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At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning - and dreadful - discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle - her only protection from the beast - had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead...and why?
With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame.
As Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle - the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou - he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?
©2010 Lincoln Child (P)2010 Hachette
"Once again, the bestselling authors show they have few peers at creating taut scenes of suspense. Their restraint in the book's early sections make the payoffs all the more compelling." (Publishers Weekly)
"Intelligent, spooky thriller"
Preston and Child never miss a beat. In fact, with each outing they seem to improve, don't they? "Fever Dream" tells us another exciting story in the Agent Pendergast series. With each episode, Preston and Child always find some primal human phobia to tap into. Frequently, they take us underground, into dark tunnels; but this time they bring us into a Louisiana swamp, teeming with alligators, bugs, and snakes. Even more than the scare factor, Preston and Child triumph with intelligent, well-researched, scientifically plausible plots. Like Sherlock Holmes, Pendergast seems to know everything needed to solve the most arcane riddles; and, like James Bond, he can wield the weapons needed to punish the bad guys. In this case, he unearths the deadly secret that had gotten his beloved wife murdered twelve years before. Then he issues the bad guys their belated just deserts. Rene Auberjonois does a good job of reading "Fever Dream," giving each character a unique voice. I don't know exactly how to classify the Preston/Child thrillers -- they contain elements of horror, techno, sci-fi, adventure, and mystery -- but any fan of any of those genres will love "Fever Dream." (By the way -- explaining the title would give away the plot; so you will just have to listen to the audiobook in order to get it.)
"Finally, some of Agent Pendergast's History"
To be honest, I've not read most of the Pendergast books. Only (Relic, Reliquary, and Still Life with Crows). I thought that I had probably missed to much in the intervening books to enjoy "Fever Dream", but this has got to be best book of 2010 that I've read. As you have probably seen from the author's notes that this story reflects around the revelation that Agent Pendergast wife death was actually a murder and the ensuing investigation by Pendergast and D'Agosta. I usually expect the story to revolve around Pendergast et al. trying to solve a seemingly supernatural case, but this one is a bit different, and I think that is what makes it so good. It shows a hastier, edgier, more impulsive Pendergast with D'Agosta as the more balanced character. For me, this really fleshed out Pendergast, showing that even he had a breaking point. This book doesn't really do anything new and remarkable with the characters. Rather it dives deeper into their histories, and showing sides we haven't seen before. The book starts out with a great deal of action, and while a large part of the book centers around the investigation, you never feel like the book is dragging its feet, or that its giving back ground information just to fill space. Also since, apparently I've missed a lot of the Pendergast books, I was able to glean enough in this book to know what I need to know without giving away the prior books story lines.
Rene Auberjonois does a great job with the narration. The best part of his narration though, is that since he's been in Star Trek's Deep Space Nine, you can almost picture him as Pendergast when he is reading those lines. I hope audible comes out with the rest of Pendergast Books in Unabridged format so I can see what I missed over the years.
"I Could Not Stop Listening"
Having read everything written by Douglas Preston and/or Lincoln Child, I was really looking forward to "Fever Dream" and it was worth the wait. Except for quick mentions here and there, nothing was ever told about Helen Pendergast in all of the other books. But it's all here. The story is good and the action is intense. I hope there will be a "book 2" here because they left some things hanging. It's an absolute must read for Pendergast fans.
"Best Pendergast Yet"
Loved it, didn't want it to end. As other reviewers have said, you don't have to have read the whole series to know what's going on.
"Great listen"
This is my first Pendergast book but it will not be the last. I loved the main character, the plot that pushes but does not cross the edge of believability, and the setting. I didn't like the opening chapters - they were almost enough to make me stop listening - but as I got into the book, I found it more and more compelling, even as major pieces of the story fell into place.
I am sick of formulaic books with named serial killers and overly serious characters, and recommend this to others looking for a smart but almost tongue-in-cheek story. Usually the main character being shot at over and over is a sign of a poorly plotted story, but I am ignoring that and going to buy the other books in the series.
"Excellent! Weird FBI Agent Pendergas at his best."
Lots of action, twists and turns. No need to read prior books of the series to get into this one.
If you have not read "Cabinet of Curiosities" you will want to after reading this book (or you can read it first).
"Well done"
I have been drawn into this series since the first book. The narration is excellent and the flow and pace is as good as it gets. I sincerely hope they continue writing more.
"Another good story"
I really enjoy all of the Pendergast stories but I do believe this was my favorit. I am looking forward to the next one.
"Loved it!"
One of my favorite Agent Pendergast books! I took it everywhere with me! The passages where the agent and a friend were being chased through the swamp really had my heart racing. Great Job on this one and LOVED the narration.
"Best in the series"
So good I did not want it to end. I am happy to hear it is the first of three in the "Helen" part of the Pendergast series.
"Slow plot but gradually gets going."
I was a little disappointed with the pace of the story, but it eventually gets going. Maybe the abridged version would be a better listen?
It doesn't have the edge of the seat storyline that some of Preston's earlier works have but its still an enjoyable listen.
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Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?"
Bryce: "No."
Huxley: "Seabags Brown does."
Bryce: "I don't see what that has to do…"
Huxley: "What do you know about Gaelic history?"
Bryce: "Not much."
Huxley: "Then why don't you sit down one day with Gunner McQuade. He is an expert. Speaks the language, too."
Bryce: "I don't…"
Huxley: " What do you know about astronomy?"
Bryce: "A little."
Huxley: "Discuss it with Wellman, he held a fellowship."
Bryce: "This is most puzzling."
Huxley: "What about Homer, ever read Homer?"
Bryce: "Of course I've read Homer."
Huxley: "In the original Greek?"
Bryce: "No"
Huxley: "Then chat with Pfc. Hodgkiss. Loves to read the ancient Greek."
Bryce: "Would you kindly get to the point?"
Huxley: "The point is this, Bryce. What makes you think you are so goddam superior? Who gave you the bright idea that you had a corner on the world's knowledge? There are privates in this battalion who can piss more brains down a slit trench then you'll ever have. You're the most pretentious, egotistical individual I've ever encountered. Your superiority complex reeks. I've seen the way you treat men, like a big strutting peacock. Why, you've had them do everything but wipe your ass."
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Leon Uris and the Drill Instructor
Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?"


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|ASU Student Unclear About DNC Arrest Reason
|Written by Steve Frank
|Tuesday, 04 September 2012 05:29
An ASU student was the first arrested by the joint law enforcement presence surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte—23-year old Anna Marie Wright pulled from a march after determining to have a knife in her possession."A couple of people in my group told me that they were screaming,
like, 'she has a weapon, she has a weapon,' and then I was like immediately taken away from the march, like, over to some side street behind a police truck." Wright said that, finally, police told her why she had been arrested, "they saw in my back pocket next to my bandana and my map an 'Exacto' knife."
Wright also had pulled a bandana up to her nose, but took it down when so ordered by police, "Apparently it's become a new ordinance that I was unaware of, but even so, the officer asked me to take it down and immediately I took it down."
The dispatches from Charlotte Mecklenburg for the press on law enforcement activity with the Democratic National Convention set to get underway listed Wright and a Chris Wright Stephens as arrested first and second on Sunday, but they were not together and the arrests were not at the same location. Stephens was charged with Assault on a Government Official, Resisting, and Disorderly Conduct. Wright said she was not there to protest a specific issue, but was there to support a number of issues.
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Delivering safe, reliable electric service is Rocky Mountain Power's continual focus. However, conditions outside of the utility's control, such as severe weather, accidents and other unpredictable situations, can cause power outages despite the company's best preparations. Customers are encouraged to take precautions before the next storm arrives to stay safe during a power outage.
"We work hard to avoid power outages, but when bad weather strikes and outages occur, we work even harder to restore power safely and quickly," said Mike Felice, Rocky Mountain Power safety director. "Just as our crews are prepared to respond to outages, we ask our customers to be prepared to help ensure the safety and well-being of their families."
Assemble a preparedness kit to help in the event of any kind of emergency, including the a flashlightm, non-perishable foods, a manual can opener, bottled water, blankets, a battery-operated radio and clock and extra batteries.
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*First check fuses and circuit breakers. If the power failure is not caused inside the home or business, customers should report the outage to Rocky Mountain Power by calling toll free at 1-877-508-5088.
*Never use kerosene or propane heaters inside without proper ventilation. They create dangerous fumes. Also, don't ever burn charcoal in your house or garage.
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*Don't operate a portable generator inside your home or garage. Always properly ventilate a portable generator. Gasoline-powered generators produce carbon monoxide and the fumes can be deadly. As an added protection, ensure that carbon monoxide and smoke detectors are installed and working properly.
*As much as possible, do not open refrigerators and freezers - they will keep food and perishables inside cold for a longer period of time if not opened.
*Preserve body heat by wearing multiple layers of clothing. Add a hat and blanket to stay warm. Blankets and towels around windows and doors help keep the heat inside.
*Protect your pipes during freezing weather by wrapping them with insulation. Also, leave faucets dripping so water won't freeze and crack the pipes.
*Turn on your porch light when power is back in service. After crews complete repairs, they patrol the area of the power failure to see if lights are on.


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New York Rangers
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Sunday, 3:00 p.m.
Madison Square
Rangers Record: 29-24-4
Penguins Record: 35-18-4
On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 13, the Rangers return home after
a three-game road trip to take on the Penguins. The Rangers, still winless
since the All-Star break, look to get back to their pre-break form with their
first home game in 10 days. Pittsburgh has been slightly struggling as well,
due to the loss of forwards Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to injury, both
possibly for the season.
Despite the return of much of the Rangers' extensive
disabled list to the active roster, the wins have not been coming. The Rangers
have been working hard in every game, but it just has not been quite enough to
get the points. There was a bright point, however, in the Rangers' most recent
game—Friday night's loss against Atlanta—in which they were able to take a
one-goal lead during the third period. It was the first time in the past 255:35
minutes of play that the Rangers had held any lead at all. With this
improvement, and the Rangers' overall satisfactory play, the wins will start
coming. A home-ice advantage might be exactly what they need to get back on the
right track.
The Penguins have definitely been feeling the loss of their
two star forwards. Their last game, a 9-3 routing by the Islanders on Friday
night, showed that they have some work to do to adequately overcome these
injuries. The Penguins will likely come out with a fire on Sunday, looking to
avenge their loss and show that they are still the great team that they were.
The Rangers are suffering from injuries to forwards Derek
Boogaard, Chris Drury and Ruslan Fedotenko, as well as the season-ending injury
to forward Alex Frolov.
In addition to Crosby and Malkin, the Penguins have injuries
to forwards Arron Asham, Mike Comrie, Dustin Jeffrey, Chris Kunitz and Mark
Letestu. This depleted team has been struggling, but has something to prove,
and will attempt to do that against the Rangers on Sunday.
This is the fifth time the Rangers and Pens will face-off
this season—the current season series stands at 2-2. Someone has to take the
lead…be sure to watch and see if the Rangers can finally get that elusive win!


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Multi-marker Stool Test for Detection of Colorectal Neoplasia: Marker Panel Selection and Technical Development Studies
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The objective of this study is to confirm the sensitivity of a stool DNA test for detection of colorectal cancer and pre-cancer.
Another objective is to provide anonymous, clinically characterized specimens for a bio-repository for future colorectal cancer-related test development.
Colorectal Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Colorectal Cancer
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
|Official Title:
|Multi-marker Stool Test for Detection of Colorectal Neoplasia: Marker Panel Selection and Technical Development Studies
- The primary endpoints are point estimates of the sensitivity of the diagnostic tests for detection of colorectal neoplasms. [ Time Frame: 12 Months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The diagnostic test under development is a multi-marker stool test for detecting CRC and pre-cancer in a general screening application. The primary objective of this study is to confirm the sensitivity of the optimal DNA marker panel.
- To collect samples from patients diagnosed with colorectal cancers. [ Time Frame: 12 Months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Residual samples from patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer will be archived for further research intended to help in the diagnosis of cancers. Specimens will be stored up to 10 years in the Sponsor's on-site bio-repository or similar commercial bio-repository contracted by the sponsor.
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
Residual specimens and histopathology tissue slides or blocks will be stored for up to 10 years in the Sponsor's on-site bio-repository or similar commercial bio-repository contracted by the Sponsor.
|Study Start Date:
|October 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Colorectal cancer patients
Subjects will be men and women, 40-90 years of age, inclusive, each with a colonoscopic biopsy-based diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) and/or an intact pre-malignant colorectal lesion large enough to require surgical excision or complex colonoscopic polypectomy.
Detailed Description:
Patients who have been recently diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer or pre-cancer will be asked to submit a stool sample(s)(at least 7 days AFTER colonoscopy) and will have the option of submitting blood and tissue samples for future colo-rectal cancer-related test development.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|40 Years to 90 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Patients who have had colorectal cancer or pre-malignancy confirmed by colonoscopic biopsy-based diagnosis.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject is male or female, 40-90 years of age, inclusive.
- Subject has a diagnosis of CRC, at any stage, confirmed with a tissue biopsy and/or ≥1 cm colorectal polyp/adenoma/mass identified on a colonoscopy that is of sufficient size to require surgical excision or complex colonoscopic polypectomy.
- Subject understands the study procedures and is able to provide informed consent to participate in the study and authorization for release of relevant protected health information to the study Investigator.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subject has active synchronous extra-colonic aerodigestive tract cancers (e.g., lung, esophagus, stomach, or pancreatic cancer).
- Subject has a history of any inflammatory bowel disease.
- Subject has familial adenomatous polyposis, hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch) syndrome, or other hereditary cancer syndromes.
- Individual has a condition the Investigator believes would interfere with his or her ability to provide informed consent, comply with the study protocol, which might confound the interpretation of the study results or put the person at undue risk.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01260168
|United States, Alabama
|Achieve Clinical Research, LLC
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35216
|Clinical Research Associates
|Huntsville, Alabama, United States, 35801
|United States, Georgia
|Atlanta Gastroenterology
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
|United States, Illinois
|Jesse Brown VA
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|Rush University Gastroenterologists
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|Stroger Cook County
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|University of Illinois at Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|Rockford Gastroenterology Associates, Ltd
|Rockford, Illinois, United States, 61107
|United States, Louisiana
|Gastroenterology Associates
|Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70809
|United States, Maryland
|Chevy Chase Clinical Research
|Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States, 20815
|United States, Massachusetts
|Commonwealth Clinical Studies
|Brockton, Massachusetts, United States, 02302
|United States, New York
|Long Island Gastrointestinal Group
|Great Neck, New York, United States, 11023
|Mount Sinai School of Medicine
|New York, New York, United States, 10029
|United States, North Carolina
|Asheville Gastroenterology
|Asheville, North Carolina, United States, 28801
|Southern Gastroenterology Associates
|New Bern, North Carolina, United States, 28562
|United States, Oregon
|Northwest Gastroenterology Clinic, LLC
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97208
|United States, Tennessee
|Gastro One
|Germantown, Tennessee, United States, 38138
|United States, Texas
|Digestive Health Specialists
|Tyler, Texas, United States, 75701
|United States, Utah
|University of Utah
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84132
|United States, Virginia
|Digestive and Liver Disease Specialists
|Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 23502
|Canada, Alberta
|University of Calgary
|Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4Z6
|Study Chair:
|Graham Lidgard, PhD
|Chief Scientific Officer
|Responsible Party:
|Exact Sciences Corporation
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01260168 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Exact Sciences 2010-A
|Study First Received:
|December 6, 2010
|Last Updated:
|May 12, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by Exact Sciences Corporation:
Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal Neoplasm
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Rectal Diseases
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colonic Diseases
Colorectal Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Intestinal Diseases
Intestinal Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Rectal Diseases
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Charlton Heston died five years ago today. We remember him with a look at the way he portrayed Great Men: big, commanding and utterly sure of himself. Originally published April 2008 on Obit-Mag.com.
Actor Charlton Heston displays one of his rifles at
his home in Los Angeles, Calif. in September 1984.
(AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)
He was no girlie-man, that Charlton Heston. The epic screen actor didn't do small or sensitive or morally complex; he did big, commanding and utterly sure of himself. His signature roles were all Great Men, largely untroubled by indecision, doubt or mixed motives. In Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 remake of The Ten Commandments, it wasn't that litany of plagues that Moses called down upon Pharaoh's Egypt that made him so riveting; it was Heston's air of terrible certainty, his ruthless, implacable rectitude. His screen persona wasn't dumb, but he didn't much value intelligence or even need it. What he lacked in smarts he made up for with conviction and a peculiarly inflexible strength. He was insistently, incurably holier than thou, and he operated, as Stephen Colbert has observed of George W. Bush, from the gut.
And what a gut. With his strapping body, a Mount Rushmore face and a basso profundo voice rivaling that of his one-time director and co-star Orson Welles (in one of Heston's better if most unlikely roles, as a Mexican cop in 1958's Touch of Evil), he was genetically engineered to play the hero in a cinematic age before heroes became anti-heroes. His acting style was a projection of his physique: lean, beefy and stiff. He was All Man, as they used to say so unself-consciously at mid-century, and to put him in a role that required much nuance or subtlety — not to mention any hint of a poetic, dare we say feminine side — was to flirt with unintended comedy. As a surprisingly butch Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), Heston growls at the Sistine Chapel that there's too much red. Too much agony, not enough ecstasy; it calls to mind an old Doonesbury cartoon in which Donald Trump yells up at an employee painting a Sistine-like mural in one of his palaces, "Give those nymphs some hooters!"
Heston's strength — his unbending masculinity — was also his weakness as an actor, a fact that his more thoughtful directors grappled with from time to time. One of the highlights of The Celluloid Closet, the 1995 film documentary about the history of gays and lesbians in American movies, is Gore Vidal's gleeful retelling of his conversation with William Wyler just before the shooting of Heston's lone Oscar-winning role in the sword-and-sandal epic Ben-Hur (1959). Rehearsals were going poorly, so to goose the drama, Vidal suggested adding a homoerotic back-story to scenes between Heston and Stephen Boyd, who played Messala. Their characters were to have been young lovers, separated for years and now reunited; Messala wanted to hook up again, but Judah Ben-Hur wasn't interested — which would give their subsequent enmity extra emotional juice. According to Vidal, a troubled Wyler pondered the scheme and finally gave his assent: "But don't tell Chuck, because he'll fall apart."
It wasn't a conversation most directors would have avoided having with any number of Method-loving Hollywood leading men already on the scene, including Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando. The first of Brando's highly influential Oscar-winning turns, as the tortured ex-prizefighter in On the Waterfront, came in 1954, three years after the volcanic yet vulnerable Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire; we forget that his famous bellowing of "Stella!" was less a Napoleonic command for his wife to appear than a wounded boy's cry for his surrogate mommy. In his wildest dreams, Heston could never have managed such a thing.
Then again, his dreams were probably never that wild. He was one of the last survivors of a generation of screen icons — John Wayne, Gary Cooper — who were more movie stars than actors. Less was more; you stood still, looked people in the eye (maybe squinting a little), and let the camera do the work. This isn't to say that they didn't give interesting, even great performances on occasion, as Cooper did in Meet John Doe (1941) and High Noon (1952), as Wayne did in The Searchers (1956) and The Shootist (1976); theirs was a minimalist art, and perhaps necessarily so, given what was going on — or not — behind those blank and ruggedly handsome faces.
Certainly you didn't often see them thinking onscreen, as you saw Brando in The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris (both 1972). Instead you saw them simply being what they were: big lugs, comfortable to a fault in their own skin. As beautiful as Brando was in his heyday, and as Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp and George Clooney have been in theirs, the stand-and-model approach to film acting was never enough for them. For Heston, it had to be, since his bag of acting tricks was almost empty from the first. What could have saved him — as it has sometimes saved latter-day stand-and-modelers like Brad Pitt and Matthew McConaughey — was a sense of humor; alas, Heston seems to have had none, at least until his career was beginning to wind down in the late 1960s and early '70s, when the rise of the New Hollywood was rendering him passé.
It was then, in fact, that he gave some of his best performances — in sci-fi flicks, in which the relatively lower dramatic stakes seem to have loosened him up. In Planet of the Apes (1968), The Omega Man (1971) and Soylent Green (1973), you feel a trace of self-parody, conscious or not, beginning to creep into his style, a bud of irony that begins to bloom in the disaster movies Earthquake and Airport 1975 (both 1974) and reaches full flower in the mid-'80s on the campily glamorous "Dynasty" spinoff, "The Colbys."
Heston's last notable performance — although there's no evidence that he wasn't fueled, as always, by conviction — was as the president of the National Rifle Association in 1998-2003. He had once been a liberal, marching for civil rights in the South, but, like his fellow actor and ex-Democrat Ronald Reagan, had become an archconservative. The NRA, as the Republican Party had done with Reagan, jumped at the chance to recruit a rangy screen patriarch to its cause. All of Heston's signal qualities — his good looks, his booming voice, and above all his famous singleness of purpose, untainted by the slightest scintilla of doubt — made him a nuttily effective spokesman for the gun lobby. There was Heston in 2000, waving a rifle over his head and accusing Al Gore of plotting to take away his Second Amendment rights; it was the brandishing of the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments all over again. "Hey," an NRA vice president chortled, "Moses is on our side."


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Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts the network's decision on renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows by the end of the 2012-13 season in May, 2013. (includes results from September 17-30, 2012):
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ABC's rookie dramas Last Resort premiered with just a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating last Thursday at 8pm, and 666 Park Avenue started with just a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating on Sunday night. Because of that, they're both more likely to be canceled than renewed by May, 2013.
Why are Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue in more danger than Scandal, Castle and Private Practice which had similar ratings last week?
Veteran shows that are syndicated or in range of syndication like Castle and Private Practice get cut a lot of slack with their ratings. And sophomore shows like Scandal get cut at least a *little* more slack than rookies. That's not to say that all three of those veteran shows are in good shape for another season, just that after one week, I'm not ready to put any of them in danger.
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NEWPORT–UCA's boy's soccer team had its' largest outpouring of offense of the season, scoring six goals to defeat Concord 6-0 on Saturday.
"We had a great game," said coach Alyssa DeLaBruere about the win. "We worked all week on passing and communication and it paid off."
It was a new look Crusaders who took to the field at Gardner Park.
Jon DeLaBruere took his brother's place in goal while Chris moved up to the mid-field, and for a guy who hasn't played goal since he was eight years-old, Jon put up a good performance.
NEWPORT–The North Country field hockey Falcons played a very defensive game against Stowe on Saturday, but came up on the losing end of the 1-0 contest.
"The past three games have been defensive ones for us," said coach Chantelle Bouchard. "Stowe always has a good record, so we knew we had to stay with that style of play today."
In the first half, Stowe (5-3), although not on the top of their game as of late due to illness, showed why they usually field a strong club, controlling play and spending roughly eighty-five percent of the time in the North Country end.
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BRADFORD - Billy Cashin provided the eventual go-ahead score on a unassisted tally 10 minutes into the second half as the Lake Region boys soccer team knocked off Oxbow 4-1 in a wet Saturday contest to put a damper on the host team's homecoming weekend.
Shaquille Urie gave the Rangers a 1-0 halftime lead with an early score on a pass from Anthony Wright.
ORLEANS–Shaquille Urie scored arguably the prettiest goal of the season for Lake Region, heading the ball past Hazen's Murphy Simmons seven minutes into the second half to secure the Rangers' 2-1 win over the Wildcats on Wednesday afternoon.
Lake Region got off to the hot start, and if it wasn't for Simmons heroics in goal, the score would have been much more lopsided.
His first big save came against eventual goal scorer Urie.
Jeremy Dean had the ball deep in Hazen territory when he lofted a cross into the middle of the box.
ST. ALBANS–Ruffie Palin's header in the 31st minute provided the only scoring Wednesday night, as North Country earned its' first victory of the season with a 1-0 decision over the Bobwhites.
BFA (1-4-1) gave the Homecoming crowd plenty to cheer for in the opening minutes with a series of great chances, and had a handful of shots at a wide-open net late. Falcon goalkeeper Logan Fortier made a few great stops, but most of St. Albans' chances flew wide of one post or the other.
NEWPORT–Katie Stames scored three goals to lead Peoples Academy to a 6-2 win over North Country in girls soccer action on Tuesday afternoon.
"They can score and they are all skilled That was a skill mismatch that we had to deal with and we got out smarted," said Falcon coach Peter Alexander.
North Country got off to a good start against the Wolves, as Brooke Breault fed Devinnie Davis to get the scoring started eleven minutes into the contest.
FAIRFAX–Lake Region ran up against the toughest team they are likely to face this season, BFA Fairfax, and while they played well, they came up just a little short on Tuesday afternoon.
After forty minutes the game remained scoreless, but seven minutes into the second BFA's Anissa Hartman was left alone in front of the net and buried the ball, giving Fairfax the 1-0 lead.
With 15:00 left in the half, BFA made it 2-0 as Kailtlyn Barnack found the back of the cage.
Karamae Hayman-Jones had the lone Lake Region goal on a feed from Tyrah Urie with 9:55 left to play.
NEWPORT–The UCA Crusaders ran up against a speedy Trinity Baptist Kings team on Monday afternoon, losing the contest 3-0.
"We've got some adjusting to do before we see them next week," UCA coach Alyssa DeLaBruere after the game. "Speed is not our strength. We've got size but not speed, so we have got to figure out a way to shut down three or four of their players that just can go."
The Kings used their quick feet to get on the board early as Christopher Zamarippa opened the scoring off of a corner kick just five minutes into the contest.
ORLEANS–A questionable call late led to Tyrah Urie scoring the game winning goal with 4:24 left in regulation as Lake Region defeated Enosburg 2-0 on Saturday afternoon.
Urie was driving down the left side of the field where she made contact with McKenzie Gleason, then fell to the ground.
Much to the surprise to those closest to the play, the referee awarded Urie the PK, and she made no mistake, sending the ball high and into the net.
"Sometimes that happens in soccer, but I am not going to make the call one way or another" said coach Brad Urie about the play.
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LYNDON– The North Country boys took second, while the girls finished third in the Falcons, second meet of the season.
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Some day, ages from now, some grey-haired old person will take a grandchild to see the Helper Railroad Mosaic. The grandparent will point to one of the brightly-colored ceramic train cars and say, "This is the one I made when I was your age."
That's the vision that inspired the idea to build a durable work of outside art last year. It led to the multigenerational teamwork that got the job done.
The town paid tribute to that creativity and effort last Friday at the dedication ceremony for the mosaic.
Elise Lazar, the artist who designed the work, was there. Her husband Jerry, who invested "sweat equity" with her during the hot summer days of 2012 mounting the broken tile chips one-by-one, joined her at the dedication.
Jinni Fontana chaired last year's Arts and Music Festival and was responsible for getting the artist's commission and rounding up the funds for the project.
During her remarks at the dedication, she praised the members of the community who supported the effort. There were artists who taught the children how to make the ceramic train cars. There were local businesses who gave their time and talent and supplied donated or discounted materials.
There was the Utah Division of Arts & Museums that gave a grant for a Random Act of Art; and there was the Helper City Council that gave its full support to the art work.
The creation is about five feet tall and 14 feet wide. Its colorful design shows the geology and geography of Helper, ranging from the underground strata - with a coal seam - to a sky overhead studded with blue jewels and Swarovsky crystals. Viewers can make out the railroad, Highway Six and the Price River, too.
Elise Lazar told the crowd that she embedded small mirror tiles across the work "so that people can see themselves in a work of art. They can become a part of it."
The artist has also added little touches like sea shells and ceramic lady bugs that reward people who look closely.
A pale circle in the sky represents the full moon which was over Helper when the mosaic was assembled last year.
Not readily apparent in the design is the gentle curvature of the wall. It is not flat, but slightly S-shaped, like those elongated integral symbols mathematicians use in calculus.
The mosaic itself is intended to make a difference in the lot adjacent to the Mining and Railroad Museum.
It will serve as a centerpiece for a paved area where visitors can sit and relax beside the museum.
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Ehren Clark of City Weekly, writes, "To everything there is a surface, a façade, an outward appearance. With most of life, the truth of the matter is distorted by the façade, by the physicality, limited by what the eye can see that is only an artificial layer to truth."
Wheatley's paintings and mixed media work will be on display at Gallery East from March 18 through April 11, 2013. The exhibit, entitled "From the Pavement," will include the latest of these images.
Ehren Clark of City Weekly explains, "The work of Justin Wheatley dares to probe beneath the façade and discover the essential truths of existence. Wheatley's canvases and his sculptures are intricately layered including subjects such as buildings, homes, bridges, latticed with abstracted line, shape, color, plane, symbol, and detail."
Wheatley breaks down the visual components of a structure and reinterprets it into an intricate, colorful design. Though it may be a combination of semi-abstract lines, color, and geometric shapes, the outer façade is always a recognizable theme of the work.
According to Clark, "It may be a brightly colored and 'poppish' home that conceals all that is real within thus deconstructing domestic ideals in lieu of secrets and obscurities. Or it might be the multi-dimensionality of his abstract layering breaking up the absoluteness of the subject thus deconstructing both space and time in lieu of a pure reality."
"The work of Justin Wheatley creates a multifaceted statement that is visually powerful and cognitively complex that synthesized, weaves an ongoing fabric of existential meaning," writes Clark.
Justin Wheatley grew up in Clinton, Utah. He attended Utah State University, where he received a BFA in drawing and painting. He currently resides in Salt Lake City.
Wheatley's exhibit, "From the Pavement," will be on display from March 18 - April 11 at Gallery East on USU Eastern's Price campus. An opening reception and artist talk will be held Friday, April 12, from 6-8 p.m. in Gallery East. The gallery is free and open to the public during the academic year.
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The three kinds of courts-martial in each of the armed forces are—
(1) general courts-martial, consisting of—
(A) a military judge and not less than five members or, in a case in which the accused may be sentenced to a penalty of death, the number of members determined under section 825a of this title (article 25a); or
(2) special courts-martial, consisting of—
Source(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 42; Pub. L. 90–632, § 2(3),Oct. 24, 1968, 82 Stat. 1335; Pub. L. 98–209, § 3(a),Dec. 6, 1983, 97 Stat. 1394; Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, § 582(a),Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1124.)
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The word "The" is substituted for the words "There shall be". The word "are" is substituted for the word "namely". The words "not less than five members" are substituted for the words "any number of members not less than five". The words "not less than three members" are substituted for the words "any number of members not less than three". The word "commissioned" is inserted before the word "officer" in clause (3) for clarity.
2001—Par. (1)(A). Pub. L. 107–107inserted "or, in a case in which the accused may be sentenced to a penalty of death, the number of members determined under section 825a of this title (article 25a)" after "five members".
1983—Par. (1)(B). Pub. L. 98–209substituted "orally on the record or in writing" for "in writing".
1968—Pub. L. 90–632provided that a general or special court-martial shall consist of only a military judge if the accused, before the court is assembled, so requests in writing and the military judge approves, with the added requirements that the accused know the identity of the military judge and have the advice of counsel, and that the election be available in the case of a special court-martial only if a military judge has been detailed to the court.
Effective Date of 2001 Amendment
Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, § 582(d),Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1125, provided that: "The amendments made by this section [enacting section 825a of this title and amending this section and section 829 of this title] shall apply with respect to offenses committed after December 31, 2002."
Effective Date of 1983 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–209effective first day of eighth calendar month beginning after Dec. 6, 1983, see section 12(a)(1) ofPub. L. 98–209, set out as a note under section 801 of this title.
Effective Date of 1968 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 90–632effective first day of tenth month following October 1968, see section 4 ofPub. L. 90–632, set out as a note under section 801 of this title.
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After paying almost £700 for a 10x10 wooden shed and porta base incl. and fitting we then endured a lengthy wait until we were finally informed of a delivery and installation date. After installation it was clear that 1 door was severly warped, many of the overlaps in the panels you could fit your hand through and one of the windows was very poorly fitted. We took photos of these issues and raised them to your customer services, who promised to send a team to rectify them, an even LONGER wait then ensued, we had to chase Waltons several times, before they gave us a date which they then cancelled the day before, after I had made arrangements to be around. They then arranged another date again I arranged to be around, but surprise surprise no fitters appeared. The very next day at 0640AM a very loud van and 3 men crunched around the gravel outside the house, waking all and sundry for 5 minutes before knocking on our door, due to the UNSOCIABLE hour and the fact that the family had been rudely awakened we got them to quickly fix extra latches to the door in an attempt to correct the warped door. We then asked the team to leave out of consideration for our neighbours. After contacting customer services once again they made wholly derisory offer of a full £20.00 (whoohoo) which added insult to injury and I would much rather keep their £20 so that we can inform the widest possible audience of Walton's appalling customer service.
After looking at different forums about sheds and comparing them, there was one thing that stood out, Walton's customers were not happy! That is why I followed in the footsteps of many other customers and went down the path of Beast Sheds. I have to say that I was very impressed with the whole process from initially viewing the website to them coming and erecting the shed. The shed that I purchased was a 16x8 S1 Tanalised Security shed. I went for this as it offered room to just sit around and enjoy the outdoors and the security to store the chairs and other items safely. All be it to say that I was a very pleased customer as it came with a free rot resistant floor as well to keep my shed protected from the inevitable elements.
Although the log cabin looks quite good once done, I would not buy from Waltons again due to the lack of customer service and after sales service. I was missing a number of parts to my cabin having waited a month for initial delivery, only then to have to wait well over a month for the missing parts (which still haven't arrived). The phone number has a wait of over 20 minutes then cuts you off and there is little reply on email. DO NOT BUY FROM WALTONS, in my view, unless you are very very patient.
Hi After looking at many shed sites decided to go with beastsheds ,The sales staff were excellent advised me what i needed ,and what i did not need ,Arranged a delivery date ,and was given a rough time slot ,In which the fitters arrived in .
The Fitters were really helpful and polite ,and did a fantastic job .I was amazed how quickly they fitted it .also they left the garden nice and tidy ,and cleaned their mess up ,Shed is great I have boarded it out and fitted lights in it,Kids now have there own space ,to chill inn.
Have told all my family and friends about beastsheds ,Could not of wished for a better company to of fitted our shed .The quality of the shed and wood used is first class,so strong and robust.we have had a 10 x 8 Beast shed which as 3 x 2 frame work and 22mm cladding ,It is built like a tank .
I wanted to replace 2 - 5x4' sheds and had struggled to find a local supplier. I came across Easyshed and was impressed by their on-line shed configurator. Using their tool I "built" my dream shed, you can include extras like shelving or raise the overall height, specify different types of wood etc.
Shed ordered and delivery confirmed. When preparing for delivery I had messed up and call Easyshed to explain that I thought I had 2 x 6' sheds and as a consequence the shed I ordered was 2' too long - no problem they said and cut it down.
On the day the fitters called half an hour before their arrival just as I had asked. It was a tight squeeze but 40 minutes later job done! The factory had even reduced the roof so it did not run into next door neighbors.
Highly recommend.
Rob V.
I ordered the 6 x 6 wooden greenhouse through Argos and the delivery was quick. Due to bad weather I had to wait for a week or so to assemble the greenhouse and towards the end of the very poor instructions I found several items missing from the order. I contacted Kybotech ( the makers) directly and requested the items to be sent to me. One part arrived but not the entire request, so several phone calls and emails later and waiting over a week for them to confirm the rest of the items were coming I had to ring Argos who were very good and got things moving.
To summarise Kybotech 'appear' to be helpful but when you want them to ring you there is no way they are interested. We have an answer machine and that was clearly not used on the time I was not available and that was for half a day. Product quality is good in my opinion and the greenhouse will look good now I have all the parts but customer services - OH dear, it's in the name, beware!
I have to agree with most of the reviews here! Billyoh Sheds are terrible!! Everything started well, panels went together easily and the instructions were fairly easy to follow. As everyone says it looks fine when its in sections but when it gets put together things don't quite work.
I bought a Lincoln tongue and groove 6 x 8 shed from Gardenbuildings Direct, fast delivery. Panels fit fine to start. One of the rear panels was 5mm shorter than the other but managed to sort it by using a strip of wood. All sides done but noticed the rear of the shed bowing out but decided to leave it until roof was on as the weather was starting to change. The roof panels are the same width as the side panels so when you try to put them on there is a 20mm shortfall due to the cladding on the front and back panels. Checked instructions, all seems ok, all bits fit together as they should and it must be right because the roof purlins fit correctly. As it started raining I put a tarp on the roof.
Phoned the customer services a couple of days later to explain the roof problem, nice lady said it sounded like the wrong roof panels were included and they would send out the right ones. 1 week later roof panels arrived, unfortunately I was out so my mother took delivery. New roof panels exactly the same size as originals! Decided to email customer services to explain the problem giving the the sizes of panels compared to their sizes on the website and included photos. They replied next day saying that sizes on the website are approximate and had I fitted the front and rear panels on the inside of the side ones?
The shed is still without a roof due to the weather, but have decided to sort it in my own way. Not a good product for £230 and it will probably cost a fair bit to sort out. As a friend once said 'Buy cheap, pay twice!' Shame I keep forgetting his advice!!
The initial service from Passmore's was good.- they helped me through the planning requirements ,sizing and types of wood . The initial deposit paid on what I thought was the same Garage as per their brochure - when it was delivered - it looked a lot lighter wood, although I'm told this will weather. Again the brochure is mislead - the wood is obviously stained in the brochure as its nothing like that when it comes - its practically white.
Finally the brochure shows great red roof tiles. You would think that's what I would have had delivered?
no obviously you need to be so prescriptive - as despite saying I want the same look as per your brochure the sent me the cheapest interlocking concrete tiles you can imagine. Not one picture in any of their magazine uses such cheap tiles. Not happy with Passmore - brochure totally misleading.
I received two sheds from Easysheds on Friday 27th July 2012. I had to erect myself as Cornwall is out of their delivery area (perfectly alright as I wanted to erect it myself with my builder). End panel on one was severely bowed leaving a gap of one inch along middle top of wall. I was surprised as I presumed it was made up on a jig but the tongue and groove and two centre framing uprights were cut to accomodate the bow. I provided two photos to show the problem making use of a long spirit level to show that the roof was straight but end panel dipped in the middle. On complaining I was first told to put weight on roof to take up the dip in the end panel, infuriating to be asked to accept my roof now should have a dip in it. Further emails and only response was "it was alright when it left us" or "wood is a natural product and is prone to shrinking" (I pointed out that presumably then the tongue and groove and incredibly the two lengths of framing shrunk in length by over an inch). Incidentally the sheds were stored flat for 4 days before we started to erect them. " you must have stored them incorrectly" and on and on and on.
Both sheds were security sheds and of generally poor quality and finish. So I ask others to be very careful and perhaps (if you are going to take a chance with this company)take the option to pay on delivery to give you the opportunity to carefully check it before paying.
Beware of Easysheds for it seems their customer service only knows one reponse "its not our fault"
customer service is something that has passed this company by. From the delivery drivers through to customer services manager (a misnomer if there ever was one). We ordered a playhouse... the roof never arrived. Rains came and it was ruined. Not only that... but the quality of the wood was very poor. For a child's playhouse the wood was splintered and broken... shocking spec. Despite this, wife and i, on reflection decided to upgrade to a log cabin style in the hope that quality of wood would be better (an extra £100+). It was somewhat better - still splinters in parts but 1000x better quality than the previous (not that the starting point was too high!!!)... but this time the firm delivered the wrong floor. We called and the "customer service" manager (the customer service has to be put in speech marks... because its a joke!) refused to offer any kid of monetary good will for messing us about again... we ordered a new floor and this couldn't arrive for over a week. The delivery guy was miserable. He wanted to leave the materials at the front door and didn't want to leave it in the garage. And when i noticed the floor was still the wrong one, when i told him he said he didn't care and that i'd have to phone... air for it... "CUSTOMER SERVICES"!!! no apology at all! i ended up going out and buying the materials top make a floor myself at a personal cost of £60... avoid if you can. this company seems to have cornered the market in wooden playhouses but if you can avoid them... DO! AVOID AVOID AVOID... please... do not suffer their incompetence and lack of customer service... as i have.....
Ordered a 12x6 Billyho shed from Gardenbuildingsdirect and received order confirmation from Kybotech.What I got was a 12x6 floor and sufficient bearers for a 12x6 shed but the shed panels were for a 10 x 6. Spoke to customer services who gave me the option of waiting for the correct panels or settling for 10 x 6. I chose the latter since the erectors were on site and were costing me £280 a day. I would have had to pay this again if I had waited.Customer Services said someone would call to discuss compensation.They did not, I got an email saying they had credited me with £30 (the difference in cost of the two sheds). No recognition of the fact that I had paid for larger floor than was required,had extra bearers I did not need, or that I had had a concrete base constructed that was 2 ft larger than necessary.Worst of all, no apology and no recognition of the inconvenience and disappointment. The shed is very poor quality,the roof trusses were missing, the panels are riddled with knot holes and one is split and mouldy and the door is too small. I think the erectors were ashamed to put it up. Avoid like the plague.
For as long as I can remember, I have had a fascination with sheds. Probably because when younger, I enjoyed playing in them and exploring their contents, but most of all I love the rustic smell of wood.
The very first shed I bought, back in the 80's was an, apex roofed, overlap shed, built with specially treated feather board, whereby a copper containing preservative solution is forced under pressure into the timber. I purchased it from B&Q for around the £200 mark and, nearly a quarter of a century later, it is still going strong. I recently gave it to a friend who is a keen gardener, for his allotment.
Normally when purchasing a simple style of shed it will be delivered free or sometimes for a small fee, in easy to construct sections, the floor, four sides, a door and two roof sections. Once the ground is perfectly level, It only takes two, well organised people about two hours to piece it together and felt the roof (I'm talking small, simple design sheds, no larger than 6ft x 7ft ..) and a third person to supply the tea and biscuits .
Sheds come in a variety of shapes and sizes, the roof can be backward or forward sloping, called pent roof, or where the roof slopes like that of a house, called an apex roof, it can be made from wood, metal or pre-cast concrete. One of the most important things to look out for when considering purchasing a wooden shed is the quality of the wood.
Costs vary enormously; one can expect to pay anything from about £200 to £5,000 depending on size of the construction and quality of materials. I find that cost, quality and dimensions are very closely linked to longevity.
Buy cheap and the quality is usually low and the shed ends up as firewood in a relatively short time.
Some years after buying my first shed, I found, as most hoarders do, that it was not big enough to store everything and when it got to the point where there was no room for me to stand or work in the shed, I thought of getting a bigger shed.
Thinking of buying a wooden shed?
There are two sorts of timber commonly used to build sheds, feather board, which is rough-cut wood, thick on one edge, gradually tapering down to the other edge, resembling the shape of an elongated wedge of cheese. When fixing together, the thick edge is faced downwards and the next piece positioned so that its thick edge overlaps the thinner edge of the first piece by a few centimetres. Featherboard is now becoming popular to use for fencing.
Then there are shiplap, more commonly known as tongue and groove, boards, which are smooth-cut, having a groove on one edge and a slight tapering on the opposite edge, which slots into the groove of the next board or plank. The better quality boards/planks are at least 12mm thick; some knots may be present but not knotholes.
Because the boards are smooth they can be varnished, painted or treated with an appropriate wood preserver.
Don't make the same mistake as I did.
My first mistake was to look for the cheapest I could find that would suit my requirements. I sent off for a catalogue and scanned the assortment and styles before deciding on an eight-foot, pent shed, made with tongue and groove wood. Now there is nothing wrong with tongue and groove wood, providing it be of a good quality, preferably pressure treated and with no gaping knotholes. When buying from a catalogue it is never wise to assume the quality you will get will be as good as it appears in the glossy magazine.
Unfortunately, mine arrived looking a bit like a Tetley tea bag, though I admit I didn't notice the knotholes at first, for the men who put it together for me (in the pouring rain) filled them with brown sealant, which over time, shrunk, allowing rain, draughts and the odd insect and their friends into the cabin. One hole was large enough for a small mouse to enter and take up residence.
The wood was of poor quality, and untreated. Nails rather than bolts and screws fastened the sides together. The door often swelled in the damp and stuck fast after a heavy rainfall. The framework was constructed of 30mm x30mm timber. The roofing felt was thin and lasted about three years before needing replacing. In other words, I got what I paid for a cheap shed, which would not withstand the test of time, even when creosoted annually.
After eight years, I decided that it was time I was rid of the shed, so toyed with the idea of building one myself, to my own specifications. My thoughts were that even I could make a better job of constructing a shed than those who had built the wreck standing at the bottom of my garden. I wanted to replace the two I had with one large one.
Without realising it, I had subconsciously set myself a challenge; and not being one to chicken out on a challenge, set too and drew a rough sketch of the style I wanted and asked my friend and neighbour, who happened to be a builder, to estimate how much wood etc I would need.
He not only estimated the quantity of materials required, he drew plans of each frame I needed to construct and advised me where to get estimates for the materials. He was always on hand when I required advice or help in lifting anything too heavy for me to handle. Without this invaluable help, I would not have been able to meet my challenge. I might have tried, but very much doubt the story would have been one of success.
Thinking of building your own shed?
There are several important issues to consider when thinking of building a shed. Primarily the weather; it is not safe using power tools outside, exposed to the rain, therefore start when forecasts are good, and overestimate, rather than underestimate the time it will take to complete each task.
Secondly, having decided the size of the construction, price up the materials required and get at least two estimates from builder's merchants decide on the quantity, quality and style of woods to construct the frames and to clad the shed; and finally, quality of roofing materials.
Thirdly, make sure all tools necessary for the tasks are readily to hand, batteries are charged and quantity and size of nails, screws and bolts required are ordered along with the wood.
Finally, unless the shed can be built in a day or two it is best to store the wood in a dry, cool area, so that it does not dry out too quickly and warp or get too wet to cut easily.
I have a long passageway where I could store most of my wood away from the heat and rain before use, and had most of my order delivered in one go.
My Shed: Preparation:
The size of my shed to be was to measure 18-foot long and 8-foot wide clad in featherboard and insulated inside. I designed it so that almost midway along the length, I would inset a shallow porch, to protect the door from the rain and reduce the possibility of it jamming.
The tools I used were, An electric chop- saw, spirit levels, three drills; one to drill holes, one to counter-sink and the third to insert screws; finally, hammer, steel tape measure, staplers, and two G-clamps.
I made two wooden implements myself; a T shaped spacer, made up of two pieces of wood joined together in the shape of a T, this I used when fixing the featherboard to the frames, to keep the distance between each board the same.
The other was an accurate L shaped, right-angled frame, one side the length of the proposed gaps between each piece of timber on the floors and roof, and the other side to the measurements of the gaps between each piece in the side frames. The right angle was then used to hold, with the aid of two G-clamps, two pieces of wood to be joined at a perfect right angle.
Ground preparation
Before construction, the ground where the shed is to stand needs to be level. My garden sloped diagonally so my neighbour, with a little help from me, arranged and levelled three lines of lintels across the whole length of the proposed shed site so that the shed floor struts would be supported at right angles to the lintels. I positioned airbricks between the lintels to allow essential ventilation under the shed floor then blocked off any other gaps with bricks to prevent rodent access.
Timber used in its construction
The frames were built using 50mm x50mm lengths of untreated timber and clad with tanalised featherboard . The floor and roof frames were covered in 12mm treated plywood. Window frames were built with tanalised batten and 12mm-untreated wood. After glazing with 4m glass, they were sealed with a silicone sealant and quadrant battens were placed around the edges to hold glass firmly in place.
Ready to go: Bring me sunshine
The weather in March and April was perfect for constructing the 15 frames onto which the feather board would be attached. The floor, roof and rear panel of the shed each consisted of three separate frames which would eventually be bolted together.
Because my design was different from the normal four-sided shed, the only frames, which were the same, were the two side frames, and the two inset frames.
The first thing I did was to cut one of each of the different lengths of timber and pencilled their lengths on each, then used them as templates when cutting the rest. This eliminated the need to measure each piece individually every time I needed to cut the same length. It ensured consistency in measurements and saved time.
When joining two pieces of timber at right angles, I placed one piece along one edge of my homemade wooden, L shaped, right-angled tool, and the other along the other edge, clamping them together with quick-release G-clamps, then fixed the timbers together with screws.
Once the frame construction was completed, the weather broke, and there was very little I could do until that wonderful mini heat wave in September, when I was able to bolt the three floor frames together and cut and fix the plywood onto them with screws.
That done, the three back frames were lain flat on the floor and bolted together before covering with polythene sheeting and cladding with the feather board. It was important to position each row, in a pattern resembling that of brickwork, where the joins between two pieces of wood were not at the same point in the boards in the next row, to give the wall more strength.
The reason for stapling on polythene sheeting was that I was to insulate the inside of the shed once constructed and advised to cover the frames first before cladding. Moses, often used them as hammocks , lying very comfortably, in the sunshine.
All frames were clad, and my neighbour raised the frames for the roof, to rest on the supports I had previously fixed to the upper parts of the side frames. Those frames were then bolted together and fixed with screws to the top of the side frames. My neighbour once again came to the rescue and raised the plywood, which I had cut to fit, to rest on the roof frames where I could clamber up and fix them in place.
After all this time, I began to feel that my shed was at last taking shape, but there was lots more to do, each task taking much longer than anticipated. For example, it took me a whole morning to cover the roof with roofing felt and place timber round the perimeter to prevent the wind ripping the felt from the roof.
The door, rescued from the old shed, had to be fixed in place, but because it was slightly smaller than the opening, the door frame had to be adapted by bolting two additional pieces of timber to the main frames. That done the door fitted beautifully. I then constructed a shallow overhang, which would help keep the door dry when open.
The window frames were the next task, but rain came into play, delaying progress on and off for a week, so in the mean time, the gaps were covered with polythene sheeting to keep out the rain.
Once the windows were in place, my neighbour and I celebrated with a Guinness shandy, or two and mince pie, or three, after which I began working on the interior, putting insulation in place and covering with hardboard. However, before that, because the roof span was considerably longer than usual, we decided that two parallel supporting beams, spanning the whole length, should be added to prevent the roof bowing. Having seen many a concave shaped shed roof and I did not fancy that happening to mine.
Along the way, I have learned a great deal and have picked up some very useful tips, which I will briefly share, for anyone who wishes to build their own shed.
These were the tips given me by my builder friend, enabling me to work single handed for most of the construction.
1. When nailing boards to frames, to get the spacing even, use a T shaped piece of wood as a spacer.
2. When trying to nail or screw a long board along the edges of the roof (to cover the felt) it is impossible to do it single handed unless, you place a nail (leaving an inch or two exposed) approximately half way along the side, onto which to rest the board, whilst nailing one end.
3. To fix a long, heavy beam support to the inside of the roof, hang a loop of rope from the cross beams, then thread the support beam through the loop, the rope will then hold the beam steady whilst the ends are permanently fixed in place.
How much did it cost? Well the basic shed materials cost a little under £1000; the addition of insulation and covering raised the cost to about £1300. How much would have cost if bought ready made? It is anybody's guess, but probably in the region of £3000.
It doesn't have the luxury of electrical sockets, for kettles or PCs, so won't be using it as an office, but have a space in mind, to keep all the wretched spare plugs, chargers, USB and scart leads accumulated over time which are taking up valuable space in the house.
There is still plenty to be done, I have a workbench and shelving to construct before I can make full use the shed, but, to all intents and purposes, I feel my shed is complete.
At last I have managed to complete the interior of my shed now, with bench and shelving....perfect.
I just have to be careful now to keep everything in order inside, so I don't waste time playing 'hunt the tool.'
It is wonderful to be able to go into a well organised shed and find the correct tool without having to search high and low, like I used to have to do.
i have been asked to write a review on my standard garden shed i received from easyshed on friday 7th october, the first thing i have to say is that i did read 1 bad review, which i asked them about. and they confirmed it was from a customer that had no access and no base, so i decided to pay c.o.d for the shed by credit card on the day , the fitting team were 2 well mannered gentleman. they drove a 59 plate transit and had easyshed workwear. they cleaned up after them self. so far so good, i had a flat concrete base and access was clear . the shed was a 8x8 apex standard with a 3ft door. shed had a tanalised floor which is 20mm thick and of real wood, the shed was screwed together and had a green mineral roof. the door was ledge and brace and had security hinges as standard, what also was a pleasent suprise the framing was also tanalised, the fitters then explained they only use tanalised framing on all there sheds now, all in all i was very pleased with the shed ,as it had good height as i am 6ft , the only thing so far i am disapointed with was the perspex windows , as the children have left home and safety is not a issue. so to summarise i would go for the standard shed with the free tanalised floor and framing , this shed would last as long as the tanalised with a few licks of paint which would save you money on the tanalised range.
full vat receipt on completion,
kind regards
tony ellis
i received my 16x8 tanalised apex shed today off easyshed , and apart from the fitters being aston villa fans, i have to say fantastic customer service, a quality wooden building, with a floor that a tank could drive over.all shed was screwed together, hinges & padbolt bolted. they offered my c.o.d for my peace of mind.they delivered and fitted in 10 days, and gave me a delivery date and time on the day i ordered shed . according to the fitters everything is in house , from the fitters to the internet,production and phones.no third partys. a total pleasurable experiance. well done easyshed


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