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If you love the look of traditional buildings and need a new garage, guest house, small home, backyard office, stable, studio or workshop, this is the book for you.

Seventeen talented architects and designers provided drawings of 44 of their best Carriage Barns. All have the charm of yesterday's carriage houses, but they're all modern designs that you can build from efficient blueprints or building kits. Since many of the buildings have flexible plans and optional sizes, there are actually 142 different layouts here for you to choose from.

The book includes a gallery of 26 authentic 19th century carriage barns for your inspiration, and a directory of 168 catalogs and websites with sources of old-time hardware, vintage timber frames, coach house lamps, stable equipment, cupolas, weather vanes, and much more..
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on December 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3734 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The city editors known for their toughness, thorough control of the newsroom, and complete knowledge of the local community have now become part of the old-school. The politically correct newsrooms of today do not have th atmosphere of the newsrooms of the past. Some of the city editors who exemplified the characteristics of the earlier style such as Lou Linley of the Baltimore New American and Charles Chapin of the New York Evening World are described.

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Title: A dying breed. (the tough and demanding old-style city editors) (includes related article about the new breed of city editors)
Author: Carl Sessions Stepp
Publication:American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1994
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: v16 Issue: n10 Page: p34(8)

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A large-scale field experiment on 11 closed old-style landfill sites aims to identify the constraints to tree survival and growth, and the opportunity for restoration to community forestry. This paper analyses survival and growth during the first 3 years. A preliminary site investigation showed that the main environmental constraints to tree growth were soil depth, site exposure, soil compaction, waterlogging and low soil oxygen. None of the sites were suitable for forestry according to current guidelines. Thirty-nine plots (mostly 40m x 40m) at the 11 landfill sites were each planted with 21 woody species, amounting to 8ha of experimental plots within 14ha of buffer zone planting. All planting stock was of the same origin, planted at the same time in a randomised-block design. Despite herbicide applications, weed competition had the largest inhibitory effect on establishment in the first year. Patterns of survival and growth were contradictory; often species with poor survival rates grew well and vice versa. The most successful species were late successional species (compared to pioneers), native species (compared to exotics), shrubs (compared to trees) and broadleaves (compared to conifers). Eight of the 21 species could be recommended to be good general choices for landfill sites. It is concluded that all sites were suitable for community forestry, although two sites would require additional soil amendment. Species recommendations to suit a particular range of environmental determinants at other landfill sites is complicated by the mound-like shape of landfills and a high degree of within-site and within-plot variability; this was a more important determinant of mortality and growth than was the particular species planted. Differences between plots were reflected in mortality data, whereas growth data separated differences between species. Monitoring of the plots and further experimental work at the sites will continue for at least 15 years. .
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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on January 19, 2004. The length of the article is 815 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Old-style Democrats slug it out in primaries.(As I See It)(Column)
Author: Joe D. Jones
Publication:Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 19, 2004
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 26 Issue: 3 Page: 4(2)

Article Type: Column

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