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Victorian Homes - Victorian Homes Questions
Victorian Homes - Victorian Homes Questions
Question #1:
UK PROSPECTIVE dog and cat owners will not be able to adopt in future if they fail an animal shelter test on pet ownership. Your thoughts and/or opinions!
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In a new licensing scheme being developed by Melbourne's Lost Dogs' Home, people will be quizzed on everything from micro chipping, pet health issues, costs of ownership and combating animal boredom.
The test will be voluntary at first but the home will lobby the Government for the measure to be introduced at pet shops and animal shelters statewide.
The home says too many of the 20,000 dogs and cats who end up at the shelter each year are victims of cruelty and neglect and have behavioral problems.
Managing director Dr Graeme Smith said they had been working on the scheme for more than a year in a bid to stop impulse buying, and to weed out irresponsible and cruel owners.
He cited the sad case of Buckley the pit bull terrier, whose ears and tail were hacked off. He said they wanted public feedback on the cat and dog tests, which each involve more than 50 multiple-choice questions.
The shelter plans to introduce discounted adoption costs for those who pass the test as an incentive. "There are some people who should never own pets," he said. "If you only get 50 per cent you get a license to own a pet rock.
"But this is about educating the public about proper pet care ... and helps them make the right choice. “ Some people who sit the test might think, 'I've done all this, it's not for me'."
The measure comes after the RSPCA yesterday called for the Victorian Government to follow the UK's lead and introduce a "competency test" for dog owners.
Dr Smith said the move was aimed at education, not exclusion, and applicants would be given handbooks to help them answer the questions. They could also sit the test several times if needed.
He admitted it would not be foolproof but hoped it would prevent the most irresponsible owners from adopting.
Let me clarify, UK is giving a “competency test”, to existing pet owners.
Melbourne is giving the license test, the following is the link for the pet license test see if how you score:
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@Walking Lady I could not agree with you more. The government has yet to try to govern what we do behind closed doors. Operative word "yet"!
I think this is a positive step. I wonder how the parents of the last to children in the news would score!
Question #2:
I'm moving into a new home and I have a new room to decorate.
I've picked a bedspread,
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I need colors though, what colors do you think would go with my bedspread?
On my memory wall, the color will be that exact blue in the picture.
What should I paint my other 3 walls? My mother said light pink, but I'm not a light pink type of girl.
I do not want white. So any other Ideas? Or is Pink perfect? Maybe a lighter blue?
Question #3:
We're renting our own home out at $660 per week and we're renting a cheaper but nice house. A house came on the market in October last year and it sold. From then on, we've really wanted this house and then the other day, I was searching the internet and found it up for sale again. I told my parents and my dad said we can buy it. But the problem it that the house we rent for $660 per week will only achieve about 1.4 million dollars if we sell it. Then we plan to lease the new house out for another four years to pay it off. The real estate agents think it'll achieve about $1000. So my dad said he will make an offer of 1.5 million when it sold last year for 1.685 million. Then I said the cut off should be 1.6 million and that's it. My parents are unsure and I think the people want a quick sale, so we could get a bargain. I know that if it does get sold, my mum will say 'oh, why didn't we buy it?' My dad does see the potential in it, it's a beautiful Victorian House, so how can I convince my parents to get it without pushing too hard?
And they're asking for $1.9 million??? Does anyone know how to bargain with Asians?
If you didn't realise, I'm asking about HOUSES, not SHOES!
Yeah, I saw the house today and the only thing that had changed was the floors had been re-polished.
Question #4:
I need to find out where the water shut off valve is. I do not have a pump house.
Question #5:
Please let me know. I am decorating my home in a victorian theme and would love to find some little girls and ladies to go in my curio cabinets. Anyone that does framed artwork and figurines is what im looking for, but i would like that victorian theme to be there. I hope that you can help because i am really interested in finding some of this stuff. thanks :)
Question #6:
1. Which one of the following roof shapes requires the simplest
frame?
A. Gable C. Mansard
B. Cross-gable D. Cross-hip
2. Your inspection of a house’s _______ relates to the condition of
its roof.
A. electrical system C. attic
B. basement wall D. bathroom
3. Which of the following is the most popular framing system used
today?
A. Braced frame C. Timber frame
B. Platform frame D. Balloon frame
4. Which of the following houses is characterized by a low-pitched gable roof; a wide,
unenclosed eave overhang, with rafters usually exposed; and beams or braces
commonly added under gables?
A. Farmhouse C. Ranch house
B. Cape Cod box D. Craftsman-style bungalow
5. The spread of uniform construction technology can be traced to which of the following
developments?
A. The onset of World War II
B. The growth of the mail-order system
C. The development of “horseless carriages”
D. The Industrial Revolution
6. Which of the following is a typical feature of a Cape Cod box?
A. “Gingerbread” trim C. Asbestos shingle siding
B. A hand-hewn timber frame D. A stacked-stone foundation
7. The earliest frame construction used in North America was the _______ frame.
A. post-and-beam C. balloon
B. braced D. platform
8. Which of the following tools will you be likely to use first in a home inspection?
A. Pliers C. Binoculars
B. Level D. Stepladder
9. The house plan drawing titled “Elevations” shows the
A. outside views of the sides of the house.
B. inside views of different areas of the house.
C. close-up views of complicated structures in the house.
D. dimensions and room positions of a house.
10. Three examples of exterior wall coverings are
A. clapboards, substrate, and fiberglass siding.
B. stucco, brick veneers, and flashing.
C. aluminum siding, gypsum board, and acrylic stucco.
D. stucco, clapboards, and vinyl siding.
11. A stacked masonry wall is constructed by
A. stacking hollow concrete blocks and running steel rods through the stacks.
B. making a frame of timbers and covering the exterior with clapboards.
C. stacking concrete blocks on top of each other, and filling the spaces with plaster.
D. forming a basket-weave pattern of sticks, and filling in with mud stucco.
12. The “tap test” is used to check whether
A. acrylic stucco is buckling loose from the substrate.
B. a beam is hewn or constructed.
C. walls are properly insulated.
D. floor joists contain rot or insect damage.
13. A common structural problem area in a cross-gabled roof is the
A. attachment of the roof truss. C. valleys where the gables join.
B. joints where rafters come together. D. parapets and scuppers.
14. A typical feature of a Victorian-style house is
A. tapered square columns. C. asbestos shingle siding.
B. “gingerbread” trim. D. an attached garage.
15. The section of building plans that would show views of a built-in hot tub would be the
A. framing plans. C. detail drawings.
B. sections. D. specifications.
16. Two advantages of a prefabricated house kit are
A. platform frames and vinyl windows.
B. uniform construction technology and built-in construction accuracy.
C. front porches and aluminum siding.
D. uniform construction technology and on-site carpenters.
17. The split-level home is a variation of the
A. ranch house. C. Craftsman house.
B. farmhouse. D. Victorian house.
18. A contingency fund can be defined as
A. money set aside for emergency repairs.
B. an agreement between a realtor and a landlord.
C. money set aside for land development.
D. an agreement between a homeowner and a contractor.
19. A structural section describes a house’s
A. horizontal assembly across the foundation.
B. outdoor landscaping designs.
C. vertical assembly, from the ground up.
D. interior decoration plan.
20. A roof truss is best defined as a
A. structure consisting of rafters, ceiling joists, and ridge board.
B. system of studs and joists.
C. top angle of a gable or dormer.
D. factory-assembled roof frame.
Question #7:
ok so i was driving home and went through a roundabout at about 40 km and on ther other side was a cop, he waved for me to stop and asked for my licence, cut a long story short he wrote down my details in a little black book then photographed the front, back and rego of my car, what is the intention of the photographs??
Question #8:
Ok so here's the deal,
We have several dogs in our home.
And before christmas they ALL got fleas, possibly from a roaming cat, but can't be sure.
By the end of 2009 we had treated the fleas nice and all gone!
But our MALE germal spitz, we believe had an allergic reaction to the fleas.
We took him to the vets, and the VET not us, said he had bad Anal glands, so we cleared them, he had some meds for it and now they are ok.
But the male spitz is still chewing himself, the whole of hes back legs, tail, lower part of back (Up to hes middle region) hes chewing, literally the whole bottom half of hes body.
We figured it because, hes treated now, but the scabs may be irritating him.
So we baught him a victorian dog collar (Cone), we are treating him daily with medicated spray, hes food is still the same (Hes never had a reaction to it)
We are sure of the cause etc and roughly how to treat it, but are unsure of how to stop him chewing, since hes had the cone on, hes just torn hes back legs and tail red raw!! We cant stop him, hes back has dried up, and will heal soon, but even with the cone, we cant stop him chewing hes legs , tail and groin etc..
Really need some helps and tips on how to stop him, we've tried quite a lot, hes got scabs, open sores and everything >,<
Any help appreciated, thanks guys !
i know taking him to the vet is the best option
but the vet will either tell us the same thing we already know
or to go private vets will cost too much money
im hopin to get some kinda help for home treatment (P.S, he has medicated baths every week, treatment daily, and flea treatments still)
Question #9:
James Buchanan our 15th president was never married and shared a home for decades with the 13th vice president William Rufus DeVane King. His nickname for him was miss nancy and other presidents jokingly called him the first lady or his wife. All in the middle of conservative victorian times.
BQ: we finally got a black president, do you think we'll ever have a gay one? guess we almost had Hillary
Question #10:
I live in a very old victorian farm house. The atmosphere is very dark and depressing and I really don't enjoy being in it. When we first moved in half the house was boarded up and out of bounds so my dad dug up the floor in one side of the house. After that day we heard banging on the walls like someone was litterally punching the walls when nobody else was home, a baby crying, childrens footsteps running and laughing. I was home alone once and while I was falling asleep, my guitar strummed loudly abouve five time like someone was playing it as hard as they could and then it fell over and then later that night I heard what sounded like a dog barking under my bed. Once my brother when he was about 6 walked out the bathroom and tugged on my coat then said "Tell Mummy I can't go to the toilet. There's a girl in there and she won't get out." When I went to check there was nobody there and my sister had gone out for the day. My parents also swear to have kept seeing child figures walk up the stairs and stand at the end of there bed whilst there trying to sleep. Once also, some friends came round to chat and as they stood at the door to leave one of them said "Someones trying to talk to you." When my Dad turned around they said "He's just run off." My Dad spent ages running round the house looking for this 'man' and couldn't find anyone. The friends as well as there children claim that he was wearing 'white overalls stained with blood.' Then one day it all stopped and from that day nothing else has happened. There was also an engravement in the corner of my window that said a name and birth and death date. We've now thrown it out but we got rid of it years after this all stopped. Do you think the house is still haunted? I'd like to contact them.
Question #11:
So I like looking at pictures or reading interesting articles (not super long ones though) haha
but I'm really interested in the 1800's life..
like the vicotrian era, and also the wild west type of thing
Like I've always found memento mori really interesting and the oregon trail really interesting and like billy the kid and his gang and stuff interesting
i would also like to know just how they lived, and traditions they had, for example memento mori you know?
pretty much anything from the "wild west" era haha
I kind of like morbid things, like rotten.com is pretty interesting, I don't just like the gross stuff but some of it is interesting to read about you know?
I also like Marie Antoinette, but i've probably covered like every website about her haha
hmmm i like really cheesy funny things like fail blog and stuff, but im kind of sick of the main stream stuff, i want a site that not the whole world knows about haha
i like multiplayer games that are simple, like i really like runescape
and yeah... mostly the first stuff i said like victorian era and wildwest
so yeah just some cool sites and stuff to help get me out of my boredom right now, i'm home sick today, and alone, so yeah its preeeeetty boring haha
okay, please and thank you!! :D
oh i like funny videos too! like funniest commericials and fail videos and just random funny junk haha
i like smosh and stuff like that too
NOT FRED
thanks! :D
okay.. i have a cough and runny nose for a week. just cuz i'm coughing and have a runny nose doesn't mean i cant type? :/
Question #12:
Summary
I found a piano auctioned on eBay. The price is currently around $1,000. I expect to pay $2500 to win.
Background
This account has (0)feedback with no other items listed. It registered on February 5th, 2010 with an Arabic name and a 789 ending.(Could this be a sign of a Nigerian scammer?)
The listing has two bids; one with feedback and one without. The account with (0)feedback has no bid history. I assume it is an account made to raise the price.
Listing
The listing has 9 pictures. The background shows a large, possibly Victorian style home. The home is located in Arizona. (I checked 20 pages on google images to see if there is any match)
The description is a copy of a superfluous paragraph from a piano dealer website.
The listed shipping costs $200 and will be sent by ups ground. The return policy is 7 days of receiving. The payment type is paypal.
Payment
My parents and I will buy this item through paypal backed by a credit card with Bank of America.
My Question
Is this item safe to buy? Will I be able to get a refund through paypal, ebay buyer protection or Bank of America if the sale does not go accordingly?
It's a great deal, so should I just go for it? And if I don't get like a tracking number, (since it is UPS and expensive shipping) in a week, I should just file the claim for review?
Question #13:
How do large condo developments change neighbourhoods. I live in an old urban neighbourhoood with loads of character, but it is only halfway gentrified. There are plenty of nice Victorian homes (I live in one) and cute coffee shops
An environmentally - built affordable condo is going up - and it will add 600 people to our little strip.
I am hoping the foot traffic of young people will create more coffee shops, bars etc
How do condos usually impact neighbourhoods?
Question #14:
Do you know the answer to any of these questions?????
1) Charles’s Wife, Emma, was a keen and accomplished pianist. From whom did she once receive piano lessons?
A) Fryderyk Chopin
B) Hector Berlioz
C) Franz Liszt
2) When Charles and Emma were first married, they lived in a house in Gower Street, London (now the site of a UCL biology building). What was their nickname for the house?
A) Maer Mansions
B) Macaw Cottage
C) The Boxrooms
3) Which of the following people was NOT left handed?
A) Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather)
B) Charles Darwin himself
C) Emma Darwin (Charles wife)
4) Observation of which of the following Galapagos animals first suggested to Darwin that species were not immutable?
A) Giant tortoises
B) Finches
C) Mockingbirds
5) The concept of evolution was incorporated into a Victorian Children's story was it?
A) The Water Babies by the Reverend Charles Kingsley (1863)
B) Fated to be free by Jean Ingelow (1875)
C) The princess and the Goblin by the Reverend George MacDonald (1872)
6) In Emma Darwin’s book of recipes, only one recipe was contributed by Charles, Which one was it?
A) Apple Compote
B) Boiled Rice
C)Pheasant with plum sauce
7) Which ready-made sauce did Emma Darwin portably not have in her kitchen?
A) Worcestershire Sauce
B) Mushroom Ketchup
C) Soy Sauce
8) The Darwin’s were keen to adopt modern technology. Which of the following was Emma uneasy about however?
A) The Bicycle
B) Photography
C) Chloroform to ease childbirth
9) On 6 April 1882 Darwin’s last publication, a letter about a beetle, appeared in the journal Nature. Who had found the unusual beetle and sent it to Darwin?
A) Francis Crick’s grandfather, Walter Crick
B) Rosalind Franklin’s grandfather, Arthur Ellis Franklin
C) Charles Darwin’s botanist son, Francis
10) About where did Darwin write that he: “never wished to walk again in so an uninviting country?”
A) The Falkland Islands
B) Australia
C) New Zealand
11) When Darwin first attended Cambridge University, there were no rooms available in college for him. Where did he live?
A) Above a fish-and-chip shop
B) Above and Inn
C) Above a tobacconist’s shop
12) Darwin became a member of a pigeon-fanciers’ club in Borough Road, London. What was the members’ nickname for him?
A) The Almighty
B) The Squire
C) Philos
13) How long did it take Darwin to write On the Origins of Species?
A) 12 months and 5 days
B) 13 months and 10 days
C) 11 months and 3 days
14) What did Charles Darwin typically do when his wife and children went to church?
A) He went for a walk
B) He stayed at home and smoked cigars
C) He joined them in the family pew
15) The Darwin family butler was called:
A) James Brodie
B) John Lewis
C) Joseph Parslow
16) In 1859, Queen Victoria considered bestowing a knighthood on Charles Darwin. Who objected to this and so stopped the honour from being granted?
A) The Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce
B) The Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston
C) The Archbishop of Canterbury, John Bird Sumner
17) What was unusual about the village school in Downe that Darwin’s supported?
A) Science formed part of the curriculum
B) No religious instructions at all were permitted there
C) The girls were taught carpentry
18) Charles Darwin tried many quack treatments for his chronic illness, but remained vehemently critical of the following three. Which of them did he once try, however?
A) Homeopathy
B) Clairvoyance
C) Mesmerism
19) What object was formed the handle of Charles Darwin’s walking stick
A) A sea shell
B) A large glass marble set in brass holder
C) A human skull carved in Ivory
20) Which of the following sports did Charles Darwin never play?
A) Football
B) Cricket
C) Ice Hockey
Well done for answering:
1A
4B
5C
6B
9A
10B
15C
19C
Got any ideas for:
2
3
7
8
11
12
13
14
16
17
18
20
Thanks so far for your help
Question #15:
I have to write an essay for my grade 9 honors modern world history class. It's supposed to be 5 -7 pages long. I have a list of suggestions but there are only a few I really want to write about. It can be about anything really though, not jsut something on the list. One girl in my class asked if she could write about the social lives of women and how they changed. She was thinking '50s and another girl suggested flappers. I think those are both really cool ideas but I don't know if I could find enough information about them. Any suggestions? (It doesn't have to be about women's' social lives).
Here's the list my history teacher suggested (some of these we haven't learned about, and it doesn't have to be something we've learned either) :
Inventions of the new millenium
Rise of Communism
The CPI
Effects of the Versailles Treaty on Germany
The Bolshevik Revolution
Gulags
Stalin's 5 year plan
Life on the German U-Boats
Aviation in WWI
"Shell shock," combat stress reaction, and ptsd
City life at the turn of the century
British imperialism in India or Africa
The Boxer Rebellion and the Opium Wars
Japanese emergence from self-imposed isolation
Women on the home front
Move towards women's rights
Construction of the Panama Canal
War on the Eastern Front
Armenian Genocide
Command economy
Working conditions in the 19th c. England
The Romanovs
Men's and Women's fashion in the Victorian Era
The age of absolutism
Impact of enlightenment thinkers
The cold war
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Rise of the 9rd Reich
I think my real problem is there are too many options! haha
I'd love to hear your ideas, and if you think any on the list are interesting could you just tell me a little bit about them? Thanks so much!
Question #16:
So my parents are "separated" they're not legally divorced yet but seeing other people.At this point me and my 3 siblings live with my mom in a gorgeous old victorian home,while my dad lives in a small apartment. I go to my dads twice a week and he comes over ti stay every other weekend. I see him every morning and he lives right around the corner.(trust me I am SO THANKFUL!) My family was going through some tough times for a while. My mom was practically crazy and she would hit us and chocked my sister once. If we did one little thing that she didn't like she called the police. Once my sister got taken away by order of my mom. She even called them to yell at my 8 year old brother and tried to get me involved. The only thing she relied on was the chores being done. She was constantly yelling and coming home from work and going straight to bed telling us to do the chores and feed ourselves. I am only 12. On top of all this my aunt died of lung cancer at age 43. my oldest sister (17) told me that I was dealing with the situation very well and that I had learned things she hadn't learned until now. So after I had had enough I called my dad and asked to move in with him because I couldn't take the yelling any more. he said yes but would have to talk to my mom. She said no and cried because she said I didn't love her. so just this december she checked her self into a mental hospital on christmas day for a week. She was put on medication and is now back to her normal self and for the most part no more problems. What I'm asking is should i still move in with my dad? Sorry for such a long story I just really need some help.
Question #17:
I don't really know where to start, and I don't have a lot of ideas. I want to do something different, not just your average at home dance party. I like having activities, stuff out of the box, because my friends are all over the place and some don't even know each other. Like, for example, for my thirteenth I hired this company that drove us all around the city in a limo and stopped at 'haunted' places in the middle of the night. There was even a woman dressed up in Victorian garb that told stories and read palms...I really love birthday parties, but I just have no idea this year!
Suggestions? :)
Question #18:
We bought a house in and live in a Canadian downtown neighbourhood with old Victorian homes. Its very posh to the south of us, and rather working class north of us. There are good schools, low crime rate, and lots of trees and parks
It does have a mix of different classes and has a bit of gritty edge in parts, but nothing terrible, just regular urban living. Houses here range from $500,00 to 1.5 million
I check real estate listings all the time, to see how much other houses go for sale here (its my first big investment and I am curious!) and people do NOT seem to move!
Is this a good thing from a real estate perspective?
Thanks!
Question #19:
I inherited a 2500 sq ft brick Victorian house in a small village in upstate New York. My parents paid $35,000 for it in 1975. It's just to large for me to maintain adequately, being an almost 60 year old woman living alone. I've been ripped off by numerous contractors who take my money and I either never hear from them again or they do shoddy work. The summer of 2008 I decided to place it on the market. I spoke to several real estate agents, some wouldn't even take it citing that with the housing market the way it is, they could only take the most valuable and saleable houses right now. The style, size and poor condition of my house made it more of a liability to them. One even told me that I probably would be lucky to get what my parents paid for it since it would have to be gutted and re-built because of the outdated heating system, rotten subflooring, and the damage caused by the numerous cats may mother kept. The realtor that finally agreed to handle it slapped a $195,000 price on it. Only four people looked at it and I think most were either looky-loos or flippers who were hoping to get for much less. In either case I never heard further form anyone. In November, by mutual consent with the relator, I removed it from the market. I am living it and I don't think it's in as bad shape as some realtors say, although I admit it could use some updates in regard to the furnace and appliances. It is assessed at $162,000. It would make a great B&B in out historic little community for someone that wanted to put some work equity into it. I may want to try again, but would like some opinions as to what price range would be reasonable and I'm not a victim of agents who put too high a price on it preparing for a long wait but a larger commission or ones that lowball it and are just looking to make a quick sale.
Question #20:
I'm moving back home for a while to help out my family and I'm going to be redecorating my bedroom. For years the color scheme has been burgundy red with hints of deep purple and tarnished gold, lots of silky fabrics and velvet and antique looking furniture -- almost a victorian feel. While I love that style, I'm ready for a change. The biggest issues are that it is a basement bedroom, which means I have only 1 very small window near the ceiling behind my bed, and the bed was custom made by my dad, who is a carpenter, (shameless plug for their business here: www.meyerbrothersandsons.com), is affixed to the floor (as per my stupid request some years ago), so I can't really rearrange the furniture very easily. The nice thing about it, is that the drawers are built into the side which means I have no need for a dresser, which opens up a lot of space. The bed is made of ash, which is a light wood, so I would like a color scheme that compliments that. I like the urban look, but I don't really know if I can pull it off with the style of the bed. The room is fairly large, so dark colors are OK in it, but I'd like something lighter. Any suggestions?
i forgot about the floor -- thanks for mentioning it! it's just a neutral beige carpet. I wish it was hardwood, but at least beige is easy to work with. and i do have a headboard, but it's a book case. but your other ideas are stellar!
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