<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Habib,<div><br></div><div>The orientation of your bales is quite our concern! You should let your stack know that we will be introducing codes changes to guard against "mis-orientation" of other stacks. </div><div><br></div><div>Tell that bunch in the shop to beware of the wood that forces them to stand tall. Cabinet-makers are known to make things too straight.</div><div><br></div><div>We are here to help individual bales or entire stacks who feel the need to confirm their confusion…especially since many around you sound like they are homeless.</div><div><br></div><div>They may feel drowned in despair, but we are here to make sure that whatever their problem is, it isn’t the last straw.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 1, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Habib John Gonzalez <<a href="mailto:habibg@netidea.com">habibg@netidea.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="4">Dear Jeff:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="4">I am quite shocked about your inquiry as to the orientations of my bales.
Quite frankly sir, this is way beyond the editorial boundaries of The Last Straw
Journal. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="4">Thousands of bales have rolled off a hundred super B trains in western
Canada singing “I work on my back, what’s it to you?” In my cottage, Timothy
Bale and his friends decided to go all edgy on me and that was OK too. The same
is true for the Big City Bales who duplex and triplex together, side by side in
narrow in-fill lots. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="4">And if the wicked truth be told, one kinky bunch hung out end-on-end in
the walls of a cabinet maker’s shop.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="4">Enough. All this scandal weakens me, so it’s back to the bar.</font></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font size="4"></font> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><font size="4">Habib</font></p>
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WORKS<br>Habib John L Gonzalez<br>11907 University Ave. NW<br>Edmonton, Alberta
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="jeff@odiseanet.com" href="mailto:jeff@odiseanet.com">Jeff Ruppert</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 31, 2014 1:14 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="GSBN@sustainablesources.com" href="mailto:GSBN@sustainablesources.com">Global Straw Building Network</a>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [GSBN] Bale Orientation Survey</div></div></div>
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<div style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; display: inline;">For
a future issue we want to do a short article on bale orientation within straw
bale walls. We are interested in what professionals do and
why.
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<div>If you would, please take a couple minutes and tell us your
preference. This survey is comprised of four questions, so it is very
short. There is a form you can use to explain why you like to place bales
flat, on-edge, on-end, etc. The more thoughts on the subject you can give
us the better article we can create for our readers. This applies to panel
builders as well as regular walls built in-place. </div>
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<div>I have to be honest and say that my curiosity got the better of me on this
one. I really want to hear some opinions on this from folks like you
because the question comes up a lot depending on who you talk to.</div>
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<div>The survey can be found here: <a href="http://thelaststraw.org/?p=5174">http://thelaststraw.org/?p=5174</a></div>
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<div>Thanks everyone for your taking time out of your busy schedule and please
forward this link to any of your associates not on the GSBN who may have an
opinion.</div>
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<div>Cheers!<br>
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