LEAD BY EXAMPLE
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first, just being a pair of garden gnomes peps, under cover garden gnomes lol
he Strasbourg astronomical clock is located in the Strasbourg Cathedral, in the city of Strasbourg, Alsace, which was annexed by France in the late 17th century.
The current clock dates from 1843. Its main features, besides the automata, are a perpetual calendar (including a computus), an orrery (planetary dial), a display of the real position of the Sun and the Moon, and solar and lunar eclipses. The main attraction is the procession of the life-size figures of Christ and the Apostles which occurs every day at 12:30pm, that is at noon clock time. The walkabout also occurs at midnight clock time.
First clock
The first astronomical clock of Strasbourg cathedral was erected between 1352–1354, against the south transept. The name of its maker is not known. This clock was known as the “Three Kings clock” and had several automata. One of them was the gilded rooster, later reused in the second clock and which now is part of the collections of the Strasbourg Museum for Decorative Arts.[2] This bird, a symbol of Christ’s passion, was made of iron, copper, and wood. At noon it flapped its beak and spread out its feathers. It also opened its beak, put out its tongue, and by means of a bellows and a reed, crowed. In the top compartment at noon, to the sound of a small carillon, the Three Kings bowed before the figure of The Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
The clock most certainly had an astrolabe dial and a calendar dial. It was standing on the wall opposite the current clock, and a staircase led to its various levels. Supports for former balconies can still be seen today, and suggest that the height of the clock was about 18 m (59′), with a width of about 7.70 m (25′) at the base. At the base a painted figure of a zodiacal man showed the relationship between the signs of the zodiac and parts of the human body.
There is also a big circle engraved in the wall, but this circle is not a remnant of the first clock. It was added at a later stage, for some unclarified reason.
The entire structure was dismantled in 1572–4 when the second and even more ambitious clock was mounted on the opposite wall of the south transept.
[edit] Second clock
The first clock stopped working and a new one was started in the 16th century. It was designed by the mathematician Christian Herlin. During a first phase, the stone case and the staircase were built, around 1547, and the dial and iron framework were being constructed when work halted, due to the various political problems – the cathedral became Catholic – and also due to the deaths of Herlin and his associates.
Construction was resumed in 1571 by Conrad Dasypodius, a pupil of and successor to Herlin. Dasypodius enrolled the Swiss clockmakers Isaac Habrecht and Josia Habrecht, as well as the astronomer and musician David Wolckenstein, and Swiss artists Tobias Stimmer and his brother Josias. The clock was completed in 1574.
This clock was remarkable both for its complexity as an astronomical device and for the range and richness of its decorations and accessories. As well as the many dials and indicators – the calendar dial, the astrolabe, the indicators for planets, and eclipses – the clock was also well endowed with paintings, moving statues, automata, and musical entertainment in the form of a six tune carillon. The Stimmers painted large panels that depicted the three Fates, Urania, Colossus, Nicolaus Copernicus, and various sacred themes, including the Creation, the resurrection of the Dead, the last judgment, and the rewards of virtue and vice.
At the base of a clock there was an 86 cm (34″) diameter celestial globe, accompanied by the figure of a pelican. The globe was connected to the clock movement, and set for the latitude of Strasbourg.
A popular feature of the new clock was the golden cockerel, a relic of the first clock, which perched on the top of the cupola and entertained the onlookers at noon every day until 1640, when it was struck by lightning.
Most of the works are still preserved in the Museum of Decorative Arts.
[edit] Third clock
The second clock stopped working around 1788 and stood still until 1838, when Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776-1856) started to build the current clock. He designed new mechanisms to replace the old ones and which were meant to be state of the art. Schwilgué had wanted to work on the clock since his boyhood, but he only got the contract 50 years later. In the meantime, he had become acquainted with clockmaking, mathematics, and mechanics. He spent one year preparing his 30 workers before actually starting construction. Then, construction lasted from 1838 until June 24, 1843. The clock, however, was inaugurated on December 31, 1842.
This clock contains probably the first perpetual mechanical Gregorian computus, designed by Schwilgué in 1816. In the 1970s, Frédéric Klinghammer built a reduced replica of it.
*sigh* Don’t these idiots ever go away?
nope. we embrace “ordinal post rule” followers here at PK.
don’t like it? don’t come back… no big loss.
Can I come back and still not like it, or is that my only option?
only if you cite why you don’t like it and why you came back.
I’ve got 100,000 words on the history of the concrete roofing tile, ready for the time I am quick enough to catch a ‘first’ tw@t. Just wondering if there’s a mutually agreed size limit on the asswiping tediosity of the second post. Wouldn’t want to overdo it, as a newbie..
The above is on the high end of acceptable. Go too much longer, and you end up being more annoying than the “first” guy.
not really, but I’m a fan of the one word response — dumbass.
I like to limit it to one reasonably long paragraph at most.
Damn. *stops typing*
In their defense, “no sitting on the wall” is a dumb rule. Dumb rules are meant to be broken.
Only dumb if this country wasn’t so damn litigious.
Liability, you know … you can hear it now: “There was no sign posted stating that standing or sitting on the was dangerous, so the fact that I fell off and split my idiot skull open has to be somebody’s fault, but surely not mine!”
*wall
The other day I heard some similar stories from a law student about “banana peel cases”. All of which involved actual banana peels. There were enough headdesk-worthy ones that my skull is still grateful there weren’t any desks handy.
the “do as i say, not as i do” rule…
speaking from actually witnessing the act…they also speed, park in fire lanes, drive in the carpool lanes (with only one person), roll thru stop signs, talk on their cell phones while driving, run red lights…and this is while just on patrol, not even going to an emergency.
I was taking my driving test and saw one turn on his lights & seiren to go through a red light, then turn it off when he got through it.
Sometimes there’s actually a reason for that. There’s a certain amount of leeway as to when lights and siren is appropriate when responding to a call; when it’s a call where they need to get there expeditiously but don’t necessarily need to be going hell-bent-for-leather down the city streets, they will sometimes just use the lights and siren when they need it to get through traffic quickly, cutting it off in between.
Not to definitively say that he didn’t just see the light change, say to himself “Oh, not that light! That light takes forever, and I’m on my way back in to end my shift!” and decide to pop the lights on long enough to get through. Hey, they’re only human.
Twould be veeeeeery tempting, I must say.
My town finally joined the 21st century and we now have these little things over the light that the emergency vehicles can click a button and the light turns green for them. I want to know how I can get one of those for my car!
Those sound pretty awesome!
And highly illegal. A local guy got busted with one, and that he was swiping them off of Paramedic vehicles and selling them. I don’t remember all the details, but the time was serious.
Most of our lights have little flicker things that react to a particular flasher on the emergency vehicle. If you can figure out the frequency of flickering your headlights, you can make the lights change. But it’s difficult to do, and makes you look all suspicious. It’s better to do that sort of thing late at night when there is no one else around
They said this was infrared. And that it pulsed a code. They were legit, just stolen. I don’t remember what he did to get caught.
Probably didn’t pay attention and used it in front of a cop.
Thinking back, I think he used it at one of those lights with the camera. It got his tag.
LOL what an idiot. I can just imagine that conversation in holding.
So, I knocked off a bank, what did YOU do? Eh girly girl?
Most of the the MIRTs (Mobile Infrared Transmitters) these days are infrared and coded. Well, in most metropolitan areas they are. Before they coded the transmitters you could get one on the web and hit green lights for miles.
Those things were invented in Vancouver, and we don’t even have those here!
City Hall believes they’re too powerful and fears they’ll be misused.
How big is the town you live in? Sounds like some towns in New Mexico that I know of.
I heard a rumor that there’s some way to electronically track who’s using them and when, but that’s just a rumor. I personally prefer to think of it as “business as usual in Louisiana.” We like our rice and our government workers dirty.
How you interpret the word “dirty” is entirely up to you.
I’m just glad it’s a little less dirty than it was before, lol. At least the dead aren’t voting quite as often as they used to. Damn above ground mausoleums. Makes it too easy for the undead to rise and vote.
We don’t have too many mausoleums where I live, but I think somehow they manage to vote in spite of actually being 6 feet under (and usually encased in cement to prevent them from “revisiting” after the first decent rain storm. Don’t laugh, it really does happen… *shudders*).
Oh I know. It’s gross, too. I’m still not sure why whoever populated Louisiana decided that building on the half of the state that’s below sea level was a good idea. It’s right up there with building Houston on a swamp.
I gather than a goodly part of what is below sea level in Louisiana wasn’t, originally. All of the levees on the Mississippi ended up decreasing the ground water, which caused the land to subside… Every action has an unexpected reaction for that sort of engineering!
That doesn’t excuse New Orleans. Or Shreveport, but that’s another gripe
NO was built there b/c of it’s strategic location on the Mississippi. Something about that bend in the river making it easy to defend. IDK, that’s about the point where I feel asleep in LA Hist.
Micheal Jackson votes?
I’m sure we’ll find out at the next election..
One flashed his lights and siren at me once just to get my butt out of the crosswalk so he could turn left a full 2 seconds sooner.
The other day, I saw two police cars running lights and sirens go through a few lights behind and then ahead of me. A couple of minutes later when I passed by the city hall / police dept, I saw them at the parking gate for the garage, with the occupants apparently talking about what they would do now that their shift was over.
So, would the captioner like to volunteer to spend a very long day working in the hot sun wearing heavy boots and loaded down with a pistol, handcuffs, etc., probably wearing ballistic vests, and then NOT sit on the readily available wall?
*crickets*
Ok, but there are just hundreds other places to sit.
Maybe, maybe not…we can’t really tell in this picture, can we? I mean, given the choice between 1) on the wall; 2) on the floor/sidewalk; 3) in the flower beds to the other side….yeah, I’m going with the wall, too.
The flower beds were hiding the donuts.
OMG! They finally perfected the donut plant!? I WANT ONE!
Either that or they are looking for truffles.
Hey, why shouldn’t they sit on the wall? I can just see a cop coming back to work after falling off a wall he was sitting on and telling all his fellow cops, “I’m gonna sue that guy for putting that wall where I could sit on it and fall off.”
Yes, he wouldn’t be the butt of every joke for the next, oh, forever or anything! He’s going to catch enough crap for being dumb/clumsy enough to hurt himself falling off the wall. I can guaran-damn-tee you somebody’d nickname him “Humpty-dumpty” after that.
especially with his partner as a witness.
I bet it’s the one on the left that falls off.
I was thinking the right, he’s trying to hard to be like the “big guy.”
Nicholas Cage?
POW, POW!
Hey, one well placed lawsuit is all it takes and *poof* YOU’RE A WINNER! Yes, you, sir, never have to work again! Thanks to this wonderful court system we have, your own stupidity and clumsiness is it’s own reward!
He wouldn’t have to endure the painful humiliation of being called “Humpty-Dumpty” for very long. A couple of million would make that pretty easy to take.
You wouldn’t get a million dollars for falling off a wall. You’re unlikely to get much of anything for falling off a wall anyway, unless it’s somehow defective in a way that’s not immediately apparent.
Yes yes, I’m sure you’re right. I just have a special kind of angst for frivolous lawsuits and tort reform. Plus I need a nap … and a cookie … and a beer …
If it makes you feel any better, that crap that goes around in emails about ridiculous damage awards is generally either completely fabricated or so twisted as to obscure the true reason behind the verdict.
And please don’t get me started on that poor woman with the coffee. When a major corporation has had numerous complaints and notice for years that their coffee is being served at a temperature that can cause serious injury, and they finally put a sympathetic old lady in the hospital getting skin grafts for third degree burns, a jury figured a sizable punitive award was going to be the ONLY way to get through to them. It did result in their finally lowering the coffee serving temperatures to normal levels, so in a way we all benefit. (And the amount they always publicize wasn’t actually the final damage award, anyway, it was reduced to less than 1/2 million by the judge — the original $2.7 million award represented about two days worth of coffee sales for McDonalds.)
Oh I know the difference between urban legend and legitimate litigation. And I’m not thinking solely of man vs. corporate monster either (in most cases) when I mention tort; I’m just irritated by the general misuse of the justice system for people to either avoid having to hold down a job or to air out petty grievances. You know, “My neighbor painted his house bright pink and now I get headaches all the time from looking at it ::whine:: … I want compensation!” Blech …
Yeah, and I was thinking on the drive home that it is possible (hell, it happens every day) to get money out of a totally frivolous claim; but that’s generally via settlement for what’s termed “nuisance damages”; in other words, “take some money and go away, because it would cost more to go to trial.” Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s much that tort reform can really DO about that aspect.
I reformed my tort by doubling the apple content and adding extra cinnamon. Mmmmmmmmo bettah!
Meh. “Humpty-dumpty” still beats the hell out of “The Blown Ranger,” i.e. that New Jersey cop over on FAILblog.
Maybe the wall was built by Fat Tony and is not, like, real reinforced concrete… I mean, if it WERE real reinforced concrete it should be able to take the weight of two people sitting on it. But you can see a couple of hairline cracks. The poster has inadvertently uncovered a sinister web of town hall corruption in, er, wherever that is.. and furthermore, if the sign were just an attempt to prevent citizens from doing dumbass things. the steel column should have a sign saying ‘ do not bite or smack your head on this column’ and the bollard behind should have a sign saying, well, I’ll leave that to your imagination…..
Wow, I haven’t seen this picture with almost the exact same comment three times before. Oh, wait…I have, yawn.
It’s a fvcking wall. And I don’t see anything saying not sitting on it is a law or city ordinance or something. It’s just a sign saying not to do it. Big deal. I’m so sick of the preachy LOLs, and they’re really having to stretch for them lately too. Where’s the good stuff??
pssst, Hey man, want some GOOD stuff?
*shifty eyes*
u holdin?
Nah, but I know someone, who knows someone — his name is Rush, he talks alot, but he gets good drugs.
Oh man, I thought for sure you were about to give up my best bud Guido!
But, I think he needed them after seeing that lol of Nancy Grace? I know it made me want to drop acid just to get the image out of my head!
Not a very fool proof method. What if you wound up having flashbacks of it for the rest of your life?
Hm… Where’s my lighter and my tunes? I think I need to hear some Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.
What? She’s HOT!
Burning sensation != hot. ^_^
Meh … petty dollhead. I had my heart set on a sheet of high power blotter acid, maybe some mescaline. You know, Gonzo.
Am I the only person who really wants this as a poster?
yes.. next?
Well DUH…
White guys with Gov Jobs don’t need to follow Rules or Laws. Yeesh.
um… Ew.
Honey, that ain’t cool. You pop a crackah cop in MY hood and it won’t jus be the crackah cops who hunt you down. It’d be a cop wit corn-rows that’d slap his partner’s cuffs on yo ass…
– an I’d be ri’ there cheerin him on, Honey.
Besides, these gents must surely be ‘Rental – Cops’… who are infamous for their illiteracy.
You know, some days I wonder how the fvck I managed to willingly go into two fvcking lines of work that are both the target of people’s jokes, derision, and hate; either I’m just a fvcking idiot or I’m a masochist.
I think I’ll see you guys next week; that just about fvcking does it for me for one week.
No diss, you’re well respected.. trust me on that one!
*hugs*
*respects diss alot* Don’t leave us diss. *huggles*
Holy crap, that’s Riverfront Park in Spokane, WA! Yay for Spokane P.D.?
pretty sure this one was done already, and it said something similar.
This was posted before.
FAIL