A Terrace Garden

William R. Hoppé & Associates
American GardenHome
Architects
Custom Designers of Homes Embraced by "Livable" Gardens

Living in a
"GardenHome"
is like living
a dream come true!

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Welcome to Our Home Page Who and Where we are and What we do A Home embraced by a Garden that is both 'livable' and beautiful is a 'GardenHome' An Example of a GardenHome Concept Design Drawing We'll help you Create a Home that is Better not just Bigger Our partially glass-roofed GardenRooms are meant for everyday living, dining, and entertaining, and perfect for growing indoor plants Our Gardens are places in which to live and enjoy yourself A GeoThermal Heat Pump more than pays for itself by drastically reducing your HVAC and Water Heating bills In your private 'RoofGarden' you'll always feel on Top of the World Let us help you create a Home you won't have to abandon should you ever become disabled in any way Only Architects can make affordable 'Dream Homes' come true! A Garden is a series of 'Outdoor Rooms without Ceilings' designed to be lived in and enjoyed. At its most beautiful, 'Landscaping' is still just a picture frame. A beautiful garden adds to your quality of life! Here are the reasons why you should have a Garden rather than just Landscaping How we Manage our Projects We want a Close and Viable Relationship capable of Producing the Results you seek! How we will Handle Your Project - Overview What our Hourly Rates are based on Here we'll give you a 'Ball Park' idea of our Costs BEFORE you buy that Property, let us take a good look at it FIRST! Tell us what you think of our site and our 'GardenHome' concept Our Biographies and Faces

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Links to Interesting Sites

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... Some 38, informative and extremely useful ...
Magazine & Newspaper,  Medicine & Health,  and
Money & Economy sites

     While the  links on this page as well as on (Page 3) following, are to websites that  have nothing whatsoever to do with our "métier"  (Architecture and Gardens), per sé,  we have found them to be so useful to us, personally, that it would be a shame for us NOT to share them with you.  So, here they are.   Enjoy!

F.  Magazines & Newspapers:

01  News and Newspapers – From around the U.S. and the world - extensive directory offered by  the University of Texas.
02  New York Times Quick News – What's happening right now!
03  USA Today
04  Wall Street Journal
05  Washington Post

G.  Medicine & Health:

01  American Medical Association – Site offers links to consumer health information, abstracts from AMA journals, and a database of 650,000 MDs!
02  Complete Home Medical Guide – A Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons site which offers an online reference book.
03  Health A to Z – Site is a medicine-specific search engine.  (Put phrases in quotation marks) Quick access to medical information on the Internet.  Note:   this is only a search engine... use with due caution and only after you have failed to find the information you seek elsewhere.
04  Health Science Guide - Martindale's – Offers sections on pharmacy, nursing, dental, veterinary, nutrition, public health, and a Virtual Medical Center, with links to biology and anatomy sites, and more.
05  InteliHealth – Searchable health information database from Johns Hopkins University.
06  Internet Mental Health – Site offers hundreds of entries on mental disorders, medications, and other topics.  Menus include descriptions, treatments, research, magazine articles, web links, etc.
07  Medicare Information – US Handbook, Medigap policies, and Medicare FAQ.
08  Medline:  Pub-Med and Internet Grateful Med – Site offers free access to "National Library of Medicine's" and an enormous database of more than 8,800,000 references to health related articles!
09  National Health Information Center – Clearinghouse and health information referral service that steers you to 1,100 organizations which have toll-free numbers, and information on diseases, and other health care related issues.
10  New England Journal of Medicine Online – Complete text of many features of the printed journal.  Current issue available beginning every Thursday morning. Past issues from 1996 available also.
11  OBGYN.net – Searchable, doctor-reviewed site on women's health topics
12  OncoLink – U. of Pennsylvania site which offers a huge collection of cancer information and other important links.
13  Quackwatch – Guide to health fraud, quackery, and intelligent decision making – "alternative" to Alternative Medicine.  We don't know how accurate this site is but it was found among the links of an outstanding library.
14  Texas Cancer Data Center – Click on "Health Professionals" to search for physicians by specialty.

H.  Money & The Economy:

01  Census Bureau – Main data bank for economic and demographic information
02  EDGAR – Electronic database from the SEC). Includes quarterly and annual reports (10-Q and 10-K) since 1994, along with prospectuses issued by public companies and mutual funds – free (your tax dollars at work)
03  Historical Stock Data – Data for past year.
04  Hoover's Online – brief profiles of 10,000 companies with links to stock quotes, SEC filings, press releases, corporate web sites. Outstanding site from Austin publisher.
05  How-To-Research Companies Online – a user-friendly tutorial with active links to many useful resources.
06  Invest-O-Rama – Directory of investing resources.
07  Investor Guide – A Guide to Investing on the Web - everything you everwanted to know about money.
08  Motley Fool: Finance and Folly – Comprehensive investment resource for investors.
09  NAIC – National Association of Investment Clubs.
10  NASDR – National Assoc. of Securities Dealers Regulators – Check up on your broker.
11  PC Quote – includes stock quotes with other information, such as PE ratio and links to relevant news headlines; NASDAQ-listed money market and mutual funds.
12  New York Stock Exchange -and- 13  American Stock Exchange -and- 14  NASDAQ – Information on each exchange, statistics, current news, good links to company homepages.
15  Silicon Investor – Tracks over 500 technology stocks: company profiles, charts, comparisons, press releases.
16  Stockmaster – Provides current quotes (20 min. delay) and graphical chart for each stock showing past year's performance. "Top Stocks" feature tells you which stocks everyone else is looking at.
17  The Street.com – online financial journal – news & analysis -search any stock or fund (Public Library subscribes)
18  Wall Street Research Network – Highly regarded Web resource. Company and mutual fund research, much of it free, with links to 190,000 other sites. Searchable.


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