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LACE CURTAIN SALE. For the balance of this week our "Curtain Department" will receive special attention. We place on sale today 150 pair* Lace Curtains at G6c 78c and 98c per pair, 100 pairs Lace Curtains from $1.28 to $2 00 per pair, worth double, Also a very fine line of Curtains from $3 iO to $20 per pair. Special prices on Poles and Fixtures. SGMMITT & MEFFLEY _ _ _ * r-s. . f~+ 1 1 T\ 1 _ 4th and Market Sts. Golden Rule. FITS: PITS. firs. ,1 AM HEADQUARTERS FOR All Kinds of Paints If you are going to use any Paints COMB AND SEE ME. I keep the largest and best stock of Paints and Painter's Supplies in Indiana. I mike a specialty of this line of goods and ain in a shape to sell you anything in the line for less money than it is possible J for competitors to do. No Matter How Large or Small a Quantity Paints You Want Come and See Me WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. B. F. KEESLING, SOS Fourth St. LOG ANSPORT, IND, DAILY JOURNAL BEFORE. AFTER. I have taken the agency for the HERO SHEEP PROTECTOR, and have . fall B *ock of the goodsin sight. These protectors are guaranteed to give «rotectton to the sheep as against dogs. We have received our Seeds for the season of 1894, ana have thenr i ready 'to sup- />lv our customers on demand. We handle Nothing but LANDRETH'S SEEDS and as all Sf our old stock has been burnt, our custom- ^rs may rest assured that they will get fresh, clean goods. We have a full variety of Gar<den and Field Seeds also Flower Seeds. We have also a full line of Harness and Carriage Goods, and a full line of Turf and Sporting Goods! In fact we have everything that goes with a horse and carnage Don t lorget the old place, 424 BROADWAY. Geo. Harrison. SUCCESsTAjTlAST ! The World] Moves; Science Is Triumphant ! But Its greatest triumph la In the cure of disease, and its greatest sue. cess Is APOSLOLI'S treatment for Diseases of Women But to be successful It must be applied by the skillful hand of the SPEC *L- 1ST. The Physicians of The Logansport Medical And Surgical Institute -!3aTe been using this treatment with the GREATEST SUCCESS and by Us use f h*7«, In this vlclulty, restored hundreds of suffering women to health and »' tel> physicians had failed. It 1» not painful and no exposure Is They »l»o treat all Chronlo and Private Diseases. CONSULTATION FREE. CALL AND SEE THEM at 417 Market WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 4. Spring wraps at tho Bee Hive. Our lins of lace curtains Is fine.— Golden Rule. Half price for men's fine plush allp- pers.—Aandoraon & Rans. The very latest ideas In spring wraps today at the Bee Hlvo. Diamond tipped Oxfords for ladiea, not bablee, for 87 cents, at Kraus'. Patent leather Bluchers and Con- gross, worth $5, at 12.50.—Anderson & Ran s. Did any one ever hear of ladies Oxfords al 37 cents? That's Kraua' price. Cheap, a splendid square grand piano for only $150, at J. C. Bridges, 410 Broadway. Six hundred pairs of ladles fine Dongola shoes worth $2.50, at $1.35. —Anderson & Hans. A long distance telephone is being put In at the local exchange of the Jantral Union Telephone office. We can compete with anybody and will sell goods at auch prices never before quoted in the city.— Auderson Rans. Otto Krnus' shoo competitors frank, y acknowledge that -they cannot compote with him on prices—37 cents for women's shoes. Such lovely capos and prices so ry reasonably, is the reply heard rom the ladles who visit ths cloak department at the Trade Palace. The funeral of Mrs. Anna Maae.wife of Jacob Maaa, will be hald from St. Joseph's church Friday morning at 9 o'clock, Kev.FathorKoehne officiating. Interment will be made In Mt. Hope cemetery. J. C Bridge, tho piano dealer, at 410 Broadway, now has associated with him. Mr. W. F. Patterson, a first- class piano tuner. Orders left at his place for tuning, or repairing, will receive prompt and careful attention. Fidelty Chapter, No. 58, Order of the Eastern Star entertained tho lodges of the same order from Wabash and Peru last evening in a very pleasant manner. Thoro were thirty or more visitors and all had a pleasant time, returning at 3 o'clock. The local lodge had something to do in the way of Initiations and at midnight an agreeable b&nquetwas served. AUGUSTA GETS TEN YEARS. The Jwrr in tn« Came Oelebre, State TI. AnnniM scbmldt, murder, B«- tnrni » Verdict of Ten Year* Imprisonment In the Femftle Prl*oa. It was telegraphed here yeaterday morning after long suspense tho verdict in the Augusta Schmidt murder case, from Eokomo. The jury returned a verdict convict- Ing tho defendent and fixing her punishment at ten years In the female prison at Indianapolis. It was understood that the jury stood until late Monday night sine for con* viction and three for acquittal, and that a compromise was alTocled early in the morning whereby tho above verdict was agreed upoii. Judges Dykeman and Winfield departed yesterday for Kokomo to enter a plea for a now trial. Among the comments on tho case the following from a Kokomo correspondent will pretty well cover the ground. The quaint little Gorman woman hoard the verdict stolidly. She hardly understood Its meaning. On her way to jail she broke down, denouncing the laws of America and bewailing the fato of her children. A motion for a new trial was mado this afternoon. It will be denied, as the record is regarded as being exceptionally free of error. An appeal will follow. The woman is wealthy, and will fight to the bitter end. Mrs. Schmidt is the daughter of the late Baroness Schlndling, of the prov* Inco of Zwlckua, Saxony. She quai- reled with Oscar Walton, one of her tenants, last October and shot him dead as he stood in hie doorway. She was Dlndicted for murder in tho first degree and denied bail by the Supreme Court, to which she appealed. She is forty-two years of age, has a husband and three children and recently came into possession of a fortune of ?LOO,000. Tho woman threatens to kill herself. One of tho jurymea in this case when the jury retired called attention to the fact that this was a very solemn caso and proposed that the deliberations bo opened with prayer. An ir- rovorant member objected, sayine that as the deliberations would bo very debilitating ho thought the proper thing for everybody would be to take a drink. WHAT T1IE TROUBLE WAS. Men's Spring Clothing, No matter what the style of suit you may desire to buy or the price you want to pay, we can suit and please you. THE PROGRESS. Corner 4th and Market. The Weather Today—Clem and pleasant. APRIL FOOLED ALL THE YEAR AROUND BUT COME TO US FOR MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS. Shirts Mafle to Order er Ofiborn Colls Actentloii to the \Veakne«« of Hlocliod III tlic 1>UTI» Bridire natter. The Journal yesterday received the following- letter from Engineer Frank C. Oaborn who mado tho investigation of the Davis Bridge. The letter is voluntary on tho part of Mr. Osborn and the Journal appreciates his kindly interest in tho public welfare. The suggestion made by Mr. Osborn Is a good one. As a rule a departure from such a business-like method means that there it* boodle at work somewhere. CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 2, '94. Editor Logunsport Journal, Logansport Ind. DEAR SIK: Kuferring to the bad state of alltt|rs on the Davia bridge, I write to call your attention to toe way in which this work really ought to be done to secure the best service at a, minimum cost. Work of this natare should be done in the same manner that building work or other work of Importance is conducted. Ween euch work Is contemplated, an j engineer should be appointed by the county to draw up the general plan . and write the specifications. When it | has been fully determined, in this manner, just what kind of a structure i is wanted then propositions should be asked for from manufacturers for fur-, nlshing the work in accordance with Men and Women Of Stageland THE MARIE BURROUGHS ART PORTFOLIO OF DRAMATIC CELEBRITIES Marie &urrougft&. IB a magnificent collection of 240 Photographs of the most popular Actors, Actresses, Singers and Musicians of modern times. The photographs are executed la the highest style of the art and each one Is accompanied by an interesting sketch of the professional career of the artist. It represents the results of Immense labor spent In collection of photographs and data necessary to completely present the moat noted personages of the stage, besldee a large outlay of money. In the majority of cases the . great artiste shown in this collection have given SPECIAL SITTINGS FOR THIS WORK Which, therefore, includes many photographs which are not to be obtained elsewhere. Others have personally supplied favorite photographs which are not on public sale and, in fact, the collection is incomparable ae to quality and Every Photograph Is a Gem. In the series are included all the great lights of tragedy, comedy, grand opera, melodrama, cornio opera, burlesque and tarce; ell the favorites in all branches of dramatic and lyric art; in fact all the [feat Ictois, Actresses and Slip for " the manufacture of the bridge but not for design. When bridge companies furnish their own plans for work they will naturally furnish jugt as cheap a plan as is possible, and the temptation is to skin the life out of everything for tho sake of getting the contract. Money saved in this manner is not always saved for reasons which are clearly shown In tho Davis bridge. Very few people would think of asking forbids from contractors for a house costing say from ten to fifteen thousand dollars. They would first have their plans prepared and find out what kind of a house they wanted before asking for propositions. I think you will do the county good service by advocating this method of procedure on future work of this nature. Yours very truly, FKANX C. OSBORN. To Eflfoct m. Union. Peru Journal:—Secretary C.N.Graf- Qs, of the Logansport Driving Association, has written the Peru Racing Association, stating that ho will be in this city this week to try and make arrangements for tho Logansport and Peru Associations to join together and give the fall raced on the Peru track. Low prices and correct styles Is the cause of. our selling: so many spring j wrapa.—Trade Palace. Of tho world who have boon seen during recent years on the American In this Portfolio the selection haa been mado on a broad and compret basis to secure a complete representation of the modern stage and the eelec. tlon has been completed under the supervision of M as Marie Burroughs, herself one of the most prominent and popular actreeacs of the day. The Fort- folio will be ISSUED IN TWELVE PARTS, each part CONTAINING TWENTY PHOTOGRAPHS, with the sketches belonging- to them. IT IS A COMPLETE MIRROR OF THE MODERN STAGE And the series constitutes practically a Biographical Dictionary of Stage Co- lebrities. Many of tho photographs of this collection it would be Impossible to obtain elsewhere at any price; and even where obtainable any one of them would coat as many dollars as the number of cents for whlcd they are offered to the roaders^Uhe Journal. We offer them at TEN CENTS for each part, containing twenty photographs, when accompanied by coupons; In other words we offer these elegant photographs at HALF A CENT APIECE. HOW TO GET THEM: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT with the publishers this elegant work can bo obtained in Logansport only through THE LOGANSPORT DAILY JOURNAL to b. forwarded, and should state the the part desired. to . orware, an su Save Your Coupons «£S8
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Freedom Blossoms: I Let Go./
And now, freedom spills into my lungs from above and coats me in a glorious, invisible ink.
As I let go--the past unfurls, the shame, the traumas, the abuse, the shattering
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After loving it, looking at it, learning from the wild ways of terror--
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My Morning Routine
Part instruction manual, part someone else's diary, My Morning Routine reveals how sixty-four of today's most successful people begin their day — including Calm's Co-CEO, Michael Acton Smith.
We sat down with Benjamin Spall, co-author of My Morning Routine, to learn about the value of creating morning habits. We also give you a sneak peak into Michael's morning routine after the interview. Enjoy!
Tell us a little bit about the new book and where the idea came from?
We've come to learn that the first few choices you make every morning can unlock greater productivity, creativity, and calm—or bring out your worst self. We were wanted to know what the world's most talented creatives and businesspeople did upon waking.
So, we've been interviewing people about their morning routines for the past five years, and the book was a natural (and exciting!) extension of these interviews. Working with Penguin gave us the credibility to reach out to and interview people we would have struggled to get in touch with on our own, including General Stanley McChrystal, Marie Kondo, and Jillian Michaels.
Some routines are all about early morning exercise and spartan living; others are more leisurely and self-indulgent. What they have in common is they don't feel like a chore. Once you land on the right routine, you'll look forward to waking up. Our hope is to inspire people to create a morning routine that works for them!
What are some of the consistent themes you came across that many successful people do every morning?
One of the most consistent themes that came up time and again is that well over ninety percent of the people we interviewed for the book don't hit the snooze button in the morning. Many of them set an alarm, even if just as a backup to hedge against oversleeping, but the idea of hitting the snooze button first thing is completely alien to them.
We also found that a large number of the people we spoke with tidy up their home before going to bed at night as a way to allow them to wake up to a fresh slate. Photographer Andre D. Wagner told us that "Waking up to a clean apartment is the absolute best. It keeps my mind clear." We personally relate to this also; after all, who wants to wake up and have to immediately start washing dishes?
What did you learn about meditation and morning routines? Was that a habit that appeared often?
So much! We have a whole chapter in the book that looks at morning meditation routines (including meditation routines from a part-time Zen Buddhist priest, the president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and of course Calm's Co-CEO, Michael Acton Smith).
The main thing we learned about meditation routines from interviewing people for this book is that it's important to partner your meditation practice (whether you use Calm, or simply sit cross-legged in silence with your eyes closed) with allowing for meditative and mindful moments throughout your day. It's no use spending ten or fifteen minutes listening to Calm every morning if you're then going to rush through your day creating stress at every turn. When you build in moments of mindfulness throughout your day you enhance the effect of your morning meditation practice, and you'll be happier and more calm throughout the day as a result.
Michael Acton Smith's Morning Routine
What is your morning routine?
I wake up at 7:30 a.m. and tend to potter about in a daze trying to remember who I am and what day of the week it is. If it's a non-foggy San Francisco morning, I make a cup of tea and sit in my living room to watch the sun come up over the bay. I usually drink a glass of water and then, if I'm feeling energetic, I go to the gym.
After the gym, I shower, get dressed while listening to a news briefing, and then walk to work via a coffee shop. I spend about an hour in the coffee shop making calls to the UK, writing to-do lists, reading the news, and answering messages. I'm a big fan of working from coffee shops in the morning as I believe it's valuable to have a space between home and the office. It gives me a chance to plan and think about the day ahead before being thrown into the noise and interruptions of office life. I love getting into a flow state when working, and coffee shops are the perfect environment for me to achieve this.
How long have you stuck with this routine? What has changed?
About a year and a half—ever since I moved to San Francisco. It's a lot simpler and more organized than it used to be in London. Back then I had a tricky commute from Soho to Shoreditch, which made it difficult to plan much of my morning other than trying to stay sane on the Central line.
Do you do anything before bed to make your morning easier?
I put my phone into airplane mode, then plug it in to charge, face down, on the floor by the bed. I'll read before bed most nights as I find it a great way to relax and unwind. Ninety-five percent of the time I read nonfiction.
Do you have a morning meditation routine?
Unsurprisingly, I use Calm! We start every day at Calm HQ with a group meditation. We do the Daily Calm together (a ten-minute meditation on a different subject every day). It sounds unusual and very "California" but it really is a great way to start the day with the people you work with.
In the evenings, if I'm stressed at the end of the day and my mind is racing, I'll take a bath with Olverum oil. On weekends I'll usually start the day with a meditation at home in my living room, or occasionally I'll go to Golden Gate Park and meditate in the sunshine. Learning to meditate has definitely improved my sleep by making it easier to switch off when thoughts start swirling around and taking over. At Calm we recently launched Sleep Stories, which are bedtime tales for grown-ups. They are a simple but very effective way to help people relax and drift off.
Do you answer email first thing in the morning?
Unless there's an emergency or we're in the midst of a big launch, I try not to open my phone until I've left the house and am sitting in a coffee shop.
Most people open up social media and email before they've even got out of bed, but I find that's a rough way to start the day. I think it's important to let the mind keep wandering and daydreaming first thing in the morning before it gets sucked into the dopamine-frazzled craziness of the online world. I usually have my most creative ideas while I'm in the shower or getting ready for work, but if I have just read something sad or negative online my mind will be racing away in a very different and less productive direction!
What happens if you fail?
I don't worry about it. Mornings are important because they set us up for the day, but if we're too strict and regimented we take the fun out of them, and life can become pretty dull. As with most things in life, it's a balance that we should be constantly playing with and tweaking.


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Friday, July 10, 2009
My Mothers Work, Michael Jackson
Yes I take after my mother in the way of fine illustration, I thought this would be a good time to display my mom's work reflecting another time and place. This illustration of Michael Jackson was done in 1984 in pencil by Pamala Maitreya.
My mother is open to selling prints
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1 comment:
- Filmester said...
wow! incredibly beautiful!
- July 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM
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India seeks peace, stability in Pakistan
India hopes 'the process of democratisation in Pakistan can begin', says MEA. Nilova Roy Chaudhury reports.india Updated: Nov 07, 2007 02:47 IST
The Indian government, relieved that for the first time it is not being perceived or blamed as a part of the problem during an internal crisis in Pakistan, is hoping for the process of 'democratisation' to begin as it closely monitors the evolving situation there.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India sought "peace, prosperity and stability" in Pakistan. Speaking on the margins of an India-Africa Hydrocarbon Conference, Mukherjee, when asked to comment on the declaration of emergency in Pakistan said, "We are watching the situation. We do hope the process of democratisation in Pakistan can begin and people of Pakistan will get an opportunity to have their government as per their Constitution."
<b1>India, which has been very muted in its reactions to the internal crisis in Pakistan, has regretted the imposition of emergency and hoped for "conditions of normalcy" to "soon return permitting Pakistan's transition to stability and democracy to continue."
"The government has been very correct in its response," said G Parthasarathy, former Indian envoy to Pakistan. According to Uday Bhaskar, former Director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, "The muted Indian response is in keeping with a general caution within the foreign policy establishment to comment on internal affairs of its neighbours. The government has made very restrained statements within the diplomatic protocol, with Myanmar and Pakistan being the most recent examples."
"It could also stem from a realization that India does not have the ability to influence issues there, like the United States," he said.
According to a senior official, India has to be very low key in its responses because of the very high stakes it has in wanting peace and stability in its neighbouring countries. Also, for the first time, it is not being seen as part of the problem in any of the domestic crises in neighbouring countries, whether Pakistan or Nepal or Bangladesh or Sri Lanka.
"To that extent, it could probably be seen as a positive evolution of Indian foreign policy," the official said. Since India and Pakistan launched the bilateral composite dialogue process in 2004 to resolve disputes including Jammu and Kashmir and raised people to people contacts substantially, there has been a perceptible improvement in levels of trust between the people of both countries.
"There is much less of India as the enemy or the 'bogeyman'," Bhaskar said. "For the last few years, the internal discussion in Pakistan has been more focused on its western borders than on the eastern one and blaming India." "India has two major concerns at this point," Bhaskar said. "The nuclear weapons (in the control of the State – Pakistan's National Command Authority and particularly the Strategic Plans Division drawn mostly from the army) and the terrorism arm, which comprises non-state actors, not all of whom act in tandem with the Pakistani state," Bhaskar said.
"It is very significant that more people within Pakistan are saying that the Pakistani military and ISI are involved in terrorism in J&K, including even (former ISI chief) Hamid Gul," Bhaskar said.
India monitors Pakistan situation | Pak emergency evokes mixed reactions | Pak election may be delayed | Chief Justice Choudhary sacked | Bhutto to defy emergency
First Published: Nov 06, 2007 20:01 IST


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You are here: Home News/Info ABC's Alaska Blog Heli Skiing and Motorhomes at Alaska Snowboard Guides part 1
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Winter Motorhome life at Alaska SnowboardGuides/ASG HeliSkiiing is a wonderful experience. Before the Lodges on the pass were renovated enthusiastic skiers and snowboarders came to Valdez with motorhomes they rented in Anchorage on their annual pilgrimage to the epicenter of big mountain skiing and snowboarding. With the recent lodge renovations on Thompson Pass, came price tags most cannot afford, prices that compare with Canadian heliski weeks are out of the budgets of many skiers and snowboarders. ASG offers a much less expensive lodge package but perhaps more notably the "ClassicPackage". The Classic is designed for RV's, ASG is the only operator in Valdez that offers a package specifically for motorhomes and it is less than half the cost of the high end lodge packages offered by its competitors. This package harkens back to the original days of the Valdez Heli scene when skiers and snowboarder live in RVS for weeks on end on Thompson pass. Staying at ASG's base and hanging out in warm yurts sleeping in your motorhome Heliskiiing and Heliboarding is a truly unique Alaskan Adventure. Get out there this season! http://www.alaskasnowboardguides.com


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Our interview with Jackson Felts at the George & Dragon Pub in Fremont! We cover the win against San Jose, and deep dive to deconstruct the current state of both Sounders FC and S2.
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by PHILIP WHITE - This was published in The Independent Weekly in November 2007
Where once ran water, only woe, horror and rage now flood down the Murray. Suddenly, furious blockers picket our parliament like only the violent French would. Desperate to recall what it was like to manage a winery in hard times, the transnational grape refineries struggle to juggle their diminishing returns. Big family wineries are forced to pay their suppliers on delivery. Overhead, sprinklers squirt mindlessly.
"The wine industry will never be the same", Peter Dawson, Hardy's senior vice-president of operations, murmured at a party at Paxton's in March.
It's a lot worse now. Last week Dawson announced his company's retreat from its refinery on the River in Victoria, to regroup this side of the border at its Berri Estates, where fifty new jobs might be created.
Never pleased with my thirty years of preaching that Murray Valley viticulture could not be sustained as it was, and that smart wineries should be concentrating their efforts on making better wines for more profit with less environmental and social destruction, Dawson finally announced that his company needed to shift its focus to more profitable wines. But he said "higher-priced", not "higher quality".
"The wine industry is not globally competitive at lower price points", he said. "We should be striving to get all of our Australian wine into higher-priced bottled products."
Hardy's have always been prickly at my Banrock Station scepticism. While they market their award-winning property as an environmental triumph, one might ask whether it's a broadacre big-cropping industrial grapeyard where slightly salty River water is pumped onto an ancient dried-out seabed full of much stronger salt. The little bags of sugar that grow are processed and refined to become what I imagine the senior vice-president of operations would call lower-priced softpack products, until they put it all in bottles.
Use some profit to take the sheep off an old station, and reeds and redgums return to the riverbank. An environmental triumph. Let a swamp develop, call it a wetlands. Another triumph. Then empty the wetlands to put more water in the River, when it gets really crook. Another triumph. 100,000 admiring visitors a year walk the trails, admiring the rejuvenated scrub and riverfront, but the reality of the vineyard is never made quite so clear.
Last week also saw the release of another of the endless scientific reports on the River. This finally put a dollar value on the natural filtration effected by one hectare of working wetland – a higher value than one hectare of productive irrigated land. That is a triumph.
The River has always washed itself. But because there's been so much poison to be filtered and broken down by the reeds and the weeds and sedge, wetlands which are now being deliberately dried out may never recover. While the dirty water kept them alive, the concentrates now drying in their crusty beds may be too harsh for regrowth.
The whisky bottle was beginning its conciliatory wink when, miraculously, a bottle of O'Donohoe's Find Tom's Drop Mourvèdre Shiraz arrived. On its label is an 1896 photograph of the O'Donohoe Brothers' Hillen Grove Condenser. Michael O'Donohoe's grandfather, Tom, and his six brothers lobbed on the Kalgoorlie goldfields from County Cork. Traditionally, Irishmen knew how to turn cloudy weak ale into clear powerful poteen in a copper pot still. But O'Donohoes built a desalination business by distilling salty bore water. During the day, anyway. Scouring their photograph, I suspect tradition may have returned at night. Nice marketing.
The vineyard responsible for Tom's Drop is an environmental triumph. Not only do they need less water, but Michael and Jan are probably cleaning river water by running it through their organic vine garden. "The vineyard is part of a polyculture of trees, vines, plants and creatures" their back label explains. "We endeavour to mimic nature, maintain diversity, and focus on the relationship between soils, plants, and animals." The living soil below their organic mulch has not been disturbed by machinery for 26 years. They won their Level A Organic certificate in 1990. The crop is always below two tonnes per acre.
And where is this? At Berri. So there's three examples of nice marketing. Which has the truest ring?
One acre of dirt can never produce more than one acre of flavour. You can squirt on plenty of water and spread your acre of flavour over twenty tonnes of sultana, or chardonnay, seasoned with pesticide, fungicide, and herbicide. Or kill the hose and the poisons, get that mulch going, and squeeze your acre of flavour into a tonne or two of living essence like Tom's Drop. And guess what happens? You get better wine. For which people are prepared to pay more, because they're not stupid.


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Supercars Accelerating – Lovely Sounds – Drift Fail – 1080p HD
Another Part of the Supercars Accelerating! We recorded 95 car during an event called Maarten Memorial. In this video you can see a lot of different cars! From a Lamborghini LP670-4 to a Wiesmann MF3/4. The Wiessman in this video… Continue Reading


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Project Lead(s): Natalie Angell-Besseling
In Uganda, less than 50 percent of new mothers access postpartum care, with many expressing negative perceptions around seeking care outside the home due limited access to care and lack of knowledge.
The Propelling Motherhood project will train and hire local Village Health Team Members to conduct home postpartum visits with an estimated 480 women identified through a partnership with the Shanti Uganda Birth House and Luwero District Hospital.
Village Health Team Members will collect and report data using a mobile technology developed for the program to improve clinical decision support, measurement and accountability.
By training Village Health Team Members, the project aims to provide personalized home care services that work within cultural structures to overcome the barrier of negative perceptions of care outside family circles and increase access to care.


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"For years I searched for a product that makes foiling lures fast and easy. I really wanted a cheap, effective solution that anyone could use. I finally found one…..
Holoscale is so good – I just had to share it with other lure makers!"
Holoscale is an awesome, super stretchy, self adhesive holographic foil. Use it to quickly and easily create dazzling rainbow sparkle and flash on custom lures or to spice up off-the-shelf lures. Trust me, the intensity of the flash and color can't be done justice with photographs!
Advantages Of Holoscale
- Fast, easy application. Stretches without tearing and conforms to lure shape – even very small lures
- Self adhesive. No messing about with spray adhesive
- Tough and durable. Beats the thin foil tapes!
- Clear coat over. Doesn't turn gray or lose brilliance when protected by clear coat.
Forget the fiddly and and frustrating foil tapes! Holoscale is by far the easiest way to get holographic finishes on handmade lures. It's durable, self adhesive and can be applied to wooden or plastic lure bodies, spoons, blades and other lure styles. Holoscale is thin and stretchy enough to get around the curves and complex details of even the smallest lures without tearing. The textured underside channels out trapped air, giving strong adhesion and a smooth, professional result.
Holoscale won't turn dull gray when you clear coat, but retains brilliant flash and rainbow color. Perfect for painting over with transparent colors!
Why Is Flash Important To Lure Makers?
Fish (and humans) can see flash from a long, long way off – Much further than they can see color. Think about a time when you were on the water and spotted a glint of sunlight flashing from the windscreen of a distant boat. You wouldn't even know that boat was there except for that unmistakable flash of light.
Beneath the water surface baitfish scales are the main source of flash. So flash will usually attract attention. Game fish are hard wired to investigate and when they do they're expecting a feed.
Why Has Chroming Lures Always Been Such A Hassle?
Until now there has been no easy solution. "Chrome" aerosol paints look great right up until you clear coat your lure, then they turn an ugly matte gray (yuck). Two part polyurethane paints overcome this, but they're usually quite toxic and aren't recommended for recreational lure makers. The "Chroming" kits on the market usually require a complex, multi-step process and are quite expensive unless you're turning out a lot of lures.
So recreational lure makers have reverted to foiling their lure bodies, which can give a decent result, but is fiddly and laborious. Still, many of us (myself included) persist because the results are worth it.
That's why I'm so excited about Holoscale. It's non toxic, cheap, easy to use and looks fantastic.
How To Apply Holoscale
1. Clean the lure with isopropyl or denatured alcohol.
2. Cut a piece of foil and remove the backing paper.
3. Lay the Holoscale on top of the lure, or place it on a flat surface with the adhesive-side up and place your lure on top.
4. Using the ball of your thumb, work the foil from the center of the lure, smoothing out wrinkles as you go.
5. Use a hair dryer or other gentle heat source to warm the Holoscale in areas where there are tight curves or detail to cover.
6. Trim away the excess and run a smooth, hard object (eg the back of a knife or the smooth part of a drill bit) over the surface to smooth everything down and remove any bubbles
7. Your lure can be painted at this point. However, I find that a coat of epoxy before painting helps to mask the edges of the foil.
8. Paint, then coat with your favorite clear coat.
9. Go fishing!
Q: Do I have to clear coat over Holoscale?
A: The adhesive is waterproof and strong and the Holoscale itself is also pretty durable, so you can get away without clear coating if you choose, especially if it's not wrapped around a tight curve. You'll find that Holoscale can be removed when it gets damaged or dull and you can replace it with a fresh piece. That said, I personally always clear coat over my Holoscale finishes.
Q: Does Holoscale work over the scales of molded plastic lures?
A: Holoscale stretches beautifully over large detail such as fins, gills and eye sockets. It also works well over hand carved scales on wooden lures. The scales on molded plastic lures are not as strongly defined, so they get obscured a little but they're still visible and extremely attractive under Holoscale.
Q: What about the blades on wire baits etc? Can Holoscale work on them?
A: Yes. But again, clear coat is recommended.
Q: Can Holoscale be textured in the same way as other foils?
A: No. If a textured foil finish is what you're after then Holoscale is not the right product. However, if you are happy to texture your wooden lure body then the film will show up the detail just fine, just like textured foils. Or, you can airbrush scales after applying the foil.
Q: What are the shipping times?
A: Within Australia and the US product normally ships within 24 hrs and delivery is 3-4 days.
For customers outside of the USA and Australia, product usually ships within 24-48 hrs. Delivery times vary depending on your country and there are budget and tracked delivery options shipping available. Please note that budget shipping is at your own risk. I provide evidence that the parcel has been posted, but I am unable to assist or replace orders that go missing in the mail unless you have selected the tracked option.


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cycle on gloucester rd !!!! .... only in dire need ... blocked
lanes, angry bus drivers, even angrier taxi drivers, news
paper reading car drivers, texting pedestrians, rlj bike riders
(and not just the pedal variety either !) - you can keep it. I'd
rather walk.
Cycle campaigners in Bristol are hailing a doubling in use of bikes on a busy road in the city during the past decade as evidence of pent-up demand from people to take to two wheels - and on a road they say lacks adequate infrastructure for cyclists. But close analysis of the data reveals that at best, growth in cycling there has been marginal.
A post on the Bristol Cycling Campaign website highlights a 104 per cent increase in the number of cyclists counted on the city's Gloucester Road between 2000 and 2013.
And yes, if you use just those two years, that's the result you get. We have to admit, it sounds impressive, and makes for bike-friendly headlines.
The campaign group says:
Who knew that Gloucester Road was a brilliantly successful cycle route?
Numbers at peak times have doubled over the last decade while motor vehicle numbers have dropped by a fifth.
We know this because traffic flow data from an annual census published online by the Office for National Statistics allow detailed analyses and comparisons for cycling levels on major routes at a local level.
About 100 census points around the city are monitored for a full day and all forms of traffic are counted.
If a road like this, with very poor provision for cycling, can show a steady increase in cycling over a sustained period we can be very confident that Bristol City Council is right in making cycling a significant part of its transport policy for the future.
People are making a big effort to use bicycles, even on roads like this. This gives the Council an opportunity, and a responsibility, to respond in an even more confident terms than their new Cycle Strategy sets out.
Take a look at the table and the graph. The numbers are impressive and the graph makes it clear.
Source: Bristol Cycling Campaign
But how "brilliantly successful" has Gloucester Road been in attracting more people to ride bikes on it?
Well, the answer is - and if you have a quick glance at those figures above, you don't have to be Carol Vorderman to work it out - it hasn't been.
The problem is that the claim that cycling has doubled in the past decade isn't one that stands up on closer inspection, and it's one that underlines the pitfalls in comparing two fixed points in time from the statistics, rather than examining overall trends.
Of the 14 years for which data is shown, 2000 was by far the lowest for the number of cyclists counted, at 810, compared to 1,654 in 2013, which is where that increase of 104 per cent comes from.
But choose 2001 as the base year, or 2004 – which would give a 10-year picture – and the numbers are almost identical to the latest year, at 1,645 and 1,656, respectively.
In fact, the average number of cyclists counted for the 14 years in which data are presented is 1,548. Taking the first seven years of that period, the average was 1,479, and in the latest seven years, 1,616.
That gives rather more modest growth between the two halves of the period of 9.3 per cent – and it's worth bearing in mind that the latter seven years includes 2008-10, when Bristol was designated England's first 'cycling city.'
What we can say with a reasonable degree of certainty is that there has been a steady downwards trend in the number of cars and taxis counted – more than 12,000 in each of the first three years, and above 10,000 for the first half of the period, but firmly below that mark in the past seven years, for a reduction of around 20 per cent.
Buses and coaches present a different picture – the 743 recorded in 2000 is the highest in the entire 14-year period, but 2013's figure is the second highest, and overall there appears to be little change.
So why the discrepancies in the data? It's based on annual average daily traffic flow, and the DfT admits that at local level the figures aren't necessarily "robust."
Moreover, in contrast to other modes of transport, levels of cycling are particularly affected by the climate – if it's raining, or a harsh winter, fewer people cycle.
So if that count is done on days when it's tipping down, it isn't going to reflect the true picture; likewise if the weather is particularly good. That's why you need to smooth things out over several years to identify trends.
The lesson, as with casualty statistics, is that if you want to use data to illustrate a point, it's vital to look at the longer-term picture; looking at individual years in isolation won't do that.
This isn't just nit-picking over numbers, because there is an important point to be made here, and one that any cyclist in Bristol - or elsewhere for that matter - should be concerned about.
Bristol Cycling Campaign's gushing praise of a doubling in levels of cycling over 10 years doesn't, as we've seen, stand up to scrutiny.
Yet its figures have been seized upon by the local paper, the Bristol Post, and as these things have a habit of doing, could become something of an urban myth for the city's cyclists and non-cyclists alike, a 'fact' to be trotted out now and again.
And in future, Bristol City Council - criticised by the self-same campaign group just last week for its "piecemeal" appoach to infrastructure - may shrug its shoulders and point to that headline figure as evidence its transport policy is helping to get more people on bikes.
Perhaps it would have been more helpful to take a step back, look at the underlying picture, and make the point that the council's approach to cycling is, at best, having a negligible effect?
Simon has been news editor at road.cc since 2009, reporting on 10 editions and counting of pro cycling's biggest races such as the Tour de France, stories on issues including infrastructure and campaigning, and interviewing some of the biggest names in cycling. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, his background has proved invaluable in reporting on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, and the bike industry. He splits his time between London and Cambridge, and loves taking his miniature schnauzer Elodie on adventures in the basket of her Elephant Bike.
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The bus/coach stats seem a bit whacky.
743 in 2000 but only 478 in 2004. I'd expect most of these to be local buses (I don't think there are a lot of private coaches using this road regularly) so the variation seems suspect. Timetables obviously change etc. but this would represent a massive difference in the level of bus services being provided.
cycle on gloucester rd !!!! .... only in dire need ... blocked
lanes, angry bus drivers, even angrier taxi drivers, news
paper reading car drivers, texting pedestrians, rlj bike riders
(and not just the pedal variety either !) - you can keep it. I'd
rather walk.
Walking on Gloucester rd isn't much fun either, tiny pavements hemmed in by double parked cars.
I'm happy I never had to ride to work along Gloucester Rd when I lived in Stoke Gifford. Even thinking about driving along it makes me shudder. I was very fortunate to have most of my commute either off road or through the Airbus site so no idiots trying to kill me, just low flying aircraft buzzing me
Don't choose 2003 as a base year, or it will show traffic reductions as
Bikes 19.1
Cars 12.9
Buses -3.9
All 7.6
i.e bike traffic went down more than twice as much as all motorised traffic. Theres really little to be gained by trying to bullshit with statistics when they are there to be analysed in front of you.
Great article and good spot. As the officer responsible for transport data at Bristol Council, I thought I should clear this up!
The headline story is correct - cycling has doubled (almost) on A38 Gloucester Road and car use has gone down. Gloucester Road is now the most popular on-road route in the city, with comparable numbers to the off-road Bristol to Bath Railway Path. In the morning peak southbound 27% of all vehicles are bicycles.
This reflects the broader trend of a doubling in cycling in Bristol between 2001 and 2011, with an estimated 9% of people now cycling to work in the city.
However, as this article shows, the DfT statistics are not robust. It's not that clear from their data website, but they conduct a 12 hour count every few years and then estimate to get an annual average day 24 hour count, occasionally leading to some odd results. The actual DfT counts at this site were conducted in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 only.
Luckily, we have our own count site near this location at A38 Cheltenham Road north of Arley Hill. The data is below and shows that cycling increased by 76% between 2000-2011 and cars decreased by 8%.
Year Cycle CarTaxi
1994 1165 11803
1995 1187 11832
1996 1174 12945
1997 1212 11920
1998 1103 12166
1999 1179 10901
2000 1164 11157
2001 1245 10804
2002 1269 11482
2003 1476 11001
2004 1322 11174
2005 1035 11114
2006 1793 10370
2007 1580 9757
2008 2072 10208
2009 2272 10258
2010 2285 10818
2011 2051 10284