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Product Details
Hair Material | 100% Human Hair |
Color | Brown with Blonde Highlight |
Density | 150% |
Parting | Mid Part, Can Be Side/C Parted |
Hairline | Pre-bleached |
Lace Area | 5*5 Lace |
Lace Type | Regular Lace |
Cap Size | Standard Medium(Circumference 22.5") |
Straps | Adjustable |
Glueless? | Yes, Glueless |
Last For | One More Year |
Can Be Dyed | Yes |
Hair Care& Use
How to wash/care your hair/wig?
- When you wash the hair, better to brush it first. Use warm water and hair shampoo to wash for twice. Then put hair conditioner equally on the hair for 5 minutes. Then wash it with cleaning water. Hair conditioner is very necessary every time when you wash your hair! We suggest you to use high quality hair conditioner.
- If you want to blow your hair dry, please blow to 80% dry, then keep the rest 20% to naturally dry, by this way, it will keep your hair away from drying and frizzy!
- When you feel the hair is very dry, you can spray some hair oil. Meanwhile, when you wash the hair, you can pour little hair care oil into warm water ,and put the hair inside that warm water for 10 minutes around. The hair will be more silk and soft comparing before. But we don't suggest you to use hair oil everyday. Because hair oil may make your hair strands dry and hard!
- If you want to get your hair curls back, better to use crimping iron to curl the hair according to its original curl shape again!
How to use wig/hair?
- If you want your wig/hair looks natural/amazing as our post on FB/IG, you have better to book a professional hairstylist to install it.
- If the hair is wavy or curly style, we don't suggest to comb it. If you have to, please comb it with hands or wide-teeth brush gently. Tight teeth brush will ruin the hair original shape and make it fizzy and feels like tangle! Please always comb the hair from the ends and work your way up.
- When you dye the hair with bleach powder, please control the time within 5 minutes. If you dye it with dye cream, you need to control the time within 20 minutes. Otherwise, the hair will be damaged by cream if you leave it too long there.
- When sleeping,please bond the hair with elastic band or wear a cap. It will avoid tangling or shapes-changing. After waking up, please remove the band and comb through beginning at the ends and working your way up to the roots.
- When swimming, we suggest to wear a swimming cap. Because the sea water or pool water is not good for hair, it will make the hair tangle and rough. It's better to wash it with warm water, with hair shampoo and hair conditioner after swimming.
For more hair care/usage tips, you can read our hair blogs or follow us @linktohair on Youtube / Facebook, we will often post tutorial videos about hair care and hair usage there!
1.How often should I wash my wig?
Wash at least once a week or a few times wearing with warm water. Wash more often in Summer.
Keep your wig clean can help your wig last longer.
2.Are you sell real human hair wig ?
Yes,of course. The raw materials of our hair come from India, Malaysia and other regions,100% human hair.
3.How often do I clean my wig or hairpiece?
If worn daily for 10 to 12 hour a day, we would suggest you wash it once every 10 to 14 days. But, there are factors that could change this, depending on the individual wearer, the type of styling products used or the environment in which the wig or hairpiece is worn. You, personally, will be the judge of when it needs to be cleaned
4.What type of styling tools can I use on my wigs and hairpieces?
Depending on the type of hairpiece or wig you own, it is advisable to lightly pick or brush the ends to soften the appearance each time you wear it. On long pieces, always start from the ends.
Brushes that have single teeth from the base and have bristles that can flex or bend as they pass through the hair; this will lessen any possible damage.
Hair picks are also excellent for light touch-ups because they pass
through the fiber with minimum resistance or pulling.
Combs with bigger spaces rather than close-together teeth
5.How do I put on and wear my wig?
Remove the protective hair net from your wig. Give the wig a good shake to allow air to fluff through the hair fibers.
If your hair is short, brush it back from your face and behind your ears. If your hair is long, distribute and pin your hair up evenly, so as not to have a "bump" anywhere. Many people use a wig cap, and it's very convenient.
Hold your wig at the sides with the woven label in the back. Place it at the middle of your forehead (for leverage) and slide it on from front to back. The top front of the wig's cap should rest approximately 1/4" past your natural hairline. If the wig is too forward at the front hairline, it will look hat-like and unnatural. The ear tabs on each side of your head should be evenly placed in front of your ears. Never place the wig over your ears.
Tuck in any stray hairs at the front, sides and nape.
6.How do I store my wig?
The best way to store your wig is on a Wire Wig Stand or Wig Perch Wig Stand. This will keep your wig fresher and maintain its style between wearings. Keep your wig in a clean place, away from dust, sources of high heat and excessive humidity. Never enclose in a box or plastic bag (except while traveling).
7.What about cutting, re-setting and coloring my wig or hairpiece?
We recommended that any cutting, coloring or rinsing, as well as permanently re-curling of your wig or hairpiece, if you don't have any experience in hair coloring ,should be done by us or another trained professional.
8.Can the wig be made bigger or smaller to better fit my head?
Yes, all wigs can be adjusted to fit your needs, by tightening or loosening the Velcro tabs located in the back of the wig. If your wig is still too large, you may want to consider purchasing a Comfy Grip. The Comfy Grip has been found to be beneficial for every wig wearer due to its ability to hold the wig securely and comfortably in place. We feel it is necessity for people who have experienced total hair loss.
9.Will my wig frizz?
Frizzing is usually caused by excessive steam; for example, opening the oven, the dishwasher, the clothes dryer and any other heat source, such as the blow dryer and curling iron. Frizzing also occurs by friction, such as long hair wigs rubbing against the back of the chair.
10.Can I use hairspray on my wig or hairpiece?
Yes. Holding sprays that are not water soluble should never be used!
11.Will the wig color in the picture look exactly the same in real life?
Due to different monitor settings, lighting conditions, and so on, wig colors slightly, when viewed online or in person.
Our wigs are all painstakingly photographed in-house, under professional studio lighting that is meant to emulate natural light in order to give you the best representation of each wig.
12.When I put on the wig, why does it look shorter when compared to the photos?
Your head size & neck length are different from our mannequin, which could make the length of the wig appear different from the length of the wig as shown in the photos.
13.Do I have to wear a stocking wig cap?
Using a wig cap is a matter of personal preference. Most of our clients prefer to use wig caps because it holds the hair in place better & helps to keep the wig cleaner. In some instances, it may also prevent hair breakage due to the wig rubbing against the scalp. Bottom line: do what is most comfortable for you. A wig cap is included with each wig we sell.
14.How can I untangle my wig?
A: It is normal for long hair wigs to get tangled up. When that happens, you may use a large tooth comb to work on the fiber from the lower part first, then bit by bit move it towards the root. Please remember not to comb the hair from the root to the tips in a stroke or back comb the hair.


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Photo "Going Strong" by Marc van Woudenberg / Amsterdamize
You're welcome Mr. Motorist. I'm happy that my mode of transportation has allowed more space on the road for you to get to your destination more efficiently.
One less car on the road to get in your way and increase congestion, right?
It's my pleasure. It really is.
Remember the construction that was happening on your main commuting route last summer? I know, that was quite the drag.
You don't need to thank me for putting very little wear and tear on our streets. I know it prolongs our roads and avoids those pesky construction delays, but don't mention it. Seriously.
And oh those health care costs. Did you know that heart disease and strokes are two of the top three causes of death in Canada? In America, cardiovascular diseases and stroke cost an estimated $475.3 billion in 2009.
Isn't it great that my commute helps keep me healthy so I can help reduce our health care costs? I would hate to be a burden on your pocketbook.
And how about those gas prices? Isn't it wonderful that my bicycle doesn't require gasoline? It'd be a shame if I contributed to increasing demand for fuel – driving gas prices even higher.
You don't deserve that Mr. Driver. You deserve inexpensive fuel.
Photo "Going Strong" by Marc van Woudenberg / Amsterdamize
And what's the deal with those downtown parking spaces? Those parking attendants are borderline criminal.
As if you don't already pay enough for insurance, gasoline, repairs, registration, and maintenance for your car. Those parking guys want to charge you $20 a day to park your car? It's criminal I tell 'ya.
So it's a good thing I'm not taking up those precious spaces. I'd hate for you to be late for a meeting while trying to find a parking spot for your car.
There's no need to thank me for helping to pay for those free parking spaces at the local grocery store, either. I know, I know – that land wasn't cheap for the grocery store to buy so that you could park your car there for free.
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Don't bother thanking me for all the time I spend advocating for better bike infrastructure, either. I know, it will benefit both of us – it will keep me out of your way so you can get to your destination without being impeded by me, and it will also make me more predictable so you don't have to be distracted by me while you're on your phone. It's a win-win situation, right? But no need to mention it, I'm cool with it.
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Related Articles:
- Motorists Against Bicycle Infrastructure (Oct 2010)
- Cyclists Paving the Way for Ungrateful Drivers (Oct 2009)
- Car Culture Bleeds Our Society (Aug 2010)
- Enough Excuses: Cars Cause Death (Dec 2010)


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Fern Head, Plant Head, Book Print, Art Print, Wall Art
One of a series of illustrations of Victorian gentlemen with interesting hair.
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Mobile Phlebotomist - Part Time
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Saturday, October 7, 2023
Getlabs is the nationwide leader for at-home diagnostics.
Healthcare organizations use our all-in-one technology platform to dispatch skilled medical specialists to their patients and collect labs, vitals, and advanced diagnostics. By partnering with Getlabs, providers can expand access to care, improve adherence, and make informed medical decisions remotely.
Our team has raised $40M from top investors including Emerson Collective, Minderoo Foundation, Byers Capital, Labcorp, Healthworx, Tusk Ventures, Anne Wojcicki (CEO, 23andMe) and Susan Wojcicki (CEO, YouTube). Getlabs' mission is to save lives by expanding access to diagnostics for everyone.
About the role:
We are currently seeking a PT Mobile Phlebotomist interested in joining a high-growth stage startup with strong experience in working in hospitals, in office, or mobile environments. Candidates must maintain a high standard of excellence with minimal supervision.
Above all, we are seeking candidates who are friendly, empathetic, compassionate, and genuinely care about patients. Although we provide mobile phlebotomy, we see ourselves as a patient experience company first and foremost. For that reason, we believe the quality of our specialists is the secret sauce for Getlabs. Every interaction with patients is an opportunity to deliver a thoughtful and amazing experience.
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- Phlebotomy certification from an accredited agency
- 1 year of phlebotomy experience (mobile phlebotomy experience preferred)
- Experience processing samples
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President Obama is just beginning his second term in office and we've been looking at some of the unresolved issues and unfinished business from his first four years. This week, we're turning our attention to foreign policy. Yesterday, we talked about the conflict in Syria. Today, we want to focus on another country where the Arab Spring uprising was not successful. It's a small island that often does not get a lot of attention, but plays an important geopolitical role in the Middle East. We're talking about Bahrain.
Joining us once again is Abderrahim Foukara. He's the Washington bureau chief for Al Jazeera Internation and he speaks with us from time to time to talk about events in the region.
Welcome back. Thanks so much for joining us once again.
ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA: Great to be here.
MARTIN: So, for those who haven't been following events in Bahrain, what's been happening there and why is it so important to the region?
FOUKARA: First of all, Bahrain will be celebrating the second year anniversary of these protests and, initially, the government cracked down. Since then, various attempts at dialog between the government and the opposition - that dialog has not always been successful. The opposition has called it a PR exercise, but more recently, an opposition group has come up with what it calls a plan for breaking out of the deadlock and the plan calls for various options. One of them is to have a direct dialog with the government, come up with a plan to have an election that would be much more inclusive that would make the government much more inclusive than it is now.
I have to add that, initially, the protests were for democracy. The government has been building up this argument that it is a Shia protest and that it is stoked by Iran in an effort to gain influence in that part of the Gulf.
MARTIN: Well, I was going to ask you about that, because just as you were telling us yesterday about Syria - that Syria's conflict started as a conflict, you know, between people who wanted to change the country from within, sort of an internal, you know, movement to achieve more democracy, more freedom within the country, and that that conflict's become internationalized.
You know, Bahrain is located between, you know, Saudi Arabia and Iran, which are two major regional powers and there are those who are arguing that this is, in fact, a proxy war being fought out in Bahrain. Do you give any credence to that argument?
FOUKARA: Well, the International Independent Commission concluded that it didn't find any evidence that the Iranians were involved in these protests in Bahrain. Nonetheless, the sectarian divide has become part of the problem in Bahrain. You have the majority Shia of the population versus a Sunni government. And the majority, Shia - they want to change that. They say they want more say in running the affairs over the country. They want more seats in the parliament.
One of the main problems, originally, in Bahrain was the economic situation. Unemployment was very, very high and, because the majority of the population is Shia, obviously, unemployment affected them more than anything else. Bahrain is not a rich country compared by other Gulf states. It doesn't have a lot of oil. It's a financial center, so these protests have affected it tremendously.
MARTIN: We're speaking with Abderrahim Foukara. All week, we've been talking about unresolved foreign policy issues carrying over from President Obama's first term. Today, we're talking about the ongoing discord in Bahrain.
What's been the Obama Administration's posture toward this particular conflict? I mean, it was an issue during the campaign season. You know, his Republican critics would say that they didn't feel that he had been supportive enough, or vocal enough or assertive enough in supporting the democratic aspirations of people in this part of the world. What's been their posture, toward this country in this conflict?
FOUKARA: Well, it has to be said that Bahrain is crucial to U.S. security, and given all the ongoing trouble in that part of the Middle East, Iran, Iraq and so on, that presence is very important, not just to the United States, but to some of its allies, such as Saudi Arabia.
The Obama Administration has, on numerous occasions, called on the government of Bahrain to be a little bit light-handed in dealing with the protests, you know, the jailings and the killings and so on. But it has also been critical of the opposition, because sometimes, the Obama Administration says that the opposition has resorted to violent means. But what is for sure is that Saudi Arabia, which is a very important ally of the United States, does not want to see the government in Bahrain topple, because in the Saudi estimation, then that would spell trouble for Saudi Arabia itself and the rest of the Gulf states.
MARTIN: You know, one of the things I think many Americans might find puzzling about Bahrain is that, you know, as you said, it's a financial center and you do see celebrities there doing their thing, doing business. And, recently, Kim Kardashian was there promoting her milkshake shop, and I'll just play a short clip.
KIM KARDASHIAN: (Unintelligible), Bahrain. What a crowd. I love just how glamorous all the girls are here. I mean, your makeup and your hair and your clothes. You guys are beautiful.
MARTIN: Abderrahim, what's going on there? I mean, I'm not saying with Kim Kardashian because no one can figure that out, but I mean, what is that?
FOUKARA: Well, that's a Kardashian moment in the middle of a disturbing situation in Bahrain, but I mean, on a serious note...
MARTIN: She's not the only one.
FOUKARA: She's not the only one. These events are obviously - regardless of who organizes them - are huge PR for - not just for the government of Bahrain, but for the image of Bahrain, internationally. It helps attract foreign investment to a country which is not doing very well economically. You have the Kardashian visit, you have the Formula One and, since the protests started in Bahrain about two years ago, the image of a stable country has obviously been shattered and that's had implications for the economy. So, for them to have somebody like a Kardashian visit Bahrain is obviously very important for trying to restore the image and the standing of Bahrain. Whether they'll succeed, given that the protests are still going on, is a different issue.
MARTIN: Finally, the uprisings in Egypt, which also was seen as sort of the stable ally in the region. Finally, the uprisings came to a point where the administration sided with the mass movement. Do analysts in the region envision something similar happening here or is it just sort of a very different situation?
FOUKARA: It's - in many ways, it's a different situation and I think that the Obama Administration has got one thing right from the start, which is to say that you have this stuff happening in so many different Middle Eastern and North African countries, but each country has its own unique, specific character.
In the case of Bahrain, Bahrain is part of the Gulf region, a region which is rich in oil and which supplies a lot of oil to the world market. It's crucial to economic well-being of the United States and, therefore, for countries such as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, they don't see it as being in their best interests for this situation in Bahrain to drag on. Whether they'll be able to resolve it soon or not, we don't know, but we know that the king of Bahrain has announced another initiative to try and resolve this situation. Whether the opposition will be convinced that it is done with good intention and that the ultimate goal is really to shake the country out of its deadlock remains to be seen.
MARTIN: Abderrahim Foukara is the Washington bureau chief for Al Jazeera International. He was nice enough to join us once again in our studios in Washington, D.C.
Abderrahim, thank you so much for speaking with us.
FOUKARA: You're welcome.
MARTIN: Just ahead, reality TV can be trashy fun, especially when you realize what it really is. But what if you don't?
JEANNINE AMBER: These shows are billed as reality and, when you're 12 and you don't work in the real world and you don't actually interact with women in these kind of situations, you have nothing telling you this can not possibly be real.
MARTIN: We'll ask if some of these shows are actually affecting the way adolescent girls think about and treat each other. That's coming up on TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin.
MARTIN: The fact that President Obama's second inauguration took place on the same day as the Martin Luther King holiday felt just right to many of the people who headed to Washington for the festivities, but some say the comparison is all wrong. We'll ask the Barber Shop guys to weigh in on that and other news of the week. That's next time on TELL ME MORE.
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From the Associated Press:
"Ukranian prankster Vitalii Sediuk is escorted off the red carpet by security after attacking actor Brad Pitt at the L.A. premiere of Maleficent.
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He tried to kiss Will Smith in Moscow, attempted to steal Adele's spotlight at the Grammys, dove under America Ferrera's dress at Cannes and now, police say, accosted Brad Pitt on the red carpet of a Hollywood premiere.
Vitalii Sediuk's antics have earned him a smack in the face from Smith, probation for the Grammys stunt and have cost him his job with the Ukrainian television station that, up until his incident with Ferrera, gave the 25-year-old a platform to cross the line with celebrities.
Sediuk remained in a Hollywood jail Thursday, one day after police say he leaped over a fan barrier and made contact with Pitt, who was signing autographs at the premiere of his partner Angelina Jolie's latest film, Maleficent. According to reports, Sediuk hugged the star, then punched him.
Pitt was apparently uninjured, but Sediuk's conduct has left him alienated from supporters and facing another possible criminal case.
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An emergency restraining order has been issued to Sediuk to stay away from Pitt, Los Angeles Police Sgt. Albert Gonzalez said. The order could be extended for a month, but the actor would have to petition a civil judge if he wants the stay-away order extended, Gonzalez said.
A case against Sediuk was presented Thursday to prosecutors, who will make the ultimate determination on charges, he said.
Ukranian TV station 1+1 fired Sediuk roughly three weeks ago, around the time he rushed Ferrera and hid under her voluminous dress at the premiere of How to Train Your Dragon 2 at the Cannes Film Festival. The station's general director Oleksandr Tkachenko wouldn't disclose the exact reason for Sediuk's dismissal.
Sediuk's antics have repeatedly brought him too close for comfort to Hollywood's elite. In perhaps his tamest incident, Sediuk presented Madonna with a bouquet of hydrangeas at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, prompting the singer to express her disgust for the flowers. The following year, he attempted to kiss Smith on the mouth on a red carpet in Moscow, prompting a slap from the actor.
The incidents raised Sediuk's profile and apparently emboldened him to new stunts to attract attention. His grab of the microphone before Adele accepted a Grammy Award at last year's ceremony led Sediuk to plead no contest to trespassing and earned him a three-year probation sentence.
He hugged Bradley Cooper's crotch earlier this year at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and streaked down a runway in a G-string at a show during February's Fashion Week in New York City. No charges were filed after either incident.
Sediuk's intentions toward Pitt are unclear. He remains jailed in lieu of $20,000 bond, and his attorney Anthony Willoughby said he had not yet spoken to his client. Willoughby said he was surprised by the Pitt incident, which he said could lead a probation violation for Sediuk.
"He's not a violent individual," Willoughby said. "He's an easygoing young man."
Publicist Christa Scherck, who worked with Sediuk for the past two years and helped him get credentialed for entertainment events, said she was severing ties with him after his arrest. She said she was never aware of his prank plans.
"This goes beyond pranking," Scherck said. "This is no longer entertaining."
She said Sediuk did not tell her he'd been fired from 1+1 after the Ferrera incident, but he said his employers were unhappy with him and he was going to lay low.
After his arrest for crashing the 2013 Grammys, Sediuk said he accepted responsibility for his actions but wasn't sorry for what he did.
He said he was just trying to create interesting reports for audiences back home but had been stymied by publicists. "I just need to get a little access," he said at the time.
Even without access, Sediuk has proven he can circumvent security and get uncomfortably close to celebrities, but whether that continues remains to be seen."
Source: National Post/Associated Press


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Accusation of Weakness.* 1Now I myself, Paul, urge you through the gentleness and clemency of Christ,* I who am humble when face to face with you, but brave toward you when absent, 2* a I beg you that, when present, I may not have to be brave with that confidence with which I intend to act boldly against some who consider us as acting according to the flesh. 3For, although we are in the flesh, we do not battle according to the flesh,* 4for the weapons of our battle are not of flesh but are enormously powerful, capable of destroying fortresses. We destroy argumentsb 5and every pretension raising itself against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive in obedience to Christ, 6and we are ready to punish every disobedience, once your obedience is complete.c
7d Look at what confronts you. Whoever is confident of belonging to Christ should consider that as he belongs to Christ, so do we.* 8e And even if I should boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I shall not be put to shame. 9* May I not seem as one frightening you through letters. 10For someone will say, "His letters are severe and forceful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."f 11Such a person must understand that what we are in word through letters when absent, that we also are in action when present.g
12* Not that we dare to class or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.h 13But we will not boast beyond measure but will keep to the limits* God has apportioned us, namely, to reach even to you. 14For we are not overreaching ourselves, as though we did not reach you; we indeed first came to you with the gospel of Christ. 15We are not boasting beyond measure, in other people's labors; yet our hope is that, as your faith increases, our influence among you may be greatly enlarged, within our proper limits, 16so that we may preach the gospel even beyond you, not boasting of work already done in another's sphere.i 17j "Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord."* 18For it is not the one who recommends himself who is approved,* but the one whom the Lord recommends.k
* [10:1–13:10] These final chapters have their own unity of structure and theme and could well have formed the body of a separate letter. They constitute an apologia on Paul's part, i.e., a legal defense of his behavior and his ministry; the writing is emotionally charged and highly rhetorical. In the central section (2 Cor 11:16–12:10), the apologia takes the form of a boast. This section is prepared for by a prologue (2 Cor 11:1–15) and followed by an epilogue (2 Cor 12:11–18), which are similar in content and structure. These sections, in turn, are framed by an introduction (2 Cor 10:1–18) and a conclusion (2 Cor 12:19–13:10), both of which assert Paul's apostolic authority and confidence and define the purpose of the letter. The structure that results from this disposition of the material is chiastic, i.e., the first element corresponds to the last, the second to the second last, etc., following the pattern a b c b', a'.
* [10:1–18] Paul asserts his apostolic authority and expresses the confidence this generates in him. He writes in response to certain opinions that have arisen in the community and certain charges raised against him and in preparation for a forthcoming visit in which he intends to set things in order. This section gives us an initial glimpse of the situation in Corinth that Paul must address; much of its thematic material will be taken up again in the finale (2 Cor 12:19–13:10).
* [10:1–2] A strong opening plunges us straight into the conflict. Contrasts dominate here: presence versus absence, gentleness-clemency-humility versus boldness-confidence-bravery. Through the gentleness and clemency of Christ: the figure of the gentle Christ, presented in a significant position before any specifics of the situation are suggested, forms a striking contrast to the picture of the bold and militant Paul (2 Cor 10:2–6); this tension is finally resolved in 2 Cor 13:3–4. Absent…present: this same contrast, with a restatement of the purpose of the letter, recurs in 2 Cor 13:10, which forms an inclusion with 2 Cor 10:1–2.
* [10:2b–4a] Flesh: the Greek word sarx can express both the physical life of the body without any pejorative overtones (as in "we are in the flesh," 3) and our natural life insofar as it is marked by limitation and weakness (as in the other expressions) in contrast to the higher life and power conferred by the Spirit; cf. note on 1 Cor 3:1. The wordplay is intended to express the paradoxical situation of a life already taken over by the Spirit but not yet seen as such except by faith. Lack of empirical evidence of the Spirit permits misunderstanding and misjudgment, but Paul resolutely denies that his behavior and effectiveness are as limited as some suppose.
* [10:3b–6] Paul is involved in combat. The strong military language and imagery are both an assertion of his confidence in the divine power at his disposal and a declaration of war against those who underestimate his resources. The threat is echoed in 2 Cor 13:2–3.
* [10:7–8] Belonging to Christ…so do we: these phrases already announce the pattern of Paul's boast in 2 Cor 11:21b–29, especially 2 Cor 11:22–23. For building you up and not for tearing you down: Paul draws on the language by which Jeremiah described the purpose of the prophetic power the Lord gave to him (Jer 1:9–10; 12:16–17; 24:6). Though Paul's power may have destructive effects on others (2 Cor 10:2–6), its intended effect on the community is entirely constructive (cf. 2 Cor 13:10). I shall not be put to shame: his assertions will not be refuted; they will be revealed as true at the judgment.
* [10:9–10] Paul cites the complaints of some who find him lacking in personal forcefulness and holds out the threat of a personal parousia (both "return" and "presence") that will be forceful, indeed will be a demonstration of Christ's own power (cf. 2 Cor 13:2–4).
* [10:12–18] Paul now qualifies his claim to boldness, indicating its limits. He distinguishes his own behavior from that of others, revealing those "others" as they appear to him: as self-recommending, immoderately boastful, encroaching on territory not assigned to them, and claiming credit not due to them.
* [10:13] Will keep to the limits: the notion of proper limits is expressed here by two terms with overlapping meanings, metron and kanōn, which are played off against several expressions denoting overreaching or expansion beyond a legitimate sphere.
* [10:17] Boast in the Lord: there is a legitimate boasting, in contrast to the immoderate boasting to which 2 Cor 10:13, 15 allude. God's work through Paul in the community is the object of his boast (2 Cor 10:13–16; 2 Cor 1:12–14) and constitutes his recommendation (2 Cor 3:1–3). Cf. notes on 2 Cor 1:12–14 and 1 Cor 1:29–31.
* [10:18] Approved: to be approved is to come successfully through the process of testing for authenticity (cf. 2 Cor 13:3–7 and the note on 2 Cor 8:2). Whom the Lord recommends: self-commendation is a premature and unwarranted anticipation of the final judgment, which the Lord alone will pass (cf. 1 Cor 4:3–5). Paul alludes to this judgment throughout 2 Cor 10–13, frequently in final or transitional positions; cf. 2 Cor 11:15; 12:19a; 13:3–7.
a. [10:2] 13:2, 10; 1 Cor 4:21.
b. [10:4] 6:7; 13:2–3; 1 Cor 1:25; Eph 6:10–14.
d. [10:7] 1 Cor 1:12.
h. [10:12] 3:1–2; 4:2; 5:12; 6:4; 10:18; 12:11.
j. [10:17] Jer 9:22–23; 1 Cor 1:31.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty years after failing to convince the Supreme Court of the threat posed by home video recordings, big media companies are back and now trying to rein in another technological innovation they say threatens their financial well-being.
The battle has moved out of viewers' living rooms, where Americans once marveled at their ability to pop a cassette into a recorder and capture their favorite programs or the sporting event they wouldn't be home to see.
Now the entertainment conglomerates that own U.S. television networks are waging a legal fight, culminating in Tuesday's Supreme Court argument against a startup business that uses Internet-based technology to give subscribers the ability to watch programs anywhere they can take portable devices.
The source of the companies' worry is Aereo Inc., which takes free television signals from the airwaves and sends them over the Internet to paying subscribers in 11 cities. Aereo, backed by billionaire Barry Diller, has plans to more than double that total.
Broadcasters including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS have sued Aereo for copyright infringement, saying Aereo should pay for redistributing the programming the same way cable and satellite systems do.
The U.S. networks increasingly are reliant on these retransmission fees, estimated at $3.3 billion last year and going up to more than $7 billion by 2018, according to research by SNL Kagan, which analyzes media and communications trends. They fear that they will lose some of that money if the Supreme Court rules for Aereo.
Aereo's service starts at $8 a month and is available in New York, Boston, Houston and Atlanta, among others. Subscribers get about two dozen local over-the-air stations, plus the Bloomberg TV financial channel.
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The antenna is only used by one subscriber at a time, and Aereo says that's much like the situation at home, where a viewer uses a personal antenna to watch over-the-air broadcasts for free.
"Aereo is in some ways novel, but it is also among a host of technologies that uses the Internet to offer consumers the ability to do what they always have more cheaply and conveniently," the Dish Network and Echostar Technologies said in a supporting legal brief filed in the Supreme Court.
But the broadcasters and their backers argue that Aereo's competitive advantage lies not in its product, but in avoiding paying for it.
"Aereo is simply a blatant free rider trying to make a quick buck without paying anything toward the true costs of what it misappropriates," Time Warner Inc. said in a court filing.
The broadcasters told the court that Aereo's "competitors pay for the rights to retransmit 'live TV' to the public — as they must to avoid liability for copyright infringement — while Aereo does not."
The federal appeals court in New York ruled that Aereo did not violate the copyrights of broadcasters with its service, but a similar service has been blocked by judges in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said its ruling stemmed from a 2008 decision in which it held that Cablevision Systems Corp. could offer a remote digital video recording service without paying additional licensing fees to broadcasters because each playback transmission was made to a single subscriber using a single unique copy produced by that subscriber. The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal from movie studios, TV networks and cable TV channels.
In the Aereo case, a dissenting judge said his court's decision would eviscerate copyright law.
Judge Denny Chin called Aereo's setup a sham and said the individual antennas are a "Rube Goldberg-like contrivance" — an overly complicated device that accomplishes a simple task in a confusing way — that exists for the sole purpose of evading copyright law.
The Obama administration, artists, actors, Major League Baseball and the National Football League all support the broadcasters. But the administration and computer software and telecommunications groups are urging the court to avoid a broad ruling in favor of copyright protection that could call into question the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing, which gives users access to a vast online computer network that stores and processes information.
Smaller cable companies, independent broadcasters and consumer groups are backing Aereo.
FM radio and cable TV were initially derided as unnecessary, inefficient or just bizarre, said the digital civil liberties watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation. In a legal filing joined by other public interest groups and the consumer electronics trade association, the group said the justices should not become regulators of technology and "the court should not attempt to predict the future of television."
The entertainment industry has changed dramatically since the high court ruled in favor of home video recording in 1984 in a 5-4 decision. Then, Sony was the maker of the Betamax recorder and Universal City Studios and Walt Disney Productions were arguing for protection under copyright law.
Now, Disney owns ABC and cable giant Comcast owns NBC and Universal.
The case is ABC v. Aereo, 13-461.


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1The words of Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, one of the priests from Anathoth,* in the land of Benjamin. 2The word of the LORD came to him in the days of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,a 3and again in the days of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, son of Josiah, king of Judah—down to the exile of Jerusalem, in the fifth month.b
Call of Jeremiah
4The word of the LORD came to me:
5Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I dedicated you,
a prophet to the nations I appointed you.* c
6"Ah, Lord GOD!" I said,
"I do not know how to speak. I am too young!"*
7But the LORD answered me,
Do not say, "I am too young."
To whomever I send you, you shall go;
whatever I command you, you shall speak.
8Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you—oracle of the LORD.
9Then the LORD extended his hand and touched my mouth, saying to me,
See, I place my words in your mouth!d
10Today I appoint you
over nations and over kingdoms,
To uproot and to tear down,
to destroy and to demolish,
to build and to plant.
11The word of the LORD came to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? "I see a branch of the almond tree,"* I replied. 12Then the LORD said to me: You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to carry it out. 13e A second time the word of the LORD came to me: What do you see? I replied, "I see a boiling kettle whose mouth is tipped away from the north."*
14The LORD said to me, And from the north evil will pour out over all who dwell in the land.f
15Look, I am summoning
all the kingdoms of the north—oracle of the LORD—
Each king shall come and set up his throne
in the gateways of Jerusalem,
Against all its surrounding walls
and against all the cities of Judah.g
16I will pronounce my sentence against them
for all their wickedness in forsaking me,
In burning incense to other gods,
in bowing down to the works of their hands.h
17But you, prepare yourself;
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all that I command you.
Do not be terrified on account of them,
or I will terrify you before them;
18For I am the one who today
makes you a fortified city,
A pillar of iron, a wall of bronze,
against the whole land:
Against Judah's kings and princes,
its priests and the people of the land.i
19They will fight against you, but not prevail over you,
for I am with you to deliver you—oracle of the LORD.
* [1:1] Anathoth: a village about three miles northeast of Jerusalem, to which Solomon had exiled Abiathar the priest (1 Kgs 2:26–27); it is likely that Jeremiah belonged to that priestly family.
* [1:5] Jeremiah was destined to become a prophet before his birth; cf. Is 49:1, 5; Lk 1:15; Gal 1:15–16. I knew you: I loved you and chose you. I dedicated you: I set you apart to be a prophet. The nations: the neighbors of Judah, along with Assyria, Babylonia, and Egypt.
* [1:6] I am too young: like Moses (Ex 3:11, 13; 4:10), Jeremiah at first resists God's call. This narrative is perhaps patterned after the story of Moses' call in order to identify Jeremiah as the prophet "like me" in Dt 18:15.
* [1:11] There is wordplay between the Hebrew noun shaqed, "almond tree," and the Hebrew verb shoqed, "watcher/watching." Because the almond tree begins to bloom in late winter in Palestine, it is called "the watcher" for the coming of spring. God is also "watcher," observing the fulfillment of the prophetic word.
* [1:13] Kettle…the north: symbol of an invasion from the north; cf. vv. 14–15.
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At DNT Chartered Accountants we can advise business owners in the Belfast area on many aspects of running and growing a business. Here are some pointers on benchmarking and competitor analysis...
Most business owners know that they should do competitive analysis, but often they do not know exactly what to do, when to do it, and how to extract the most value at the least cost.
Competitive analysis is more effective when it is really focused - and in such a way that leads directly and quickly to real business improvement. You can do this by 'benchmarking' your business against competitors.
Without some benchmarking you can easily get overtaken by other competitors, or by new forms of competition. You can also become complacent, take customers for granted and become sluggish and reactive, rather than proactive.
Indeed, this can happen even at the highest level of business. For example, the board of Marks and Spencer has been accused of failing to respond to changes in the marketplace, when retailers such as Next and Gap, and even supermarkets such as Tesco and Asda, began to significantly erode Marks & Spencer's market share in the late 1990s.
Benchmarking should be an ongoing process, and not just an afterthought as part of annual business planning exercises. Every day could present opportunities to learn from your competitors and improve your business performance.
You should analyse your business in relation to:
You should benchmark areas where we can take advantage of your strengths, or conversely, areas where you are most vulnerable. You can analyse aspects of your business by breaking it down into areas such as:
As you will be limited in the amount of resources and attention that can be put into new strategies to beat your competitors, you may need to be very selective. Perhaps you will initially focus on only 20 per cent of your business.
One of the most useful approaches is to use some form of "Competitor Profiling" technique. Using your chosen areas for benchmarking, you can create a table like the one below for each of your competitors.
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As some of you know, we have another company, called VO Imports (VOI). The purpose of this company is to sell to bike shops and distributors, rather than to retail customers. VOI has a warehouse and office next door to us, but it is a separate company. VOI sells some Velo Orange parts and it also starting to import and distribute components and accessories from other companies.
VOI's general manager is Tom Martin, who has many years experience in the bike distribution business. He is great at getting stuff made, keeping in almost constant touch with Taiwan. He is also known here for creating gigantic spreadsheets detailing an almost infinite number of cost and design variables for each of our products. In addition he maintains relations with all the shops that stock our products.
Tom probably doesn't have an easy time working with me. In Tom's world, which is the standard distribution model, a company designs a product and has a factory makes it. Then the agent who helped set it up us gets a small cut. Now the component company sells the part to a distributor and so makes its profit. The distributor sells the part to a bike shop and makes its profit. Finally the bike shop makes a profit selling the part to a customer. As you can see, there are a lot of folks taking a cut. And so the bike business world has always smoothly revolved.
But I am not from the bike or the distribution biz and I have a long history of building companies by breaking rules. I decide that some Velo Orange products, the stainless steel racks as an example, must be affordable and cut out all the middle men. The distributor and bike shop can't sell them and so don't get a cut. Velo Orange does not get those cuts either; the customer does. I've upset the apple cart and poor Tom has to hear the complaints.
Tom feels, and he is probably correct in this, that if we simply raise prices or concentrate only on items that can be sold through traditional distribution channels both VOI and Velo Orange will grow even faster. But I want to keep prices low. And so it goes.
Tom has started a VOI blog, as well as a Twitter and Face Book page. The blog is intended for shop owners and their employees, but many here may find it interesting too.
03 December, 2008
Tom, VO Imports, and Upsetting the Apple Cart
Posted by Velo Orange at 9:18:00 AM
33 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Tom, listen to Chris.
Keep pices as low as possible.
I have an extremely modest income and would like to continue to purchase from VO. - 12/3/08, 11:07 AM
- Tom said...
Excellent post by Chris.
I've been saying this all along.
Some products at Velo Orange are undervalued. When you look at who else is making Porteur racks, the Velo Orange at $190 is the absolute best. No-one else is making it out of stainless. Pass and Stow is tubular cromoly and costs $240. CETMA is steel rod and sells for $190, and all he does is bolt some Wald struts and handlebar attachment hardware to the platform. Both are completely acceptable price wise for a hand built rack made in the states in small batches.
We also want to sell our racks through bike shops. Our current dealer pricing gives no-one a decent markup or profit margin at the current retail.
Should it surprise anyone here that Velo Orange is interested in selling through bike shops? They are just as excited about VO designed and/or resurrected parts and accessories.
Is it fair and reasonable to expect a bike shop would want to make a profit on selling VO stuff?
What do you think is a fair and reasonable profit?
Before you answer (and I'd really like your opinion and idea on it), realize your local bike shop has a cost of doing business. It costs money for rent or mortgage payments, energy, payroll, debt payments, communications service, marketing, etc. Then there is the cost of the gadgets and doodads themselves. This is commonly expressed as operating margin, in a percentage. That number is around 30-34% depending on location, and whether or not the shop owns its storefront and for how long.
So, with that in mind, how much of a markup (or profit margin) would you give a bike shop to remain in business? The 3 stage distro model is right for many products that are heavy and bulky (locks, baskets, tires) and companies can focus on doing what they do best. Wald is great at making cheap baskets but really poor at marketing. Kryptonite is really great at marketing but really poor at distributing and managing thousands of dealer accounts or millions of customers.
Planet Bike, Topeak, Brooks, Continental, Panaracer, and hundreds more companies use distributors to sell more product than if they were to sell factory direct. Factory direct sales are great for small framebuilders and boutique parts makers like White industries, but once the interest reaches a tipping point, it's more manageable to split up the duties of getting stuff through the sales channel. Seperate out distribution from sales from marketing from manufacturing. - 12/3/08, 11:26 AM
- Gunnar Berg said...
Saint An, and now Saint Tom.
- Tom said...
here's the twitter feed if yall care:
And the facebook page too:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=35952323691 - 12/3/08, 12:19 PM
- Tom said...
And someone created a flickr group too:
http://flickr.com/groups/velo-orange/ - 12/3/08, 12:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think it's worth pointing out: 1. CETMA has introduced a new strut design, eliminating the old Wald style and 2. 4130 tubing is used on the 5 rail rack.
- Anonymous said...
Yes, but CETMA has decided to attach the new struts to the rack with "p" clamps instead of brazing tabs like they used to, which is stronger. So some improvement there, but also a step back.
- Dad said...
I don't really understand all of Tom's post but whatever...
As the proud new owner of a VO Porteur rack and the proud old owner of a CETMA rack, both are good. Sure, the CETMA's a bit aggro, but I finagled it a bit so as not to have to attach to the handlebars and it's proven amazingly useful.
Also, just want to point out that Lane at CETMA is a *first class* human being. A truly nice, self-effacing fella. It feels good to buy a rack from him.
One minor thing I was wondering is why the VO Porteur rack struts don't go to the outside, like on the traditional porteur bikes. Not that it matters a bit; who really cares. But more important, I do think it might want to be 10% bigger -- 's kinda petite.
Oh, I can intro you guys to a killer bike shop here in NJ that has never heard of you but absolutely loves your kind of stuff. Boy do they sell costly bikes, and a lot of 'em. And boy are they opinionated and occasionally annoying. But they're perfect for you and they like to move it move it move it.
David - 12/3/08, 6:54 PM
- Tom said...
Hi David:
I would love to talk to that bike shop you speak so highly of. At least I think you are speaking highly of them.
Sorry about all the wonky small business costing 101 talk. I'm like that sometimes.
CETMA is a great company. I'm not bashing them/him at all. There is room for them, and for Velo Orange. Not everyone wants something shiny and silver. - 12/3/08, 7:39 PM
- Dad said...
Sure, I'll give you a call or if I forget, Chris/Annette would have my #.
It's a verrry good bike shop, no doubt about it. (I'm extremely easy to annoy so you should discount my remarks.) I don't know the owner really well but pretty well and when he was prepping a wheel I told him about your company and it was all good.
I fancy myself mighty experienced in business but I must admit I know less-than-half-of-f&*k-all about the bicycle industry. That being said, your reasoning about selling through external distributors seems sound, as long as the resultant margin-slimming doesn't flay you alive.
David - 12/3/08, 8:10 PM
- jimmythefly said...
Tom, here's my opinion on the matter:
A bike shop's margin is up to them, unless you plan on policing their retail pricing. Figure out what margin VO needs to get, and go from there with what your wholesale to shops is. I assume given a quantity commitment a shop could get a rack cheaper than I could, but when they put in a margin I'd pay more to buy it from them than from VO direct.
I'd buy from a shop for convenience (in my hands that day). Also, possibly because I feel some obligation to purchase through them because of advice or help they've given me.
Nothing wrong with buying direct from VO when the shop is out, and would charge me more for a special-order part that I could get direct cheaper(and in the same timeframe).
I think VO has no obligation to keep their online prices even with a shop's in-store (or online) pricing. If a shop is charging more than VO, there should be some added value to that extra cost.
How does VO see being in shops impacting their business? In a way you're not only selling stuff, but getting a bit of in-store advertising(both shelf space and employee recommendations), which will potentially attract customers to the website. Perhaps when someone buys something from VO online, they could fill in a blank for if they first heard about VO from a shop, and the shop could earn something from that sale, too? - 12/3/08, 9:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
i'd like to meat a bike shop with a morgage. me thinks RENT would be more accurate.
- jimmythefly said...
Gregg's Greenlake Cycles in Seattle. Same location since '32.
I'm guessing its mostly older bike shops that don't pay rent, but who knows? - 12/3/08, 9:17 PM
- jimmythefly said...
http://tinyurl.com/5gfpm4 - 12/3/08, 9:18 PM
- Adrienne Johnson said...
I know, for myself, that what I look for in any business is not pricing. Do not get me wrong, I like a deal. More than that, I want service and to know that my business is important to the business I am dealing with.
I am very impressed with how you guys look for input from your customers, and try to fill the needs they express. You demonstrate your respect for you customers very well.
That is the 'niche' that I think you should focus on. There are so many places to buy things anonymously, so what you have going here is special. - 12/3/08, 11:33 PM
- Some Guy on the Innernets said...
I think one of the most important innovations Chris has made is actively seeking input from us customers. That's something you don't get with a traditional supply chain. By the time word filters back through several people to the decision makers, it is often too late and too garbled to be of any use. There are many, many examples of this. The differences between the products VO sells and what's out there at other places is often quite subtle, especially to people who could be described as "middlemen." If VO and VOI have to go big for whatever reason, then please be sure to keep the design and feedback process as it is. It's a rare thing indeed, and I think without it VO would be another animal entirely.
One thing that baffles me is how many people have a hard time with the idea that a business needs to make a profit in order to keep the doors open. I grew up in a family that was involved in small businesses, and it's astonishing what people seem to expect. Running a bike shop is a tricky business on a good day. It will be interesting to see how VOI handles the balancing act of keeping dealers happy while competing with them to some extent on the web. The smart bike shop owners I know have done a good job of turning the web to their advantage. Interesting times we live in. - 12/4/08, 6:51 AM
- Tom said...
Most ppl will pay more for buying at the shop,. the question is, how much of a premium? a couple of bucks more? 1% more? 20% more?
And shops also desire to sell stuff with a higher margin. every time I change the price to increase the dealer margin, sales go up for the product. Especially when it's a substantial jump. Dealers like to make money and still be competitive.,
I don't think Chris is going to change the customer feedback loop anytime soon. It's gotten us in some trouble with some suppliers, but overall, they are happy to accept larger orders from us over time. - 12/4/08, 8:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
For a specialty product such as one of your VO racks, most shops would want a 35 point margin, minimum, preferably 40 points - on a special order item. It gets awkward tacking on a shipping charge at the retail level, even for special orders. A stocking dealer would want to make 40 points on unit cost, and expects to benifit with higher margin from higher volume orders.
It's been 15 years, but I managed a shop and shared ordering and pricing responsibilities with the shop owner during my 10+ year tenure.
- Anonymous said...
Question for David:
I have a CETMA on my touring bike. I have taken trips with two full Ortlieb panniers and a bag with tent and cooking gear on the top. Maybe 40 pounds in all (I have a smaller rack on the back for incidentals around 20 pounds).
I wouldn't mind swapping a VO Porteur for the CETMA. Do you think the VO can handle the same amount of weight? - 12/4/08, 11:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
Normal distribution channels don't really work as well in lower traffic markets. When I go to my LBS, I have a handful of choices in $30 aluminum rear racks and a few large trunk bags and that's it. Forget boutique items. They're not going to stock a ~$250 porteur rack. They could make a special order, but I can do that myself just as easily.
- Anonymous said...
I bought my CETMA rack off the shelf at an LBS in Chicago. Cost me less than I would have paid were I to buy it on line from CETMA.
I had a VO rear rack installed on a bike I subsequently sold. The LBS bought the VO special order, chaged me VO's price for the rack, and made its money fitting and installing the rack. - 12/4/08, 12:55 PM
- Dad said...
I really don't know. You'd have to ask Chris. My seat-of-the-pants feeling is that 40 pounds would be an awful lot for the VO rack, unless you used a stronger way to attach the rear of the platform to the bike. There are a couple of ways to do that that occur to me; fortunately, the way Chris has designed this it's very easy to substitute another method of attachment (since it is just a bolt-on to the rack). For a heavy load carried a long way, I think it'd be worth the trouble to make up something bombproof.
The other issue is the platform size. I don't know what would work best for you but it's worth thinking about. The big CETMA one is quite a bit larger.
All in, either would be a great choice, although of course the VO rack is considerably more handsome. - 12/4/08, 2:55 PM
- Steve said...
david nj said:
My seat-of-the-pants feeling is that 40 pounds would be an awful lot for the VO rack, unless you used a stronger way to attach the rear of the platform to the bike. There are a couple of ways to do that that occur to me; fortunately, the way Chris has designed this it's very easy to substitute another method of attachment (since it is just a bolt-on to the rack). For a heavy load carried a long way, I think it'd be worth the trouble to make up something bombproof.
I'm sure an alternate attachment method would help make the rack sturdier. However, the struts aren't triangulated from the outer edges of the rack they way they are on this Rene Herse porteur: http://www.reneherse.com/RHporteur.html How important would that be for heavier loads? - 12/4/08, 3:56 PM
- Velo Orange said...
I've had a few questions about the triangulation thing. First off, the VO rack supports do splay outward, though not all the way to the outer rails. They do not form a 90-degree "box" as on a narrow rack.
Most old porteur racks, like the one Steve links too, were designed for stacks of newspaper where the weight was distributed evenly, and it could be 50-100 lbs. But imagine a smaller yet still heavy weight, say an anvil or a car battery on such a rack. It would cause the platform to bow downward and push the fender into the tire. For the sort of loads I imagined our rack would be used for, like groceries, the VO design was better. Actually it's not really our design; there were plenty of old French racks that have struts like the VO racks and the our rack is based on one of them. - 12/4/08, 4:17 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you David.
Chris: The linked photo shows what I am doing right now with the CETMA (not my bike, but I do the same thing with the same panniers as it happens). On my longest camping trip where I had to carry food and water, I probably had 45 pounds split between the two panniers and another ten or so on top.
Is this more than the Porteur is designd to accommodate? My camper is a right handsome bike. It would do the porteur proud.
http://cetmaracks.com/CETMAgallery/Gallery/index.html - 12/4/08, 5:05 PM
- Jeff said...
I'd happily pay 20 to 30% markup at my LBS - I love them and I want them to stick around. I'm not a wealthy person, but I choose to spend whatever "play" money I might have on bikes and bike parts, all year long, year after year. If I can't find what I'm looking for at my LBS, I'm still a big fan of buying local, so will try sourcing locally instead of ordering from afar. Throwing VO into the mix, well, they're kinda local to me in MD, so.... I'd likely still buy VO stuff at my LBS for a markup if they carried the stuff, but I'd have a tiny internal struggle over it. I have the luxury of supporting my LBS and VO because my LBS doesn't carry VO (yet). Everyone wins!
- Velo Orange said...
Joel, I would not recommend any single rack for carrying 55lbs for long distances over rough roads. That's just not something I've tested our rack to do. My approach is to pack very light and spread the load out over the front and rear racks. But, to be honest, most of my camping experience was bivouacking as an alpinst in my youth. I prefer to stay at inns and B&Bs on bike trips.
- Anonymous said...
Chris: Wherever possible, I certainly prefer sleeping indoors as well. In Europe and the East Coast, B&B's and inns are usually close enough to most choice natural beauty (maybe not in the Adirondacks).
West of the Mississippi and even in parts of the upper midwest (my ride around Lake Superior last summer comes to mind) you either have to bring water and food with you or skip a number of destinations well worth seeing.
Unfortunately the compromise is you need to have a functional, if unattatractive kit on your bike to manage. - 12/5/08, 11:34 AM
- Tom said...
I don't think the carrying load is limited by the rack. It's tig welded stainless by a well respected frame builder. It probably has a weight capacity of 100lbs or more.
The limitations are the weight on the steering axis of the bike. CETMA cautions carrying loads above 40lbs on their racks because 'steering gets all wonky'. if you're already carrying 55lbs- 15lbs over CETMA's recommended load- I don't see how a stainless rack would do any worse. - 12/7/08, 12:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Good Lord! Someone please put some fenders on Tom's bicycle. Quick!
- Tom said...
you can take the kid out of oakland.....
- Anonymous said...
Ok, the most important comment/question...what's Tom riding?
- Tom said...
a benotto fixed frame- columbus tubing, campag fork ends, generic schwinn butted cromoly fork. 39x15 gearing, D/A crank MKS pedals. Prototype dyno hub on the front, high flange campag 28h track hub on the rear. Nitto Promenade bars and a nitto stem. Velo Orange Mod 7 saddle. VO rack with integrated decaleur so I can bring home ground scores.


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