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Verdant Laboratory: A multi-faceted institution sheltered by a undulating green roof takes a holistic approach to sustainable design
By Joann Gonchar, AIA
Sustainable buildings don't always look green, but the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, is one that does. Covering the 400,000-square-foot building, which replaces a complex damaged beyond repair by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, is an undulating 2.5-acre living roof dotted with porthole-like skylights. This rolling landscape was conceived as a swath cut from the park and elevated 36 feet to the height of the old buildings, according to Renzo Piano, the Genoa, Italy-based architect of the academy's new home.
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
Location: San Francisco, California (Along Sections Of Pacific Ocean And San Francisco Bay)
Gross Square Footage: 400,000 Ft2 (37,160 M2 )
Cost: $488 Million
Completed: September 2008
Annual Purchased Energy Use (Based On Simulation): 103 Kbtu/Ft2 (1,160 Mj/M2 ), 12% Reduction From Base Case
Annual Carbon Footprint (Predicted): 18 Lbs. CO2 /Ft2 (87 Kg CO2 /M2 )
Program: Museum, Planetarium, Aquarium, Laboratories, Collections Storage, Offices
Team Owner: California Academy Of Sciences
Architect And Interior Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop In Collaboration With Stantec
Architect Of Record: Stantec Architecture
Landscape: Swa Landscape
Architecture Engineers: Arup (Structural, Mep, Environmental); Bello Associates, Sj Engineers (Associates); Rutherford & Chekene (Civil)
Commissioning Agent: Ctg Energetics
General Contractor: Webcor Builders
The green roof-designed to reduce stormwater runoff, provide insulation, and create habitat for birds and insects-is the most conspicuous manifestation of the academy's mission "to explore, explain, and protect the natural world." Or, as Greg Farrington, the museum and research institution's executive director explains, the academy's activities are focused on pressing questions such as "How did we get here?" and "How we are going to stay?"
However, the rolly polly planted roof is just one of a whole array of coordinated strategies that helped the $488-million building earn Platinum LEED certification soon after its opening in late September. For example, contractors recycled 90 percent of demolition debris from the old academy; much of the new building, including open office areas and the main exhibition space, is naturally ventilated; almost all of its public spaces have access to daylight and views; and, the structure is surrounded by a glass-and-steel trellis that incorporates 60,000 photovoltaic (PV) cells, expected to generate 220 kWh of electricity annually.
According to data provided by the project team and interpreted by GreenSource, the new building will use 12 percent less energy than one designed to comply with ASHRAE 90.1-1999. The number is lower than the roughly 30 percent savings shown in the project's LEED documentation partly because it is based on projected energy use rather than on energy cost. But more significantly, it assumes no savings in plug and process loads. Such loads are significant at the Academy, where energy-intensive equipment is required to support features like an aquarium, a planetarium, a man-made rain forest, and research laboratories, and to maintain the temperature and humidity levels necessary for preserving a vast collection of scientific specimens.
This programmatic complexity is packed into an envelope that (except for its bulbous roof) is remarkably straightforward. The building's main floor plan is a simple rectangle, defined by four poured-in-place concrete structures at each corner. One contains the gift shop and café, two are devoted to research and administrative areas, and one houses a recreated exhibit from the original building devoted to Africa's ecosystem.
Separating the individual shoe-box-like structures is floor-to-ceiling low-iron glazing that opens the building to the park and a 36,000-square-foot cruciform-shaped exhibition area. The space has a central skylit and largely open-to-the-air "piazza" flanked by two 90-foot-diameter steel-framed spheres. One sphere is glass-clad and encloses a multi-level rain-forest exhibit, while the other is aluminum-clad and houses the planetarium.
These domed elements are responsible for the roof's primary protrusions: They "push" the height of exhibition hall from 36 feet at its lowest point to 70 feet as the steel structure and the living roof above rise to accommodate them. The aquarium occupies the level below, with large open tanks extending up to the main floor and defining the edges of the piazza.
The planetarium and rain forest each deploy their own climate control strategies. The planetarium relies on displacement ventilation, with cool air supplied through floor grilles. The system is quieter than those that provide forced air from above and is more efficient since it conditions only the occupied space rather than the planetarium's entire volume, explains Kang Kiang, AIA, a senior associate with Mark Cavagnero Associates and formerly project manager for the academy's executive architect, Stantec (originally Gordon Chong Partners Architecture).
The environment inside the rain forest is kept appropriately warm and humid. Light necessary for the tropical plants to grow is provided through the circular skylights and by supplemental electrical lighting. Misting ensures that temperatures do not rise above the design criteria of 79 to 84 degrees with 50 to 70 percent humidity, and a stream of high-velocity air prevents condensation from forming on the inner pane of its terrarium-like enclosure.
For the open exhibit hall surrounding the spheres, engineers took advantage of San Francisco's mild climate, developing a natural ventilation scheme. Fresh air enters the exhibit hall through high and low level openings in the glazed facades, and warm air is vented, via the stack effect, through the porthole-shaped operable skylights on the roof. But ensuring that air would evenly penetrate, without creating dead zones or overly breezy spots, was no easy feat, because of the hall's plus-sign-shaped plan, the undulating roof, and the two spherical obstructions.
"The unusual shape meant we couldn't rely on rules of thumb to develop the natural ventilation scheme," says Karl Lyndon, project mechanical engineer and an associate director in the London office of Arup. The San Francisco office, where Lyndon was previously based, provided multiple services on the project, including LEED consulting and mechanical and structural engineering.
In order to better understand how to naturally ventilate the exhibit hall, engineers analyzed the space using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) starting with schematic design. They refined these analyses as the design progressed and validated the results against the performance of physical scale models that they subjected to wind tunnel tests. Sensors measured factors such as pressure on the facades, wind speed, and direction.
The tests not only focused on visitors' thermal comfort, but also on ensuring that indoor air was free of contaminants. For example, one study helped the design team optimally locate exhaust from boilers and mechanically ventilated spaces to keep foul air out of the path of exhibit hall vents and a rooftop observation deck. A particular concern was the placement of the roof stack from the penguin exhibit. "Penguins have bad body odor," says Lyndon.
Ultimately the design team used the data garnered from the CFD analysis and wind tunnel tests to create a control sequence for the building automation system (BAS). The BAS, which monitors interior conditions through a series of sensors, and exterior conditions via a roof-mounted weather station, directs operation of the windows and roof vents, and other building systems, such as a radiant floor that provides supplemental heating and cooling, external roller blinds for sun shading, and daylight dimming.
Designers emphasize that these systems are tightly integrated with each other. "The academy's natural ventilation can't be thought about in isolation," says Kiang. Other features, like the geometry of the living roof, and the insulation it provides, also help make natural ventilation a viable interior climate control strategy, he points out.
The roof provides other performance benefits as well, including absorbing almost all of the rainwater that falls on it. On the rare occasions when the its saturation point is exceeded, runoff drains into an underground recharge chamber and slowly percolates into the surrounding soil, explains Reed Davis, a principal in the Sausalito, California office of SWA, the project's landscape architect. Davis estimates that annually only two percent of the runoff will reach San Francisco's often overloaded combined sewer and stormwater system.
SWA worked with the museum's own botanists and ecologist Paul Kephart of Carmel Valley, California-based Rana Creek Living Architecture to select the roof's plant material. They evaluated species on the basis of their capacity to attract birds and pollinating insects, and for their ability to thrive in shallow soil and bluff-like conditions. The group eventually settled on a scheme of sedum, self-heal, sea thrift, and beach strawberry.
Because Piano wanted an alternative to the typical plastic trays used in most modular green roof systems, Kephart developed the BioTray, a 17-inch-square biodegradable container for growing medium and plants made of natural latex and coconut coir-a rapidly renewable product derived from coconut husks.
The 50,000 trays arrived at the site pre-planted and were installed on the roof within a 24-foot grid of gabions. The rock-filled cages prevent the trays from sliding down the roof's hills and provide an infrastructure for drainage and irrigation, as well as a walkway for maintenance workers, says Reed.
Such innovative solutions for the roof, and the building as a whole, would not have been possible without the involvement of a mutli-disciplinary team starting with the earliest design phases. "This project embraced the concept of integrated delivery long before the term was a buzz word, " says Matt Rossi, project director for general contractor Webcor Builders, San Mateo, California.
Sometimes as many as 25 people, including the owner's representatives, the architects, the contractor, and consultants were in the same room trying to resolve questions surrounding constructability, budget, and schedule, according to Jean Rogers, an Arup environmental engineer and principal. "The burden of solving such problems fell to the whole team."


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With the new school year in full swing, the work on Ayola has been been growing!
Each person on the team has been given a specific task to focus all of their attention during the upcoming semester:
Amani: working through our Words With Multiple Meanings, which helps to explode our vocabulary.
Sally: working on our new Grammar Book – Let's Learn Ayola! to help facilitate the understanding of how Ayola works.
John: working on our Synonym Lists by cleaning up formatting and updating definitions.
Maggie: working on Ayola's Species List of Plants and Animals which will be available as a separate document and we'll also be adding the more common species to the Basic Word List.
Nick: working on adding our backlog of words to the Basic Word List and other documents.
As always, here is an updated copy of our Basic Word List (Web)[archive 9.15]. We're at a grand total of 11,337 words (up 570 words from May 2015)!
With the new school year in full swing, the work on Ayola has been been growing!

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Momentum Capital is a Dutch private investment company that invests hands-on for its own account and risk.
Until 2005, the founders of Momentum Capital were entrepreneurial investors who looked for funds in which to invest their own capital. The funds had to be forward-looking and flexible. They also had to anticipate changes in the market and the risks and opportunities associated with these. They wanted investment funds that were truly committed to creating value and successfully closing an investment deal.
They soon learned that anticipating change and adding value were not standard specifications for most investment funds. Most of all, they realized that no one looks after your money better than you do yourself. That's why, in 2005, they decided to set up Momentum Capital. They built what they were looking for: an independent investment company founded by and for entrepreneurial investors.
Over the past twelve years, they have set a track record of investing in private companies that offer solutions to global challenges – companies that focus primarily on population growth, the need for energy-efficient products, and more sustainable energy sources.
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Momentum Capital now also invests with a closed group of influential individuals who can add know-how, network and experience as well as capital. Together, they are creating value with companies by changing industries for the better, to derive profit from doing that.


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Participants will be introduced to basic Photoshop techniques through the context of creating animated GIFs. Skills covered include setting up a document, cutting out methods, layering, keyframe animation and an introduction to applying Photoshop's myriad effects. There will be an overview to platforms for sharing your creations, as well as discovering inspiration in this medium.
Experience using Mac operating system highly preferred, however not essential. Please bring a USB to save your work if desired.
Wednesday 4 October and Wednesday 15 November, 5pm to 6.45pm
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Heidelberg, 27.06.2012. The 7th International Blended Learning Conference organized by the The University of Hertfordshire's Learning and Teaching Institute in partnership with JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee (The UK's expert on information and digital technologies for education and research – an organisation promoting easy and widespread access to information and resources, with a focus on technology and information management) took place from June 13th to 14th at the University of Hertfordshire in England and provided the opportunity for University staff from around the world to engage in discussion and reflection on the innovative use of technology particularly in those contexts where it is embedded into the programme to complement face-to-face classes.
Papers presented ranged from work done using tools such as E-portfolios, Electronic Voting Systems, Course Management Systems like Moodle, for example, in pedagogically meaningful ways and in line with institutional and other national and international educational objectives.
Two of the keynote speakers, Dr. Norm Vaughan from Mount Royal College in Canada and Dr. Mark Brown from Massey University in New Zealand, joined us virtually to share their concepts and understandings of how we might continue to improve the experiences we provide for our students in blended contexts.
The support and advances made in this field by the Joint Information Systems Committee was also well featured at the conference.
It was definitely a pleasure, alongside such well known names in the international landscape, to have had my proposal accepted for presentation and to have had colleagues share their views and experiences as it related to my research on "Promoting participation via a multiple-discussion online forum: Student perspectives on the experience".
This presentation detailed the results of an Appreciative Inquiry approach to determining the positive learning impact of online discussion fora and was based on a project I carried out within the Level 1 Engllish for International Business and Study Module.
The conference can be said to have been complemented by the focus of the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning Workshop which I had the privilege of attending on April 24th, 2012. This latter event, organized by the Staff and Educational Development Association focused on ensuring that all University staff are provided with the opportunity and encouraged to engage in reflective practice and that processes are put in place to allow them to obtain professional qualifications in Supporting Learning and, in this way, provide evidence of the dual professional which all teachers in Higher Education are required to be: subject and educational specialists.
One final highlight of this conference for me, was the work of the graphic facilitator, Joel Cooper, whose ongoing artistic portrait captured all the ideas generated throughout the conference.
A masterpiece reflective of a very stimulating conference.
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Mobile Broadband in Africa and the Middle East: LTE Profit Drivers and Outlook is a new market report announced by Reportstack. This report tackles the question of how LTE is positioned in Africa and the Middle East and what its growth drivers and consequences for mobile broadband are. It reviews the existing LTE deployments and assesses uptake vis-à-vis (and along with) 3G adoption and rollouts. We analyze the current circumstances and expectations for mobile broadband in AME by using three main pillars: revenue drivers (services, devices, pricing models), cost (regulations and deployment models) and structural dynamics (socioeconomic and competitive characteristics).
Key Findings
- LTE is commercially present in about 20 countries in Africa and the Middle East. In the wealthy Gulf countries almost all mobile operators use LTE as their new basis of competition for mobile subscriptions, whereas in Africa the use of LTE is mostly limited to fixed-use cases for broadband access, following WiMAX migrations.
- Mobile operators in Africa are waiting for the digital dividend, scheduled for mid-2015, and the release of frequencies in the sub-1GHz spectrum before aggressive LTE deployments. Until then, pure broadband LTE companies have a window of opportunity to expand their subscriber bases, while Internet companies, such as Microsoft and Google, will have time to lobby for the utilization of TV white spaces.
- In the Gulf markets, pricing of mobile data is often uniform across 3G and LTE networks, while in Africa, the arrival of LTE broadband brought with it a wave of segmentation in the packaging and pricing of mobile data, for instance through data sharing and time-of-day packages.
- Although network sharing or wholesale LTE networks are possibilities, unfavorable competitive dynamics in most AME markets hamper the development of such cost-effective deployment models.
- In the Gulf markets, LTE will account for 30% of mobile subscriptions by 2018, while the figure will be in the 2-5% range across African markets due to late entries by mobile operators. This is in line with African regulators who raise concerns that the mobile operators should gain more experience with 3G.
This Telecom Insider tackles the question of how LTE is positioned in Africa and the Middle East and what its growth drivers and consequences for mobile broadband are. It reviews the existing LTE deployments and assesses uptake vis-à-vis (and along with) 3G adoption and rollouts. We analyze the current circumstances and expectations for mobile broadband in AME by using three main pillars: revenue drivers, cost constraints and structural dynamics.
Among revenue drivers, we discuss the implications of the emergence of local content that justifies the growing use of high-speed mobile networks, such as OTT video and e-commerce applications. We also highlight the changes in how operators package and price LTE in Africa and the Middle East, as well as the landscape of devices available to mobile broadband. In the cost section, we emphasize the LTE network deployment models in use or planned by the operators, as well as the regulatory constraints and enablers surrounding the future of LTE in AME. In the structural dynamics section, we focus on the effects of socioeconomic market characteristics and how competition incentivizes or postpones LTE deployments in some markets.
Also in this report, you will find a detailed list of existing LTE deployments, projections on mobile broadband uptake over the next five years, as well as concrete conclusions and recommendations regarding the future of LTE and mobile broadband in Africa and the Middle East. The report visits multiple cases of successful and failed deployments, as well as analytical comparisons across markets that can be used for decision-making.
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Parkview Baptist High School English teacher Joy Holden, wearing a floor-length dress and a ring of flowers on her head, paused in conversation to break up a sword fight in the center of the school's courtyard.
Corralling sword fighting students happened somewhat frequently during the senior English students' Medieval Festival on Nov. 20.
The festival was part of a research project about the world that inspired Geoffrey Chaucer's book "The Canterbury Tales," including bands of marauders and knights, which led to the authenticity of the random skirmishes at Parkview.
"Hey, get back to your stations! We've got a group of fourth-graders about to start a tour," Holden said as she directed the brawlers, grouped in the center of the courtyard, from the set of booths near the back of the square called Dualville.
It's the dual-enrollment seniors who are taking college courses this year, she explained. "They wanted their own section, so …"
The festival was made up of about a dozen booths displaying everything from Medieval music, food and weaponry to period medicine ranging from sometimes delicious rosemary tea to unappealing leeches, in this case represented by gummy worm candy.
"They have a lot of fun with this," Holden said, approaching a booth where senior Hannah Cleveland stood holding a die.
"Would you like to roll for your caste?" Cleveland said in a spot-on British accent, explaining the differences in how people lived in medieval times.
Each face of the die had a letter — with C representing a castle where the wealthiest and most powerful lived, and M a manor house for families who were near but not at the top of the social and wealth scale, and so on, down the ranks of wealth and comfort.
At the bottom were peasants, Cleveland said.
"I rolled a castle, which suits me fine because I already have a tiara collection," she said.
Each student also was assigned one of the book's tales — Cleveland studied the clerk's tale — to prepare for a research paper and presentation to the class, Holden said. In addition, they were required to research one of the medieval lifestyle categories and come up with a presentation on that, as well. The costumes and booths at the fair accounted for another portion of their grade.
The period writing of the book can be a little on the dry side for some students, said Holden, and the research portion combined with the festival brings it to life for all the students at the school, including the lower grades, who toured the festival.
"They will be anticipating this project when they are seniors. Everyone looks forward to it," Holden said.
The drama department at the school helps the seniors find costumes that will fit, she said.
At the medieval medicine booth, Jessie McCrary and booth mates Michael Daigle, Katie Kelly and Claire Brewer poured cups of rosemary tea along with other samples of medieval cures.
McCrary studied the tale of the Franklin, a jolly, party-loving character whose tale highlighted the code of chivalry and keeping your word no matter the personal cost while being kind and protecting those weaker than yourself.
A band of seniors armed with swords jogged by, announcing their intent to attack a village, while another group of seniors gathered the fourth-grade students to teach them an authentic medieval dance that was set to the tune of two guitarists who had studied medieval music.
"Come feast with us!" said Lexie Everett, the Woman of Bath, who dished out pottage, which, she said, could include anything a family had to throw in the cook pot.
On this day, Everett said, the pot included "spuds. No, try it. It's actually quite good," she said, filling small paper cups.
Some seniors put a lot of time and thought into their projects, Holden said.
"A few students made their own weapons," she said, pointing out a crossbow made with a wooden yardstick, a wooden dowel, string and a clothespin, that worked pretty well, along with carved wooden swords and longbows.
"They really get into it," she said.
The festival began in 2009 under the senior English teacher at the time, Shirley Depew, Holden said. It has continued under Emily Smiley, Holden and Linda Purcell.


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Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans take note, the ninth episode of ABC's new fantasy drama Once Upon a Time will feature the creative endeavors of not one, but two Buffy buddies. According to TVLine, Emma Caulfield, who played-fan favorite Anya on the cult-classic series, will re-team with co-executive producer Jane Espenson, who held the same position on Buffy.
Premiering Oct. 23, Once Upon a Time follows bail-bonds collector Emma Swan, who's led to a town in Maine where fairy-tale characters have been sentenced to lead an ordinary existence with no memories of their extraordinary natures. The series was created by former Lost writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, and also boasts Damon Lindelof as a producer.
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For one insurance brokers, work really is a family affair.
Brian Thornhill has welcomed his wife and twin daughters into the family firm, and even his teenage son is learning the ropes.
Brian Thornhill and Son Insurance Brokers, based in Huddersfield Road, Dewsbury, will celebrate 32 years of trading this year.
Brian's wife Jackie joined its commercial department after having twins Sophie and Lucy, 26, and son James, 18, leaving a career in nursing.
Client development manager Lucy has been working at the firm for two and a half years, based at the company's Skelmanthorpe office, while Sophie has added another string to the company bow with her new role at Clayton Holmes Naisbitt Financial Consultancy.
She has introduced a financial planning service at the Dewsbury office, linking the two firms together.
James, who is currently studying for his A-Levels at Silcoates School, Wakefield, joins the team during the school holidays to learn the ropes.
Brian said: "We always hoped one day all the children would be in the business.
"When James was born we changed the name from Brian Thornhill and Co to Brian Thornhill and Son.
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In addition to the regular course offerings in the Departments of Civil Engineering, Public Policy, and Urban Planning, students and non-students alike have the opportunity to take courses and seminars through UCLA Extension and the ITS Tech Transfer Program (see below).
Regular Degree Program Courses
These course offerings are available through URSA or UCLA Extension.
- URBNPL 810 Cultural Resource Protection under CEQA, NEPA, and Other Legislative Mandates
- URBNPL 864.1 Designing and Implementing Effective Zoning Ordinances.
- ENGNR X 478.1 Land Development Procedures.
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The Public Policy Program provides a forum for bringing together public officials, planners, attorneys, private sector representatives, community groups, and the research community to critically examine the public policy issues that are confronting Southern California, the state, and the nation. Through its conferences, seminars, custom programs, and other activities, the program emphasizes sharing public policy information, analyses, perspectives and strategies.
Offerings include seminars that provide practical and timely information about changing laws and policies, planning practices, technologies, and analysis tools in the areas of urban planning, land use and planning law, environmental policy, public infrastructure finance, and transportation policy, planning and management.
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Renee Corea of New York vs. Bed bugs broke the news today that the EPA is holding a meeting on bed bugs on April 14th.
Renee writes:
We have just received information, from our one and only contact at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that EPA is set to hold a public meeting on bed bugs on April 14 in Washington, DC.
We think this is a watershed event. The public health interest is clear and can no longer be ignored. No more dithering about bed bugs and their public health importance. This attention is utterly warranted and, in fact, overdue.
It's really wonderful to see this happening.
I know you'll want to follow up by reading the rest of the post over at New York vs. Bed Bugs.
And, New York City folks, you surely already know our big day is tomorrow (Tues. 2/24/2009), when the City Council is holding a public hearing on three bed bug bills.
If you can come, it starts at 1 pm at City Hall, directions here; if you are able to testify for 2 minutes, you can sign up on the spot.
If you can't testify, just come out and support those who will be speaking. The more of us that show up, the better, because it makes a strong statement about how much New York City citizens and voters care about solving the bed bug problem in New York City.
More details, on the hearing tomorrow and on the bills under consideration, from New York vs. Bed Bugs.


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Talk:Creating status pages
percentage considered harmful
The template is a good Idea. Especially that all pages looks the same. But the percentage is not a good idea: How do you know whats 100%? All highways, all road tagging or just everything? What do you do if new features are available? Is it then still 100%?
I think the alternatives are to not say it's done, but to say when it's not done: If you think it's done there is just the place in list: if you know that items are missing then you add something like "some residential streets missing", "not all pubs are tagged", or just: "not mapped", "slightly mapped".
--Andy 22:08, 1 July 2007 (BST)
- In general a percentage is a rough guess at how close we are to getting all the streets mapped in. This has it's problems of course, maiinly that different people come up with different ways of estimating.
- In this discussion here : Talk:London#Completeness? ...I pondered the possibility of breaking down the estimates into four 'stages' of mapping -- Harry Wood 15:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
- But the main problem really is a different one. It's always going to be a bit too much effort to manually maintain percentages on the wiki.
- -- Harry Wood 15:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
- +1 (main problem) --Ceyockey 15:29, 11 September 2011 (BST)
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I would love to have some sort of Autocalculate Headers. As im using this on Bottrop i thought when using like:
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Also the Links are not very helpful, i think. They should be optional. RMW 15:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


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The removal of a regulator gene that allows the tuberculosis bacterium to remain dormant in laboratory studies could point the way to new treatments for many tuberculosis patients. Research at the University of Washington by Dr. David Sherman, assistant professor of pathobiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and his colleagues shows that by interrupting the function of this gene, the tuberculosis bacterium is unable to mount the appropriate genetic response. It thus may be unable to become dormant.
His paper, published in the June 19, 2001 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may point the way for an effective future treatment of tuberculosis.
"With so many people carrying latent tuberculosis disease and no understanding at present of the nature of the organisms that cause latency, this research is among the first to identify controls on that process," Sherman said. "Anything that is happening to so many people is important to us all."
Approximately 1.9 billion people — about one-third of the world's population — carry the tuberculosis bacterium in their bodies, and about 3 million people die of tuberculosis each year. Approximately one million new cases of tuberculosis are diagnosed in the Americas every year. "No one in the world so far can afford to be complacent about this disease," Sherman said. "As a colleague once said, the greatest risk factor for tuberculosis is breathing."
Ninety percent of the people carrying the bacteria may test positive for it, but will never develop the active form of the disease. The body's normal response to TB infection is to encapsulate the bacteria in a soft mass of tissue called a granuloma. Within the low-oxygen environment of the granuloma, the bacteria are thought to enter a dormant state governed by their genome.
Sherman's laboratory research shows that if a gene vital to the early stages of this adaptation to the hypoxic environment of the granuloma is incapacitated, the complex, finely tuned genetic response of the organism is interrupted. Sherman suspects the disrupted bacteria may not be able to mount a defense against the body's immune system.
"Our hypothesis was that the tuberculosis bacteria's genes are activated in waves," Sherman said. "If we blunt the first wave of response, we may be able to halt the whole adaptation to a latent state. Several technical advances, including the recent sequencing of the tuberculosis genome and the generation of a whole genome microarray provided us with an effective way to disrupt the function of a particular gene within the bacteria."
The use of the microarray allowed Sherman and his colleagues to study the expression of each gene in the tuberculosis genome simultaneously. They were able to locate what Sherman said is the one gene that may be central to maintaining latent infections in nearly 2 billion people.
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My husband and I have kept our abortion decisions to ourselves for 37 years. We did so because, when I became pregnant the first time, abortions were illegal, though available if you had the financial resources and appropriate contacts. The second time, we were still not ready to be parents, and thought our friends and family would not understand our decision. So we quietly and legally ended that pregnancy. We never felt any regret, having made the decisions after much soul-searching. It is because of these two very different experiences, before and after the Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion, that I am compelled to speak up now as we face the possibility of a reversal of Roe vs. Wade.
A recent global study of abortion once again concluded that most women who seek abortions for an unplanned pregnancy find a way to get one. The biggest difference is the issue of safety; where abortions are legal they are safer. The bottom line is that women will resort to any measures necessary to obtain an abortion when they are illegal, even at the expense of their own health and safety. There are many people today in the United States with no memory of a time when abortions were illegal. With the imminent possibility that the next Supreme Court nominee will be the deciding vote on Roe, I feel it important to share my experiences. I hope this encourages others who have remained silent to do the same.
Before going any further, I would like to tell you about myself in order to help dispel some of the stereotypes about those who find themselves faced with an unplanned pregnancy. I believe there are many others like me. My husband and I have been married nearly 40 years. I am a retired educator and he is a well-respected attorney. We have two adult daughters of whom we are very proud. We have strong extended family ties and relationships and a large group of social and professional friends. We have never spoken with any of these people about our abortion experience.
When in early 1970 I became pregnant, my husband was a student in law school and my career as an educator was new, exciting and provided our only income. We were not ready for parenting. We talked it over and decided to explore abortion options. Although the abortion law was soon to change, abortions were not yet legal. If you had money and access to resources, abortions were available, not in a back alley, but a hospital. Our family doctor, offering a promise of secrecy, referred us to a gynecologist who made an appointment for me to meet with a psychiatrist. If I could convince the psychiatrist that I was "emotionally unfit for motherhood and incapable of caring for a child" he would write a letter that would be sufficient basis for an abortion.
The sessions I spent with the psychiatrist were demoralizing. There were questions I was uncomfortable answering, but I had to make sure they would provide appropriate evidence of my "unstable" emotional state. The stakes were high and I needed that letter. I left his office after each session feeling emotionally shaken and violated. But, with letter in hand, I was deemed unfit for motherhood. Perhaps at the time I really was, but the label was unsettling. The abortion was scheduled and required a hospital stay. Although the hospital staff was kind to me, I felt as if I was wearing the scarlet letter "A" on my hospital gown.
Although we then used a diaphragm as our method of birth control, about a year later, my husband and I again found ourselves facing the decision of whether we were ready for parenting. We determined that we still needed more time before we became parents. Roe had just become the law and I could now have a legal abortion. I made an appointment through the same gynecologist and the procedure was scheduled as an outpatient a few days later. This experience was very different from the first one. The same hospital had a welcoming and supportive environment, specifically for women choosing to have an abortion. .
When we were ready for parenting the experience was wonderful, and it was followed by the birth of a second child a few years later. Waiting to become a parent was essential for me. I was ready to assume the responsibility parenting requires. The desire to become a parent and feeling prepared was essential for me, as this decision is irreversible, just as is the one to abort. All women need to be allowed to make this choice.
In Jeffrey Toobin's book "The Nine", he states that anti abortion justices want to protect women from making a decision they will later regret. I have never regretted my decision and this was reinforced recently when I saw a play about a woman who was tormented by thoughts of her abortion. She could not put the memory of what might have been, to rest. But her life was troubled in so many ways the abortion decision seemed one of many things causing her emotional turmoil. I could not relate to her torment because for me, the decisions have always felt right. We each need to search our hearts when faced with an unplanned pregnancy.
The state of women's rights around the world is very troubling. You just need to pick up a newspaper, listen to the radio or watch the television news to see the limitations and restrictions women are facing around the world and even here in the United States. It continues to be a major issue, if not the major issue of this presidential campaign. Losing the right to chose is unacceptable. The candidate who wins the election will select Supreme Court Justices, and will therefore have great influence on abortion rights and other issues of personal freedoms.
I know others must have similar stories, as abortion statistics indicate that large numbers of women have had abortions. We need to speak up and share, since it is easy to forget how losing the right to legal abortion could affect women's lives. We need to dust off these stories and share them with each other, and especially with those born after Roe became law. It is not a time to remain silent.
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TH-18 Flat to 35hz! (Xoc1's design)
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I just got my 18sound drivers from loudspeakersplus.com....ordered tuesday morning had them by friday evening! They are beasts!
(2) 18lw2400's which will be used in two TH-18 tapped horns, design courtesy of Xoc1 (Thanks again for all the info/effort you put into this!!) Also thanks to Djim for his help and patience through my questions with the design/corner bracing etc etc.
This thread is for anyone who builds his box. I figured I would start because I think I am one of the first to do so!
I will go pick up some good high quality 3/4" Birch tomorrow and get started on this. Pictures to follow asap!!
Here is the Sketch plus a nice cut list...
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Extra bracing which Djim suggested...
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Now I am pretty sure that the point of this design was for 4 cabinets to be Flat to 35hz. I am starting with only two because of cost, not just for drivers/wood but amp power needed to drive them as well. These are some powerful cabinets and depending on which driver you choose to load them with, they can take a serious amount of wattage!
There are a ton of different drivers which have been simmed for this design, I think most have been simmed for the cabinet without the corner reflectors, but still the same external volume cabinet.
Here is a sim for 4 cabs at xmax + with the 18 sound 2400 drivers...
i'll be following this one.:D
how much wood do you need for 1 box?
Background Info & Credits
This design owes a lot to all the people who have contributed their experience and knowledge on DIYaudio.
Its an offshoot of the thread http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwo...esomeness.html. When I posted a T.H. that was more compact, and did not reach 30Hz flat, this generated a lot of interest.:)
The objective was to design and build a T.H. using an 18 driver in a reasonably compact package, that will have decent performance without any worries about speaker excursion when driven with high power (in excess of 1000W.) An extended HF response was one of the goals.
One significant contribution was Soho54s technique for measuring the path length of a folded horn that was discussed in the thread http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwo...ht=spreadsheet
This allows the path length to be measured using segmented lines rather than offset curves. This method work very well with CAD setting out. I developed the technique of using the speaker path length and widths to generate an unfolded representation of the horn path, similar to the horn schematic diagram generated by David McBeans Hornresp software.
By using Parametric Cad the lines in the folded and unfolded layout are linked. It is then possible to adjust the shape of the folded horn and rebuild the sketches to immediately see how this affects the shape of the unfolded schematic. By an iterative process it is possible to optimise the shape of the horn with very good levels of accuracy.
I produced a folding scheme based on the same layout as J Bells SS15 speaker.http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwo...challenge.html. The SS15 is a very compact 15 T.H. that has been successfully built and tested by many forum members.
The overall size of the speaker I set out was rather shamefully almost a complete match of Tom Danleys TH115 / TH118 :o The theory being if the Danley subs work well at this size, it is big enough!:D
I applaud this design and effort as well.
This forum seems to be the one place that I've found with some serious thinking in terms of PA subs. No, not everyone needs pa 140db, but for those who do -- this seems to be the place where the thinking and DOING happens in regards to PA subs.
There are many forums where HT subs are the topic of the day, but very few places where PA is. Great discussions on power compression, what happens to suspensions as they approach limits, what happens in the 'real world' at 'real PA levels' as opposed to just simulations. (although we would be completely lost without David's wonderful hornresp, and for the brave... akabak for our simulations)
I look forward to the build, the testing, and eventually road show reports on how they worked in real life.
The Folding Process
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As outlined above the horn fold is set out and then adjusted in the CAD model to optimise it. In fact I have almost given up on modelling up a speaker from scratch in Hornresp. Instead I now prefer to lay out a basic sketch model of the horn, and unfolded speaker and adjust it to shape. The unfolded sketch is used to create a Hornresp Sim. The horn wizard is then utilised to see which way the shape of the horn can be modified to improve the performance. The modified sim can then be used to help reshape the fold.
The CAD model can be easily copied and modified, so once a folding scheme is set out the work can be reused for another speaker design.
The original design omitted 3 of the internal reflectors.
These were added at Djims suggestion. The addition of the 3 reflectors shortened the path length slightly. The reflector lengths are optimised, but the overall folding was left as the original. The largest error in the horn taper widths introduced by the extra reflectors was 0.8mm, so I left the fold as it was.
At this point it might be good to mention that I made an error in my previous drawings :eek:the exit mouth internal dimension is 508 not 526. (Adjust S4 from 2814.1 to 2717.8)
Fortunately the effect on the sim is very minimal.
Updated Drawing with Internal Reflectors
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Attached PDF is the latest drawing for the TH18
I have added the internal reflectors to the cut list and details.
I have also updated the unfolded schematic with the correct exit dimension.
I am currently looking at the design of the bracing. I had the un-braced cabinet analysed for resonances. The most significant result was the resonance of the exit mouth. This wobbles from side to side at about 61Hz.:eek:
The bracing as suggested by Djim seem to take care of the resonances that were found in the rest of the cabinet. It might even be possible to reduce the internal bracing, if I can get some more analysis done once I have added some bracing to the CAD model.
Primary concern at the moment is the horn exit mouth. I would like to add some reinforcement to this ..
Thanks! This is awesome! :D
I was about to go grab the Baltic Birch from my local supplier, and they want $80 per 5x5 sheet. I was figuring out a cut sheet for 4x8 wood then I found out that the real baltic birch only comes in 5x5. Anyway, I figure it will take 3-4 (5x5') sheets of wood per cabinet. Is the baltic birch really worth the $320 per cabinet? Or can I go with a high quality domestic or canadian Birch plywood (4x8 3/4" sheet is about $60)?
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Baltic birch is the material to go for. I can't think of another material I have seen specified for decent Pro Cabs.
It is very strong - light and free from voids.
In a recent test I know of a single screw into the end of a piece of 18mm wide birch ply lifted 600kg!;)
I have put together a cut sheet and you can get 2 cabinets out of 5 off 5x5 sheets 1524 X 1524
So thats $200 per cab at your quoted price. :)
I checked it twice - I suggest you do the same!:scratch1:
Okay that sounds fine, about $200 per cabinet in wood, plus screws, glue, paint, handles etc etc it will be semi affordable.
You have helped so much on this project I appreciate it! I'm sure others will as well!
And for Bracing I'm assuming I can use a lesser quality ply correct?
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Youki is the name of Peter and Sayuri's son and Youki's Japanese Takeaway is well known in Phillips as being the only true blue Japanese sushi shop on the island (their Chef, Shin-san is a qualified Sushi Chef and a Certified Fugu Chef).
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No your new blog post doesn't have a chest infection. Viral content refers to a piece that is the latest big thing in any given industry. We've all seen them – they're the articles, pictures and clips that are shared like wildfire through social media sites, email and even in good old-fashioned face-to-face chats. YouTube videos are a great example of viral content that often do the rounds.
On the biggest scale, viral content online gets recognised everywhere. It'll pop up on the news, major current event programs and in the papers. Everyone will have an opinion on it, whether it's a complaint or a raving review. Odds are that if you are looking to get an industry related article to go viral, you won't get this type of exposure – unless it's truly ground breaking!
Instead, you might have your piece shared amongst other industry heavyweights or by customers searching for answers to a particular question. Going viral is a fantastic way to generate a large amount of exposure and interest in your business and its services, but it is often easier said than done.
How do I get my content to go viral?
For starters it has to be on a high interest topic. Identifying what people are talking about in your industry at any given time and providing relevant information on that topic is a great base point. Your piece has to have substance. Include images, quotes, stats, reviews, and facts – whatever you need to add to show readers that you are a credible source of information.
The time you publish is also relevant. Odds are that people aren't going to be looking for the latest industry trends on their Saturday or Sunday morning. The same could be said for Monday morning where they'll be flat chat with other work, or Friday afternoon where they are tying up the weeks loose ends. Stick to mid-week posts and you'll have greater chance of capturing your corporate audience.
The design of your site also plays a part in viral content. You could be putting out high-quality articles full of worthwhile information, but the heavy ad presence on your site could be driving visitors elsewhere. If this is the case for you, try going for a cleaner layout on your next post. Keeping it simple with content as the focus will ensure users don't get lost in the clutter and complain about your site.
Finally, getting feedback and positive reviews from other industry heavyweights is a must. Try this before you publish. Not only will you be drumming up support and recognition for the piece before you put it live, you'll also get feedback on just how good your article is. What's more, if someone has seen the article before, they'll be more likely to re-post and share it when it goes live to the world.
Will viral content improve my business?
Yes. Sharing is caring in the SEO world, and Google will start recognising you as an industry authority if you keep putting out worthwhile content. This will in turn to better rankings and traffic – a big tick for your SEO campaign and online presence.


text: The Fleximus is a flexible camera concept by Art Lebedev that comes equipped with a viewfinder on one end of camera, which can also be detached and replaced with a 3-inch LCD module. Too bad, it is only a concept so far. There is no info on when the Fleximus flexible camera will go into mass production. Stay tuned for more updates. [Art Lebelev]


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Recently I watched the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs The World". For me it's a decent movie about retro games, love and life. The main character Scott Pilgrim is a 22 years-old guy in a relationship with a 17 years-old Knives Chau, a high schooler, lives in a house with his gay roommate, Wallace. He has a band called, Sex Bob-Omb with Stephen Stills, the lead singer and Kim Pine, the drummer of Sex Bob-Omb and one of Scott's ex-girlfriends. The plot start to thicken a little bit when Ramona Flowers appear into Scott's life.
The movie as a whole is loosely based on the 6 volume comic series, Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. I've never read the comics but from the people who already read it, I got to know the story is very funny and entertaining.(I already preorder the boxset). However the movie remove a few part of story from the comics, one of them is how Scott and Kim became a couple. Adult Swim already made a short animation on this part of the story and here is the video.
If I'm not mistaken this movie would not be aired on the cinema in Malaysia and Singapore, so to watch this movie you can import the DVD or the Blu-Ray or just torrent it.
Scott Pilgrim vs The WorldVandalised by profpoyo Categories: Muvi
Count Up Your Crime!!!Vandalised by profpoyo Categories: Tagged
1. Thank and link the person that tagged you
Sankyu Kak Alya
2. Tag 15 bloggers you've recently discovered and think fantastic
Aku bg 7 je la sbb xsempat ni hehe....
Ad Mohd
Maro Iqmal
Muli Nazri
Adli Decade
Nisa Hazirah
Nik Afnan
3. Contact those blogs and let them know they've been tagged
4. State 7 things about yourself
Live in a village
Hard to understand
Jawa from Selangor
Addicted to downloading
Naturally evil and loving it
Currently working as a driver
Fan of tokusatsu and proud of it
Blog Title ChangedVandalised by profpoyo Categories: Life
BTW mase cuti ni aku banyak abeskan mase lyn novel ngan men game. Game yang aku dah abiskan bru 3 iaitu Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Toy Story 3 ngan Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII pastu skang tgh lyn Jeane D'Arc, legenda Joan of Arc yg difantasikan. Lepas abes game ni aku nak lyn Monster Hunter Freedom Unite lak. Skang ni xbyk game bru untuk PSP sbb developer tgh hype ngan N-3DS.
Novel yang aku tgh lyn skang ialah novel 1515 karya Faizal Tehrani, novel ni agak berat sbb die ade unsur2 sejarah. Abes je satu bab aku kena bkk buku2 sejarah sbb nak faham citer dlm novel tu. Mmg leceh lah siket tp demi nak faham tu kene la korban mase. Sebelum mule bace novel 1515 aku dah habiskan bace satu lagi novel, Cinta Sufi karya Ramlee Awang Murshid. Agak lyn la novel ni sbb jalan citer die mcm komik Hong Kong. Ade lwn2, jiwang ngan seram skali.
Akhir skali, aku nak ucapkan trimas sbb rela bace entry ni smp abes. Sejak akhir2 ni aku menghadapi 'writer's block' sket tu pasal aku malas nak update blog.
P/S: Gambar adalah hiasan semate-mate
The Times They Are A-Changin'Vandalised by profpoyo Categories: Life
Currently listening to this awesome song by Bob Dylan, a radical song that criticize on capitalism and everything.
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'


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The Beatles SongsAlso see John Lennon Songs
Also see Paul McCartney Songs
Beatles Songs: Love the Beatles music? Check out these popular songs by the Beatles…
Across The Universe (nothing's gonna change my world, nothing's gonna change my world) - 1970
Act Naturally (they're gonna put me in the movies, they're gonna make a big star of me) - 1965
Ain't She Sweet - 1964
All My Loving (and then while I'm away I'll write home every day, and I'll send all my loving to you) - 1963Tell Us Your Favorite Songs, Albums And Memories Of The Beatles And See The Favorites Of Others!
All You Need is Love (there's nothing you can do that can't be done, nothing you can sing that can't be sung) - 1967
And I Love Her (I give her all my love that's all I do, and if you saw my love you'd love her too) - 1964
Another Girl (I ain't no fool and I don't take what I don't want, oh I have got another girl) - 1965
Any Time At All - 1964
Baby It's You (many nights roll by, I sit alone at home and cry over you) - 1964
Baby You're A Rich Man - 1967
Baby's In Black - 1964
Back In The U.S.S.R (you don't know how lucky you are boy, back in the U.S.S.R) - 1968/1969
Ballad Of John And Yoko, The - 1969
Birthday (they say it's your birthday, it's my birthday too yeah) - 1969
Blackbird - 1968
Boys - 1963
Can't Buy Me Love (I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love) - 1964
Carry That Weight (boy you're gonna carry that weight, carry that weight a long time) - 1969
Chains - 1963
Come Together (come together right now, over me) - 1969
Day In The Life, A (I read the news today oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade) - 1967
Day Tripper (she was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah) - 1965/1966
Dear Prudence - 1968
Dizzy Miss Lizzie (you make me dizzy Miss Lizzie, the way you rock and roll) - 1965
Do You Want To Know A Secret (listen do you want to know a secret? do you promise not to tell?) - 1964
Don't Bother Me - 1963
Don't Let Me Down (nobody ever really loved me like she does, ooh she does - yes she does) - 1969/1970
Don't Pass Me By - 1968
Drive My Car (baby you can drive my car, yes I'm gonna be a star) - 1965
Eight Days A Week (I ain't got nothing but love babe, eight days a week) - 1965
Eleanor Rigby (all the lonely people - where do they all come from?, all the lonely people - where do they all belong?) - 1966
Every Little Thing (every little thing she does, she does for me) - 1964
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (well they took some honey from a tree, dressed it up and they called it me) - 1965
Fixing A Hole (I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering, where it will go) - 1967
Fool On The Hill (but the fool on the hill sees the sun going down, and the eyes in his head see the worldspinning round) - 1967
For No One - 1966
For You Blue (because you're sweet and lovely girl, I love you)- 1970
Free As A Bird - 1995
From Me To You (just call on me and I'll send it along with love from me to you) - 1963/1964
Get Back (get back get back, get back to where you once belonged) - 1969
Getting Better (I've got to admit it's getting better, a little better all the time) - 1967
Girl (Is there anybody going to listen to my story?, all about the girl who came to stay) - 1965
Golden Slumbers – 1969
Good Day Sunshine (I need to laugh and when the sun is out, I've got something I can laugh about) - 1970
Got To Get You Into My Life (ooh did I tell you I need you every single day of my life, got to get you into my life) - 1966/1968
Hard Day's Night, A (it's been a hard day's night and I've been working like a dog, it's been a hard day's night - I should be sleeping like a log) - 1964
Hello Goodbye (I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello) - 1967
Help! (when I was younger so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way) – 1965
Helter Skelter - 1968
Here Comes The Sun (and I say it's alright) -1969
Here, There and Everywhere - 1966
Hey Bulldog - 1969
Hey Jude (take a sad song and make it better) - 1968
Honey Don't - 1964
I Am The Walrus (I am the eggman they are the eggmen, I am the walrus koo koo katchoo) - 1967
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party - 1965
I Feel Fine (I'm in love with her and I feel fine) - 1964
I Me Mine (oh all through the day, I me mine - I me mine - I me mine) - 1970
I Need You - 1965
I Saw Her Standing There (she was just seventeen you know what I mean, and the way she looked was way beyond compare) - 1964
I Should Have Known Better (I should have known better with a girl like you, that I would love everything that you do and I do hey hey hey and I doo) - 1964
I Wanna Be Your Man (I wanna be your lover baby, I wanna be your man) - 1963
I Want To Hold Your Hand (oh please say to me you'll let me be your man, and please say to me you'll let me hold your hand) - 1963/1964
I Want You (She's So Heavy) (I want you, I want you so bad) - 1969
I Will - 1968
If I Fell (if I fell in love with you, would you promise to be true and help me understand) - 1964
If I Needed Someone (if I needed someone to love, you're the one that I'd be thinking of) - 1965
I'll Cry Instead - 1964
I'll Follow The Sun (tomorrow may rain so - I'll follow the sun) - 1964
I'm A Loser (I'm a loser and I'm not what I appear to be) - around 1964
I'm Down (I'm down - I'm really down, how can you laugh when you know I'm down?) - 1965
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You - 1964
I'm Looking Through You (I'm looking through you - where did you go?, I thought I knew you - what did I know?) - 1965
In My Life (there are places I remember all my life, though some have changed) - 1967
It Won't Be Long (it won't be long yeah, 'til I belong to you) - 1963
It's Only Love (it's only love and that is all, why should I feel the way I do) - 1965
I've Got A Feeling (a feeling deep inside, oh yeah oh yeah) - 1970
I've Just Seen A Face (falling oh yes I'm falling, and she keeps calling me back again) - 1965
Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey - 1964
Lady Madonna (Lady Madonna - children at your feet, wonder how you manage to make ends meet) - 1968
Let It Be (when I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom - let it be) - 1970
Long And Winding Road, The (the long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear, I've seen that road before) - 1970
Long Tall Sally (cover version) - 1964
Love Me Do (love love me do, you know I love you) - 1962/1964
Lovely Rita (lovely Rita meter maid, nothing can come between us) - 1967
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone, Lucy in the sky with diamonds) - 1967
Magical Mystery Tour (roll up, roll up for the mystery tour) - 1967
Matchbox - 1964
Maxwell's Silver Hammer (bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down on his head) - 1969
Mean Mr. Mustard (he's such a mean old man) - 1969
Michelle ("ma belle", these are words that go together well my Michelle) - 1965
Money (That's What I Want) (your love gives me such a thrill, but your love don't pay my bills) - 1963
My Bonnie - 1961/1963/1964 – aka Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers/Tony Sheridan and The Beatles
Night Before, The (now I've come to find you have changed your mind, treat me like you did the night before) - 1965
No Reply - 1964
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me) - 1965
Nowhere Man (he's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody) - 1966
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - 1968
Octopus's Garden (I'd like to be under the sea in an Octopus's Garden) - 1969
Oh! Darling (when you told me you didn't need me anymore, you know I nearly broke down and cried) - 1969
Paperback Writer (and I need a job so I want to be a paperback writer, paperback writer) - 1966
Penny Lane (Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies) - 1967
Please Mr. Postman (Mr. Postman look and see, is there a letter - a letter for me?) - 1963
Please Please Me (please please me oh yeah, and I'll please you) - 1963/1964
Polythene Pam (you should see Polythene Pam, she's so good-looking but she looks like a man) - 1969
P.S. I Love You (treasure these few words 'til we're together, keep all my love forever - p.s. I love you) - 1964
Rain - 1966
Real Love (no need to be alone, it's real love - it's real) - 1996
Revolution (you say you want a revolution, well you know we all want to change the world) - 1968
Rock And Roll Music (it's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me) - 1964
Rocky Raccoon – 1968
Roll Over Beethoven (my heart's beatin' rhythm and my soul keeps on singing the blues, roll over Beethoven) - 1963/1964
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (we're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, we hope you will enjoy the show) - 1967
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me) - 1969
She Loves You (she loves you yeah yeah yeah) - 1963/1964
She's A Woman (she's a woman who understands, she's a woman who loves her man) - 1964
She's Leaving Home (she's leaving home after living alone for so many years) - 1967
Slow Down - 1964
Something (something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover) - 1969
Strawberry Fields Forever (won't you take me down, 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields) - 1967
Taxman (let me tell you how it will be - there's one for you nineteen for me, 'cuz I'm the taxman yeah I'm the taxman) - 1966
Tell Me What You See - 1965
Tell Me Why - 1964
Thank You Girl - 1964
There's A Place - 1964
Things We Said Today - 1964
Ticket To Ride (I think I'm gonna be sad - I think it's today yeah, the girl that's driving me mad is going away) - 1965
Twist And Shout (shake it up baby, twist and shout) - 1963/1964
We Can Work It Out (try to see it my way, do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?) - 1965/1966
What Goes On (you are tearing me apart when you treat me so unkind, what goes on in your mind?) - 1965
When I'm Sixty-Four (will you still need me, will you still feed me when Im sixty four) - 1967
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - 1968
Why - 1964
Why Don't We Do It In The Road? - 1968
With A Little Help From My Friends (I get by with a little help from my friends, I get high with a little help from my friends) - 1967
Words Of Love - 1964
Yellow Submarine (we all live in a yellow submarine - a yellow submarine - a yellow submarine) - 1966
Yes It Is - 1965
Yesterday (love was such an easy game to play now I need a place to hide away, oh I believe in yesterday) - 1965
You Can't Do That (I've told you before you can't do that) - 1964
You Like Me Too Much (and I like you) - 1965
You Won't See Me (we have lost the time that was so hard to find, and I will lose my mind if you won't see me) - 1966
You're Gonna Lose That Girl (I'll make a point of taking her away from you - watch what you do, the way you treat her what else can I do?) - 1965
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (I can see them laugh at me and I hear them say, hey you've got to hide your love away) - 1965
You've Really Got A Hold On Me (I don't like you but I love you, don't want to be thinking of you) (cover version) – 1963
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"It was late at night and I wasn't sure I'd seen the billboard correctly as I whizzed past it on I-35 in Wyoming last week on the way back from Wrenshall. But an e-mailer confirms I saw what I thought I saw.
It's beginning to sweep along the Internet, accompanied by various claims that it's a Photoshop fake. But it's not. It's real.
There's no billboard ownership plate on this particular billboard, making tracing the person who had the cash to post it difficult to find. It's time to crowdsource this puppy." (Minnesota Public Radio)


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You may recall Father Glen Baptiste's energetic homily during the week-end Masses over the week-end of the 2/11-2/12. Father's time was limited during his homily and so he has provided us with more information about the work being done in so many poor countries south of the U.S., most specifically Haiti, Jamaica and Guatemala, through this 11 minute video. So many are still living in dire poverty in tent cities in Haiti after the massive earthquakes of over two years ago. Father distributed envelopes so you may use those if you wish to contribute or visit their website by clicking here.
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Since Chapman (Taylor Schilling) is being refused the cafeteria food, she attempts to gain Red's favor. It's going to take a lot more than a simple "Sorry," though – Red makes that abundantly clear by outright telling her so.
Episode 2 of Orange Is the New Black, Netflix's new original series, delves into Red's backstory. She's a Russian immigrant who used to work in a little restaurant prior to working in the prison cafeteria. Kate Mulgrew, the American actress who plays Red, doesn't speak in a Russian accent so that's something she's specifically donned for the character she's playing. (You might also remember Mulgrew from Star Trek: Voyager.)
Anyways, while Chapman tries to make-do in her new digs, we get to learn more about her fellow inmates.
Daya Diaz
We were introduced to Daya Diaz (Dascha Polanco) in Episode 1. She enters the prison the same time as Chapman and gets slapped across the face by one of the inmates who also turns out to be her mother, Aleida Diaz (Elizabeth Rodriguez).
And episode 2 shows us that Daya's (half?) sister is serving time in the same prison, as well. Daya's mother and sister don't exactly welcome her with open arms, and Aleida even makes an underhanded comment about Daya's weight. It's like Prison: Mean Girls Edition, but with your own mother as the bitchy queen bee.
The episode also hints at a burgeoning romance between Daya and one of the prison guards – Bennett (Matt McGorry). He's one of the nicer, better-looking ones. On the stairwell, Daya asks him for gum but he tells her that he can't because that would be showing favoritism.
Later, after trading a meaningful glance with Bennett during nighttime inspection, Daya finds a stick of gum under her pillowcase.
Red's Flashback
Prior to her convict days, Red tried to befriend some rich Russian housewives with model-esque looks, but that didn't work out so well.
During a powerwalk, Red makes some inappropriate jokes about mentally handicapped people. The Russian ladies tell her that they're cutting their powerwalk short, but in actuality they're trying to ditch Red since she's made them feel uncomfortable with her jokes. However, Red thinks she's making progress with the ladies, so she's astonished to learn that they don't really want to be her friend. Out of anger, Red punches one of them in the tit ("Tit Punch"! Get it?) – but it's a fake tit so Red has basically deflated her boob.
When the Russian housewife's husband learns of this, he and his buddies try to extort $60,000 from Red and her husband in return for the Tit Punch. Red's husband is upset with her, at first. But the two seem to have a genuine love for each other and Red's husband assures her that they'll get through this ordeal.
Later, the Russians men deposit something in the restaurant freezer. It's all very nefarious.
Chapman is starving. Like, seriously starving.
When Larry (Jason Biggs) comes for a visit, he compliments her on her cheekbones but that's because she hasn't eaten in days. She tries to get food from the vending machines with Larry's change, but Red tampered with them. Poor Chapman.
Vause (Laura Prepon) – Chapman's ex-girlfriend – tries to help her out by sneaking her some food, but Chapman would rather starve than accept help from the woman she blames for landing her in prison in the first place.
While Red and the kitchen staff try to deal with a broken freezer, nicknamed Betty, Chapman confronts Red. She's willing to take a punch from Red if that's what it'll take for Red to forgive her. Instead, Red yells at Chapman, terrifying everyone – including me. She tells Chapman that her punishment is not temporary and that she'll be leaving prison as a skeleton.
"Now march your Yuppie ass out of my kitchen!"
– Red
Chapman isn't going to give up, however. As part of her plan to win Red over, she obtains cocoa butter from Burset (Laverne Cox) – the resident hairdresser, it seems – by giving Taystee (Danielle Brooks) – who's getting worked on by Burset – a piece of her blonde hair. Chapman also obtains hot peppers from "Crazy Eyes" (Uzo Aduba), a particularly weird inmate.
Meanwhile, Red talks to Healy (Michael J. Harney) – the guy who helps run the prison and is especially nice to Chapman – in the men's bathroom about the freezer situation.
Chapman's Flashback
Chapman remembers when she and Larry went on a juice cleanse.
It's her idea and Larry is reluctant to go on the cleanse, but after some prodding and semi-guilt-tripping by Chapman, he gives in. However, it turns out the juice cleanse is much easier on him than it is on her. Chapman wants to cut the 7-day juice cleanse short. She admits to Larry that she couldn't endure it. He teases her about it, but – ultimately – he's very understanding.
Back to Present-Day
Chapman has been crunching on the hot peppers. "Pornstache" (Pablo Schreiber) – the creepy prison guard – remarks on her tears, thinking she's crying because she's upset about something. In actuality, she's using the hot peppers to make paste. She uses the paste, along with the cocoa butter, to make a lotion for Red's back.
She delivers it to Red and waits for the outcome… It works! The next day Morello (Yael Stone) brings Chapman a tray of food. Looks like all is forgiven.
Later on, the women are all watching a movie. Susanna, aka "Crazy Eyes", sits down next to Chapman and offers to share her earphones with Chapman. They listen to the movie together when, suddenly, "Crazy Eyes" caresses Chapman's thigh…
Episode 2 was a huge improvement. Chapman is starting to grow on me, after seeing her try to overcome these obstacles and adapt to prison life. I didn't like her so much in the flashbacks, though, and her relationship with Larry is still very dull to me.
Kate Mulgrew reminds everyone that she's a fantastic actress in this episode, as well. I really like Red and her kitchen posse. The romance between Daya and Bennett is surprisingly cute, too. At the moment, it's puppy love.