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<div>Dear Jasmina Aleksic, (and GSBNers)</div>
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<div>It is difficult to provide support from half-way around the world. You may be able to find help and information from a closer location in Europe. I suggest that you contact the European strawbale building discussion list. <a href="http://amper.ped.muni.cz/mailman/listinfo/strawbale">http://amper.ped.muni.cz/mailman/listinfo/strawbale</a>
Send all messages to: <a href="mailto:Strawbale@amper.ped.muni.cz">Strawbale@amper.ped.muni.cz</a></div>
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<div>Good luck,</div>
<div>Derek</div>
<div>Derek Roff<br>
<a href="mailto:derek@unm.edu">derek@unm.edu</a></div>
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<div>On Apr 17, 2013, at 2:42 PM, John Swearingen wrote:</div>
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Subject: To: John Swaringen and Andy Fitanides...I deeply hope that this letter will reach you and that you will want to help me, I wrote from Europe !<br>
To: <a href="mailto:jswearingen@skillful-means.com">jswearingen@skillful-means.com</a><br>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">Dear John and Andy,</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">I find your contact on you site :</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">I am writing to you from Europe, Serbia, Nis. </font></div>
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<div><font face="courier new, monospace" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">First I need ask for an apology for my bad English writing,</font><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace">I use google traslator such assistance.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">My name is Jasmina Aleksic, I have 53 years.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">I am alone in the world....</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">In a tragic car accident I lost the only child, a son ... he was only 27 years old.... He was an expert in the field of IT technology.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">I have huge problems of life, I have no job anymore....I have some small savings, which I hope to build a house of straw, because it is the cheapest.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">My friends donated me a patch of land at present around my town, Nis in one village,</font><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">30km from Nis,</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">(altitude
is 680 meters), it is very clean place for living, a lake is near.</span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">(see the link:</font><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.krajkovac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=15" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.krajkovac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=15</a> )</span></div>
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<div><font face="courier new, monospace" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">There I will be able to survive by working in permaculture and other organic and natural way of growing food,in the </font><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace">village there
is a family that produces shiitake mushrooms.</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'courier new',monospace"> </span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">Please, if it's possible for you to help me regarding the plan for this house, no larger than 60-70 m2, with basement. </span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">This position is at an angle, I think of the basement under the entire house, or partly because the terrain where the building allows it.(see the photos).</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">With the budget that I have, it would be possible for me, I hope so, to build something similar....</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><b>The biggest problem for the construction of such houses is in fact
<font size="4">how to perform a wooden structure</font>.</b></font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">Here in Serbia is very difficult to find just the right directions when building a house of straw in question, one of the architect does not deal with it seriously...</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">I prefer the second model construction, not Nebraska method, such as the two examples,(you tube link) primarily because of the climate here.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">There are a couple of examples of construction,here in Serbia, see the link: </font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>1. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joi3xU586jQ" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joi3xU586jQ</a></div>
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<div>2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNOtTP7NcyM" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNOtTP7NcyM</a></div>
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<div>3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVACTuLa0bY" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVACTuLa0bY</a></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">The first two links are connected to the construction of a family house.<span style="">They used wooden internal structure to get the gallery (which can serve as a floor).</span></font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">But, they had no a project for it, they are made house with master of wooden structures and his advice and practical experience and knowledge in the construction of wooden structures.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">The third link is a little different,ecologically is not properly, because of the cement plaster and metal wire.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace">Please help me because I really do not know how to do this alone ....God bless you....!</font></div>
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<div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace">Jasmina Aleksic</font></div>
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