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Hills side property at the Lemongrass Lodge.
A charming and inviting one bedroom apartment, boasts a large attic bedroom with a view of the entire Beau-Vallon Bay. The open plan kitchen and living space opens onto a cosy terrace overlooking the tropical garden of local fruits and flowers as well as a view of the mountains and the panoramic Beau-Vallon Beach.
Restaurants, shops dive centers are withing walking distance, whereas the closest beach is on 3 minutes walk down the hill.
Location: 600m above the bay of Beau-Vallon, on the north coast of Mahe Island with stunning sunset views. The entrance road to Lemongrass Lodge is at mare-Anglaise, the northern end of Beau-Vallon Beach. It is a fifteen minute drive to the capital of Seychelles, Victoria.
This hillside property is being run by its owner and a small team of dedicated and professional staff. Set in the midst of beautifully landscaped tropical gardens with fruit trees, shrubs, palms, orchids, herbs and spices. It compromises of one spacious three bedroom villa and three self contained holiday homes.
Lemongrass Lodge offers a 3 bedroom en suit villa, and 3 self contained apartments.
Bernard and Clemence, welcomes all their guests with warmth and are always ready to help out. The do offer breakfast and dinner at extra costs, served on your terrace.
The closest beach is a 3 minutes walk down the short hill. restaurants, shops are about 10minutes walk from the Lodge.
Electricity: Please turn off aircon when not using. For example when you leave during the day, otherwise we will charge you an extra fee.
Water: Use wisely and no wastage, again we will charge extra fee if you leave taps on when absent from the apartment.


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I am now sometimes recommending against highly effective weatherstripping for two reasons. 1. The human body needs fresh air for good health. In the 1970s the death rate from emphysema went up 500%+. What else happened in the 1970s? We hand three 'energy crunches' and started sealing up our buildings. Health experts say that rise in emphysema deaths rates is directly attributable to significant decreases of indoor air quality. 2. The original intent of the double-hung design is to have some air infiltration which keeps the wood dry and decay free. I have seen too many fine old windows rot out from the "seal it up real good" treatment applied in the 1970s.
Why does "no weatherstripping" sound so upside down crazy? Because everyone has been brainwashed by the consumer economy masters and the building products industry. Can we please apply rational thought and our own experience to weatherstripping instead of trusting the corporations and big government whose only interest is grabbing our money?
That would be a tough tough tough tough sell.
I agree with you about to much emphasis on making windows tight. I agree that we've been educated, conitioned to think of weather stripping our windows is a must. I agree that windows need to help the house breath. I agree with you that there are many other areas that we can improve to save energy dollars. But-------- some of these old windows are bad for drafts, I mean really bad.
In various threads throughout your forum I've began discussion, and participated in discussions regarding the importance to bring the sashes and jambs back to original specifications and tolerances. I not only believe the importance of this we practice this(or at least try) to a fault. The fault being of course interfering with profit.
It is important to restore a window to the original tolerance or better. I think very few restorers are doing this or even undertand what this entails. old windows (when new) were pretty good quality items. I think so much so that they wouldn't need much weather stripping. (of course they didn't have much available anyway) What they did have was good basic engineering and excellent craftsmanship. The makers of windows actually cared about what he built. But it goes even further than that. The raw products that the window maker used were excellent. Far superior to anything available today. Anything!
Along with that excellent crafted window with very good close tolerances, the typical window was designed to have a storm window on top of it. That alone cuts a very big part of any remaining drafts coming through. All of these thing together produced a fairly tight and energy efficient window.
What happens after 100 years and several generations of families and various degrees of use or abuse from families and weather. Houses settles, windows sag, wood begins to rot, jambs loosen and spread and (this is the most important) all the wood shrinks!
We can restore the window to a somewhat close original tolerance, but that's hardly good enough.
Sashes are restored- But are they really 100% restored. Are they the exact dimensions, with crisp corners exactly like the originals----- I would doubt it.
We remove paint the from jambs and repair the rot, but do we really address all of the componants of jambs during our restorations? We may attempt to tighten all the different parts that may be showing gaps. But probably not completely, some may try to caulk these gaps, but that's not restoring, thats covering. How many of us take the time to resquare the jamb and remove the casing and outside stop to reposition to tighten up the jamb completely. Generally the answer is a resounding No.
It doesn't seem possible to completely remove the whole window, take it back to the shop take it apart and actually do "a for real restoration". The simple fact that the sash componants have litteraly shrunk through the years makes their true restoration impossible. But without addressing thie shrinking we cannot return the window to its true and original tolerances. Without these tolerances we need to compensate.
We do this with weather stripping. That doesn't mean over weather stripping, just adequate weather stripping. Our goal then is to not make an old window ultra tight. Our goal is to do as good a job as possible in our definition of "restoration". Weatherstrip the window adequately, add a storm and quit overselling that we can compete with new windows.
Weatherstrip the window adequately add a storm and quit overselling that we can compete with new windows.
I would say that Steve is thinking rationally about weatherstripping.
Steve's notion that we should quit competing with the new windows industry hits the bulls eye. We cannot play their game by their rules and expect to win.
We offer something completely different. What is it? Instead of the window industry's 'Fast things Cheap" we operate in the realm of "Good work through personal Relationships."
By understanding our customers' needs we can give them the window performance they need.
Steve, not sure I understand the implications of "quit overselling that we can compete with new windows". What do you mean by "overselling"? And what do you mean by "new windows"?
Maybe if I think about this statement longer, I'll get what you mean. What is the point if we are not able to draw a distinction between what we do (including the benefits of that) and a decision to go with new windows? If our product isn't worth worthy of the competition, why bother?
What is the point if we are not able to draw a distinction between what we do (including the benefits of that) and a decision to go with new windows?
Yes, yes, yes, we must clearly define and present the distinction.
If our product isn't worth worthy of the competition, why bother?
This is exactly the mind-set created by the big corporations and their consumer economy: "You cannot compete with us so you might as well give up." In large part the American public has given up and simply does what they are told to do, in this case, buy replacemen windows.
The effective strategy for us is to simply side-step the completion and do what the consumer corporations cannot. What is it that they cannot do, that we can do, at very little cost?
We can have authentic relationships with our customers. No, wait. Not, "with our customers", I mean to say, "with the people we help." See? Even my thinking "customers" is a part of their game. I have to get out of that way of thinking, and use the expression "people I help."
That is one thing the consumer corporations simply cannot do, truly help people. All they can do is take advantage of people in the their singular purpose of getting money.
Let me repeat that to myself. I don't "sell to customers." I do "help people." This is right in my mission statement: Helping people understand and maintain their older and historic buildings." Now I just have to become more aware of how that works: help, not sell. It feels much better, and works much better to use the "help" tool, rather than the "sell" tool, like the difference between the putty knife I've been using for 25 years and a brand new putty knife, my trusty old putty knife is more comfortable, gives better results.
Little by little we can recover from the brainwashing, and then we can help other people recover, and then they will automatically have us fix their windows, because it is the natural and authentically good way for this world to work. I have seen it work like this time and time again. I think Steve has too. Perhaps all of us have from time to time. We need to get away from the notion that we are doing "business"--that's their game, not ours. We can make up our own rules. We don't even have to call what we do "business." What should we call it?
I'm taking a break and read the thread and have some first response thoughts for Greg and others. I will be able to say more tonight, because this is very important. It is the Crux of how we build our relationships with owners of older homes and how we regard these older buildings and all the pieces that are a part of them.
Don't fall into the trap of competing at the same level as the replacement window companies. Stay true to whom we really are. We offer a very valuable service that doesn't need to compete at the same level as those new window companies. They sell their product to be a cure all with no consideration for the rest of the structure. New windows are very heavily weather stripped and engineered to attempt to show drafts won't get through. And drafts don't get through them, as least for a few year----untill the weather stripping begins to collaps and the structural integrety of the vinyl and even the wood begins to show its true quality.
I've told Tim S this and many other here and in other arenas. My market is not the same market as the replacement window market. The people I want to help would not consider replacing their windows with new ones.
"But, what if I want to expand my market to include all old homes?" you say? And Steve you even said that your customers want a draft free window, whats up with that?
You can and you're correct. And I'll continue later but right now I need to go paint some Cypress window screens I made for my customer I made Cypress storms for late last winter. Ha and my primer is drying, by the way!
In the never ending argument of replace vs restore the problem is their side has data and we don't, or not much of it. And you know how people love to hear % saved (never $$$, no one wants to get pinned to that wheel).
Recently we were asked to bid on restoring the windows in a 1694 farmhouse. The architect was adamant that he had to put in replacement windows to get the LEED certification the owners wanted. But the owners also aren't fond of replacement windows so they asked me if I would restore a window and have it tested against a replacement window. Well, throw down the gauntlet and I jump. Also, I WANT TO KNOW how we stack up. The one room that had two windows happened to be in a 1920's ish addition. Gorgeous heavy sash, weights and pulleys, etc. We did the full resto, the owners installed a new Harvey Tru Channel storm, I did install spring bronze on the jambs, but nothing on the top, bottom or meeting rail. The energy auditor reported that our window was 92% as efficient as the double pane vinyl replacement window just put in the other opening. And aesthetically? No comparison. I think the test was actually excellent for showing the owners (and architect) just how much compromise there was to a replacement window visually.
Needless to say, we got the job. And needless to say I heaved a sigh of relief knowing that our work can stand up to the test. And I have to say the local energy auditors have become some of our best champions.
Older original windows are not only worthy they're in a totally other league than new windows. But are they equal or better than new windows energy performance wise? What I'm saying is if we sell performance with a by pruduct of restoration, we'll end up selling to the wrong market and we'll be called on to produce the energy performance we promised.
It is better to tout how great the restoration will be with an added benifit of good energy performance. (but not perfect).
just like Alison is telling us, don't be afraid of energy audits. Restored windows will stand on their own. But don't oversell. They're not all going to be good.
I would love to see the official Audit papers on that!
We need all the ammunition we can get!
I'm looking for a case like yours to put in my book. Would you, the auditor and the homeowner be willing to let me write it up and publish it?
Keep in mind that these replacement windows do not achieve perfect 100% efficiency and expressing the efficiency of the replacement window as 100% gives a very mistaken impression that it achieves 100% performance. A more objective comparison would state the percentage of energy loss for each window compared to zero heat loss, or to the heat loss of the wall next to the windows, or to the heat loss if there was just a hole in the wall the size of the window.
Because of this mistaken comparison I suspect that the difference between the two windows is less than 8%, perhaps much less. And it could be pointed out that the 8% is 8% of the 10%(or what ever number the auditor puts on the energy loss through the windows for the whole house), or .8% of the total energy loss of the house.
I wonder what the cost for each approach was, and what the payback period for each would be.
Now those would be numbers that could be used for ammo.
Got it. The explanations of "oversell" were very helpful Steve as were the thoughts from John and Alison...now I understand what you were saying...sorry you all had to write so much to drive the point home.
Excellent point Greg. That was what I was attempting to bring out in my first contribution. When is it feasable to build a new reproduction sashes for a window. The question would include the whole window.
A new reproduction of original window is sometimes needed. Building a totaly new window with close tolerances all over would actually perform better than most restored windows. I know, ouch, but true. At the same time the importance of saving and restoring old windows is obvious, as most of us agree. But there are times when it would be great to do just as you say.
I've got a couple of questions for you and the other people here that build new duplicates of original sashes. Do you have set tolorance measurement you use for various places on the window?
What measurement do you use as tolerance between the width of the sash and the width of the jamb opening for it?
What tolerance measure do you use for the sash thickness to the channel thichness?
Have you attempted or are you altering (for improvement) the area around the meeting rail to the parting stop? This is the most prevelant weak area of the window, regarding drafts?
For all of us doing restorations, do you pay particular attention to the areas of the window I've asked about above? And how do you address a sash too thin or a jamb spread out to wide?
How do you or do you address really out of square window jambs?
When I am making the sash, the frame, the stops and beads I work to a tolerance of plus or minus .01" (one one-hundredth of an inch). To get this I am measuring wood parts with a vernier caliper that reads to .001"
When fitting the sash in the frame I allow for the width of the sash to be 1/16" less than the space between the jambs, if the sash is fit to the frame before installation in the wall (the frame has temporary X-braces to hold it square that don't come off until after installation in the wall. If the frame is installed in the wall, then the sash fit, I make the sash width exactly equal to the space between the jambs, then trim the sash for a "running fit" when they are installed in the frame. For vertical fits, I make the sashes 1/8" taller than the opening and trim to fit during installation (the extra is needed if the frame goes slightly into a parallelogram during installation).
John, so you do do some restores to total window out of the wall? What is your experience as to the degree of difficulty in actually getting the whole frame out? How do you do it? What are your perameters for making the decision to pull the whole unit versus just the sashes?
Also, when making a duplicate whole window what is your planned tolerance for the width of the channels to the thickness of the sashes?
This whole discussion is for everyone's input.
Ok, one more question for John and everyone. When doing a restoration of a window, do you address the tolerances I've asked about and John has answered? And how are you'll addressing these tolerances when restoring?
I think these tolerances and how they are addressed properly should be included in the standards, or do you think differently?
We do not address them other than with weather stripping. But I'm thinking they should be addressed differently, maybe?

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It's officially been a whole year since we moved to this town and into this house. We've gone from the chaos of moving, to slowly making our house a home that feels like "us", to creating routines, to just being comfortable and confident that we are, indeed, where we are supposed to be.
I just got lost for about 2 hours looking through photos on my blog-- going back and back and back, looking at all of the memories from the past year. There was definitely a rush of emotions, but the thing I took away more than anything is my appreciation for the mini time capsule this blog has become. Documenting little moments from the past year hasn't just been about pretty pictures or an attempt to portray a "perfect life", but to remember that even in transitional times, hard times, easy times: life really is beautiful. It may not always be simple or smooth, but it is good and I always want to appreciate that.
Awesome progression on your house. My boy and I just moved into one in April. I'm hoping by next year to have just a nice of a progression.
How exciting! It definitely looks like you've made your house into a lovely home. I bet your girls will have great memories of growing up there.
Your house is gorgeous and it looks like all of your hard work has paid off. I love that you've labelled blogs a time capsule, I'm gonna call them that from now on too!
What a wonderful sentiment and reminder.
You struck a chord and brightened my day, thank you.
Blogs are so great with documenting one´s life!
You deserve it all, this pretty life!:) It's amazing and emotional how you describe it. You're such a great person and very time I come by I know it even more.
Your home is truly beautiful!
You have done such a great job making the house such a beautiful home!
How exciting! Your house is gorgeous.
What a beautiful post. Thank you for reflecting and sharing with us.
This is why I love reading your blog! You are so positive and lovely.
I love this and the whole idea of a blog as a time capsule. I just got married (as in less than two weeks ago) and I am going through this whole process with my husband. I'm excited to see where it leads. I love reading your blog and seeing the ways in which your family's lives have changed and stayed the same.
Thanks for the reminder that life, while sometimes messy and stressful, really is something to enjoy and be thankful for.
What a sweet and lovely post. Life certainly isn't perfect. It can be tumultuous, and trying. And it can also be relatively uneventful at times. But through it all, it is beautiful. I love blogs for this exact reason. Life is beautiful and it deserves documentation and reflection. Through all the ups and downs you have these images and stories to revisit. And that is most certainly priceless.
Your house looks so wonderful!
My favourite post so far Katie. So lovely. Not always simple and smooth but good, I love that!
Beautiful...cheers to happy years! It's been a joy to follow along. Here's to many more!
Yay that's lovely! i'm glad your year has been going so well.
Your house looks absolutely fantastic!
wise words. I've had a lot of fun following along so thank you for sharing! :) also, wowwww hope and poe look SO small compared to what they look like now. how they grow.
I love these little snippets of your life. So glad it has been a good year for you guys :).
Love all these pics :) Such playful colours, vivid vibes and warmth!
The life is like mountains. Up and down, up and down.... But when the time comes to remember old memories, those photo makes us smile. That's why I like to see old photos.
beautiful post, katie!! as of june, we have also owned our little green home for one year. here is that post: http://helloscarlettblog.com/2013/06/26/the-story-of-little-green/.
Beautiful photos! You did a great job with your home!
CONGRATS! Love that dollhouse. :D I also love those bedrooms! I think attic bedrooms are charming, and the goodnight pillows and headboard rock!
your house is gorgeous. i love how it's cozy but not cluttered.
What an evolution! Thanks for sharing your journey!

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Ouch, sorry that your customization got overwritten. Updating via ftp should avoid any issues like that if you merely overwrite the existing folder with the new files, but I think the auto-update deletes the existing folder first.
I'll ask the developer to have a look at this to see how that might be resolved for the future.
Actually, I forgot that the customization for this was in the plugin file until after I hit the upgrade button.
If the auto-update deletes the folder before installing the new, then should there actually be an auto-update for plugins or themes that by design have folders containing customized files?
But no complaints... The developers all do a terrific job.
We are planning on storing the widget contents in the DB. It shouldn't be an issue after that's released.
Now (since 1.5.7) widget content and title is stored in DB. It shouldn't happen anymore.

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This page contains notes about how NEuca is to be used in Orca. A canonical deployment puts the container with Euca site authority on the Euca head node so the site handler can ping instances as they come up (it is not possible from elsewhere). Camano 3.0+ has an option to turn off ping testing and relaxes this constraint.
To use NEuca, you need a NEuca-enabled Eucalyptus cluster and an Orca site authority actor configured to interact with NEuca. Authority configuration files differ between releases. Here is the Bella2.2 authority configuration for a standalone NEuca site with an EX3200 switch for a backplane. For Camano 3.0+ see this example.
THe rest of this section explains various parts of this file and additional configuration files needed.
The path to ec2.keys in the config file is important. It must point to the location which has the eucalyptus keys and eucarc. In the example config file, the ec2 keys are stored in /opt/orca/ec2. To get the keys for your eucalyptus account, you have to log in to your Eucalyptus portal with the euca username, say, 'orca'. Go to Credentials tab and then click on 'Download Credentials' under 'Credentials ZIP-file'. Unzip the contents of this zip file (which will have a name like euca2-<euca username>-x509.zip) in the ec2.keys directory.
Associate a private key to your euca account, which can be used to log in to any instances brought up. This key can be generated by issuing the following command after sourcing eucarc.
Store the output of this command in a file with name as keyName and put it in the ec2.keys directory.
Edit eucarc in that directory as follows. Comment out the first line by inserting '#' at the beginning of the line. Add the following lines to eucarc. The AMI_NAME must correspond to the emi-id of a neuca-enabled image. Replace XXXXXX with the correct id . The EC2_SSH_KEY property must point to the keyName file. EC2_USE_PUBLIC_ADDRESSING should be set to true (boolean, not string) if you want Eucalyptus to use a pool of available public IP addresses, false otherwise. If not set, defaults to 'false'. EC2_PING_RETRIES defines how many times to try to ping the instance after it is in 'running' state before tearing it down and exiting with an error. If unset, defaults to 60 (with 1 second sleep interval at each step).
Edit eucarc as follows: comment out the first line by inserting '#' at the beginning of the line. All shell variables from Bella-2.2 in the above section (AMI_NAME, EC2_SSH_KEY etc.) have moved to ec2.site.properties file. See below.
The support for these features is controlled by one or more properties, which are described below. Static site-dependent properties can be passed to the handler either via ec2.site.properties file (see below), while dynamic properties are passed by ORCA at run-time.
NEuca allows reservation requests to control any network interface other than eth0, which is reserved internally. Each network interface must at least be associated with a VLAN tag, and can optionally specify an IP address and a subnet mask (in / notation, e.g, 1.2.3.4/24).
When both unit.vlan.tag and unit.eth1.vlan.tag are specified, the latter takes precedence.
See sample ec2.site.properties for Bella 2.2 and sample ec2.site.properties for Camano 3.0+ files for more details.
'sitename'.euca.router.type should be the type and 'sitename'.euca.router should be the IP address or name of router interconnecting Eucalyptus nodes in the dataplane.
In addition you must install NOX or Floodlight OpenFlow controller on the same host as the Orca AM and enable it to start the controller by properly defining the configuration properties described below.
Each VM created by NEuca is represented as an Unit object in the ConcreteSet? of the VM reservation. The unit.manage.ip property can be used to access the management ip of the VM. If the guest specified an SSH key, then it can use it to connect to the machine at address unit.manage.ip.


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Suppose it’s winter, and you’ve just come back from the packie* with a six-pack of warm beer.
If your goal is minimizing your household’s overall energy consumption, is it better to throw the beer straight into the fridge, or put it out on the porch until it’s cold, then put it in the fridge?
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I say on the porch. But if you are asking there must be more to it. By the way, if you try to fail and you succeed, did you succeed or fail?
Put the beer on the porch.
JUST before the beer freezes and (hopefully) just when you need to get milk or yogurt or something from the fridge and would therefore be opening it anyway, move the beer to the fridge.
Coordinate so that you do not make a special door-opening just for the beer.
Likely spoilers ahead: don’t read if you wanna solve it yourself!
If energy consumption is the only concern, then intuitively I expect the porch will be better if the house is unheated. Letting the beer cool to outdoor temperature will reduce the amount of energy consumed by the refrigerator, which seems to be the only relevant energy consumer in this case.
If the house is being heated (or we care about its internal temperature), then it becomes a much harder question. Extra energy will likely be consumed pumping the heat from the warm beer in the fridge out of the fridge and into the house. The extra heat in the house is a benefit because it will reduce the amount of heat we need to generate through other means. But, the refrigerator’s heat pump may also be less efficient than whatever process we would have otherwise used to generate the heat for the house. For example if we are using wood to heat this hypothetical house, we may conclude that direct wood heat is more efficient or more environmentally friendly than the refrigerator’s heat pump (which consumes electricity generated from burning coal or whatever the case may be) in the specific conditions of this hypothetical house. And if the efficiency of the fridge heat pump is less than that of the alternative heat source, then this makes the porch look like the better option.
However there is another factor to consider: if you leave the beer on the porch, then the front door would probably have to be opened twice: once to enter the house, and once again later to bring it inside. It is expected that more heat will escape if you open the door twice than if you only open the door once, and that loss works in favor of “put the beer directly into the fridge” being the better option.
There are other factors involved too, but those seem like the biggest ones.
Musing leads to another thought problem: Assume: the fridge needs 0.3 kWh of electricity to move 1kWh of heat, electricity costs 13¢ / kWh, the fridge stays at 36ºF, and jugs of bottled water come at 70º from the store. At what price per gallon for water is this a more efficient means of heating that burning wood?
I have three post-its full of numbers from a few days ago sitting on my desk right now, but gave up on the question because there were too many variables. I’m glad some other folks gave it a shot, and also glad to see we’re sharing similar thoughts and theories.

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NEW YORK: Pakistan and India have agreed to resume trade through land routes and decided to open four points for this purpose, including two along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, while two would be on the international borders.
The agreement, without any tangible progress towards the resolution of the Kashmir dispute, is perceived to be a departure from Pakistan's historic position on Kashmir followed by the successive governments.
Meanwhile, India assured Pakistan that it would stand by the Indus Waters Treaty and Pakistan would get its share of river waters in accordance with the treaty. President Asif Ali Zardari raised the issue of water share in his maiden meeting on Wednesday evening with Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in his hotel in New York.
A joint statement was issued after the meeting and the two leaders also had a brief interaction with the media. The leaders of Pakistan and India, vowing to work for an early and full normalisation of relations, have agreed to open four trade routes as part of the efforts to strengthen trade, commerce and bilateral ties.
The joint statement reads: "Both the leaders agreed that the forces that had tried to derail the peace process must be defeated. "This would allow the continuation and deepening of a constructive dialogue for the peaceful resolution and satisfactory settlement of all the bilateral issues, including Jammu and Kashmir," added the statement issued after the hour-long session.
"They agreed that violence, hostility and terrorism had no place in the vision they shared regarding the bilateral relations, and must be visibly and verifiably prevented," it said, adding: "Severe action would be taken against elements involved in terrorist acts," the statement said.
The two leaders welcomed the "several positive outcomes of the four rounds of the composite dialogue, which had brought their people, businesses and institutions closer." They agreed on the opening of the Wagah-Attari road link and Khokrapar-Munabao rail route for all permissible items of trade. They also decided to commence cross-LoC trade on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawlakot roads on October 21, and to discuss modalities for the opening of the Skardu-Kargil route soon. The two countries have just concluded talks in New Delhi on the subject of opening of trade routes across the LoC.
The meeting between the two leaders called for consolidating the gains made through sustained efforts to resolve all outstanding issues. "They agreed to work for an early and full normalisation of relations between India and Pakistan, on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and non-interference," the two-page statement said.
Pakistan and India also agreed that their foreign secretaries would schedule meetings of the fifth round of the composite dialogue in the next three months to focus on "deliverables and concrete achievements".
They also agreed to stabilise the ceasefire and that the director-generals military operations and sector commanders would stay in regular contact.The two sides also agreed to hold a special meeting of the Joint Anti-Terror Mechanism in October to address mutual concerns, including the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul.
Prime Minister Singh congratulated President Zardari on his election and the victory of democracy in Pakistan. He expressed the hope that this would pave the way for a profound transformation of the bilateral relationship, so that India and Pakistan might work together on their shared objectives of peace, prosperity and security.
The two leaders also agreed on expansion of people-to-people contacts, trade, commerce and economic cooperation as it provided an effective platform to develop and strengthen bilateral relations.
They evolved a consensus to continue interaction between the planning commissions of both the countries to develop mutually beneficial cooperation, including the energy sector.
Indian diplomatic sources later told this scribe that India was committed to implementing the Indus Waters Treaty that allowed equitable distribution of water, after President Asif Ali Zardari sought an early action on the issue of reduction of water flow in the River Chenab at his meeting with the Indian prime minister.
Dr Manmohan Singh assured President Zardari that the Indus Waters Treaty would be implemented in letter and spirit. It is the obligation of the government of India and they will invite the Indus waters commissioner soon after Eid to look at the situation."
President Zardari said he was working for poverty alleviation and economic development in South Asia.Manmohan said all the outstanding issues could be resolved through peaceful dialogue.
"We discussed all aspects of our relations - trade, Jammu and Kashmir - we are not afraid of the word K (Kashmir)." President Zardari while talking to the media after the meeting said that Dr Singh is the architect of modern India. He has assured us about water, which is our main concern. "We are thankful for his assurances in this regard"
Dr Singh said that all outstanding issues could be resolved through peaceful dialogue. "A strong prosperous, peaceful, democratic Pakistan is in our interest," he concluded.


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Anything that you get to use on this planet has both advantages and diadvantages. Many of the states in the United states of America are bring up the law of the cannabis which is to legalize the use of cannabis. This legalization is only to the elders and for medical use due to the medical capability that has been found in the plan. One of the ways that it is being used in those states is for medical and recreational purposes which are only allowed for those under the legal age of the use. As long as you ,have attained the legal age, there are the dispensaries where you can be able to get the recreational or the medical ,marijuana without any problem in those states. One of the best examples of these dispensaries is the Denver Dispensary which is in the Denver to make available the product to the people of that community who are willing to purchase it.
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Peddler’s Grave – Was Jost Jewish?
Rabbi Akiva Males serves as rabbi of Harrisburg’s Kesher Israel Congregation.
An article I wrote on the vanished Jewish community of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania appeared in the summer 2012 issue of the OU’s Jewish Action magazine (link). My research into that small community of hard-working and honest Jews in the middle of Pennsylvania’s coal mining region was (and continues to be) extremely rewarding in so many different ways.
In the course of researching the Jewish history of Mahanoy City, I came across one fascinating tidbit that I have not yet seen discussed elsewhere.
Just outside Mahanoy City lies what is known as “The Peddler’s Grave”. There, a small tombstone commemorates the life of an innocent peddler named Jost Folhaber (or Foulhaver), who was robbed and murdered while passing through the area in 1797 (or 1810 according to other reports). The murderer — Benjamin Bailey — was soon caught, tried, and hanged for his crime. Jost’s slaying is remembered in an August 11, 1880 NY Times article as “the first white man murdered by another in cold blood in the district that now comprises Schuylkill county”.
One particular detail in that 1880 NY Times account caught my eye: the reporter described the murdered peddler as “a Jewish person named Foulhaver”. I contacted a Mahanoy City area historian who shared numerous recorded accounts of the peddler’s murder with me. Aside from the NY Times article (written either 70 or 83 years after the slaying), no other source suggests that Jost Folhaber was Jewish.
Was a Jewish travelling salesman in fact robbed, murdered, and then laid to rest in “The Peddler’s Grave”? Or perhaps, in the 1880’s, peddling was so synonymous with Jews, that the writer of this NY Times article just assumed that having been a peddler Jost Folhaber must also have been Jewish?
Rabbi Akiva Males is the rabbi of the Young Israel of Memphis and a frequent writer on Torah topics. A longer bio and links to many of his articles are available on his shul website.
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So I just spent a ridiculous sum of money, since we are about halfway through our kitchen overhaul.
I figured it would be prudent to find a way to save a few shekels this week. That won't really make a dent in the thousands I have to pay, but it makes me feel better (a tiny bit) to say I saved money.
Found a place that had lots of produce priced between 90 agurot/kg and 1.90shekels/kg, and what we bought there (plus toilet paper at 63 agurot per roll and milk at 5 shekels/L) is the bulk of this week's grocery shopping, except that we do plan to start the Pesach shopping this week!
Found a place to buy goats' milk - organic even - for less than I've been paying, so I know where to get it from now on!
Found a place to buy specialty goats' milk cheeses for many, many shekels less than I've been seeing, so I'll be able to get some before Pesach!
Gave away a bunch of clothes to make us feel less crowded in our house.
Sold a bunch of nearly perfect condition clothes (for very little, but that's the way it is with second hand clothing).
Washed and set aside a few other things I'd like to sell.
Doesn't seem like much, but some days I just need to feel like "every drop counts"!
Did you save any money this week?
I sent some items we can't use to a charity which frees up space in my house and will be deductible come tax time.
I cooked at home every day this week and what we didn't consume I froze. It will be nice to have some meals to eat in the winter that were made from the fresh, organic veggies we've been getting from our farm share this summer.
We sanded and repainted the hanger that holds our bird feeder. It had fallen off the house and needed to be put back up but when we saw how rusted it was my husband suggested we purchase a new one. I counter-suggested that we use the leftover spray paint from another project and if it didn't work out at least we tried before we spent for a replacement.


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I’ve just read a good swath of the New 52 Catwoman, written by Ann Nocenti, drawn by Rafa Sandoval, Jordi Tarragona, Patrick Olliffe, and Tom Nguyen.
Isn’t that kind of uncomfortable?
On the plus side: it’s very well drawn. I prefer the more minimalist line of Darwyn Cooke, but I can’t complain about the art (as I did with Hellblazer), especially Sandoval’s. Well, actually I can: I like the way the artists design the whole page, and yet they don’t make a pleasing whole in the way that J.H. Williams can do effortlessly, and they rarely offer the sense of wonder offered by John Cassaday. Plus it kind of bugs me that the artists think people can talk with their mouths closed.
As for the stories— I dunno, they’re grim and ultraviolent (autocorrect wants me to say ultraviolet) without any concession to realism. Nocenti’s Catwoman is a little more immoral, more of a loner, than before the New 52. More like Batman, then, but that doesn’t feel like a good move for her— her greater empathy and real concern for the East End were solid pluses.
Gotham City requires a weird balance too. Batman grew out of noir, and his enemies are goth exaggerations of ’30s gangsters. I think Catwoman works best when she’s planning an elaborate heist, or confronting the gangs directly. E.g. there’s a pretty good arc where Penguin sends drone bombs after her, and she directs them back at him. It’s always fun to see Penguin going in a few seconds from arrogant to sniveling when his bodyguards are stripped away. There’s at least a little grounding in reality here— the book doesn’t have anything to say about gangsters, but at least they’re based on something real.
Well, Big Comics has to fill dozens of titles every month, and it’s hard to have good ideas each time. But I wonder if grimdark isn’t a little played out. Gangsters and psychopaths are powerful narrative elements, but they don’t constitute an injection of realism any more— quite the opposite, Gotham City’s villains have just been banging around inside their own lurid bubble for eighty years. I don’t have any bright ideas on how to fix it, except to suggest that the most satisfying Catwoman stories tend to be those that downplay the supervillains entirely, and make use of her intelligence and social skills.


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On Thursday 27 March, I attended a conference on Psychosis and the Arts at Amnesty International. This event was organised by the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis. There were a number of interesting presentations. Particularly stimulating was the talk which performance artist Bobby Baker gave us about how art has been a tool for her of self-reflection in a career spanning four decades. Art has also enabled Baker to communicate to others the distress which she has experienced through having a mental illness. She presented some of the diary drawings she created daily when she attended a therapeutic day centre. One drawing presented a mask which she felt herself to wear at that time, slipping away to expose a monstrous face beneath, which she felt she hid from others. Baker recalled her relief when she was reassured by her therapist that many patients felt they concealed a monstrous self. While Baker read many first-person accounts of mental illness, she asked ‘Where are the pictures?’ She believes that ‘psychosis is an incredibly creative act’ but that there are not enough artworks depicting madness. Baker then presented photos of herself engaged in various performances, ranging from standing in a kitchen and throwing a pear against a wall to relieve the tension that she felt, to making a life-sized edible version of her family, which visitors to the display were invited to eat, to driving around the streets of London strapped to the back of a truck yelling at people in the street through a megaphone to ‘Pull Yourselves Together’.
David Bell, a consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy, explored in his presentation the impact of recent cultural and political change in the treatment of mental illness. He cautioned that antipsychotic medication is only useful as a short-term treatment for psychosis, and that this should not be a replacement for good care. Bell believes that it is a myth that there is community care, and in reality the mentally ill have no place to go for asylum now. He argued that mental health services need to provide containing, safe environments for disturbed patients, where there is emotional support given by staff. This environment needs to be structured, with staff providing creative activities. However, Bell noted that mental health services, by changing into Recovery Centres, are increasingly concerned with performance targets. He thinks that this ‘accelerating commodification of mental health suffering’, places unrealistic demands on the mentally ill to recover in a short time-frame, and results in both staff and patients feeling inadequate.
Bob Harris, a group analyst, gave a thought-provoking presentation of how art in mental health settings offers service-users an effective way of speaking to themselves, which can in itself be soothing. He observed how often people find it difficult to identify and express their feelings. Given that the brain is quite plastic, Harris believes that art can offer a way of repairing problems in the early years to some extent. He argued that this is particularly relevant to service-users, who often have experienced multiple and cumulative traumas, and may now be coping with the trauma of a psychiatric admission. Bell suggested how therapy is a way of seeking ordinary feelings and connections. He considers that art therapy can do a lot to help, by making symbolization possible of extreme mental states. While Bell refuses to celebrate the language or expression of psychosis, he does see it as presenting the opportunity for personal growth.
The day finished with a very interesting presentation by Meg Harris Williams, a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock, who reflected on the psychic transformations in the artist Louis Bourgeois’ sculpture of a monumental steel spider named Maman. Supported on eight slender legs, its body suspended high above the ground, the sculpture presents a nightmarish yet intriguing vision. Maman was made for the opening of Tate Modern in May 2000. Williams gave us interesting insights into how this sculpture captured the artist’s internal psychic world, as she explored her own ambivalent relationship with her mother, who was both a powerful, dominant and nurturing figure. This complicated inner world of the artist illustrated the struggles which people with psychosis often experience in managing the content of their inner worlds.


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For nearly three decades, the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP) has been a leader in the creation, implementation, development and promotion of services run by and for individuals with mental health conditions, also called consumers or peers. In 1984, MHASP—founded in 1951 as a regional advocacy agency serving individuals with mental health conditions and their families—launched an initiative to create consumer self-help/advocacy groups to help these individuals empower themselves and work toward recovery. Today, MHASP has earned an international reputation for designing and implementing dozens of peer-to-peer services, for participating in rigorous research to demonstrate the effectiveness of peer-run services, for providing technical assistance and training to enable others to replicate these model peer-run programs around the United States and for leadership in promoting the burgeoning profession of certified peer specialist (CPS), whose practitioners, in recovery themselves, help their peers on their own recovery journeys.
For centuries, people have sought support for various challenges from peers who face similar challenges, acknowledging the transformative power of empathy and shared experience. In the past few decades, mental health experts system have increasingly embraced the intuitive concept of peer support, and have found that peer support not only amplifies the consumer voice in our system but objectively gets results for people in recovery.
The effectiveness of peer support is highlighted in a Georgia study that found that compared with treatment as usual, peer support yielded better health outcomes, reduced costs and decreased hospitalizations and other emergency interventions. Other studies have shown this as well.
The MHASP is proud of its leadership in implementing many peer services in our region and in continuing to pilot leading-edge approaches that utilize peers in promoting whole health outcomes.
MHASP created the first peer-run drop-in center in Pennsylvania, where individuals with mental health conditions can overcome their isolation, get involved in advocacy or perhaps get assistance in finding employment. Then MHASP created other models, such as outreach, advocacy and training services (OATS), which served individuals with mental health conditions who were homeless (and which evolved into ACCESS-West Philly, a federally funded demonstration project); residential programs for homeless individuals with mental health conditions ; employment projects; a project “without walls” for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions; and others. Some MHASP projects have been studied to add to the evidence base for the effectiveness of peer-run services. Also, MHASP’s Institute for Recovery and Community Integration, which trains and certifies peer specialists, and MHASP’s participation in gaining CMS approval to make peer specialist services Medicaid-reimbursable, have led to a burgeoning of the peer specialist profession.
MHASP has also led through participation in several federally funded research projects (including the Consumer-Operated Services Program Multi-site Research Initiative) and demonstration projects (including the ACCESS demonstration program, which serves homeless individuals with mental health conditions and which MHASP still operates). MHASP’s curriculum for training peer specialists has influenced the field, as has MHASP’s success in helping achieve CMS approval for Medicaid-reimbursed peer specialist services.
In 2007, MHASP’s work with Pennsylvania’s mental health authority to obtain CMS approval for Medicaid-reimbursed peer support services paid off. Now, Pennsylvania’s 67 counties must provide peer specialists to Medicaid recipients who meet the “medical necessity” criteria. MHASP has joined with Philadelphia’s government to promote CPS services, with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation set to increase CPS positions and with the Community College of Philadelphia to provide college credits for CPS training.
With three partners, MHASP created a sustainable research project: a self-directed care program in Delaware County employing CPSs to help peers create their own budgets for recovery-supporting goods and services. The program is called Consumer Recovery Investment Funds Self-Directed Care (CRIF SDC). The CRIF SDC team supports individuals in developing individual wellness goals and controlling funds to implement their own self-directed behavioral health recovery plans. CRIF SDC is about choices: giving people with mental health conditions the decision-making power over their service dollars to enhance personal responsibility and self-determination and to engage in supports that facilitate their own recovery. Participants are supported by the certified peer specialists, who educate them about recovery, support the development of their recovery plans and ensure that service funds are being utilized to facilitate attainment of participants’ dreams and goals.
MHASP operates three other Medicaid fee-for-service peer teams and has SAMHSA support for two additional teams. MHASP also operates five peer-to-peer recovery and education centers that offer CPS services on-site and in the field. County governments are poised to offer additional fee-for-service opportunities from these centers in addition to the support they currently provide.
Peers are also powering one of MHASP’s newest evidence-based programs: Beating the Blues (BtB). BtB is a Web-based, eight-week cognitive behavioral intervention for people experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, stress and depression. BtB has been launched collaboratively by MHASP and Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual DisAbility Services (DBHIDS). Our hope is that BtB will demonstrate that the human connection provided by peers can enhance the experience of people who are using Web-based interventions to aid their recovery. As our mental health system continues to develop technological tools to facilitate wellness, peers can use their unique engagement and motivational skills, informed by lived experience, to ensure that the remote use of these tools does not interfere with one of recovery’s important aims: community inclusion.
MHASP also celebrates the role of peers in developing and implementing public policy initiatives. MHASP’s Take Five initiative mobilizes peers from across Pennsylvania to take five minutes each week to engage in an easy advocacy activity, like phoning a legislator or signing a petition. Through Take Five, over 400 peers, family members, and other stakeholders statewide have been educated about prominent policy issues that necessitate advocacy and have been given tools to engage with their legislators. In addition, in the past eight months, MHASP has trained dozens of individuals on how to engage in legislative advocacy and organized over 70 legislative visits in which peers can voice their concerns about, and illuminate the real-life impact of, specific policies directly to their elected officials and staff.
To help people sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, MHASP has fielded a team of navigators, who provide unbiased information about health insurance, the health insurance marketplace, qualified health plans and public programs. Even since the deadline of March 31, 2014, the navigators are still actively helping people who need health care insurance.
MHASP works to ensure that both services and advocacy efforts reflect the mantra of the consumer movement: “Nothing about us without us.” But using peers is not only about inclusion; using peers makes our mental health system more effective in facilitating opportunities for recovery.
As the system continues to evolve and as the various elements of the Affordable Care Act are put into place, MHASP will continue to work with stakeholders to ensure that peer-delivered services expand to create more opportunities for recovery and wellness for individuals across our region.
Jake Bowling, MSW, is director of the advocacy division at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Susan Rogers is director of special projects of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and director of the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse.


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Overeating, binge eating and snacking are a huge problem. These three issues make up the main reasons why you will fail with your diet, so how do you control the problem?
There really is no one solution that fits all because we are all very different people, you could be effected by a stressful event that urges you to hit the fast food drive though or an overload of work limits your time one week knocking you out of a regular routine. My though process is “if you have a plan, you have a chance” so lets put together some actionable steps that prepare us for a future bad day or two!
Here are my 10 ways to control overeating.
If you follow my diet plan as most of you do then you will know that breakfast is a very important time of the day. Never skip breakfast even if you don't feel like eating! if you are finding yourself short on time every morning then you need to go to bed a little earlier so you can wake up a little earlier. I know it is tempting to watch another episode of your favorite tv show but this extra time in the morning makes a huge difference.
The perfect start to the day is fruit, eggs, oatmeal and vegetables this combination gives your body everything it needs for a solid start.
Eating slowly is one of the most effective ways to control overeating. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes for your brain to pick up satiety signals. Not only you will enjoy what you are eating, but you will also give your body the time it needs to send the message to your brain when you are full. Synchronizing your body and brain has been proven to make you 20% more productive, your brain understands your body is full letting you focus on other more important tasks.
In my diet plan I split breakfast into two sessions, I understand a lot of people don't have time for two breakfasts but following this process is beneficial.
My suggestion is, as soon as you wake up eat a piece of fruit and the oatmeal, then get ready for work/kids to school or whatever you do and once your morning tasks are complete eat the eggs and vegetables.
If you find you still don't have time then it is time to go to bed and wake up earlier!
Soup isn't included in my diet plan however you could easily make a few alterations to fit it in during the colder months. Liquid foods digest slower so oatmeal, soup or even a curry (low cal please) are a fantastic way to prevent hunger.
A lot of people struggle with hunger pangs in the evening, this is the prime time for overeating so liquid food for your dinner can be a solution.
I suggest meat or fish plus salad for dinner, however as an alternative you could put the meat or fish into a crock pot along with vegetables and a low fat stock to create a soup/stew that will take longer to digest.
Smaller plates will amount to less real estate for your food to sit on. Arrange your food on a smaller plate and establish limits for each serving through portion control. You should also pay attention to how you present your meal. If you arrange your meal, you will enjoy it more and eat less.
A lot of us tend to over fill our plates when we go out to a restaurant, avoid this at all costs remember your portion size at home and try to keep it the same. If the meal comes already plated and it looks on the large size try to eat a regular portion and ask for a take out box.
Sometimes it comes down to self-control think about the amount of time you have spent at the gym or that dress you still can't fit into, learning to control your eating sounds painful but remember your still going to eat just a controlled amount.
Planning your meals help you eat healthy, balanced meals on a regular basis. When you have not planned, then you are more likely to find yourself in the middle of million things with a hunger-on so strong that even the most health conscious individual will choose convenience or give in to cravings. Planning helps you decide the number of calories, variety of food choices and of course, the new recipes, thus creating a healthy meal.
Planning meals can be frustrating to get started but once in place it saves you a lot of time. I use a service called plantoeat you can quickly enter my diet plan or your own recipes into a weekly online planner that automatically creates shopping lists! for me it is a huge time saver watch the demo video to learn more.
Go to the plantoeat website to get started.
Fiber is the key to weight loss. It can help you feel full faster and for longer. As our body takes time to digest fiber rich meal, it may help you stay satisfied long after eating. Moreover, fiber rich foods are high in volume, which means they can fill you up so you eat fewer calories. Hence, substitute white bread, pasta and other refined floor products with complex grain products.
Eating while watching TV can be disastrous. You tend to overeat while working on laptop, or watching TV or reading a newspaper. When you are distracted, you don’t realize how much you are eating and you tend to overeat.
This really is a change of mindset, make a habit of eating at a table, this is another way of synchronizing your mind and body. If you eat or snack when you are watching tv, using a computer or any other place other than a table you mind associates food with these places (not good). Only eat at a table or when you are watching tv or using the pc hunger will get the better of you.
Take a Seat Before you Start to Eat!
Still on the subject of eating at the table a recent study has shown that eating at the table prevents binge eating. Eating on the go gives the signal that you haven't taken a proper meal and you keep on munching throughout the day.
This is my biggest problem, I am always so busy trying to fit everything into my day that I often will eat food while preparing dinner or the kids meals. This is a habit I managed to break only a few weeks ago, I have noticed that when I sit down to eat my meal I really enjoy everything on my plate and it is rare that I will leave anything.
Out of Sign, Out of Mind – Just Don't Buy It!
Keep candies, cupcakes, muffins away from your desk. Rid your fridge and cupboards of unhealthy snacks. You are more likely to overeat when your kitchen is full of tempting foods. While grocery shopping, make it a point that you avoid these unhealthy snacks and substitute them with whole grain biscuits, unsalted peanuts, unsweetened yogurt etc.
I know this is a subject of contention if you have kids and if you are like me you will have to compromise. I now don't buy anything sweet (for me) for the kids I buy things they like and I don't this helps but be warned if it's in your house and you have a sugar craving you could be tempted even if you don't like the item!
Understand Why You Are Overeating.
As we all know, overeating can be induced by several factors such as boredom, anxiety, sadness, stress etc, it is important to understand the reason behind your overeating. Distract yourself if you are bored. Whenever you feel the urge to binge on something, call a friend or listen to your favorite music. This will distract your mind.
You need to find your happy place, what is it that you love to do? Me personally I love a number of things including baking, dance music and just a few cuddles with the kids. these things make me feel good and more importantly very happy.
These have been my 10 ways to control overeating – let me know if you have any further suggestions and I will consider adding them to the list.


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There’s a feeling of apprehension when you take on any new project, from a car repair to a jigsaw puzzle. That apprehension always finds a way to compound into a brief but deep uncertainty once you loosen that first bolt, or dump the puzzle pieces on the table. This is how I felt taking on this custom Donkelope bike build. Each step in the process required functional and aesthetic deliberation, and multiple re-thinks, and the initial dive into the project was exciting and terrifying. It took 12 hours to complete this build; 14 hours if you count the wheelset build.
This was an interesting re-purpose for this bicycle. It was initially hung, incomplete, on a wall by the owner, and never ridden. The frame was designed to be used with 25c tires on the road, and not to be used for light touring. This is very evident as clearances in the frame are rather tight near the bottom bracket and the rear brake bridge. However, touring became the end goal for the bike (clearances be damned), so a new fork with ample clearance was brazed, the frame and fork were sent off to paint. With those simple revisions, this bike was ready to be built; it was just going to need a little bit of work to get there.
The hardest aspect to build around wasn’t the front end of the bike, surprisingly. Focusing on small details helped the overall build maintain a clean look, instead of turning it into a frankenbike of plastic and metal. I ended up using wine corks to pad the fender where it met the rack, and I re-purposed a Shimano CX70 cantilever brake spacer to help create a mount for the Supernova E3 Pro headlight. I wanted to keep the aesthetic of the bike at the forefront, so I avoided using zip-ties and instead used copper battery terminal clips to help secure and route the electrical wires from the Schmidt SON dynamo hub.
The rear rack system of any custom bike should simply “go together”. It didn’t. It wouldn’t. I own a Dremel, though, so eventually, it did. Because this frame was originally for road riding, it can’t boast about how much room for tires there are. This made mounting the fender around the rear brake bridge on the frame incredibly difficult . I had to take the hammered fender and carefully cut it, taking care to create a smooth transition from one piece to another.
After making necessary adjustments to the fender itself, I had to have access to install the rear brake, which required another customization in the form of a brake mounting bracket. For easy adjustments for the rider, I made a bracket that had an additional hole drilled to fit a 5mm hex to tighten the rear brake.
After making the brake-fender combination work, there was another snag. The rack had only the foot mounts that would attach directly to the frame, the upper stays on the frame versus the rack were incompatible. To work around this, I simply drilled a hole through the rear fender and just like the front, secured the rack and fender together with the use of another wine cork. To finish off the electrical for the rear Supernova TL-2 taillight, I simply used more copper terminal connectors to secure the wire.
The last custom touches I added were the matching leather tape and saddle. A piece of leftover tape was used on the top tube as a nod to the owner’s past history with track racing.
The wheels were another piece to this puzzle. They were a straight-forward randonneuring wheel built with a traditional look on a modern-size rim.
Congrats to Donkelope Bikes for creating and recreating a frame. To the owner, good luck on your adventures. To me… [pats self on back].
It doesn’t matter the conditions, this bike just wants to help get you there.


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This antique colored plate features a beautiful image of Wake Robin Lilies. The print comes from the book Field Book of American Wild Flowers by F. Schuyler Mathews, who was a Member of the New England Botanical Club. The book was originally copyrighted by Mr. Mathews in 1902. This revised edition was copyrighted in 1927. It is the Twenty-ninth printing by G. P. Putnam’s Sons of New York and London, printed in 1929 by The Knickerbocker Press. The color plates are by the author.
This vividly colored illustration features a pair of beautiful Wake Robin Lilies in full bloom that hide a secret. This lily is ill-scented (smelly) and as a consequence attracts the green fly, or flesh-fly, who finds the raw-meat color of the flower as acceptable as the odor. The print is professionally matted in an 8” x 10” burgandy colored matte to highlight the uniqueness of the flowers. Our vintage prints are shipped in a plastic sleeve between cardboard stiffeners to arrive in perfect condition.


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Can ‘Offensive,’ ‘Derogatory’ Marks be Registered?
Is Music Sampling Copyright Infringement?
U.S. SUPREME COURT rejects “machine-or-transformation” as sole test for patent eligibility of “process” or business method invention; will the Philippines follow suit?

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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I love playing learning games with children. This game is another great way to teach your child colors.
He changes colors just like that.
You can teach the children to either blow on the card, snap their fingers or clap to have the cat change colors as you switch to another card. Repeat the rhyme for each color. There is also a story you can tell to go along with the Skat the Cat rhyme.
What is your favorite way to teach colors?


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industry_corpus2: Sports


text: A new idea according to an old recipe (the best of everything). IMA is the brand for an incomparable restaurant experience. Well-being. Pleasure down to the smallest details. But, the IMA label is more than just a hospitality outlet. IMA is a collective made up of young and creative people who want to make something new and vibrant, something based on the experience gained in the past. The focus was thus not to produce a new scene label and instead to communicate a way of life. To this end, the IMAs are not restricted to specific fields, segments or products.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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For over thirty years, McGilloway, Ray, Brown & Kaufman has been providing high-quality, personalized financial guidance to local individuals, businesses, non-profits and local governments. Our expertise ranges from tax/advisory services and accounting services to comprehensive assurance services such as financial statement audits, single audits, grant compliance audits, agreed upon procedures reports and peer review.
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Dan is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Valuation Analyst with extensive experience in accounting, taxation and business consulting services including litigation and forensic services. Dan has consulted with numerous clients in tax planning, business strategic planning and in the purchase/sale of businesses. Dan has been appointed by the Superior Court to assist as a referee in several litigated matters before the Court and has done mediation work in disputed contractual matters.
Gerry Ray brings over 40 years of professional experience in audit, accounting, and taxation. He has worked with companies large and small, from Los Angeles to Monterey County. Gerry’s area of preference is taxation of all sorts. He enjoys working in partnership with clients, helping them find a clear approach to work through any situation.
Patricia Kaufman’s 30 years in accounting spans the agricultural, governmental, nonprofit, construction, and service industries. She furnishes financial and compliance audit services and tax services to our clients, as well as engaging in peer reviews of other accounting firms and providing leadership to the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. Patricia Kaufman is a member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants Peer Review Committee.
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McGilloway, Ray, Brown & Kaufman is comprised of more than 20 qualified staff members. We take great pride in our well-trained staff, which participates in a variety of training seminars and team member meetings to enhance the quality of our services and provide our clientele with the highest level of service possible. We have three offices, located in Monterey, Salinas, and Pleasant Hill. Our clients appreciate the convenience of having a location near their home or office.


text: 1948 1st edition hardcover from Harper & Brothers. Book condition: fine, some yellowing from age. Dust jacket condition: fine. Slight discoloration from age, 1 1/2 inch tear near spine on front dust jacket.

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How Much Does Prayer Weigh?
One day in the late 1900’s, a poorly dressed woman with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store. She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries. She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they needed food. The grocer scoffed at her and requested that she leave his store. Visualizing her families’ needs, she said, “Please sir! I will bring you the money just as soon as I can.” The grocer told her he could not give her credit, as she did not have a charge account at his store.
grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries.” The woman hesitated and with a bowed head reached into her purse, took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then placed it on the scale. The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down. The grocer staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, “I can’t believe it.” The customer smiled and the grocer started putting groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he started putting groceries on them until the scales would not hold anymore. The grocery man stood there in utter disgust. Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement. This was not a grocery list, it was a prayer, which said, “Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands.” The store owner gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood in stunned silence. The woman thanked him and left the store. The customer handed him a 50 dollar bill and said, “It was worth every penny of it.” It was sometime later that the grocer discovered the scales were broken; therefore, only God knows how much prayer weighs.
Prayer changes our lives, our circumstances, and the lives of those around us. Take time to pray today. A few minutes in prayer can change your whole day. God knows your every need. Leave all your worries and needs in His hands.
THE ABOVE MATERIAL WAS PUBLISHED BY THE CHALLENGER 2001, PAGES 9, 11. THIS MATERIAL IS COPYRIGHTED AND MAY BE USED FOR STUDY & RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY.


text: The study aimed at identifying the organization problems of practicum according to three departments: cooperative school, practicum organization department, and academic supervisor. To achieve study objectives, a questionnaire was applied on a sample of (109) students, from specializations (Mathematics, Arabic language, Biology, Chemistry).The results revealed that the students faced highly and moderately problems related to the performance of the three departments. Furthermore statistical significant differences were found based on kind of the cooperative school indicated to the practicum organization department, and significant differences based on the specialization indicated to the cooperative school and practicum organization department. Using Sheffe-Test this result is attributed to students of Biology. The study gave recommendations.


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industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


text: I, too, was fooled. When a blog post led me to iartistlondon.com—which purports to be an e-commerce company offering “the world’s first affordable DIY high art sets”—I believed that the site was actually dealing in such amusingly audacious offerings as IHirst, which contains everything you need to make “your very own replica” of Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God (a plastic human-size skull, 8,601 crystal beads, glue, a paintbrush, silver paint, and instructions), and The Banksy Machine, which allows the buyer to “create your own Banksy graffiti for just £9.99.” Alas, it turns out the whole thing is a conceptual work by 26-year-old Spanish artist Naroa Lizar Redrado—but at least I wasn’t the only one who was duped. In the year since her site went live, Redrado has been contacted by hundreds of prospective customers, including buyers from Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, and museum gift shops. Redrado conceived the website as her final project while studying at the University for the Creative Arts in Kent, England, intending it as an exploration of what does and doesn’t qualify as “real art,” she says. But “when it got a bit out of hand, I got this idea that I could actually make it a real business and produce the items in China.” Sadly, a letter from Hirst’s lawyers put an end to her plans. In the end, however, Redrado walked away with something potentially more valuable than a fledgling novelties company: a promising art career. This fall her work was included in the First Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and in June she landed a Fulbright, which will fund her M.F.A. in the States. Mr. Hirst, watch your back.