#trusses

"When I said there was money in hamsters I meant in the hamster raising business, not in them literally. Now clean up this bloody mess.

Here's a great shot of a scissor truss in a log home we built for a great client in New Mexico!

Scissor trusses are usually used in building construction to support a pitched roof with a sloped or raised ceiling surface.

Centre Georges Pompidou Beaubourg, Paris 

#OTD 2008- Last Game Played @ Historic NY Yankee Stadium

To mark this date, we share a variety of NY Yankees-related records.

YANKEE FAN IN SPACE!

STS-132 Mission Specialist/Yankees fan Garrett Reisman on the end of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System, Expedition 23, 5/17/2010. NARA ID 23602397.

9/11: World Series & A President’s Pitch

George W. Bush said nothing to the crowd the night he took the mound at Yankee Stadium [on October 30, 2001], only a few miles from where he had shouted through a bullhorn to people digging through the wreckage of the World Trade Center less than two months earlier.

Wearing a bulletproof vest, the president flashed a thumbs-up to the crowd, then threw a perfect strike before Game 3 of the 2001 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks. It was a signal to the country that the healing could begin.

“It was so moving, so powerful, that it lifted our nation,” sportscaster Jim Gray said Sunday night at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. “What President Bush told us without uttering a single word, was that we could once again attempt to carry on our lives. … What an amazing symbol it was.” Dallas Morning News.

President Bush (43) arrives at Yankee Stadium on Marine One, NARA ID 5997392.

President Bush (43) throws the first pitch 10/30/2001.

YOGI BERRA PROMOTES WAR BONDS!

Treasury Dep't. poster with Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, 1951. NARA ID 23889731.

BABE AND THE IRON HORSE

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig pose together on a visit to West Point, 5/6//1927.

HOOVER AND JOE DIMAGGIO!

Former president Hoover with Joe DiMaggio, 8/8/1959.

More baseball records online:

Special Topics page: Baseball at the National Archives

eBook: Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives

Senator JFK's remarks at Yankee Stadium, 4/29/1956.

10 Football Facts Featuring U.S. Presidents, Pieces of History.

9/11: The World Series and a President’s pitch, Pieces of History

Play Ball, Mr. President! Pieces of History

Lou Gehrig’s Final Season in the News, Unwritten Record.

Knowledge 7

A truss is a structure composed of rod members arranged to form one or more triangles. The joints are pinned (do not transmit moments) so that the members must be triangulated.

Source: http://profkodali.blogspot.com

-Those curved, sturdy, monstrous

structures,

that split the paths of rivers,

and serve as the necessary foundation for a bridge.

whose only real purpose, or at least the

only purpose I could find,

is to serve as a way to see the river from higher up.

———

Because that’s what life’s about, right?

to find newer, different perspectives?

hmm... but perhaps, it’s more important

for me to discover my own perspective...

at least, first.

it’d be nice to understand the way

I see the world

instead of forcing a specific vision.

———

Maybe what’s more important than

stone arches, and true, divine sight,

is feeling the wind?

tossing my head back,

losing my sight to the hair flung in front of

my eyes,

letting the air weave it’s way through my

fingers, like a less-than-tangible silk—

maybe silk is human’s pursuit of capturing wind,