From Stuart Asch's web page on FOoSF and I quote: [H. 'Teacher's Pet' ('00) Dorothy Benedict x Hosta montana 'Teacher's Pet' combines a captivating creamy white margin with a nicely corrugated slightly shiny green leaf. Leaves are lightly wavy, broadly ovate with a cordate base. The petioles have a cream margin and the seed is viable. Near white flowers with pale lavender base arrive in mid June. This is a truly beautiful plant that has also given me a fantastic sport that I now call 'Amazing Matthew'. Attempts to tissue culture 'Teacher's Pet' have not been successful. ] I think the optimal sentence here is "Attempts to tissue culture 'Teacher's Pet' have not been successful."

My son who is entering 9th grade next year & my daughter, who is soon to enter 10th grade, are both homeschooled. If your child plans to attend a 4 year university right away after HS, as parent, it is your job to do a little investigating. In the HS years they should take all the college prep classes that the colleges require. For example for CAL States: Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, 2 years of science with a lab, 4 yrs English, 2 years Foreign Language, 3 years of History, etc. Then you as the parent should put together a high school transcript documenting all these courses & years of study. Your student should take the SAT or ACT. Then with a parent issued diploma, they can apply for university. The Cal States state that homeschooled highschoolers can be admitted on the same grounds as traditionally schooled students. Which means they must have completed all necessary prep classes with a high enough GPA and score high enough on the SAT. Now if your homeschooler does not plan to attend 4 yr college right away (just like many public schooled kids) you can forgoe the SAT prep and some of the college prep classes in HS. Many kids in public school do not take the college prep route and plan to attend a community college before transferring to a 4 year & this route is fine for a homeschooler too. In the end both routes end with a 4 yr degree. Community college courses are just as rigourous as 4 yr college classes and transfer students do just as well as those who started at university from the start. There are some benefits to attending community college first as well. It is less expensive. It also gives kids two extra years to really plan what career path they are going to take and to choose the correct university. It is a great option & definitely not a "backdoor" way into college as others have so rudely and wrongly called it. There are plenty of people who are accepted into great 4 year universities every year and yet choose to go the community college route for a variety of reasons. The mother of your neice sounds like she just misplanned a little. She should have prepared a HS transcript & made sure her daughter was taking collge prep classes. But it's not too late to construct a transcript and then she can choose one of two options: 1) complete the missing college prep classes at home & add them to the transcript, take the SAT & apply OR 2) go directly to community college and begin the next level of her education right away. It's not a big deal at all and is exactly what many public schools kids with public school diplomas do! They will place her in the correct classes for her level as far as English & Math and she can begin enrolling in the classes she'll need for a nursing major. After successfully completing her 2 yrs of community college work she can transfer to the nursing school that is right for her, provided she does well, and from what you say about her, I'm sure she will. Also remember that 3/4 of homeschoolers go on to college. That number is higher than what public schools can boast.

I have always loved Houzz and used their pictures as inspiration for my kitchen reno, however, it was GW that helped me pull it all together. I got actual sources, advice, support and, dare I say it, "love" from GW. A totally different thing from what I've used Houzz for. This merger doesn't make sense to me, unless Houzz was somehow worried about the power GWers had on large purchasing decisions. If you like the GW enough to buy it; then let it be. It wasn't broken. Thanks for the opportunity to say my piece.

Kim: I did some stair building and handrailing back in the day. I quit quoting them to people like yourself because every single time when the dreamers got the proposal, they woke up and said "No thank you" immediately. Your pictured stair is out of code as the glass guardrail doesn't have the proper gripable profile. The second pic is out for no rails at all. There are all kinds of really cool very dangerous pictures of stairs on the interwebby. Were I still in that business and you called me, I would ask if you're comfortable in the 50K range. If you said no, that would be the last time we spoke. Good luck, but remember, the contractor you want has heard this thousands of times, eats rejection as a snack, is highly skeptical of the leads he does run, and has a half-year wait for his services.