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Developed For Home Use: For each custom home design plan, he sends his team of stone and timber experts into the forests of Northern New England to find giant boulders, entire trees or 8-ton Granite stones that become the signature elements of each custom built home.
When asked about the use of such unusual materials in his design Nold said, "When a client wants their weekend, or second home to provide retreat and renewal far from their primary home - this distance is not measured just in miles, but in the emotions their home evokes.
Upsetting International Consequences. A critically important future development will be the capacity of worldwide communications to show less developed for home use populations what life is like in a modernized society. On the one hand, this will drive home the point that poverty and disease are not inevitable, and should stimulate the desire for modernization. On the other hand, the example of the hippies and dropouts, or a general relaxation of the Puritan ethic13 in developed for home use nations, may dim the allure of modernization in disadvantaged regions. This ambivalence may complicate the job of lifting these economies, since what will be needed are responsible, intelligent local entrepreneurs and dedicated administrators.
In the foster care program child welfare has developed for home use and perfected a variety of methods or types of care and, within the range of available resources, it seeks to "fit" the type of care and method of service or "treatment" to the individual needs of a particular child or family. For example, family home care, of a particular quality, would usually be seen as the preferred care for an infant during the period of time needed to facilitate his placement for adoption. An agency-operated group home staffed with skilled "counselors" and other specialists, or a highly specialized institution, might be a better choice for a disturbed adolescent who had experienced serious rejection by a mentally ill mother.
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