Thursday, September 25, 2008

Shama Sikander pretty smile


Shama Sikander's journey to the small screen was not a bed of roses. After acting in a few forgettable flicks and many commercials, she finally hit the bull's-eye with the popular TV soap 'Yeh Meri Life Hai'.
Today she's better known as Puja, bowling over the audiences with her pretty smile and her funny Gujarati accent...05 More images after the break...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

kitchen atlantic design center



Atlantic Design Center, A Division of Eldredge Lumber

627 U.S. Route 1
York, ME 03909
Phone: 207-363-3004
sgagnon@eldredgelumber.com
http://www.atlanticdesignctr.com
Atlantic Design Center is New England's premier kitchen and bath showroom. Find the vision of Atlantic Design Center.

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Located on New England's seacoast, the Atlantic Design Center is a 8000-square-foot, the whole house exhibition space open for Homeowners and business professionals looking for a customized design experience. In June 2006, owner Scott Eldredge, opened the Design Center, an extension of his highly successful kitchen design department Eldredge Lumber.

In this short space of time, since its opening, the high-end state-of-the-art kitchen and bath showroom has become an area of go-planning center is the overwhelming choice of custom Cabinetry and expertise to design professionals. Presentation Mode boasts a full kitchen, bathroom, living room, mudroom, laundry room and butler's pantry screens, so customers can see the entire home design project. Holding the "Best Showroom in North-Boston," Atlantic Design Center is a hidden treasure, you have to see to believe.

Specialties
Atlantic Design Center features the latest trends and technologies in the home design industry, yet never strays from the quality and skills of the customers are waiting for the custom Cabinetry showroom. Private room containing rows of predator Custom Cabinetry, Acorn Custom Cabinets, Plain & Fancy Custom Cabinetry, Habersham designs, Cabico Custom Cabinetry and semi-custom production Cabinetry Medallion Cabinetry, and Shiloh Cabinetry. A fine natural stone and hand-shaped wood table top products Cabinetry highlight the options offered, and the state-of-the-art appliances from Sub-Zero and Wolf, seamlessly combines the overall design of any room at home.

In addition, the Atlantic Design Center has a wide range of tile and floor coverings, as well as the designer of the window and wall coverings, to make this design showroom one-stop-shopping experience. Above all, professionals in the Atlantic Design Center to anticipate the needs of their customers and offer a practical approach to design. From idea to installation, the design team will help you through the entire project, all at the same time maintaining a style and vision in mind. The design staff of Atlantic Design Center works of customers across the country who are either currently building or remodeling a second home in New England or the re-location to the area. Their certified kitchen and bath designers understand the home is a sanctuary, which would directly respond to lifestyle and personality of the owner. We invite you to visit the Atlantic Design Center and find a vision.

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Leonards New England design home



Leonards New England

600 Taunton Ave
Seekonk, MA 02771
Tel: (888) 336-8585
lois@leonardsdirect.com
http://www.leonardsdirect.com/
Antique beds & fine antique furniture our Specialty since 1933!

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Our company was founded in 1933 by Lester and Hazel Leonard and was soon known as one of the few workshops, which could re-size beds and restore all types of antique furniture. Today we have so much more! In addition to our wonderful antique collection, we offer classic reproduction furniture. In addition to the original shop in Seekonk, Massachusetts, we now have beautiful shop in Westport, Connecticut. Even our full Interior Design Service is able to help customers with any decor decisions, including textiles, furniture, Window Treatments, carpeting, lighting fixtures and decorative accessories.

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A premier source for heirloom quality Antique & Reproduction Beds, the antique beds Leonards sells are mostly pre-1900s. Commonly called Four-poster beds or Rope Beds, a network of rope was used to support a mattress or a "tick" filled with corn, horse hair or feathers, and you slept. We offer the largest selection of antique American Rope Beds or four lines beds everywhere.

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Pinnacle Home Design not only offers pre-designed plans on our website, but a tailor-made plan option for those customers who desire a more personalized homepage by our Plan design.With Custom service, our customers directly throughout the interior to ensure that the consistent with their needs and lifestyle exactly. Our new 3-dimensional software allows our customers to catch a glimpse of their house if it develops into a real-life environment. For further details on this service you can contact info@pinnaclehomedesign.com or call us at 913-338-1922. We'll be happy to talk about pricing, the duration of the project and any other information you need to make an informed decision!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Riya Sen In Black




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Hestorical Meeting


On September, 16th the historical meeting of the smallest of the man He Pingping with longest legs Girl Svetlana Pankratovoj. Svetlana is 16 years old and Pinpina is 36 years old he is 73 centimeters tall. more after the break...

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Navneet Kaur Perfect Indian looks



Navneet Kaur Perfect Indian looks...09 more images after the break...
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Shoe lacing Style

1. The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets.
2. The laces then go straight up and are fed into the next set of eyelets up the shoe.
3. The ends are crossed over and are fed under the vertical lace section on the opposite sides of the shoe before going straight up and into the next set of eyelets up the shoe.
4. At the top set of eyelets, the laces can once again cross over and pass under the straight section as shown. This not only looks consistent with the rest of the lacing but also forms a High Lace Lock, which tightens the lacing even more firmly. More images after the break...

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Big Bike



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Adriana Lima on the Set of “Ugly Betty”



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Tummy Exercise Myths

Our bodies are genetically conditioned on how we lose or gain weight. Interestingly enough, the first place where we gain weight is the last place where we lose it. We cannot reduce only the part we do not like. Once we lose fat from our body, we lose inches everywhere even where we do not want to lose.

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Friday, September 12, 2008

USA Sports

USA Sports

Since the late nineteenth century, baseball has been regarded as the national sport; American football, basketball, and ice hockey are the country's three other leading professional team sports. College football and basketball also attract large audiences. Football is now by several measures the most popular spectator sport in the United States. Boxing and horse racing were once the most watched individual sports, but they have been eclipsed by golf and auto racing, particularly NASCAR. Soccer, though not a leading professional sport in the country, is played widely at the youth and amateur levels. Tennis and many outdoor sports are also popular.

While most major U.S. sports have evolved out of European practices, basketball, volleyball, skateboarding, and snowboarding are American inventions. Lacrosse and surfing arose from Native American and Native Hawaiian activities that predate Western contact. Eight Olympic Games have taken place in the United States. The United States has won 2,191 medals at the Summer Olympic Games, more than any other country, and 216 in the Winter Olympic Games, the second most.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

USA Food

USA Food

Mainstream American culinary arts are similar to those in other Western countries. Wheat is the primary cereal grain. Traditional American cuisine uses ingredients such as turkey, white-tailed deer venison, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and maple syrup, indigenous foods employed by Native Americans and early European settlers. Slow-cooked pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, potato chips, and chocolate chip cookies are distinctively American styles. Soul food, developed by African slaves, is popular around the South and among many African Americans elsewhere. Syncretic cuisines such as Louisiana creole, Cajun, and Tex-Mex are regionally important. Characteristic dishes such as apple pie, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs derive from the recipes of various immigrants. French fries, Mexican dishes such as burritos and tacos, and pasta dishes freely adapted from Italian sources are widely consumed. Americans generally prefer coffee to tea. Marketing by U.S. industries is largely responsible for making orange juice and milk ubiquitous breakfast beverages. During the 1980s and 1990s, Americans' caloric intake rose 24%; frequent dining at fast food outlets is associated with what health officials call the American "obesity epidemic." Highly sweetened soft drinks are widely popular; sugared beverages account for 9% of the average American's caloric intake.

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By clicking on a "vignette" will open a new window with a larger image. Some have a description of the project and some notes on the customer and the project site.
Examples of my work. They represent some of the projects I have worked in recent years. Many of them are located along the Florida panhandle, others are west of the Palestinian Authority. These plans emphasize outside an important aspect - regardless of what you think of these models: These houses are custom designed with the desires of customers, tastes and lifestyles in mind. Your house will be completely different from all the shown here because your family, and it is totally needs are unique from any other, we've served. And that is what is most fun to design a personalized welcome ... you should ... inside and outside!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

iPod Touch 2nd Gen

Apple has also released the 2nd gen iPod Touch. Yes similar to iPhone 3G. Slimmer, lighter and has a back chrome aluminum case. Wow, that looks nicer than the iPhone 3G back case.ImprovementBuilt-in speaker ~ lets you hear the music, dialogue, and action without headphones, perfect for casual listening.

USA Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

USA Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American art and literature took most of its cues from Europe. Writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau established a distinctive American literary voice by the middle of the nineteenth century. Mark Twain and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, is recognized as another essential American poet. Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, most recently Toni Morrison in 1993. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925)—may be dubbed the "Great American Novel." Popular literary genres such as the Western and hardboiled crime fiction developed in the United States. Postmodernism is the most recent major literary movement in the world, and though on the theory side postmodernism began with French writers like Jacques Derrida and Alain Robbe-Grillet, and was transitioned into largely by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, it has since been dominated by American writers such as Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, John Barth, E.L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut and many others.

The transcendentalists, led by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau, established the first major American philosophical movement. After the Civil War, Charles Peirce and then William James and John Dewey were leaders in the development of pragmatism. In the twentieth century, the work of W. V. Quine and Richard Rorty helped bring analytic philosophy to the fore in U.S. academic circles.

In the visual arts, the Hudson River School was an important mid-nineteenth-century movement in the tradition of European naturalism. The 1913 Armory Show in New York City, an exhibition of European modernist art, shocked the public and transformed the U.S. art scene. Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and others experimented with new styles, displaying a highly individualistic sensibility. Major artistic movements such as the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein have developed largely in the United States. The tide of modernism and then postmodernism has also brought American architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Frank Gehry to the top of their field.

One of the first notable promoters of the nascent American theater was impresario P. T. Barnum, who began operating a lower Manhattan entertainment complex in 1841. The team of Harrigan and Hart produced a series of popular musical comedies in New York starting in the late 1870s. In the twentieth century, the modern musical form emerged on Broadway; the songs of musical theater composers such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Stephen Sondheim have become pop standards. Playwright Eugene O'Neill won the Nobel literature prize in 1936; other acclaimed U.S. dramatists include multiple Pulitzer Prize winners Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and August Wilson.

Though largely overlooked at the time, Charles Ives's work of the 1910s established him as the first major U.S. composer in the classical tradition; other experimentalists such as Henry Cowell and John Cage created an identifiably American approach to classical composition. Aaron Copland and George Gershwin developed a unique American synthesis of popular and classical music. Choreographers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham were central figures in the creation of modern dance; George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins were leaders in twentieth-century ballet. The United States has long been at the fore in the relatively modern artistic medium of photography, with major practitioners such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, and many others. The newspaper comic strip and the comic book are both U.S. innovations. Superman, the quintessential comic book superhero, has become an American icon.


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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

USA Popular media

USA Popular Media

In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to capture motion. In 1894, the world's first commercial motion picture exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. The next year saw the first commercial screening of a projected film, also in New York, and the United States was in the forefront of sound film's development in the following decades. Since the early twentieth century, the U.S. film industry has largely been based in and around Hollywood, California. Director D. W. Griffith was central to the development of film grammar and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time. American screen actors like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe have become iconic figures, while producer/entrepreneur Walt Disney was a leader in both animated film and movie merchandising. The major film studios of Hollywood are the primary source of the most commercially successful movies in the world, such as Star Wars (1977) and Titanic (1997), and the products of Hollywood today dominate the global film industry.

Americans are the heaviest television viewers in the world, and the average time spent in front of the screen continues to rise, hitting five hours a day in 2006. The four major broadcast networks are all commercial entities. Americans listen to radio programming, also largely commercialized, on average just over two-and-a-half hours a day. Aside from web portals and web search engines, the most popular websites are eBay, MySpace, Amazon.com, The New York Times, and Apple. Twelve million Americans keep a blog.

The rhythmic and lyrical styles of African American music have deeply influenced American music at large, distinguishing it from European traditions. Elements from folk idioms such as the blues and what is now known as old-time music were adopted and transformed into popular genres with global audiences. Jazz was developed by innovators such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington early in the twentieth century. Country music, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll emerged between the 1920s and 1950s. In the 1960s, Bob Dylan emerged from the folk revival to become one of America's greatest songwriters and James Brown led the development of funk. More recent American creations include hip hop and house music. American pop stars such as Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna have become global celebrities.

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Monday, September 8, 2008

USA Culture

USA Culture

The United States is a multicultural nation, home to a wide variety of ethnic groups, traditions, and values. There is no "American" ethnicity; aside from the now relatively small Native American population, nearly all Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. The culture held in common by the majority of Americans is referred to as mainstream American culture, a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of Western European migrants, beginning with the early English and Dutch settlers. German, Irish, and Scottish cultures have also been very influential. Certain cultural attributes of Mandé and Wolof slaves from West Africa were adopted by the American mainstream; based more on the traditions of Central African Bantu slaves, a distinct African American culture developed that would eventually have a major effect on the mainstream as well. Westward expansion integrated the Creoles and Cajuns of Louisiana and the Hispanos of the Southwest and brought close contact with the culture of Mexico. Large-scale immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from Southern and Eastern Europe introduced many new cultural elements. More recent immigration from Asia and especially Latin America has had broad impact. The resulting mix of cultures may be characterized as a homogeneous melting pot or as a pluralistic salad bowl in which immigrants and their descendants retain distinctive cultural characteristics.

While American culture maintains that the United States is a classless society, economists and sociologists have identified cultural differences between the country's social classes, affecting socialization, language, and values. The American middle and professional class has been the source of many contemporary social trends such as feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism. Americans' self-images, social viewpoints, and cultural expectations are associated with their occupations to an unusually close degree. While Americans tend greatly to value socioeconomic achievement, being ordinary or average is generally seen as a positive attribute. Though the American Dream, or the perception that Americans enjoy high social mobility, played a key role in attracting immigrants, particularly in the late 1800s, some analysts find that the United States has less social mobility than Western Europe and Canada.

Women, many of whom were formerly more limited to domestic roles, now mostly work outside the home and receive a majority of bachelor's degrees. The changing role of women has also changed the American family. In 2005, no household arrangement defined more than 30% of households; married childless couples were most common, at 28%. The extension of marital rights to homosexual persons is an issue of debate; several more liberal states permit civil unions in lieu of marriage. In 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional; the Supreme Court of California ruled similarly in 2008. Forty-three states still legally restrict marriage to the traditional man-and-woman model.

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Sunday, September 7, 2008

USA Crime and Punishment

USA Crime and Punishment

Law enforcement in the United States is primarily the responsibility of local police and sheriff's departments, with state police providing broader services. Federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Marshals Service have specialized duties. At the federal level and in almost every state, jurisprudence operates on a common law system. State courts conduct most criminal trials; federal courts handle certain designated crimes as well as appeals from state systems.

Among developed nations, the United States has above-average levels of violent crime and particularly high levels of gun violence and homicide. In 2006, there were 5.7 murders per 100,000 persons, three times the rate in neighboring Canada. The U.S. homicide rate, which decreased by 42% between 1991 and 1999, has been roughly steady since. Some scholars have associated the high rate of homicide with the country's high rates of gun ownership, in turn associated with U.S. gun laws which are very permissive compared to those of other developed countries.

The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate and total prison population in the world and by far the highest figures among democratic, developed nations. At the start of 2008, more than 2.3 million people were held in American prisons or jails, more than one in every 100 adults. The current rate is almost seven times the 1980 figure. African American males are jailed at over six times the rate of white males and three times the rate of Hispanic males. In the latest comparable data, from 2006, the U.S. incarceration rate was more than three times the figure in Poland, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country with the next highest rate. The country's extraordinary rate of incarceration is largely caused by changes in sentencing and drug policies. Though it has been abolished in most Western nations, capital punishment is sanctioned in the United States for certain federal and military crimes, and in thirty-seven states. Since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty after a four-year moratorium, there have been over 1,000 executions in the United States.In 2006, the country had the sixth highest number of executions in the world, following China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, and Sudan. In December 2007, New Jersey became the first state to abolish the death penalty since the 1976 Supreme Court decision.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008

USA Health

USA Health

The American life expectancy of 77.8 years at birth is a year shorter than the overall figure in Western Europe, and three to four years lower than that of Norway, Switzerland, and Canada. Over the past two decades, the country's rank in life expectancy has dropped from 11th to 42nd place in the world. The infant mortality rate of 6.37 per thousand likewise places the United States 42nd out of 221 countries, behind all of Western Europe. U.S. cancer survival rates are the highest in the world. Approximately one-third of the adult population is obese and an additional third is overweight; the obesity rate, the highest in the industrialized world, has more than doubled in the last quarter-century. Obesity-related type 2 diabetes is considered epidemic by healthcare professionals. The U.S. adolescent pregnancy rate, 79.8 per 1,000 women, is nearly four times that of France and five times that of Germany. Abortion in the United States, legal on demand, is a source of great political controversy. Many states ban public funding of the procedure and have laws to restrict late-term abortions, require parental notification for minors, and mandate a waiting period prior to treatment. While the incidence of abortion is in decline, the U.S. abortion ratio of 241 per 1,000 live births and abortion rate of 15 per 1,000 women aged 15–44 remain higher than those of most Western nations.

The United States healthcare system far outspends any other nation's, measured in both per capita spending and percentage of GDP. Unlike most developed countries, the U.S. healthcare system is not universal, and relies on a higher proportion of private funding. In 2004, private insurance paid for 36% of personal health expenditure, private out-of-pocket payments covered 15%, and federal, state, and local governments paid for 44%. The World Health Organization ranked the U.S. healthcare system in 2000 as first in responsiveness, but 37th in overall performance. The United States is a leader in medical innovation. In 2004, the U.S. nonindustrial sector spent three times as much as Europe per capita on biomedical research. Medical bills are the most common reason for personal bankruptcy in the United States. In 2005, 46.6 million Americans, or 15.9% of the population, were uninsured, 5.4 million more than in 2001. The primary cause of the decline in coverage is the drop in the number of Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance, which fell from 62.6% in 2001 to 59.5% in 2005. Approximately one third of the uninsured lived in households with annual incomes greater than $50,000, with half of those having an income over $75,000. Another third were eligible but not registered for public health insurance. In 2006, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate health insurance; California is considering similar legislation.

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Friday, September 5, 2008

USA Education

USA Education

American public education is operated by state and local governments, regulated by the United States Department of Education through restrictions on federal grants. Children are required in most states to attend school from the age of six or seven (generally, kindergarten or first grade) until they turn eighteen (generally bringing them through 12th grade, the end of high school); some states allow students to leave school at sixteen or seventeen. About 12% of children are enrolled in parochial or nonsectarian private schools. Just over 2% of children are homeschooled. The United States has many competitive private and public institutions of higher education, as well as local community colleges of varying quality with open admission policies. Of Americans twenty-five and older, 84.6% graduated from high school, 52.6% attended some college, 27.2% earned a bachelor's degree, and 9.6% earned graduate degrees. The basic literacy rate is approximately 99%. The United Nations assigns the United States an Education Index of 0.97, tying it for twelfth-best in the world.

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Eco-Architecture: Do your houses tree of life
In architecture, Architecture News, Building Types and style of home design ideas and improving advice

The concept of shaping life in the trees as objects useful for building materials, house, tree known as the shaping, arborsculpture, art or living pooktre, is not new. And now, the scientist ready to apply it in real with the direction of Tel Aviv University professors Yoav Waisel and Amram Eshel.
build house with living tree

build house with living tree

The approach is a new application of the well-known phenomenon of botany development of aerial roots. Instead of using the branches of plants, this approach takes patented malleable roots and forms a useful objects for indoors and outdoors.

Pilot projects under way in the USA, Australia and Israel on park benches for hospitals, play structures, streetlamps and gates. So we will soon see the bus stop pushing its own foliage in the shade, a playground for children, made entirely from trees, a shelter to live tree roots that could provide protection natural against earthquakes in California, etc.
designing games for children

designing games for children

The original "root-revolutionary" research was conducted at Sarah Racine Root Research Laboratory Tel Aviv University, the first and largest laboratory aeroponics in the world. Founded by Professor Waisel 20 years ago, the lab allows scientists to conduct future advance research and creation that benefits humanity and the environment.

Applications commercial research is being developed by Plantware, a company founded in 2002. TAU Plantware and working together researchers found that certain species of trees aeroponically (in the air instead of soil and water) not harden. This developed a new method more and more "soft roots," which could easily turn into trees useful life of structures.
Garden Design meeting

Garden Design meeting

Completing the informal sector Plantware collaboration between the founders and the university, the company director of operations, Yaniv Naftaly, holds a degree in life sciences TAU.

It is even possible that in the near future, all homes will be built with eco-technologies. An engineer by trade, the CEO Plantware Glazer Gordon hopes that the first house prototype will be ready in about a decade. Although the method of "growing your own house" may take years, the result is long-lasting and desirable especially in the emerging field of green architecture.

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Total square footage: 2017 House Width: 73'-0 "
Ground floor: 2017 House Depth: 50'-4 "
Second floor: N / A
Primary Pitch: 4 / 12 pitch secondary: 4 / 12
Bedrooms: 2 type Foundation: Basement
Bathroom: 1 full, three-quarters: 1 framing Type: Truss
The garage stalls: 3 exterior finish: Stone, siding
Garage Sqft: 897 Sqft features:

Ceiling Heights: First floor: 10 '. Great Room, Den, entry 15.
Second floor: N / A.
Dining: 12'2 'x 17' 8 "Den: 12'0 'x 13' 0"
Cuisine: 9'2 'x 16' 8 "Great room: 17'2 'x 19' 0"
1 Offer Set: $ 575 Foundation Options:
5 Sets: $ 725
8 Sets: $ 760-soil: Included in the price list
Reproductible: $ 870 space exploration: $ 250
Disc: $ 1,300 slab: $ 250
Additional Sets: $ 50 per set
Mirror Image: $ 45 Additional license: $ 270
Study Set: $ 50 Reading back: $ 250
In this ranch-style house sporting massive columns that lead you to a court before you enter. Fifteen foot ceilings lead you from the entrance to the spacious great room where you'll love the two-story wall of windows that allows a lot of natural light. A fireplace flanked by built-in cabinets creates a comfortable atmosphere for entertaining. An opening soffeted leads you right into the kitchen, where you will find an eat-in island regions, go pantry and office. The rooms are located to the left of the entrance and include a master suite with lots of private space, a corner Jacuzzi tub and split pits. The second bedroom also has an appointment and private lies just beside the entrance. A three-stall half-full garage of the house.



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Thursday, September 4, 2008

USA Religion

USA Religion

The United States government does not audit Americans' religious beliefs. In a private survey conducted in 2001, 76.5% of American adults identified themselves as Christian, down from 86.4% in 1990. Protestant denominations accounted for 52% of adult Americans, while Roman Catholics, at 24.5%, were the largest individual denomination. A different study describes white evangelicals, 26.3% of the population, as the country's largest religious cohort; evangelicals of all races are estimated at 30–35%. The total reporting non-Christian religions in 2001 was 3.7%, up from 3.3% in 1990. The leading non-Christian faiths were Judaism (1.4%), Islam (0.5%), Buddhism (0.5%), Hinduism (0.4%), and Unitarian Universalism (0.3%). Between 1990 and 2001, the number of Muslims and Buddhists more than doubled. From 8.2% in 1990, 14.1% in 2001 described themselves as agnostic, atheist, or simply having no religion, still significantly less than in other postindustrial countries such as Britain (2005:44%) and Sweden (2001:69%, 2005:85%).

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

USA Language

USA Language

English is the de facto national language. Although there is no official language at the federal level, some laws—such as U.S. naturalization requirements—standardize English. In 2003, about 215 million, or 82% of the population aged five years and older, spoke only English at home. Spanish, spoken by over 10% of the population at home, is the second most common language and the most widely taught foreign language. Some Americans advocate making English the country's official language, as it is in at least twenty-eight states. Both Hawaiian and English are official languages in Hawaii by state law. While neither has an official language, New Mexico has laws providing for the use of both English and Spanish, as Louisiana does for English and French. Other states, such as California, mandate the publication of Spanish versions of certain government documents including court forms. Several insular territories grant official recognition to their native languages, along with English: Samoan and Chamorro are recognized by Samoa and Guam, respectively; Carolinian and Chamorro are recognized by the Northern Mariana Islands; Spanish is an official language of Puerto Rico.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

USA Demographics

USA Demographics

As of 2008, the United States population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be 304,516,000. The U.S. population included an estimated 11.2 million illegal immigrants. The overall growth rate is 0.89%, compared to 0.16% in the European Union. The birth rate of 14.16 per 1,000 is 30% below the world average, while higher than any European country except for Albania and Ireland. In 2006, 1.27 million immigrants were granted legal residence. Mexico has been the leading source of new U.S. residents for over two decades; since 1998, China, India, and the Philippines have been in the top four sending countries every year. The United States is the only industrialized nation in which large population increases are projected.

The United States has a very diverse population—thirty-one ancestry groups have more than a million members. Whites are the largest racial group, with German Americans, Irish Americans, and English Americans constituting three of the country's four largest ancestry groups. African Americans constitute the nation's largest racial minority and third largest ancestry group. Asian Americans are the country's second largest racial minority; the two largest Asian American ancestry groups are Chinese and Filipino. In 2006, the U.S. population included an estimated 4.5 million people with some American Indian or Alaskan native ancestry (2.9 million exclusively of such ancestry) and over 1 million with some native Hawaiian or Pacific island ancestry (0.5 million exclusively).

The population growth of Hispanic and Latino Americans has been a major demographic trend. Approximately 44 million Americans are of Hispanic descent, with about 64% possessing Mexican ancestry. Between 2000 and 2006, the country's Hispanic population increased 25.5% while the non-Hispanic population rose just 3.5%. Much of this growth is from immigration; as of 2004, 12% of the U.S. population was foreign-born, over half that number from Latin America. Fertility is also a factor; the average Hispanic woman gives birth to three children in her lifetime. The comparable fertility rate is 2.2 for non-Hispanic black women and 1.8 for non-Hispanic white women (below the replacement rate of 2.1). Hispanics and Latinos accounted for nearly half of the national population growth of 2.9 million between July 2005 and July 2006.

About 83% of the population lives in one of the country's 363 metropolitan areas. In 2006, 254 incorporated places in the United States had populations over 100,000, nine cities had more than 1 million residents, and four global cities had over 2 million (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston). The United States has fifty metropolitan areas with populations greater than 1 million. Of the fifty fastest-growing metro areas, twenty-three are in the West and twenty-five in the South. Among the country's twenty most populous metro areas, those of Dallas (the fourth largest), Houston (sixth), and Atlanta (ninth) saw the largest numerical gains between 2000 and 2006, while that of Phoenix (thirteenth) grew the largest in percentage terms.

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Monday, September 1, 2008

USA Energy

USA Energy

The United States energy market is 29,000 terawatt hours per year. Energy consumption per capita is 7.8 tons of oil equivalent per year, compared to Germany's 4.2 tons and Canada's 8.3 tons. In 2005, 40% of the nation's energy came from petroleum, 23% from coal, and 22% from natural gas. The remainder was supplied by nuclear power and various renewable energy sources. The United States is the world's largest consumer of petroleum. For decades, nuclear power has played a limited role relative to many other developed countries. Recently, applications for new nuclear plants have been filed.

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