Working Alone: Tips and Techniques for Solo Building Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been in the remodeling business since 1975, and have worked most of this time by myself.
I'm just finishing a 10 x 20 room addition for a customer. I purchased this book at the beginning of this project and have found Mr. Carroll's book refreshing and informative. There were many ideas and suggestions that were benificial. I found the rafter layout-jig very useful.
His suggestions about the "math" of the rafter was very useful, and increased my capacity to complete the job in a timely maner which helped my bottom line.
I appreciated his easy reading style and found his book enjoyable.
I wish his information on the cornice system had been a little more detailed, but found his explanations sufficent.
I found his information about clamps and holding jigs to be of special interest and enjoyed all of his book. I even bought his other book, "Measuring, Marking, and Layout", which I also found enlighting, enjoyable, fun, and benificial, to my professional standing as a remodeler.
Thanks for two great books, that help take the mystery out of some of the more complex parts of our profession.
Respectfully
Reeder Lyons IMH Remodeling & Repair

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The New York Times North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World (New York Times Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)After moving 400 yards an hour on an ice floe at the top of the world for three days, Science Writer Andrew Revkin looks down from a helicopter. He watches the icy expanses recede far below while he weighs questions and answers about global warming, and the challenge of presenting these to young readers who are often lured in other directions by iPods & computer games.
Tomorrow's scientists need to be 'shook up' and know there are still discoveries to be made; they can be the ones inventing new techniques needed to retrieve & examine rock core samples from deep below the ice. (See pictures on page 66). They can be detectives competing with the changing ice for answers to frustrating puzzles about the rising seas, for example.
The editor has used engravings and diagrams along with the latest photographs to give an impressive smattering of the history of arctic exploration. The double-spread of a lone seal on pages 100-101 should have been placed to better advantage, to help make Revkin's point about the loneliness of the Arctic where the silence is often interrupted by questions about the future of mankind. This is a excellent, stimulating book for all ages to read and discuss together.
The polar regions have always drawn explorers and it is our luck that the New York Times sent Andrew Revkin to the North to look for ways of stirring the public. We must each take an active interest and help stimulate youthful curiosity by showing the techniques used today. It is not enough to feel the exhilaration of travel without becoming responsible global citizens. In a recent interview by Gwen Iffel on PBS, Revkin cited the "slow drift" of events that do not receive adequate coverage by the media, as for example the recent announcement that the first whale species in China is now extinct. Consider also the projection that by 2040 the Arctic Ocean could be blue for the first time in a thousand years.
Already the levels of contaminates in the bodies of Inuit persons living in the North is beyond acceptable. The Pole is indeed moving . . . can we be instrumental in putting the puzzle pieces back together and work toward unity for the good of the Earth and our children's future?
We must not lose generations of the ingenuity of bright young minds to Wars and the Pestilence of mediocre minds.

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Macgregor Heavy Weighted Center Volleyball Standard Review

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(More customer reviews)We ordered this item for our girls' volleyball team. The product description clearly states this is for a PAIR of volleyball bases and poles. The company we ordered from--esportsonline--only sent one base and pole. Needless to say our team can't very well play volleyball with only one base and pole.
When I called they said, "sorry, you can send it back if you don't want it." Which is not very helpful to getting our volleyball team practice.
Perhaps the saddest part of all of this is that I called esportsonline BEFORE I ORDERED this item and asked their representative if this was an accurate description. The representative told me, "If that's how it's advertised on Amazon, that's how we have to sell it." Apparently this representative was either wrong or lying--I'm guessing wrong but they should still have some accountability to provide the item as described but I guess they don't.
In a nutshell, esportsonline misrepresented this item both in the item description and verbally over the phone.
I called Amazon for help and received the same response--I could send it back to the seller. I'm very disappointed as sending it back does not deal with the misrepresentation from esportsonline or the incorrect item description.

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The MacGregor® heavy weighted center volleyball standard can be matched with multi-game standards for side-by-side court play. It's constructed from heavy-wall steel and includes pre-set heights for men's and women's volleyball, badminton, and tennis. Guy wires not included.

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