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Don't fall in love with this corrupt world or worship the things it can offer. Those who love it's corrupt ways don't have the Father's love living within them. All the things the world can offer to you – the allure of pleasure, the passion to have things, and the pompous sense of superiority – do not come from the Father. These are the rotten fruits of the world. This corrupt world is already wasting away, as are it's selfish desires. But the person really doing God's will – that person will never cease to be. 1John 2:15-17 (TVNT)
There was a time I questioned God's love for me. I could see no reason for some of the things that have happened in my life. I felt like I had some kind of curse on me because everything I had worked so hard to aquire was taken bit by bit..piece by agonizing piece, until nothing I valued was left. All of it – the money, the house, the cars and trinkets. Gone.
My understanding of the way love is supposed to work wasn't lining up with my experiences and I became bitter and cynical. It just didn't make any sense. I'm a child of God! I'm supposed to be the head and not the tail, blessed coming in and blessed going out! I didn't get it.
The heart of man is narrow, and cannot contain both loves. The world draws down the heart from God; and so the more the love of the world prevails the more the love of God dwindles and decays. ~Matthew Henry~
There are so many things and/or people vying for our affection, it's easy to get caught up and enticed by them. Without even realizing it we begin to place more importance on them than they should have. It is not God's will that any of His children should go lacking but there is nothing in this world more important than a heart for God and a desire to do His Will.
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Mongabay.com news articles on climate change and extinction in blog format. Updated regularly.
Microhabitats could buffer some rainforest animals against climate change
(11/25/2013) As temperatures increase worldwide due to anthropogenic climate change, scientists are scrambling to figure out if species will be able to survive rapidly warming ecosystems. A new study in Global Change Biology offers a little hope. Studying reptiles and amphibians in the Philippines, scientists say some of these species may be able to seek refuge in cooler microhabitats, such as tree holes or under the soil, in order to stay alive during intensifying heatwaves. But, the scientists' stress, the shelter from microhabitats can only protect so far.
First study of little-known mammal reveals climate change threat
(10/28/2013) One of the world's least-known flying foxes could face extinction by rising seas and changing precipitation patterns due to global warming, according to a new study in Zookeys. The research, headed by Donald Buden with the College of Micronesia, is the first in-depth study of the resident bats of the remote Mortlock Islands, a part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Climate change pushing tropical trees upslope 'exactly as predicted'
(09/27/2013) Tropical tree communities are moving up mountainsides to cooler habitats as temperatures rise, a new study in Global Change Biology has found. By examining the tree species present in ten one-hectare plots at various intervals over a decade, researchers found that the proportion of lowland species increased in the plots at higher elevations. The study, which was undertaken in Volcan Barva, Costa Rica, adds to a growing body of evidence that climate change is having an impact on species range distributions.
Global warming may 'flatten' rainforests
(09/12/2013) Climate change may push canopy-dwelling plants and animals out of the tree-tops due to rising temperatures and drier conditions, argues a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The development may be akin to 'flattening' the tiered vegetation structure that characterizes the rainforest ecosystem.
Climate change killing harp seal pups
(08/20/2013) As sea ice levels continue to decline in the northern hemisphere, scientists are observing an unsettling trend in harp seal young mortalities regardless of juvenile fitness. While a recent study found that in harp seal breeding regions ice cover decreased by up to 6% a decade from 1979 on, a follow-up study in PLoS ONE compared the rate of harp seal strandings to total ice cover from 1992 to 2010.
Climate change to halve habitat for over 10,000 common species
(05/13/2013) Even as concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history last week, a new study in Nature Climate Change warns that thousands of the world's common species will suffer grave habitat loss under climate change.
The Hawaiian silversword: another warning on climate change
(05/06/2013) The Hawaiian silversword (Argyroxyphium sandwicense), a beautiful, spiny plant from the volcanic Hawaiian highlands may not survive the ravages of climate change, according to a new study in Global Change Biology. An unmistakable plant, the silversword has long, sword-shaped leaves covered in silver hair and beautiful flowering stalks that may tower to a height of three meters.
Leatherback sea turtles suffer 78 percent decline at critical nesting sites in Pacific
(02/27/2013) The world's largest sea turtle, the leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), is vanishing from its most important nesting sites in the western Pacific, according to a new study in Ecosphere. Scientists found that leatherback turtle nests have dropped by 78 percent in less than 30 years in the Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea. Worryingly, these beaches account for three-fourths of the western Pacific's distinct leatherback population; globally the leatherback is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List, the highest rating before extinction.
Will Amazon species lose the climate change race?
(02/14/2013) Deforestation could increase the risk of biodiversity loss in the Amazon by forcing species to migrate further in order to remain at equilibrium with changing climates, says new research. "As migration models are made more realistic through the inclusion of multiple climatic, biotic, abiotic and human factors, the predicted distances between current and future climate analogues invariably increases," Kenneth Feeley, lead author of the paper published in Global Change Biology, told mongabay.com.
U.S. proposes to list wolverine under Endangered Species Act
(02/05/2013) Arguably one of the toughest animals on Earth, the wolverine (Gulo gulo) may soon find itself protected under the U.S.'s Endangered Species Act (ESA) as climate change melts away its preferred habitat. Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced it was proposing to place the world's largest terrestrial mustelid on the list. Only 250-300 wolverines are believed to survive in the contiguous U.S.
Scientists could name every species on Earth in 50 years
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Cute koalas have become 'urban refugees'
(01/28/2013) According to Susan Kelly, koalas have become "urban refugees," under siege by expanding cities that bring with them deforestation, dogs, traffic, and other ills for native wildlife. Director of Global Witness, and writer, producer and director of the new documentary Koala Hospital, Kelly has spent 3 years working to understand the rising threats to one of the world's most beloved marsupials. While Koala Hospital highlights the many perils facing koalas, including climate change due to record fires across Australia, it also looks at the efforts of individuals who work to save koalas one—by—one at Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, taking in patients who have been orphaned, hit by cars, scarred in fires, or attacked by dogs.
Global warming - 56 million years ago
(01/23/2013) Sandy, Irene, Katrina... Hurricanes are fast becoming household names and have many people worried over the connection between extreme weather and the amount of greenhouse gases people are pumping into the atmosphere. No one can predict for sure what will happen decades or centuries from now as such gas concentrations increase. But scientists have a pretty good picture of what did happen in the past; greenhouses gases were released into the atmosphere in massive amounts at least once before—around 56 million years ago.
Mountain pine beetle threatening high-altitude, endangered trees
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Reduction in snow threatens Arctic seals
(11/28/2012) Arctic snowfall accumulation plays a critical role in ringed seal breeding, but may be at risk due to climate change, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Sea ice, which is disappearing at an alarming rate, provides a crucial platform for the deep snow seals need to reproduce. Ringed seals (Phoca hispida) require snow depths of at least 20 centimeters (8 inches): deep enough to form drifts that seals use as birth chambers.
Climate change threatens population of Earth's largest sea turtle
(11/19/2012) A drier, hotter climate in Central America could wipe out the population of leatherback sea turtles from the eastern Pacific Ocean by the year 2100, according to a grim projection published on July 1 in Nature Climate Change. Already critically endangered from fisheries by-catch and historic egg poaching, leatherbacks can hardly accommodate another human-related threat. Yet scientists still hold out hope for interventions that could save the turtles.
Bats face new perils from climate change
(11/15/2012) Global climate change could devastate bat populations around the world, threatening to tear yet another thread from the tapestry of biodiversity should current temperature trends persist, according to a new study. "Bats were the focus for this study because they are relatively understudied but due to their sensitivity to environmental stress, they are excellent indicators of climate change," Hayley Ann Sherwin, co-author of the paper published in Mammal Review, with the Queen University in Belfast, told mongabay.com.
Penguins face a slippery future
(09/26/2012) Penguins have spent years fooling us. With their image seemingly every where we turn—entertaining us in animated films, awing us in documentaries, and winking at us in commercials—they have made most of us believe they are doing just fine; the penguin's charming demeanor has lulled us into complacency about their fate. But penguin populations are facing historic declines even as their popularity in human society rises. Overfishing is decimating some of their prey species, climate change is shifting their resources and imperiling their habitat, meanwhile pollution, such as oil spills, are putting even healthy colonies at risk. Now, a young organization, the Global Penguin Society (GPS), is working to save all of the world's 18 penguin species by working with scientists, governments, and local communities.
Climate change may be worsening impacts of killer frog disease
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Past climate change reduced lemur population in Madagascar
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First snow leopards collared in Afghanistan as species faces rising threat from climate change
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(05/03/2012) Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are capable of swimming incredible distances, according to a new study published in Zoology, which recorded polar bears regularly swimming over 30 miles (48 kilometers) and, in one case, as far as 220 miles (354 kilometers). The researchers believe the ability of polar bears to tackle such long-distance swims may help them survive as seasonal sea ice vanishes due to climate change.
Birders beware: climate change could push 600 tropical birds into extinction
(02/21/2012) There may be less birds for birders to see in the world as the planet warms. Climate change, in combination with deforestation, could send between 100 and 2,500 tropical birds to extinction before the end of century, according to new research published in Biological Conservation. The wide range depends on the extent of climate and how much habitat is lost, but researchers say the most likely range of extinctions is between 600 and 900 species, meaning about 10-14 percent of tropical birds, excluding migratory species.
Climate change may make lizards smarter, if they don't go extinct first
(01/12/2012) A new study in Biology Letters has found that warmer temperatures may make lizards smarter, even as past studies have linked a global decline in lizards to climate change.
Seals, birds, and alpine plants suffer under climate change
(01/11/2012) The number of species identified by scientists as vulnerable to climate change continues to rise along with the Earth's temperature. Recent studies have found that a warmer world is leading to premature deaths of harp seal pups (Pagophilus groenlandicus) in the Arctic, a decline of some duck species in Canada, shrinking alpine meadows in Europe, and indirect pressure on mountain songbirds and plants in the U.S. Scientists have long known that climate change will upend ecosystems worldwide, creating climate winners and losers, and likely leading to waves of extinction. While the impacts of climate change on polar bears and coral reefs have been well-documented, every year scientists add new species to the list of those already threatened by anthropogenic climate change.
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(10/06/2011) The disintegration of the Arctic sea ice, which hit the second lowest record this year, is forcing a number of Arctic animals to change their behavior.
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The truth about polar bears and climate change
(06/21/2011) Although scientists say innumerable species are threatened by climate change, polar bears have been the global symbol of the movement to rein-in greenhouse gas emissions. This is perhaps not surprising, since polar bears are well known to the public—even though they inhabit a region largely absent of humans—and they make a big impression. Their glaringly white coat contrasts with their deadly skills: as the world's biggest terrestrial predators, they are capable of killing a seal with single blow. When young they are ridiculously adorable, but when adults they are stunning behemoths. But that's not all. Unlike many other species, the perils of climate change are also easy to visualize in connection with polar bears: their habitat is literally melting away.


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Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund News
It is a high priority of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's and of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund to offer support directly and indirectly towards the next generation of Dharma teachers.
This support can be annual offerings toward food expenses or donations toward projects or specific needs, such as contributing to the building of the incarnation's monastery, labrang (house), geshe degree etc.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche helps in whatever way he can to support the next generation of teachers who will continue to hold the lineages and pass on the Dharma.
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sponsoring students to do 108 Nyung Nä retreats at Institut Vajra Yogini, France, from November 18, 2012 to June 20, 2013. We are happy to provide you with an update on this retreat!
March 2013: In November, 2012 we reported that Lama Zopa Rinpoche wasThe Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhicitta Fund has just offered 4,800 EUR toward the first half of the retreat. The students are now halfway through the 108 Nyung Näs. Nine students registered at various points but several canceled due to various reasons.
There are now five students completing this retreat and others continue joining the retreatants for one Nyung Nä or more, sometime even for only one session.
Four people did 16 Nyung Näs including Madeleine Maso who is 90 years old.
Five other people did 8 Nyung Näs and about 50 others did one or more Nyung Näs.
In short: 65 participants in total have participated in one or more Nyung-Näs and almost 500 individual Nyung Näs have been accumulated since mid-November!
Please rejoice in the merit created and because this contributes to one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's vast visions for the entire organization!
You can read about Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice regarding the incredible power of doing Nyung-näs on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive's Online Advice Book.
February 2013: The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund and the Tibetan Health Services Fund donated US$5,677 (300,000 irs) towards the Tashi Lhunpo Health Care Center. The Tashi Lhunpo Health Care Center is extremely important in providing quality health care since 1992 to the monks of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery and local Tibetans and Indians in the area.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was very inspired by their work and wanted to make this donation.
We just received this kind message from Tashi Lhunpo Health Care Center regarding how the donation is being used:
"First of all we would like to convey our heartfelt greetings and gratitude for your kind support. Because of your financial support we were able to buy sufficient medicine, and also hepatitis syringes which are very expensive."
To learn more about this project's history, mission and future plans please visit the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery's website.
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund sponsors the electricity for lotus light offerings to all the holy objects on the altar at Idgaa Choizinling College in Mongolia. The lights are offered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Light Offering Prayer
Composed by Lama Atisha
May the light of the lamp be equal to the great three thousand
worlds and their environments,
May the wick of the lamp be equal to the king of mountains –
Mount Meru.
May the butter be equal to the infinite ocean.
May there be billions of trillions of lamps in the presence of each
and every buddha.
May the light illuminate the darkness of ignorance of all sentient
From the peak of samsara down to the most torturous hell,
Whereby they can see directly and clearly all the ten directions'
Buddhas and bodhisattvas and their pure lands.
I offer these beautifully exalted clear and luminous lights
To the thousand buddhas of the fortunate eon,
To all the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the infinite pure lands and
of the ten directions,
To all the gurus, meditation deities, dakas, dakinis, dharma protectors,
and the assembly of deities of all mandalas.
From "Extensive Offering Practice," by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Available through the FPMT Foundation Store.
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund and the Stupa Fund recently donated US$10,000 toward the completion of Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel's second stupa being built at Kopan Monastery.
Photo: Early stages of the construction of Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup's stupa.
From the Sutra Essence of Earth:
While there are the three rare sublime ones
Fulfilling the hopes without any effort
Like the unimaginable wish-granting tree and wish-granting jewel;
[But] believing the method to achieve happiness is something else
All the activities one attempts become only negative karma
And this precious human rebirth with qualified freedoms and richnesses,
Which is rarer than a wish-granting jewel, becomes meaningless and empty;
It becomes only a cause of harm;
This is more foolish than an animal.
Friend, by realizing this body, this life is like a water bubble
And material enjoyments like the dew on the tip of the grass
Attempt the white (virtuous) actions, offer to the three rare sublime ones (Buddha Dharma, Sangha)
And take the essence from this essenceless body and possessions.
Due to this merit may I and each and every sentient being respect
And make offerings to the three rare sublime ones;
By the happiness of the joyful occasion of listening, reflecting, meditating and practicing
May all the transmigratory beings' wishes be completely fulfilled.
Colophon: Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche regarding having many holy objects. Scribe Ven. Holly Ansett, Buddha Amitabha Pure Land, Washington, USA, November 2003. Lightly edited by Ven. Thubten Labdron, May 2004.
Several year ago, Lama Zopa Rinpoche requested long-time student Pam Cayton to help get a Namgyälma mantra board made that could be used to bless the oceans and waters of the world (and thus all of the sentient beings living there-in!). While Pam has been fundraising for this important project, Rinpoche heard about a shortfall of funds needed for its completion. Upon receiving this news, he immediately donated US$10,000 toward the board's completion.
You can read more about this Namgyälma mantra board and Pam Cayton's efforts in this recent Mandala blog post.
The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund is sponsoring 10 people to do 108 Nyung-Nä retreats at Institut Vajra Yogini, France, from November 18, 2012 to June 20, 2013. This sponsorship is the commencement of one of Rinpoche's Vast Visions for FPMT which he explained in 2007.
[I would like to] sponsor people doing 1,000 Nyung-Näs and then I think people who have completed 1,000 Nyung-Nä in their life, should have a special title, something to do with Chenrezig. Main thing is for the Nyung-Näs to be sponsored by the organization.The idea is to start as a project and then for the whole organization to sponsor. Or to sponsor the food or lodging. This of course would depend on the fund how much to be given to each person etc. Maybe as well as a title they could be given something as a sign of appreciation, when they complete the 1,000 Nyung-Näs, something from the organization, maybe some money, for a pilgrimage, or to attend the teachings or for a retreat.
Please read a November 2013 update about this retreat.
Please read a August 2013 update about this retreat.
Please read a March 2013 update about this retreat.
Benefits of Nyung-Nä Practice
According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "Nyung-Näs are a most powerful, most beneficial and quickest way for you to develop bodhichitta, to collect extensive merit to quickly achieve enlightenment, to become Chenrezig, to liberate sentient beings from the oceans of samsara suffering and bring them to enlightenment.
This practice is a trillion, billion times greater than becoming an Olympic champion. Doing so many Nyung-Näs you become an unbelievable champion, this is what makes numberless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas most happy and brings sentient beings to enlightenment as quickly as possible.
This is an extremely powerful practice, it in an incredible way to develop bodhichitta."
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund is offering US$14,000 for two 100 million mani retreats at Bigu Nunnery in Nepal. The fund has sponsored 100 million Om Mani Padme Hum retreats at this nunnery every year since 2009.
From December 2012- June 2013 theThe fund sponsored two 100 million mani retreats in 2012, one of which was dedicated to Rinpoche's long life.
In addition to the 100 million mani retreats taking place over the next six months, the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund is offering all the cost of food to all the nuns for this period as well as the cost of a very qualified geshe to stay during the retreat in order to give lam-rim teachings. This is very important for the nuns' studies. The retreat lasts three months and about seventy nuns participate. Each nun doing the recitations receives a small offering and the nunnery also receives an offering. This is the main means of support for the nuns and the nunnery.
100 Million Mani Retreats Sponsored
- 2009: One retreat sponsored during Saka Dawa
- 2010: One retreat sponsored during Saka Dawa
- 2011: One retreat sponsored during Saka Dawa
- 2012: Two retreats sponsored over Saka Dawa
- 2013: Two retreats sponsored from December 2012-June 2013 beginning on Lama Tsongkhapa Day
UPDATE April 2013: Lama Zopa Rinpoche just received this message from the Bigu Nuns who are currently doing their 2nd 100 million mani retreat. More….
If you would like to contribute to to Rinpoche's ongoing commitment to sponsor these 100 million mani retreats:
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Vast Vision for 100 Million Mani Retreats
This is the beginning of actualizing one of Rinpoche's Vast Visions for FPMT which he explained in 2007: Sponsoring 100 Million Mani Retreats.
As Rinpoche explained:
"[I would like] for the organization to establish 100,000 recitations of 100 Million Om Mani Padme Hum. This can be retreats of 100 million recitations, so 100,000 different retreats in different parts of the world where it can happen regularly, each year.
There are two ways to count this. One way is once it is established for it to happen regularly each year. Or it can happen in different places, one time, and you count it like that. Maybe they are unable to do regularly but able to do one time or a few times.
So to establish this in different parts of the world such as Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Australia, China etc.
We should create a plan on how to lead the retreat of 100 million Om Mani Padme Hums: What practices to do, a plan on how to schedule the retreat, the whole structure. Once you have a structure then it is easy for people to lead the retreat.
Also you can make mani pills in the retreats.
During the retreat it is a great thing if you also take the 8 Mahayana Precepts during the retreat. You can have lunch and breakfast, but no dinner. People can take precepts for the whole time or every alternative week. So this depends on the different places. I think to combine these two is extremely great.
Then it would be very good if the retreats are sponsored by the organization. Sometimes it can also be sponsored privately, all the expenses. But the idea is to start as a project and then for the whole organization to sponsor. Or to sponsor the food or lodging. Like a center hosting, making the retreat free for everyone. The idea is for it to be sponsored so people do not have to pay. Also if an individual person is doing 100 Million Om Mani Padme Hums then still the organization can sponsor the person.
There is one story about Geshe Thubten Sopa, he led 100 Million Om Mani Padme Hum retreat in the monastery. I think he is regarded as an incarnate Lama, this is not known in Sera, but actually he's an incarnate Lama. The monastery in Ladakh respect and regard him as an incarnate Lama.
What happened is during the retreat, the mani pills multiplied and that inspired so many people, to have faith and because of that there are now many monasteries in Ladhak that are doing 100 Million Om Mani Padme Hum Retreats. So this is a great thing."
- Lama Zopa Rinpoche on his Vast Vision for FPMT, Kachoe Dechen Ling, Aptos, CA, March 2007
which are available in detail on the Nalanda website.)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has expressed the importance of continually developing Nalanda Monastery's facilities and programs in order to create a major seat of monastic learning in the West and accommodation for an extra 100 monks. To achieve this, a 15-year master plan has been drawn up to skillfully develop Nalanda's land and cater for its foreseen growth. Phase One of the plan runs through 2012 and includes the construction of new accommodations for 25 monks and two teachers and the development of new infrastructure, a new heating system, and extensive landscaping. The Lama Zopa Rinpoche Bodhichitta Fund, due to the incredible kindness of a benefactor, was able to generously donate *US$1,000,000 in 2010 toward these efforts (You can read a recent article in Mandala magazine (October-December 2012) about Nalanda's 15-Year Master Plan.
*These funds are disbursed in an ongoing manner, according to the needs of the project.
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I love your blog! I think I want to come observe you before I start 2nd in a couple weeks if that's okay?! since I was in 1st I need a refresher and I want to steal your ideas! :) Let me know if that would be okay and when!
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Any oceanic player would realize by now that playing inferno puts us at a serious disadvantage due to our higher latencies. I run anywhere between 200-300ms and that's more than enough to make avoiding certain arrows and spells a near impossibility, making any glass-cannon type builds extremely difficult to pull off.
I was wondering if there are any wizards out there with latency sitting around these levels tackling inferno content, and what builds they're using?
I've been looking up videos of wizards for a while but they're all American/Euro using strats/builds that a .3second delay make impossible.
I've gotten to Belial using an illusionist build. Essentially, teleport w/fracture and mirror image w/duplicates, using my clones as a shield whilst I kite elite packs around. This works, albeit somewhat painfully at times, on most elites, but bosses prove to be a different story.
The adds in phase 1 and 2 of belial are difficult but beatable, but phase 3 I've found avoiding his aoe strikes/poison breath really hard. I think the furthest I've gone is about 20 seconds.
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soundproofing a wall with a door in it
July 28, 2012
I share a
with my roommate, which isn't as acoustically opaque as I would like (I'm occasionally woken up by late-night activities). What's the best/cheapest way to soundproof it?
Possible solutions include acoustic tiles (Too annoying to hang?), egg-carton foam (Does it work? Where can I buy it cheaply?), or other products that I'm not aware of. I'm not really concerned about aesthetics in my room too much, and have a preference for economical solutions that won't damage the wall. Also, I'm not very handy, so it's important that his be dead simple to implement (I'm willing to pay extra for this).
It's worth pointing out (for those who haven't clicked the link) that the wall has a door in it that we never, ever open. Will this need to be treated in any special way?
I'm looking for recommendations on specific products, preferably sold online, but I can do the brick and mortar thing if I absolutely have to. I live in San Francisco, in case that's relevant.
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Foam earplugs. Buy them in bulk at a Home Depot, not four at a time at a drug store.
Everything else is a waste of time.
posted by
on July 28, 2012 [
12 favorites
Mass loaded vinyl or sound-resistant drywall. All you have to ask your landlord to spend $800 to $1,000 to buy it and then God knows how much more to install it. Not gonna happen? I didn't think so. I, too, vote for earplugs.
posted by
on July 28, 2012
There's a good chance that most of the sound is coming through that door. Foam where the door meets the jamb and a towel at the bottom might help a lot.
Things like egg carton foam tend to work a lot better on the side where the noise is coming from.
posted by
on July 28, 2012
Egg-carton foam isn't for soundproofing between rooms; it's for making the inside of one room less echoey. So that's out.
Really, anything short of a whole new soundproof wall (and getting rid of that door while you're at it) won't do much.
Have you tried asking your roommate to shut up?
posted by
Sys Rq
on July 28, 2012
Thanks all for the suggestions so far. Earplugs in general are out of the question; I find them tremendously uncomfortable. Asking my roommate to "shut up" is also out of the question, since the problematic sounds are of a more... personal nature, and I wouldn't want to ask her to be celibate anymore than I would want her to ask me to be. The problem isn't the roommate (who I get along with well), but the wall, and yes, probably the door.
I just tried gally99's suggestion of stuffing at towel in the bottom of the door, and that seems to help, but there's still lots of space along the sides and top of that door that sound is leaking through.
Any more suggestions would be much appreciated.
posted by
Dr. Eigenvariable
on July 28, 2012
Wall hanging that covers the door, like a tapestry or rug or quilt. Or a really heavy curtain.
posted by
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White noise machine, or if that doesn't do the trick, keep low-level background music playing.
If your roommate is so loud that you can hear... things... even with your own music on, you should have a subtle talk with her about this.
I had really severe noise problems in my last apartment and just wore headphones most of the time.
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Along the lines of supercres' suggestion, you could put up a sound blanket over the door and then cover that with a nice wall hanging.
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Sara C.
on July 28, 2012
Sorry, meant to link the
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Sara C.
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check out your local hardware store in the door section...they'll have a crazy variety of different sticky-backed foam and/or rubber strips for just this purpose (putting up around a doorframe to block air/wind/sound) it's cheap and easy to put up.
if that doesnt work, earplugs. Effectively trying to block sound coming through a solid wall starts around $5000.
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Full bookshelves are pretty okay at absorbing sound, FWIW.
posted by
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White noise machine or (in the summer) a window AC unit might do the trick?
posted by
on July 28, 2012
i know you are not loving the earplug suggestion, but i
you that
are comfortable and effective. give it a shot, you will be surprised.
posted by
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Seconding the Max Lite ear plugs! Comfy with quality sound blockage. But, if you definitely can't do earplugs, I'd move your bed away from that wall (possibly ask roomie to do the same?) and at the very least keep a fan going to mask the noise. I like the bookcase idea, but even some blackout curtains hung on that wall might help.
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The cheapest way to soundproof it is to address the source of the sound. Most home insulation/soundproofing is "fill voids in wall with insulation," and that's not going to be cheap.
So, sources: Is it a headboard hitting the wall? Put rubber bumpers on the headboard to reduce the noise. Also carpet or padding where the bed meets the floor. Is it vocalizations? Ask the housemate if they can be quieter or schedule happy times for certain times.
Being a housemate is about getting along, and that goes for both sides of the shared wall.
posted by
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You don't have to ask your housemate to be celibate, but you can have them go elsewhere for their jollies until this is dealt with. Do they have any ideas, or is it just your problem?
posted by
on July 28, 2012
Of course you don't have to ask your houseate to be celibate, but it's not unreasonable or rude to ask them to keep the volume down a little - this is completely normal in shared houses! Aside from that, is her bed against the shared wall, and if so, can she move; can you move your bed to another wall; and wall hangings, bookcases and etc, on possibly both sides might help to take the edge off the noise. I know you don't want to be rude to your housemate, and that's really nice, but if she was aware how much noise is travelling through, she'd probably be horrified, and be glad to keep it down.
posted by
woolly pageturner
on July 28, 2012
"Effectively trying to block sound coming through a solid wall starts around $5000."
Maybe true if you needed to completely damp a band practice space or something (and ya, if it's that loud you're boned) but if the attenuation provided by ear plugs (somewhere around 25-35 db) is sufficient then there are several approaches that will cost a good deal less than $5000.
Going by the door I'm going to guess the wall is somewhere around 10' long and of standardish 8' in height. Here's what I'd do if I was going to be staying in this location for a significant length of time:
Frame up a false wall with 2x4s 24" on centre. The wall width should be ~2" narrower than the narrowest part of the existing wall. The height should be ~3" shorter than the height of the existing wall. You need the extra space vertically for the clamping system.
On the bottom plate of your new wall drill a 5/8ths hole thru the plate about 1/3 of the way from each end and one in the middle. On a 10' wall 3' from each end plus one offset slightly from the middle would be about right and would fit nicely between the studs.
Insert a
1/2" T nut
into the bottom of each hole (IE: the nut should be outside the framing). You may need to hammer it in.
Thread a 3" hex head bolt (the bolt needs to be the kind that is threaded the whole length) into the T-Nut so that the head is snug against the T-Nut. The threaded part of the bolt should be sticking into the wall cavity. A longer bolt will be better but it needs to be threaded the whole way.
Here's where it gets a bit tricky: Place a length of
sill foam
on the floor right up against the existing wall. Then run it up the walls at each end and across the ceiling. Hold it in place with masking tape making sure you will be able to remove the tape once your new wall is in place (IE: only tape the non corner side of the sill foam). This will be easier if you buy the 5 1/2" sill foam.
Lay a loose 2x4 on top of the floor sill seal on it's flat.
This step is optional but will result in the best attenuation. Screw gyproc to the backside of your framed up wall making sure it doesn't stick out past the framing. Easiest if you run it vertically and do both ends before the middle. If you make sure the joints are over your studs you won't need to tape/mud.
Place a small square of gyproc in each corner of the wall. This is to space the false wall out from the existing wall when you stand it up (more air gap is better)
Stand your false wall up on top of the loose 2/4 you laid down earlier taking care to not displace the sill seal on the walls/ceiling.
While holding the false wall against the existing wall with equal spacing at each end (a friend will be handy here) use a pair of pliers to screw out the bolts you placed in the bottom plate. (If you have a hack saw or Dremel you can cut a slot in the end of the bolts before installing them and then use a large flat screw driver to crank the bolts down.) You want to compress the foam at the ceiling such that the you can't pull the wall over but not so much that you damage the ceiling.
If you can stick a short length of 2x4 in the gap between the plate and the loose 2x4 at each end of the wall. Or build up a couple layers of gyproc. This will provide a little insurance against your bolts failing in some manner though really once you screw your gyproc to the plate and the loose 2x4 the gyproc will prevent the gap from closing.
Run a bead of
Window and Door canned foam
in the gap between the ends of your false wall and the sill seal and between the bottom plate of your false wall and the loose 2x4 on the floor. Use just enough foam to seal the gap anything more is just a waste of money. Try not to get the foam on the existing wall at the back of your false wall as it'll be hard to get off which will effect your damage deposit.
Once the foam is dried gyproc over the false wall. It'll be easier to run this gyproc horizontally.
Tape, mud sand and finsh to suit.. Use a quarter round or other subtle moulding to cover the gap where the false wall meets the existing walls/ceiling.
Doing it with the T-nuts and sill foam will result in minimal if any damage to the existing wall meaning when you move out you'll be able to get your damage deposit back (obviously after removing the wall). Be aware though that if both bedrooms don't have exterior windows that door is probably there for fire safety and you'd be risking the life of whomever doesn't have a secondary means of egress.
This wall assembly will typically have a
STC rating of ~32
Which is roughly about a 32db attenuation (same as a good set of foam ear plugs). Putting insulation in the false wall sill step it up to ~37db. Using a resilient channel on the finished gyproc wall will also gain additional db reductions. I've seen ideal numbers from manufacturers rate a single stud wood wall with 5/8th gyproc on both sides incorporating dense fibreglass insulation and resilient channels as high as 45 STC.
Also if you were to remove the trim from around the door and then cover the opening (leaving the door in place) with a sheet of gyproc before you put up your false wall you'd have a noticeable effect on sound transmission.
This approach will work best on high frequency sounds like conversation and worst on heavy bass or thumping/pounding noises.
6 studs at $2 each = $12
2 plates and the loose "plate" = $6
6 sheets of gyproc @$15 each = $90
Gyproc screws, T-Nuts, Bolts, wood screws for the framing ~=$20
Sill Foam I think around $15 a roll
Spray foam $15
Mud, tape, paint, moulding maybe a $100
A couple of weekends of time $0
Not "bonding" with your roommate via embarrassing noises = Priceless
PS: if you go the ear plug route be aware that there are all different sizes and shapes (EG: Howard Leight makes
6 different models of foam plugs
alone. I find the rubber reusable style are more comfortable though they have lower noise reduction ratings. If you go into an industrial safety supply place they maybe be able to provide you with samples rather than having to risk buying entire boxes.
posted by
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You didn't mention if you rent, or if one of you owns. This could be a very important point. One doesn't usually drop what could be a substantial amount of money on an attempt to soundproof a room.
Sound blankets can be awesome, but they work differently with lower frequency sound than they do with higher frequency sounds.
(What I'm trying to ask in a polite, non-intrusive way is that is it screams, moans, squeaks, or thumps? Because each one is probably going be a different answer. We're all adults here, right?)
I used to hate earplugs until I tried some
(they're pretty cheap on Amazon) I bought at a local pharmacy, they are unusually comfortable, and I'm an incredibly light sleeper and am very susceptible to being awoken by sounds, morning birds especially.
That being said, there is a massive difference between asking someone to be celibate and asking a roomy to please keep it down to a reasonable level while I'm trying to sleep. I mean, we all want to get laid, but you don't have to be ostentatious about it.
Seriously, good luck. From my personal experience, lack of sleep can make you really crazy, and nobody should have to pay for a place where they can't sleep.
posted by
on July 29, 2012
Think of wearing earplugs to sleep as acquiring a valuable skill. I couldn't do it until I was on night shift, but then I realized I would die without them.
Also weatherstripping foam for the door will help.
posted by
on July 29, 2012
I know you've written off earplugs, but silicon earplugs are super comfortable.
If you want a cheap, non specialist solution find a wholesaler of crap secondhand books. Build a wall of books from floor to ceiling against your shared wall. It won't dampen all noise but it will make a substantial improvement, can be done cheaply by a non expert, will not damage existing fixtures and can be dismantled easily.
posted by
on July 29, 2012
there's still lots of space along the sides and top of that door that sound is leaking through.
That part, at least, is easy to fix. Browse the foam weather stripping products at a Lowes / Home Depot / local hardware store for something to fill those gaps. You might even be able to use
caulk backer rod
, which is a round foam extrusion with no adhesive on it, meant to be jammed into cracks to support a bead of caulk until it dries. This will be harmless, easy and cheap and make a noticeable difference.
Effective soundproofing materials are heavy and limp (remember the lead apron they drape across your body while doing dental x-rays?). If the door itself is a lightweight, hollow-core type then it will transmit sound like a drum head. Try putting your ear to the door and to the wall surface to see whether the door seems louder. If it is, you might get some mileage out of hanging a heavy rug on it.
posted by
on July 29, 2012
Rearrange the room so your bed is as far as possible from the shared wall. Doctor the door as suggested by others in-thread. Then, line the shared wall with bookshelves, including in front of the door. Fill bookshelves with books.
Ikea bookshelves are fine. Craigslist and Ebay are good sources of cheap/free/secondhand Ikea bookshelves.
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If you can, the first thing you should try is moving the bed.
posted by
on July 29, 2012
Mitheral, did you even READ the OP? They're obviously NOT going to be doing 14 steps of construction work to build a false wall in a rental unit as a first-time construction project with over $300 in materials. Like I said...around $5000 (SF? maybe more) (and $2 studs come from freshly stripped rainforest no matter what they're labelled) And(!), if my roommate started building a WALL of that complexity to block out my sex noises, I would be so mortified I would be moving out within days, and probably wouldn't be able to speak to/make eye contact with them ever again. Overkill!
Look, sound goes through air gaps FIRST and solid objects SECOND. Block off the gap around the door (completely!) (the foam tape i mentioned is super-easy...open the door, tape it around the frame, close the door so it pinches it in place) and then tape it off. If that doesn't work, then try the suggestions of (both you and your roommate) a)moving beds to opposite walls and b)bookshelves, etc on the adjoining walls (and if you can install shelves that go all the way up to the ceiling and can fill them all the way to the top (ideally) and hopefully include clothes in that mix that will help too (i.e. if sound IS coming directly through the wall, then blocking only half the wall will only block half the sound)...if you don't have enough to cover the whole wall, concentrate on the door area, my guess is that's your real culprit...
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THERE ARE NO ADD-ON FEES TO OUR QUOTED PRICE. This distinctive Clearwater Bay townhome has its unique Caribbean style. The palm tree lined neighborhood streets are quiet, set apart from others and the community has a superb private resident's Club and pool for our guests to enjoy. This 1500 square foot home is one level with the master suite on one end of the home and the guest bedroom on the opposite end. The expansive living area features a gourmet kitchen, full dining room and wonderful living room separated by an attractive half wall and archway. A full laundry room, direct entry one car garage and private screened porch are just a few reasons to make this property your vacation choice.
The Barefoot Resort offers the best of all worlds with regard to its beauty and amenities. It boasts four championship golf courses and a driving range for the golf enthusiast, nearby Atlantic Ocean for beach lovers, and you are within steps of the Barefoot Landing where you can enjoy great shopping, exciting restaurants, the Alabama Theatre, and the largest House of Blues in the United States. There are approximately 100 additional golf courses, Broadway at The Beach, Myrtle Beach Mall, Coastal Grand Mall, 2 outlet malls, Myrtle Beach International Airport, and the Freestyle Music Park within a few driving minutes of the Resort. Children may enjoy a visit to the Alligator Adventure on the corner of US Highway 17 and the entrance to the Barefoot Resort. Please do not miss the virtual tour located just above the 'contact' section.
Keywords: One Level Townhome
My husband and I live in the northeast near our children and grandchildren.
We fell in love with the Grand Strand and the Barefoot Resort. There is no better place to vacation and own property.
We love the quiet neighborhood, and the fact that we are near to shopping, great food and entertainment.
There are charter boats of all kinds that go into the Atlantic Ocean for 1/2 or full day fishing trips, lot of golf on the Resort, and over 100 other courses to choose from.
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