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The Features Of Various Woods For Grandfather Clocks Submitted by rudy silva on 2010-09-08
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The Grandfather clocks can be classified according to the materials from which they are made. A wide variety of materials are used in manufacturing these marvelous clocks. The finishing material is commonly from a wood such as beech, cherry, mahogany and oak. There is also a combination of other materials such as stones, metals, glass, and other components.\r\n\r\nThe traditional clocks were usually made of woods while the contemporary clocks were made from different materials including metal. Oak wood is a hard wood that has been in use for many centuries, because of its natural qualities as a building material.\r\n\r\nOakwood is strong, durable, and highly resistant to moisture and other elements. Among its applications include the historical houses and buildings, ships, and of course, grandfather clocks. It is also used for building foundations of buildings and support beams.\r\n\r\nCherry wood is also a hard wood. According to many experts, cherry wood is 228 % as hard as the red oak wood. When it comes to hardness, it ranks 2820 in the Janka Hardness Scale. Among its applications are flooring for houses and buildings, stairs, rails, doors, tool handles, wheel rims and as an alternative material for teak.\r\n\r\nIt is also resistant to insects such as termites. It is also difficult to cut and plane because of its interlocking grain.\r\n\r\nAnother wood used to finish grandfather clocks is from beech. Experts consider it a hard-wearing wood. It can take a lot of pressure over time as it resists gouging and chipping better than some woods.\r\n\r\nIn addition, beech wood has a good capacity to absorb shock. It can bear heavy weight and receive high impact force. Products manufactured from beech are known to be durable. It does not have strong odor, while having solid density, and non-porous wood. Its surface is strong and can hold up building materials.\r\n\r\nMahogany has been in use for making furniture as early as the 16th century. Makers of furniture favored mahogany because of its combined soundness, uniformity of grain, large size, durability, richness of figure, beauty and color.\r\n\r\nThere are two classifications of mahogany, namely the Spanish mahogany and Honduras mahogany. The Spanish mahogany consists of the close-grained, rich and heavy varieties of woods, which are capable of holding a high polish. On the other hand, the Honduras or Baywood mahogany is light, open-grained, and plain. It has uniformity in color and does not warp.\r\n\r\nAlthough there are many components that categorize grandfather clocks, they are generally classified between Comtoise and Bornholm. Comtoise is made in Franche-Comte in France. It is also referred to as Morbier or Morez, and can be found in Germany, Spain and other parts in Europe.\r\n\r\nBornholm grandfather clocks are a tall wooden box clocks. They are a pendulum-driven clock manufactured in Bornholm, a Danish island in Baltic Sea. These grandfather clocks are built from 1745 to 1990. However, the demand for this clock now is low.\r\n \r\nWe at http://www.granfatherclocksonline.com offer discounted grandfather clocks made of wood. These low prices allow you to show off a grandfather in your home. Your family and friend can admire your choice of clock and how it looks in the room of your choice. Go to Clocks grandfather and see the clock made of oak, cherry, and other wood.

Article No is 5587 Category is General

Students\' Response to Extensive Reading in An EAR Class Submitted by allan godlike on 2010-09-08
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No overt attempt was made to gather qualitative data relating to students\' acceptance of the loss of teacher centered class time and a non-E AP focus for part of each lesson, primarily because the students were well aware that the class teacher was enthusiastic about the benefits of reading, and thus were likely to answer direct questions with that in mind. However, data was gathered from a variety of sources. (http://www.designer-cheap.com)\r\n\r\nInitial information about the students, their English language learning background, and their goals for the course was gathered by a seven-item questionnaire. One question asked students to indicate the importance of twelve different course components using a six-point scale. Analysis of the valid responses suggested that \'Writing practice\' was most important to the largest number, followed by \'Learning new words\'. \'Reading practice\' appeared to be the third most important to the largest number, followed by \'Listening practice\' and \'Speaking practice\' with identical results. If nothing else, this question showed that students could be expected to view reading activities positively.\r\n\r\nDuring the course, every student had two one-to-one interviews with the class teacher. The interviews covered students\' learning goals, their progress, and their strategies for independent study. Attention was paid to the extensive reading programme in these interviews, as a means of monitoring the reading suitability of readers chosen, and of encouraging further reading. No direct questions were asked about attitudes to reading, but sometimes comments were offered. In the initial interview, these ranged from the positive (\'I like reading, it\'s my hobby\') to the unenthusiastic (\'I don\'t like reading, it makes me sleepy\').\r\n\r\nThe initial interview also produced a slightly different picture from the pre-course questionnaire of the importance learners attached to different course components. In the interviews, of twenty-five skill area mentions, reading was mentioned only three times. Most mentioned were listening and writing, with speaking having one more mention than reading. This suggested that the learners may not have been as open towards a strong emphasis on reading in the teaching programme as the pre-course questionnaire responses indicated.\r\n\r\nResponses during the second interview suggested that learners had not shifted their perceptions of what was important to them greatly. The main exception was one student (M2)3 who remarked that he no longer thought that writing was the most important for him, but that all skill areas were equally important. On the other hand, it may not have been the case that what students said necessarily equated with what they did. For example, there was a clear dissonance between the stated important skill area of another student (M3) and his actions; while maintaining that listening was the most important skill for him to improve, he told the interviewer that he practised writing in his independent study. Students who spoke about reading sometimes made interesting comments, suggesting a developing awareness of their individual learning processes. One (M/j) said that he had taken to reading and then rereading his graded readers. Another (M6), who was reading \'about one book\' a week, acknowledged that reading speed was an issue for him.

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