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The Benefits You Get When You Hire Specialized Contractors To Refashion Your Home
Remodeling of a home is essential. You are likely to be the happiest person in your local place because you will have refashioned your home. Remodeling of a home is not an easy task. You may not be in a position to remodel your home without involving the professions not unless you are a servicer yourself. Most homeowners don't want to engage the experts for the renovations of their home; they would rather set their time to fix themselves to do the work. You should not fall into the trap of overlooking the essence of contractors in remodeling of your home to avoid the risk of using more money if you do the job yourself. You are therefore required to hire the professions at first to evade the shame at the end. Discussed below are the important reasons why you need to hire the professional rehab contractors for your home.
The servicers are skilled, and they know exactly what to do and even know the outcome of the remodeling even before they start the job.They have handled a lot of homes in remodeling for many years. They have liaised with the troubles that may arise during the process of remodeling and can manage them with minimum time.
Renovation of your house by your own is very tricky.A lot of work will involve climbing and electricity or a combination of both, and this job is only safe when it is done by the skilled personnel. The possibilities of you causing troubles in your home by doing the job yourself are very high. Their commendable experience allows them to remove and install items with a lot of efficiencies. Never trust yourself for remodeling if you are not an expert.
Well, you may set time to the job yourself, but the chances are that you will have a half complete job which will be a shame. The renovation job may cost you a lot of money, tome and appropriateness. The pros are very knowledgeable and are capable of doing the task with a lot of competencies and do it more quickly.
The cost
Most people believe that you can save money if you do not hire contractors.Most people think that buying the remodeling items from the stores and doing the job themselves is less expensive than paying for the product and the installation. There are some costs like the fuel that the homeowners don't count as the costs. You can cause an error that may end up to tragedies, and the end be required to obtain a lot of remodeling commodities to redo the job.
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Here is the medal winner and honor books for our Mock Caldecott
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Medal Winner
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
By Andrea Davis Pinkney & Ill by Brian Pinkney
A sample of posted statements from some of my students prior to the event:
"This was my favorite book not only for the illustrations but also for the plot and the way it was written in verse. I know we are supposed to focus on illustrations but I have to say that the book is amazing and I definitely want to incorporate it into the classroom. It tells the story of Rosa Parks in a powerful way. Most of the power lies within the illustrations. I liked how the endpages were wispy and overlapped the color. I also enjoyed the way the illustrations were abstract and really focused on the use of color to convey meaning. Like Lindsey said, my favorite part of the colors was the dark, deep black that loomed over the capital building or the rest of the picture to display the suppression of the Jim Crow laws. During times of hope when the people were gathered together the scene lightened up and become hues of yellow and orange. Most of the book is shades of blue. I just LOVED the symbolism in the colors. This book was so powerful."
"I loved the way that the story was actually written to the child. I could almost hear a grandparent telling this story to their grandchild. The use of color in this book was incredible. I love how Jim Crow was sumbolized as the black scribbles... you could almost see his wings and talons sticking out. I also really enjoyed the accent colors in the book. The bright colors accented the background and really drew your attention to the object which was usually a beacon of hope in some way. I really liked the scene of all the empty dark buses and all the colorful people walking on the sidewalks."
Honor Books
Friday My Radio Flyer Flew
by Zachary Pullen
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
by Kadir Nelson
Silent Music: The Story of Bagdad
By James Rumford
Abe"s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
By Doreen Rapaport, & Ill. by Kadir Nelson
Happy Reading,
Dr. Quinn

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- On the night Tina Charles became the all-time leading scorer in the history of one of the most dominant programs in college sports, Connecticut showed again that one of its greatest strengths is an ability to keep others from scoring.
The most remarkable thing about the Huskies' defensive effort in Monday night's 76-51 victory at No. 8 Notre Dame was how statistically unremarkable it was. The Fighting Irish scored nearly four points more than an average Connecticut victim and shot 31 percent for the game -- exactly what opponents averaged against the Huskies in the top-ranked team's first 29 wins this season.
But this wasn't an unremarkable effort on a night like this and in a place that has tripped up winning streaks before. On one hand, it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. On the other hand, it helped explain why the Huskies are anything but ordinary.
It came at the end of a regular season in which they've taken every team's best shot and faced the kind of pressure that brought an occasionally raucous sellout crowd to the Joyce Center to cheer against the team so many love to hate, or at least actively root against. It came two days after a physical game against Georgetown and in their third game in the past six days.
It came, in some respects, with one hand tied behind their backs.
A month and a half ago, the Fighting Irish wilted under the Huskies' pressure in a game in Storrs, Conn., turning over the ball 19 times, including 13 in a first half in which they scored just 19 points and trailed by 23 at the break.
With the home crowd at their back early Monday, the Irish didn't wilt this time. They might not have played well for much of the night, but they played hard. They fell behind 6-0 within the first two minutes but rallied to score the next six points. Midway through the opening half, they trailed by just a single point, 16-15. Notre Dame didn't want to let the Huskies run, and the Huskies literally couldn't press the point.
"I knew the game was going to be completely different than it was the very first time we played them," Geno Auriemma said. "I also knew given the state of my team right now, we weren't going to press them the way we did the first game; we just don't have it in us right now. We're a little bit tired, banged up. So I knew we were going to have to win it with our half-court defense. And I have a lot of confidence in our half-court defense."
So instead, they suffocated the Fighting Irish in confined spaces, as Muffet McGraw said, turning a good passing team into a bad dribbling team. Devereaux Peters and Becca Bruszewski kept the Irish in it inside, but that was the extent of the offense.
Auriemma's confidence wasn't necessarily always there. Asked about completing a second consecutive regular season, he talked about the unknowns that existed on the eve of the season. Most notably, that was true of the depth chart at point guard, where one or more out of a group that included Caroline Doty, Tiffany Hayes and Lorin Dixon had to take Renee Montgomery's spot, if not actually replace the All-American's production and leadership. But if Montgomery's contributions were most easily measured on the offensive end, where she accounted for 16.5 points and 5.1 assists last season, the unknowns without her extended to the defensive end.
"Yeah, Renee was a really, really good defender," Auriemma recounted of where things stood in the fall. "Tiffany when she wants to be. Caroline -- not at all last year. Maya "
Here he paused, momentarily pained by more than the headache that accompanied the win, and offered a familiar sarcastic sigh at the expense of the star's defense.
He continued, "You know, there were a lot of variables going in and I thought, 'This is going to be hard; we're going to have to outscore people.'"
And so it was, assuming by "outscore people" you mean score at least 50 points. For all the debate about where this team ranks in program history, it has a chance to do at least one thing that not even the undefeated 2001-02 team did: limit opponents to an average of 49 or fewer points per game for an entire season. If not for a 3-pointer from Skylar Diggins in the closing seconds Monday, they would have furthered the cause yet again.
At one point late in the second half, Diggins, Ashley Barlow, Lindsay Schrader and Melissa Lechlitner were a combined 1-for-23 from the floor. That quartet finished with 18 points and 28 missed field goals.
"I've been pleasantly surprised, as surprised as anybody," Auriemma said. "Maybe because I've warned them all this time. And I show them in drills -- they can't guard anybody. Really, they can't. Like, man-to-man? They can't guard anybody. And they have to work really, really hard at it, and they have to help each other.
"And maybe because they know that -- that they're not great individual defenders -- that's been the difference."
Opposing coaches aren't reluctant to compliment Connecticut's defense; McGraw did so after Monday's game. But when the microphones are off they'll talk about exactly how good it is, how it never takes a possession off and how that's the part of perfection that people tend to overlook in dwelling on the other end of the lopsided scores. And you get the feeling Auriemma knows exactly what he has, not that he could resist one final jab at his own charges in explaining the success.
"Plus, we don't screw around last year like we did with playing a lot of different defenses," Auriemma said. "We play one defense and that's it. Because with these guys, the minute you change, it's an open 3 or a layup and a foul. So it's helped me that we can only play one defense. We try a couple of others, but we're faking it. Just like we're pretending, then we get right back to the only defense that we're good at."
With that defense, they're two wins away from being better at uninterrupted winning than any team in the history women's basketball.
Graham Hays is a regular contributor to ESPN.com. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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