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Publication Date : 21-08-2014
There has been a reset in India's Sri Lanka policy which is at variance with what Narendra Modi and Sushma Swaraj had stated in public in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Addressing an election rally in Chennai on 13 April and another in Ramanathapuram on 17 April, Modi said that just as the Sri Lankan Navy targeted Tamil Nadu fishermen, Pakistan's Navy attacked fishermen from Gujarat. The weak UPA government of Manmohan Singh had failed to protect these fishermen.
If the BJP was voted to power, his government would protect fishermen from both these States, Modi said. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as one of the SAARC Heads of State, was an invitee to the swearing-in ceremony of Modi as Prime Minister in May. In his talks with Rajapaksa and his entourage, Modi made it clear that his government expected Sri Lanka to implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitutuion, an outcome of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka agreement.
Rajapaksa tried to prevaricate, saying such things could not be done overnight. Modi reiterated it was more than five years since the civil war in the island nation ended and the LTTE was decapitated. Departing from the normal practice of issuing a common statement after such talks, Sri Lanka issued a separate statement which said: "President Rajapaksa described the initiatives Sri Lanka has taken with regard to rehabilitation, resettlement, reconstruction and the ongoing reconciliation process in the country. President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Modi also discussed the issue of fishermen of both countries and measures that can be taken to find a permanent solution."
There was not a word about Modi raising non-implementation of the 13th Amendment. Incensed by this lapse, Sujatha Singh, Foreign Secretary, joined official spokesman Syed Akbaruddin to stress that the 13th Amendment was the core subject of discussion between the two leaders. To add to the embarrassment of the Lankan entourage, its only Tamil member, Yogeswary Patgunarajah, Mayor of Jaffna representing the Eelam People's Democratic Party of Douglas Devananda, said in an NDTV programme that Rajapaksa in his talks had agreed to grant police and land powers to the Northern Provincial Council.
Subsequent developments in Colombo indicate a volte-face by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) on the ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka. A day after his return, Rajapaksa asked his minister Nirmal Siripala de Silva to address a press conference in Colombo to clarify his position to the Sri Lankans.
The minister said the 13th Amendment was forced on Sri Lanka by India and that there were practical problems in implementing some of its provisions. Stating that Colombo would always cooperate with India, De Silva said that only the Parliamentary Select Committee could decide on the future of 13th Amendment. De Silva is the chairman of the 19-member PSC to recommend and report on political and constitutional measures to "empower the people of Sri Lanka to live as one nation."
It may be recalled Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister, led a parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka in April 2012 when she was the Leader of the Opposition. Addressing a press conference in Colombo on 21 April 2012, she said Rajapaksa had given her an assurance that he would implement 13th Amendment and go beyond. When a journalist pointed out that some ministers had denied such assurance by the President, Swaraj said: "There is no question of ministers saying and denying anything. The President himself said he would concede both the 13th Amendment and the plus."
Groundwork for resetting the Modi government's policy on Sri Lanka was done by a high-powered BJP delegation comprising Subramanian Swamy, Seshadri Chari of the RSS, Suresh Prabhu of the Shiv Sena, Prof Madhav Nalapat of Manipal Academy and senior journalist Swapan Dasgupta to Colombo for a seminar ostensibly on "India Under Modi: Relevance for the Region and the World," held under the aegis of the Bandaranaika Centre for International Studies.
Introducing Swamy, chairman of the BJP Committee for Strategic Action, Sunimal Fernando, adviser to President Rajapaksa, said if the BJP leader was to contest an election in Sri Lanka, he would have a resounding victory. A common theme of the panelists was that political parties in Tamil Nadu had been using their political clout to pressurise the Union government on Sri Lankan issues. But the Modi government was in a position of strength and was not dependent on any regional party. They were of the view that foreign policy was the exclusive preserve of the Centre and that they could swing it to fall in line with what Rajapaksa stands for.
Ever since the end of the civil war in 2009, Rajapaksa has been promoting Sri Lanka as a unitary state of Sinhala Buddhists. He said the country no longer had minority communities. It had only patriots and traitors. Swamy told the seminar, "We in India are proud that your President was able to defeat terrorism which could have grown into an even more threatening menace." He wondered whether the human right issues raked up by the UNHRC were "contrived to belittle the importance of this victory." No country had such a clear success in eliminating terrorism as Sri Lanka, he said. Referring to non-implementation of the 13th Amendment, Chari said it was the product of a particular situation that existed in 1987. In the changed circumstances all stakeholders should have a re-look at the 13th Amendment.
The pronouncements of the team hogged headlines in the Sri Lanka media which left no one in doubt that it was out to craft a new axis between the BJP and Rajapaksa and the 13th Amendment could be consigned to the waste paper basket. It is noteworthy the March 2014 UNHRC resolution began by saying, "Alarmed at the significant surge in attacks against members of religious minority groups in Sri Lanka, including Hindus, Muslims and Christians.."
The Sinhala majority considers its victory over Tamils as a ratification of its divinely ordained dominion with other groups occupying a subordinate position. On India's abstention from voting on the resolution, Chari said, "The BJP has always held views contrary to the former Indian government on the voting in 2012. However, in 2014, good sense prevailed and India abstained. I strongly believe that both India and Sri Lanka should resolve this issue and collaborate to get the resolution completely withdrawn."
People living in a democratic country should be treated as equals, irrespective of language, ethnicity or religious beliefs. But in Sri Lanka, the minorities are being crushed by the tyranny of the Sinhala Buddhists who constitute nearly 80 per cent of the population. The Northern and the Eastern Provinces, traditional homeland of the Tamils, were once strewn with thousands of temples, churches, mosques, schools, libraries and statues of eminent persons and historical monuments.
Many of them have been razed to the ground. All the five renowned Hindu shrines that existed long before the advent of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Thirukketheeswaram, Thirukkoneswaram, Naguleswaram, Munneswaram and Thondeswaram are now under the control of the armed forces or Sinhala Buddhists. Having subjugated the Tamils, the Sangha, as the Theravada Buddhist monks are referred to, has turned its attention on Muslims, who are also Tamil-speaking.
In September last year, about 100 Buddhist monks demolished a Muslim shrine in the ancient city of Anuradhapura and set a Muslim flag on fire claiming the land had been given to the Sinhalese 2,000 years ago. Since then, the Muslims have been at the receiving end. The current focus of the Rajapaksa government appears to be to use the BJP to consolidate Sinhala Buddhist ethno-nationalism to usher in Boddhistva in Sri Lanka, even as the RSS and the Sangh Parivar are pushing the Modi government to step up the Hindutva agenda.
It would be a betrayal of the Sri Lankan Tamils, the majority of whom are Hindu. Another victim of this reset in India's Sri Lanka policy is the fishermen community in Tamil Nadu whose right to fish in the Palk Strait is protected in both the 1974 agreement of ceding Kachchativu to Sri Lanka and in the 1976 agreement on redrawing the maritime boundary between the two countries.
Both Modi and Swaraj assured the fishermen during the election campaign that their traditional rights in the Palk Strait would be protected if the BJP is voted to power. The fishermen are now asked to eschew their rights and switch to deep sea fishing, away from the reach of Sri Lankan Navy.
(The writer is a veteran journalist and former Director of The Statesman Print Journalism School)
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"We get so involved in that dance, so much that it makes us feel that Mataji (mother) is dancing with us," said Hetal Suchak, who danced with her four-year-old daughter.
The dance last weekend marked the beginning of Navaratri, a festival of nine nights and 10 days that ends today. The annual festival is celebrated in different ways around India and other parts of the world, but the intent is the same -- to worship the female aspect of the divine in all her forms.
The manifestations include the goddess Durga, who represents power, the goddess Lakshmi, who represents wealth, and the goddess Saraswati, who represents knowledge.
"The idea is that God has given you wealth which doesn't belong to you, but to give to others," said Dr. Atish Maniar, a priest for the Hindu Society of Manitoba. "God has given you good strength, not to hurt others, but to protect others. God has given you knowledge, not to spread wrong gossip, but to give solace and understanding to others."
During Navaratri, many Hindus light small lamps at shrines in their homes and at temples. The light from the lamps, known as diya, is offered to the deities.
"That light gives us some strength," Maniar said. "The idea behind lighting the little lamp is not for the god or goddess, because God is a million times brighter than the sun. We light this little lamp praying that 'Give me one ray from that light, so I hate nobody.' "
While people from India's western state of Gujarat celebrate Navaratri with the folk dances Garba and Dandiya, it's celebrated in the eastern part of the country, including West Bengal, mainly through the Durga Puja. A puja is a ritual to honour the deities. In the city of Kolkata alone, devotees set up more than 2,000 pandals or temporary temples.
In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, many families celebrate Navaratri by displaying a Golu, a collection of dolls and figurines set on odd-numbered tiers. The dolls mostly represent gods and goddesses, but may also depict non-religious scenes. It's customary for women and children to visit other homes during Navaratri, view the Golu and receive treats, blessed food, and kumkum, a religious marking made of turmeric or saffron and applied to the forehead.
Deepa Raghavan has tried to maintain the tradition, setting up a Golu in the basement of her Winnipeg home. She has about 200 dolls, most of them purchased during visits to India.
"Each one has a story," she said. "I have a whole story of Krishna from his birth to his wedding."
Her 10-year-old son, Arjun, helped her set up the five steps on which the dolls sit. "It's more for him to follow some of our traditions," she said. "Though it's not as elaborate as what we do back home, it's something to touch base."
During Navaratri, she lights lamps and does a puja in front of the Golu. "I try to do a little puja on weekdays, and on weekends, it's a little bit elaborate," she said.
Melvin Durai is a Winnipeg writer.
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I think it would definitely be best to have some sort of an insert to ensure that the surface is flat for the o-ring seal.
The shedule 40 pvc is 26.67 mm OD and 20.42 mm ID. I've got a friend in a machine shop, so I think I'll have something machined a little sturdier (brass or stainless steel?): 35 mm OD; 22 mm ID; 17 mm thickness
The inner wall around the hole is convex (I'm not sure if it was originally, or if that's from me tightening it down & pinching the walls together). A larger disk/insert would only really be supporting a few mm around the hole anyway.
I still think I'll fill the surrounding space with something supportive as well.
Fibreglass resin exothermic as it cures, and I'm afraid that much between plastic might get too hot. It shrinks as it cures form the inside out as well (so it would pull away from the walls).
RTV (room temperature vulcanizing) silicone, with platinum catalyst for an addition cure rather than a condensation cure (since it's deep & sealed), seems to be what I want. I'll need less than 4 oz, but it seems to be sold by the pound ($40 CAD).
One option I can think of is polyester resin, aka BONDO which is what auto body shops use to fill dents, etc. You could even just dig out whatever insulation you can via the hole the assembly is going to fit into and fill that new space with bondo or that epoxy stick that has the green skin with white center. The idea is to create a rigid "donut" to hold the inner and outer walls of the cooler apart when you tighten down.
If this is done correctly, there should be no worry about food safe or not because the wort shouldn't touch it.
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The problem with fibreglass resin is that can generate a lot of heat and it cures from the inside out. So it would shrink away from the walls as it dried. It would also be very permanent.
The RTV silicon is food safe, has minimal shrinkage, and should seal it up as well. But it's pricie.
I've currently got it together with a delrin spacer and no other filler. I figured I could see if it leaked this way... and I may just leave it like this. But man is the 'xtreme' inner wall thin! I didn't use an o-ring, I used a thicker rubber washer from the faucet section to try & spread out the load a little. The inner wall compressed nicely against the inner spacer.
I wouldn't go smaller than 35 mm OD for the spacer. When the cooler is full of water, the inner wall is pushed up against it. It doesn't seem to be bulging around it though.
By the way, 2.5" pipe nipple was a good length. Lock nut with rubber washer on the inside; big stainless washer on the outside with another lock nut. Once you know it all fits, I suggest threading the ball valve on first (before inserting the assembly).
I was hoping to not have any teflon, but the hose adaptor on the ball valve is dripping.
I like the additional of the piece of PVC.
Not to piss in the punch bowl, but this design can still leak if the o-ring isn't tightly sealed around the nipple (and once you compress the o-ring, especially if you over compress it, they have a tendency to squeeze out). There isn't anything putting external radial force on the o-ring towards the nipple. So, the design isn't inherently leak-free, even though it may be more leak free than most designs. It's certainly more leak free than the weldless set-up on my HLT. That thing leaks like a sieve.
Perhaps you could add a 3rd washer between the cooler inner wall and the existing stainless washers that would have a slightly smaller ID than the OD of the outside of the o-ring. That way you would have the o-ring completely captive, and compressed on both of the sealing surfaces. It might be overkill, but it would slightly improve the design.
The easier improvement on the design is to use a flat silicone washer that fits around the nipple snugly. It won't be squeezed out. The intent of the design was to solve two major problems with the popular designs. Putting the oring over threads. Clamping two thinwall pieces of plastic together with no internal support.
I used this design more or less for my MLT. A few brews ago I accidentally dropped my MLT from my two-story deck onto the brick patio below (empty). It still does not leak.
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It's hard to initiate task-sharing. But once you do, you'll never go back. Here's how to get started.
1. Evaluate your employees. You'll never let team members take over tasks unless you're confident in their abilities. To learn what they're capable of, review your training programs and make a checklist of the skills they've mastered.
2. Evaluate yourself. Even though the gods of medicine tremble at your healing powers, you're not perfect. Recognize that many people around you are more skilled at client education, blood drawing, bookkeeping, and a host of other common chores.3. Praise staff for trying. Foster an atmosphere that's accepting of team members' stumbles as they learn—never criticize for failing to succeed, only failing to try. Here's a way to do this: Carry poker chips in your pocket and give one to staff members who step in and complete nondoctor tasks when they see you performing them. At month's end, the person with the most chips wins a prize.
4. Write standing orders. List the procedures team members can automatically complete in certain situations, such as fecal exams on pets with diarrhea. Standing orders encourage independence and improve efficiency. Post them on the wall, so you'll be forced to abide by them.
5. Write protocols. Do this for all clinic situations: outpatient visits, surgery, annual exams, and so on. Include who should be where and who's responsible for which tasks—your only tasks should be to diagnose, prescribe, chart, and perform surgery. If the jobs don't flow smoothly, discuss it at a team meeting rather than taking over and doing things yourself.
6. Set deadlines. First, set sacred lunch and leaving times. You'll naturally delegate work to meet them. Add deadlines as you fine-tune the timing for other tasks. The goal is that your friend or spouse could call at any time of day and you'll be able to say when you're leaving—and then do so.
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building a small house-suggestions needed
My husband and I are currently living in a camper with the plans to build something very small on our farm. We have a budget of $10,000 to get started then the rest will be cash as we go. We are thinking 32' x 40' - 1 story w/9 ft ceilings. I've searched for good house plans but can't find anything this small so I'm working up my own. I would like to make the bath area spa like & nice. We need 1 larger bedroom w/one small enough for an occasional guest. The master bedroom would have a Queen size bed. I love to cook so would like good counter space & storage. Would like a small dining area (thought maybe a built in with storage under the seat). If anyone out there has any other suggestions or experience I would be most grateful. I've given the grown children all of the furniture except one glass cherry wood china cabinet so I would be starting fresh with the furniture.
thank you very much for your replies. My husband comes from the type of family where bigger HAS to be better and over the years I have shown him PAID FOR is better. We have had the big house and a really tiny one at the beach. We never had company at the big one only the little one at the beach. Just goes to show-location, location, location. We sold the big one and have kept the tiny one now in looking ahead to our retirement we want a little one in AL for our hunting and fishing lifestyle. And I guess I should mention, I garden. My husband went through an illness that took most of the equity we had from the sale of the big one so with lots of praying we are plowing on with our dreams in this tough economy.
I normally don't participate on house plan or layout threads, but there's something about your posts that spoke to me...your interests, I guess.
My house is about 1000 sf. 1 floor. It's just me and 5yr old daughter living here.
My thoughts might be kind of random and based on personal preference and realizations, but here goes:
1. Have plenty of windows. It makes all the difference in my opinion to not feeling cramped...and that overall sense of well-being. I lived in a 2800 sf-2 story house when I was married. It had 14 windows and plenty of room to run. It was a dark cave despite the square footage. My current 1000sf house has 14 windows and it's wonderful. I feel like I have room to breathe in half the space.
The problem with having lots of windows is that if you like furniture and decor, and messing around with that...windows everywhere can limit furniture placement and options if you're not careful about it. Something to keep in mind.
2. If it's typical to have a basement in your area...get one. If not, put in accessible attic space. I don't have or need a lot of "stuff", but if I didn't have a basement to store things (tools, holiday items, paint cans, cat litter box, hobby things, etc), I would be an unhappy camper! Take a realistic inventory of the "stored stuff" and make sure you incorporate appropriate storage for what you have with room to grow. THEN make sure you put in appropriate storage (closets, etc) for your daily functions. It's no fun to fill your living space storage with holiday stuff and figure out later you can't use the coat closet because the xmas tree is in there.
3. I am a gardener too! In my little house, I am sooo thankful my house is not a straight-lined rectangle. The original enclosed porch on the side has been finished into a room, so there's a decent sized bump-out to the east. I have a 12x20 screened porch on the south.
An irregular footprint will give you little outdoor nooks to create special little gardening spaces verus expansive straight lines and 4 corners.
My former big house had a straight rectangle footprint and it was hard to be creative or make anything special around the house. LOVE my little house with odd nooks when it comes to gardening.
4. I don't know about your climate, but we've got cold & snow in my parts. When it comes to entertaining in a small house, outdoor spaces are your best friend! Screened porch, deck, well-placed driveway with attractive surroundings, you get the idea...think about those things and incorporate them into the plan.
In 1000 sf, I can have about 4 people over in the house and it's fine. More than that in the house is crowded. I mostly have family & friends over during nicer seasons and the extra spaces to sit and congregate are fabulous.
I need to go to work. I have more. Will post back later when I have time.
oh, you are soooo terrific to help me figure this stuff out. I love the plan posted! Such good ideas! I guess I should share as much info as possible.....
We have explored many options and right now are leaning toward a pole barn construction (due to cost of construction) for the outer walls - 40 across x 36 deep w/ 10ft ceilings with the inside being a "box". The door will be from the left & right not front or back. On the left side will be 20 ft x 36 deep open pole barn. Right side will be my parking and a small kitchen veg garden. I might be dreaming but I want: master: queen size bed, no window, nice walk in closet, bathroom: a large tiled shower w/seat & multiple spray heads, regular sized tub tiled same as shower-no shower w/tub (might can find a claw foot tub and build a step up w/drawers under), his/hers sinks with a row of drawers in between and a tall pantry type cabinet in that room somewhere, kitchen: tall panty for stock pile & canned foods in the kitchen, open bar with lower cabinets able to have least 2 black metal bar seats, ref flush w/cabinets, regular type electric stove with bottom oven, deep sink, Extra bedroom: no ideas except can be smallish w/1 queen bed. Den area: flat screen tv w/ at least 1 oversized recliner (huband�s want), no fireplace. Glass & cherry wood display cabinet to fit somewhere (maybe a smallish entryway) & also still have a cherry wood bench.
Summerfield, what I would give to be 40 years younger and let you throw such lovely plans my way! I can look at your houses and feel the flow right away. Also the selection of materials is apparent with the textures shown in your software program. You sure know how to use it.
Marti, I really appreciate your comment. It comes at the right time, when I'm "girding my loins" to get up the energy to tackle refurbishing the garden for the big growing season. We are cutting it close this year, because the stucco work on the garage is holding us up.
Do you suppose that every old person feels as I do, that the head and the spirit are still young, yet the flesh betrays me? I read a book years ago, YOUR INNER CHILD OF THE PAST, which contends that at no time do we stop being the person we were the day before, so the child within is still there. The more I see the young adults I knew as children, I see that they ARE the same as they were then, so I know that the same is true of myself. As a child, I lulled myself to sleep drawing houses in my mind, and walking through the rooms. It is something I do to this day.
At what point is one old? I'm almost 58, and planning to build my own house. Not hire somebody to do it, but actually do it myself! Well, some stuff will be hired, since I don't have the equipment or expertise.....
I suppose I should let Summerfield tweak my plan,too, but believe or not, I think I've reached the end on (major) re-design. After reams of graph paper, and a thousand and one electronic drawings, I'm suddenly OK with my design, I've either tired of the process, or God is telling me 'This is the one'.
I do hope my body is up to it, otherwise I will kill myself trying.
You can grow older, but never grow old.
ML, I'm probably not the one to ask, as I am sitting here now with an ice pack on my shoulder & neck. lol
Jay I think your plan is good, and power to you to build it yourself. When dh & I built our little house (prior to this one), his dad helped us, and he was in his late 50's or early 60's at the time.
Summerfield Designs: I love your plan! You are really good at this: Can you help me visilize the following: I might be writing this backwards as I am new to all of this. My husband is going to build 60' long x 36' deep pole barn. He plans to utilize 40' x 36' deep. The right end will be our door and the left end will be the open pole barn section 20' x 36'. The right end will over look a pond so would like some nice windows.
Nathanomaxine. We just helped our daughter with putting living quarters in her covered roping arena. The arena is huge with a side shed running down one entire side, and they basically built a box inside the arena for temorary living quarters. Sounds somewhat like what you are planning. The area right next to the house is used for covered parking/patio. It has worked out well for them as well as friends who've done the same thing in their barn.
Summerfield: Love your plan. It uses the space very efficiently with little wasted space. Love that you were able to incorporate the spa bath, pantry, & office space all into the design.
Gayle: I agree about the windows. We live on a wooded lot & the house is just dark no matter what. If I had it to do over, would have incorporated a few more windows downstairs - or maybe I just need to cut some trees!! I do love irregular shaped homes - so much more interesting. Unfortunately, I understand they are also more expensive to build. We've got one bump out in our house that I love & have been able to add other garden spaces by the shape & positioning of our deck. I love working outside in the yard!
ML: I'm also more young at heart than young in years. My head is full of projects I want to be working on, but my body's not holding up as well as it used to!!! DH & I are both mid 50's, but still working on lots of projects & have no plans to stop - just may take us a little longer than it used to!!!!
Hi, I hope that you are still looking at the replys for your post. First, I want to tell you that I am doing basically the same thing, building a home for under $10,000. I am not including the cost of the lot, but it was only $3800 for a 75 X 110 foot lot. There is an existing septic tank system, or it would not be possible to build at the $10,000 target price. First, we hired an engineer by placing an ad on craigslist. We received bids ranging from $5000 to $750. After talking with the low bidder, we retained him to prepare a plan that will be accepted by the building authority. What good is a plan that will not be issued a building permit? The minimum size allowable turns out to be around 350 square foot. That works out to about $28.50 per square foot, or about 1/4th the cost of building a standard wood frame house with electrical, plumbing, and roof. You originally stated that you wanted to build a house 32 X 40 foot with 9 foot ceilings. That is about 1280 sq ft. With a budget of $10,000, you would be spending a little less than 8 dollars per square foot. I think that houses could be built for that price around a hundred years ago, but not today. However, having been through this myself, I would like to share what we are doing. We decided that as an older couple, we could get by with a house of around 640 square foot. A mobile home this size would cost around $40,000 dollars new and up. Finding a newer used one isn't easy, but they are out there. The problem is moving them. Also another problem is that here in Florida, we are only able to use newer models designed for high winds and less than 10 years old in the county our lot is located in. We were unable to find one that could be moved and set up to meet our $10,000 dollar goal. So, we have decided to use two 40 foot shipping containers. I can get two delivered to my lot for under $5000. We will cut out the adjoining walls to make a 16 X 40 steel shell. We are only enclosing a bedroom and bathroom. The rest will be open. The engineer will draw the required electrical, plumbing, and all other details that will be needed to meet the code standards. We are using what are called High Cube shipping containers that are 9 foot 6 inches tall as opposed to the regular 8 foot 6 inch standard shipping container size. I expect that we will hang a suspended ceiling and are considering pouring a concrete floor inside the containers after they are joined. That is the plan so far except that we are including a stairway to the roof where I will be covering with a liner and then putting in some good growing soil for roof top gardening. I plan to eventually add some nice siding on the containers, but hot until we are already living in it. The inner walls will be sheet rocked over some insulation. Can we do this for $10,000? I'm not sure yet, but I will have the basic home with bedroom and bathroom (ie occupancy permit) for right at that price. I have already found some good used double paned windows and am looking for other used things like a sliding glass and regular solid wood door for the 2nd entrance. If you think that this may be an option for you, let me know. Maybe an engineer in your area can do the same thing for you. I know that this is not for most people, but it is at leat somewhat realistic. Containers are designed for heavy roof loads, so they should be fine in snow ares. Good luck, chuck
I think it can be a great place - like making a barn or carriage house into an apt! you might have to do some of the finer details later down the road tho.
did I read you want no windows in the bdrm? why? please have a window for fresh air and sunshine!
you might be able to get most of what you'll need inside from a restore or on CL. check them out.
ML - as a kid I used to fall asleep a lot of nights designing house layouts, mentally furnishing them. About all I had to go on furniture wise was from the Sears catalog - or what I saw on tv.
No windows in the bedroom out of desperation! My husband has sleep issues where light (even the tiniest amount) wakes him or will keep him awake.
We have settled on doing a pole barn. We like the roof line look that has trusses (peak). The $10,000 would be for the building, concrete, plumbing. The rest would would complete paycheck to paycheck (walls & such). We plan to leave our camper intact for the kitchen until we get that complete. We are going to start with the master bedroom & master bath walls. We have been given bathroom sink, and all the lights we could use (someone went out of business and did not want to put in a warehouse). We are now trying to decided if we are going to build 2 smaller and join (turning each opposite leaving a space for a front porch this way or 1 large.
If you are building to code, you have to have a window or other secondary means of egress in the bedroom- in fact, it has to be above a certain size so a person could crawl out of it. Even if there are no inspections to deal with, I would be paranoid about sleeping in a room with only one way out.
I feel your pain. Even though I'm nowhere close to being ready to acquire land and build, I still look through small house plans in hopes of finding something more defined and tangible to shoot for. But I have been through design site after design site, log cabin sites, manufactured sites, you name it and I have yet to come across something that jumps off the page. Too many walls, insufficient porch space, bad bathroom layouts, no exterior appeal, etc. I just can't nail down what I'm looking for. If the circumstances ever do come together and I am ready to build, I will have to seek out a good architect/designer who will listen and create around my vision, not theirs. Hard to find.
Good for you for not falling into the Too Tiny Trap while striving to build mortgage free. Your proportions sound reasonable and liveable. If you want to live in something portable, buy an Airstream or a sailboat. Claiming to be able to "live" in 80sf is a joke.
you can buy special (not expensive) darkening blinds for windows. you could cover the window with black paper, darkening blinds and heavy curtains. that should keep it out while allowing an escape if needed and - the ability to open it during non sleeping times.
They also have something called BLACKOUT FABRIC which Hancock and Joann Fabrics sells. A set of drapes lined with that, and some Roman shades with a good light filtering lining also, should help a lot. Go floor to ceiling with the drapes, and maybe wall to wall if need be.
Hi, sorry to come late to this thread but I thought I'd share some resources you might find useful:
http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php is a good resource to share ideas with fellow small house owner-builders
http://www.backwoodshome.com/author_index.html for inspirational stories by Dorothy Ainsworth and Jackie Clay who build their homes in stages with very low budgets
One comment on your 32x40 is that one story is often more expensive than building a 2nd floor. If you're open to that, one thought is a kit like this:
http://www.firstdaycottage.com/Main.html is a build-it-yourself home originally designed for teachers to build over summer break.
Good luck!


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Weed ID please? (pictures incl.)
What a strange little weed, it's just a single leaf, never seen anything like it.
These are growing in the mulch at the base of my oak tree clump in the middle of my lawn. They are strange single leaves growing off a long root strand, I assume they are all interconnected deep underground somehow, somewhere, but when I try to dig deep, I inevitably cut the root strand and can't see how far down it goes. I'll probably just use a small paintbrush and some herbicide on each leaf....but any clue what it is?
Wow, you mean an invader that I may actually want to keep! Cool, I'll leave them alone the rest of this season and see what happens. I wonder if the previous owner planted them around the base of the tree to make things look nice there, you could be right.
Unless someone things it's something else... The majority are growing in the mulch at the base of the tree, some are growing in the lawn area surrounding the tree (they seem to be growing outwards in lines extending from the centerpoint at the tree).


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Viewed from Bandak, the rugged silhouettes of Risen and Gygri loom up against the sky, but Gygri has no head . . . There is a legend associated with these rock formations. The trolls Risen and Gygri lived at Juvstøyl. One day, when Risen went out on an errand, Gygri stayed at home to cook porridge. When Risen came home, he found neither the porridge nor the cook, as Gygri had gone to visit someone in the Bandak mountains. Risen became angry and ran out in search of his wife. He found her at the top of the highest cliff face. They started fighting, pulling each other's hair out, and finally Risen tore Gygri's head off, but only after she had pulled off his genitals. Risen then threw her head across the fjord to Barskor. Since that day they have stood there as rock statues, and they are clearly visible both from Bandak and Lårdalstigen.
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I have an application for storing information about consultants in a database. The model is an Entity Framework model, and the database tables are Consultant with one-to-many relationships to a number of other tables (WorkExperiences, Programs, CompetenceAreas, etc). Now, when I want to create a new Consultant object in a View, I would really just want to pass a Consultant object as the model to the View. But for one, it has been suggested to me (Collection of complex child objects in Asp.Net MVC 3 application?) that I shouldn't do this, but use ViewModels instead. Secondly, and maybe this is the reason, I get an error saying "The EntityCollection has already been initialized" when I try to post the Consultant object if using it as a model in the View, and the cause of the error seems to be the collections of objects such as WorkExperiences.
So my first question is why I'm getting this error.
But more importantly, if I should instead use a ViewModel, how would I do that properly? Because I have in fact tried something, and got it working. But...the code is awful. Can anyone please tell me what I should be doing instead to get this working more cleanly?
Let me show you what I have (that again works, but is a nightmare codewise):
The GET Create method:
public ActionResult Create()
Consultant consultant = new Consultant();
ConsultantViewModel vm = GetViewModel(consultant);
return View(vm);
Helper method to create the "ViewModel" (if this is in fact what a ViewModel is supposed to be like):
private ConsultantViewModel GetViewModel(Consultant consultant)
ConsultantViewModel vm = new ConsultantViewModel();
vm.FirstName = consultant.FirstName;
vm.LastName = consultant.LastName;
vm.UserName = consultant.UserName;
vm.Description = consultant.Description;
vm.Programs = consultant.Programs.ToList();
vm.Languages = consultant.Languages.ToList();
vm.Educations = consultant.Educations.ToList();
vm.CompetenceAreas = consultant.CompetenceAreas.ToList();
vm.WorkExperiences = consultant.WorkExperiences.ToList();
return vm;
The POST Create method:
[ValidateInput(false)] //To allow HTML in description box
public ActionResult Create(ConsultantViewModel vm, FormCollection collection)
Consultant consultant = CreateConsultant(vm);
return RedirectToAction("Index");
return View();
Helper method to create a Consultant object (this one is particularly awful, where I have to check that collections are not null, in case the user decides not to add anything in those lists...):
private Consultant CreateConsultant(ConsultantViewModel vm)
Consultant consultant = new Consultant();
consultant.Description = vm.Description;
consultant.FirstName = vm.FirstName;
consultant.LastName = vm.LastName;
consultant.UserName = vm.UserName;
if (vm.Programs != null)
foreach (var program in vm.Programs)
if (vm.Languages != null)
foreach (var language in vm.Languages)
if (vm.Educations != null)
foreach (var education in vm.Educations)
if (vm.WorkExperiences != null)
foreach (var workExperience in vm.WorkExperiences)
if (vm.CompetenceAreas != null)
foreach (var competenceArea in vm.CompetenceAreas)
return consultant;
So, again it works, but is nowhere near as clean as if I could have used a Consultant object directly (if not for that "EntityCollection is already initialized" error"...). So how should I do it instead?


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