Financial Calculators from Dinkytown.net! The Distort House is a Spliced Home That Adds A Pinch of Green to Indonesian Tradition Indonesian architects TWS & Partners have put a modern green twist on traditional Southeast Asian housing with their new jigsaw shaped home called the Distort House. When most people think of a house, they picture a solid, four-sided structure with a door, a roof, and windows. Distort House intentionally refutes this assumption, literally breaking up our preconceptions of what a home should look like. Located directly across the street from a public park in Jakarta, Distort House is placed at the very back of its large plot and turned a slight 15% to optimize the expansive yard space. The grand green entrance breaks up the monotony of the residential block while opening and lightening the front of the home. The varying levels are bridged together by a twisting staircase that travels inside, outside, up, and down the home in an Escher-like fun house way. A house so connected with nature certainly includes a number of green features as well. + TWS and Partners Via architizer
The Year In Hipstep (Or Dubhop?) hide captionOne of the premier American dubstep DJs, Pretty Lights is renowned for his dazzling light shows. One of the premier American dubstep DJs, Pretty Lights is renowned for his dazzling light shows. Dubstep. Despite roots that date back to the late '90s, dubstep in the U.S. gets mostly relegated to the fringes of popular music. What started with dubstep DJs experimenting with hip-hop remixes has progressed into the mainstream, with hip-hop artists now seeking out these DJs to incorporate dubstep beats into their songs.
FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator BOOM Sustainable LGBT Community Pops Up in Costa del Sol The designers at BOOM have opened a new sustainable living community outside of Malaga, Spain. The hillside Costa del Sol overlooks the beautiful Lake Vinuela and includes a mix of private homes, lofts and apartments. The towering complex is geared toward the LGBT community. A secure community, Costa del Sol features a state of the art health and sports center, entertainment facilities and cafes. BOOM invited 16 architects (including Metropol Parasol’s J Mayer H) to design the varying spaces to create a community with architectural diversity. BOOM plans for the entire complex to be LEED certified; from water efficiency to reduction of energy and CO2 emissions, BOOM neighborhoods are sustainable and eco friendly places to live.
Decibel Equivalent Table (whats how loud) | Decibel Car Audio the SPL... 10dB Absolute silence 13dB Incandescent light bulb hum 15dB Pin drop from a height of 1 centimetre heard at a distance of 1 meter 30dB Totally quiet night time in desert 40dB Whispering 60dB Normal conversation 85dB Beginning of hearing damage range, earplugs should be worn 100dB Normal average car or house stereo at maximum volume 110dB Car stereo with two 6 x 9” speakers and 100 watts 116dB Human body begins to perceive vibration from low frequencies 120dB Front row at a rock concert 125dB Drums, at the moment of striking 130dB Typical professional DJ system 127dB Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) begins. 128dB Loudest human scream 130dB Marching band of 200 members 132dB Eardrum vibration noticeable 133dB Gunshot 135dB “Very loud” street car stereo. 140dB Threshold of pain, all frequencies 140dB Hearing protection required (definite long term damage) 140dB human throat and vocal cord resonance occurs 141dB Nausea felt after a few minutes 144dB Nose itches due to hair vibrations 180dB 1 pound TNT at 15 feet
This Week In Petroleum Released: April 9, 2014 Next Release: April 16, 2014 Gasoline prices expected to average $3.57 per gallon during summer 2014 In the April 2014 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA projects that regular-grade gasoline retail prices will average $3.57 per gallon (gal) during the current summer (April through September) driving season, similar to the $3.58/gal average of summer 2013. After rising into May, the retail price is expected to fall through the remainder of the summer because both crude oil prices and gasoline crack spreads (the difference between wholesale product price and the price of crude oil) decline. Daily and weekly national average prices can differ significantly from monthly and seasonal averages, and there are also significant regional differences, with prices in some areas exceeding the national average by 25 cents/gal or more. On April 7, the national average regular-grade gasoline retail price stood at $3.60/gal.
yurt platform/land pics Hi,Thanks for sharing your pics. what did you use to band around the outside of the circle?Also, i don't know where your located, but you were saying how you left the dead stuff to keep it from growing in. Where i'm at it would fill in with raspberries and would be a greater mess to deal with. It's some kind of masonite plywood, not sure exactly what else they call it .. I'm in Maine, I hope to clear out some of the wood, but I am not sure I can create enough of a sunny clearing and get a ton of stuff planted there at the same time. I allready planted a few rapsberries on the west side of the clearing, some from my mothers garden, some from down the street on the land .. I was also torn between cutting more trees while I have the time to do that and thus let in more sun .. and not being sure what to do with all the wood and what sort of weeds where going to pop up.
Whats That Sound? The Rhythm That Ruled 2011 There's one sound that pretty much dominated pop music this year. Monster hits by LMFAO, Adele, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears and more all relied on the hammering beat known as "four-on-the-floor." "You feel it in your whole body, just on every beat: boom, boom, boom, boom," says Jordan Roseman. "It's so easy to understand, it's almost hard not to move to it." Roseman, better known as DJ Earworm, is intimately familiar with these songs and their matching beats. "It goes back to disco. You can download Roseman's 2011 mashup, "World Go Boom," at the DJ Earworm website.