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- Posted by zone4newby (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 22:40
I'm not one of the experts here, but I think you could get a cozy look with a handmade brick with a mix of paler colors. I think a mix of colors and the rounder edges take some of the formality from the brick. |
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- Posted by gaonmymind (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 0:05
We went through the same issue. I like homes with that have either. Since it was not a must have for me I went with mostly hardi. I have the basement and a high water table of brick and the mudroom is in stone. My goal was to make the house look built overtime...kinda. It's not strict to any style. Kinda colonial farmhouse...I think. I like so many styles and finishes I really had to just strip down and keep it basic so I would't go overboard. Even though the cost of brick was not a back breaker it was thousands of dollars to spend on stuff I truly cared about. I decided to put my money into that stuff like a finished basement, energy efficiency, lighting, higher end appliances/ furniture, ect. In our area both materials sell equally well. Although appraisals can be higher for brick you pay more initially. Some people are die-hard brick, trim, appliance, cabinetry, wood flooring...pick the battle that fits your budget and aesthetic. After all I don't think anyone buys a house solely because of the exterior material. It can influence, but for me the interior flow and finishes are FAR AND ABOVE more important to me. If it were me I would put money in some knock out landscaping and interior finishes. |
You could also consider getting hardy plus for extra .40/sq ft and they already pre-painted. Normal lap siding in my area runs at $1.98/sq ft installed, while brick runs $6 - $7/sq ft installed. So I don't see how you can claim that $5k you could get it upgraded to brick. |
Some things are a bit cheaper in the Southeast - my brick is around $3.50 sq/ft installed - $265/1000 queen brick (contractor's cost) plus sand, mortar and $250/1000 for labor. The brick rep is coming out to the house today to do a take off to see how much more it will take to do the whole thing. The final cost after tax is around $650 per 1000 bricks for materials and labor. The Hardie guy came in at $21,000 for materials and labor and we'd still need to paint for around $4k or $5k. For that price we could install another 36,000 to 40,000 bricks. If my math is incorrect please feel free to point me in the correct direction! As far as the ColorPlus product - we considered it but after discussing the pros and cons with installers, our builder and the area Hardie rep, ultimately decided that we'd prefer to paint ourselves. |
- Posted by cleanfreak0419 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 11:55
There is no way brick will be even close.I live in the southeast as well and these are the prices we are getting I am not for sure of how many sq ft of wall area you have, but I will base it on 5000sq/ft it takes 7 brick to cover a sq ft, so 5000 sq ft will take 35,000 brick. A brick cost about .35 each and labor will be close to the same at .35 each. So .70 each not including morter, sand ,waste and the separate pricing for any steps, etc. total for 5000 sqft brick wall only, labor and material will be $24,500. add in the waste factor and other items and you could easily go over $25,000. so for your math above, $5000 will merely get you roughly 7000 brick. Nowhere near the 36,000 you posted above. Oh, and your siding guys price seems way to high. Depends on the sq ft of wall area. |
"The Hardie guy came in at $21,000 for materials and labor and we'd still need to paint for around $4k or $5k. For that price we could install another 36,000 to 40,000 bricks." I will admit that I struggle with math but here's how I got that number: We have about 4,500 sq/ft of wall to brick and are using queen size which takes 5.2 bricks per sq/ft. Including 5% for waste/breakage, that comes to 24,570 bricks which, at $650 per 1000 equals $15,970.50. Right? The Hardie quote seemed really high to me, too, but we planned for a mix of horizontal lap and board and batten, 6" frieze all around plus 4" window trim on 26 windows and my builder said what this guy was charging ($85/square for lap and $150/square for b&b) was the going rate. We could have dropped a lot of the 'pretty stuff' and saved $4000 but it wouldn't have looked the same, imo. The Hardie guy included soffits in that quote so we have to account for that added cost as well if we go brick. O_o |
- Posted by live_wire_oak (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 18:59
That is a house that demands to be horizontally sided if you are going after the farmhouse look. Brick would look totally inappropriate on it. Something HAS to be wrong with your math. Cement siding is usually half to 2/3 the cost of brick. Check out Nichia also. Not as well known as Hardie, but usually cheaper and just as good. |
- Posted by athensmomof3 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 19:04
Frankly, I prefer either all brick or all hardie - looks more custom to me. The mix of materials thing is something I have never understood, since there rarely seems to be a reason for it. The one exception is the house where materials change thoughtfully, so it looks like it was built over time, or the house with either stone or brick water tables and chimney and shingle or lap siding . . . |
I think this house looks like it should have a hardi exterior. The beautiful trees, style of house, etc just says please put siding on me. :) |
Your hardy quote way too high, 4500 sq ft-> $9000 installed including materials, ok lets say $10,000. $21000 - $4 sq ft, with material $0.80/sq ft. They are charging way too much for lap. |
live_wire_oak, Nichia was .60 MORE per board than the Hardie. Go figure... athensmom - I absolutely agree re: mixing of materials and that's something I'm REALLY struggling with here. If we don't brick the front gables I'd use either Hardi shake or board & batten in hopes of recapturing some of the country look even though it's not technically correct. Lexmom - thank you for the kids words about the location! I grew up here and have such strong ties to that plot of land. My Dad planted many trees on special occassions such as his anniversary and for birthdays and even though he's long gone, my Mom can still remember which tree was for which occassion - it's a living history I can pass along to my kids! I know I shouldn't care what others think but sided homes, even Hardi, are *really* looked down on around here. In the neighborhood across the street an absolutely gorgeous home was built with board and batten Hardie and stone - not a cheap combo by any means. The neighbors, however, felt it 'cheapened' the 'hood and the HOA basically drove those people out of there. It's been 6 years and people STILL talk about 'that sided house.' It's pretty pathetic but I also run a boutique type business out of my home and appearances matter - many people I deal with on a daily basis are more impressed with what people have than who they really are or how they treat others, unfortunately. |
shifrvb - The materials alone are at $8000 and that doesn't include the Hardi soffits! And that was cheaper than Nichia. |
Parsonse - I know what you mean about the south liking their brick homes! I'm not terribly far from you (Chatt area) and we've experienced a bit of that too, from our own neighbors. Thankfully a lot of upper end neighborhoods are building mixed material homes and that's helped me feel better about our choice of shake/board & batten and stone. And it was pretty darned expensive. I almost felt like we could have bricked the house for what it cost us to use the other materials, but I wanted the mixed materials look. I would say to do what you really want to do on your home. You're on a big piece of property and you don't have an HOA to contend with. I am curious though - are you able to change to brick now that you're structure is up? When we started building - our builder said we couldn't have changed our minds if we wanted to because it was set up for a brick water table and then Hardie siding above that. I have spent alot of time in the boro - had 2 kids at college there and one played soccer for a while. We had lots of late night drives back and forth! |
I'd go with brick. For the return on your investment, the price difference is rather small, and you'll have a more sturdy, more energy efficient house. As you say, it'll appraise higher and will be more maintenance-free. I wouldn't have to think twice on this one. |
I have all brick and love it...it looks substantial to me, and has a more solid "feel" than our old house which was Hardie. |
> The materials alone are at $8000 and that doesn't include the Hardi soffits! And that was cheaper than Nichia. I don't know anything about your house. Hardy - $0.80 sq ft period. Let's say you add 15% waste. $1/sq ft for install. Are you saying you don't need soffits with brick? |
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leo fail everyone up north got 6-8" last night.
then again, i can't be there for it, either.
Where I'm riding this year: Pine Knob - 13 Mt. Holly - 2 Treetops - 2 A-Basin - 2 Mt. Bohemia - 3 Mt. Brighton - 1 Caberfae - 2 Crystal Mountain - 1 |
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Yeah, bad timing.
I can't get up north this weekend but I am going to Cannonsburg tomorrow for a day sesh. First time there, I'm excited to check out a new place. They're crazy cheap too. $20 day sesh that I'll split with a skifree and my bro.
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i am strongly considering ditching work for a few hours tomorrow morning and riding a morning session at Alpine or something.
Our office is closed tomorrow (we are moving facilities and they are moving furniture tomorrow) but everyone is still required to work from home. I don't think I actually have anything urgent to work on anyways, and no conference calls, so I could just laptop it from the lodge if something came up.
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That's mostly what I figured. I did most of my own learning at Mount Marquette, but I have no idea how the actual slopes down here compare to UP north...the bunny hill at Cannonsburg is actually trickier than the one in Marquette . Right now, I'm just trying to get my girlfriend comfortable enough to tackle a green slope, so we're both on the same page as far as experience goes.
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Well, alarm didn't go off so I had to bail on the idea of driving to nubs this morning.
Ended up going to Holly for a day session....It was pretty good..only 1 run was super icy with frozen chunks. Had a good time. Also almost got ran over by a shitty skier trying to impress his kid by bombing the hill...The part that pissed me off was I was all the way to one side and maybe using a 10ft wide path keeping my turns tight. Not sure if he was trying to be a D-Bag on purpose or not...but he sure was in a hurry to get on the lift. Beyond that it was great. |
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I swear some skiers do that on purpose to us riders. Last season at PK, I was on the quarter mile tail pressing and was bent down to grab the tail when this skier flew by and knocked me around a little. The run was practically empty and I was all the way on the right. I yelled at him at the bottom and he completely ignored me. Heard him speaking German to his wife. I yelled at him again up top and still didn't acknowledge me. He did nudge me again while I was strapping in though so definitely on purpose.
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Hi to all... I am thinking on planting some veggies on a rolling part of our property not adjacent to our house / barn area. We have a meandering creek with mature trees lining it crossing the property. Are there any vegetables that the deer will NOT consume? It's too far to have our dogs patrol it on a regular basis (about 4 acres separate us from the section I want to plant). Any ideas are most appreciated!
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Perhaps....and it depends on how hungry the deer are...asparagus, rhubarb, garlic. Everything else is pretty much fair game (no pun intended). |
- Posted by Wingnut_8b CenTex 8b (My Page) on Sun, Jan 26, 03 at 16:42
I agree with Annie. I don't know about rhubarb and asparagus, but I have some garlic and onions planted outside the garden fence and the cows have muched them down. I know deer eat different things than cattle, but if the cattle eat them I'd bet the deer would too. Can you fence it 6 or 8 feet high? That's about the ONLY thing that REALLY works to keep deer out. I knew someone who planted things like lantana and rosemary around the perimeter of his veggie patch. Deer are browsers, so once they got a whiff of the not-so-tasty things on the outside, they just meandered on off. This only worked when there was plenty of other things for them to eat outside the garden ~ if they're hungry, they'll jump the rosemary, et al, and much on your veggies in a heartbeat. Along with the above, he sprayed everything inside with one of those bitter sprays. He was diligent about it. After a while, they learned that that spot didn't have tasty things, avoided it and he didn't have to spray much if at all again that year. But he had to do this again every year in spring to teach the yearlings. You could also set up a deer blind real close and get veggies AND meat from your garden. ;) All that is just too much work for me, so if I didn't have BIG dogs to run the deer off, I'd just build a fence one year and call it good. ;) |
- Posted by westbeck35 4A-Maine (My Page) on Fri, Mar 21, 03 at 23:23
Use all the ideas above and add on to it. Deer are leary of the color white. The danger sign is the flash of a white tail. A white rope around the garden at 3 1/2 or 4 feet off the ground. I have raised bed with 10' white pvc hoops to hold the plastic and row covers. They won't put their heads through the hoops. Stick some rods in the ground and tie white kitchen bags over the rods so they can flap in the wind. Old CD disks will flash white in the dark also. Move these around. Dog hair from a groomers', pieces of Dial soap in the toe of a sock. Go the the sports store and get bobcat urine or another preditor. It's expensive but if you need to get serious that's the way to go. |
In my experience, deer do not eat garlic or onions; not a bite while absolutely everything else right by them is gobbled. Last summer my deer-infested field produced 400 lbs of onions but not a single potatoe from 50lbs planted. |
- Posted by Growin_Crazy z9/10 FL (My Page) on Wed, Apr 2, 03 at 15:12
We always just put hay bales and a water trough out about 30 feet from the garden. They never touched the garden at all. Same with rabbits. Planted a row of lettuce all the way around the garden. They ate that and stayed away from the veggies. Maybe I was just lucky. Don't know what the cost of hay is in your area, but in mine it was pretty cheap, and I could barter with a guy down the road who grew it, so it was a good alternative. |
- Posted by nygardener z6 New York (My Page) on Fri, Jun 1, 07 at 14:07
Inside my garden there is a huge bed of lettuce. The rabbits stay away from that and chow down on broccoli and savoy cabbage. Go figure! For deer I have a 6 foot fence. For a larger garden or where deer are bigger you might need 8 feet. It's not that much work to put up fencing on metal posts and not that expensive. You could try a border of "stinky" stuff like wormwood, feverfew, marigolds, and garlic. Maybe tansy and rue. |
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Danielle's back with the final installment of the Senses of Walt Disney World series. Today she explores the sense of taste. See if your favorite restaurants or foods made her list! Read the whole article here
Since Disneydame is on vacation I'm posting a new article by me called feeding the average teen and is a dining review. Check it out:
Thanks, Ryan. You were just minutes ahead of me!
Nice job on the review! :thumbs:
Also new today is a new "Growing Up Disney" column! http://www.disneyworldtrivia.com/art...er.php?aid=455
Something seasonal for you today: a review of Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, with tips for going solo to the event. Great way to get into the holiday spirit!
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Here's the latest installment of mini-Mouse Trips - our own Don McCann's guide to making the most out of shorter visits to the World! This time he tackles the long weekend trip. Check it out http://www.disneyworldtrivia.com/art...er.php?aid=464
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Joe Blanton is a pretty good baseball player, on the balance. He has added between 10 and 20 Wins Above Replacement for his career, depending on your WAR variant of choice. He started more than 225 games and earned more than $34 million dollars. He had some great seasons with the A's back in the day but is now just about (or below) league average.
Joe Blanton took the hill for the Dodgers in San Francisco last night, picking up teammate and staff ace Clayton Kershaw who was unable to start due to a hip strain. It was a big game for the Dodgers and, while he didn't pitch poorly, Blanton gave up four runs and LA lost. C'est la vie.
One of the runs Joe Blanton surrendered came courtesy of a home run by Giants catcher Buster Posey. Posey is putting together a tremendous season, one that will earn him serious MVP consideration. In addition to the big sixth inning home run to center, Blanton struck Posey out in the first and allowed a soft single to right in the third.
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As Sullivan notes and you can plainly see, there was one bad pitch in this entire at bat: the last one. Blanton kept the ball away from Posey, he changed speeds and did everything a pitcher can. It wasn't enough.
Not only does this battle confirm what we already know about Posey (he's a great hitter who, by accident or by design) kept his plate appearance going long enough for Blanton to make a mistake. It also says a lot about Blanton: a barely league-average pitcher threw nine out of ten pitches exactly where he wanted them thrown. He threw pitches that broke this way and that, that varied in velocity by almost 15 miles per hour. One slider spun on him and Posey hit it 400 feet, through all the heavy sea air and super poisonous shadows.
Not all plate appearances are this dramatic nor does anybody bother attaching greater meaning to the average sixth inning battle between fourth starter and catcher. But what Posey did was very special, and Blanton deserves credit as well. Just a tremendous display of skill and overall competence, two things in short supply in our world.
It is at bats like this which make me wonder about the impossible expectations placed on prospects in the current baseball universe. If Joe Blanton —Joe Blanton— can string together as impressive a sequence as this, what hope does that leave all the 25 year-old with fistfuls of PCL home runs to their names? Baseball is really hard and the guys at the Major League level, they're very good.


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Spending heavily on bars and restaurants has always been more about showing society the extent of prosperity, rather than exercising real socialising. At restaurants and bars, we are artificially happy - we may care more about what others think. While at home, we have fewer diversions and immerse in real socialising.
Thanks to the financial crisis, our artificial ways to expose happiness has toned down. We have replaced our lavish spending on bars and restaurants with quality home time.
Through the crisis, we were forced to develop alternative ways to compromise on our lavish lifestyles. By becoming more budget conscious, we started avoiding big-ticket items, unless absolutely necessary; in many cases, we pushed expensive purchases. This taught us to realise that real pleasures do not have to come from large expensive indulgences, but smaller, simpler and more affordable pleasures. For instance, instead of staying on to have dessert at a restaurant, we bought it on our way back at a grocery store to be eaten at home; instead of buying a cake, we made one.
Our confidence levels are fluctuating. Although we became confident following the recession – largely reliant on the steady RBI interest rates, the recent elections and possible interest rate hikes leave us insecure. This process of fluctuating confidence has made us immunised, steadier and stronger in handling uncertainty.
Being cautious is an important part in handling uncertainty. By being cautious, we rationalise our expectations. As we rationalise our expectations, we feel more satisfied with whatever little we have. By shifting satisfaction from the result of extravagance to the result of simpler homebound indulgence, we experience real pleasure. Real pleasure comes best with the real aspects of life – friends and family. Datamonitor reports that over half of all Australians have admitted to staying in and socialising with cooked food and drinks; Australians are also drinking over three times a week with close friends at home.
By savouring moments in a more cost effective manner at home with close ones, we are experiencing real happiness.
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- Joyce said...
interesting insights you've got there. Although I'd say that even in good times big ticket items aren't the stuff that makes us truly happy. I dont think, or at least hope that, we humans are that materialistic. rather its what it represents that we chase after. Essentially we still chase after one thing and one thing only - approval from another fellow human being.
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Davidson, Julia C. and Martellozzo, Elena (2005) Protecting children from sex offenders online: when strangers become 'virtual friends'. In: Safety & Security in a Networked World: Balancing Cyber-Rights & Responsibilities, 08-10 Sep 2005, Oxford, UK.
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This article describes findings from research funded by the Metropolitan Police and Crimestoppers which aimed to explore children's online experiences. A non-random, stratified sample of 200 London school children aged 10- 13 participated in focus groups. Preliminary findings are also presented from unpublished ongoing PhD research, which seeks to explore sex offender behaviour online and the policing of the internet (Martellozzo, 2005 ongoing). The findings are discussed in the context of sex offender's use of the internet. This research indicates that children do have some basic knowledge about 'stranger danger' but are not necessarily applying these lessons to cyberspace. The children in this study had sufficient awareness to not give personal details to strangers on the internet, and would not arrange to meet them. However, they made a distinction between 'strangers' and 'virtual friends' and this is an important point. Preliminary findings also highlight the difficulty of policing the internet and serve to illustrate the manner in which the Sexual Offences Act 2003 is applied to internet sexual offending in practice.
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The Boston Celtics announced today that they have completed a three-team trade with the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Celtics have acquired center Tyler Zeller and a future first-round draft pick from the Cavaliers and guard Marcus Thornton from the Nets. The Nets have acquired Jarrett Jack and Sergey Karasev while the Cavaliers have acquired a future conditional second round pick from the Celtics and the draft rights to Ilkan Karaman and Edin Bavcic from Brooklyn. NBA.com
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Thornton's presence throws some worry into the many guards on the Celtics roster who are under non-guaranteed contract. The Celtics have a decision tio make on point guard Phil Pressey, whose $813,482 for next season becomes fully guaranteed on July 15. Boston Herald
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Following on from his two recent one-man shows, David Hughes has recruited three other dancers to join him in the new Edinburgh-based David Hughes Dance Company. Even so, their four-part programme includes two solos for Hughes, carried forward from previous ventures. No wonder that Siobhan Davies' version for him of Debussy's L'Apres-midi d'un faune, although pleasant enough in poses and gestures, contains too many 'resting steps' flat on the floor to compare fully with more active treatments by Nijinsky, Robbins and Kylian.
The most striking feature of the fidgety movement in El uno y medio, with choreography by Javier de Frutos to flamenco music, is that Hughes twice strolls disconcertingly offstage and on again to no apparent purpose. It is difficult to believe we would guess, without a programme note, that this dance is meant to show Jason mourning his children. The speared paintings in Jean-Marc Puissant's designs are too enigmatic to help much, and angled out of sight for many spectators.
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The new dancers (Rachel Morrow, Kally Lloyd-Jones and young Alan Lambie) hold their own against the boss in this and in Rafael Bonachela's group dance 4:Freeze-Frame - the evening's best number. Its assemblage of 13th century and new music might seem odd, and Txela's black mini-frocks for everyone don't flatter the men, but there is a variety of movement that responds to the score, and the couplings include some interesting quietly quarrelsome confrontations.


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BHOPAL: The motive behind the murder of Madhya Pradesh RTI activist Shehla Masood continues to be shrouded in mystery even after investigators arrested three persons including a woman interior designer, in this connection.
While the CBI arrested interior designer Zahida Pervez and Shakib Ali "Danger" from here, the UP police has apprehended one person from Kanpur.
Whether the murder was the result of a relationship that Shehla is said to have with Zahida's husband or was it professional rivalry between the two over getting contracts from the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (MPTDC) for their alleged proximity with BJP MLA and then MPTDC chairman, Dhruv Narayan Singh, are some questions that the central agency needs to probe.
Sources said it was Shehla, who had introduced Zahida to MPTDC, but when she got closer with the then Chairman and started getting contracts, the RTI activist created hurdles by filing number of RTI applications to block the projects. Efforts to contact Dhruv Narayan on the issue proved futile as he remained unavailable.
Though CBI has already quizzed Narayan in this regard, whether it will call him again for further investigations in the light of new developments in the case, is not yet clear.
CBI spokesperson, Dharini Mishra told PTI that "whether to question him (Dhruv Narayan) again or not in this regard would depend on the outcome of the investigations currently underway and if something tangible comes out then definitely, whoever the person may be, would be summoned."
"At present it is too premature to say whether he would be called or not," she said.
Meanwhile, sources associated with the probe during the initial phase said the CBI reached the alleged killers, on the basis of call details generated from the tower located in the Koh-e-Fiza area where Shehla was shot dead on August 16, 2011.
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Pek, our tiny flea, gets his eTwinning backpack for the second time, ready to visit more countries this year. Our students will give him life in a comic, sharing his curiosity to learn more about places and languages in Europe. Creativity and learning in a funny way, is our guide in this project, where collaboration will finally lead to a real comic magazine, Pek 2.
It was a great opportunity how to share new information about places and languages in Europe. My students especially appreciated learning foreign language in a funny way. The collaboration of all teams was on a high level and now we can enjoy our real comic magazine, Pek 2.
My students just followed my instructions. They were done by Marcos and they were easy to follow them – step by step. The topic was based on a flea that arrived in a town where the school was and something funny happened to him. Then the pages of each school were coloured and translated by school members into all the native languages. Our Czech team consisted of three scriptwriters, one cartoonist and nine translators.
We were glad to be one of several European schools who published a comic in all their languages. Students who worked in this project learned how to create stories and how to convert them into comics. Some of them are quick learners and have shown the ability to digest large volumes of information. They also helped each other with the translation of the texts. The students gained experience of ICT, because most work was done in the school computer lab.
I think this project was both innovative and creative. It was a very good way making students communicate in English and the fact that they worked together creatively. The teachers distributed materials, shared photos, as well as experience and knowledge. Our partnership was excellent. Our students worked hard and enjoyed the project. And me It was a great chance for me to meet Marcos and Maria in real in Budapest.


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HERE WE ARE JULY 2012, in Clark County, Vancouver Washington, and the new county NOTICE OF VALUES are arriving in our mailboxes! What most of us are seeing is PAINFUL!
I have received numerous inquires about home values this week and I have a few tools and some information that may be helpful! They are below. What I will tell you is the county Notice of Value is generated on sales of homes in 2011. Most of us, who are in the trenches every day helping Buyers and Sellers, have noticed is the CHANGE IN AVAILABLE INVENTORY… its LOW.. This is beginning to put upward pricing pressure on MOVE IN READY, and available homes.
The trend lines in the MARKET SNAPSHOT, are beginning to show signs of positive change over the last 120 days. Take a deep breath, the Notice of Value is looking BACK not foreward……..
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Second: Sales in your neighborhood. This site offers MORE and DEEPER information. by entering your address, bedrooms bathrooms and square footage, a report is generated of nearby recent sales, WHAT THEY SOLD FOR, current listings, days on market and more. There are 90 day trend charts, that show how things are changing.First: A simple home valuation site: home values like many sites, you simply enter your address and a computer generated value appears.
Third: Market Trends Report There is a lot of information here about health of the Estate Markets! click the portland metro report or go to the link on my website for the MARKET TRENDS NEWSLETTER : http://ggmatthews.com/market-trends/market-trends-newsletter
IF YOU WANT OR NEED a real Current Market Analysis, It typically takes about an hour to produce, and It's done by hand. Usually these are done prior to LISTING A HOME FOR SALE. or other reason. Every realtor should provide you a Quality Current Market Analysis, before listing your home for sale. IF THEY DONT.. find a different realtor. If they want to short sale your property by listing it significantly under market… Find a different realtor.
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Why is GDP growth so much more volatile in poor countries than in rich ones? We identify four possible reasons: (i) poor countries specialize in more volatile sectors; (ii) poor countries specialize in fewer sectors; (iii) poor countries experience more frequent and more severe aggregate shocks (e.g. from macroeconomic policy); and (iv) poor countries' macroeconomic fluctuations are more highly correlated with the shocks of the sectors they specialize in. We show how to decompose volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage of development. We document the following regularities. First, as countries develop, their productive structure moves from more volatile to less volatile sectors. Second, the level of specialization declines with development at early stages, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country-specific macroeconomic shocks falls with development. Fourth, the covariance between sector-specific and country-specific shocks does not vary systematically with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these findings and suggest new directions for future theoretical work.
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Pakistan Taliban say will review ceasefire in Swat
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MINGORA, Pakistan, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Taliban fighters said on Saturday
they would review their unilateral 10-day ceasefire in Pakistan's
northwestern valley of Swat when it runs out next week, casting doubt over
government talk of a permanent truce.
"We heard that the government announced a permanent ceasefire, but we have
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ends," Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah told illegal FM radio.
The current ceasefire ends on Wednesday. (Reporting by Junaid Khan;
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MINGORA, Pakistan, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Taliban fighters and Pakistani
officials have agreed to a "permanent ceasefire" in the northwestern
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Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah, also known as Mullah Radio because
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Taliban agreed to peace.
They fear that a ceasefire could result in another sanctuary in Pakistan
where al Qaeda and Taliban militants could move freely, and also worry
that Taliban fighters elsewhere in the region will be encouraged by the
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Last Sunday, Islamist militants called a 10-day ceasefire in the valley
as a "goodwill gesture" towards the peace talks.
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Sufi Mohammad led a revolt in 1994 in an attempt to bring Islamic sharia
law back to Swat, and went on to lead an army of thousands of tribesmen
in a futile attempt to help Taliban and al Qaeda fighters hold off
U.S.-led forces in 2001.
He was arrested after his return to Pakistan and spent six years in jail
before the government released him last year.
Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan told Reuters that Fazlullah would make an
announcement on the radio shortly.
"I can't say what he would say but there would be good news for people
of Swat," Khan said.
Richard Holbrooke, special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan,
expressed unease over developments in Swat on Thursday and said he had
been told by President Asif Ali Zardari that the pact being negotiated
with the Islamists was an "interim arrangement" to stabilise the Swat
Zardari will not sign off on the re-introduction of Islamic law in
Malakand unless peace is assured, according to officials.
Holbrooke visited Pakistan last week on his first tour of the region
since being appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama.
Pakistani officials said U.S. officials had urged Paksitan to exert more
force in Swat, rather than negotiate.
But the army is fighting Taliban insurgencies elsewhere in the
northwest, notably the tribal regions of Bajaur and Mohmand, and wants
to be supplied with counter-insurgency equipment.
Former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who survived at least
two assassination attempts by Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers in late
2007, said any agreement would be fagile.
"For the time being, Fazlullah might bow to what his father-in-law and
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Hello. After having the chimney sweep clean and inspect my chimney last week, I've been working on getting my fireplace ready for use this winter. For the past two years, I've been using a wrought iron fireplace screen in place of the dirty brass glass fireplace doors that were in the house when I bought it. I've decided to polish the brass up and it looks as good as new. I want to put the brass doors back on. BUT, when I removed the doors, I think I misplaced the mounting hardware. I still have the two top brackets that attach to the back of the doors, which are flat, and about 4" long. Well, apparently after doing some research, there should have also been two more smaller 90 degree brackets that attach to the long bracket which holds a long thumbscrew which in turn holds the doors against the fireplace lintel. I am missing the thumbscrews and the brackets which the thumbscrews screw into. Is it possible to purchase just these two brackets ans screws, or will I have to figure out a new way to secure these fireplace doors? |
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I just fixed a roof leak coming from a roof vent pipe sticking up from my kitchen and I began to wonder if bugs could use this pipe to enter my home. I live in Florida (bug heaven) and we recently had an infestation of roaches in the kitchen around the sink area.
In Florida you have to spray every month and I do that. We've never had a problem with roaches before. I have sprayed the kitchen repeatedly and I think I have licked them. But I after being up on the roof working on flashing around the kitchen vent pipe I began wondering. This pipe is near a nearly flat porch roof. When I was up there I found the porch roof littered with all kinds of leaves and little branches and I also found there were ants wandering around up there. Does the vent pipe have water in it that would block bugs from getting into my kitchen? Would anything happen if I rigged some screening to cover the opening of this roof vent? Thanks. |
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Let's clarify what your vent pipe does-is it a vent for your kitchen sink (plumbing), or some other vent-HVAC, dryer, etc.? Plumbing vents should NOT have water in them as their purpose is to prevent vacuuming the water seal out of sewer gas traps when flushing, draining etc. That liquid seal will prevent most insects from house entry. I say most since some larvae can hatch after being laid in such conditions. |
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Do I fertilize my orchids after they have bloomed ? It has been a while since I have had any orchids and just purchased two in Key west when I was vacationing there.
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- Posted by andrew6484 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 5, 10 at 8:24
Hi Becky, welcome back to the orchid world! I'd say wait until you see new growth, but it depends on the orchid. If you really want to fertilize and see no new growth, a light shot of higher N should be no problem and may start that next growth. Andrew |
There's no reason not to fertiize if you do it weakly weekly, especially if they're phals. Nobile dendrobiums and some other types are a different story. |
- Posted by gardenbear1 5a (My Page) on Fri, Aug 6, 10 at 22:19
I now have 3 Phalaenopsis off the death table at Lowes after watered them, they started to look better and I want to keep them happy so what brand of fert.or what should the numbers be?. Lowes had Orchid bloom booster but I didn't think its what I should use, I know better than to ask any one for help there because it won't happen,so I come to you fine people for help Thanks for all and any help |
Miracle-Gro is a good general fertilizer. It was originally for orchids but at the time there were not enough people growing orchids to market to. Any low, even-numbered fert will do fine for Phal hybrids. |
- Posted by gardenbear1 5a (My Page) on Sat, Aug 7, 10 at 9:37
richardol, thanks for getting to me on this question, its nice to know that I can use Miracle-Grow, I use it on my other house plants so no need to buy more fert Bear |
If you have Miracle Grow for tomatoes, that's good for orchids, too. |
- Posted by stitzelweller Md (My Page) on Sat, Aug 7, 10 at 16:34
orchid126, I v-a-g-u-e-l-y recall a related thread on this very Forum! One of the advantages of having old far$s with at least half a brain . Check out the link, below.... --Stitz-- |
Here is a link that might be useful: tomato fertilzer and orchids
Orchids have some special fertilizer needs due primarily to the soil (or lack thereof) they are grown in. Most orchid soils are extremely porous which means they are not limed (i.e. don't supply calcium and magnesium), and do not support good bacterial growth (i.e. cannot convert urea into available nitrogen). This means that an orchid fertilizer should supply both calcium and magnesium, and have most of its nitrogen in nitrate form which is immediately available to roots. Luckily, these three traits usually go hand in hand since calcium and magnesium require a fairly specific ratio, and calcium nitrate is the only water soluble form of calcium. To summarize, look for something with calcium, magnesium, and nitrate rather than urea. As for N-P-K, I always use something near a 3:1:2 ratio since that is what nearly all plants have been shown to absorb. |
- Posted by stitzelweller Md (My Page) on Sat, Aug 7, 10 at 19:16
penfold2 4a, MN wrote, " As for N-P-K, I always use something near a 3:1:2 ratio since that is what nearly all plants have been shown to absorb. " A respected grower of epiphytic plants in Hawaii chooses to disagree with the ratio that you quote. Her ratio is 1: 1.5 : 2 , N:P:K. While I don't choose to use that ratio for most of my orchids, I also respect her knowledge. Something to think about, eh? --Stitz-- |
Something to think about, eh? I'll admit, I've never seen ratios specific to epiphytes, so I just go by what I've read regarding terrestrials. I'll have to look into it more if the N-P-K ratio for epiphytes is substantially different. |
The no Urea thing always surfaces on these posts and that is fine provided that people realise that the fertilizer manufacturer is trying to cater for orchid growers from Florida to Alaska, in other words all sorts of orchids, growing in all sorts of conditions, watered with water that will be of all sorts of quality. So you get the three sources of Nitrogen in an orchid fertilizer. Do not worry about it. Unless you are growing "fussy" orchids or have an enormous collection of mostly one Genera or you have an orchid nursery OR you are a tecko and love fiddling around with this sort of stuff. |
- Posted by stitzelweller Md (My Page) on Sat, Aug 7, 10 at 21:50
" Do not worry about it. Unless you are growing "fussy" orchids or have an enormous collection of mostly one Genera or you have an orchid nursery OR you are a tecko and love fiddling around with this sort of stuff. " arthrum, YES! I grow a few "fussy" orchids! Must all orchidists follow a "path"? The Pleurothallidiots are among the best $$$ supporters of the AOS! --Stitz-- |
The no Urea thing always surfaces on these posts... Do not worry about it. I stand corrected. While the use of some nitrate may be beneficial to plants, orchids are also capable of absorbing urea and converting it to ammonium which they can directly metabolize. Nitrogen in fertilizers and the truth about Urea (I would still look for calcium and magnesium in any orchid fertilizer.) |
Stitz, I agree with you about the high nitrogen. That is old thinking. I copied this a few years ago from a culture sheet from a grower in Hawaii. I have followed this advice and find it to be sound: FERTILIZER TIPS FROM HAWAII: Use a BLOSSOM BOOSTER fertilizer (ie. 10-30-20) at 1/4 tsp. per gallon of water every week, along with Superthrive™. (Weak applications allow the plant to absorb the nutrients far better than heavy monthly applications.) DO NOT USE ANY HIGH NITROGEN FERTILIZERS AT ANY TIME, by doing so you will have large green plants with very few or no flowers (bark does not leach out nitrogen |
Hmmm....interesting thread. I'm now in my 3rd year of growing orchids and use both bloom booster formula and high nitrogen. Having studied website information on various types of orchids, I've been using high nitrogen almost exclusively on my cattleyas and members of the oncidium family. Most of them have spiked this summer. Maybe being outdoors has been a factor. I tend to use the bloom booster only when I think it's time for the plant to give me flowers. I realize I'm still a newbie and defer to the experienced ones contributing to this topic. |
I can see a more moderate nitrogen level being of possible benefit to orchids, but I don't see any justification for high phosphorus "bloom booster" formulas. Here is an article that mentions orchid tissue composition. And the data:
As i said in my post above there are just too many variables to say that this or that orchid fertilizer is the ants pants for every condition or every type of orchid. I've always thought that the magic words "bloom booster" were invented by the marketing people employed to sell more fertilizer. So, as an example in my large mixed Genera mess of a collection there is something in bloom every month of the year. I do not put "bloom booster" on some and a different fertilizer on others. Being a non tecko simple person i just fertilize them more in the warmer months and less in the cooler months. If you like fiddling about, you should run "trials" to see and prove which fertilizer is best under your conditions. Otherwise any improved results are just heresay. For what its worth the Champion Orchid Grower at the local orchid society uses a fertilizer with a low Nitrogen number all year. |
- Posted by stitzelweller Md (My Page) on Tue, Aug 10, 10 at 6:34
arthur, we are in agreement with your statement, " there are just too many variables to say that this or that orchid fertilizer is the ants pants for every condition or every type of orchid. " --Stitz-- |
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