The Invention of the Knife and protection Tools of Today

Of all the tools in our society, only the wheel and the lever can compete with the common household knife for the title of All-Time Most Useful. As necessary in the kitchen as it is on the battlefield, and necessary in a wide range of trades and crafts, the knife is one of the construction blocks of civilization.

Knife History

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Not only is it useful, but the knife is possibly the oldest human tool. Rudimentary knives have been discovered among what anthropologists call the Oldowan tools - the oldest stone tool assemblage in history, used between 2.5 and 1.5 million years ago by various hominids fluctuating from Australopithecus to Homo habilis. These earliest knives were basically well-sharpened rocks used to butcher dead animals. Homo habilis was, agreeing to current scientific consensus, the species that made the imaginative leap of fashioning similar sharp points from pieces of wood and bone. Later, while the Paleolithic Era (a time period which overlaps with the later Oldowon tools) these wood and bone knives gave way in their turn to knives made from flint, a extra form of the mineral quartz, then copper (introduced ca. 8000 Bce), bronze (ca. 3300 Bce), iron (1500 Bce), and (later still) steel (ca. 1400 Bce), as the craft of metallurgy emerged. The bronze and iron knives, while they lacked the greatest sharpness of flint knives, offered greater durability.

Technological advances have continued to yield new options for knifemakers; today knives made of carbon fiber, titanium, earthenware and other materials are common. But archaeologists, knife collectors and enthusiasts, and organizations such as the American Bladesmith Society, continue to uphold the craft of old-fashioned metal knifemaking. The centrality of knives to civilized decorum in the Western world (they are one of the three utensils used with any meal), their proximity in many myths, legends and ceremonies all over the world, and their appeal to antiquarians and forces historians ensure that knives remain a meaningful, not just practical, part of human culture. From surgery to electron microscopy, from diving to diamond-cutting, knives are everywhere, and they occupy leading places in some of world culture's greatest stories - the reduce of Isaac, or the obsidian knife of Titlacahuan, Quetzalcoatl's brother, in Toltec mythology.

Knife Safety

Of course, knives are, if improperly handled, as perilous as they are necessary. But with a little common sense, and knowledge of knife safety procedures, that danger can be minimized.

- always cut away from your body when using a knife.

- Don't try to grab a dropped knife in midair. Let it fall, then pick it up by the handle.

- Never run with a knife, and don't carry a knife while being propelled in open air.

- If lending your knife to person else, hand it over to them cope first.

- Knives aren't toys. Don't point them. Keep them considered sheathed or folded when you aren't using them.

- Don't use a knife as a lever. In other words, don't use a knife to pry open a door, which can cause the tip to break off and potentially injure someone.

- Keep your knife sharpened.

- If you or person else is cut, call 911. If the wound is manageable, apply pressure to the area near the wound while elevating it (if possible) above the level of the heart.

Along with advances in knife technology come advances in knife safety. Safecutters.com represents the most modern evolution in knife safety. Knives come in all shapes and sizes, and no home or office is complete without a well-made utility knife or safety knife. Safecutters.com offers a practical and safe line of package openers and safety knives, perfect for employees working in shipping and receiving and in mail rooms, for pro and amateur movers or whatever who works with interesting boxes, whatever who sells interesting supplies or shipping supplies, and - lastly - whatever who receives packages in the mail.

The Invention of the Knife and protection Tools of Today

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Parenting Tips For Infants: 3 1/2 To 5 1/2 Months

"To be or not to be? That is the question." - Hamlet

To be!: 3 ½ to 5 1/2 months

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With apologies to Will Shakespeare for my loose translation. You and your child have begun a journey of discovery together. The experiences that you offer will determine either he/she travels straight through a barren wilderness or a rich and sharp landscape where fresh horizons continually beckon.

The journey will shape your child irrevocably. At the end of the first three years either vital connections between neurons in the brain have been or have not been made. We have no option but 'to be' any way we are free to select for our children to what degree they 'will be' and what they can become.

"When I look into the time to come it's so sharp it burns my eyes." - Oprah Winfrey

Isn't that the way we want our children to view the world?

Parenting Tips For Infants: 3½ To 5½ Months - Characteristics

  • Your child will now come to be increasingly interested in his surroundings
  • Watch and stare at movements and changes in scenery.
  • Will come to be more strict when grasping objects and explore them with her hands.
  • She will now be able to tell your voice from man else and will listen intently to sounds and voices
  • Now he is able to lift his head and chest using his forearms for preserve and can turn from side to side and roll over
  • She is able to sit with support.

Parenting Tips For Infants: 3½ To 5½ Months - Language Development

What you can do:

He will benefit from listening to a range of separate sounds so try and contribute opportunities each day.

To help him find sounds that are within his immediate surroundings ring a soft bell directly to the side of his head about 45 cm away from his ear and see if he can turns towards it.

Help him to recognise and react to his own name by oftentimes saying it to him slowly in a loving way.

Recite nursery rhymes or sing songs to him while you undertake those routine everyday chores that babies create!

This will help him identify and react certainly to your voice.

Don't make the mistake of reasoning that because he doesn't talk yet he won't understand. In fact he is starting to associate singular sounds with actions and objects (Nouns and verbs being the easiest vocabulary to finally introduce to your child.)

Parents often looked very disbelieving when, having asked how best they can help their child at home, are told naturally to take time to read to them making it an enjoyable experience.

I think some parents wanted to teach the theory of relativity. Pay close attentiveness to the sounds your baby makes and try to imitate them. He may now be happy to spend some time alone 'practising' his sounds when he wakes up. You may even begin to 'recognise' some of the sounds he now makes like aah, ee and ooo. Acknowledge to them enthusiastically and with clear pleasure.

Parenting Tips For Infants: 3½ To 5½ Months - Intellectual Development

What you can do.

Continue to do what you have already been doing.

When she is lying on the blanket give her some safe and sharp toys to explore with her hands..

She will want to put things in her mouth.

Encourage her to do this with safe toys.

You can now introduce inflatable toys which your child will delight in watching and kicking!

Take your baby with you on short shopping trips to allow him to sense and enjoy separate environments.

Use a mirror to show him his face and facial expressions. Play with him.

The more experiences you contribute the more you stimulate the vast network of neurons in your child's brain creating and reinforcing the learning pathways. It is these connections that will form the basis for all time to come learning and reasoning ability. Just as highways link city to city so these pathways associate one cell to another within the brain. And as with road networks there are all the time more prominent places, like large cities. The brain also has 'more prominent places' or processing centers, eight in all. We call them intelligences - linguistic, visual, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal (social), intrapersonal (introspective) and naturalist intelligence (Howard Gardner).

Learning intelligences, how you recognise them and how they impact on how we learn will form the basis of another course.

Parenting Tips For Infants: 3½ To 5½ Months - Social/Emotional Development

Always Acknowledge enthusiastically when you baby accomplishes whatever be it sounds or actions.

Maintain close interaction with him - rocking, cuddling etc.

Always hold him when feeding from a bottle and never let him hold his own bottle in bed.

Have fun! Tickle him and join in with his laughter.

Play with your baby by showing him how to use a range safe toys or gadgets and delight in his efforts to grasp and explore them.

Peek a boo is a great game to help encourage him to react and show delight when interacting with house members and friends.

Try and anticipate his needs by recognising the separate cries he makes so he knows he can rely on you to meet them.

Don't wait until he is asleep before putting him to bed. Do it when he is obviously tired so he can get used to falling asleep on his own - something we singularly failed to do as parents with embarrassing consequences!

I often fell asleep reading a story while my child son clambered out of bed - quietly not to wake me -and went down stairs to fill in his mum he'd got me to sleep again.

If your baby does awaken at night then allow him time to calm himself and go back to sleep.

He she won't all the time need feeding or changing but if he persists after 5 to 10 minutes it's best to check!

The prominent thing is to help him learn how to get back to sleep on his own.

Parenting Tips For Infants: 3½ To 5½ Months - Motor Development

How you can help

Your baby is going to need free, open spaces to roll, move and wriggle arms and legs.

If you hold objects slightly above and in front of him while he is lying on his stomach he will lift his head and chest using his forearms for support.

Lay him on his side as this will encourage him to roll onto his stomach or his back.

He will now enjoy sitting supported on your lap or leaning up against pillows.

This strengthens his upper and lower torso.

Encourage him to explore toys with both hands.

Exercising the body is good for the mind. We have now discovered that citizen who practice their fingers usually like concert pianists oftentimes stay alert into old age. Children need to learn fetch spatial awareness and this means a baby must have opportunities to use his body freely.

In another course we see how spatial awareness can be used very effectively to heighten memory recall.

It's what the Romans did! I'm digressing, time to get back to your baby.

If you place toys within his reach he will be encouraged to reach out and grasp them.

Put pressure against your baby's feet with your hands and encourage him to push against you.

Hold him in a standing position for 30 to 45 seconds and allow him to preserve his weight on his legs.

Lay your baby on the floor with his feet near a crib, gym or noisy objects on a string tied between legs of furniture to request kicking practice.

Parenting Tips For Infants: 3 1/2 To 5 1/2 Months

My Love - A Poem About One's First Love

There are three main reasons why someone comes to Christ and receives Him as Lord and Savior of their lives and drives men and women to their knees before Him.

One think is through a realization of the holiness of God and the unholiness, wretchedness of man and the perfect realization that God is all and you are nothing. Second think is brought about with a very real and remarkable fear of God's wrath and the final expression of His wrath being hell. Plus, the reality of what we in effect deserve from God is to spend the rest of eternity separated from Him in hell. Third think comes about by falling head over heels in love with the loving Savior, Jesus Christ.

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To fully realize how much Jesus Christ loves you and how much you mean to Him. My think for first accepting Jesus Christ into my heart and life was think whole three. No one introduced me to Him, He just revealed Himself to me in a personnel, intimate way that I will never forget. At the start of my freshmen year in high school, all of my childhood friends moved away and I was left alone. In addition, I did not feel a lot of love at home from my parents and my one younger brother. I entered high school alone, feeling unwanted, unloved and consequently became depressed.

Looking back at my freshmen year, I would say the hardest part of being and feeling alone was not in effect being alone or feeling disconnected from population but instead feeling that I wasn't primary enough, for whatever to want to get to know me.

I always knew about God but I did not know Him; there is a vast unlikeness in the middle of the two. Growing up, my parents would often take my brother and me to church. And while elementary school I would go to Bible class which was held once a week in a trailer and lasted about an hour. Church and Bible class is where I learned about God and some of the stories in the Bible. However, as far as I can remember, no one in effect taught me how to know God personally and intimately. Having no one to talk to while my freshmen year, I decided to take on the endeavor of getting knowing God by talking to Him.

My getting to know God started in conversations with Him, actually, I'm the one that did all of the talking so I guess it wasn't much of a two way conversation. Many times these conversations took place in an oak tree. However, whenever I talked to God I would ask one desire, which was for God to take my life literally. Finding back, I realize that I wasn't getting to know God and in effect had no real clue to who He was. For God is the God of life and not death. And when one realizes God's love for them and embraces that love then one cannot help but to live life to the fullest. Jesus said, "..I have come that they may have life and life to the full." (John 10:10).

God is a rewarder of those who seek Him, no matter how one starts the seeking process. A integrate of months into my freshmen year of high school, God sent me a friend and someone that He can talk through. His name was Ken Caster and he was a junior at my school. I met Ken while I was sitting alone at the lunch table in the cafeteria. As I was eating Ken approached me and sat down. He then did something that no one else had ever done, he asked me my name.

Ken did not immediately start preaching to me about Jesus. in effect he didn't talk at me, spilling out theological and evangelical useful information. Instead, he plainly started request questions about me, he started to get to know me. I did not know it the time but it was at that moment I was talking face to face with God; for by just seeking to get to know me, Ken was displaying the character and heart of Jesus. For in every believer God lives and when we walk in obedience in accordance with God's holiness and His love then Jesus, who is also God (John 1:1-3,14), is manifested through the life of the Christian.

After several weeks from the first meeting with Ken I started going to Campus Life, there I met more of Ken's friends who speedily became my friends. Campus Life was a ministry which met once every other week. while the meetings there would be an icebreaker, then an open conference about contemporary issues and how they reveal to the Christian life. At the end of every discussion, a leader or someone would wrap up the conference and the meeting would close with a public time. someone working with Campus hunt for Christ were in fee of these meetings. I am sure that while these meetings, Ken or someone told me about Jesus but I don't remeber whatever telling me the Gospel or salvation.

Towards the end of March of my freshmen year, Ken invited me to see a Christian comedian named, Ken Davis in concert. It sounded fun so I agreed. In April Ken and some of his friends picked me up and took me to the concert. while the show I could not remember the last time, if any, I laughed and not only laughed but laughed so hard, that at times it was hard for me to breath. Towards the end, when the laughing stopped, Ken Davis proceeded to tell us about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This was the first time when I heard about the Man, the God and the Savior that I would fall in love with.

At the end of his message Ken Davis asked everybody to bow their heads and not to think about anything. He asked, while heads bowed, to let the Holy Spirit move and allow God to talk to our hearts.

This night was the first night when God spoke and I listened. While my head was bowed God did speak to me, not with words but with His love and I began to feel and sense Jesus Christ's presence, His loving presence, all nearby me and inside of me, and for the first time in my life I did not feel alone. Then Ken Davis asked if whatever wanted to accept Jesus into their heart and if so to come up front.

Without thinking, I gently stood up with my head still bowed and I gently made my way up to the stage. As I was development my way up I began to lift my head and shame started sliding off me like butter and acceptance started to clothe me.

While I was walking down the aisle and up towards the stage, I did not look to the right or to the left but looked level ahead then up towards the heavens, it was like I was Finding level into the loving eyes of the Savior.

For it was that night I saw the face of my love but it wasn't my fleshly eyes that beheld Him but my spiritual eyes that beheld Jesus Christ, my love. It was that night I knew I would never again be alone. After much rejoicing with Ken Caster and his friends I went home and headed up stairs to my bedroom.

In my bedroom alone but yet not alone I made a vow I said, "Jesus, I want to live for you no matter what. If it is cool or uncool, if it is the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do, I will live for you. Since then I started conversing with God and now I try to do the majority of the listening. When God speaks to me, many time I hear his words and feel His arms nearby me and His love warming my heart and spirit on cold, dark nights.

It was on one of those nights that I wrote my first poem called "My Love." Other poems would corollary in general about Jesus, which comes from my new heart that I received the night when I suitable Jesus Christ into my heart and life, at a Christian comedian concert in April of my freshmen year of high school.

My Love

I remember when I first fell in love,
your gentles like a dove,
your voice calling me
to be your love.

I remember when I first held your hand,
as I promised to cherish you
in this foreign land.

When times come when I feel lost and scared,
I hear your voice saying,
"You have nothing to fear,
remember you are mine,
All of this because I care."

For I know, I am the apple of your eye,
before you I was nothing but now I am something,
by the corollary of your love that will never die.

There was a time, long ago
when you proved your love for me,
and showed me once and for all,
You will never let me go.

For my sins you died upon a tree,
with mighty action,
on the cross,
you displayed your love for me.

When I heard you had died, I started to cry,
but tears of sadness turned to tears of joy,
when you arose and appeared by my side.

Soon you told me you had to leave,
to prepare a place for me,
where we will be together for eternity.

My love, there are still times when I feel discouraged,
when I grow suddenly afraid and loose all courage,
tough still I am quick to rejoice,
for you have promised me,
you will come back for me,
and with your sweet voice,
call me by name to join you in eternity.

My Love - A Poem About One's First Love

Winning it All! Vol 2 - Basics for Partner Stunts & Transitions

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Winning it All! Vol 2 - Basics for Partner Stunts & Transitions with Saleem Habash 8X UCA National Championship Coach former University of Kentucky Head Coach Coach and choreographer of the Dunbar (KY) HS Cheer squad featured in Cheerleader Nation (Lifetime TV) This DVD builds on the foundation laid in Habash's best selling volume 1 series. Learn basic stunts and transitions and all the fundamentals you will need for proper execution including information on muscle memory team assessment and other critical coaching aids. Each stunt is demonstrated followed by a step-by-step explanation and breakdown. * Stair step liberty * Stair step high torch * Shoulder straddle to extension * Shoulder straddle to liberty * Walk-in ¼ up liberty * Walk-in ¼ up heel stretch * Walk-in one arm liberty * Walk-in one arm heel stretch * Front stretch open to the front * Peg leg transition to liberty * Peg leg transition to heel stretch * Low arabesque into high torch * Half-up heel stretch * Liberty rewind transition * Stair step rewind to liberty * Liberty low stretch rewind * Heel stretch double down * Dead lift liberty


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Chair Lift For Stairs - When Do You Need Them?

The Chair lift for stairs is the sure sass to those who are experiencing mystery trying to move about within their own home, essentially upstairs and downstairs. Your corporal handicap could nothing else but confine you to accessibility within one level of your own home. This can be highly frustrating to some as it becomes unthinkable that you could lose mobility within your own home. Your sass to the qoute could well be getting a residential stair lift.

Living a ability life in the face of disability is the key issue for many handicapped individuals, who still crave for corporal mobility and independence more than ever.

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One should understand that, for the physically challenged, simple daily activities like walking up and down the stairs could pose much corporal danger resulting from falls. And with the help of a residential stair lift, chances of corporal harm caused to joints like ankles, knees and hips are greatly reduced, not to mention liberation from immobility. This is nothing else but enhancing your ability of life indeed.

While it is a viable clarification to move to a particular story home in order to enable mobility within your own home, it is by far not the best selection to compromise your situation. The alternative which means addition of a simple stair feature, namely the chair life for stairs, is nothing else but a great and more affordable option, not to mention, less hassle too.

A residential stair lift is one which is attached to the railings along the stairs. The advantage of this law is that there is no need for structural changes made to your home. They come in the form of a seat pan, with back rest, foot rest and seat belts and are the movements are controlled by a remote control push button system. Most have a soft start and stop mechanism built in to the law to ensure a smooth ride. You have a selection of opting for whether a battery operated or home electricity system. They are nothing else but tucked away at the end corner of the stairs whenever not used. And the added advantage of the law is that you not only are able to converyance person, but also groceries, luggage and even laundry upstairs and downstairs whenever you need to.

They can come in varied pricing levels based on the featured options available. Regardless of the type of features and law you pick, the cost is right on less than installing a home lift which not only entails allinclusive restructuring of your home, but also could run up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The price defers greatly depending on whether you opt for a curved or straight chair lift, interior or covering chair lift, the type of mechanism and features to be included within the system. The midpoint cost of a total law ranges from 7,000 to 15,000 dollars for a good chair lift for stairs system.

Chair Lift For Stairs - When Do You Need Them?

Standing Stair Lift benefit - Two Reasons Why Standing Stairlifts Make Sense

When you are injured and are faced with a long-term mobility handicap preventing you from using the stairs, and you live in a multi-story house that you just love and won't leave for the world, it is time to reconsider purchasing a stairlift. Standing stairlift is a kind of a stairlift where you stand throughout the ride instead of sitting down in a chair.

There are significant disadvantages of a standing stairlift over the more common chair stair climber, or chair lift, especially when it comes to safety. As an example, it is difficult or impossible to use a seat belt when standing up. So there good be good reasons why you settle to go with a standing stair lift.

Stair Lift Story

In this record we will go over two of the most leading reasons why you would prefer or need a standing stair lift rather than the more common type of a "sitting stairlift" or chair lift. The two main reasons why people opt in for a standing stairlift are: highly narrow stairs in their house and inability to bend your knee properly. Let's look at both reasons separately.

Narrow stairs

When the stairs you want to use in your house are very narrow, narrower than 30 in. In width, it makes sense to reconsider a standing stairlift. When standing, there is no seat and no legs protruding over the stairs, allowing for a comfortable ride over narrow stairs.

Knee issues

When your current corporal health does not allow for a adequate bend of one or both knees, then a sitting position in a stairlift makes minuscule sense. It just might be good to opt for a standing stairlift instead.

Warning: Using a regular sitting stairlift in a standing position is a positively bad idea. First, sitting stairlifts are usually not designed to withstand the standing position. Their foot rest plainly is not strong enough. So standing up may be bad for the stair lift, and worse, may endanger yourself too.

Notice: Before opting for a standing stairlift, reconsider a "perching stairlift". This is a middle ground between a sitting stair lift and a standing stairlift. It will contribute more security than the standing stairlift as you can lean on the appropriately height-adjusted seat and you can even use a seat belt. You will still be able to not bend your knees much, and the wide width of the stairlift may still fit your narrow stairs.

Standing Stair Lift benefit - Two Reasons Why Standing Stairlifts Make Sense

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2010 Professional Firefighter Challenge

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The second annual Florida Professional Firefighters Challenge & Stair Climb for firefighters & civilians in Orlando, FL on May 29, 2010 at the Orlando Hilton. My adrenaline was flowing!


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Minivator Stairlifts video- Simplicity 950 Straight Stairlift - Leodis Stairlifts Leeds

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How to Lose Weight Without Leaving Your Home or Office

No matter where you work or live. Here are some tips to help you fit in some extra weight-loss strategies into your daily routine:

1. Squat often. Many citizen spend a solid 2-3 minutes twice a day brushing their teeth. As they brush, they stand still in front of the mirror. If you added a few lunges or squats to that routine, then you would spend a solid 4-6 minutes a day working out those important thigh muscles. The thigh muscles are one of the largest muscle groups in your body. Not only are they the quickest to be transformed once you start to work them out, but they also help you lose weight quicker when they are loaded with muscles instead of fat. Therefore, work out this large muscle group to get toned up and slimmed down quickly.

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2. Lift the jug while pouring the milk. If you have milk or juice with your breakfast, spend a few minutes doing curls with the bottles as your coffee brews. The early-morning burst of power and muscle activity will help you raise your body's metabolism for the rest of the day. You'll also find that by production small work-out sessions the first thing you do in the morning, you are more likely to continue to do them throughout the day.

3. Take a double step. While walking up the stairs, take a double step instead of just one. By extending your leg slightly higher, you are increasing the angle from about45 degrees to 90 degrees. The increased angle means that your muscles will have to work harder to get your body up the stair than if you were taking smaller steps.

4. Tip toe even when you're not trying to be quiet. By tiptoeing colse to your home or office, you will find that your calves advantage the most from the extra effort. Stay as high on your toes as inherent for a long number of time. Or, raise and lower your body using only your calf muscles. The more you work those calf muscles, the tighter they will be in the long run.

5. Roll your neck. Most citizen store a large number of their stress in their necks. When you keep stress in your body, it affects the number of fat that you withhold in your belly negatively. Therefore, by rolling the stress out of your neck, you inadvertently publish the fat storehouse from your stomach. The effects of this practice are both immediate, as you will begin to feel relaxed, as well as long term, as your whole body starts to slim down.

No matter how busy you are, it is important that you take time out to treat your body well. Stress, caused by a busy lifestyle and fast-paced work environment can not only increase the fat on you body, but it can deplete you of the power you need to practice properly. Therefore, it is important that you remind yourself to take care of your body, even if you cannot sample New Jersey's splendid parks and gyms everyday. A tiny movement goes a long way to a healthier lifestyle.

How to Lose Weight Without Leaving Your Home or Office

Planning a Second Story increasing

Planning is the key when taking on a scheme that involves removing your roof.

Before you plan your 2nd story, study what obstacles will need to be dealt with. Examples of items that need to be addressed are:

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-Size of ceiling joists, can they maintain a 2nd story floor?

-Are mechanicals run over the top of existing ceiling joists? (plumbing, electRic, Hvac)

-How much overhang is on existing roof and are there any utilities fastened to it.

-Is the existing roof stick built(built on site) or a truss roof(manufactured).

-Is the roof sheathing 1x boards or plywood?

-How many layers of shingles are there?

-Are there any Stacks or flues protruding through the roof such as a fireplace chimney, furnace flue, or vent pipe.

These things need to be carefully so the increasing can be built as fast as possible.

When beginning the tearoff, the first thing that needs to be addressedis the soffit. Removing this first will free up the rafter ends when it comes time to remove them. Sometimes utilities like the phone and electrical lines are attached to the soffit. These should be moved by their respective utility company.

Now you can tearoff the roof. The easiest way to remove the shingles and sheathing is with a circular saw. It's best to use an old blade with a lesser estimate off teeth because it will be trash when you are done.

When cutting the roof away, start at the ridgeboard and run the saw in the middle of the rafters all the way to the rafter tails. Repeat this cut every 32" from one end of the roof to the other. These pieces, assuming they are plywood, can be removed in 32"x 48" squares. There will still be some weight to these pieces but this will make them more managable. Working from the ridge, these squares are loosened with a sledgehammer. Once there is sufficient room, you can use a prybar to free them from the rafters. My popular technique is to use a 6 to 8 foot 2x4. Slip it under the loosened piece and use an adjacent
rafter as a fulcrum. Push down on the 2x4 and up comes the plywood and shingles. This same policy works with trusses also.

If the roof sheathing is planks, the cuts should be made 48" to 64"apart. If there are 2 or mre layers of shingles, you should be able to roll these sections down the rafters.

Once the roof sheathing is removed, the rest of the components canbe removed. If the soffit and fascia haven't been removed yet, thisis someone else occasion to do so. Once that is gone the rafters can be removed. The rafters can be detached from the ridgeboard by using a sledgehammer or a sawzall. After they are loose from the ridge, they can be twisted off the top plate.

Trusses can be a minuscule trickier. After the sheathing is removed,most of the truss work will have to be cut out. The only part left would be the bottom cord that holds up the drywall ceiling. Since most of these cords are 2x4's, larger 2x lumber will have to be sistered alongside for added support. As long as there are bearing walls below, this 2x lumber could be 2x10's, 2x12's or engineered lumber such as I-joists. Each situation is different and what is used is spect by an engineer or architect.

In most cases, the electric (conduit), plumbing and/or Hvac run over the top of the ceiling joists. Usually, the easiest way to deal with this, is to build a knee wall high sufficient for the new floor joists to clear these obstructions. This makes the second floor deck higher so it will make your stair run longer. Making sure you have room for the stairs in this instance is someone else consideration.

Once the deck is down, the walls, ceiling joists, and roof of your new increasing can follow.

Whatever situation might you have, good planning will make this taskeasier and quicker. Time is of the essence when it comes to removing a roof. You want to protect the existing structure and all of your requisite possesions that are left inside.

(c) 2005 Mike Merisko http://www.sawkerfs.com

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Stannah Stairlifts | Measuring, Fitting and Installing the Stair Lift

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Get Carter Car Park Demolition of the east side lift shaft and stair way, 27th August 2010.

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Bobby Riggs Sets Up the Aspen Sting - Aspen Hustle - Part Two

I was to meet Bobby Riggs' Aspen Airways flight due in at 2:30 p.m., July 27, 1976. Aspen Airways was a small connector airline from Denver to Aspen. With only a 7,500 foot runway and at 8,000 feet altitude, only small corporate and secret aircraft were permitted to land there. Aspen Airways flew small, twin-engine turbo prop puddle jumpers in and out continuously or as continuous as the weather would allow. On stormy days they normally circled above the mountain peaks until they found a hole in the clouds, and then descended rapidly, spiraling down to the field. It was normally a traumatic event for newcomers, but ordinary to locals. Even on a clear day the mountain air could generate a bumpy ride.

Fortunately today was a entertaining and sunny summer one, not a cloud, just a diplomatic zephyr down the runway. It would probably be a mildly bumpy landing for the passengers. As the diminutive market flight touches down and approaches the terminal where it will unload the passengers, I walk out onto the tarmac to greet the Man. Some young and happy couples come out first, then a rather smallish, disheveled mid-fifty-year-old man, who looks more like an old hippy than a legendary tennis icon, appears in the doorway. He seems a bit wobbly and is helped down the stairs by a fairly good-sized, good-looking, buxom, thirty-something woman. He is wearing a entertaining yellow 'Sugar Daddy' T-shirt perhaps it is a one-size fits all, but it is two sizes too small. A potbelly pops out where his belt should be. I was stunned. This was my big event?

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"Mr. Riggs, I'm Marv Moore from the Tennis Club. We're so honored to have you here," I sucked it up, hoping my disappointment was not evident. "I hope the flight didn't completely do you in. It's quite beautiful flying through the Rockies but they can be a diminutive rough at times".

"Nice to be here," He says, keeping out his hand. "This is Nurse Nancy. She looks after me. We've been seeing send to this trip. We've never been to Aspen before. Thanks for entertaining me. We'll have lots of fun." Fun! My God, this could be a fiasco!!

"Nancy has some concerns about my playing at this altitude at my age, but I'm sure that with a few days to get acclimated before Sunday, I'll be fine." Nurse Nancy smiles.

This is not at all what I expected. My heart sinks supplementary when he adds fuel to my fears, "You know I played a small exhibition in L.A. Last week and my elbow is still sore. perhaps you could provide me with the name of a good physician where I could get a cortisone shot."

"Of course, Bobby." So this was to be my "Great Event" to open the Club. My stomach churned. How could a man fall into such disrepair in such a short time? It was only a concentrate of years since he was at the top of his senior tennis game against Billie Jean.

My, oh, my! This is how the Third Battle of the Sexes began.

Aspen Airport is about four miles north of town and as we drive through Aspen I try to displace my concerns by giving Bobby and Nurse Nancy a diminutive history lesson.

"Aspen was an old silver mining town in the 1800's and many of the buildings are the former buildings, but they have been meticulously restored to their charming Victorian state. I've accommodations for you in our best condo at the Tennis Club, overlooking the Roaring Fork River. But we will be dining each evening with some of the most influential citizen here, to kind of build the excitement for Sunday's match." Bobby doesn't look too happy about this. I babble on, "That's the old Wheeler Opera House...the Hotel Jerome...the Red Onion...the Ute City Bank...It's not actually a bank, but a fine restaurant...This town has only 3,000 permanent residences now, but in the 1880's it was a great deal grander. It was wild miners and honkytonks. We're going to hit Some of these spots, a separate one each evening, with a separate group, if you are up to it." I wasn't sure he was up to anything, but I didn't want to give him an out so I plowed on, "Everyone in town can't wait to meet you. The First National Bank is co-sponsoring the event and has folks arrival in from all over the state to watch the match. Many are already here so the town is buzzing.

Just then we pass under one the street banners used to promote the event: 'Bobby Riggs vs. Sally Huss, Sunday July 31st in a Battle of the Sexes'. "Nice touch, Marv," says Bobby, smiling graciously as he rubbed his elbow. I could see he was checking it all out. Nurse Nancy sat in the backseat, here to give any maintain he needed, I suppose.

"The Tennis Club is on the south side of town foremost up to Independence Pass and the Continental Divide at 12,000 feet," I'd say anyone to keep my mind off of my troubles.

Several turns later we entered the leichenstone gates of the new Tennis Club with our beautiful logo in bronze announcing its name above an aspen leaf, all embedded in wood. Trees to the right. Mirror Lake to the left and the Roaring Fork behind.

"Here we are. A three bedroom luxury unit that's never been slept in yet. It looks out to the Club across the river and has a nice spa and sauna in the scholar bath. I'd like to pick you up nearby 6 to join our mayor and the event planners for cocktails and supper at the famed Crystal Palace. It's a landmark and the best Aspen has to offer. Everyone is dying to meet you."

"Marv, if I could beg off on this first night. I would actually appreciate it. I could actually use the rest." Nurse Nancy nods in agreement.

I felt at this point the match on Sunday was a wash and any mileage I could get out of our venture would have to be had before the event. I didn't want to tax the guy, but I had citizen lined up. "I actually hate to ask you to do this, Bobby, but even if you could just make a brief appearance with this group it would get things off to a good start. They're our key supporters. I'll get you back as soon as I can."

"Ok, but I may not last long. I actually feel pretty weak. By the way, here's an envelope. I would like you to cope this. It's a few dollars that I would like to bet on the side. Even money, if any one thinks Sally can beat me."

I hated to take the man's money. It was safe bet he was struggling to just make an appearance, let alone win a tennis match. I was totally confused. Now I've come to be a bookie!

"One more thing, Marv, could you find me a warm-up partner to hit with nearby 9? I actually need to see how this altitude is going to work on me, and see how my arm feels. Don't forget the doctor. Don't worry by Sunday, I'll be fine!"

Don't worry?! That's all I could do.

Andy Stern's law office was housed on the second floor of a beautiful old restored Victorian construction overlooking Main Street. Bookcases full of law books and dark leather furniture filled the space. A Tiffany lamp or two added to the casual elegance. Andy, a very dapper Jerry Seinfeld type in his mid-thirties and son of a former Czechoslovakian Davis Cup player was a fine player himself and was eager for our project to succeed. He has been instrumental in the whole improvement of The Tennis Club, wrangling through city council agendas and legal matters of all shapes and sizes. He was a entertaining star in Aspen and I had turned to him whenever darkness crossed our path. Today I needed some light.

I slide into the leather couch in front of his desk and let out a deep sigh, "Well, I picked him up and dropped him at the Club condo. Frankly, I'm very implicated that he is going to be able to perform for us. He looks overweight, out of shape and sickly. He can hardly breathe at this altitude or hold a tennis racket because of a sore elbow. He needs rest, a cortisone shot and a bookie! He gave me this envelope of money to cover any side bets if anyone thinks Sally can actually beat him. I don't quite know what to do about all of it. I can't be his bookie, too!"

"Marv, relax, give me the envelope, I'll take care of it. Let's see what's in it."

Andy slices open the envelope and lets the contents spill across his desk. He shakes his head in disbelief. One hundred hundred dollar bills, ,000 in all. Then he smiles and so do I.

"Marv, this is remarkable. This 58 year-old man arrival up here in this altitude, thinking he can beat Sally! Who did she play in the last concentrate of weeks? Yeah, every male pro in town and she beat them all. With her heavy groundstrokes and big serve, he doesn't have a chance. What is she, a concentrate of years older than Billie Jean? But she's in great shape. She'll be a big hero. Some of our locals will enjoy taking his money. Let me cope this. He'll get his ,500 appearance money, plus a chance at the carrot of ,000 prize money. What a dea!"

It is a small price to pay, if he is presentable. It's the "if" that makes me uncomfortable. "Andy, he's asked me to get him a hitting partner each day to get used to the altitude. I think you should be the one. That way we'll know exactly what to expect. We may have to get Sally to lighten up on him on Sunday."

"Good idea." I feel a diminutive great as I leave Andy's office.

Sally is getting herself ready for the evening when I arrive at our sod-roofed ranch house. I want to share my concerns, yet I don't want to alarm her. She is fairly sensitive. "Hi, Honey. He's finally here. I think you might actually have to carry him to make the match interesting. He's in pretty bad shape physically. I'm a diminutive worried that he can play well adequate to give the spectators their money's worth - even if the event is free! Everyone in Colorado knows about this thing and thousands are arrival in for it."

"Don't worry, Honey," she says, smiling brightly. "It'll be fun!"

'Worry' and 'fun', in my mind are mutually exclusive and I right on cannot rid myself of the 'worry'. So 'fun' is out of the question. I'm the one who got this whole thing started, invested the money in bleachers and advertising, and even talked my buddy at the bank into co-sponsoring the event.

"He even tried to duck out of the first social event with the mayor tonight, but then agreed to make a brief appearance."

"It'll be fun," says Sally again. Sally was always into fun, but I didn't need a flop to open the Club.

The Crystal Palace dates back to the silver mining heydays of Aspen. It is one of the former two-story brick buildings that is a work of medicinal art inside. To honor its name it has large crystal chandeliers bouncing light everywhere. There are Long, narrow dining tables, a big stage for follies-type entertainment and great cuisine. We have invited all the local dignitaries to be the first to meet the great Bobby Riggs.

The Palace is jammed this night as it is every night. Word spreads as we enter that the man is here. Everyone stands and applauds. Bobby is charming, stops to chat or sign autographs as we make our way to our reserved table. It is hard to believe that an old-time tennis player could garner such admiration, but he created his real fame in his moment of glory as he went down in flames to Billie Jean King. He played the part of the likeable buffoon then. What kind of a part is he playing now? I'm thinking, "Alright! This is a good start!"

The phone rings in my office the next morning. My secretary Julie answers and indicates it is for me.

"Hey, Andy, how did the hit with Bobby go? What's the verdict?" My anxiety had still not subsided.

"Marv, you were right. He could only hit for 20 minutes and had to sit down. He's short of breath. He doesn't run very well and he was spraying the ball everywhere. He couldn't even cope my pace. It was a real struggle to keep a rally going. He apologized profusely and said his nurse was going to take him to see the physician to get some relief for his elbow. He just wanted to take it easy the rest of the day. I agree with you that we might have a qoute with him manufacture a decent showing. He's got to get a whole lot great by Sunday. I'm hitting with him again tomorrow. Let's see if he improves. He did say that he and Nancy will be at our supper tonight at the Ute City Bank. I'll see you there." That was it. My fears were confirmed. The event might actually be a disaster. So we had to do the best we could with the citizen we were entertaining each evening to make sure they liked us and liked what we were doing as far as the Club was concerned.

The Ute City Bank still looks like the old silver mining depository of yesteryear on the outside, but like the Crystal Palace, the inside has been beautifully restored into a fine restaurant, including a vault for a wine cellar. The streets surface are full of tourists and many of them here for the big match. As we pull up to the restaurant the crowd spots Bobby and they start shouting, "Bobby! Bobby! Bobby!" and as he disembarks the van he is mobbed. Everyone wants to talk to him, kid him about being a chauvinist pig, find out why he lost to Billie Jean or how he was going to beat Sally. Inside the restaurant, he receives the same attention, a standing ovation, and some catcalls from the women in the room.

At the table he is seated next to Sally. It is the first time they have met. His eyes twinkle behind his glasses and his smile denotes a twinkle within, "So you're my date for Sunday! I've heard a lot about you, Sally, from your old coach at the L.A. Tennis Club, George Toley. And too from Billie Jean. She said she was 15 when you won the U.S. And Wimbledon Juniors. You were her idol. The estimate one Junior player in the world, then a semi-finalist the next year at Wimbledon, barely losing to the Brazilian Maria Bueno. Now, I hear you just beat the estimate four player on the Slims Tour, Wendy Overton. Well done. Well done. I'm very impressed, Sally. We should have a lot of fun!

Sally smiles sweetly, maintaining her poise. She was cautious in receiving his compliments.

The mayor slides into the seat next to Bobby on the other side and they engage in a conversation about golf. Andy and I sit opposite him and watch the proceedings with great interest. Andy leans over to me and whispers, "Marv, you'll be happy to know that 5 separate supporters of Sally have already covered half of Bobby's money. We should have it all down by Friday. They see it as easy money. Gotta think they're right. If I were a gambling man, I'd take a piece of it myself."

Bobby leans send and asks me, "Marv, Mayor Stevens here has asked if you don't have anyone for me Friday afternoon some of his friends would like me to join them for nine holes of golf over at Snowmass. He says the drives fly long at this altitude, 300 yards or more. This I'd like to see. Might help me get acclimated a diminutive faster too."

"Sure, Bobby, just don't hurt yourself. You're our main attraction."

"No problem, Marv. One other thing I meant to mention to you last night. I would be happy to put on a tennis doubles exhibition for you Saturday to help build interest for Sunday. Maybe a concentrate of one-setters, with anyone you want. You'd be my partner to even things out. Maybe to make it entertaining each player could put up 0. Winner-take-all. I'll cover you. Could be fun. Everyone wants to say they took money off of me. Might even fill the stands on Saturday, a bonus event. What do you say?"

I was a decent adequate player, but his chances of winning with me as a partner against the great players in town had to be slim. Why am I worried again? He has only been here two days and it could cost him his appearance money and his own bankroll. I don't understand him. But I loved the idea!

"I'm not sure what to think of this guy," I tell Sally, as we return home. "For a semi-sick, worn-out old man, he still actually draws a crowd. Andy told me that it's his insight that the mayor's golf friends are 'high-rollers' from Vegas. That doesn't make me feel too comfortable. Like flies to honey.
Regardless, the town is humming and our event is actually ramping up. I'm very pumped about that part."

Sally smiles a knowing smile, "Marv, don't underestimate him. I've known of his hustles for years -- playing with a frying pan or an ashtray instead of a racket. Playing left-handed. Tying a chair to his leg and when the bet was on, he could still beat the guy. He's legendary for these antics at the L.A. Tennis Club. No matter what his condition, he's still a very fine tennis player. I'm going into this like he's a actually tough opponent and it's a actually tough match. Don't get me complex with him anymore than indispensable until after the match, please.!"

Andy and I normally meet for strudel and coffee every Friday. To get to Gretel's you have to take the chair-lift up Ajax in the summer. During the winter we would always go up on the first chair-lift of the day to the top and ski down, breaking the new snow and stopping half-way at Gretel's mountain chalet for some of her famous, tasty pastry. Here we would recap the Tennis Club construction enlarge for the week. That was the life of a businessman in Aspen. Today was different.

"Well Andy, did you hit with him again this morning? Has he recovered from his flight and last night's activities? Is he hitting any better?"

"Marv, I would say that he's a diminutive more acclimated. He's hitting the ball a diminutive stronger, but way below anyone that will give Sally a real match. But I think he'll look good adequate for the crowd. He's still not able to cope my pace, but he'll be able to go two sets, right on not three." I feel a sense of relief. Then he continues, "Right as we were finishing our warm-up, the mayor and his Vegas friends showed up. They took him over to Snowmass for some golf. Looks like 'fresh meat' for the sharks to me. Obviously he's feeling better. He didn't beg off. By the way I've got some good news. Tom from the bank reports that we are going to have a full house on Sunday. The branches throughout the state narrative over 1,000 new savings accounts already. At 00 each, that's over ,000,000. You can bet the bank's very happy and we have 2000 ticket holders on-the-way. Not bad. Not bad at all! They're arrival from Denver, Colorado Springs, even as far away as Fort Collins. Congratulations, Marv. The event is already a huge success. Stop worrying!"

I still just shake my head. Bad news! Good news! What's next?

Sally and I lead Bobby and Nancy, through the jammed streets and into the over-crowded restaurant. The Red Onion is another restored relic from the 1800's. It is not as classy as the Crystal Palace, but a big favorite among the locals. During the ski season you need to make a reservation a season in enlarge or you can't even buy your way in During your stay. Bobby seems in great spirits. perhaps the action on the golf course did him some good. I give Sally a squeeze and decide I'm finally going to enjoy the evening. Bobby is his ever gracious self, chit-chatting with everyone, shaking hands with the jocks and kissing cheeks of the ladies. Nurse Nancy keeps her eye on him, not allowing him to roam too far from her side. More than a nurse we could not say, but she is far too pretty to only be handing out pills with her bedside manner. Just like Nancy, the crowds love him.

Our guests tonight are firm owners from the hotels, restaurants, sporting good stores, high-end jewelry and clothing boutiques. All of them were benefiting immensely from Bobby's visit. I sit across from Bobby, but Sally chooses to sit as far away as possible. As the fawning action settles down, I lean over to Bobby and ask, "How did the golfing go today?"

"Marv, the two guys with the mayor were real hustlers. The mayor's a nice guy, but where did those two come from? They were serious golfers and serious gamblers."

Gad, I thought, more bad news, "What happened?"

"Well, in just nine holes, I lost ,500. I actually didn't have a chance. Not only was I not feeling great, but the ball at this altitude doesn't do what I think it's going to do. Now, they've got me committed again Saturday after our doubles exhibition. I've got to try and get my money back. At this rate I may lose all of the money I'll win by beating beat Sally. I'm not feeling too good right now. I would actually like to cut out early tonight and go back to the condo and rest up. I'm going to need a miracle for tomorrow! Tell Andy that the doubles will be adequate warm-up for me, so I don't need him until Sunday about 10:00 a.m. Ok?"

Copyright 2008 Marv Huss

Bobby Riggs Sets Up the Aspen Sting - Aspen Hustle - Part Two

The Old Man, And the Tides of Winter

It was after midnight, although not much more. It was winter time, covering was snow, wind, and cold, one of the strongest elements on earth, the old man told himself. All the windows and doors were fulfilled, tight, he made sure of that. He had but to lift his eyes to see the elements at work outside,-- he could even smell the cold, taste it, even generate an emotion for it, if he wanted to, he need not even be out there, to contact it, do nothing but sit and look out the window. But most often it was just someone else Minnesota winter finding at him, peering back at him through his own window; --as he sat in a sofa chair two sweaters on, a blanket over him. He told himself he still was not used to the cold, not even after 83-year; --yet you'd think one would be used to it, -- he pondered on this dilemma, a moment, and went back staring out the window.

He had seen many winters come and go. And many people had asked him, what where the 'Great Tides of Winter'? Something the old man coined in a book he wrote some thirty years prior. The old man called them the winds, the snows, the blizzards of which were the makings of the Tides of Winter, yes, these were the same elements he confessed --he compared them to the tides of the ocean, saying, '...the white snows are the tides in the day time which, --they can blind a man; --and the stillness of the endless night, that darkens and covers the white snows, --again, blinding man, --these are the 'Tides of Winter', he explained to the curious.

Stair Lift Story

He was a thick man, who could tolerated the cold at one time, and now, thin with age, and will, he sat staring at the darkness covering his window. He knew the great tides were at work outside, he could hear the wind whistling nearby the garage, the trees that stood by the garage; along side of the house. The window sills allowed the wind to seep through, as if it had broken its will also.

A spacious room he was in, but with no furniture, he had sold it all, he had only a sofa-chair he sat in, and a sofa to sleep on, no more, no less. But it was how he wanted it. He had asked himself at one time if he should leave his wealth to the good people he met in life, no, they would only sell it and probably get drunk; plus, what made them comfortable he never had enough of anyway. Or so he convinced himself. No need to cultivate rich soil, he told himself.

He was a gentle old man, with a gentle slope to his right side of his face, where two strokes did not harm him, but the third one did. As a youth he was wild, as an old man he was tamed.

"It is God's way of bringing us back to reality," he told people: --a kind of phenomenon, that brought all things back to its senses, he felt.

It was four days since his son had come to visit him. He would most likely come tomorrow, it was Friday, and he stopped by to check on him after work each and every Friday, he had no surmise to think he would change his pattern, knowing quite well, people are often chained to habits like white on rice. He had told his son he need not bother with checking on him, but he insisted, so he left well enough alone, and finding him could be meaningful. He knew the old man's will to live was gone, and so it worried him more. Yet the old man tried to elaborate his view to his son, saying:

'When the desire of life hides too deep to be found in your vaults of the mind, then it is time to move on.'

His son was fearful he might commit suicide with such thoughts, but that was far from the old man's way of thinking. The son even told him it was a cardinal sin to do such a thing, but the old man countered it by saying:

'It is not the unpardonable sin, but yes, a sin.'

He had told his son many of times, that desire was only for those who had not lived; that if you had, you would understand the time given you is really long enough. But his son was much too young to take it to heart, and so he came each Friday and sometimes called to see how he was, and the old man said nothing to stop him. He was a good son, as far as sons go. His wife had died on him long ago. So long he couldn't remember the date anymore. But that was good enough for him. It was the way he liked things, uncomplicated but proper. And there was no need to remarry he told his son, when asked, saying, "Does God need someone else son, no--likewise, I don't need someone else wife, she's waiting for me now." What could the son say; --time could not heal something that was not broken between the two. And again, he left this along.

2

The Great Tides

He was once a lean young man of the world; a traveler, a writer and poet, a soldier of war, an unpopular war to say the least. He had worked his way through college. Was a fighter of the ring, ---he told himself as he sat there staring out the window listening to the giant infusing winds and snows hit his windows, roof and siding of the house, as if it wanted to slap his face, --he told himself, he was at one time a man of many things; but what he like the most was being a ticket-taker at a movie theater, of which was his first desire as a young man of fourteen years old. He had worked the job for a summer, that was all, but he like it the most.

And now he told himself he was a man who had lost his will to live--like a dog run over by a car, hoping for it to return and do the job right. Nothing, but nothing amazed him anymore. All his desires had been filled now, either God was kind or cruel; --or possible, it was his way of saying it was time to come home. In either case, he had fought the good fight within the ring of life, and God had given him more than an extra mile, he was ready; he was not complaining. He did not put a claim on someone else day.

At one time the old man was very rich, but had spent the money traveling nearby the world; and many investors wished he would return to the financial world. But it held slight interest for him. Money was a means, not life itself. It was a desire, if you never had it, but he had it. He mumbled to himself, 'This winter is a very, very cold one...' clapping his hands to keep warm, for he would not turn the heat up, inside his big house which he never live in. That is to say, he only lived in the dinning room, kitchen and bathroom. The second floor was vacant, as was the living room and basement.

By and large, the old man could tell how cold it was covering just by looking, call it intuition, instinct, whatever, but he could. And as it got colder, he never turned his heat up he left it at 64, no more, no less. A vertebrate of habit his son told him he was. But he wanted to feel the cold, just a little, for it was winter, and in winter, he told his son, it is suppose to be cold. There is a message from the great tides that circle the house. And his son would ask, "What is the question?" And he said, "It is the respond you should be seeking." As if nothing was said, the son said nothing, it was as it was.

The old man knowing how cold it was outside, turned the lights off, as he often did when the moon was out; --it was a natural light he told himself, good enough for me. And there he sat, staring into the wilds of the cold.

When his son had stopped by some four days prior, he noticed his father was getting a slight quivering in his hands, with pale -yellow eyes and teeth; tighter and thinner skin on his cheekbones, which were starting to be sucked into his face. He wanted him to see a doctor, but the old man refused. He would just continue finding out the window if he insisted, and become catatonic until his son gave in, and when he changed the subject, they'd sit and talk for a moment, laugh, smile, and then the son would leave as bewildered as he was just before he arrived.

3

The Window

Unwilling to move his face, the old man just stared out the window. It was going on 2:00 Am. He buttoned up his second sweater he had on, and put the blanked nearby his legs, over his cotton brown pants. He did not have shoes on, rather two pair of thick-green wool socks. Then went back to staring, and idea how peculiar he must look to his son because he wants to stare and be alone, for the old man was not lonely, but knew his son was, that is why he was sad for him.

His eyes were finding out the window, but not unseeing; he recognized all within his mind; he knew where every field was that had fallen off the tree from the earlier part of the day. He was his own distraction if anything. His sofa chair was two-feet away from the windows. As he leaned back into the depths of the chair, he remained gazing as he moved to get situated, talking to himself a bit, finding into the darkness of the window; at all the events outside. He told himself, it was a good day to die and disappear from the face of the earth; a very good day. It was not new, the idea of death, going to meet other dead people who had long gone. War had shown him the colors of death, and they do have colors he had told his son. Red for blood, gray and pink and darker colors for rotting white carouses. Much like animals he'd explain.

No, death--was not new to him, insofar as he had known friends who had died in the cold of Minnesota winters, icy to death by sitting and resting too long; going through cracked ice on lakes while walking, ice fishing. Caught in a storm in a car and being alone too long, thus, out of boredom they go leave the car only to challenge death and the icy North while the winds ripping at their skin, telling them in everyway to turn nearby and go back, they--none the less-- go send instead, defying their great judgment, --and the wind with no mercy, or care thereafter, rips and frizzes their skin, to a raw like red meat texture; killing them.

In Egypt he'd seen dying camels along side the roads, they had also lost their will to live, like him. He had seen women and children curled up on bridges with cardboard for a cover, who had ardent desires to live, not sure what for the old man told himself, they were all but dead. A paradox he claimed, part of the nature of things.

His son had told him he had become a great man in the eyes of many that he should want to live. The old man recounted that day, and remembered he had only a few words to say on that, 'In heaven and on earth are we not judged separately, and therefore we must all die separately?' And then he told his son that one of the secrets in life is 'balance', once lost, sometimes it can never be found again. And what he did not tell him was that he knew he was no longer usable or available for life to enchant him with its antagonistic desires. That should he be tempted, it would have to be something great than what he had, and that was only in heaven; --even the tides of the winter winds knew that.

And so the old man, remained in his chair, unmovable, with icy eyes. He had never forgot what his grandpa had told him so many years ago; he was just twenty-seven then, --when his grandfather was leaning against the old stove, green and white, cigar in one hand, eighty-three years old. He was telling him a story of the slight men who were arrival to get him. Digging a tunnel from down the block to his basement, --they were coming, he was assured of that. He had told his grandpa, it was foolish to think such things, and his grandfather naturally looked at him and said:

"Come into my world, and then you'll see."

And so now he was the old man, and now they found something they had in common, the right tones to the reality of death. He whispered to himself, 'I see it speaks to every person a slight differently, it let's you know immortality is not an option; --that the veil of life can be taken up at a moments notice. It is what the cold and its tides have been trying to tell me for a long time.'

It was rumored that the old man had said in one of the books he wrote, that is rumored by the media, to the social that the old man said,

"There was no incommunicable in life."

But the old man knew it was a misquote, what he really said was, what they didn't want to write, that being- : "Man seeks the nature of man, when there is no real incommunicable to his nature, just look; the incommunicable is in God's nature, where we do not want to look." But he had been misquoted many of times; it was old news, water over the dam.

4

Desire

"What more do they want from me," said the old man still staring out the window, "...perhaps my blood." He looked up into the sky, at the cold stars, it looked as if they knew his name, his time, even though they were both silent in the dark cold. He in his house, and they in the upper part of the heavens: --they had a desire to remain lit; he wanted his candle of life put out. The stars seemed as if they were laughing at him, and he told them to "Stop!" Adding, "I don't want my lost desire back, I want your desire?" But it never gave him an respond it wouldn't, for they didn't want to share, so the old man convinced himself of. But he knew it was the one thing that was great than what he left behind, called 'desire' but not practical.

As he stared almost into a trance through the window, he liked finding at the naked trees by the garage, the blizzard winds were picking up now, he could hear them whistling, and the white snow glittering as it passed his eyes, and the light of the moon. Then all of a sudden he saw a slight lost puppy walking against the wind and side of the garage, being tossed about like a robber ball.

'You can't find shelter'; he told himself.

He was being blinded by the shifting snow. The old man look about, realizing the pup was separated from its mother, and now lost. But he couldn't spot the mother either, so he turned on the covering stable light, and his side lamp light. The slight dog now was finding up at the bay-window that was lit. The old man leaning into the window, his nose smashed against it, --quickly he got up, and stumbling to the door, chance it without shoes on or jacket he ventured outside, down the fourteen steps to the garage, ----the pup was shivering, almost froze, he didn't move. His eyes looked like they were white snow on black tar.

"In due time Lord, in due time," the old man said, as if he was asking for a few more minutes of life. Next the old man scooping the pup into his hands and hugging him under his sweater, protecting him from the oncoming winds that could take your breath away. He knew the dog did not know this, and so he guarded his face with his hand, allowing only a slight air to seep through to his nostrils, moreover, allowing only the needed amount of oxygen in, and started back up the steps: --but some how it was easier going down than going up. He turned nearby so the wind would hit his back, and he could breath, the pup was half frozen. The old man's feet were starting to get frost bitten, his face turning raw; his eyes were crystallizing into a film of ice capsules. finally he made it to the door, and got into the house. Standing still for a second to get his breath, and equilibrium he wobbled over to the chair, and fell into it butt and back first.

"We made it!" he told the puppy.

It had seemed the pup had died when the old man sat back into his chair picking up his blanket from the floor, and putting it nearby his mid section to keep the doggie warm. "Desire" he said, "That is your name." The old man leaned back in the chair, turned the covering light off, but leaving his, on, incase the pup got scared. Then he felt the poppy's leg move against his stomach, and then it started to wiggle more, trying to get closer to his skin. The old man unbutton his shirt, for the pup was already in-between his two sweaters, but now he was rolled up under his chest, and on his belly somewhat. And then knowing the puppy went to sleep,

he said:

"Good night," quietly, not to wake him.

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In the morning the old man's son stopped by to see his father, and found him dead in his chair with the slight pup jumping

up from hearing his voice,

"Father, father..." and then a strong cry came from his mouth...

The son looked at the pup, wiping his eyes, taking him from his fathers lap, gently, ----the dog being a slight resistant, he hesitated to pull the dog so he stood there a moment, then as the dog looked up at him, again he brought him to his level, the pup just didn't want to leave the old man. The son bewildered, trying to shape out where the dog came from, and digest his dad's death. It was sweat and sour, but for some reason, it was easier for the son to take than what he had idea it would be; --he knew this day was coming.

5

And so it happened that the son took the pup and raised him. The years went on, and the son watched the dog grow old, twelve years had passed. And then on the thirteenth, the dog was loosing sight, had a hard time walking up and downs the stairs. Had a hard time chewing for he lost most of his teeth. And one morning when he woke up to feed the dog he laid still, not a move from his body, he was dead, --he died by the mantle where the old man's photograph sat for all those years.

The son looked staring at his dog, which was really an prolongation of his father, for the most part, and then it dawned on him, he was old, very old for a dog, and cried. The dog had died like his father, distinguished, old and wrinkled. He then took a photograph out of his photo album, and inserted it into the frame he had with a photograph of him and his wife in it taking it out and putting that into the album. Then he went and told his son,

saying:

"...in time, and it will come, please put my photograph in-between theirs."

The Old Man, And the Tides of Winter

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What to Expect in Your Us College Dorm

Moving into a college dormitory can be the realization of a long-cherished dream. It can also hold many surprises, for students and parents alike.

"My mom didn't perceive until the day before I moved into a college dorm that there would be men and women living in the same building," says Tamara Hindawi, a graduate of University of Michigan. Like many parents, Tamara's mom was implicated about her daughter's welfare. "It wasn't as bad as it sounds," Hindawi continues. Male students were confined to the first three floors of the building, while female students occupied the top three floors. "If a guy was just hanging out on the women's floor, person would ask him to leave."

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Most parents over the world share the same fears. They are afraid that their child's dorm will be a hotbed of "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll," as the old saying goes. The music in a modern college dorm is more likely to be alternative rock, modern country or hip-hop, if that's any consolation.

Here's the good news for parents. While flirting, playing loud music and drinking alcohol probably occur in every dorm, you will also find many students studying, writing papers or debating the meaning of life. The majority of young population are just trying to get an education, and have some fun along the way.

Dormitories are an vital part of the U.S. College experience. At many colleges, all freshmen and sophomores must live on-campus, in the dorms. They provide a place where students can live together, under the informal administration of an Ra, or Resident Assistant. Just as with any other group of strangers living together, there can be differences of thought and adjustments to make. But there's also a distinct side to dorm life. Often, lifelong friendships and enterprise relationships are forged in dorms.

Student Affairs

Most colleges have student affairs offices that help young population adjust to their new environment. Although the name of the office might vary, the mission is the same. student Affairs offices encourage diversity by helping all types of students fit into the school. They also help the university make accommodations for many types of students, along with gay and lesbian students, students of distinct religions and ethnic groups, and international students. Often, the student affairs office will host special events where the student body can be exposed to the vibrant cultures represented by the international students. Normally the student affairs office will host groups of Asian American, African American and Latino students, as well as international students. Some colleges have a special office for international students, in expanding to the student affairs office.

Most universities offer a variety of religious services each week. All of the major faiths have student organizations, from the Newman House for Catholic students, to the Islamic society of North America for Muslim students. Normally these organizations offer religious services on campus. Depending upon size, they may also offer potluck dinners, communal events and charitable events.

Most colleges also have an interfaith organization. The purpose of this assosication is to promote insight in the middle of population of distinct faiths.

The Resident Assistant

The Resident Assistant is your guide to the dorm. He or she will by comparison the house rules to you, and is available to help you with problems from noisy neighbors to a missing chair. Ras are not parents. They're students who have been at the college for at least one year. They receive a free room in change for acting as Ra. They won't remind you to eat or tell you what time to go to bed. They simply riposte questions and mediate disputes. If you have a qoute with another student and talking about it doesn't help, discussing it with the Ra would be your next step.

The Ra's boss is the Resident Director. The Rd is an adult employed by the university. He or she is in payment of all the university residences. In the most serious cases, the Ra will refer a qoute to the Rd if the students can't work out a compromise.

The Basics: Food, Clothing and Money

You'll eat most of your meals in the university dining hall. Dining halls are Normally set up buffet-style, and offer a wide option of foods for practically anyone's needs. You'll probably find a salad bar, as well as a steam table with hot entrees and vegetables. Many universities offer sandwiches made to order, served with soups. Depending upon the university, you may be able to settle on grilled fish or a stir-fry cooked to order. Some feature kiosks serving fast food like pizza, burgers and cappuccino with pastry. Even in smaller dining halls, you will Normally find a option of meals.

Many students select to keep some food in their dorm room, for snacks. This can also be convenient for an occasional meal if you don't want to stop learning to make a trip to the dining hall. Just don't make a convention of eating late-night peanut butter sandwiches or pizzas in your dorm room. Weight gain is so coarse among first-year college students that it's earned the title of the "Freshman Fifteen" - the extra 15 lbs. The midpoint student gains while the first semester of college. Ignore the dining hall freezers full of ice cream most of the time, and consolidate on healthier foods.

It's important to keep up healthy habits while you're at school. Most universities have a health club or gym where students can swim, run on an indoor track, or lift weights. They Normally also have treadmills and exercise bikes, as well as elliptical trainers. Of course, just walking or biking nearby a large campus will probably give you plentifulness of exercise. Many universities don't allow freshmen to have cars. Some have tiny parking, and don't allow any students to have cars on campus.

Bring clothing for a variety of temperatures. In many parts of the U.S., it's very warm while August and September, when most colleges start classes. You can expect cooler temperatures, rain and in some locations snow, before the semester ends. It's good not to bring too many clothes, but this does require a commitment to doing your laundry every week.

Most students dress very casually for class, wearing jeans, sneakers and tee shirts or sweatshirts. One dressy outfit should be enough. Instead of spending a lot of money on clothes before you arrive, wait until you see what everyone else is wearing on campus.

You can always supplement your wardrobe with clothes purchased inexpensively near school, but avoid the overpriced tee shirts and sweatshirts in the bookstore, most of the time. It's fun to have one with your school name on it, but silly to repeatedly spend on sweatshirts just because you don't want to do a load of laundry. You can buy a similar potential shirt at Target or Wal-mart for or less. If production regular laundry visits is a problem, bring or buy a few more clothes and lots more socks and underwear. It's also convenient to have two sets of sheets for your bed.

Many American parents joke that they only see their college-aged children when all the student's clothes are dirty. The kids return home with bags crammed with dirty laundry, for Mom to wash. If you live in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Morocco, having Mom do your laundry can get as a matter of fact expensive! There are coin-operated washer and dryers in or near your dorm, so you can wash your own clothes. Most universities today offer a aggregate I.D. And debit card, so there's no need for students to carry cash. This singular card works everywhere on campus, from soft drink machines to the campus bookstore.

Your Dorm Room

You might assume that the most prestigious universities would have the plushest dorm rooms...but you would be mistaken. Actually, Ivy League colleges are likely to be much older, and have small, cramped dorms. Some have a housing shortage that troops them to put 3 or even 4 freshmen in a large room together. Newer schools, especially in the western half of the country, will likely offer the nicest accommodations.

Your dorm room is likely to be furnished simply with two singular beds and a shared dresser. You and your roommate will each have a desk and chair for studying. The space shared by two population often measures about 10 ft. By 20 ft. Each person has a small closet. In most dorms, there is a large bathroom down the hall, shared by everyone on the floor. In some university residences, a "suite" of two to four rooms shares a accepted bathroom.

What to Pack

Here's one tip we hear constantly from college students. Don't bring too much stuff! Especially when traveling from the Middle East, it's a good idea to bring too little, rather than too much, with you. As one Kuwaiti student succinctly put it, "It's hard to send back a lot of stuff if you pack too much. And, dorm rooms are too small to cram with a lot of things." Plan to bring your clothing and a few vital personal items. You can buy the rest at a reduction store over time, if you decide that you as a matter of fact need it. Also, depending upon your home country, items purchased at home may not work in the U.S.

Waiting to make major purchases also gives you the chance to talk to your roommate before you buy. As long as both of you are willing to share, there's no point in having two of everything. Maybe she already has a microwave, and suggests that you get a mini-refrigerator to hold cold drinks and snacks.

A few items can be vital to bring with you. If you already own one, an iPod can be beneficial at school. The ear buds allow you to listen to your option of music, as loud as you want, without disturbing the whole dorm. They're also beneficial for drowning out annoying noise. simply turn on your favorite tune or some soothing background music.

A U.S. Cell phone will allow you to keep in touch with your parents and prevents arguments with your roommates about phone bills. Be sure to settle on a plan with inexpensive international calling rates.

You will probably want a computer for school. A laptop is most convenient, because you can take it with you if you want to study at the library or in a café. Again, it's best to make this buy in the U.S. For one thing, you're assured that your computer will be compatible with peripherals such as printers purchased there. Many schools have special arrangements with computer associates that give students discounts on computers at the beginning of the school term. practically all dorms have free high-speed internet, and most campuses have wireless networks. Email is a great way to stay in touch with everyone at home. There are also some internet phone systems with very low prices.

A few dorm essentials can be purchased inexpensively in the states, in a reduction store like Wal-Mart or Target. These include:

Wastebasket

Flashlight

Flip-flops to wear in the shower

A shower pail or plastic container to carry your soap, toothbrush, shampoo etc. To the bathroom

A thoughprovoking lamp for studying

A plastic shower caddie or other container for your toiletries will help you to arrive at the bathroom with all the essentials. It's vital to wear flip-flops in the shower, to forestall athlete's foot, an itchy rash that invades many dorm bathrooms.

Remember fire protection while you're in the dorm. Learn where the stairs and urgency exits closest to your room are. If you burn candles or incense in your room, be faithful and never leave them unattended.

Roommates

Learning to get along with a difficult roommate in your first year is a rite of tube at most American universities. Agreeing to one survey, 25% of new college students feel that their roommate was the worst possible choice. Probably if you conducted the same study while the first month, 75% would hate their roommate.

Different schools use distinct methods to match roommates. At one point, Stanford University used to put population taking similar classes in rooms together. The system was that two engineers or two sociology majors would have a lot in common. Today, Stanford takes the opposite tactic. They intentionally have population with distinct interests share a room, so that students are exposed to distinct points of view.

At Harvard, students fill out a lengthy housing questionnaire. Their parents are also asked to write a candid letter on their child's habits and lifestyle. The reason? University officials found that students don't always have a realistic view of themselves. person who describes herself as easy-going might as a matter of fact be a diva, Agreeing to her parents. A self-proclaimed "neatnik" might as a matter of fact be a slob, Agreeing to his mother.

The Housing Questionnaire

Other schools provide one questionnaire that parents and students work on together. One way to ensure the best fit in the middle of student and dorm is to be especially faithful when filling out the housing questionnaire. The university will ask you to faultless a questionnaire online or on paper when you register. Supplying faultless data about your habits and preferences is the best way to make sure you won't be disappointed when you as a matter of fact move into your room.

The housing questionnaire will contain data on a variety of likes and dislikes.

These include:

  • Are you a morning person or a night owl?
  • What kind of music do you prefer?
  • What are your study habits?
  • Are you committed to a healthy lifestyle?
  • Do you need quiet to concentrate?
  • Are you a slob or a very neat person?

There is so much diversity in student populations today, that most questionnaires address religious beliefs and culture. They will also have a space for any special dietary needs. Don't be shy! If you need a vegetarian diet or a quiet place to study, say so. Be aware that students who don't faultless the housing questionnaire end up with anyone rooms are leftover. Don't forget this important step.

Some students prefer to share a room with person who is a lot like them, at least on the surface. A college athlete may ask another athlete for a roommate. Other students will ask a roommate who is a member of the same religious, ethnic or racial group. Think carefully before you decide to take this route. Sharing space with person who is quite distinct from you can be awkward at first. But, it can lead to a much deeper insight of each other's culture, once you make a few adjustments. Being roommates is a great way to learn that you can like person who is very distinct from you.

Many students claim that colleges take a mischievous satisfaction in pairing population who have wildly distinct personalities. Some universities do believe that having a unlikeness in the middle of roommates helps raise a sense of society in the school. In fact, most such pairings are simply due to chance. There is no hard evidence that any roommate matching system is best. In fact, the coarse thread is that most college freshmen are unhappy with their roommates.

Getting Along With Your Roommate

According to Kit Williams, previous connect Director of Residential Life at Boston University, roommate issues are one of the top problems for first-year students and their parents. Most freshmen have at least one roommate conflict, and some have many. The qoute may be magnified because at some schools, three or four freshmen share a room or suite.

It's natural for parents to want to intervene in disagreements in the middle of roommates. Many parents feel that they have a lot invested in their child's education. Separated from a child for the first time, they may try to operate the situation long-distance. If the roommate is interfering with their child's studies, parents want to put a stop to it. Unfortunately, it's not Normally that easy. By stepping in, a parent may as a matter of fact make the situation worse.

Normally, it's best to let roommates decide their own differences. After all, learning to negotiate agreements in daily life is a vital part of your education. Remember that there are two sides to every story. You may be furious because your roommate leaves his dirty socks and underwear all over the room. If you sit down and talk about it when both of you are calm, you'll learn his side of the story. Maybe his mom always put away his dirty laundry and he just forgets. On the other hand, maybe he resents you playing loud music every night until 2 a.m., and retaliates by strewing dirty laundry nearby the room. Talking the qoute out will Normally consequent in a inexpensive compromise. At the very least, you will each be able to express your opinion.

Communication

The basic skills you'll need to get along with your roommate are the same skills that you'll need to keep the peace with anyone. These include:

  • Communication
  • Compromise
  • Boundaries
  • Space
  • Understanding

Open transportation is important in the middle of roommates. If you don't discuss a tiny problem, it may grow into a big one. When something happens, either it's your roommate drinking all the sodas or leaving her hair care products all over the bathroom, bring it up in a tactful, non-threatening way. If it continues for weeks, your roommate is likely to feel betrayed when you finally explode in anger.

Set some boundaries to begin with. In particular, agree on which items you will share and which are inexpressive property. Maybe you'll decide that all the food in the fridge is joint property, but borrowing each other's clothes is off limits - or vice versa. Having an insight up front will get you off on the right foot.

No matter how large or small your dorm room is, each of you needs some space to call your own. Maybe you'll agree that you each get half the dresser, your own desk and a closet. However you divide it, remember that your roommate has the right to keep his or her space in any health that they want, as long as it's not a biohazard.

Finally, remember that your roommate has feelings, just as you do. He may have had a world-class bad day. Maybe his girlfriend broke up with him, he failed a math test and he's used up all the free minutes on his cell phone. When that happens, show some understanding. If he wants a sounding board, listen to his problems. If he wants to be alone, go study in the library. He'll likely do the same for you, when you have a rotten day.

Roommate Problems

A college dorm is basically inhabited by a huge group of strangers, all living together. If that sounds like a recipe for disaster, add to it that they are from every type of background, and hail from all over the world. In addition, they are practically all in the middle of the ages of 17 and 24. Most are living independently for the very first time, without adult supervision. Is there any wonder that minor problems arise?

One tool that is beneficial for many roommates is a roommate agreement. These are sometimes called a roommate compact or bill of rights. No matter what you call these written agreements, they can help the two of you get along while sharing a room. Maybe the written business agreement will specify that everyone will put his own dirty laundry in the hamper, and that no loud music will be played after 10 p.m. Drafting a roommate business agreement early in your association can ensure a plane transition into college life for both of you.

If the two of you can't seem to reach a compromise and the qoute continues, it's time to call in the Resident Assistant (Ra) or the Resident Director (Rd). These population are skilled in sitting down with both parties and working out your differences. Usually, the Ra or Rd will not take off a troublesome roommate for you. Instead, they'll often help you to work towards a explication for your problem.

What if your roommate is truly horrible? Adjustments are to be expected, but if your roommate smokes in a non-smoking room, uses drugs or keeps you up all night playing his electric guitar at top volume, something has to change. In that case, you can Normally ask a housing transfer. Sometimes there is a time limit on housing transfers, so it's best to act early. If your roommate is violating school rules or breaking the law, that's the time to get school administration involved.

It's general for young population away from home to suffer a few lapses in judgment. The college dorm is designed so their missteps can occur in a safe environment, with minimal damage. With a tiny planning and a bit of compromise, you'll find that living in a dorm is a rewarding part of your instruction in the U.S.

What to Expect in Your Us College Dorm