Jamie Roe

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Use your $8000 tax credit on this home.Spacious 4 bedroom 2 bathroom home located in the heart of College Station. On shuddle route to TAMU. This home perfect for college student, family or individual who wantes to be near shopping,restaurants and TAMU. Seller welcomes any and all offers. Please provide a pre approval letter with all offers.

Craftsman Bungalow

Once Again the Most Charming Small House in Town

By Marion Travis

Restoration, and discreet updating, of a seven-gabled Craftsman Bungalow is nearing completion in Cameron, Texas, in Milam County. Once hailed as the loveliest little house in town, today it is even prettier, even stronger, without disturbing its original Arts and Crafts style.

I know how it looked long ago. As a starry-eyed 10-year-old tagging along with my parents, I attended the new home's open house in 1939. Everyone was so excited that night, even the adults, since the house had been built by what they termed, a master builder, which was unimportant to me then. I still remember the shiny nickel-plated hardware and sparkling glass doorknobs resembling huge diamonds. There were also several French doors that glistened from the patterned glass in each of the panes, which I now know was Florentine glass. The other doors, of which there were so many, were all stained and had matching trim. As the trim gave way to beautiful stained baseboards, the warmth and beauty of this house combined to absolutely take my breath away.

My father must have understood the extent of my love for this house because he bought it for me fifty-five years later. Finally I had my bungalow! This totally unexpected purchase on my behalf was about the sweetest thing my father ever did for me. I am only considering selling it now because I have to due to my losses in the stock market.

This house at 1902 N. Harding soon will be open for visitors for the first time since restoration. The master builder everyone was so excited about was Stanley Hughes. When you approach this house, you will travel under mature trees that cool the air before it reaches the numerous windows of the bungalow. Most homes in the vicinity are much younger than the Craftsman, thus extension of its long, useful life actually draws support from its younger neighbors. The neighborhood backs up to the west end of the Cameron Country Club golf course.

Twelve square columns on the front porch alert the visitor to Craftsman riches inside. Like most bungalows--not all--this is a small house preserving privacy, quiet and comfort, ideal for a couple or individual seeking simplicity, economy, and coziness. Smaller means lower utilities, lower property taxes, lower homeowners insurance, lower upkeep, easier housekeeping. I know. I've lived there in recent years.

Living space of 1,400 sq. ft. includes living room with fireplace, formal dining room, guest bedroom, all new bathroom, master bedroom, a typically short Craftsman hall, updated and re-decorated kitchen, breakfast nook, miniature butler's pantry, and utility porch possibly for a stacked washer and dryer. Newly brush plated nickel door hardware and new chrome plumbing fixtures join their own gleam to restored original cabinet hinges in kitchen and bath.

A single car garage and small corner lot (less lawn care) are other benefits.

A gray and white frame house, it has the mandatory Craftsman outside chimney, plus a front porch covered by it own gabled roof. Other typical Craftsman features are the twenty-one original windows declaring this is a genuine bungalow. Purpose of two of four exterior doors is chiefly for air circulation-a must-have for comfort in a bungalow. When it's cold outside, or really hot outside, central heat and air maintain the integrity of this feature.

Well-built frame houses, barring catastrophe and with proper maintenance, can last for 200 years or more. This house has good bones asserts a respected builder-designer. All original cabinetry is job-built.

Perhaps the best house leveler in Central Texas, Nolan Taylor of Holland, spent five weeks removing all of the old foundation piers, replacing all with new materials. Key new piers are embedded in concrete below ground.. Beams were replaced as needed. The house is level, strong, and sound. You can feel it when you walk the refinished oak floors.

In addition to the foundation's having been completely overhauled, the plumbing has been redone including fixtures that reflect the 1939 period as much as possible, the entire house has been rewired, and a new roof was put on in 2004. Even the window sashes and sills have been redone and all new screens are on those twenty-one windows. The showiest thing in the house, unlike the new insulation in the attic and walls, is the stained wood floors in three rooms and crown molding in every room with wood around all windows and doors.

The decorator for this project is Charlynn Casey, ASID, of Temple. She and her husband own a fine furnishings store named Casey's Furniture. She chose the walls and ceiling colors, all new kitchen and bath plumbing and fixtures, tile for the kitchen and bath, carpet in master bedroom and vinyl in the kitchen. Charlynn is very good at her business. My bungalow finally sparkles in the night once again.

Brief Background of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Although such creative thinkers as John Ruskin, William Morris and Philip Webb originated the Arts and Crafts Movement in England more than 125 years ago, the powerful concept soon crossed the Atlantic to flourish in temperate American locales for decades. Arts and Crafts influence on residential architecture continues today in the familiar term "living room" introduced to the world by Arts and Crafts reaction against Victorian parlors. The same movement brought built-in cabinetry into homes for the first time; previously furniture alone (wardrobes or armoires, cupboards, pie safes, trunks, chests, small closets, etc.) held the family's belongings. Craftsman influence established straightforwardness, economy, and functionality as ideals in home design.

The Craftsman Bungalow, and its many variations, quickly captured the hearts of democratic, active, individualistic Americans grown weary of overdressed and pretentious Victorian architecture. Features of a Craftsman home trumped its predecessors with fitness for purpose, order, and ease. Beauty came from the natural beauty of function and materials, not from affected elegance. You might say Craftsman beauty is rooted in integrity and truth rather than frou-frou.

Bungalows, open, small, airy houses built by the British in colonial India, suited the Arts and Crafts movement to a "T." Thus developed the one-story Craftsman cottage with many doors and windows to allow air to circulate freely to help defeat the heat. At the same time the exterior chimney, serving a living room fireplace, is a mandatory bungalow feature.

Craftsman décor and architecture celebrated the manual skills of the artisans/craftsmen who built and decorated the home. Materials rejoiced in their own inner beauty, or yielded to the craftsman's router or chisel. Glass was embossed out of its own true nature. The movement reveled in simplicity and functionality. In sum, the Craftsman house was meant to support the emotional and spiritual health of its occupants as opposed to weighing down residents with architecture's self-importance.

Marion Travis

707 E. 16^th Street

Cameron, TX 76520

(254) 697-4098

marion_travis@sbcglobal.net

I have lived with Dyslexia for working on twenty four years. The 1^st thing you need to teach your kids with Dyslexia OR NOT is that it is NOT a disability it is a difference. When people think of someone that has a disability they think they can't......which is NOT true at all they CAN learn some can learn more so than people without Dyslexia. Some of the biggest all stars today have lived with this.

I have learned many different ways of how I lean best. Using color coding, site words, and hands on are 3 of the most important this to help me learn. Being in Real Estate working with numbers and words all day is hard but I make it and sell my properties. I have a lot more good insight in this. If there anything I can answer or help with please just e-mail me.

The following information is the best out there for understanding what we deal with on a daily basis.

How Does Reading Happen?

To understand dyslexia, it helps to understand reading. Reading is a real workout for your brain. You need to do the following steps - and all at once:

1. Understand the way speech sounds make up words.
2. Focus on printed marks (letters and words).
3. Connect speech sounds to letters.
4. Blend letter sounds smoothly into words.
5. Control eye movements across the page.
6. Build images and ideas.
7. Compare new ideas with what is already known.
8. Store the ideas in memory.

Phew! Kids who have dyslexia struggle with the beginning steps, so that makes doing the rest of the steps even harder. It's no surprise, then, that trying to read and dealing with dyslexia makes a kid's brain really tired really fast.

How Kids Become Readers

Most kids start learning to read by learning how speech sounds make up words. Then they connect those sounds to alphabet letters. For example, they learn that the letter "b" makes a "buh" sound.

Then kids learn to blend those sounds into words. They learn that "b" and "at" makes "bat." Eventually, most kids don't have to sound words out and can instantly recognize words they've seen many times before.

But it's tougher for kids who have dyslexia. They may struggle to remember simple words they have seen many times and to sound out longer words. Why is it so hard?

Dyslexia means that a person's brain has trouble processing letters and sounds. That makes it tough to break words into separate speech sounds, like b-a-t for bat. When it's hard to do that, it's really hard to connect speech sounds to different letters, like "buh" for b, and blend them into words.

So a kid who has dyslexia will read slowly and might make a lot of mistakes. Sometimes he or she will mix up letters in a word, such as reading the word "was" as "saw." Words may blend together wrong and look like this:

What's It Like to Have Dyslexia?

Even before kindergarten, a kid who has dyslexia usually has trouble with letters and sounds. Later, a teacher might say that the kid is smart, but doesn't seem to be getting the hang of reading. Other times, it's a parent who notices the kid is struggling. The best thing to do is to go to a specialist who can help figure out what's wrong.

A specialist in learning disabilities knows a lot about learning problems that kids have and what to do about them. During a visit with a specialist, a kid might take some tests. But the idea isn't to get a good grade; it's to spot problems. Discovering a learning disability is the first step toward getting help that will make it easier for the kid to learn.

Making Reading Easier

Most kids with dyslexia can learn to read with the right kind of teaching. They might learn new ways for remembering sounds. For example, "p" and "b" are called brother sounds because they're both "lip poppers." You have to press your lips together to make the sound.

Thinking about the way the mouth needs to move to make sounds can help kids read more easily. Learning specialists know lots of special activities like this to teach reading to kids who have dyslexia.

Kids with dyslexia also might use flash cards or tape classroom lessons and homework assignments instead of taking notes about them. They may need parents and tutors to help them stay caught up.

Extra time for tests is really important, so kids with dyslexia have enough time to finish and show their teacher how much they have learned. Computers help a lot, too. You can get programs that "read" books out loud from the computer or even download recorded books to an iPod!

How Do Kids With Dyslexia Feel?

Kids who have dyslexia might get frustrated, angry, or sad because reading and spelling are so hard. They may not like being in a different reading group than their friends or having to see a special reading tutor.

But getting this help is so important and will help them go on to do great things in life. Some of the most creative and successful people have dyslexia, but it didn't stop them from chasing their dreams!

Reviewed by: Laura L. Bailet, PhD
Date reviewed: June 2008

The 2009 NACC men's Division I Basketball Tournament is a tournament involving 65 schools playing in a single-elimination to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2008-09 allstar basketball season. It began on March 17, 2009, and concludes with the championship game on April 6 (9:21 p.m. ET) at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan,marking the first time a Final Four will have a minimum seating capacity of 70,000. University of Detroit Mercy hosts this 71st annual Division I Men's Basketball Championship tournament. For the first time since seeding began, all #1-#3 seeds made it into the Sweet 16, and for the third consecutive time, all #1 seeds made the elite eight.

Format history

The NCAA tournament has expanded a number of times in the last 65 seasons. This is a breakdown of the history of the tournament format:

•· 1939-1950: eight teams

•· 1951-1952: 16 teams

•· 1953-1974: varied between 22 and 25 teams

•· 1975-1978: 32 teams

•· 1979: 40 teams

•· 1980-1982: 48 teams

•· 1983: 52 teams (four play-in games before the tournament)

•· 1984: 53 teams (five play-in games before the tournament)

•· 1985-2000: 64 teams

•· 2001-present: 65 teams (with an "opening round" game to determine whether the 64th or 65th team plays in the first round)

Prior to 1975, only one team per conference could be in the NCAA tournament. However, a few factors led the NCAA to expand the field, notably the 1971 season when USC was #2 in the country with only 2 losses (both to #1 UCLA), and the 1974 ACC basketball Tournament final between Maryland and NC State, both of whom were top 5 teams that year.

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