", ousted from the social center because of special disabilities or by their kind of living increasingly important.
In addition to the traditional forms of hospitality emerge various forms of the so-called "New Hospitality". Socially marginalized groups and self-help groups find in the houses of the Order their nursing and medical home. In addition to traditional outpatient clinics for destitutes (dental clinic and general outpatient clinic in Vienna), in Linz (1993 ) and Vienna (1999) are created outpatient clinics for the deaf and in Vienna a special station for acutely ill Justice prisoners. The latter find here because they are not admitted by most of the Vienna's hospitals because of fear of contact and loss of reputation, the necessary nursing and medical care.
In July 1999, the life-world Schenkenfelden (Upper Austria/Mühlviertel) can, an establishment for the deaf and deaf-blind people with special needs, its work start and 2004 is in Kainbach opened a drug treatment center - for the first time in a Central European religious institution.
"Do good and do it well - for the love of Christ". To his motto of St. John of God, the Austrian Province of the Order feels today so deeply committed as 400 years ago.
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ADAZI, Latvia-- U.S. Army Sgt. Shawn Beaver from the Joint Multinational Training Command installs the Deployable Instrumentation System-Europe on a Latvian soldier’s G-36 rifle May 31 in preparation for Exercise Saber Strike 2013. Saber Strike 2013 is a U.S. Army Europe-led, multinational, tactical field training and command post exercise occurring in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia June 3-14 that involves more than 2,000 personnel from 14 different countries. The exercise trains participants on command and control as well as interoperability with regional partners and is designed to improve joint, multinational capability in a variety of missions and to prepare participants to support multinational contingency operations worldwide. The exercise also features the integration of U.S. close air support with partner nation ground forces and the demonstration of U.S. Expeditionary Medical Support capability. The countries and units represented include: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Romania, NATO’s Multinational Corps Northeast, U.S. Army Europe, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Joint Multinational Training Command, Joint Multinational Simulation Center, Joint Multinational Readiness Center, 5th Signal Command, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, the United States Army and Air National Guard, and U.S. Army Cadet Command. Norway and Sweden will send observers. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Michael Weisman)
An antique image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, restored by the Vecin Workshop.
Inside a kamagong (Philippine ebony) urna by the Bloomquist Workshop. Installed in an ancestral house in San Rafael, Bulacan.
Two new AGMs strapped down, with new cables. Plywood top, over batteries, prevent accidental shorting.
New 2/0-gauge cable were made to connect the four batteries together.
York Minster is the second largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe and clearly charts the development of English Gothic architecture from Early English through to the Perpendicular Period. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472. It has a cruciform plan with an octagonal chapter house attached to the north transept, a central tower and two towers at the west front. The stone used for the building is magnesian limestone, a creamy-white coloured rock that was quarried in nearby Tadcaster. The Minster is 158 metres (518 ft) long and each of its three towers are 60 metres (200 ft) high. The choir has an interior height of 31 metres (102 ft).
The North and South transepts were the first parts of the new church to be built. They have simple lancet windows, the most famous being the Five Sisters in the north transept. These are five lancets, each 16 metres (52 ft) high and glazed with grey (grisaille) glass, rather than narrative scenes or symbolic motifs that are usually seen in medieval stained glass windows. In the south transept is the famous Rose Window whose glass dates from about 1500 and commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster. The roofs of the transepts are of wood, that of the south transept was burnt in the fire of 1984 and was replaced in the restoration work which was completed in 1988. New designs were used for the bosses, five of which were designed by winners of a competition organised by the BBC's Blue Peter television programme.
Work began on the chapter house and its vestibule that links it to the north transept after the transepts were completed. The style of the chapter house is of the early Decorated Period where geometric patterns were used in the tracery of the windows, which were wider than those of early styles. However, the work was completed before the appearance of the ogee curve, an S-shaped double curve which was extensively used at the end of this period. The windows cover almost all of the upper wall space, filling the chapter house with light. The chapter house is octagonal, as is the case in many cathedrals, but is notable in that it has no central column supporting the roof. The wooden roof, which was of an innovative design, is light enough to be able to be supported by the buttressed walls. The chapter house has many sculptured heads above the canopies, representing some of the finest Gothic sculpture in the country. There are human heads, no two alike, and some pulling faces; angels; animals and grotesques. Unique to the transepts and chapter house is the use of Purbeck marble to adorn the piers, adding to the richness of decoration.
The choir screen.
The nave was built between 1291 and c. 1350 and is also in the decorated Gothic style. It is the widest Gothic nave in England and has a wooden roof (painted so as to appear like stone) and the aisles have vaulted stone roofs. At its west end is the Great West Window, known as the 'Heart of Yorkshire' which features flowing tracery of the later decorated gothic period.
The East end of the Minster was built between 1361 and 1405 in the Perpendicular Gothic style. Despite the change in style, noticeable in details such as the tracery and capitals, the eastern arm preserves the pattern of the nave. The east end contains a four bay choir; a second set of transepts, projecting only above half-height; and the Lady Chapel. The transepts are in line with the high altar and serve to through light onto it. Behind the high altar is the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.
The sparsely decorated Central Tower was built between 1407 and 1472 and is also in the Perpendicular style. Below this, separating the choir from the crossing and nave is the striking fifteenth century choir screen. It contains sculptures of the kings of England from William the Conqueror to Henry VI with stone and gilded canopies set against a red background. Above the screen is the organ, which dates from 1832. The West Towers, in contrast with the central tower, are heavily decorated and are topped with battlements and eight pinnacles each, again in the Perpendicular style.
York as a whole and particularly the Minster have a long tradition of creating beautiful stained glass. Some of the stained glass in York Minster dates back to the twelfth century. The 76-foot (23 m) tall Great East Window, created by John Thornton in the early fifteenth century, is the largest example of medieval stained glass in the world. Other spectacular windows in the Minster include an ornate rose window and the 50-foot (15 m) tall five sisters window. Because of the extended time periods during which the glass was installed, different types of glazing and painting techniques that evolved over hundreds of years are visible in the different windows. Approximately 2 million individual pieces of glass make up the cathedral's 128 stained glass windows. Much of the glass was removed before and pieced back together after the First and Second World Wars, and the windows are constantly being cleaned and restored to keep their beauty intact.
In 2008 a major restoration of the Great East Window commenced, involving the removal, repainting and re-leading of each individual panel. While the window was in storage in the Minster's stonemasons' yard, a fire broke out in some adjoining offices, due to an electrical fault, on 30 December 2009.[10] The window's 311 panes, stored in a neighbouring room, were undamaged and were successfully carried away to safety.
The towers and bells
The two west towers of the minster hold bells clock chimes and a concertcarillon. The north-west tower contains Great Peter (216 cwt or 10.8 tons) and the six clock bells (the largest weighing just over 60 cwt or 3 tons). The south-west tower holds 14 bells (tenor 59 cwt or 3 tons) hung and rung for change ringing and 22 carillon bells (tenor 23 cwt or 1.2 tons) which are played from a batonkeyboard in the ringing chamber. (all together 35 bells.)
The clock bells ring every quarter of an hour during the daytime and Great Peter strikes the hour. The change ringing bells are rung regularly on Sundays before Church Services and at other occasions, the ringers practise on Tuesday evenings. York Minster became the first cathedral in England to have a carillon of bells with the arrival of a further twenty-four small bells on 4 April 2008. These are added to the existing “Nelson Chime” that is chimed to announce Evensong around 5 pm each day, giving a carillon of 35 bells in total (3 chromatic octaves). The new bells were cast at the Loughborough Bell Foundry of Taylors, Eayre & Smith, where all of the existing Minster bells were cast. The new carillon is a gift to the Minster. It will be the first new carillon in the British Isles for forty years and first handplayed carillon in an English cathedral. Before Evensong each evening, hymn tunes are played on a baton keyboard connected with the bells, but occasionally anything from Beethoven to the Beatles may be heard.
Our System Administrators Ronald Canete and Abdul Naser Mohamed are installing the new servers for our software testing & evaluation environment.
How to install and configure ownCloud on Debian
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This inverter will take power from the trailer's battery and create a source of 110 volt 60 cycle power. It is installed under the front driver side bench seat. The power is supplied to the top half of three of the power outlets in the trailer. Inverter power is also supplied to the exterior 110 volt outlet. An outlet was installed under the passenger side bench seat to allow switching the exterior outlet from shore power to inverter power. The inverter can be turned on and off with a toggle switch located next to the front power outlet. See gpelectric.com/
When we are dry camping or driving the battery will be charged with our solar panel through the solar power controller, which is at the bottom of the photo.
SAFETY ALERT! (Sept 26 2013.) I have just become aware that supplying both inverter power and shore power to the same outlet box is a hazard if there is any possibility of power being on in one of the outlets while off on the other, since an unsuspecting person opening the box may be put in a hazardous situation. To solve this problem I am in the process of buying and installing a manual transfer switch so that power to the outlets can be switched from shore power to inverter power. Both top and bottom outlets will be at the same voltage.
Photo updated March 7. Description updated June 18 and Sept 26 2013.
we recently installed this big new window that overlooks the lake. I scored the antique metal bed at a garage sale for $25, and painted it a distressed look blue and white. The top of the vintage quilt was picked up at another garage sale for $20, and I added the borders and had it machine quilted and bound it. I love my Bed!
Threre are more pictures of this quilt in my Quilts set of pictures.
Food Forward
Stroom, Den Haag 2012
De presentatie bij Stroom bestaat uit een viertal onderdelen. Er wordt een Speed Crop Balcony geïnstalleerd op een balkon van "oud formaat" gevuld met kleine groenten. Een mens van 50 centimeter kan een grote moestuin houden op het oppervlak van een gemiddeld (huidig) balkon. Immers, de kleine mensen zullen een tijdlang leven in de "ruines" van de steden van de grote mensen. Op het balkon groeien zogenaamde "microgreens", kleine kiemgroenten die eenvoudig en snel te kweken zijn en door hun geconcentreerde dosis voedingsstoffen erg gezond zijn. Op een aantal posters in de ruimte is een speculatief onderzoek te zien naar geschikte akkergrond binnen de stadsgrenzen van Den Haag, en de mogelijkheden om vrijgekomen recreatiegroen aan te wenden voor zelfvoorzienende akkerbouw in de stad.
Achter de Speed Crop Balcony staat de Somatostatin Zebrafish Farm, een viskwekerij voor zebravisjes. Zebravissen worden veel gebruikt in genetisch onderzoek. Onlangs zijn de eerste zebravissen ontwikkeld met medicinale kenmerken. De zebravissen in de Somatostatin Zebrafish Farm zijn zo gemanipuleerd dat ze een grote hoeveelheid somatostatine bevatten. Somatostatine is een natuurlijk groeiremmend hormoon dat bovendien het ledigen van de maag vertraagt. Door met enige regelmaat een visje uit deze kwekerij te eten wordt zodoende de honger gestild en de neiging om te groeien onderdrukt.
In de andere ruimte staat de Sunflower Table, een tafel gebaseerd op een grote rijpe zonnebloem waar vijf kleine mensen omheen kunnen zitten terwijl zij de zaden uit de bloem trekken. Sunflower Table onderzoekt toekomstige mogelijkheden in de relatie tussen mensen en ingrediënten. Hoe verhoud je je tot een banaan of een granaatappel als je 50 centimeter groot bent? Kunnen we ons, met behulp van dit soort objecten als de Sunflower Table, verplaatsen in een toekomstscenario waarin dit werkelijkheid wordt?
In zekere zin geldt dat ook voor Poultry House, een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen mens en micro-livestock, kippen in dit geval. Wat voor soort gereedschap hebben we nodig om een kip te bereiden als we 50 centimeter groot zijn? Hoe vangen, slachten en koken we dan een kip? Om deze relatie beter te begrijpen werd er op 22 december 2011 een struisvogeldiner georganiseerd bij Stroom waarbij een struisvogel werd bereid alsof het een kip was. Dit proces werd gefilmd en de film is nu in de expositieruimte te zien in combinatie met een kippenhok en een aantal struisvogel eieren.
The presentation at Stroom consists of four parts. A Speed Crop Balcony will be installed on an "old format" city balcony now filled with baby vegetables. A person of 50 centimeters can keep a large vegetable garden on the surface of an average city balcony. After all, the smaller people will live for a long time in the "ruins" of our cities. On the balcony so-called micro greens are growing, tiny sprouts that grow easily and quickly, and contain a very healthy dose of concentrated nutrients. On several posters in the gallery space, a speculative study is outlined that looks for suitable farming grounds within the city limits of The Hague, and the possibilities of using vacant recreational green areas for subsistence farming in the city.
Behind the Speed Crop Balcony we find the Somatostatin Zebrafish Farm, a fish farm for zebra fish. Zebra fish are widely used in genetic research. Recently the first zebra fish has been developed with medicinal properties. The zebra fish in the Somatostatin Zebrafish Farm are manipulated in such a way that they contain large amounts of somatostatin. Somatostatin is a natural growth-reducing hormone that also delays digestion. By regularly eating a fish from this farm, one suppresses both hunger and the tendency to grow.
In the adjoining room we find the Sunflower Table, a table based on a large mature sunflower that can accommodate five small persons who can sit around the table while they pull the seeds from the flower. Sunflower Table explores future possibilities in the relationship between people and ingredients. How do you relate to a banana or a pomegranate when you are 50 centimeters tall? And can we, by means of objects such as the Sunflower Table, be transported into a future scenario in which this has become a reality?
In a sense this is also what the Poultry House aims at. This project investigates the relationship between man and micro-livestock, chickens in this case. What kind of tools do we need to prepare a chicken? How do we capture, slaughter, and cook a chicken when we are 50 centimeters tall? To better understand this relationship, we organized an Ostrich Dinner on December 22, 2011 at Stroom where an ostrich was prepared as if it was a chicken. This process was filmed and the film is now shown in the exhibition space alongside a chicken coop and ostrich eggs.
Carlisle Cathedral
Carlisle Cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Carlisle in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It was founded as an Augustinian priory and became a cathedral in 1133.
Carlisle is the second smallest of England's ancient cathedrals. Its notable features include figurative stone carving, a set of medieval choir stalls and the largest window in the Flowing Decorated Gothic style in England.
Carlisle Cathedral was begun in 1122, during the reign of King Henry I, as a community of Canons Regular following the reform of the Abbey of Arrouaise in France, which followed a strict form of the canonical life, influenced by the asceticpractices of the Cistercians. Many large churches of Augustinian foundation were built in England during this period as the Archbishop of Canterbury, William de Corbeil, was a member of this order, but Carlisle is one of only four Augustinian churches in England to become a cathedral, most monastic cathedrals being Benedictine. The church was begun by Athelwold, an Englishman, who became the first prior. In 1133, the church was raised to the status of cathedral and Athelwold became the first Bishop of Carlisle (1133–55). In 1233, the cathedral priory community were joined by two friaries in the city. A Dominican friary and a Franciscan friary were founded close to the cathedral. The building was refurbished in the 13th and 14th centuries, receiving impetus from the presence of the court of Edward I in 1307.
In the 15th and early 16th centuries, the monastic buildings were renewed. With the Dissolution of the Monasteries from 1536, and the establishment by Henry VIII of the Church of England as the country's official church, the Dominican and Franciscan friaries were dissolved and Carlisle, along with the other monastic cathedrals, was run by a secular chapter like the cathedrals at Lincoln and York, which practice has continued to this day. During the time of the English Civil War, a portion of the nave of the cathedral was demolished by the Scottish Presbyterian Army in order to use the stone to reinforce Carlisle Castle. Between 1853 and 1870 Carlisle Cathedral was restored by Ewan Christian. In the early 19th century, the cathedral became the subject for a geometric analysis by Robert William Billings.
Carlisle Cathedral was commenced in 1123 as a monastic church, possibly on the foundations of an earlier church, in the Norman architectural style with solid masonry, large round piers, round arches and smallish round headed windows. These features may still be seen in the south transept and the remaining two bays of the nave, which are now used as the Chapel of the Border Regiment. The stone is the local red sandstone, which has discoloured almost to black on parts of the exterior. The building has also suffered from subsidence which is evidenced by the piers, which lean at different angles.
In the 13th century, the choir of the cathedral was rebuilt in the Gothic style, wider than the original and on a different axis. However, the new work was severely damaged in a fire in 1292, and the work was recommenced. By 1322 the arcades and the easternmost bay were complete, with the elaborate tracery and glass of the east window being in place by about 1350. The upper stages of the walls were finished, probably by the architect John Lewen who died in about 1398. The Gothic arcade has richly moulded arches with dog's tooth decoration, and the twelve capitals are carved with vegetation along with small lively figures representing the labours of the months.
The choir is roofed by a fine wooden barrel vault dating from the 14th century. In 1856 this was restored and repainted to a new design by Owen Jones. It is thought the eastern bays of the cathedral never received a stone vault because at some point the central spire blew down, and funds were required to rebuild the damaged tower and north transept, completed in about 1420.
The tracery and stained glass of the East Window
The most significant architectural feature of Carlisle Cathedral is its East Window. The tracery of this window is in the most complex of English Gothic styles, Flowing Decorated Gothic. It is the largest and most complex such window in England, being 51 feet high and 26 feet wide. It has nine lights, and tracery, which, it has been calculated, was drafted from 263 points.The tracery of the window still contains much of its original medieval glass.
Carlisle Cathedral has a fine set of 46 carved wooden choir stalls with misericords, which were installed in the early 15th century. Misericords are hinged seats, "constructed to keep the monks from falling asleep while at prayers,"and carved with numerous figures and creatures. Despite their purpose, the "pillars supporting the canopies bear traces of having been burnt, by weary monks who dropped off to sleep in the midst of their interminable devotions while holding a lighted candle in their hands." The misericords were made out of black oak, and their backs carved with scenes of the legends of St. Anthony the Hermit, St. Cuthbert, St. Augustine, and the twelve apostles, as well as mythical themes. The misericords of Carlisle include typical iconography of "half-length angels, beasts deriving from the Bestiary, hybrid creatures, and narrative scenes, including the inverted world theme of the Woman beating a Man that no decent set of misericords could be without."
The delicate gilt canopy over the High Altar is a modern work designed by Sir Charles Nicholson.
Other buildings of interest in the precinct are the Fratry dating from about 1500 and the Gatehouse of 1527. In mediaeval times the Fratry building was the dining hall of the Cathedral Priory.
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TV Garden by Nam June Paik, 1974/2000, singlechannel video installation with color television monitors and live plants; color, sound, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council and Executive Committee Members: Ann Ames, Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Ronnie Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler, Denise Rich, Simonetta Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams and Elliot K. Wolk, and through prior gift of the Bohen Foundation, 2001.