<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Jasmina<div><br></div><div>You may contact <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Dragana Marjanovic at <a href="mailto:dragana@kucacuvarkuca.com">dragana@kucacuvarkuca.com</a>,</span></div><div>she is from Serbia and a member of the European Straw Bale discussion list.</div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe the Croatian <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">NGO Green Network can help you, as they are</span></div><div>doing some procects with straw.</div><div>contact is: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Drazen Simlesa at <a href="mailto:Drazen.Simlesa@pilar.hr">Drazen.Simlesa@pilar.hr</a></span></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>all the best</div><div>Herbert Gruber</div><div>-----------------</div><div>asbn - austrian strawbale network</div><div>3720 Ravelsbach, Baierdorf 6</div><div>Tel. 02958-83640</div><div><a href="mailto:asbn@baubiologie.at">asbn@baubiologie.at</a></div><div><a href="http://www.baubiologie.at">www.baubiologie.at</a></div></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>Am 17.04.2013 um 22:42 schrieb John Swearingen:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">We received this...would anyone like to help?<div><br></div><div>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Papessa</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pappessa@gmail.com">pappessa@gmail.com</a>></span><br> Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:23 PM<br>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> <br><br><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace">Dear John and Andy,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"> I find your contact on you site :</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.skillful-means.com/" target="_blank">http://www.skillful-means.com</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"> I am writing to you from Europe, Serbia, Nis. </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br> </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"> My name is Jasmina Aleksic, I have 53 years.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"> I am alone in the world....</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div><br></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"> </font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><br></div><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> <div><br></div><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></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <br></div><div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><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> <div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace">Jasmina Aleksic</font></div> <div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace">Serbia,Nis</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div> <div><font color="#222222" face="courier new, monospace"><a href="tel:%2B381%2063%2081%2056%20125" value="+381638156125" target="_blank">+381 63 81 56 125</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <br></div> 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