AayJay

Harry Potter enthusiast, obsessed with movies, tv and books, left-brained.

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TEN MORE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES AROUND THE WORLD

You can read my previous ‘Top Ten Most Beautiful Libraries Around The World’ post here.

1. The National Library of the Czech Republic - Prague, Czech Republic

2. Admont Abbey Library - Admont, Austria

3. Trinity College Library - Dublin, Ireland

4. The Royal Portuguese Library - Rio de Janiero, Brazil

5. Stuttgart Municipal Library - Stuttgart, Germany

6. George Peabody Library - Baltimore, United States

7. Wiblingen Monastery Library - Ulm, Germany

8. University of Iowa Law Library - Des Moines, United States

9. Walker Library - Minneapolis, United States

10. Vennesla Library - Vennesla, Norway

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Trump believes that the EPA needs to be shut down = ignorance about the importance of the environment.

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Freedom

Being completely free to do what I want when I want is the the dream. I want to go places and experience new things without worrying if I’m gonna be able to afford my lifestyle. That’s why I want a tiny home. I don’t want the obligation of working most of my life to afford a place I ultimately just need to lay my head down at night. I want to be travelling all the time and hopefully retire early so I can just do life. I want to go new places and see new things and if I could take my home with me in the process??? How awesome is that! I never want to be stuck or held down in life and I don’t want that reason to be because I have a crazy mortgage payment and all the utilities that go with it. I want to be sufficient. I want to use solar energy and compost my waste and grow some of my own food. I don’t want to take advantage all the great things this Earth does for me. It’s absolutely insane that it even exists and how shitty it is that people treat it like a dumpster. This world is a circle of life and we all need to respect that and know our limitations and lower our expectations and entitlements. This world is the greatest gift we could ever ask for and we are ruining it. Nobody wants to take responsibility. Well I want to and I’m going to try my damnedest to make sure that I live a life I’m proud of.

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Omfg I love this and I want it

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Beautiful open-concept tiny house

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#TinyHomeDreams

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#12X16H3A $29.99 https://sites.google.com/site/excellentfloorplans

Tiny home with a loft, bath, washer / dryer combo unit, and range.

Sq. Ft: 364 (192 1st, 172 2nd) Building size: 12’-0" wide, 24’-6" deep (including porch & steps) Main roof pitch: 10/12 Ridge height: 24’ Wall height: 8’ Foundation: CMU blocks Lap siding & shakes siding

This plan is in PDF format so you can download, and print whenever you like. Plan prints to scale on 24" x 36" paper.

Floor Plan Room dimensions shown are inside-wall-to-inside-wall clear space inside the room.

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#TinyHomeDreams

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What did you expect?

Why do people who have children complain about not having enough money? Of course you don't have enough money, you have children. Did you magically think they wouldn't cost you money? Did you magically think that somehow you would have more money when you had them? Why do you keep having more when you can barely afford the first or the second? Why did you have children in the first place if you can't support yourself? I find it so annoying and frustrating hearing people complain about how they can't afford their bills and medical expenses. And you know why you can't? It's because you had 3 children when you couldn't even support yourself and now you're living paycheck to paycheck. What did you expect??? You hadn't even established yourself in a stable career before you spread your legs and procreated. Now you're doing school and trying to support 3 kids making life harder for you and the children. And what good did it do any of you to have kids right away? I'm not saying don't have kids, but don't complain about being broke with kids when you were already broke before you had them. What did you expect?

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We broke a whole lotta climate records in 2014

Here are four key points to draw from the State of the Climate report.

Carbon dioxide levels continue to rise. The global average carbon dioxide level reached a new record high of 397.2 parts per million last year, a nearly 2 ppm rise from 2013 and a 40 percent increase from preindustrial levels. The average for three months of last year — April, May, and June — was above 400 ppm.

Earth’s temperature continues to rise. Four datasets of global temperatures ranked 2014 as the warmest year on record (or tied for warmest) going back to 1880. A Climate Central analysis showed that 13 of the hottest 15 years on record have all occurred since 2000 and that the odds of that happening randomly without the boost of global warming is 1 in 27 million.

How average temperatures in 2014 compared to the 1981-2010 average, shown as differences in degrees Fahrenheit, with red showing warmer and blue cooler temperatures. NOAA.

The oceans are heating up (which also hauls up sea levels because of expanding water volume attributable to warmer water). Sea surface temperatures and the heat of the upper oceans also hit record highs. “The heat content is just continuing to pile up,” Greg Johnson, an oceanographer at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, said during the call.This trend is key because the oceans absorb about 93 percent of all the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. “You can kind of think of ocean warming as being global warming,” Johnson said.The North Pacific in particular was exceptionally hot, and the tropical Pacific moved toward an El Niño state, which features warmer-than-average waters in that region.All of that heat in the oceans also raised global sea levels to a new record high, more than 2.5 inches above what it was in 1993, as water expands as it heats up.

How the heat content of the upper 2,300 feet of the Earth’s oceans differed from the 1993-2014 average. NOAA.

Ice is melting. The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice in September, when the annual minimum occurs, was the sixth lowest extent in the satellite record, going back to 1979. The eight lowest extents in that record have all occurred within the past eight years, the report notes. A survey of three dozen index glaciers showed that 2014 was the 31st consecutive year of overall glacier ice lost. Since 1980, this melt has effectively lopped off 60 feet of ice from the top of each glacier. Permafrost, the permanently frozen soils found in land areas of the Arctic, have also been melting. Several stations in the North Slope of Alaska and the Brooks Range had record or near-record high temperatures in the permafrost at depths of about 65 feet

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(x) - thank you parks and rec.

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feeling down? you need this baby animal blog in your life!

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Dear lord, this is adorable!

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Someone made a teaser for Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and it is gorgeous (albeit fake). 

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If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

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So looking forward to this netflix somewhat original!

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#Sagittarius women

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The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind

Naoto Matsumura is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s 12.5-mile exclusion zone

He fled at first but returned to take care of the animals that were left behind

He returned for his own animals at first, but realized that so many more needed his help, too

Matsumura, who is 55 years old, knows that the radiation is harmful, but he “refuses to worry about it”

“They also told me that I wouldn’t get sick for 30 or 40 years. I’ll most likely be dead by then anyway, so I couldn’t care less”

Matsumura discovered that thousands of cows had died locked in barns

He also freed many animals that had been left chained up by their owners

Many of them now rely on him for food

The government has forbidden him from staying, but that doesn’t stop him either

He started in 2011 and is still going strong 4 years later

He relies solely on donations from supporters to work with and feed the animals

His supporters are calling him the ‘guardian of Fukushima’s animals’

The man clearly has a sense of humor as well

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source

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This hero deserves way more notes.

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Capitalism loves science when it’s used to develop new technologies or new means of extracting resources.

Capitalism is indifferent to science when it works on things which can’t be directly commercialized.

Capitalism really hates science when it investigates environmental degradation, or when it points out that the economy is running headlong into a brick wall of resource limitation.