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Vigiles

The Vigiles (or cohortes vigilum) were formed during the reign of Augustus to act as ancient Rome's permanent firefighting service. Evolving from earlier slave teams, the vigiles were organised as an urban military unit and eventually recruits came from the Roman citizenry. The body, with a permanent camp of its own and equipment stations dotted around the city, patrolled the streets of Rome each night and also performed certain nocturnal policing duties to ensure public order.

Evolution

The vigiles were created by Augustus in 6 CE to meet the high risk of fires in the capital presented by its high population density and widespread use of wooden housing and other buildings which had timber parts. It was not the first time such a force had been created for the avaricious Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of Rome's all-time richest men, had spotted the chance of making money by offering low prices for burning buildings and then having his team of slaves extinguish the fire so that it could be saved for redevelopment. If the property owner refused Crassus' offer, then the fire was left to rage on unabated.

The next step towards a proper fire service was taken by the aedile Egnatius Rufus who, like Crassus, created a force of slaves to put out fires but, unlike Crassus, seems to have been more motivated by issues of public safety. He may have sought political cachet from his creation, but it did not do him much good as the Senate later dealt him the death sentence for conspiring against the state. Another idea to protect the city, particularly at night, was the creation of the tresviri nocturni - three magistrates set on night watch. Yet again, this trio's workforce was composed of slaves, and it was their duty to prevent any disturbances in the city. Some wealthy private individuals even formed their own personal fire brigades, though, such was the need for a larger ever-present response team to fires.

C. 21 BCE Augustus took matters in hand and reorganised what was left of Rufus' slaves, creating a force of 600 slaves to fight fires if and when they arose. The aediles were put in charge of this new force, but they seem to have been ineffectual for, following serious fires in 7 BCE, Augustus reorganised them again. This time the force was split to cover 14 zones, each further divided into vici. Thus each of the 265 vici had its own designated group of firefighting public slaves commanded by the viciomagister. This was an improvement on the previous system, but there remained problems with coordination between different vici. This led to Augustus finally creating a single force, the vigiles.

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The cut sleeve

Among elite men in first-century BCE China, male-male relationships were accepted. Emperor Āi, who ruled China from 7BCE until 1BCE, is particularly remembered for the titles and gifts he heaped upon his lover Dǒng Xián. Āi once even cut the sleeve from his imperial robe rather than pull it out from under Dǒng Xián and wake him from a nap. This story led to the Chinese phrase duànxiù zhī pǐ - “the passion of the cut sleeve” as a euphemism for homosexuality.

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[Image: 17th century image of an attendant cutting Emperor Āi's sleeve while Dǒng Xián sleeps, by Hong Shou Chen.]

[rederiswrites]

I was gonna wait til I’d actually tried it but I’m too excited. Guys I think I have all the information I need to make faience. Okay uh--all the information I need to start experimenting. I stayed up til 4 in the morning in a feverish hyperfixation chasing leads until I had the materials ordered. God I hope they ship quickly from (checks notes)...California.

Okay okay step back. Faience is the immediate predecessor of glass, although it’s more properly a ceramic. A weird, silica-based ceramic. A weird, self-glazing silica ceramic. Basically you mix all the ingredients together and then mold or sculpt them, and as the mixture dries, the glaze elements migrate to the surface to become a gorgeous glaze (usually blue or green) when fired. Looks like this.

Egyptian cat, 7BCE

Modern samples by ceramics artist Amy Waller

It was very popular for a while, and then fell out of use as it was replaced by glass. But it persisted long enough to find its way into some of the bead ensembles I find myself copying, and it’s fascinating as a moldable and stampable material. Though like corn starch and water it’s a thixotropic substance, so it’s hard and crumbly if you work it rough and will jiggle down to a gel. I guess. I look forward to seeing how it is to work with that!

One last hilarious element--the colorant (in this case copper oxide, though it can be other things) is like 1% of the mix, but uh. It comes in one pound bags. It all comes in one pound bags, unless I wanted to buy 1/100th the copper oxide for 1/2 the price. So I shrugged and bought two pounds of silica and a pound of everything else and now I should be able to make absolutely comical amounts of faience.

[aiamozai]

i know i’ve already reblogged a post about dear david (i’ll provide the same link to the compilation of tweets by adam elis below), but i just want to reiterate—this is the absolute best thing i have come across in a while. it’s so fucking scary, it fucks you up, you don’t know what to think about anything... it’s breathtaking. the writer draws you in slowly, in the absolute best fucking way, and just like you usually watch people live their normal ass lives on social media, you watch him lose his mind over the dreams he has and the weird shit that happens to him. it’s amazing, i don’t care if it’s fake. anyway, i was reading it at 3 AM so yeah i didn’t get any sleep, but it was worth it. if you want a good scare, i really suggest that you read it all the way through.

https://wakelet.com/wake/e6275d03-7bce-4789-9961-f3a04723cc71

[sangounobouken]

NarrowBuilding

By haruki_haru

https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_1dfa7c9d-7bce-4cf1-a0d6-fad8be272d2c

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[queerasfact]

pride 2020 20/30 | emperor āi and dǒng xián

Male-male relationships were accepted among elite men in ancient China. Emperor Āi, who ruled China from 7BCE until 1BCE, is particularly remembered for the titles and gifts he heaped upon his lover Dǒng Xián. Āi once even cut the sleeve from his imperial robe rather than pull it out from under Dǒng Xián and wake him from a nap. This story led to the Chinese phrase duànxiù zhī pǐ - “the passion of the cut sleeve” as a euphemism for homosexuality, which persisted for centuries after Āi’s reign.

learn more with queer as fact: a queer history podcast

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processed-946ED50F-EB9C-419E-B35A-2CD5AD899AA2-8D16BB48-7BCE-41BA-9EC4-7E1573627C9A(1) from Seymour Koblin-ISOHA on Vimeo.

[theviolentfembot]

@lesbian-hobbit​  

The guy with sleep paralysis who was being haunted by the thing he was seeing in his sleep paralysis I was telling you about draws cartoons! His name is Adam Ellis. and apparently they’re going to make a movie of his experience called Dear David. 

https://twitter.com/moby_dickhead?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwakelet.com%2Fwake%2Fe6275d03-7bce-4789-9961-f3a04723cc71

[soycabcba]

Volvé a ver este domingo “la final del siglo” entre Talleres y Belgrano

Para los amantes del fútbol se hacen muy largos los domingos sin partidos en nuestro país por la pandemia de coronavirus. Algunos alivian la abstinencia mirando encuentros de otras ligas pero lo cierto es que nada es lo mismo si no juega “tu” equipo.

Es por eso que un grupo de hinchas de Talleres aprovechó que hoy se cumplen 22 años de la final con Belgrano para volver a emitir el partido completo de aquel clásico inolvidable.

La cita es a las 19 en el sitio de Facebook de la agrupación “Grande por su historia”.

Clic acá para ver el partido este domingo.

Aquel 5 de julio fue triunfo albiazul, en un final infartante. Todos coincidieron que la suerte de los penales se inclinó hacia el que mejor jugó, pero también al más necesitado.

Le hubiera sido difícil a Talleres recuperarse de una hipotética caída, que hubiera sido un tercer traspié consecutivo por el ascenso. Belgrano se juramentó ascender tras aquella tristeza y lo logró pocos días después. Pero hace 22 años, el festejo histórico fue albiazul.

Síntesis del partido de vuelta

Belgrano: Bernardo Ragg; Cosme Zaccanti, Diego Alarcón, Hernán Medina, Norberto Testa; Horacio García, Adrián Ávalos, Guillermo Guendulain, Hernán Manrique; Luis Sosa (c), Cristián Carnero. DT: Ricardo Rezza.

Talleres: Mario Cuenca (c); David Díaz, Horacio Humoller, José María Rozzi; Andrés Cabrera, Javier Villarreal, Fernando Clementz; Daniel Albornos, Diego Garay; José Zelaya, Ramón Medina Bello. DT: Ricardo Gareca.

Goles: ST: 9m Albornos (T), 34m Carnero (B) y 45m Sosa (B), de tiro libre.

Cambios: ST, 13m Carlos Gómez por Medina (B) y Luis Artime por García (B), 29m Rodrigo Astudillo por Garay (T), 37m Gustavo Lillo por Albornos (T) y 41m Roberto Oste por Zelaya (T). PTS: Cristian Binetti por Gómez (B).Expulsados: ST: 14m Testa (B) y 28m Medina Bello (T).Nota: definido por penales tras 120 minutos.Cancha: Estadio Córdoba.Árbitro: Horacio Elizondo.Día: domingo 5 de julio de 1998.La recaudación no fue récord. Los 717.844 pesos del segundo clásico no lograron superar la marca del Talleres-Instituto del ’94, con 873.335.

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source https://mundod.lavoz.com.ar/futbol/volve-a-ver-este-domingo-la-final-del-siglo-entre-talleres-y-belgrano

[macunan]

Arduino Nano Precise Clock

Arduino Clock Components ----------------------------------

1)Arduino nano

https://es.aliexpress.com/store/product/Nano-3-0-controller-compatible-with-arduino-nano-CH340-USB-driver-with-CABLE-NANO-V3-0/1735233_32686415387.html?spm=a219c.search0104.3.9.fEOWoR&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1_10152_10065_10151_10068_10344_10345_10547_10342_10343_10340_10341_10548_10541_10307_10060_10155_10154_10056_10055_10539_10537_10536_10059_10534_10533_100031_10103_10102_5670011_10142_10107_10173_5660011_10084_10083_10312_10313_10314_10550_10073_10551_10552_10553_10554_10556_10557_5650011-10550,searchweb201603_2,ppcSwitch_5&btsid=e2d79a43-a9ae-4e1a-b9b5-e81e896c7de6&algo_expid=1ba6f1b6-e9ac-4f9c-a4c0-8481f4368dba-4&algo_pvid=1ba6f1b6-e9ac-4f9c-a4c0-8481f4368dba

2)Arduino connections cables 12

https://es.aliexpress.com/item/120pcs-20cm-male-male-male-female-and-female-female-wire-Dupont-cable-for-Arduino-Breadboard-Free/1601497272.html?spm=a219c.12010108.1000013.6.2df5ad73LWjPFV&traffic_analysisId=recommend_2088_3_90158_iswistore&scm=1007.13339.90158.0&pvid=c2953982-4377-479e-b07c-7ae5a3d6b5c7&tpp=1

3)USB 5v Power suply Cellphone charger will do.

4)USB mini USB Cable

5)Arduino compatible numeric Keyboard

https://es.aliexpress.com/store/product/4x3-Matrix-Array-12-Key-Membrane-Switch-Keypad-Keyboard-3-4-Control-Panel-Microprocessor-Keyboard-for/1762106_32342282281.html?spm=a219c.search0104.3.10.SWahiy&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1_10152_10065_10151_10068_10344_10345_10547_10342_10343_10340_10341_10548_10541_10307_10060_10155_10154_10056_10055_10539_10537_10536_10059_10534_10533_100031_10103_10102_5670011_10142_10107_10173_5660011_10084_10083_10312_10313_10314_10550_10073_10551_10552_10553_10554_10556_10557_5650011-10552,searchweb201603_2,ppcSwitch_5&btsid=327d1f0b-ddec-4ef2-9aa8-80045e23a890&algo_expid=d320c65b-33a8-4478-acbb-aa7e1d22f33d-1&algo_pvid=d320c65b-33a8-4478-acbb-aa7e1d22f33d

6)TM1637 LCD Display module

https://es.aliexpress.com/store/product/Free-shipping-4-digital-display-with-adjustable-brightness-LED-module-clock-Point-Accessories-Blocks-for-arduino/1326062_1961805015.html?spm=a219c.search0104.3.2.LYtgwE&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1_10152_10065_10151_10068_10344_10345_10547_10342_10343_10340_10341_10548_10541_10307_10060_10155_10154_10056_10055_10539_10537_10536_10059_10534_10533_100031_10103_10102_5670011_10142_10107_10173_5660011_10084_10083_10312_10313_10314_10550_10073_10551_10552_10553_10554_10556_10557_5650011-10552,searchweb201603_2,ppcSwitch_5&btsid=66712cd6-643c-4f83-93d3-15f25be8f620&algo_expid=4ccb73ab-7bce-4741-adaa-c5653dc68996-0&algo_pvid=4ccb73ab-7bce-4741-adaa-c5653dc68996

Arduino keypad library: --------------------------------- https://github.com/Chris--A/Keypad

Arduino TM1637 library -------------------------------- https://github.com/bremme/arduino-tm1637

Connections

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TM1637 LED

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 tm1637/Arduino

VC=3v3

GND=GND

CLK=D5

DIO=D4

Keypad/Arduino

Keypad facing you with numbers upright from left to right

Keypad/Arduino

1/D12

2/D11

3/D10

4/D09

5/D08

6/D07

7/D6

Female to Female cable

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D2 connect to D3 this is to keep accurate time. In Arduino.

Source  code -------------------------

/*  Simple internal clock demo: by Joseph Unik aka Relic1974    Uses analog PWM output of 490Hz with a 50% duty cycle to    keep very accurate time ;).  Connect an LED to pin 13 to    watch seconds blink.  Connect a jumper from D3    to Digital Pin 2 (interrupt 0). Minutes output to serial    monitor.  http://www.planetxresearch.com 'Arduino' logo    for more projects and tricks...

   (Feel free to use this code to expand into a fully-functional    clock or other project under Creative Commons ;) */ #include "SevenSegmentTM1637.h" #include "SevenSegmentExtended.h" #include "Keypad.h" String time; int clockInt = 0;            // digital pin 2 is now interrupt 0 int masterClock = 0;         // counts rising edge clock signals int seconds = 0;             // variable int minutes = 12;             // variable int hours = 12;             // variable

int ledPin = 13; int state = LOW; int oldstate = HIGH; boolean flag=true; const byte PIN_CLK = 5;   // define CLK pin (any digital pin) const byte PIN_DIO = 4;   // define DIO pin (any digital pin)

const byte ROWS = 4; //four rows const byte COLS = 3; //three columns char keys[ROWS][COLS] = { {'1','2','3'}, {'4','5','6'}, {'7','8','9'}, {'*','0','#'} };

byte rowPins[ROWS] = {12,11,10,9}; //connect to the row pinouts of the keypad byte colPins[COLS] = {8,7,6 }; //connect to the column pinouts of the keypad

Keypad keypad = Keypad(makeKeymap(keys), rowPins, colPins, ROWS, COLS);

SevenSegmentExtended      display(PIN_CLK, PIN_DIO);

void setup() {  attachInterrupt(clockInt, clockCounter, CHANGE);      //  clockInt is our interrupt, clockCounter function is called when      //  invoked on a RISING clock edge  analogReference(DEFAULT);  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);  Serial.begin(9600);  analogWrite(3, 127);   // this starts our PWM 'clock' with a 50% duty cycle    display.begin();            // initializes the display  display.setBacklight(10);  // set the brightness to 100 % }

void clockCounter()      // called by interrupt {  masterClock ++;        // with each clock rise add 1 to masterclock count  if(masterClock >= 979) // 490Hz reached //  if(masterClock >= 130) // 490Hz reached  {    seconds ++;          // after one 490Hz cycle add 1 second ;)    masterClock = 0;     // Reset after 1 second is reached  state = !state;

//    tone(13, 100, 100);  // using tone to pulse LED without delay call ;)   }  return; } void printtime() {    Serial.print("  Time = ");    zeroit(hours);    Serial.print(hours);    Serial.print(":");    zeroit(minutes);    Serial.print(minutes);    Serial.print(":");    zeroit(seconds);    char key = keypad.getKey();    Serial.println(seconds);    display.printTime(hours, minutes, true);  // display time

if (key != NO_KEY){ Serial.println(key); if(key=='*') {  display.printTime(0,0 , true); time="";

flag=true; while (flag){  char key = keypad.getKey();

if (key != NO_KEY){ if(key=='#') { flag=false; hours=time.substring(0,2).toInt(); minutes=time.substring(2,4).toInt(); seconds=0; state = state;

Serial.println("New  time will be "); Serial.println(hours); Serial.println(minutes); break; //time.toInt();

} if(key=='0' || key=='1'|| key=='2' || key=='3' || key=='4'|| key=='5'|| key=='6'|| key=='7'|| key=='8'|| key=='9') {  time=time+key; Serial.println(time);

}

}

} } }    return; }

void zeroit(int value) {  if (value < 10)  Serial.print("0");  return; } void loop() {  if(seconds == 60)      // NOW GETTING IN TO REAL TIME KEEPING  {

   if (minutes == 59)// set to 60    {      hours++;      if(hours==24)      {      hours=0;      }      minutes = 0;      seconds = 0;    }    else    {      minutes ++;          // increment minutes by 1      seconds = 0;         // reset the seconds variable    }  }

 if (state != oldstate)  {    digitalWrite(13, state);    oldstate = state;    printtime();  }

}

References ----------------------------------- http://arduinolearning.com/learning/basics/arduino-numeric-keypad.php

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-an-accurate-Arduino-clock-using-only-one-wire/ ---> treasure box of knowledge

Enjoy your new arduino clock :-) !

[vijayaustin-blog]

[queerasfact]

pride 2019 17/30 | emperor āi and dǒng xián

Among elite men in ancient China, male-male relationships were accepted.  Emperor Āi, who ruled China from 7BCE until 1BCE, is particularly remembered for the titles and gifts he heaped upon his lover Dǒng Xián. Āi once even cut the sleeve from his imperial robe rather than pull it out from under Dǒng Xián and wake him from a nap. This story led to the Chinese phrase duànxiù zhī pǐ - “the passion of the cut sleeve” as a euphemism for homosexuality, which persisted for centuries after Āi’s reign.

learn more with queer as fact: a queer history podcast

[isoha]

processed-946ED50F-EB9C-419E-B35A-2CD5AD899AA2-8D16BB48-7BCE-41BA-9EC4-7E1573627C9A from Seymour Koblin-ISOHA on Vimeo.