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  Amazon.com: New Compact House Designs: Books: Don Metz
These plans are the winners from the second Compact House Design Competition, a juried contest receiving designs of up to 1250 square feet and with at least two bed rooms from North American architects, designers, and architecture students.
Houses of the future will be smaller, more energy-efficient, and better suited to their environments.
The basic concepts utilized in the design of this house are: clarity of organization and circulation, zoning according to public and private spaces, and the notion of images which depict dwelling.
www.amazon.com /New-Compact-House-Designs-Metz/dp/0882666665   (1276 words)

  
  Xanadu House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wisconsin Dells and Gatlinburg houses were closed and demolished in the early 1990s; the Kissimmee Xanadu House was closed in 1996 and demolished in October 2005.
At the center of the house was the living room, in which a large false tree supported the roof, and also acted as part of the built-in heating system.
Construction of the Xanadu house in Kissimmee, Florida, began with the pouring of a concrete slab base and the erection of a tension ring 40 feet in diameter to anchor the domed roof of what would become the "Great Room" of the house.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xanadu_House   (2278 words)

  
 Shore Line Times - News - 01/21/2004 - Metz sounds off on 'Rowland-gate'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Metz explained to the 60-plus Republicans gathered at the RTC meeting that State House Speaker Moira Lyons would soon be creating a special bipartisan committee of House members that would investigate the facts and make a recommendation to the House.
Metz said that if impeachment is recommended, the matter is turned over to the State Senate, which conducts a trial presided over by the Chief Justice with the senators acting as jurors.
Metz said that developing these parameters would probably take at least a couple of months, in part due to political aspects of such negotiations.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10824403&BRD=1630&PAG=461&dept_id=7736&rfi=6   (543 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / US military admits bombing wrong house near Mosul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The airstrike by an F-16 fighter plane on the village of Aaytha, 30 miles south of Mosul, was part of "a cordon and search operation to capture an anti-Iraqi force cell leader," the military said in a statement.
The satellite-guided bomb struck a house that "was not the intended target.
The statement said that five people were killed and that the military "deeply regretted the loss of possibly innocent lives." The owner of the house told news services that the bomb killed 14 people, including seven children.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/09/us_military_admits_bombing_wrong_house_near_mosul   (568 words)

  
 Fires, part II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Most of the men in Metz were farmers or lumbermen; some did both, working their farms in the summer and the forest during the winter.
It was Metz Township that bore the brunt of the conflagration, sustaining the greatest loss of life, property loss, and other casualties, yet the townships of Belknap and Pulawski were also hard hit.
The losses in the Metz fire were not as extensive as those in the 1871 and 1881 fires.
www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/fires_ii.html   (6757 words)

  
 Other Design Books
In everyday language, the architect-authors explain their theory - how strong contrasts, open spaces combined with closed spaces, light with darkness, simplicity with complexity, order with mystery - can be orchestrated to produce harmony in a living environment.
Houses of the future will be smaller, more energy-efficient, and better suited to their environments.
Whether the small adobe house is a work of art or a model of simplicity, it is by far the most appropriate house for the Southwest.
www.lhgic.com /store/225.htm   (443 words)

  
 SKI Magazine ~ At Home in a Hill
The house was inspired by The Underground House Book, which I wrote in 1979 during the peak of the energy crisis.
The perimeter of the house is also surrounded by several underground layers of perforated drain tile, which direct water away from the walls.
If we were diligent enough to "work" the house, always closing insulating window quilts at night and on cloudy days and isolating the greenhouse by closing its door as it collects heat, living here would be even cheaper than it is. But we're too lazy-and just too comfortable-to bother.
www.skimag.com /skimag/mountain_life/article/0,12795,445187,00.html   (1355 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: House of Guise
The House of Guise, a branch of the ducal family of Lorraine, played an important part in the religious troubles of France during the seventeenth century.
The dukes of Guise, however, as descendants of the House of Anjou, had certain pretensions to the Kingdom of Naples, and it was doubtless with the secret intention of defending these claims that François de Lorraine furthered an alliance between Henry II and Pope Paul IV which was menaced by Philip II.
She lived to see the extinction of the House of Este by the death of Alphonso II, fifth Duke of Ferrara, and to see two of her sons, Henry Duke of Guise, and the Cardinal of Guise (see below) slain at the château de Blois.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07074a.htm   (6421 words)

  
 U.S. Commercial Service China: Congressman Manzullo....
The staff of the House Small Business Committee accompanied Metz in visits to Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Shenzhen where they were assisted by the U.S. Commercial Service in meeting with their Chinese customers and counterparts.
Metz credits this support from the US Government for his initial successes in China saying, "Without the help of the Congressman and the U.S. Commercial Service, the insights I gained would not have been achieved."
Metz had very productive visits with Caterpillar, GM and other multinationals that promise to let him bid some of their future new products.
www.buyusa.gov /china/en/manzullo.html   (482 words)

  
 Storey Publishing - book publishers of country wisdom, do-it-yourself, gardening, and well-being.
Editor and professional architect Don Metz is a partner in the architectureal firm of Metz and Thornton.
He started his career in the energy-efficient house design business in 1972 with his award-winning Winston House.
Metz has also written two novels, Catamount Bridge and King of the Mountain.
www.storey.com /authors/authors.php/author/058   (92 words)

  
 Greenbuilder.com Books: House
In House, a New York Times hardcover bestseller for over six months, Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges and triumphs.
House is an amazing book detailing the lives of seven people involved in the design and construction of a new house.
Within the author's framework of house construction, the lives of the builders, the new owners, and the architect are interwoven with all of their conflicts, joys, flaws, and weaknesses.
bookstore.greenbuilder.com /index2.books?rid=145&submitted=yes&compareop=contains&searchfield=titl&comparevalue=House   (780 words)

  
 'Progressive' Amherst behind the times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
At the town meeting this past Monday, the Board refused to nominate the historic 1846 Metz House for historic landmark status.
The Metz House on Main Street in Amherst, built in 1846 by the John and Elizabeth Metz, is in excellent condition.
The house would be torn down and replaced by still another generic modern structure.
freenet.buffalo.edu /preserve/bam/metz/metzach.html   (455 words)

  
 Metz still waiting for the great decline - Aug. 4, 1998
     METZ: My feeling is they're the most vulnerable in the sense that they incorporate the highest expectations, they have the most over-ownership.
There are always exceptions, but generically I think the index strategy is going to fail for the next six months.
I think if the oil prices stay down here, the house is at risk.
money.cnn.com /1998/08/04/markets/metz_intv   (1055 words)

  
 Traverse City Record-Eagle
Mericle emerged with the victory after a tiebreaker separated him from a second contestant, Don Metz of Traverse City, who also tallied 1,990 points.
Metz does win the Record-Eagle contest and has his choice of golf for two at A-Ga-Ming, golf for two at The Chief, dinner at Freshwater Lodge or mini-detailing at Love Your Car.
Metz, a 1956 graduate who played basketball at Marquette, also had all four of the final teams.
www.record-eagle.com /2003/apr/13contes.htm   (352 words)

  
 Surge in Violence Threatens Iraq Elections, US Exit Strategy
But counterinsurgency specialists say the Bush administration appears to be caught in a trap that's afflicted many foreign occupiers in centuries past: Too little military force allows rebels to flourish, but too much causes a popular backlash and increases grass-roots support for the insurgents.
Metz, of the war college's Strategic Studies Institute, said the spike in the insurgency may be temporary, and that it's too early to determine whether the insurgency will succeed in derailing the U.S.-led efforts to build a stable, democratic Iraq.
The White House, which faces a challenge from Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Iraq, has given no hint of this and insists it's sticking to the plan.
www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0915-02.htm   (1674 words)

  
 Log Home Resource Center
This is the basic book for the log house builder with those special tips that come only with much experience.
"If it's a log house you're considering, built of your own logs or from a kit, here is one of the best books on this popular subject" (Country Journal).
Intelligent design solutions can help expand the scope and livability of a compact house, making it elegant as well as practical.
www.loghomeresources.com /books.html   (549 words)

  
 Couple found dead in pool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The children, ages 3 to 10, were asleep in the family's two-story house in this Columbus suburb.
Metz arrived, he found a note on the kitchen floor.
Metz identified the handwriting on both notes as Billy Matthews'.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2000/10/12/loc_couple_found_dead_in.html   (395 words)

  
 Green Home Building: Sustainable Architecture: Compact Design
Also, the larger the house, the more materials go into its construction; materials which may have their own environmental consequences.
In his own words, "These houses seem to call as much to the heart as to the head, enriching us more with the highs of nature than with the highs of technology.
Sarah Susanka contrasts the glamorous, glossy-photo house plans of vaulted ceilings and palatial living rooms with the livable, day-to-day pleasure of cozy window seats and comfortable breakfast nooks.
www.greenhomebuilding.com /small.htm   (1205 words)

  
 Mini House by Alejandro Bahamon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Afterall, there are many other great mini houses that are under radar screen where owners opt to maintain their privacy and confidentiality of their house plans.
One of the reviewers said it appropriately that those house might be more suitable for the non-attached individuals who don't have much wordly belongings or that they don't have many family members or that they are strictly used for holidaying or contemplation purposes.
It also adds in houses that are up to 1,291 sq/ft, which for most people is not a mini house, in fact it would be classed as a normal size house.
www.book-summary-review.com /Mini-House-0060513594.htm   (892 words)

  
 Metromix. A house fit for an Apprentice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Publicity for the book -- and, perhaps, a Trumpian love of self-promotion -- is presumably the reason Rancic has cleared a hole in his schedule to allow a reporter and photographer to nose around his home.
The kitchen, which spans the width of the house, was fully gutted.
One thing you have in your house from your childhood: I think I have a football from when I was a kid.
metromix.chicagotribune.com /news/celebrity/mmx-041012-celebritynews-rancicpad,0,3576138.story?coll=mmx-home_bottom_hedsh2o   (1555 words)

  
 New Compact House Designs: 27 Award-Winning Plans 1,250 Square Feet or Less   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In 1990, Storey Communications sponsored the Compact House Design Competition, a juried contest open to architects, designers, and architecture students.
From the numerous entries that were received from all over North America, professional architects Don Metz and Peter Woerner selected the best and most innovative designs to include in New Compact House Designs.
The basic guidelines were clear: design a single-family house with a minimum of two bedrooms whose gross floor area does not exceed 1,250 square feet.
www.familyhaven.com /architecture/architecture33/0882666665AMUS498031.shtml   (303 words)

  
 Prepared Statement of the Don Metz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Fifty-five years ago, my parents, Jim and Betty Metz, left their family-owned farms on the Missouri-Arkansas line, to come to northern Illinois to seek their version of the American dream.
I saw benches that used to house the tools of skilled mold makers and die makers that were now empty because many of them had been laid off.
In order for Metz Tool and Die to stay competitive we have to be creative in how we do business.
wwwc.house.gov /smbiz/hearings/107th/2002/020424/metz.asp   (1566 words)

  
 Jeff Allender's House Of Checklists
We try to maintain the largest and best listings for all of those non-sports cards (fantasy art, comic art, entertainment, science fiction, nostalgia, fine art, and novelty cards) you've been searching for, now that Mom no longer makes you throw them out.
If you wish to do a search for specific information across all of the checklists, I recommend that you use a web-search engine such as Google, and put your search term plus "house of checklists" in the search box.
Also, many of the company names, character names, and equipment names are trademarks of their respective holders; please respect their rights to their intellectual property.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/allender/jachlist.htm   (815 words)

  
 village voice > news > Attention, Wal-Mart Voters by Rick Perlstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Don Metz, who in his golf shirt looks like he just came back from a midday round, doesn't hesitate: "No problem.
Don notes that an employee at his plant, non-union, starts at $16 an hour and makes as much as $100,000 a year: "sends his kids to private school, he drives a nice car—does that sound like a Democrat to you?
Don again: "If Eric and his family decided to shut this place down, he's not going to end up on a food line.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0349/perlstein.php   (1944 words)

  
 Bichon Frise - Crate Training a Puppy
The puppy now can play for a while safely in the house, then back outside, potty, praise, return into the house, naptime in the crate.
Puppy wakes up from his nap, you both go outside, puppy goes, you praise, back in the house for playtime.
You take the puppy outside, he goes, you praise, back into the house and return to the crate for the rest of the night, hopefully.
www.bichonfrise.org /crate.html   (860 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books / Subjects / Art, Architecture & Photography / Architecture / Types of Architecture / Residential ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
If you have ever been enchanted by the houses of the Georgian period, and particularly if you are lucky enough to live in one, this book should be of interest.
The diversity is breathtaking: the rural pise architecture of the south is a far cry from the Hispano-Mooresque ornamental beauty of the imperial...
Edwardian houses today represent some of the most desirable homes available in urban areas, but little is known of the social, cultural and architectural background....
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/266305   (944 words)

  
 Into the Hot Zone [Follow A Platoon On It's Mission In Fallujah]
When they trudged into the 10th house, though, a trap was sprung: the insurgents had lured them in and then opened fire, forcing Bellavia’s men to scramble out of the house as shards of glass peppered them and bullets ricocheted off the gates of the courtyard.
The Americans battled armed insurgents not just street to street or even house to house, but also up close and personal with their enemy, fighting him room to room at point-blank range.
The house blew forward, and a young sergeant on a balcony took shrapnel in his groin.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1284953/posts   (5392 words)

  
 The Watercooler - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
But I'm glad that she stood up to it and didn't let Booth get off scot-free, though he did know the best way to beg for her forgiveness was with a murder case at the Washington monument.
Stacy is still angry with House and spends the greater part of the hour letting that anger seep into her work performance, as evidenced by her barging in and having sensitive legal conversations in front of House's clinic patients.
Stacy comes into work and is tasked by Cuddy with counseling House and Chase before their impending peer review for a malpractice suit.
www.tvguide.com /TV/Watercooler   (3269 words)

  
 Tooling & Manufacturing Association - News Bulletins
With the help of Senate and House Democrats, and a handful of House Republicans, the Governor's budget and revenue raising proposals were approved mainly intact.
The House vote was 60-56 and the Senate vote was 31-27.
Don Metz of Metz Tool and Die Works, Inc., Don Haag of TMA member Fox Valley Molding, Ernest Tucker of Precise Machine, and Eric Anderberg of Dial Machine addressed the group.
www.tmanet.com /publication/news/viewvolume.asp?VOLUME_ID=331   (5200 words)

  
 Author/ Title List
Baggs, Sydney A. An introduction to earth-covered housing.
An economic comparison of passively conditioned underground houses.
Landscape design and underground houses : an examination of underground houses to determine issues that affect and influence landscape design.
library3.csudh.edu /tboostrom/const/mainlist.html   (796 words)

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