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A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, office tower, apartment block, or block of flats, is a tall building or structure used as a residential and/or office building. In some areas they may be referred to as "MDU" standing for "Multi Dwelling Unit".
High-rise buildings became possible with the invention of the elevator (lift) and cheaper, more abundant building materials. The materials used for the structural system of high-rise buildings are reinforced concrete and steel. Most North American style skyscrapers have a steel frame, while residential blocks are usually constructed out of concrete. There is no clear definition of any difference between a tower block and a skyscraper though a building lower than about thirty storeys is not likely to be a skyscraper and a building with fifty or more storeys is certainly a skyscraper.
High-rise structures pose particular design challenges for structural and geotechnical engineers, particularly if situated in a seismically active region or if the underlying soils have geotechnical risk factors such as high compressibility or bay mud. They also pose serious challenges to firefighters during emergencies in high-rise structures. New and old building design, building systems like the building standpipe system, HVAC systems (Heating, Ventilation and Air conditioning), fire sprinkler system and other things like stairwell and elevator evacuations pose significant problems.
Thomas William "Tom" Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English film, television, radio, and stage actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and he rose to prominence through a number of TV roles and more recently major film roles. He played Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor, Captain Nicholls in Steven Spielberg's World War I film War Horse (2011), and also Freddie Page in the British drama The Deep Blue Sea, alongside Rachel Weisz. He played author F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris (2011). He returned to his role as Loki in The Avengers (2012) and is set to reprise the character again for Thor 2 (2013).
Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to parents Diana Patricia (née Servaes), a former stage manager and arts administrator, and James Norman Hiddleston, a scientist in physical chemistry who was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. His father is from Greenock, Scotland and his mother from Suffolk, England. He is the middle child with two sisters, Sarah (oldest), a journalist in India, and Emma (youngest), is also an actor. He was raised in Wimbledon, in his early years, and later in Oxford. When Hiddleston was 13, he boarded at Eton College, at the same time that his parents were going through a divorce. "I think I started acting because I found being away at school while my parents were divorcing really distressing." He went on to act at The Dragon School in Oxford, then continued on to the University of Cambridge, where he earned a double first. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2005.
Mark Kermode (born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic, musician and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He contributes to Sight and Sound magazine, The Observer newspaper and BBC Radio 5 Live, where he presents Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews with Simon Mayo on Friday afternoons. He also co-presents the BBC Two arts programme The Culture Show and discusses other branches of the arts for the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review. Kermode writes and presents a film-related video blog for the BBC.
Kermode, born Mark Fairey in Barnet, North London, England, attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent boys' school in Elstree, a few years ahead of comedians Sacha Baron Cohen, Matt Lucas and David Baddiel and in the same year as actor Jason Isaacs. He was raised as a Methodist, and is now a member of the Church of England.
Mark Fairey's parents divorced when he was in his early 20s and he subsequently changed his surname to his GP mother's maiden name by deed poll. (Neither of them is related to the literary critic Frank Kermode.)
man i got my dark glasses on
cause Im ready for the big lights
all my money counted all my rubbers skin tight
me I always stood out you was more the in type
i never followed suit u were more like pin stripes
riding ye\\\'s maybach smokin so its cloudy
with 3 girls who spend all day doing pilates
getting money niggas think i joined Illuminati
throwin west side up im feeling like kiluminati
now isnt it ironic that im in a big body
paranoid cause every rapper named big got bodied
boy, and my bitch got body
but i sit her in the back cause my nigga called shotty
and im a g ohtay im a og
rockin something high end like a fuckin o.d.
they feel a nigga from ny to the oc
if we down in the 4th quarter i take it to o.t.
then take it to 1 & o jsut take it to o & me
chillin in a hot spot cause i never get cold feet
nigga you on the side lines praying for an audible
cause when your legendary everything is quotable
boy, priceless is affordable
order what you can afford matter fact order more
and i think imma have the same thang
my whole team gettin cash i just call it gang green
big is on the track ye be on the track
since when kobe and lebron hoop for the same team
can live my life blindfold cause every time my eyes close
i just tend to fuck around and see the same thing
yeah i just tend to see the same thing
they say its meant to be when you sleep to the same dream
i hooked up with good and been living a changed scene
im tryna turn these grey clouds to vanilla skies
camera in my face i guess the future will be televised
and im as underrated as the beat
fuck it if im underrated i stay on some g shit
nigga i chief up its December 25, 365 forever putting wreath up
and your girlfriend forever wanna meet her
tryna see what is in common but my dick is whats between us
man i break her heart everytime i change hoes
i make a new stop every time i change clothes
man they jock my rhymes every time i change flows