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For visitors to Tasmania, the City of Glenorchy might seem a brief flash of suburbia as you sweep north towards the midlands. You can still buy the average house in Glenorchy for near enough to half what you'd pay in Hobart. Unemployment is a little higher than the Tasmanian average and most folks are earning a little less. It's the kind of place where you're not meant to find something remarkable, but you just might. Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP) is one such instance. To understand how and why this has come about, it's necessary to look beyond Room 11's authentically beautiful architecture to examine the collective efforts that enabled this remarkable project to emerge.
A couple of doors down at MONA, David Walsh and Fender Katsalidis Architects have installed a rabbit hole in the navel of Roy Grounds' Round House and buried an incendiary trove of artworks beneath it. This act would constitute a seismic cultural blast in Paris, Tokyo or London, let alone Tasmania. It's perhaps unsurprising then that MONA's instructive ripples started to spread. Around the time that MONA was coming into being, a casual conversation between Walsh and then mayor Adriana Taylor planted the seed for an art-inspired scheme on the Glenorchy foreshore. Cut adrift from the city proper by the thrust of the Brooker Highway, this elongated strip of land fronting Elwick Bay might easily have received the usual council kerbside treatment. But in 2005 a small group of civic and business leaders, led by Adriana Taylor and Madeleine Ogilvie, lent their collective resolve to the task of envisaging something far more memorable.
A significant milestone for the project came in 2008 when artist, project manager and design consultant Pippa Dickson was appointed by the Glenorchy City Council to develop a business plan. With little interest in overseeing a mediocre public art project, Dickson began working to raise the bar. The project initially met with frustration when two applications for stimulus funding proved unsuccessful. However, subsequent refinement of the conceptual ideas behind the GASP concept led not only to funding being secured, but also to greater community confidence in the venture.
Matters of procurement are not often discussed in architectural writing – after all, critique of the built outcome and architectural virtuosity is a lot more fun. However, as architects should be well aware, the value of a strong framework for the procurement of a project is vitally important. It could be argued that a building's DNA is set long before the architectural commissioning stage. Furthermore, realizing any kind of vision, no matter how ambitious (or otherwise) it may be, demands community commitment, political backing and financial underwriting, not to mention trust, respect and empathy. GASP is very much a story of enabling a team of designers and artists to deliver a project for a community, a public gesture.
In 2008 Dickson (now CEO of GASP) was appointed as GASP project development officer. She engaged a group of architects including Jerry de Gryse (who had undertaken the Wilkinsons Point Master Plan in 2007) to investigate ways of creating a cohesive gesture to unite the bay. Community feedback placed importance on how the scheme might respond to the bay's edges. People saw value in simple daily rituals like walking, providing places where kids could learn to ride a bike and engaging with the natural setting and its birdlife. Dickson recalls an early community consultation meeting in which an elderly woman was in tears because it had been so long since such a public project had been discussed in Glenorchy. One clear theme that emerges from revisiting the community consultation process is that this civic act was deeply personal.
Distilling this intensive procurement process into built form and finding means to express the manifold economic, political, social, cultural and topographical considerations must have been an extremely challenging task. It is therefore commendable that the architectural and landscape design has been executed with such authority. Room 11's structures allow you to have an intimate moment with the Tasmanian landscape. They also reclaim the foreshore for the local community. Central to this achievement is a clearly defined masterplan strategy.
The "giant arc" concept around which GASP is structured was first envisaged in a design esquisse held prior to the limited design competition that was used to select the architects. Room 11's winning scheme brought formal clarity and tectonic delight to this elegant organizational principle. The two completed stages of the project have seen this conceptual framework emerge as a beautiful collection of structures.
In stage one of the GASP project, the arc ultimately became a gently curved path incorporating two elevated sections of walkway that extend out across the water. Simply built with interlocking timber balusters, these elements are enlivened by flashes of colour sandwiched between the timber blades. The arc links a series of pavilions and provides a structure around which "art bombs" can be collected. It also permits the natural beauty of the setting to take precedence over the architecture, a notion that sits at the core of the design team's conceptual approach. Given the success of this initial scheme, it is delightful to see that the original architects have been retained for stage two.
The second stage of the GASP project is located at the extremity of the bay, on Wilkinsons Point. Again, the structures are elemental, an essay in the fundamentals. A set of blade walls establishes a pavilion and a courtyard. Select openings frame views of the surrounding landscape.
It seems the project is characterized by strong datum lines. The walkway datum hovers over the tide, allowing you to transgress the limits of terra firma to skim across the water. The balustrade datum is a tactile point of human-scaled contact in the vast amphitheatre of the Derwent Basin. The blade wall datum connects the setting with the surrounding distant mountains by editing out residual traces of suburbia. This spare architectural language, the isolation of the facility and the ruin-like remnants from the site's former use as a staging point for the construction of footings for the nearby Bowen Bridge all contribute to a heightened sense of calm and repose.
What we weren't able to experience was the capacity of the space to explode into life as a venue for performance. Reports of Domenico de Clario's "all night" musical performance at Tasmanian art event Dark Mofo illustrate the potency of such a setting as a venue for contemporary art. This is the dynamic and elusive "unknown" in the midst of Room 11's authoritative architecture: the capacity for art to subvert and surprise.
Room 11's work at GASP is admirably silent – but also appropriately delightful. The venue continues to facilitate a world-class succession of artistic ventures. GASP was conceived and realized by a dedicated team working in consultation with an engaged and appreciative community. It's little wonder, then, that the local architectural fraternity are proud of what's been achieved here. We ought not to be too surprised.
Places like Tasmania, supposedly on the periphery of the cultural and artistic discourse of the major capitals, might be said to offer an equivalent opportunity for creative and intellectual freedom, not to mention commercial opportunities, which are often difficult to procure in the maelstrom of the big smoke. Perhaps this is one of the lessons of GASP, that the ability to execute a meaningful work is only part of the task. Rather, it is the provision of a framework for excellence and the propensity to advocate for delight where little or nothing has been expected that permits this work to excel.
GASP Stage 1 by Room 11 Studio received a 2013 Urban Design Award from the Australian Institute of Architects.
- Architect
- Room11
- Project Team
- Thomas Bailey, Megan Baynes, James Wilson, Henry Beresford, Ryan Cawthorn, Nathan Crump, Aaron Roberts
- Consultants
Electrical engineer
Andrew Sutherland Consulting Engineers
Landscape architect McGregor Coxall
Structural engineer Gandy and Roberts Consulting Engineers
- Site Details
- Project Details
Category Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Type Culture / arts, Parks
Published online: 7 Mar 2014
Words: Paul Owen, Aaron Peters
Images: Ben Hoskins, Benjamin Hosking
Architecture Australia, January 2014


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The need for Letting GO
STOP the MIND's Influence on YOU Part II
Read the first part of the article here: https://healbyrule.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/how-to-stop-the-mind-influencing-us-part-i/
Letting go the thoughts
How can we do it that?
How thoughts can be let off?
There will be resistance inside the mind to do so, as it does not want us to move forward spiritually in life.
Letting go seen inside our body
Is this letting go is something new that we have never seen?
If you watch your body, it is letting go. However, mind does not do that.
Let say you like eating Jangri (Indian sweet). Can you keep it in the mouth for long? It has to be released to the stomach. After digestion, if the stomach does not release it, then you have to go to hospital. Nature of the mouth is to let go.
Stomach has to let go to intestines. If intestines refuse to let go, imagine what will happen to us. Here cooperation among body organs is a must.
Jangri takes different forms in the end, losing its original form after digestion, absorption and elimination operations of the digestive tract.
Skin let go by sweating. Lungs exhales carbon dioxide. If heart stops circulating blood one-tenth of a second, then you will die. It does letting in and letting out blood.
Letting go action in nature
Morning has to go for noon to come and afternoon goes for evening to come. Letting go happens in a circular manner. Similarly, sun goes, and Moon comes.
Letting go is the process of nature. However, for mind it's not possible. It does opposite of it, by holding on to things.
Holding on is the nature of the mind
Mind is the enemy to Body and Soul.
When you hold on to a thought, it means there is stagnation. Then you will have less of Prana (energy). Mind is always stagnated.

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Liverpool send scouts to watch £30m German wonderkid
LIVERPOOL are monitoring Schalke winger Leroy Sane, according to reports.
Leroy Sane is attracting interest from Liverpool
The Reds have already sealed a deal for Sane's team-mate Joel Matip to join the club in the summer on a free transfer.
And website Football Insider claim that Liverpool are interested in Sane, who's rated at £30million, and they've regularly been sending their scouts to watch him.
The 20-year-old attacking midfielder is highly rated in Germany and won his first cap for the world champions in a friendly against France last November.
He made his Schalke debut in 2014 but he's established himself in the first team this season, scoring six goals in 27 matches.
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Madeleine Lee was selected as a Top Ten Winner in the 10-12 age category for our Fall 2013 national poetry contest. You can view her winning poem, "She", by clicking here.
A high school junior at the time of her win, Madeleine has been writing since before she can even remember. It's her passion. She has been featured in Teen Ink Magazine and the Opening Line, and has been published in the GRIMM AND CLASSIC TALES (Not for the Faint of Heart) anthology by REUTS Publications.
"I really love writing because it allows me to express my values and ideas in my own unique medium." Madeleine explains, "My dream is to finally complete a book and publish it. (Which will probably happen when I'm about eighty. I'm quite flighty when it comes to long-term writing…)
"I was inspired to write 'She' after observing the effect of social media on today's teenagers — especially girls. I read an article about how active users of Facebook and other social networks tend to be more depressed. After all, everyone on these sites posts the best snapshots and moments of their life. More people are going to post about what college they're going to or how awesome their boyfriend is…not about how terrible their day was. The article talked about how we feel worse about ourselves because we think everyone else is having a better, more exciting life.
"In my poem, I tried to address the issue on both sides: the girls on these sites who seem perfect (but really aren't) and the girls who envy them. There's this really fascinating sense of fake satisfaction and meaningless negativity that piked my interest.
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The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi
Sakaguchi is a regular high school boy, just like any other. He turns out to have a deep love for Boys' Love. He could live on Boys' Love alone! The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi is a hilarious slice-of-life comedy about Fudanshi Sakaguchi and his jolly gang.
Only one anime short for me this season, and it looks to be quite an amusing one.
Based around a Highschool guy who is obsessed with the concept of BL (Boys Love) in manga, every second of his waking life has him looking for these fantasies in real life, seeing relationships and romantic situations between two guys wherever he goes (and trying to take pictures of them on his phone).
His friends are aware of his fixation and tend to despair of Sakaguchi and his antics. But then he meets a classmate that has the same interests as him and he's able to go with someone to manga stores and anime conventions that makes his constant purchasing if BL a little bit more acceptable.
I wouldn't consider this anime a yaoi/shounen ai work, but more of a light-hearted comedy around a fan of these works and how the main character's daily life is affected by that. I certainly don't think that it's out to offend anyone or be any more than a bit of fun. If anything, it's mocking the extreme fudanshi/fujoushi community by including some perspectives from those looking at them and their extreme fangirling. I definitely think that Sakaguchi's friend Nakamura serves his purpose to put some of his friend's rather extreme reactions in a humorous perspective.
The characters are fun and are very well-drawn and detailed considering this is a short, comic anime. The style of artwork is a little bit shoujo in its style, particularly when it comes to the male characters, which really works for the content. There's plenty of good looking guys around, which of course makes Sakaguchi's BL radar go off the charts. Whenever he meets someone new, he starts creating their manga-character background from just their simple introduction. Since the episodes are so short, not a lot of character development can be expected here, nut it's not a primary focus. The content being shown here is more like a series of short stories about Sakaguchi's high school days, and his 'trouble' of finding like-minded people and, obviously, buying BL manga.
Plot-wise there's not much going on here, but every episode is a humorous snapshot into the life of a guy who just loves to see other men in relationships with one another – whether they're together in real life or not. The music is catchy and upbeat and, if you've got a couple of minutes spare, this is a good comic 'silly' anime to up your mood a little.
A fun and easily-watchable anime that can be consumed in no time at all given that the episodes are only three minutes long. If you're looking for something quick and quirk to make you laugh this season, I'd say The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi is your best bet.


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SECOND GRADE! We all sang solo's today! The African piece KYE KYE KULE was sung in format where groups of four students at a time could echo back a small line from the song while the rest of the class presented the chorus at the end. In just a few minutes, each student had a chance to sing solo. Very strong risk taking and persistence found here. Great job Second Graders!
THIRD GRADE! New verses were improvised by student soloists that were echoed back by the entire class during our Welcome song today. Singing continued as each class practiced the Two part round BON JOUR MES AMI. Our shoe passing game was rehearsed today as we all got used to a half note rhythmic pulse guiding our hands to pick up an object - a rhythm stick - and placing it in correct time in front of the person to our right. Speaking a verse of the "shoe passing" song, each class was able to pass the sticks around the circle in an improved coordinated fashion. Could passing shoes be much farther in the future - we'll see!
All classes today were thoughtful, careful and used great energy today to sing and play!


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"…and the last, great act of this once, invincible warrior, was to send away his horses, to save them from death in this, his final battle."
Falconi, on Veringetorix
Vercingetorix is one of my all-time favorite characters from my (limited) knowledge of history. Those of you who have been reading my vitriol since inception will recall my mention of him in the past.
It is remarkable to me how great men can rise, and then out of some sort of whacked-out wiring in their brains or hearts, "screw the pooch" at the last second.
Verscingetorix ("Verci.") was a tactical and military genius. He was, perhaps, the best ever. I'm not kidding. To look at what he accomplished during his life (as a warrior) rivals anything, anywhere and anytime, and by any one (this includes both you, Phillipe de Macedonia, et vous, Constantine).
He got "long-in-the-tooth" or something. He didn't really fall on his sword, ala some Samurai or American Civil War General via "suicide by battle" — but rather, he seems to have simply gotten sloppy.
I have no other explanation.
It has happened to other great military thinkers and political leaders (Ghingus Khan, Atilla and Czar Nicholas all come to mind, as well as Jimmy Carter) – but what is the cause?
I'll tell you what I think (was there any doubt) – I think "great" men have a tendency to rest on their laurels or become far too comfortable with their reputations, agendas, creeds, or astounding self-assurance in their own self-righteousness (guess I might have to get accustomed to using the phrase "street cred" here). They have a tendency to get so over-confident in their shrewd, mental and physical capacity that they lose sight of why they ever started down the path of warfare/leadership in the first place.
Some say, it is for a bigger piece of the pie, others for philosophical reasons; still others attribute it solely to the human psyche and that fatal mental flaw, ego.
I'm pretty simplistic in my approach to fighting and leading…it is a part of life.
Sperm fight to get to the egg. The strongest "lead" the others there, but it is he alone with the tenacity to deflower the old gal and start his life anew (God help the poor sap). There is but one victor in this battle. Only one lives; only one survives.
And thus it starts.
We begin life by fighting like hell for a goal (one where only the strongest survive) and we continue that path throughout the rest of our measly and pathetic existence.
Such is life.
But, back to Versi.
Some of you may know his story. That final battle — where he turned his horses lose out of respect for what the beasts meant to him in battle — it was that final battle that sealed Verci's fate for all perpetuity, and secured the fate of another in the anals of histoi.
And thus it goes.
One man wins, one civilization loses (big time).
No one, I'd bet (save for the most intrepid historians) can tell tell you even who Verci's people were. Most people (including a LOT of "historians", can not even tell you who Verci was).
This is the way of politics and fighting (not to mention the constant and incessant "re-writes" of history).
Whole civilizations are won and lost in singular battles.
Of course, Verci's story ends, and ends in a tragedy of Aristophanean proportion.
Here was a man poised to completely shape all the rest of time to come. Here was a man who dominated ALL of civilization in his day.
Here was a man, who in his arrogance, was "choked out" by the oldest trick in the book, an act committed by a snot-nosed, young-puke, field officer with hardly any battlefield experience.
This brash, young leader committed the ultimate in "bone-headed" mistakes (fighting the Russians in Winter, over-running your supply line, underestimating your enemy) — by splitting his force into thirds against a position held by a superior force, and in a physical location that was tactically superior to his own (everyone knows it is much easier to shoot down the hill, than "up").
Verci had (to coin a phrase from American Westerns) "holed in" high atop a ridge.
Tactically, it was exactly what one would want to do…advance (or retreat) to a superior position (you see how it helped the fine, fine folks at Meggido)…he actually thought that his reputation was such that no one would DARE attack him there. And he was absolutely correct.
No one did.
A young, new field officer made the tactical "mistake" of a lifetime. In fact, one that would shape the rest of his life (such that it was***). In any other battle, against any other adversary, it would have spelled for him sure death, absolute defeat.
But against an arrogant, self-righteous (and completely self-actualized) Vercingetorix, he made a name for himself that would go down in history as one of histories true "greats" – an immortal among mere mortals, and so much ink on a page.
That young officer split his forces. He divided them in thirds. He surrounded Verci's "high horses" (and even higher (read arrogant) position).
He starved out Verci's forces by cutting off the supply lines to the high vantage Verci and his troops established and held; and Verci lost his final battle with no horses to ride…hand-to-hand combat by a force of starved soldiers essentially tumbling down their precipice to that ultimate doom that awaited them in the fiery depths of battle, way down below.
I wonder what he might have thought as he stumbled down that ridge to face this contingent of green (and fat) Roman troops in that, his final hoorah? I probably would have thought "well, it was a good ride, for what it was worth – may my death come quick, and in battle".
But, alas, poor, poor Verci was spared a death in battle only to be captured by the young Roman, and later, in humiliation, strangled before his enemy.
And what of that young, brash solider?
Well, we all know what happened to him, (eh, Brute?). (If unsure, be certain to scroll on down for the "beginning of his end", at the end of this piece, and perhaps, this column, thank God).
So here's to you Verci. Here's to you, "brash, young field puke"***, and to you, Shakespeare*** and to you, Falconi (and even to you, whoever you may be, "winner of the election on Tuesday").
It's damned sure "been a good ride".
Hold on to your horses, ladies and gents, I think we will assuredly need them, and quite soon (just don't retreat to a high point of arrogance, if you please).
And make damned sure you have angel's wings before you start "flying" down that precipice face.(!!!!!!!!!!! scroll down for more from this "captivating" saga !!!!!!!!!!)
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Act I, Scene I. Rome. A street. Flavius, Marullus, and certain Commoners
Mar. Wherefore rejoice ? What conquest brings he home ? What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels ? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things !
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey ? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome : And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores ? And do you now put on your best attire ? And do you now cull out a holiday ? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood ? Be gone ! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
Flav. Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault, Assemble all the poor men of your sort ; Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
[Exeunt all the Commoners See whether their basest metal be not moved ; They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. Go you down that way towards the Capitol ; This way will I : disrobe the images, If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.
Mar. May we do so ? You know it is the feast of Lupercal.
Flav. It is no matter ; let no images Be hung with Cæsar's trophies. I'll about, And drive away the vulgar from the streets : So do you too, where you perceived them thick. These growing feathers pluck'd from Cæsar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness. [Exeunt
At the very onset of the play, "Julius Cæsar", by William Shakespeare, ~1601.
from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Arranged in their chronological order: with an introduction to each play, adapted from the Shakespearean primer of Professor Dowden Vol Two; ed. W.G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright, Nelson Doubleday, Inc., Garden City, New York (no date for this edition within its printed page).


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Few places capture the harshness and beauty of the Pilbara like Karratha. A region occupied by ancestors of the Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi, Marthudunera and Yaburara people for more than 30,000 years, it is also a resources hotspot where thousands of workers either fly in and out weekly or choose to stay and live.
The township of Karratha was established in the 1960s in response to the growth of Western Australia's iron ore boom and the need to accommodate the growing number of workers and families settling in the area. In more recent times, Karratha has looked to put down some roots. In 2009 Karratha was identified in the state government's Pilbara Cities program, an initiative aimed at encouraging more people to live in the region. Considerable investment has flowed into Karratha in an effort to upgrade infrastructure, increase quality open space and the range of housing options and provide more community facilities. Karratha Central Healthcare by Coda Studio was built on the newly aligned main street, Sharpe Avenue. It confidently reflects this new vision while respecting the place and people it serves.
Director of Coda Studio Kieran Wong likens the Karratha landscape to the experience of looking through a camera lens. In the dry season the landscape is in crisp focus; the colours and edges are sharp and vibrant. The red earth and rocky outcrops contrast with extreme precision against the intense blue sky. In stark contrast is the wet season, where the downfalls are torrential – short in duration but epic in impact. After the rain, native grasses and wildflowers emerge from the landscape, ever so slightly "blurring" the previous season's crisp edges. This is what Wong describes as the landscape going "out of focus." It is a time when delicate beauty and detail are revealed. The design of the healthcare centre in Karratha draws heavily on this narrative and interpretation of place. When I flew into Karratha to visit the centre it had rained two weeks prior to my arrival and the "unfocused landscape" was prevalent.
Coda Studio was engaged by the Pilbara Health Network in January 2013 to lead the project. The vision was to create a "one-stop shop," combining the services of general practice, mental health, allied health and ancillary services. Karratha Central Healthcare also acts as a management hub for remote clinics and a provider of clinical training, aligned with the University of Western Australia's (UWA) medical school. The government contributed $7 million for the project under the GP Super Clinics Programme, and additional funding came from UWA and local resource company Woodside Energy (comprised of North West Shelf Project and Pluto LNG). The total project cost was $13 million.
The experience of patients was the highest priority for the architects as they considered the contemporary approach to primary healthcare design as it related to this project. Architect Dr Graham Crist from RMIT University has worked closely with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners to create a contemporary model for clinic design. He confirms that "general practice is a key part of a community, and a part of the neighbourhood in both a physical and abstract way." This philosophy firmly underpinned the Karratha Central Healthcare design approach and the process was enriched by valuable client participation, providing a clear and detailed understanding of community needs. The architectural challenge was to create an engaging and welcoming building that was also highly durable and able to withstand harsh climatic conditions including cyclones, flooding, extreme heat and humidity.
The basic form of the building is a monolithic, single-storey U shape. It hugs the ground and wraps the site edges, creating shelter from the weather as well as a sense of protective enclosure for staff and patients. This design is in line with the local council's vision for a new city centre with minimized building setbacks. It is hoped that this will encourage a tighter scale along Sharpe Avenue and also provide better pedestrian access. Cars enter the site from a side road, with all parking behind the building. The floor plan is divided into three distinct segments: northern zones for clinical areas and consulting rooms, corporate offices and educational areas on the south, and a central waiting space that is accessible from both the street and the carpark.
The central waiting space acts as the fulcrum in plan. In elevation it's a lantern, announcing the building's public address. A warm yellow interior is playful and inviting. Precast concrete verandah panels are punctured with vibrantly coloured cut-outs, providing privacy and airflow while allowing a pattern of shadows to dance across the floor and walls. Traditional medical waiting areas are typically sterile, restrained and restrictive. This waiting area rejects those stereotypes and steps into new territory – it is not only beautiful, but also clever. The organic layout offers people a choice to wait either inside or under shelter outside, still in full view of reception. Providing these options for patients reduces the potential for anxiety and stress before an appointment and takes the cultural preferences of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians into consideration.
From this central waiting area you can access both allied health services and general practice (GP) on opposite sides. Again with patient experience as the highest priority, this arrangement allows for discreet entry and exit. All consulting rooms have generous ceiling heights and large windows, allowing natural light and a visual connection to the surrounding landscape and sky. At the end of the corridor on the GP wing, a large window looks out toward the north-west, where a native medicinal garden is planned.
Colour is an undeniable feature of Karratha Central Healthcare, which sets it apart from other buildings in the town centre. Soft greens reflect the "blurred lens" of seasonal grasses that carpet the Pilbara landscape in the wet season and were clearly visible during my visit. The purple and yellow highlights reference the delicate features of native wildflowers – mulla mulla, acacia and bachelor's buttons are all present in this design. Precast concrete external walls were a practical choice for this region, durable and able to withstand the unforgiving climatic conditions. The concrete base is the canvas and in its bare form acts as a protective shell. Precast panels on the facade's inner layer have been pre-stained and etched with colour to reflect the hue of local vegetation and the topographical forms of the surroundings. The Karratha landscape is a subtle pattern of horizontals. This strata motif was abstracted as lines cast into the facade.
Jo Halpin, CEO of the Pilbara Health Network, proudly explains how local Indigenous people now refer to Karratha Central Healthcare as their "Rainbow Home." This label is representative of the project's value within the community. It is a robust building that offers strength and permanency to a new town centre forging a new civic identity, but most importantly, despite its tough facade, it does not lack beauty and vibrancy, just like the town itself.
- Architect
- CODA Studio
Fremantle, Perth, WA, Australia
- Project Team
- Kieran Wong, Emma Williamson, Michelle Blakeley, Dianna Ingram, Sarah Lindsay, Vanessa Masson, Sarah Besly, Chris Dawson
- Consultants
Access consultant
O'Brien Harrop Access
Acoustic consultant Gabriels Environmental Design
BCA consultant Milestone
Civil engineer Pritchard Francis
Electrical engineer Best Consultants
Hydraulic engineer Norman Disney Young
Mechanical engineer Geoff Hesford Engineering
Quantity surveyor Davson and Ward
Structural engineer Capital House
Traffic consultant Arup
- Site Details
Site type Urban
- Project Details
Category Health
Type Clinics, Hospitals
Published online: 11 Jul 2017
Words: Natalie Busch
Images: Peter Bennetts
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Contrary to what people who know me would say, I'm actually pretty shy. Especially when I don't know a lot of people, or I'm not comfortable with the topic at hand. I tend to get VERY self conscious and hyper aware of everything. It's odd, but the way I get over the fear is by being outgoing and loud. But, I don't go up to people and introduce myself.
I often wonder what kind of kid Claire's going to grow up as. Will she be outgoing like her dad? Will she be shy to over compensate for how crazy we are? Will she be involved in high school like JR and I were, or will she want to get out of high school as soon as possible? Who will she be?
I can't wait until Claire starts to talk. I can't wait to HEAR her voice, and what she comes up with. I imagine she'll have a cute, girly voice. It'll be high pitched, and….well….girly. I want her to be able to say anything she wants without fear of being ridiculed. I want her to never know the pain of not being included. I want her to NEVER feel pain.
When I read this, I heard Emme's voice in my head. No, I've never met her. But, I can hear a little girl's voice in my head. Maybe that's why it broke my heart so much. I read it late this afternoon, and I still can't get it out of my head. I've been thinking about it all day. I'm not sure why. It's the "Please" that I hear in my head. And the "Hello? Hello?" Everytime I think about it, my chest gets tight.
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AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described Van Halen as "monumental" and "seismic", while noting that it is typically not viewed as an "epochal generation shift" in the same way as the debut albums of Led Zeppelin, the Ramones, The Rolling Stones, and the Sex Pistols. He explains, "The reason it's never given the same due is that there's no pretension, nothing self-conscious about it". He commented: "The still-amazing thing about Van Halen is how it sounds like it has no fathers … Like all great originals Van Halen doesn't seem to belong to the past and it still sounds like little else, despite generations of copycats." In Erlewine's opinion, the album "set the template for how rock and roll sounded for the next decade or more". A retrospective review byQ noted, "Hit singles came later, but this dazzling debut remains their trump card."
In 1994, Van Halen was ranked number eight in Colin Larkin's Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums. Larkin described it as "one of the truly great" debut albums of heavy metal. According to authors Gary Graff and Daniel Durchholz, writing in MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (1999), Van Halen is a "headbanger's paradise"; before its release, "no one had heard or seen anything like it". In 2003, Rolling Stone, listed it among The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, at number 410. According to Rolling Stone 's Joe Levy, the album "gave the world a new guitar hero and charismatic frontman" in Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth, respectively. Levy credits the tracks "Runnin' with the Devil" and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" with "put[ting] the swagger back in hard rock", praising Eddie Van Halen's "jaw-dropping technique", which "raised the bar for rock guitar". In 2006, Guitar Worldreaders ranked it number 7 on a list of the Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time.In 2013, Rolling Stone listed the album at number 27 of the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time.
On April 15, 2013, David Lee Roth was interviewed by Jay Mohr for his podcast, where he selected the album as his favorite Van Halen album.
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Last weekend a group of friends and I went skiing in Mad River Mountain, OH. About an hour drive away from Columbus, this skiing site was pretty busy on a Saturday, especially with the discount rate it offered to college students. I was thankful that I went with a perfect group of people who knows the "when, what, how" to make an efficient, well-planed, and happy skiing experience.
We set off at around 8:30am and arrived around 10am (including time to drive around the city to pick people up). For first timers (i.e. me), it is very important to have enough space to practice and overcome the fear of falling. And arriving early made it possible! With the basics taught by my friends and some observation of other skiers, I quickly mastered how to balance and turn when skiing. Soon after that I was able to progress to a higher level line!
The most difficult part for me is to control speed and stop within a short distance. Without a good skill on these two, you are guaranteed to fall as speed continues to increase. I still need to practice more to improve my control so I don't have the authority to give advice. But a tip would be helpful in terms of falling—wear waterproof pants and gloves. You will be grateful to have them as your falls increase.
Another hint for the beginners is to work your arms out before going to ski. Not because you ski with lots arm movements, but because you need very strong arms to hold the handles that drag you up the hill (higher level slopes have lift chairs, but beginner's practice field doesn't). And you need to lift your body up if you fall.
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More specifically, CEBOS strategic business objectives include the improvement of e-Business maturity in targeted regional environments. During the project, extended dissemination activities will facilitate this objective along with the active participation of SMEs in its pilots and the establishment of e-Business reference nodes in each region.


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What I am about to write about is a something that is not easy to talk about. It is something that I see everyday. It is something that is plaguing the health of this country and is costing the American people billions of dollars. It is so prevalent that it almost appears as if it is the norm. There is a movement towards its acceptance in social media and in the general public. It is prevalent throughout all socioeconomic classes, yet it unfortunately affects the poor more than any other class (among many other things that affect the poor the most, which is another discussion in its entirety). I want to present the facts gathered from the CDC to you before I share my thoughts on the issue. I want to talk about something that I am going to call "nutritional obesity."
More than one-third (34.9% or 78.6 million) of U.S. adults are obese.
The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008.
The medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight.
There are 12.7 million obese children and adolescents between the ages of 2-19.
In our state of South Carolina, only 9.3% (nationally 14%) of people are receiving their daily value of fruits and vegetables. Only 18.6% of adults meet aerobic and muscle strengthening guidelines. Only 23.8% of South Carolinians exercise daily.
As of 2011 to 2012 in South Carolina, only 36.1% of our youth have access to parks, community centers, and sidewalks in their neighborhood. With that number being even less in lower socioeconomic communities.
Do you know what is despairing about these statistics? They did not surprise me at all, and it probably did not make you jump out of your seat either.
During my second year as a medical student, I typically will walk to the hospital cafeteria every day to eat lunch. As I sit down to eat my meal, I will look around me to see a diverse group of people eating their meal in the food court. I see patients, nurses, custodians, doctors, administrators, students, and visitors all sitting in the same open room. My eyes will then move toward their lunches, and all I see is unhealthy food. From burgers to fries, people are gulping down their meals with a large soda. The other day, I sat down next to a table at which an elderly female patient sat.
She was eating a sandwich that had so much mayonnaise on it that I could not make out what was actually inside the bread. With a side of fries and a tall drink, she also had bought two extra-large cookies. One of which she ate, and the other she tucked away in her purse for later. As she slowly walked away with her oxygen tank on her walker, I immediately began to question.
Why is this woman doing this to herself? Why is she causing her body more harm than good by ingesting so much fat and sugar? Does she even know that with her weight, that she will probably need a knee and hip replacement in the coming years because her body was never built to support that much weight? Does she know that she is at an increased risk for a stroke and heart attack among other diseases? Is she eating so much because she is depressed, stressed, or suffering from increased amounts of anxiety? Does she care about her health? Does she have some family and friends that are helping her regain her healthy and liveliness? Has she struggled with weight and eating her whole life? Did something happen in her life that has caused her to eat this way? Does she receive enough physical exercise? How is her mental health? Does she try to exercise and eat well but to no avail? Does she have access to healthy food resources in her neighborhood? Is she disabled? Has she gained the weight because she has a diagnosed medical condition? Can she perform any physical activity these days? Does she have enough money to even afford healthy food? Does she know how many calories and grams of sugar are in her meal? Does she know the amount of money she is costing this hospital system to treat her preventable diseases associated with her weight? Does the hospital know that our patients are doing unhealthy things in a place where health should be our number one priority? Do we even truly care about our patients? Are we treating the underlying problem with the patient? Do we even have enough staff to educate our patients? Do we just do the best we can during the time we have? What are we not doing right? Is it the hospital's problem, the patient's problem, or a problem with our government? Is society the problem? Social media? Why is unhealthy food so much cheaper than nutritious alternatives ? Why are there more fast food options in low-income neighborhoods? Why are we marketing to our culture things not good for us? Do we have any sense of livelihood anymore? What went wrong with this woman? Where have I gone wrong? What can I do to help her? Is it too late?
As you can see, I have about 100 different questions racing through my head as I continue to witness obesity. It is a topic that we all do not want to talk about in fear of offending our friends, families, and even patients. As health care providers, even as common citizens, we should strive towards health. I know that one day I want to live long enough to see my grandchildren grow up. I do not want to spend the last days of my life with a multitude of wires and tubes inside of me while I lay in a hospital bed. I do not want to cause a financial burden on my family due to my inability to secure a future for my health. I want to be able to walk around outside and not live with the constant pain, fear, and anxiety that can come with obesity.
I have written this note because I do not want you to suffer with things that can be prevented with help. There are a multitude of factors that shape our health into the people we are. I believe the decision to choose life is ultimately ours. As a future physician, I can counsel patients as best as I can, preform procedures to help alleviate pain, administer medications when needed, and guide you back towards health. It pains me to witness patients struggle with obesity, while others choose to leave their health burden for others to handle. It also pains me to know that there are so many patients that feel like there is no way out of their current state. They believe that there is no way to combat their physical state and nothing will change. It pains me that social media has grown to accept obesity and has allowed people to live in a constant state that could result in a healthcare emergency at any moment. It is sad that so many people are misinformed about proper health management. It pains me that large food corporations market towards our desire for comfort – sugar, salt, and fat. I wish you could see what poor diet and lifestyle does to your body from within.
My plea is for you to take a small step towards reaching a small goal, and then build upon that goal. I urge you to think about your health and the influence it has on our youth. I want you to be proud of choosing life. I have witnessed overweight patients exercising and choosing healthy food options at meals. You are a shining example of commitment, determination, and effort. Do not be afraid to bring up serious issues in a positive way with your friends and family about issues such as obesity. There is no reason to criticize a person's health without knowing their history and story. I believe there is a right way to approaching sensitive subjects, and this topic is one of them.
I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee before heading to Furman University for my undergraduate studies. Football brought me to South Carolina, and I participated on the varsity team for a little over a year before deciding to focus more of my time on my studies and community involvement. I graduated Furman in May 2014 with a degree in Religion, and I believe that my background allows for a unique perspective into the lives of patients. I have been wanting to practice medicine since my youth, and I am grateful for the opportunity given to me by the USC School of Medicine Greenville to pursue that dream.
Tee Griscom - 4 years ago
I am writing in response to some feedback that I have received concerning my blog post about obesity. I want to reiterate that this subject is something that is not easy to address in today's world. We must take a step back and consider the ramifications and consequences that this idea has on the emotional, social, and physical well being of one another. It is something that we can quickly become angry about – even to the point of completely dismissing another person's attempt, whether we agree with it or not, to grapple with difficult discussions about health and the facts presented to us.
I wanted my piece to be a reflection of the inherent, initial thoughts that come to mind when we encounter such a condition. Despite my limited time in medicine thus far, I have learned a great deal about the anatomy, physiology, and disease processes of the human body. My medical school is teaching us through an innovative approach that incorporates nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and socio-economic and emotional factors into our future care for patients. Along with my preparation in the classroom, I have had the opportunity to visit patients in the hospital and treat those in the community within their homes. I have seen the poor affected by disease more easily than the wealthy due in large part to lack of access to healthcare. Seeing patients and having a "new set of eyes" in the healthcare field has made me realize that there are many things that we need to fix and ways in which we can improve. With that perspective, it has been difficult to witness what appears to be a common trend among our patient population: the acceptance of obesity as the "norm." The idea of "weight-gain" (or weight-loss for that matter) is strongly correlated with self-body image—something that, I believe, everyone can agree upon. I also think we can all agree that it is important for each one of us to have confidence, high self-esteem, and pride in who we are; however, we cannot allow those ideas to blind us to the numerous and significant health problems that come with obesity.
I have found myself interested in reproductive health, so the following was very concerning to me: when it comes to caring and providing for our female OB patients, studies have shown that maternal obesity is linked with adverse outcomes for mothers and babies. It is linked to greater risk of pre-term birth, large-for-gestation-age babies, fetal defects, congenital anomalies, and perinatal death. Maternal obesity has shown to result in longer duration of hospital stay with greater resources needed for the mother and child. (1) Obese women have clinically shown to have a poor response with regards to in vitro fertilization. It was found that obesity significantly decreased this fertilization treatment in these patients. (2)
Obesity doesn't just affect reproductive health. There are a multitude of studies that demonstrate obesity is correlated with poorer health outcomes in a variety of organ systems and diseases. Cardiovascular health, joint health, digestive health, pulmonary health—these and many more are all negatively affected by obesity. From more people with obesity dying from kidney injury, to more people with obesity dying from atherosclerotic plaques, these outcomes could be prevented with healthier habits. So how do we address this problem? Whether it's something that the government can do (evidence from restaurants in New York that analyzed the impact of trans fat bans on cardiovascular disease mortality rates showed that restriction of its use in fast food establishments caused a 4.5% reduction in CVC morality rates per year – that is about $3.9 million dollars saved per 100,000 persons annually in health care) to having physicians combat major depressive disorders associated with body image concerns, there needs to be a way that we can find ways to engage with such a difficult topic in order to provide everyone with a better life. (3, 4, 5)
But how do we approach such a sensitive topic? I find that it will be increasingly difficult for physicians to engage in challenging conversations with patients, as healthcare appears to be moving towards a physician-compensation system based upon patient satisfaction. Is a pediatrician going to bring up that a couple's child is obese and ask for them to help their child make a lifestyle change? If I brought up alcohol use or sexual activity (two things that have the potential for being very personal) with my patients about their risks, is that acceptable? Shouldn't healthcare providers be able to freely converse with the patients on a ground of mutual trust and respect, so that both parties can achieve a better state of health? How do we do that without the fear of patient resentment towards us? Are healthcare providers going to engage with the community and make real change towards better lifestyles for everyone? Studies have shown that physicians and physician trainees rarely identify or address overweight/obesity in hospitalized children. The authors concluded that this was a crucial missed opportunity for both patient care and physician trainee education. (6) Another study showed that pediatricians could help prevent obesity by measuring BMI at least yearly and providing age-appropriate and development-appropriate anticipatory guidance to families. Interventions on family habits and parenting strategies along with public policy were among the top ways to combat childhood obesity. (7) It pains me to read that literature has shown that adolescents' social insecurity was the main predictor of dropout in a multicomponent family-group-based obesity treatment program. (8) They concluded that the family's awareness of eating-related behavior needs adjustment in order to change the behavior. Bottom line: much of the negative outcomes of obesity, even childhood obesity, can be prevented if physicians and patients discuss it early, but physicians are hesitant to broach such a sensitive topic in the current healthcare system.
Despite overwhelming evidence of all the harms that increased weight can have on a person, obesity is becoming the new norm. More and more people are accepting that being overweight is "just who they are," and physicians are hesitant to speak up about the disease and death that comes with obesity, not to mention that there's hope and ways to overcome it. My piece was not meant to judge, or blame, but rather highlight an epidemic that deserves our attention. There are many contributing factors to obesity (wealth, access to health care, genetics, public policy, lifestyle choices, etc.), and it's important to consider all these when tackling this tough issue. I hope that my patients know that I am struggling and will continue to struggle about how to find ways to actively engage with the discussion of obesity. I find myself having had an easier time talking about death than I have had with issues such as this one. It pains me to see patients hospitalized for diseases that may have been prevented with healthier eating and lifestyle. I know that I will not know everything, but I hope to continue to work with nurses, educators, rehabilitation specialists and dieticians one day to provide an integrative system of care for my patients. I want my future patients to know that I am working diligently everyday for you, and I hope I can provide you with enough information and resources to find ways to live your life to the greatest potential.
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(2)Biomed Res Int. 2015;2015:781543. doi: 10.1155/2015/781543. Epub 2015 May 27. The Role of Overweight and Obesity in In Vitro Fertilization Outcomes of Poor Ovarian Responders. Vural F, Vural B, Çakıroğlu Y
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(4) Child Obes. 2015 Nov 18. Understanding Academic Clinicians' Decision Making for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity. Bailey K, Cunningham C, Pemberton J, Rimas H, Morrison KM.
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Last summer, as we were preparing to move from New York to Texas, I received an unexpected e-mail. It was from a cousin that I hadn't spoken to since high school. We both got caught up in some family drama that had nothing to do with either one of us. Due to misinformation being fed to me, I harbored resentment towards my cousin (who was also a very good friend). Unfortunately, at that age, we didn't just pick up the phone and clear things up, so we ended up losing touch.
Years went by, and we missed out on many of the moments that would have been shared had none of this occurred…most notably our weddings and the birth of our children. Truth be told, I had no intention of reaching out because I believed the things that were said. While I found it to be surprising, I was also very angry about it. Thankfully, my cousin was the bigger man, realizing that our estrangement was not because of anything that happened directly between us, and that there was no reason for us to not be a part of each other's lives.
As I read the e-mail, all of my hard feelings started to fade. When I reached out to my cousin by phone, we spoke for hours. By the time that we hung up, the only hard feelings that remained were towards the person that caused them in the first place. Both of us share the same disdain for the person that tore apart our relationship. Of course, it also saddened me that we didn't clear the air sooner. If we had, there wouldn't have been so much lost time to make up for.
While we were together for our formative years, we have been out of each other's lives for longer than we have been a part of them. Based on the way that we picked up right where we left off after being estranged for 24 years, it is safe to say that we missed out on a lot of good times together. Thinking about it makes me mad. Mad at the person that caused it, and mad at myself for allowing it to happen. But we all know that hindsight is 20/20, and that we cannot go back in time and right our wrongs.
Yesterday, we saw each other for the first time since we were in high school, and it was a great day. The kind of day that I suspect we would have had many times over had we not been estranged. It's amazing to see how similar we both still are after all these years. Though our paths may have been different, our destinations are nearly identical.
There is no doubt in my mind that we would see each other regularly if we lived in close proximity. Our wives would become friends, and our kids would have cousins in their lives that they never even knew about until recently. While this seems unlikely, my hope is that we can at least plan a trip for both families to spend some time together in the near future. One thing I know with certainty is that it won't be 24 years between visits.
The silver lining in our estrangement, and subsequent reunion, is that I have learned some valuable lessons that I can pass on to my children so that they don't make the same mistakes that I have made:
- Time moves much faster than any of us realize. Savor each moment.
- Things aren't always as they seem. Don't rush to judgment before knowing all of the facts.
- Go directly to the source. Making decisions based on hearsay is a big mistake.
- If you value your relationship with someone, keep an open mind and be willing to forgive and forget.
- Don't spend too much time dwelling on what might have been. Focus on what can still be.
I'm grateful to my cousin for reaching out and clearing the air. Although yesterday didn't fill in all of the gaps of the past 24 years, it was a great start! Needless to say, I'm glad to have a good friend back in my life.


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Sound effects libraries organized into genres such as sci-fi, horror, comedy, game packs and more
You lost em', we found em. Introducing Beeps, Sweeps and Creeps, an electromagnetic library cataloging household electronics, video game consoles, arcade cabinets and more. Whether you're creating sci-fi interfaces or needing some extra grit for your devices, Beeps Sweeps and Creeps has everything you need to add that extra layer to your project.
Inspired by box office hits like The Transformers and The Dark Knight, we present to you Blockbuster Trailer – Epic Stock Media's legendary "New" Game and Movie Sonic power pack! Blockbuster Trailer is an unprecedented designed, full-range theatre audio asset sound library for your next AAA production. + Includes embedded Soundminer meta data.
Hack, slash, and rip your way through this horrifying array of hundreds of gut-wrenching sound effects. Supercharge your project with bone shattering impacts, scream-inducing dismemberments, terrifying zombies, and much more, expertly crafted by our industry-leading sound designers and inspired by classic and modern horror such as Resident Evil, SAW, The Blair Witch Project, 28 Days Later, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Every horrific scenario imaginable is covered in this huge collection, including BONE BREAKING, FLESH CUTTING AND SLICING, BLOOD SPLATTERS, DISMEMBERMENT, CANNIBALISM, ZOMBIES / VAMPIRES, TORTURE, ATTACKS, FLESH AND BODY IMPACTS and of course everyone's favorite horror WEAPONS including brutal CHAINSAW GORE sounds… plus much, much more!
With bone-crunching realism and exceptional quality, each of the sound effects contained within this pack has been painstakingly designed for MAXIMUM SCARE FACTOR! Every file has been mixed and mastered by our expert team to blend seamlessly into ANY audio environment – all you need to do is drag and drop!
BLOODBATH is a collection of 360 carefully designed and rendered horror/gore sound effects.
Stabs, chops, blood drips, flesh drips, Skinning, slicing, gush textures, cinematic flesh impacts and more!
DESIGNED 96kHz 24BIT | 110 FILES | META DATA
All DESIGNED sound effects have been put together using CLEAN sound effects.
Multiple layers (Stacked), carefully processed to achieve modern cinematic sound.
Recorded with: Sound Devices MixPre 6, Sennheiser MKH8060 and Sony PCM D100 at 192kHZ. Edited with: Pro Tools, iZotope RX, Sound Particles
The first sound effects library from Sky Melt Sound FX!
In search of crunchy and gross sounds, we made a our own gore library. From vegetables, fruit, eggs, dry and wet noodles, dog food and a variety of other sources, Bloodbath was born. Using the sounds as-is or manipulating them will have excellent results and we can't wait to hear what kind of disgusting and brutal things you come up with using Bloodbath.
Now you don't have to kill anyone to get these types of sounds! No more mafia boss interactions, No need to arrange meetings with your hitman, No need to lure unsuspecting victims to your recording location!
Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge bone chilling productions out there.
Whether you work in sound design, as a composer, trailer editor or as an electronic musician, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of Horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments of terror and dread!
BLURRY DREAMS is a collection of 203 unusual, beautiful-sounding, abstract sounds.
Add a dreamy touch to your next project. Make abstract sounding UIs, implement beautiful and dreamy sounds
into your next game, setup magical notification on your stream and more. Explore magical granular sounds, abstract evolving drones, anime-like swells and pings and hypnotic transitions.
Blurry Dreams was created with game developers, sound designers and streamers in mind.
The collection was created using both hardware and software synths and organic recordings.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer metadata.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Reaktor, Adaptiverb, Modular, FabFilter, Pugment, TC Electronics, Pro Tools.
Bo Ho – Kontakt Edition, is a new library of weird and wonderful sounds created from a cymbal being played with a violin bow. It consists of 52 clean recordings in WAV format, plus 8 manipulated, effected versions of some of the files, also in WAV format.
In addition to this, there are 15 Kontakt Instruments made up of different effects to all 60 WAV files, mapped to 60 keys on the keyboard, creating 900 individual sounds / drones / underscores when played with the full Kontakt Player (5.6.8 or above).
The sounds range from the haunting and the subtle, to the distorted ear bleeder and everything in between. The WAV files can be used on their own, or manipulated in any way. The Kontakt Instruments are all unlocked and fully editable, making the possibilities of different versions of the files infinite.
This library is a must for theatre / film / TV sound designers and for sound artists or for anyone who appreciates and uses strange sounds for any project.
Please note that the Kontakt instruments will only play on the full, latest version (5.6.8 or above).
The Board Game SFX library features a large collection of board and tabletop game pieces on a variety of different surfaces.
Perfect for casual game sound design, UI elements, foley etc – and it's a brilliant addition to any game audio creator's sonic arsenal.
• Playing card • Coin • Felt bottomed chess piece • Glass marble • Go container (container of many small plastic pieces) • Leather bag (containing mixed small game pieces) • Metal game piece • Metal dice • Plastic game piece • Plastic dice • Poker chip • Wooden game piece • Wooden block
• Wooden board • Card game board (e.g. Monopoly board) • Felt table (e.g. Poker table) • Glass table
Each collision type has around 5-15 variations and all in all the library contains 672 individual hits.
The Board Game Sound Library features more than 2.350 sounds.
These sound effects are especially useful when it comes to creating games that simulate real boardgames or modern apps featuring game mechanisms as dice rolling and moving tokens.
The Board Game Sound Library covers 6 main categories, granting easy access to a variety of sounds — dice, pawns (or meeples or checkers) moving, tokens made of cardboard and wood, plastic pieces and many more.
The sounds provided by the Board Game Sound Library have been carefully produced, selected, edited and tested.
The Board Game Sound Library offers a great variety. Especially in games, sound repetitions of the same recording-take when rolling a dice or moving a pawn can bore the audience. So within this library, the sounds have been recorded in many different repetitions and variations.
All sounds of the Board Game Sound Library are royalty-free. They may be used for private and commercial purposes.
Provided in 96 kHz / 24bit AND 44,1 kHz / 16 bit
The Body Pack 01: Humanoid contains over 80 minutes (554 files) of high quality body falls, impacts & lands on multiple surface types.
The assets have been designed for use with computer game media that demands high asset variations, however this pack is suited for all forms of audio media.
The included basic construction kit / original recordings enables further body fall details to be created for more granular focus.
All assets have been recorded & produced at 96kHz/24bit.
Included in this pack:
This library has the aim of bringing ultra high quality malleable materials for sound designers with extensive organic variations in the realm of horror/gore.
It can help the most gruesome and disgusting scene comes alive with vivid realism.
Each file has a great amount a variations of the same sound.
In the meantime, the extensive frequency range provided by the Sanken co-100k and the Sennheiser MKH-series microphones allows extreme pitch-shifting.
Let's express creativity by layering these sounds and pitch-shiftings with almost no limits!
Get a great selection of gory sounds with Bones & Flesh – including bone-breaking, cracking and crunching, flesh ripping and manipulations, different kind of stabs, and many other disgusting sounds.
•In Bowed Cactus, get a visceral collection of bowed and plucked cactus from the deserts of the American Southwest. Take a violin bow to a cactus spine and hear guttural screeches with intense, physical energy. Hear plucked needles popping in rich organic granulation. Hear thick, bowed spines growling like supernatural animals and single needles stuttering with real grit.
•This library offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a unique organic sound source. Cactus sounds are incredibly soft and intimate in real life, but when recorded from two inches they morph into otherworldly creatures brimming with ultrasonic energy. I hope you are excited by their sound designing potential and I can't wait to hear what you create!
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an "artist royalty" for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
• In Bowed Cactus 2, get massive cacti covered with menacing 4 to 6 inch spikes. Take a violin bow to these long spines and hear guttural screeches with stuttering bass and grit. Hear wobbling bass as long needles are plucked and clear musical pitches pinging. Hear thick, bowed spines performed to sound like large mammals and whistling whines only the grit of a cactus needle can create.
• This library offers you an extension to Bowed Cactus 1. Use both libraries together to create otherworldly creatures brimming with ultrasonic energy.
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an "artist royalty" for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
• New cactus species: Ferocactus (barrel cactus) and Stetsonia Coryne (toothpick cactus)
• Much larger cacti
• 4-6 inch cactus spines vs. 1-2 inches in Bowed Cactus 1.
• Longer spine lengths = more bass
• Longer spine lengths = more variety in plucked pitches
• Recorded with a Sennheiser MKH8040/MKH30 MS pair vs. an MKH50/30 MS pair in Bowed Cactus 1.
• Make sure you check out Bowed Cactus 1 ($99) – here.
• New cactus species: Ferocactus (barrel cactus) and Stetsonia Coryne (toothpick cactus)
Bowed Cymbal 2 HD is a collection of 102 bowed cymbal samples using a broken and cut up cymbal, which gives some insane tonalities.
Bowed Cymbal is a collection of 100 bowed cymbal samples using broken cymbals, which gives some very unique tonalities. Also included are 4 sequences designed in 5.1 surround to help spark your creative juices.
Bowed cymbals are one of those sound effects that just never get old.
Perhaps it's the chilling sound of bow on bronze that puts us on the edge of our seat that we love so much. Or maybe it's the hauntingly beautiful tones that ring from a large ride cymbal with a large bow.
Add some real bronze to your project today:
If you understand BRAAAM then you know exactly what inspires this epic sound library. Hollywood blockbuster movies like Inception, A Dark Knight and Transformers were the birthplace for BRAAAM and today we proudly present to you an all new and epic collection of these scene making sounds.
Within you'll find 100 unprecedented ultra high quality 96k 24bit .WAV files, all new and original recordings, filled with some authentic sonic hot sauce for your custom productions.
Gain a hybrid trailer producer's essential sound bank- Braaam Strike 2. Explore the depths of deep cinematic synth bass impacts, stingers, and droning hits. Includes 100 boutique massive sound effects, all in high quality .WAV 96k 32bit. Created by award-winning film composer, David Levy, Braaam Strike 2 is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed trailer sound effects library Braaam Strike 1.
BRAAMS make everything feel bigger, more satisfying and dramatic. This library is totally dedicated to that vibration that enhances slow-motion shots, intros and outros in trailer sound design and soundtrack scores.
Featuring a whole spectrum of BRAAMS in designed and single element version with pitch information, this collection offers 130 sounds of dramatic low-end musical tones, distant horns, massive low brass, bass morph and low key sound effects which doesn't yet have a name.
If you are building signature sounds or if you looking for "ready to use" designed BRAAMS, the material contained in this collection cover many aspects of the BRAAMS production.
Also contained in the pack an extra folder of single hit/impact, woosh, passby which are great to enrich your custom sound design.
Want to make your visual effects breakdown stand out?
BREAKDOWN ELEMENTS – a bold collection of sound effects for visual effects breakdowns.
Our mission was to create a unique and easy-to-use selection of sound effects that takes an entirely different approach to cliche synthesized sci-fi sound effects.
The majority of elements have originated from organic field recordings which have been elegantly manipulated into a wild new form. This gives the sounds a natural, physical vibe to them – a style that we are certain you'll love.
The collection is structured into eight categories: BED, BUILD, IMPACT, INTERFERENCE, REWIND, RISER, TRANSITION and WHOOSH. Each element has been designed to work both by itself or layered to produce more complex textures. Additionally, each element has 4-6 variations to maximise versatility.
All sounds are royalty free and equipped with comprehensive Soundminer metadata for rapid access.
We are extremely proud of this collection and we hope you will enjoy using the sounds. Your ears won't be able to believe their ears!
British Soldier Voices contains 800+ soldier vocalisations including orders, commands, shouts, grunts and more performed at different intensities. All recorded up close and personal for use in video games, film and other media content. Recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.
Phrases include genuine language used by SAS, Army, Royal Navy and Paratroopers as well as exaggerated script elements. We consulted real British Armed Forces Personnel to ensure that our scripts were accurate and performed correctly by our voice talent. Both modern phrases and historical phrases are included, extending the libraries use beyond modern warzones.
Whether you are making a FPS game featuring the SAS, a film featuring the armed forces or need voice effects for training purposes, this library covers both real life commands as well as phrases included for dramatic effect. All lines are included clean along with a processed version to add quick army radio comms to any project, perfect for video game implementation!
If you think your sound collection is in need of some reinforcements then this is the library for you!
Here are the included folders:
Whispering: Perfect for stealth mission and special forces operations, using the element of surprise.
Talking: Soldiers speaking at normal levels, perfect for instructing commands or for training exercises.
Shouting: Perfect intonation for heavy battle in close proximity with the enemy, lock and load!
Grunts: A collection of grunts and efforts perfect for close-quarters combat or when a soldier is hit.
Please note: The demo track contains third party sound effects and music, but all of the voice sound effects are included in this library.
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With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
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The recursive implementation of the radix-2 Decimation-In-Frequency algorithm can be understood using the following two figures.
The first one refers to pushing the stack phase, while the second one illustrates the popping the stack phase.
In particular, the two figures illustrate the Matlab implementation that you may find on our GitHub website:
The above recursive implementation is the counterpart of the iterative implementation of the radix-2 Decimation In Frequency. Please, note that the present recursive one does not require any reverse bit ordering, neither of the input nor of the output sequences.


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Sovrana Wood Cooker 6.5kW
Brand: Nordica
Product Code: NORDICA-SOVRANA-SOFTBROWN
Availability: 1 - 14 Days
Product Code: NORDICA-SOVRANA-SOFTBROWN
Availability: 1 - 14 Days
Nordica - Sovrana Wood Cooker 6.5kW (Soft Brown) - 185m³
A modern look high quality multifuel stove of highest quality cast iron and steel offering a 6.5kW Output for heating of smaller areas.
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