Mathieu van Bellen (born in March 29, 1988 in Hulst) is a Dutch violinist.
Van Bellen started playing the violin at the age of four. During the first year he was taught by Mrs. Schepman and he continued with Prof. Nico Baltussen in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium). In 2000-2002 he studied at the Conservatory in Amsterdam. A scholarship of the VandenEnde Foundation in Amsterdam made it possible for him tot continue his studie in England: between 2002 - 2006 he studied at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester with Professor Jan Repko, and since September 2006 he studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky.
While at Chethams, Mathieu had the chance to really develop chamber music, he played in many chamber music groups and in 2005 and 2006 he performed with his string quintet and string quartet in festivals such as the Brahms/Schumann festival and the Shostakovich festival in Manchester. Last summer he was a member of the first violins in the European Union Youth Orchestra.
String Player of the Year 2008 at the Royal College of Music, London, he was also a finalist in national as well as international violin competitions, such as The Wieniawski Competition in Lublin (Poland), and the National Violin Competition of Holland. He was also a Special Prize winner for Outstanding Performance in Senior Semi-Finals in the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists. He gave concerts in Netherlands, Belgium, England, Poland, USA, Denmark, Japan, France, and Belarus. As a soloist he performed in Lalo's Symphony Espagnole with the Brabants Orkest (2004), and in Shostakovich's 1st violin Concerto with the Gelders Orkest (2006), and he was invited to perform Wieniawski's 2nd violin concerto with symphony orchestra in Brest, Belarus. He gave his Concertgebouw Debut at age 19, playing Mozart Violin Concerto no. 5 and Ravel Tzigane with Holland Symfonia and Jan Willem de Vriend.
Mathieu had masterclasses with distinguished artists such as Maxim Vengerov (broadcast on television), Herman Krebbers, David Finckel, Tuomas Haapanen, Simon Fontanelli, Gordon Back, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Lewis Kaplan, Tomas Riebl, Bruno Schrecker, Graham Oppenheimer, Nicholas Jones, Henning Kraggerud, Gyorgy Pauk, Mark Knight and Yair Kless, and collaborated in a concerts with Matthew Trusler, Graham Oppenheimer and Craig Ogden, Evgenia-Maria Popova, and Shlomo Mintz.
Currently Mathieu uses a violin made by Alessandro Gagliano (1710, Napoli).
Education
*1992-1993 Private lessons with Nineke Schepman
*1993-2000 First private lessons with Nico Baltussen, then continued lessons with him at "de Stedelijke Academie voor Muziek, Woord en Dans"
*2000-2002 with Jan Repko at Conservatorium van Amsterdam
*2002-2006 with Jan Repko at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester (UK)
*2006-present with Itzhak Rashkovsky at Royal College of Music London
Prizes
*1997 Jong Tenuto in Belgium Laureate
*2001 3rd Prizewinner in The Iordens Viooldagen
*2001 Winner of Competition for Duos "De Vereniging vrienden van het Zeeuws Orkest"
*2002 Winner of the Prinses Christina Competition in Holland (Equivalent of Young Musician of the Year in UK)
*2002 Full Scholarship from de VandenEnde Foundation in Holland for 4 years
*2003 Wieniawski Competition Finalist
*2004 2nd Prizewinner Van Wely Concours in Holland
*2004 Concerto Competition Winner of Chetham's School of Music
*2006 Special Prize for Outstanding Performance in Senior Semi-Finals Yehudi Menuhin Competition
*2007 2nd Prize Winner in National Violin Competition of Holland
*2008 Emily Anderson Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society
Van Bellen started playing the violin at the age of four. During the first year he was taught by Mrs. Schepman and he continued with Prof. Nico Baltussen in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium). In 2000-2002 he studied at the Conservatory in Amsterdam. A scholarship of the VandenEnde Foundation in Amsterdam made it possible for him tot continue his studie in England: between 2002 - 2006 he studied at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester with Professor Jan Repko, and since September 2006 he studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky.
While at Chethams, Mathieu had the chance to really develop chamber music, he played in many chamber music groups and in 2005 and 2006 he performed with his string quintet and string quartet in festivals such as the Brahms/Schumann festival and the Shostakovich festival in Manchester. Last summer he was a member of the first violins in the European Union Youth Orchestra.
String Player of the Year 2008 at the Royal College of Music, London, he was also a finalist in national as well as international violin competitions, such as The Wieniawski Competition in Lublin (Poland), and the National Violin Competition of Holland. He was also a Special Prize winner for Outstanding Performance in Senior Semi-Finals in the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists. He gave concerts in Netherlands, Belgium, England, Poland, USA, Denmark, Japan, France, and Belarus. As a soloist he performed in Lalo's Symphony Espagnole with the Brabants Orkest (2004), and in Shostakovich's 1st violin Concerto with the Gelders Orkest (2006), and he was invited to perform Wieniawski's 2nd violin concerto with symphony orchestra in Brest, Belarus. He gave his Concertgebouw Debut at age 19, playing Mozart Violin Concerto no. 5 and Ravel Tzigane with Holland Symfonia and Jan Willem de Vriend.
Mathieu had masterclasses with distinguished artists such as Maxim Vengerov (broadcast on television), Herman Krebbers, David Finckel, Tuomas Haapanen, Simon Fontanelli, Gordon Back, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Lewis Kaplan, Tomas Riebl, Bruno Schrecker, Graham Oppenheimer, Nicholas Jones, Henning Kraggerud, Gyorgy Pauk, Mark Knight and Yair Kless, and collaborated in a concerts with Matthew Trusler, Graham Oppenheimer and Craig Ogden, Evgenia-Maria Popova, and Shlomo Mintz.
Currently Mathieu uses a violin made by Alessandro Gagliano (1710, Napoli).
Education
*1992-1993 Private lessons with Nineke Schepman
*1993-2000 First private lessons with Nico Baltussen, then continued lessons with him at "de Stedelijke Academie voor Muziek, Woord en Dans"
*2000-2002 with Jan Repko at Conservatorium van Amsterdam
*2002-2006 with Jan Repko at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester (UK)
*2006-present with Itzhak Rashkovsky at Royal College of Music London
Prizes
*1997 Jong Tenuto in Belgium Laureate
*2001 3rd Prizewinner in The Iordens Viooldagen
*2001 Winner of Competition for Duos "De Vereniging vrienden van het Zeeuws Orkest"
*2002 Winner of the Prinses Christina Competition in Holland (Equivalent of Young Musician of the Year in UK)
*2002 Full Scholarship from de VandenEnde Foundation in Holland for 4 years
*2003 Wieniawski Competition Finalist
*2004 2nd Prizewinner Van Wely Concours in Holland
*2004 Concerto Competition Winner of Chetham's School of Music
*2006 Special Prize for Outstanding Performance in Senior Semi-Finals Yehudi Menuhin Competition
*2007 2nd Prize Winner in National Violin Competition of Holland
*2008 Emily Anderson Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society
Know Your Heritage is the title of a Chicago-based high school quiz show in which two teams of four students, each representing a school, compete to know questions about famous people and their cultural backgrounds. It is currently hosted by actor Greg Alan Williams, and a DJ named "DJ Ope-ski" as his sidekick. Several companies sponsor the show, including Jewel-Osco Grocery Stores and Walgreens Pharmacies.
Round One (The Head-to-Head Round)
In this round, host Williams reads a question with four possible choices to the teams. They have three seconds to ring-in, and if correct receive either 10, 20, or 30 points, depending on the question (now, all questions are worth 30 points, with a 300-point max for all ten). If incorrect, the other team can buzz-in and steal the points. After ten questions are asked, the round is over.
Round Two (The Huddle Up Round)
The two teams are shown one question with ten possible answers, four of them being correct. For 60 seconds, the teams write down their four answers, and they are revealed when time runs out. Each right answer is worth 25 points, 100 points max for all four correct answers.
Round Three
See round 1 for more info. When this round ends, a "Do You Know?" question is asked by the announcer, Tessa Spencer, and there are four choices, the correct answer being revealed after the commercial.
Round Four (The Face-Off Round)
For the final round, one member from each team writes down a wager for their total score (originally up to all of it, now only up to 250 points) upon answering one final question. The other members of each team have 15 seconds to write down the correct answer, and if correct, the points are added to their score, but if incorrect, the points are lost from the score. The highest scoring team advances to the next round.
Grand Prize
At the end of the grand championship show, the team with the highest score wins a $1,000 savings bond from the Illinois State Treasury as well as a trip to Disney World.
Official site
*Official site at www.ccptv.com
Round One (The Head-to-Head Round)
In this round, host Williams reads a question with four possible choices to the teams. They have three seconds to ring-in, and if correct receive either 10, 20, or 30 points, depending on the question (now, all questions are worth 30 points, with a 300-point max for all ten). If incorrect, the other team can buzz-in and steal the points. After ten questions are asked, the round is over.
Round Two (The Huddle Up Round)
The two teams are shown one question with ten possible answers, four of them being correct. For 60 seconds, the teams write down their four answers, and they are revealed when time runs out. Each right answer is worth 25 points, 100 points max for all four correct answers.
Round Three
See round 1 for more info. When this round ends, a "Do You Know?" question is asked by the announcer, Tessa Spencer, and there are four choices, the correct answer being revealed after the commercial.
Round Four (The Face-Off Round)
For the final round, one member from each team writes down a wager for their total score (originally up to all of it, now only up to 250 points) upon answering one final question. The other members of each team have 15 seconds to write down the correct answer, and if correct, the points are added to their score, but if incorrect, the points are lost from the score. The highest scoring team advances to the next round.
Grand Prize
At the end of the grand championship show, the team with the highest score wins a $1,000 savings bond from the Illinois State Treasury as well as a trip to Disney World.
Official site
*Official site at www.ccptv.com
The New Industrial Revolution has more to do with rectifying or even undoing some of the damage that resulted from the last Industrial Revolution. Rather than a call for industrialization, expansion of mechanization, or a broadening of global markets, the New Industrial Revolution is characterized by merging traditionally contraditory disciplines: environmental sustainability and economic competitiveness.
History
Ushered in by industrial designer William McDonough, the New Industrial Revolution is viewed as a necessity in order to change the direction of the current industrial modality. The New Industrial Revolution will produce a world of abundance and good design - a delightful, safe world that our children can play in.
At the heart of the New Industrial Revolution is a quantum leap in the way that humans think of the products that we purchase and consume. The traditional "cradle to grave" product lifecycle must be changed to a system of "cradle to cradle" product flow. This alternative product flow can be characterized as "reuse": returning consumer products to the environment as biological nutrients, or to industry as technical nutrients that can be infinitely recycled.
Values
The values of the past Industrial Revolution centered around the creation of goods for consumption. The New Industrial Revolution espouses an entirely new value set that incorporates notions of cradle-to-cradle product lifecycles, a focus on services rather than consumable goods, a focus on the environment and the natural capital that it provides, and achieving a more prosperous future through collaboration and cooperation. In the latest Living Plant Report published by the World Wildlife Fund, the Zoological Society of London, and the Global Footprint Network, the Earth's natural resources are being depleted so quickly that the equivalent of two planets would be required to sustain current lifestyles by the mid-2030s. The fact that we are consuming our natural capital faster than it can be regenerated only heightens the urgency for a planetary shift — both in consciousness and values.
An analogy of the shift in values can be drawn from such governmental agencies as the Army Corps of Engineers and their activities of the past two hundred years — which largely focused on diverting water from natural water courses and consuming the water for human purposes only. The current policy of the Corps focuses more in decommissioning dams and enhancing wetlands, which are now seen as performing an irreplaceable and quantifiable environmental service — flood protection and water filtration.
The destruction that comes from war is now being recognized as wasteful, expensive, and an ill-conceived method for achieving peace in our world. Many environmental and peace activists are organizing against war and destruction, toward a more enlightened civilization that decries war as a means to peace. This "shift" is occurring worldwide, and is growing at an exponential rate. Additionally, many of the problems of the preceding Industrial Revolution were caused by environmental degradation from mining, deforestation, and pollution from other industries that sought raw materials from the environment with little or no thought of the environmental consequences. The New Industrial Revolution will focus more on bioremediation, eco-efficiency, and working with our natural capital in such a way as to not further denigrate the natural environment.
Eco-onomy
An eco-onomy is where prosperity comes out of the abundance of well managed biodiverse ecosystems rather than by destructive exploitation of the environment.
The current global economy weather or not on the verge of collapse seems to threaten us with runaway climate change. We are buying, using, consuming and destroying far more of the created beauty and “natural resources” of the Earth than we need to. Stern has recently admitted that the 1% GDP investment in green technologies recommended in his report was no where near enough to prevent far greater damage than he predicted from coming far sooner. It seems Global economic growth of the type recently enjoyed can not be harnessed to restore the environment in the short time we have remaining to make a difference. Green technologies that claim to reduce damage done to the environment are not the fix needed but drastically simpler living and measures to restore and enhance the planets ecosystems are.
The Carbon problem requires us to make choices we seem economically and politically unable to stomach. In time we may be forced economically to live slower simpler lives saving the environment from its more destructive populations.
May be the global economy is so broken that it can’t be mended, and is not reparable because it was fundamentally flawed. Was the flaw the assumption that an ever increasing desire for more can be met at ever decreasing cost, by ignoring the true cost of things to the environment and our emotional health?
Looking back there is just the one model for development, the global economic development that we know. Though it seems the only way, a different model for development may emerge, perhaps a restorative model for development that mends the damage done by the former kind. It will at its heart include the development of the planets ecosystems allowing mankind to live out of there abundant fruitfulness and biodiversity. We as a species will accept the role divinely given us as the caretakers of the Earth through necessity as well as renewed wisdom. We will learn to discern the folly of choosing changes to supposedly green products rather than accepting simpler lives. We will find our needs met through responsible attention to a beautiful environment rather than shallow consumerism.
Biomimicry
Biomimicry refers to the mimicry of natural systems of production and recycle that are found in nature. Translated to a dynamic system, biomimicry does the following:
# Considers waste as a resource
# Diversifies and cooperates to fully use the habitat
# Gathers and uses energy efficiently
# Optimizes rather than maximizes
# Uses materials sparingly
# Doesn't foul our nest
# Doesn't draw down resources
# Remains in balance with biosphere
# Runs on information
# Shops locally
Green chemistry
The New Industrial Revolution will be incorporating ideas from nature to mimic the ideas and innovations found there. One example where this has been done is with a product called Lotusan. This product mimics the lotus flower leaf's ability to repel dirt and water on its surface and can be applied to buildings for that purpose. Another example of harnessing nature's powers to remedy modern problems is the use of a fungus to remove sulfur from oil.
Alternative Energy
From the well-known to the more exotic, alternative energy will continue to take the place of traditional fossil fuels during the next century. This change is needed not only to curb global emissions of greenhouse gases, but also due to the reality that fossil fuels are a finite, non-renewable resources.
According to one of the world's top economicts, Nicholas Stern, former head of the World Bank, "now is precicely the moment to make the change" to a low-carbon economy. Stern believes that the shift from an economy based on fossil fuels to one based on low-carbon technologies has the potential to fuel economic growth that will be sustainable in the long-term.
Some of the obvious alternative energy sources are: solar power, wind power, and tidal power. Proponents of natural gas often consider it an alternative energy source, but most environmentalists see it as just another form of fossil fuel that will increase greenhoue gas emissions.
Other sources of alternative energy may come from geothermal power, and biofuels from corn, rapeseed, biomass, and algae.
Transportation
Urgency and crises often breed innovation. The impending "peak oil" crisis and climate change are spurring quantum leaps in thinking about transportation. One such idea, the Twike, was developed in Germany as a zero-emissions vehicle.
Architecture
Examples of architectural innovations that are occurring during the New Industrial Revolution are earthships, buildings using green building materials, skyscrapers with garden rooftops for natural cooling, and a general departure from present-day architecture. To be distinguished from "modern" architecture with energy-intensive heating and cooling systems, during the New Industrial Revolution society will witness a complete paradigm shift in building technologies. Utilizing the heating and cooling properties of the sun and the earth, new buildings will be not only more energy efficient, but will have improved indoor air quality and will incorporate natural elements. Architect William McDonough and his team helped put these ideas into motion in Chicago with the installation of a garden roof on City Hall. Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley foresees a whole city covered with green roofs that will not only keep the city cool but will also produce solar energy, grow food, and provide sanctuary to birds and people.
Earthships
Earthships are earth-sheltered buildings made of tires rammed with earth. Windows on the sunny side admit light and heat. The open end of the "U" shaped structure faces South in the northern hemisphere, and North in the southern hemisphere, so that the house will catch maximum sunlight in the colder months. An Earthship is designed to interface with its environment wherever possible and create its own utilities. Internal, non-load-bearing walls are often made of a "honey comb" of recycled cans separated by concrete. The walls are then usually thickly plastered, using the pull-tabs on the cans as a lath to hold the adobe and stucco. This is known as a tin can wall. The roof of an Earthship is heavily insulated.
Permaculture
While the first Industrial Revolution may be characterized by advents in agriculture, such as large-scale monoculture and other such "advances", the New Industrial Revolution represents a departure from the paradigm of large, industrial agriculture where goods are shipped long distances and are treated solely as commodities. Permaculture is essentially "permanent agriculture".
Examples
One example of the New Industrial Revolution is a German corporation that manufactures a paint that mimics the surface of a lotus leaf, allowing buildings coated with it to stay cleaner longer, and resist mold and mildew. Aviation experts are using biomimicry in their examination of the small bumps on the flippers of humpback whales, which allow the animals to glide through the water with less drag, and are trying to build them into airplane wings in order to allow for faster and more fuel-efficient flights.
Masdar City, United Arab Emirates
Hailed as one of the most bold steps toward creating the first truly carbon-free city in the world, the planned Masdar City seeks to make a "landscape productive as well as the city a net positive presence for people and nature."
History
Ushered in by industrial designer William McDonough, the New Industrial Revolution is viewed as a necessity in order to change the direction of the current industrial modality. The New Industrial Revolution will produce a world of abundance and good design - a delightful, safe world that our children can play in.
At the heart of the New Industrial Revolution is a quantum leap in the way that humans think of the products that we purchase and consume. The traditional "cradle to grave" product lifecycle must be changed to a system of "cradle to cradle" product flow. This alternative product flow can be characterized as "reuse": returning consumer products to the environment as biological nutrients, or to industry as technical nutrients that can be infinitely recycled.
Values
The values of the past Industrial Revolution centered around the creation of goods for consumption. The New Industrial Revolution espouses an entirely new value set that incorporates notions of cradle-to-cradle product lifecycles, a focus on services rather than consumable goods, a focus on the environment and the natural capital that it provides, and achieving a more prosperous future through collaboration and cooperation. In the latest Living Plant Report published by the World Wildlife Fund, the Zoological Society of London, and the Global Footprint Network, the Earth's natural resources are being depleted so quickly that the equivalent of two planets would be required to sustain current lifestyles by the mid-2030s. The fact that we are consuming our natural capital faster than it can be regenerated only heightens the urgency for a planetary shift — both in consciousness and values.
An analogy of the shift in values can be drawn from such governmental agencies as the Army Corps of Engineers and their activities of the past two hundred years — which largely focused on diverting water from natural water courses and consuming the water for human purposes only. The current policy of the Corps focuses more in decommissioning dams and enhancing wetlands, which are now seen as performing an irreplaceable and quantifiable environmental service — flood protection and water filtration.
The destruction that comes from war is now being recognized as wasteful, expensive, and an ill-conceived method for achieving peace in our world. Many environmental and peace activists are organizing against war and destruction, toward a more enlightened civilization that decries war as a means to peace. This "shift" is occurring worldwide, and is growing at an exponential rate. Additionally, many of the problems of the preceding Industrial Revolution were caused by environmental degradation from mining, deforestation, and pollution from other industries that sought raw materials from the environment with little or no thought of the environmental consequences. The New Industrial Revolution will focus more on bioremediation, eco-efficiency, and working with our natural capital in such a way as to not further denigrate the natural environment.
Eco-onomy
An eco-onomy is where prosperity comes out of the abundance of well managed biodiverse ecosystems rather than by destructive exploitation of the environment.
The current global economy weather or not on the verge of collapse seems to threaten us with runaway climate change. We are buying, using, consuming and destroying far more of the created beauty and “natural resources” of the Earth than we need to. Stern has recently admitted that the 1% GDP investment in green technologies recommended in his report was no where near enough to prevent far greater damage than he predicted from coming far sooner. It seems Global economic growth of the type recently enjoyed can not be harnessed to restore the environment in the short time we have remaining to make a difference. Green technologies that claim to reduce damage done to the environment are not the fix needed but drastically simpler living and measures to restore and enhance the planets ecosystems are.
The Carbon problem requires us to make choices we seem economically and politically unable to stomach. In time we may be forced economically to live slower simpler lives saving the environment from its more destructive populations.
May be the global economy is so broken that it can’t be mended, and is not reparable because it was fundamentally flawed. Was the flaw the assumption that an ever increasing desire for more can be met at ever decreasing cost, by ignoring the true cost of things to the environment and our emotional health?
Looking back there is just the one model for development, the global economic development that we know. Though it seems the only way, a different model for development may emerge, perhaps a restorative model for development that mends the damage done by the former kind. It will at its heart include the development of the planets ecosystems allowing mankind to live out of there abundant fruitfulness and biodiversity. We as a species will accept the role divinely given us as the caretakers of the Earth through necessity as well as renewed wisdom. We will learn to discern the folly of choosing changes to supposedly green products rather than accepting simpler lives. We will find our needs met through responsible attention to a beautiful environment rather than shallow consumerism.
Biomimicry
Biomimicry refers to the mimicry of natural systems of production and recycle that are found in nature. Translated to a dynamic system, biomimicry does the following:
# Considers waste as a resource
# Diversifies and cooperates to fully use the habitat
# Gathers and uses energy efficiently
# Optimizes rather than maximizes
# Uses materials sparingly
# Doesn't foul our nest
# Doesn't draw down resources
# Remains in balance with biosphere
# Runs on information
# Shops locally
Green chemistry
The New Industrial Revolution will be incorporating ideas from nature to mimic the ideas and innovations found there. One example where this has been done is with a product called Lotusan. This product mimics the lotus flower leaf's ability to repel dirt and water on its surface and can be applied to buildings for that purpose. Another example of harnessing nature's powers to remedy modern problems is the use of a fungus to remove sulfur from oil.
Alternative Energy
From the well-known to the more exotic, alternative energy will continue to take the place of traditional fossil fuels during the next century. This change is needed not only to curb global emissions of greenhouse gases, but also due to the reality that fossil fuels are a finite, non-renewable resources.
According to one of the world's top economicts, Nicholas Stern, former head of the World Bank, "now is precicely the moment to make the change" to a low-carbon economy. Stern believes that the shift from an economy based on fossil fuels to one based on low-carbon technologies has the potential to fuel economic growth that will be sustainable in the long-term.
Some of the obvious alternative energy sources are: solar power, wind power, and tidal power. Proponents of natural gas often consider it an alternative energy source, but most environmentalists see it as just another form of fossil fuel that will increase greenhoue gas emissions.
Other sources of alternative energy may come from geothermal power, and biofuels from corn, rapeseed, biomass, and algae.
Transportation
Urgency and crises often breed innovation. The impending "peak oil" crisis and climate change are spurring quantum leaps in thinking about transportation. One such idea, the Twike, was developed in Germany as a zero-emissions vehicle.
Architecture
Examples of architectural innovations that are occurring during the New Industrial Revolution are earthships, buildings using green building materials, skyscrapers with garden rooftops for natural cooling, and a general departure from present-day architecture. To be distinguished from "modern" architecture with energy-intensive heating and cooling systems, during the New Industrial Revolution society will witness a complete paradigm shift in building technologies. Utilizing the heating and cooling properties of the sun and the earth, new buildings will be not only more energy efficient, but will have improved indoor air quality and will incorporate natural elements. Architect William McDonough and his team helped put these ideas into motion in Chicago with the installation of a garden roof on City Hall. Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley foresees a whole city covered with green roofs that will not only keep the city cool but will also produce solar energy, grow food, and provide sanctuary to birds and people.
Earthships
Earthships are earth-sheltered buildings made of tires rammed with earth. Windows on the sunny side admit light and heat. The open end of the "U" shaped structure faces South in the northern hemisphere, and North in the southern hemisphere, so that the house will catch maximum sunlight in the colder months. An Earthship is designed to interface with its environment wherever possible and create its own utilities. Internal, non-load-bearing walls are often made of a "honey comb" of recycled cans separated by concrete. The walls are then usually thickly plastered, using the pull-tabs on the cans as a lath to hold the adobe and stucco. This is known as a tin can wall. The roof of an Earthship is heavily insulated.
Permaculture
While the first Industrial Revolution may be characterized by advents in agriculture, such as large-scale monoculture and other such "advances", the New Industrial Revolution represents a departure from the paradigm of large, industrial agriculture where goods are shipped long distances and are treated solely as commodities. Permaculture is essentially "permanent agriculture".
Examples
One example of the New Industrial Revolution is a German corporation that manufactures a paint that mimics the surface of a lotus leaf, allowing buildings coated with it to stay cleaner longer, and resist mold and mildew. Aviation experts are using biomimicry in their examination of the small bumps on the flippers of humpback whales, which allow the animals to glide through the water with less drag, and are trying to build them into airplane wings in order to allow for faster and more fuel-efficient flights.
Masdar City, United Arab Emirates
Hailed as one of the most bold steps toward creating the first truly carbon-free city in the world, the planned Masdar City seeks to make a "landscape productive as well as the city a net positive presence for people and nature."
Major Andrei Lavrov, or Batyánya () is a fictional character in russian action/adventure fiction series.
He's a fictional character, created by russian novelist Sergei Zverev.
Fictional character biography
Andrei Lavrov was born in late 60th (according to the period described in the novels, though his birthdate never been defined). He, probably, had been graduated from Ryazan Airborne Military Command School in early 1990th and then taken part in Chechen War and in other conflicts arised around after the Collapse of the USSR.
Story beginning, depicting him as experinced Spetsnaz Battalion Commander. He'd been described as middle-aged, middle stature, sturdy man, with determined chin and clear eyes.
However, he never tolerated bootlickers or careerists, and never whimpered about his life, his military duty, allways reffering to his Enlistment Oath, which states that all hardships must be endeavored.
In addition, he fluently speaks English, German and Tajik languages.
===The meaning of "Batyanya"===
Batyánya is a form of russian word Bátya (smth. between "Daddy" and "Father"), usually about battalion or detachment commander. An extremely popular song was recorded by LYUBEH in 1996: "Kombát-Batyánya" (english: Battalion Commander - Daddy).
Episodes
* Batyánya. Orders are undisputed (2005)
* Batyánya. Hit Back (2005)
* Just cause we are stronger! (2009)
* Desantura vs. marines (2009)
* Border is locked up (2009)
Catchphrases
* "Smooth desántnik must have shooting and jumping skills, and always be ready for everything. Everything else is 'Dancing'"
* "Remember, Soldiers, that mini-shovel is a third instrument, after the Kalashnikov and parachute."
He's a fictional character, created by russian novelist Sergei Zverev.
Fictional character biography
Andrei Lavrov was born in late 60th (according to the period described in the novels, though his birthdate never been defined). He, probably, had been graduated from Ryazan Airborne Military Command School in early 1990th and then taken part in Chechen War and in other conflicts arised around after the Collapse of the USSR.
Story beginning, depicting him as experinced Spetsnaz Battalion Commander. He'd been described as middle-aged, middle stature, sturdy man, with determined chin and clear eyes.
However, he never tolerated bootlickers or careerists, and never whimpered about his life, his military duty, allways reffering to his Enlistment Oath, which states that all hardships must be endeavored.
In addition, he fluently speaks English, German and Tajik languages.
===The meaning of "Batyanya"===
Batyánya is a form of russian word Bátya (smth. between "Daddy" and "Father"), usually about battalion or detachment commander. An extremely popular song was recorded by LYUBEH in 1996: "Kombát-Batyánya" (english: Battalion Commander - Daddy).
Episodes
* Batyánya. Orders are undisputed (2005)
* Batyánya. Hit Back (2005)
* Just cause we are stronger! (2009)
* Desantura vs. marines (2009)
* Border is locked up (2009)
Catchphrases
* "Smooth desántnik must have shooting and jumping skills, and always be ready for everything. Everything else is 'Dancing'"
* "Remember, Soldiers, that mini-shovel is a third instrument, after the Kalashnikov and parachute."