vineri, 21 noiembrie 2008
10 amazing buildings made of dirt and straw
1. Hollyhock house mimicks Devon UK styles, on Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Gerry Thomasen
Cob, as this style of construction is known, has been used by crafty home-builders as far back as the 11th century. Evidence of these ultra-stable, fire-resistant structures has been found in North Africa, the Middle East, and, most commonly, Devon, Wales, and Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Earthen home-building gained resurgence in the late 1990's, in England and Ireland, and has become all the rage in Canada's British Columbia, displayed in exhibitions and neighborhood streets alike.
2. Won't have to worry about tracking dirt into this Baja Mexico lounge. It's there on purpose.
Cobworks
A 2007 family home, measuring 2,150 ft2, fitted with solar power and sub-floor heating ran a mere $210,000 CAD (112,000 GBP), making cob construction one of the most economical means of home-building, in addition to being among the most ethical. Impressive stats in these wild economic times, and positioning this rustic style of design at the forefront of charitable efforts to house the poor.
3. Smooth and groovy, a micro-house on display at Stanley Park, British Columbia.
Neil-san
Perhaps these Hobbit-esque homes are the wave of the future. Customizable and conservation-minded, earthen materials are the few things this planet has, in spades.
4. Natural minimalism at it's best in a green-built family home.
House Alive
5. Just look for Wilma Flintstone scrubbing up in this South African kitchen.
6. A wood-stove cobworks kitchen pays homage to pioneer days, with a modern flare.
House Alive
7. Praise the lord and pass the bong in this righteous meditation circle.
House Alive
8. It seems awfully easy to be green if you have digs like this house on Mayne Island, Canada.
Cobworks
9. Country corn-cob motif seems somehow appropriate on this little cob-built tool shed.
The Richardsons
10. There is no limit to the shapes and functionalities of cob house design.
Gerry Thomasen
Cob, as this style of construction is known, has been used by crafty home-builders as far back as the 11th century. Evidence of these ultra-stable, fire-resistant structures has been found in North Africa, the Middle East, and, most commonly, Devon, Wales, and Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Earthen home-building gained resurgence in the late 1990's, in England and Ireland, and has become all the rage in Canada's British Columbia, displayed in exhibitions and neighborhood streets alike.
2. Won't have to worry about tracking dirt into this Baja Mexico lounge. It's there on purpose.
Cobworks
A 2007 family home, measuring 2,150 ft2, fitted with solar power and sub-floor heating ran a mere $210,000 CAD (112,000 GBP), making cob construction one of the most economical means of home-building, in addition to being among the most ethical. Impressive stats in these wild economic times, and positioning this rustic style of design at the forefront of charitable efforts to house the poor.
3. Smooth and groovy, a micro-house on display at Stanley Park, British Columbia.
Neil-san
Perhaps these Hobbit-esque homes are the wave of the future. Customizable and conservation-minded, earthen materials are the few things this planet has, in spades.
4. Natural minimalism at it's best in a green-built family home.
House Alive
5. Just look for Wilma Flintstone scrubbing up in this South African kitchen.
6. A wood-stove cobworks kitchen pays homage to pioneer days, with a modern flare.
House Alive
7. Praise the lord and pass the bong in this righteous meditation circle.
House Alive
8. It seems awfully easy to be green if you have digs like this house on Mayne Island, Canada.
Cobworks
9. Country corn-cob motif seems somehow appropriate on this little cob-built tool shed.
The Richardsons
10. There is no limit to the shapes and functionalities of cob house design.
Cancer poems
Deci dau aici doua extrase de chinuiri lirice cum nu se poate mai aiurea pentru cei care if anything au nevoie de ceva uplifting, nu sa-si taie venele in lung.
Sursa: http://www.cancer-poems.blogspot.com/
CANCER POEMS -
RUNNING NEAR THE CLIFF EDGE
I was walking by the road,
That lead me to a hill,
I climbed the hill to find a cliff,
Where I could walk alone,
The sky was blue like years before,
My mind was clear – at ease,
This Cancer that controlled my life,
Has set me body free,
I ran among the whitened clouds
That ran above the sea,
I felt the warmth of Gods love
Inside the pain in me,
The sky was blue like years before,
My mind was clear – at ease,
This Cancer that controlled my life,
Had set my body free.
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
This is a poem that transcends hope and peace. W.B.Yeats was one of the greatest poets of all time, and his poems bring nothing but hope.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Alte hit-uri: I hide myself from cancer, Hope is a thing with feathers
Sursa: http://www.cancer-poems.blogspot.com/
CANCER POEMS -
RUNNING NEAR THE CLIFF EDGE
I was walking by the road,
That lead me to a hill,
I climbed the hill to find a cliff,
Where I could walk alone,
The sky was blue like years before,
My mind was clear – at ease,
This Cancer that controlled my life,
Has set me body free,
I ran among the whitened clouds
That ran above the sea,
I felt the warmth of Gods love
Inside the pain in me,
The sky was blue like years before,
My mind was clear – at ease,
This Cancer that controlled my life,
Had set my body free.
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
This is a poem that transcends hope and peace. W.B.Yeats was one of the greatest poets of all time, and his poems bring nothing but hope.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Alte hit-uri: I hide myself from cancer, Hope is a thing with feathers
joi, 20 noiembrie 2008
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marți, 9 septembrie 2008
1 zi pana la Sfarsitul Lumii - the End of the World
Source: Hotnews
A major scientific experiment attempting to establish what happened at the time of the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago is presented in a hip-hop manner by scientists that can hardly know what to expect, but are well aware by the power of the Internet.
Days before what is presented as one of the biggest physics experiments in the history of human kind, researchers from the European organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) explained how the Large Hadron Collider works in a youtube video seen by more than 1.2 million times.
The CERN experiment, involving a particle accelerating tunnel, known as LCH, way deep beneath the French-Swiss border, aims at collecting evidence of what happened at the time of the Big Bang, including possible evidence of dark matters and extra dimensions. It has already reached huge hype through various allegations that it may lead to the end of the world as we know it.
But until the experiment starts this Wednesday, British newspaper The Telegraph notes that CERN scientists are presenting the event in a hip-hop manner in a video that has lured more than 1.2 million visitors on the YouTube since it was uploaded two months ago. The dancing scenes were filmed in the very interior of the CERN lab where detectors would detect billions of particle clashes.
Cum credeti ca au reactionat Romanii?
Liderii PC protestează astăzi pentru anularea experimentului de la CERN
Sursa: Cotidianul
Ei vor picheta astăzi, în jurul orei 13:30, reprezentanţa Comisiei Europene din România, cerând stoparea proiectului.
Conservatorii se tem că experimentul programat pe 10 septembrie va fi catastrofal pentru Terra, care ar putea fi pur şi simplu înghiţită de găurile negre ce se vor forma ulterior.
De altfel, spun membrii PC, şi Organizaţia Europeană pentru Cercetare Nucleară a admis că proiectul va crea găuri negre, însă nu le consideră periculoase.
"Considerăm acest experiment unul extrem de riscant pentru siguranţa planetei noastre şi solicităm Comisiei Europene să facă demersurile necesare pentru stoparea acestui proiect", se arată în comunicatul remis astăzi presei de PC şi semnat de senatorul Marius Marinescu.
A major scientific experiment attempting to establish what happened at the time of the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago is presented in a hip-hop manner by scientists that can hardly know what to expect, but are well aware by the power of the Internet.
Days before what is presented as one of the biggest physics experiments in the history of human kind, researchers from the European organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) explained how the Large Hadron Collider works in a youtube video seen by more than 1.2 million times.
The CERN experiment, involving a particle accelerating tunnel, known as LCH, way deep beneath the French-Swiss border, aims at collecting evidence of what happened at the time of the Big Bang, including possible evidence of dark matters and extra dimensions. It has already reached huge hype through various allegations that it may lead to the end of the world as we know it.
But until the experiment starts this Wednesday, British newspaper The Telegraph notes that CERN scientists are presenting the event in a hip-hop manner in a video that has lured more than 1.2 million visitors on the YouTube since it was uploaded two months ago. The dancing scenes were filmed in the very interior of the CERN lab where detectors would detect billions of particle clashes.
Cum credeti ca au reactionat Romanii?
Liderii PC protestează astăzi pentru anularea experimentului de la CERN
Sursa: Cotidianul
Ei vor picheta astăzi, în jurul orei 13:30, reprezentanţa Comisiei Europene din România, cerând stoparea proiectului.
Conservatorii se tem că experimentul programat pe 10 septembrie va fi catastrofal pentru Terra, care ar putea fi pur şi simplu înghiţită de găurile negre ce se vor forma ulterior.
De altfel, spun membrii PC, şi Organizaţia Europeană pentru Cercetare Nucleară a admis că proiectul va crea găuri negre, însă nu le consideră periculoase.
"Considerăm acest experiment unul extrem de riscant pentru siguranţa planetei noastre şi solicităm Comisiei Europene să facă demersurile necesare pentru stoparea acestui proiect", se arată în comunicatul remis astăzi presei de PC şi semnat de senatorul Marius Marinescu.
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