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Professional Surface Restoration
A common problem that consistently occurs, even in the finest hotels, is damaged and scuffed wallpaper...
...in hallways, guestrooms, lobbies and conference rooms. Luggage carts, housekeeping carts and sadly, carelessness all contribute to the problem. Many hotels have tried "magic erasers" but it usually looks worse than before, leaving a dark scuff highlighted by a white ring. In the past, there didn't seem to be any option besides shutting down part of the hotel and re-wallpapering. This is a messy, disruptive, and expensive procedure which must be repeated regularly. The alternative has been to allow the standard of the hotel to diminish.
Another problem that hotels, restaurants, offices and residences encounter is the scuffing and wear of wooden front desks, lobby & room furniture, doors, bars, tables, chairs, etc.
The Solution
The professionals at Master's Touch have developed solutions to these problems. Our master colourists will match the patterns and tones of your wallpaper and woodgrains using water-based, non-toxic, quick-drying acrylic paint that is as washable and durable as the wallpaper and wood surfaces themselves.
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"Don and Maureen Clarke of Master's Touch are wonderful to work with. They went above and beyond the scope of work that was asked for bringing the needed touch ups and refinishing work back to life. Many of the outlined areas that needed attention look fantastic again thanks to them. The attention to detail and matching of colors look as if it was brand new. We were happy with the job that they did so much so that we can't wait to have them back again."
- Alex Thorne, Director of Operations
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
"I am pleased to offer a Letter of Recommendation for Don and Maureen Clarke and their business Master's Touch.
Don and Maureen performed a "facelift" on all furniture in our village units. The units have been in operation since 2006 and the furniture looked work and needed either replacement or repair.
Don and Maureen completed the work on the units at a quality and efficiency above and beyond our expectations. Touching up the furniture and not replacing it was considerable cost saving for the resort as well as environmentally friendly.
The units look fresh and the furniture could pass almost as new.
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have further questions."
- Sabine Burmeister, General Manager
Halcyon Hot Springs Resort
"I am very pleased to be able to offer a Letter of Recommendation for Don and Maureen Clark and the company, Master's Touch, out of Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
In November of 2014, we contracted Master's Touch to do some repair work on the wallpaper throughout the Resort, particularly in the hallways and public areas. The damage was considerable after a few years of luggage carts, guest luggage and team bookings. In four weeks, Don and his crew had completed five floors of the hotel. Their work was extremely professional.
Going this route with Master's Touch was a considerable cost saving to us. Our only other option was to close down areas of the hotel in order to completely re-wallpaper the guestroom floors. Master's Touch was able to match the colour and texture perfectly. The crew was able to work around our occupancy without any interference in the normal day-to-day operation of our business. Their products are environmentally friendly, in keeping with the practices at the Penticton Lakeside Resort.
It is a pleasure to provide Master's Touch with a recommendation. As a businessman, the service they provided us is extremely valuable."
- David Prystay, General Manager
Penticton Lakeside Resort, Convention Centre & Casino
"After over 30 years in the hotel business I finally discovered an inexpensive solution to the hideous scuffs and marks to hotel wall vinyl: Don Clarke and Master's Touch Decorative Surface Restoration. Don's work is quite miraculous making those scuffs and marks disappear. Our 10 year old wall vinyl appears brand new once again. I would highly recommend Don and Master's Touch to anyone. We are also experimenting with him on broken tile. Should you have any question feel free to contact me directly."
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Commercial and Industrial Epoxy Flooring
Strong Bond has quickly built a reputation for quality commercial/industrial work.
We have all the equipment required and are 100% focused on customer satisfaction,
and working around the hours of operation of your business.
Contact us for a free consultation on your facility, we can help.
Many commercial and industrial facilities are subject to much heavier traffic than a residential garage. For that reason, we need to ensure the floor is properly prepped.
This may involve more detailed preparation or using heavier grinding machinery than we use on residential garage floors.
Strong Bond will diamond grind, or shot blast, your floor to ensure that it is ready to accept the epoxy. From there we begin the normal application process.
This is our most popular for residential garages. We have 6 custom flake patterns in stock and can special order any colour choice you like. If you have a special request, we can sit with you and use our custom flake selection software to find the perfect colour.
This is just what it says….one solid colour… of your choice. Think of it like you are applying a long lasting protective coating to your floor, except this is guaranteed and will not flake off in a couple of years like floor paint, or the "do-it-yourself epoxy kits" do. The colour selection is up to you and is larger than the rainbow. You can choose almost any colour.
Polished concrete is quickly becoming the ultimate no-wax flooring material. Strong Bond now offers concrete polishing using state of the art propane powered concrete polishers. Concrete Polishing is ideal for rejuvenating old and tired concrete and terrazzo floors to make them look "better than new"!


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Wednesday reading: Grimaldi, Sioux vote, NCHC, Skating for Hope
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According to the Grand Forks Herald, Rocco Grimaldi will be a freshman next season and eligible for WCHA rookie of the year.
The state's voters have voted to eliminate the Sioux nickname in convincing fashion. No doubt there will be some more legal wrangling but it will be much harder for nickname supporters to keep up the fight now.
Yes: 113,684 (67.35%)
No: 55,114 (32.65%)
426/426 Precincts reporting. A "Yes" vote retires the nickname.
Zach Parise may be looking at the Wild now that he is a free agent. I am not ready to buy that just yet. The Kings are more likely since they can expect to be a playoff contender.
Here are some good details from the NCHC postseason announcement, including a logo in the next three weeks and talk of a new league championship trophy.
The second "Skating for Hope" fundraiser is coming up.


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Links in Education Week: February 2, 2005
This page provides links to reports and resources highlighted in this issue of Education Week. The headlines show the Education Week stories in which the references appear. The links below them will take you to resource materials on other Web sites.
Advanced Placement Participation Grows
- "Advanced Placement Report to the Nation 2005" is available online from the College Board. ()
NGA Task Force Endorses More Inclusion for Preschool
- "Building the Foundation for Bright Futures" is available online from the National Governors Association. ()
First Amendment Attitudes Found Troubling
- "The Future of the First Amendment" is available online from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Researchers Connect Lower Achievement, High School Exit Tests
- "The Relationship of High School Graduation Exams to Graduation Rates and SAT Scores" is available online from the Education Policy Analysis Archives. ()
Researchers Map Teen Sex Pattern
- An abstract of "Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks" is available online from the American Journal of Sociology.
Report Roundup
- Standards Reform Seen as Unfinished:
"Unfinished Business: More Measured Approaches in Standards-Based Reform" is available online from ETS. ()
- Achievement Gap:
"Achievement Distributions and Fiscal Inequality in New Mexico Public School Districts" is available online from The Rural School and Community Trust. ()
- Learning Disabilities:
An abstract of "Neurologic and Developmental Disability at Six Years of Age after Extremely Preterm Birth" is available online from the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Childhood Asthma:
"Reducing Childhood Asthma Through Community-Based Service DeliveryNew York City, 2001-2004" is available online from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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I saw this video today on Huffington Post and thought that it was AWESOME. Check it out below.
How cute is Junior and his owner? Can he sing or what? This awesome video reminded me of Bystander Revolution and their #MonthOfAction Campaign. The first challenge was Monica Lewinsky's challenge, Make Em' Laugh. You had to send a funny video to someone. The challenge was all about the quote "Laughter is the best medicine." It's so true. If we are sad, something as simple as a video of a dog singing makes us laugh and feel better. I know that I laughed when I watched this video and I know you did, too.
Let Junior and his owners teach us to laugh, smile, be happy and be kind. And sing. Always be singing.


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Main event at last?
Silverstone has been talking about its wireless handheld device that utilises the SideShow feature new to Windows Vista for a little while, but at Computex 2008 it showed one in full working order.
Product manager Tony Ou (pictured), showed HEXUS.channel the MFP52 Sideshow Unlimited in action and is has the potential to be just the kind of product we've been waiting for to make the most of Vista's media centre functionality.
It uses Bluetooth to effectively act as a remote control and Gadgets to keep itself refreshed with content from the host PC. It can also function as a portable media player and even has a microphone and speaker to allow it to be used as a Skype phone.
It is expected to reach the UK in a couple of months and its US dollar pricing is around $250. For more information about SideShow functionality, click here.


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A few months ago, top news agency Reuters was severely criticized for publishing digitally altered photos from Lebanon. The unfortunate incident is now better known as the "Adnan Hajj photographs controversy," leaving a dark blemish in the use of digital photography for news reportage. [Read more…]
WordPress 2.0.7 Released
Just ten days after releasing version 2.0.6, WordPress 2.0.7 is now available for public download. This update addresses a PHP security issue in certain versions of the popular scripting language, as well as a Feedburner problem that was inadvertently introduced in 2.0.6. Similar to the previous updates, the WordPress team labels this as a recommended upgrade. [Read more…]
Announcing Habari: The New WordPress?
Have you heard about Habari? Habari is a new blogging platform from familiar names formerly associated with WordPress. The project was announced by Chris J. Davis earlier this month, who's one of the core developers of the new weblog publishing application.
But is there space for another WordPress alternative? [Read more…]
Recommended Update: WordPress 2.0.6
In light of the recently reported cross–site scripting vulnerabilities in WordPress, version 2.0.6 has been released to address the said issues in the templates.php file as detailed in these entries from Operation N and Security Focus. (As cited in our related coverage.)
Along with the aforementioned fixes, changes were made specific to the comments system, now filtering for input that may ruin layouts and markup. Also listed in the summary of changes is the compatibility for PHP/FastCGI setups and the now functional HTML quicktags for Safari browsers. [Read more…]
Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogfights
What makes blogs and bloggers prone to blogfights? Wired just ran a story on the best blogfights of 2006 and I'm sure most of us are aware of at least one of those listed. Remember Kevin Rose vs. Jason Calacanis?
But what really brings bloggers to quarrel? [Read more…]
Is Digg A Valid Search Engine Result?
Over at Search Engine Journal (and at digg.com), there is a discussion regarding digg.com pages showing up at google.com search results, along with the actual link to the relevant story or article. However, there have been instances where the digg page ranks higher than the actual link.
Do you think digg shouldn't be in google's results? [Read more…]
Is Your Password Secure?
Several weeks ago, a phishing attack on popular social networking site MySpace.com managed to harvest thousands of actual usernames and passwords. These users were tricked into entering their account details in a hosted user page that was intentionally designed to appear like a legitimate MySpace login page. Since the page's URL was within the myspace.com domain, even net–savvy users were caught unaware of the attack.
Are our passwords ever safe? [Read more…]
Blog To Share
Bloggers are into blogging for a variety of reasons. Most of the very first used their blogs as personal journals, until it grew into an extension of their professional practice. Web designers and open source hackers immediately come to mind. Niche blogs on specific interests and discussions are some of the more recent uses of this medium, now frequently tied up with other advanced technologies.
But what has always been common in almost all weblogs? [Read more…]
AdSense discourages images near ads
Google's AdSense along with cheap web hosting and free blog providers has helped spawn today's continuous growth of blogging and online advertising. Basically, everyone can now publish a weblog and hope that someone clicks on their paid text links block.
The unfortunate result of the accelerated growth has been the creation of MFA (Made For AdSense) sites that serve no valuable information but focus only in generating revenue. Similarly, the professional blogging community came into prominence with its wealth of experience and knowledge on how to optimize blogs for higher click–through rates and traffic, which leads to better revenues. [Read more…]
Improving the WordPress comment system
Do you think WordPress needs better comment management functionality? Prolific WordPress blogger Lorelle VanFossen discusses what she thinks is WordPress's most significant weakness, the lack of a simpler and more intuitive way of handling comments in the popular blogging platform.
I'€™m sure that your '€œnumber one flaw'€ or lacking feature in WordPress might be different from mine, but this is one that really bothers me. I think the solution is simple. So the question is: Why hasn'€™t something been done to fix this flaw?
The flaw? Comments.
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Don't Rake and Bag Leaves – Mow Them!
Mowing leaves saves time and labor while fertilizing lawns!
Put away the rake. Bag the bags. The best strategy for homeowners to manage fall leaves involves a tool regularly used during summer.
A lawn mower might be the most valuable implement for homeowners coping with the annual deluge of fall leaves, said Todd Ruedt, owner of Grounds Maintenance Services, Brookfield. Especially in the early weeks of fall, mowing leaves can save hours of labor while naturally fertilizing lawns.
"You can usually mulch leaves with a lawnmower up until the last big drop," Ruedt said. "Because of its much smaller size, mulched leaf material breaks down rapidly and adds nutrients to the soil. With winter right around the corner, grass can certainly use the extra nourishment."
Homeowners can mow leaves as long as grass is visible afterward beneath the cut-up material, Ruedt said. The green indicates that grass won't be "suffocated" under a mat of leaves.
Mulched leaves can also be spread onto planting beds up to a half-inch deep as fertilizer.
"The organic matter can be tilled into a garden or put into a perennial bed, where it will help the perennials survive the winter," Ruedt said.
Mowed leaves might need to be raked late in the season, when trees finally empty their branches, or on heavily-wooded lots with lots of volume. Even then, Ruedt said, the mulched material will require less than half as many bags to collect as whole leaves.
Homeowners wanting to dispose of leaves can take them to a recycling center, hire a landscaping professional for removal, or compost the material, Ruedt said.
Composting requires regular turning of the material to aerate it and accelerate decomposition. Serious composting usually is done in an area that is staked-off and fenced with chicken-wire mesh, Ruedt said. Homeowners composting on a small scale can use a compost bin that is easily rotated.
Nature disposes of leaves on its own. Mowing kick-starts the process of natural removal, Ruedt said.
"No one rakes leaves in the woods. Yet every spring all the leaves are gone," he said.
Press release written and developed by Rick Moon with Lunar Commications
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The runoff attached to Fun Fun Fun Fest during the first weekend in November has paid off for Houston, which will see dates from Baroness -- fingers crossed, Tomahawk, Converge, Red Fang, Valient Thorr, and now Public Image Ltd.
The post-Sex Pistols John Lydon project will play Clear Lake's Scout Bar on Friday, November 2. Yes, the venue seems a tad incongruous for PiL, but the band has never done anything normal in their nearly four-decade run.
They released their first album in 20 years, This Is PiL, back in May, following up 1992's That What Is Not.
The band formed in 1978 after the break-up of the Sex Pistols, and showed off a different, angular, and challenging side to Lydon, nee Johnny Rotten. Lydon is the only member left from the original lineup, which included Keith Levene, Jim Walker, and Jah Wobble.
Deer Tick's John McCauley recently played a UK festival with Lydon's group and wrote that PiL circa 2012 is worth checking out.
Ticket prices are set at $35 and go on sale to the public on Friday, September 7, at 10 a.m. through the Front Gate Tickets. This one is sure to sell out very quickly. No openers have named as of yet.
It looks like the last Houston PiL show was a November 17, 1989 gig at Numbers on Westheimer with Flesh For Lulu. Earlier that year they came through Austin supporting New Order.
The author was not there at the Numbers show because he was six years old and at Hermann Hospital waiting for younger brother to be born, but I am sure that some of our readers may have been at Numbers that night.
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NASA GISS, a division of Vandelay Industries?
Some days I find things by accident. Today, researching for something else online, serendipity paid me a visit. Fans of the hit sitcom "Seinfeld" may recognize this logo. Fans of the show may also recognize this restaurant: Fans of Real Climate might recognize this man:


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Fuel Polishing – Cleaner Fuel Equals Healthier Generators
If you've not heard the term 'fuel polishing' before, it's the process of removing moisture and microbial contamination from fuel. In this case, generator diesel, and not only does it make for a much more efficient generator, but cleaner fuel contributes significantly to the general health and longevity of a generator; of course, a significant piece of equipment from which a long life ensures a good return on investment.
"My fuel's not dirty!" – Well, perhaps not 'dirty', but over time, because of the biological nature of diesel, the fuel attracts moisture and sediments can form. Enter shentongroup's dedicated fuel polishing service! We provide a dedicated fuel polishing machine which can be taken almost anywhere, thanks to it operating on a standard 240v supply, and can be powered from one of our 5kva generators. It's actually a 110v system, so it's perfect for building sites and other environments where health and safety departments may have imposed voltage limits throughout a site. So, wherever you need continuous power and backup generators, our fuel polishing machine can be with you, polishing over 2500 litres of fuel per hour.
So how do we polish fuel exactly? The process utilises an additional 110v transfer pump. Pumping the fuel from your fuel tanks into our fuel bowser, we agitate the fuel, drawing contaminants and condensation through the fuel polisher. Here these impurities are removed and the cleaner fuel is then fed back to the bowser. We repeat this a number of times, ensuring that your fuel is as clean as possible.
If you're running generators this summer, don't take chances with dirty fuel. Get the best efficiency from cleaner fuel! Speak to shentongroup about our fuel polishing services today.


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Garrett AT Max Overview
Compared to all other models of metal detectors by Garrett, AT Max offers the lowest searching frequency of 13,6 khz. This frequency is considered one of the most one-size-fits-all for metal detecting. Due to that, this model of the detector allows to search for big and small objects alike; it performs better during the beach search, allowing to set higher sensitivity and gives less false signals on mineralized soils.
While it seems that having several frequencies on one metal detector is a brilliant idea, in reality, it's not, because no one is going to check the same section with several frequencies, one by one. Therefore, having one best frequency is an optimal decision.
This feature, together with enhanced software and classic construction, makes AT Max a new hit among all the products by Garrett. Below, we'll talk about new features and the main pros and cons in more detail.
What's New
There is a bunch of new stuff added to this model. Here are the functions you can now enjoy when metal detecting:
- Z-Lynk technology that enables the user to plug in wireless headphones;
- screen highlighting that makes it easier to seek for treasures in twilight or even in the darkness;
- you can regulate the volume of the loudspeaker;
- advanced settings to enhance performance on different types of soils;
- enhanced ergonomics, mostly due to new shape of the handle;
- provides stable high quality performance in cold and hot weather, and even underwater;
- headphones are high quality and convenient to wear. They provide enough isolation from the wind when you search in the field, so the risk to miss a faint signal is minimal;
All these new features, however, do not overcomplicate the setting and functionality. In fact, this model is among the simplest in settings and usage, because it offers only the most demanded options and does not make the user to make unnecessary choices. This is a simple, high quality, and reliable device.
Generally, one may find that in terms of construction the AT Max model has little difference from the AT Pro; the only noticeable difference and improvement is handle made of high quality rubber, instead of the previous useless and uncomfortable foam handle. The developers claim that due to this new handle, the metal detector is more balanced now, so the user will not feel tired too fast. However, the new software features it offers makes user experience even better. In addition, there are other features available:
- The majority of buttons on the operation panel have double functionality that you can use by tapping the Shift button.
- you can use all Garrett coils made for any AT model;
- battery charge allows the metal detector to perform for two days without changing the batteries; one of the coolest things is that when the charge becomes low, the level of performance does not drop. The tool continues to give proper signals without changing the sound, or changing the depth of reach.
- AT Max has a separate plug for wired headset, which is cool if you are planning to dive with it and seek underwater. Even without diving, this part provides additional protection from moist.
- One of the best features Garrett AT Max offers to the seekers is the ability to use the simplest basic settings; you do not need to make complicated software regulation, because basic settings are enough for perfect performance.
So, obviously, the Garrett company does a good job in releasing new models that it really enhances, and at the same time keeping all the good things its older models are loved for.
Pros and Cons
One of the major pros of Garrett AT Max is its classic construction that has been proven the most handy, has been used for decades by different manufacturers and seekers, and seems to never go out of fashion.
Another pros is that all details of the construction are tightly connected. One has to take an effort to dismantle the metal detector, and it may piss off at times, but this approach protects the inside from water and dust.
One of the cons is the weight of the device which comprises 3 lbs. Considering that there are lighter models available, this is a con, but experienced seekers claim that with such level of quality, additional 300g are not a game changer. Due to convenient and user-friendly handle, you are unlikely to change arms every hour, or grow tired in an hour or two.
The Kit
The kit includes:
- metal detector;
- coil protector;
- hat with Garrett logo;
- wireless headphones Garrett MS3 Z-Lynk
It is not clear yet whether the company will continue to offer gifts within the kit as soon as the model gains its popularity, but for now, this kit seems to be a real deal.
- 13.6 kHz
- 4 Search Modes
- 8.5"x11" DD Coil
Garrett AT Max is a professional, reliable metal detector, comparatively lightweight, easy to set and use. Its classic construction together with improved rubber handle makes metal detecting less physically exhausting. It may be a bit more expensive than other models, but its features and the level of functionality promise better user experience from the very first minute of turning it on. Simple settings, protection from moist, quality signal, wireless headphones, and a bunch of other cool benefits will make each of your searches more productive than you expect.


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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Peoria Pastor Doesn't Open Mail
During the last two weeks, my brother and I have sent out over 200 letters. The letter went to all of the pastors of all of the Catholic parishes in The Diocese of Peoria. Bishop Jenky, OSF "leaders", and The Catholic Post of Peoria were also recipients. (The letter is published at the end of this post.)
The letter is very self explanatory and explains the OSF contraceptive policy created in the mid-90's in Peoria. OSF's new purchase, OSF Medical Group--College Avenue in Bloomington, Illinois, will use this unfortunate policy to allow their 40 new OSF physicians to prescribe oral contraceptives. This is, of course, against the teachings of the Catholic Church.
In response to the letter we have received remarks from different pastors wondering how are they going to explain this scandal to their parishoners. And they have called OSF's oral contraceptive policy "disturbing". Even OSF Corporate Ethicist Joe Piccione explained to me that this policy that he helped create is "regretable" and also stated, "We are mourning this policy."
Joe and OSF may be mourning the policy but 40 new OSF physicians are getting ready to use it.
When we sent the letters out we were worried that some priests may not even open their letter out of fear.
Today I received an unopened letter from Father David Heinz, Pastor of Saint Anthony's in Bartonville, Illinois. The photo of the letter is above.
Father Heinz appeared to have written in red ink that he will receive no correspondence from my address. Our names were not on the return address.
HOW did he know not to open this letter? Why would he NOT want to open this letter?
I have never met Father Heinz and I think he probably has many good qualities. I just think it is very painful for him and for many other priests in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria to witness their Bishop give into the secular/economic forces at OSF.
Father Heinz and the other pastors have watched as Haitian Hearts patients have been denied care at OSF and have died. As OSF continues with their hypocrisy Father Heinz probably does not want to know about it, and may well have been instructed not to read the letter. The Catholic Church is not a democracy and the priests must be obedient to their bishop. We just wish Bishop Jenky was leading his priests and flock the right way.
I fully believe that OSF controls much of what The Catholic Diocese does. When I spoke with Bishop Jenky in person, I could see how much he feared OSF's power and money.
And we can't forget that Father Heinz gets his paycheck and health insurance from the Diocese.
We feel sorry for Fr. Heinz and will continue to pray for him.
Here is the letter Fr. Heinz returned to us.
23 July, 2009
Dear Father,
Are you aware that another OSF medical facility will soon be prescribing oral contraceptives? This letter concerns OSF HealthCare's recent acquisition of Carle Clinic in Bloomington, Illinois. Please refer to the article in the July 12, 2009 issue of The Catholic Post for details of the acquisition.
At Mass on Sunday July 19, our pastor announced the month of July was designated Natural Family Planning Month by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. The bulletin stated, "NFP is a completely Church-approved alternative to contraception and sterilization." The bulletin also stated: "The Church condemns artificial contraception not just because of its bad consequences. She condemns artificial contraception because it is intrinsically evil (and because it is evil it has bad consequences.)"
For many years, OSF has had a policy called "limited private practice." This policy allows OSF physicians to write prescriptions for oral contraceptives. For the few seconds it takes to write the prescription, OSF physicians are not considered to be OSF employees. This contrived change in employment status is how OSF justifies allowing their physicians to prescribe oral contraceptives despite the fact that the physicians are in an OSF office building and are still being paid as full-time employees.
Last week OSF Corporate Ethicist Joe Piccione, when contacted by phone, said that he did not know if the physicians presently employed at Carle Clinic in Bloomington will become employees of OSF. However, a representative of Carle Clinic, contacted by phone, said the approximately 40 physicians at Carle would be OSF employees and that they would be able to prescribe oral contraceptives.
It does not take a theological degree to see the grave moral contradiction in permitting employees to prescribe oral contraceptives while saying, "They are not our employees when writing those prescriptions." OSF should change their policy to prohibit their employees prescribing oral contraceptives rather than allowing it. The limited private practice policy should not be allowed to be placed into effect in the newly acquired OSF clinic anymore than it should be allowed to continue anywhere in the OSF HealthCare System.
The transition from "Carle Clinic" to "OSF Medical Group – College Avenue" will occur on September 13. The OSF policy is obviously not supportive of Humane Vitae and respect for life. Please, after prayerfully considering this matter, advise Bishop Jenky that you disagree with OSF's policy and advise your parishioners to do the same. Ask Bishop Jenky to reverse OSF's contraceptive policy. It is important that you act soon since the policy will be harder to reverse once it is put into effect.
John Carroll, M.D.
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About Nash
I did my first crossfit workout in 2008. It was a Half Cindy with jumping pull ups. When I finally recovered (4 hours later) I thought to myself "man that was dumb, I'm never doing that again".
It's almost 10 years later and I'm still CrossFitting. I'm still no good at it but I have found a passion for helping others get better. In 2013 I went and got my level 1 and have been coaching full to part time since.
Achievements & Qualifications
- CrossFit Level 1 (CF-L1)
- Oregon feats of strength 2016- 1st place novice light weight
- Strongman Spectacle 2016- 1st place novice light weight
- Oregon feats of strength 2017- 3rd place open light weight


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A Collection of Good and Not-So-Good Reasons for Assigning a Personal Narrative as the First Essay in a Composition Course
Apropos of a lecture I attended yesterday by Bruce Horner* and some general thoughts I've been having lately about this issue, I've decided to collect as many reasons as I can think of for assigning some sort of "personal essay" as the first assignment in a college writing course. These are reasons I've heard other people cite and reasons I came up with myself when examining this question as a thought exercise. I'm not saying all of these are good reasons by any means, only trying to compile a list. Please let me know if you have other reasons.
1. Start inward, go outward: or from individual concerns to social concerns. This is one of the ideas Horner critiqued, actually; he argued that it rests on assumptions that those two things are uniform and monolithic (I would add, not to mention mutually exclusive).
2. Building blocks: provide students "an initial experience in expression" which they can build on as they move on to argumentation.
3. When content is irrelevant: personal experience provides expedient subject matter when the subject matter of the essay (and the student's mastery of it) is not what one wants to assess. For example, personal experience is often used as a topic for diagnostic essays/proficiency exams in which one wants to assess students' grammar, mechanics, sentence structure, vocabulary, etc.
4. In the interim: students may lack experience with research-based arguments, so the teacher doesn't want to jump right in with that kind of writing yet. As the instructor is in the process of teaching research and argument, s/he assigns students to write about something they know, so that they're always doing some writing.
5. Descriptive skills first: the teacher wants to start off the class by teaching a certain skill set which includes vivid description and specific detail.
6. Unlearn: the teacher wants to get students beyond the five-paragraph essay format they may have had in high school, and as quickly as possible. As a personal narrative doesn't lend itself well to the FPE structure, it hastens this kind of unlearning.
7. Hailing students as writers: the teacher wants students to think about themselves as writers from the very beginning of the course, so s/he assigns a literacy narrative type of assignment to facilitate students' reflections on their past experiences with writing.
8. First contact with theme: the particular FYW course has a theme, and as a way to get students thinking about that theme (gender, cyberspace, labor, what have you), the teacher assigns a personal essay about the student's experience with the course theme.
[Edited to add...]
9. Writing from personal experience can be an exercise in amplificatio
10. Personal experience is easy to write about
And here are some other reasons for assigning personal writing which I'll include for the sake of comprehensiveness. These reasons, however, are reasons for assigning personal writing in general. I'm more interested in "Essay 1: Personal Narrative" reasons that call for putting a narrative first in an assignment sequence.
1. Empowerment: if personal writing is the province of the socially and politically privileged, assigning this kind of writing helps students have access to this discourse.
2. Self-knowledge/student interest: college is thought of as a time to learn more about oneself. I've asked in classes before as a short in-class writing assignment, for example, "what do you most want to learn?" The overwhelming majority of students write "I want to learn about myself/find out who I am."
3. Find your voice: personal writing can be a way to discover what one's voice sounds like. It's a way to cultivate an ethos and style that a student can (potentially? presumably?) take with him/her to other genres and contexts.
4. Site of negotiation: I got this one from Horner. It conceives of the personal as a site of negotiation with issues of ethics, politics, epistemology, social construction, etc.
[Edited to add...]
5. Something for everyone: while some students don't like writing from personal experience, others do, so you assign both outside-source-based and experience-based essays.
6. Refutatio: if you assign an article written by an author who is writing about a group of people of which the students are a part (Cajuns, young people, college students, etc.), students could write an auto-ethnography that responds to the author's claims.
7. Investment: you want students to feel some personal stake (ownership, authority) in the writing they do. If they're writing about a topic they don't care about, they won't care about the research involved, organization, style, etc. of the paper. But if they are writing from personal experience, they (presumably) care more about how that experience is represented on the page and will spend more thought on crafting the essay.
* abstract here:
"Rewriting the Personal"
Examining the contradiction between those calls for incorporating
personal writing into scholarly texts to defy the strictures of recent
critical theory and those calls for using personal writing to comply with
those strictures, I argue that confusion over what constitutes the personal
has led to this discrepancy in positions on its use and prevents us from more
productive engagement with the personal in public discourse in both our
writing and our teaching.
a genre concern
Personal essay does not equal personal narrative.
I'm curious: what were Horner's examples? (Montaigne?)
Personal narrative
I just recently used personal narrative in my Analytical Reading and Writing course with the goals of 6: Unlearn traditional modes of reading and writing, and 8: First contact with theme. However, it was not at the beginning of the semester--it was at the beginning of a unit on digital literacy, and they wrote a "personal narrative about place" using Google Maps as an exercise related to reading and writing online, and exploring the idea of digital, cartographic literacy. Here's one (my) example:
They really seemed to enjoy it, and many of them chose to present/narrate their map to the class. I think next time I use this assignment, I'll move the digital literacy unit to the beginning of the semester and use the assignment to get things going.
basis versus recounting
I'd say the personal essay uses the personal -- and not necessarily narration -- as a jumping-off point for a discussion, whereas the focus of narration is on the recounting of events (and only secondarily upon their implications, typically in a single concluding paragraph). For examples of the former, I think -- as I mentioned before -- Montaigne is the obvious model. All his essays were clearly personal, but in a much different way from, say, Rousseau's Confesssions: for Montaigne, it's a matter of briefly noting (rather than describing or narrating) an event or two and then exploring all its possible associations on a certain theme and the implications of those associations, supported by brief quotations from other authors. Perhaps the closest parallel we have today is Richard E. Miller's wonderful Writing at the End of the World, which is deeply personal but not really so much about the dark events that spur the book's best reflections as it is about the wandering investigations those spurs lead to.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that current-traditionalism's categorization and privileging of the EDNA modes has turned the genres named into self-serving ends. Many of the reasons you describe in your original post are the things that lead, harmfully I think, 180 degrees away from the amazing things that Montaigne and Miller are able to make the form of the essay achieve: they're pedagogies that actively prevent students from being good writers.
2 Board AlleyThis year I broke with pedagogical "wisdom" and delayed the personal narrative assignment. It's still in a holding pattern because I want to use it as either the final paper in the course or as a week's worth of writing that a sub can do with the class if my father passes away this semester.
Instead, I grabbed the excitement that is Sarah Palin and we read several op-ed articles (pro and con)about her and studied the genre of the op-ed column. The students then wrote their essay on an issue that mattered to them, using personal examples to bolster their ideas. I won't claim that this lead to brilliant essays being written by all, but it did make some inroads in shaking up the perception of the 5-paragraph essay model as the ONLY way to write.
In terms of positioning the PN in the course, I am moving towards making it the last assignment for practical reasons--I find doing the heavy, paraphrase-based, using -other- sources papers best done in the middle of the semester, when the energy and focus is there. I'm thinking of ways of jettisoning the PN and turning it into a technique, or way of approaching an idea, as Mike describes above.
Well, I've been feeling cranky about FYC this semester, and you struck a nerve, Clancy. This strand has been very useful in helping me shake loose some of that inchoate frustration and do something with it.


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awesome.. giggles..giggles
mathew dallas
This one is cool, Shiv. I pity the Air Chief, ashamed of the 'wise' guy in the dark suit next to him. < DRDO ctrl alt del>.I hope we could some how get these guys and the whole govt, out of the country. And start anew! Remember India will be great without these clowns!
yeah Mathew dallas sure. But I'm sure your India is better off with vodka, Natashas, $$. And I'm sure that your India that you're dreaming of has no dearth of clowns like you who salivate at the sight of a F-22 and frown at something desi forgetting one's own color in the process
The chief is a warrior….u indians don't know what that means! In pak he would be respected as such. He made the defence of india his life not go abroad and get slapped by everyone whilst earning some money!!!
Can't imagine the good air chief to be happy with certain sources suggesting that the Mark-II, which one can only assume will be 4th generation, unless HAL gets REALLY lazy, won't be inducted till 2017.
DRDO chief looks like Chavez.
I know this is a great achievement and all the work involved ….Well I could'nt even imagine.
However, given the DRDO chief is a massive egg head with a powerful brain that few people have….he kinda looks like a dicator/gangster in this pic (the gold rings on all fingers, gold watch, gold sunnies, big gestring, plumpy etc).
The ACM must of been a little intimadated his fighters v the mighty DRDO & PSU's (we probably would have needed a new air force if that fight occured).
Well the ACM looks like he is thinking, crap is he making me an offer I cant refuse.
@ Mathew Dallas – you sure are one funny dude. Perhaps Shiv should get someone to turn the country, or at least the services over to you. And you could come back from Dallas to Kerala and help us fix the system.
Anyway, some interesting pictures here:
mathew dallas
@anon 2:54 Patriotism doesn't emanate from the mouth but rather from the heart and the head. HAL has been in and around B'lore for around 60 years what has it really done? It is not just about the Tejas but I mean the whole system. Inventing a mechanized bullock cart in the age of Rolls Royces is that what you are proud of? What I said all through was that the best could be done, if the Govt had stayed out of the picture and let the private firms do the thing, at least they would have put ' 2 brains to work as 1 instead of 1 working as 1'. You probably don't realize that this Tejas is too late… it is obsolete! It is a tamasha all this money,(taxpayers
ahhmm) gone into building this junk! The people in the Govt don't know what the armed forces need and they have no knowledge about future combat or battle strategy that is the reason why they are buying the MMRCA and signed the 30BILLION deal to buy T-50 or the PAK-FGFA(i am not for the F-35 either). This is the reason why I am crying out! You don't have to agree with me, but ponder over this, the future battles whether at sea or air or land will be carried out mostly by remote operated or unmanned vehicles. Does India keep on wasting valuable resources on things, outdated, unwanted and obsolete or develop intelligent weapons, (smarter)space based or loitering in the skies, listening in the mountains, watching under the sea.Defensive is smarter than offensive, and I think that should be the way.Right now because of HALs incapability we are giving 30Billion to the Russians 10Billion to whomever, to me it is heartbreaking(200000 crores worth)of jobs in India. Let clear sense prevail, think about our children if they be helped with their education, nutritious meals, better hospitals, better roads help for our widows, mothers, sisters, young entrepreneurs and the list goes on. Am I being patriotic….
DRDO walla was referring to this.
I support the Air Chief!
@ mathew dallas….
well…we did manage to get you out…hopefully more shall follow soon!!!
@shiv…u seem to be forgetting the his clarification
i wouldnt accuse of reporting falsehood….but reporting only one part and having a blackout on the other doesnt do your credibility any good….[admittedly its your blog and you are free to do nything you please]
he seems to imply that its not 4 gen till it gets FOC….
Shiv at its best… Atleast your comments on IOC is far better than other idiotic journals.. Problems where there.. but who doesnt have?
Shiv, Can you confirm what exactly the ACM means for openly commenting it is not a 4th gen?.. If you could give some details.. it will be good..
shiv………1 word…………LEGENDARY……
shiv………1 word…………LEGENDARY……
anon!!! The rings VKS wearing is one for Rahu,one for ketu and another for shani!!!! with all this Gemstone shanti,still Agni wants to plunge in Bay of Bengal!!! may be Shani sahab wants Kohi-e-noor for appeasement!!!! VKS sahab please try to get Kohi-e-noor!!!With due respect to Agni team members who toil hard to make the flight a success!!!
I seldom Post, but can I say, your tone and your attitude towards LCA has been quite negative, top it all this picture is in absolute bad taste. Self Criticism is good, but some amount patriotism can do wonders, especially for scientists who are the most underpaid. LCA is ours, be proud.
The guy next to AK shab looks like MR.Bean…
Notice in that pic the MLA (in sec row with specs, u can notice him btw the two Heads of Chiefs) discussing with P.K.Subramanyam, ADA….I was wondering what that Idiot doing with that great scientist….
Oh..he might be discussing whether he will be felicitated with garland or Gifts….
These morons MP and MLA destroyed the whole atmosphere in HAL…
That's right. You Anonymous critics here are greater than the DRDO chief and are serving the nation with your loud mouths. Next you'll be crying for the GOI to spend another $20B for a foreign fifth generation stealth fighter, while India's underprivileged are falling deeper and deeper into misery. Such geniuses you are!
It seems to me ACM is thinking "you are stopping all my channels for kickbacks"…no phoren mall no kickbacks. So ACM tells the Nira Radia supported press how crap this Tejas is like our Arjun (Leopard 2A4).
If it was irony that you were looking for, then it is an epic fail. And your pattern of reporting on the LCA isnt helping either.
Our scientists may be underpaid but they have a job for life,with pension & benefits whether they perform or not.
If it was the private sector they would be kicked out by now.
You're talking about patriotism?
Why dont you give up you job, pick up a gun and stand on the wall!
C'mon guys Shiv is only emulating Diogenes of Sinope, the Greek philosopher! As per Wiki -"Exhibitionist and philosopher, Diogenes is said to have eaten in the marketplace,[37] urinated on some people who insulted him,[38] defecated in the theatre,[39] masturbated in public and pointed at people with his middle finger.[40] Sympathizers considered him a devotee of reason and an exemplar of honesty. Detractors have said he was an obnoxious beggar and an offensive grouch."
You get the 'irony', don't you?
@ Adarsh-
Blindly cheering whatever we do not mean patriotism. Introspection, ability to take stock and then deal with it, working wholeheartedly to get superior technologies.. all that is patriotism when it comes to defense R&D.
Calling an inferior product superior is what kills us… being able to realistically proud of what we have achieved and using the lessons learnt is patriotism.
The LCA is a good a/c, but not what HAL would like to present it as. Accepting mediocrity will not only kill the men who have to fight, but also humiliate the country. Learning from mistakes and working to make superior products is what we need to do.
You are right about the salaries of our scientists, and we should be doing something to fix that if we are to hope for whole hearted, truly patriotic work. But that does not mean we have to accept that the LCA is an air superiority fighter, because it is not.
You think if you don't perform you will be molly coddled in PSUs? Leaders of officers association have been kicked out due to lack of performance. Whereas, unions in Pvt companies have recently lynched several officers and CEOs over trivial matters.
Standing with a gun against the wall like a "bahadur" is patriotism? That's the job of doormen which you are confusing with patriotism.
How do you know Tejas is a "mediocre" a/c? This was exactly what the top brass of the Army were saying about Arjun, in order to ensure steady flow of kickbacks from Russians and other countries from where we import arms worth billions $ (thereby impoverishing the nation where people don't have food).
Tejas is using an advanced US jet engine and avionics/radar from France, Israel etc apart from our own. EADS is assisting us in ironing out the glitches.
Mere words of IAF chief won't suffice as they can't be trusted (Army chief summoned before PAC for corruption). We need technical data to validate their claims that Tejas is inferior. And of course, all a/cs have teething problems. Even EF is still undergoing modifications to make it a more potent a/c.
The biggest stumbling block to India achieving her potential is Govt of Hindia which is basically a construct of the most corrupt party i.e. Con-I, where Nepotism is more important than merit.
How economy of Punjab or Tamil Nadu is run has to be dictated by people of those states and not Govt of India which has no clue about the people or economy of these states.
We need to reengineer the way India is governed which is rewarding backward states for their backwardness and corruption and penalizing competent states for their competence. Center should only look after Foreign relations and defense. The rest have to be run by the states as they deem fit.
Mathew Dallas, Do you ever read ? ADA and not HAL is developing the LCA. Assembling aircraft to a blueprint is completely different to designing & developing a 4 gen FBW aircraft. The model needs CFD studies, wind tunnel testing and finally the risky flight testing of the control laws. If god forbid, the LCA had crashed it's guys like you who will jump with joy and say 'I told you so India is just wasting money on a science project'.
'The LCA is obsolete' Is that your opinion or did you come to that conclusion after studying the design, weaponry,fire control radar, power plant, air frame and avionics of LCA ? Because if it's the latter case, please enlighten us with references as to how LCA is obsolete.
I don't know about you but I would rather let DRDO scientists and engineers 'waste' my tax payer money on developing the Tejas which in turn has developed the whole MIC in aviation technologies within the country than have it siphoned away outside the country by random guys like A Raja who sold the country for something like spectrum.
Just for reading up sake please follow the link below to know the conditions in which people behind Tejas worked before who start ridiculing people with your ill informed opinions.
This seems a redux of Arjun where the Army hardly bothered to involve themselves with design and development of a product which is being built solely for them. If the IAF chief is whining about lack of performance why wasn't IAF involved with HAL/DRDO in designing and development of this a/c? Do they need special invitation from DRDO? Or they have some other motives for not involving in this project?
Pvt companies are profit driven and will do anything for the same (2g is proof…)…so if we entrust all the def research n production to them…is it conceivable they will create a situation where the products are used up creating a larger market for their products???
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I believe more than irony its sarcasm on your part Mr Aroor. perhaps IAF chief should ask himself if he meets IAF requirements especially with his pot belly?
Is A C M Naik asking for larger Mk-2 becos he wouldn't fit inside the smaller cockpit of Tejas mk-1?
@ Anon 7:52
Let me get this straight. According to what your saying you expect me to believe that a BSNL or Air India is more competent & efficient than an Airtel or Jetairways??
BTW, when i meant pick up a gun and guard the wall your stone age mindset didnt get the picture.
If you seem to think that our armed forces are unpatriotic just because they dont shower rose petals over DRDO's so called indigenous pet project, then why dont you join the armed forces and guard the countries borders.
You sleep well at night because of our armed forces and because of DRDO scientists. WIth no competition there is zero incentive for innovation by DRDO.
@ ArkAngel
you will also have to ignore the fact that pvt companies bend rules n force change of policy (even chage public perception through vetted news articles) to maximize profit…is it inconceivable that they will do so when they step into def R&D
about BSNL: its just about the only company you can depend on to get service @ remote locations…maybe they should stop all that and go all out competitive…..they seem to be the only company (telecom major) that pays taxes in proportion to market share..(refer to recent media reports)
want to go into airline cartels???
BoatAngel aka NauPari
Wake and smell the coffee. Indian Pvt Cos are afloat due to monopoly and restrictive trade practices. R u aware that Govt is planning to stop foreign investments more than 46% in pharma sector as the local Cos can't compete with global players? Ranbaxy sold it's pharma biz and now they are into shares and financial products. Speaks volumes about their competency and capability in hi tec areas.
BSNL and Air India, maybe inefficient but they are effective. The type of infrastructure they have Pvt Cos can never match.
Fyi, my father is a war hero and I don't need any lectures from a guy like u on "patriotism". If we don't earn enough and pay our taxes all sham patriotism (no one will fight for the nation for free) will disappear in thin air.Btw, country's borders are primarily guarded by BSF/SSB/ITBP and not Army.
We sleep well at night is bcoz we sweat our arse off making India an economically stable country. Without a strong economy India as a country will be history.
Finally checkout DRDO's HSDTV and no it is not a HD TV. LOL!
Ark Angel and Others of down with LCA bandwagon,
Indian Private Sector, You mean the same sector which has till now yet to make a proper automobile engine? You have no clue about who complex and hard is to make technologies from ground up in a country with india's background, history and org structure. Standing on the wall, That is rich, especially since you have no clue about what i do for a living or my social inclinations.
LOL!! that looks damn funny :D!
Sardar Ram Singh porkychinki farker
India is a great civilisation, Indians are a great people, why do you think Vasco Da Gama went out in search of India and not USA?
Great people with a great history and civilisation cannot be viped off the world, not when they are 1.2 Billion strong.
Now coming back to LCA, please remember ARJUN MBT, it was not accepted by the forces, and said to be not up to the mark, but now its said to be better than the T90s. Also the indian missiles were said to be not good but they are world class now.
I totally believe that the hard work, dedication, blood and sweat will pay dividends, the LCA is and will be a world class fighter. It will prove its worth when it is used in a war or war games, but to call our AirForce names is not to be fair to him and also to call our scientists and engineers by names is not to be fair to them. At first we cry for the LCA to be handed over to the IAF so that we can find the faults and deficiencies and correct it and better it. Thank God, the developers test flighted and tested till they were satisfied and now without a single crash they have produced a fighter aircraft. Just wait for two more years and the Tejas will be just the Tejas we all dreamed of.
Anon @ 8:03 PM
Please don't get so incensed. Excuse my choice of words; for what I wanted to say is that while LCA is a good effort, it definitly is not what HAL would like it be seen and accepted as.
Check its current weight, the effects of its wing root chord… and compare it with another a/c in a very similar weight class using the same engine; the Gripen (Not the NG or IN)
My wish is that we did not make such a song a dance about the LCA. We talk more and act less. We should accept the LCA Mk1 for what it is, learn from the mistakes and then work on making Mk2 something much better. Instead we go about giving self benedictions about what our a/c can do and what it is…
We need to deliver what our services NEED in order to defend us against the clear and present and growing dangers of our neighbourhood, rather than foist whatever we are able to make on them in the name of patriotism. That is not patriotissm, it is encouraging mediocrity.
Surely none of our private sector companies will be where they are today if they tried to give the customer whatever they can do comfortably rather than what he customer needs. Thats is the mediocrity I am talking about… not just the LCA as it is.
Well now if DRDO can come up wth a Indian Engine (not french JV one) purely Indian one then it can make a difference otherwise this pic mockery is justified
@ Anon 11:17 PM; @ BoatAngel aka NauPari
Air India maybe cient but they are effective?? Why dont you tell that to the families of the victims of the Mangalore aircrash! The govt pumps in millions of dollars of tax payer money to keep Air India afloat.
What infrastructure? Both BSNL & AI are not even market share leaders and that speaks volumes of what the customer thinks of them.
FYI, India's economy started growing only after liberalization aka privatisaion.
About the pharma sector, its the govt who want to change policy because they fear that in an emergency foreign companies may control the prices & availability of generic drugs.
Indian pharma sector launched 3900 new products in the last 2 yrs & is one the biggest manufacturers of generic drugs.
Get your news reports right!
@ Adarsh
This is not a cricket match where hubristic flag waving will make the team win. They'll win if they perform. Same goes for the LCA.
I bet you enjoyed life more in the license raj era than now.
@ ArkAngel
eh…do u even know what generic drug is…do u know that original patent holders try to extend patents by changes (non-significant) so as to get patents extended to keep out the generic drug manufacturers
Indian pvt sector has done the manufacturing part and done it well in many fields..they copy foreign technology by paying a fee
R&D ..well not so much
sure…if BSNL choose to run after only profits (and forget remote areas..like most pvt companies….they dont have any infrastructure there and if they do provide service…its using BSNL equipment by paying a fee which is decided by TRAI)…they could come up with better numbers …(also lets not go into recent reports of pvt companies showing inflated subscriber bases although that might have been only done to get more spectrum )..
That crash happened bcoz of the "tabletop" runway which has been deemed unsafe by many people.
Much of what I wanted to say has been answered by Anon7:19 PM. I want to add that the infrastructure for Pvt telecom and it's operation is provided by companies like Alcatel, Erickson, Nokia etc. (Now I guess some of them have tied up with Chinese Cos to provide them similar facilities – Heaven help us).
As far as pharma is concerned Western MNCs no longer enjoy any monopoly as far as generic drugs are concerned. Chinese drug manufacturers are giving them a run for their money. Therefore there cant be an cartels to control the prices of generic drugs as there are too many diverse players.
Our Indian Cos are whining for protection as they can't compete. They are good at copying and producing products cheaply which have become off patent. No R&D which is where the real risk and money is. Similar saga will unfold in defense sector if we include the fat corrupt incompetent Indian Pvt Cos. First let them prove their worth and then they can be partnered in defense sector. Otherwise it will be theft in another name for which the gullible poor citizens will pay the price. They will get multi billion$ foreign tech for free which will be bankrolled by ignorant and gullible masses. The final product will also be lapped up by "defense" at exorbitant prices which will again be provided by the taxpayers (this setup is a hedge against loses in commercial mkt which is facing global competition).
Video of J-20 flying -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jylJ91ewe0s
Enough of DRDO working on outdated crap!
@ anon 0f 859
tomorrow ur Dad puts u in a Phd Course (just coz ur Neighbours son started his Phd) even though you havent finished your Masters ..how would it go..grand failure
we messed up by not going after 3rd gen AC…so we will have to wait as our scientists learn ..(and they will have to make a lot of mistakes while at it .. if u havent made mistakes..u havent learnt well)..unless u know of any spectacular geniuses who can learn at a much faster rate
anon @ 12:57 AM, while our scientists are learning from scratch and busy getting their Master's degree while developing/learning 3rd gen tech, the chinese PhDs are reverse engineering and mass producing 3rd, 4th, and 5th gen tech. How many mistakes have we made – A LOT! Arjun, Akash, and of course the LCA. All these projects are way too late. While you and your buddies at DRDO have been busy learning how to build a transistor radio using vacuum tubes from scratch (Tejas), the Chinese have reverse engineered digital transcievers (Su-27) and built several of them cheaper and learnt how to improve on that tech and ended up building a 5th gen J-20. At the end of the day, what is flying up in the sky that is able to defend/offend is what counts. And all this while, the parents (defence forces) has been at a standstill waiting for the promise of fruits of paying for your tuition fee!


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Are you bothered by the slippery floors and fogged mirrors you get when getting out of the shower? If you want to keep your restroom dryer, you should look at installing a ventilation fan. Wet floors can be very hazardous when getting out of the shower. Slips are very common and tile hurts, I can assure you. A ventilation fan can suck the moist air out of the restroom before it can settle on the floor and mirrors. Ventilation fans are low cost and fairly easy to install with the right tools. First, go to your local home improvement store and explain that you want to keep your restroom dryer and need a fan to help. They will be able to help you pick out the right type of fan for you. See if you can test it first to make sure that the noise that it creates is not bothersome, as some can be very loud. Installation instructions should come with the unit and you can get this project done in no time. Be sure to consult an electrician before adding any new lines. This little project can keep your restroom dryer and you safer.
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We made a Jungle themed Birthday Cake for a 1st Birthday Party today. The two tier birthday cake was chocolate and yellow cake with buttercream icing. The cupcakes were a mixture of yellow and chocolate cake with Buttercream icing as well. The grass detailing going around the cake was made with Buttercream icing using a special tip. I think it looks very Jungle like with all the different lengths. The animals hiding behind bushes is the look we were going for with each tier. We wanted to create the feel of all the animals sort of peeking out of the bushes like a curious one year old would do!
The zebra print on the cupcakes with the letters B E N was a last minute detail we thought of. His mother pretty much left the whole design up to us and we hope we hit her vision dead on!
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Bear Heart Baking Company is located in York, PA! Dover, PA actually but we service York, PA and Surrounding areas!
Our Bakery started in March of 2009 as a Gift Service, shipping treats across the United States. We made our first birthday cake in September 2009 for a relative in York, PA and ever since then it has taken off and we are making on average 5 cakes per weekend. We will be cutting back to 3 cakes per weekend because it is alot for our little Bakery to handle. Our Bakery also offers Cake Delivery for York, PA and surrounding areas! If you live in York, PA or surrounding areas feel free to Contact Us today to reserve your date! We fill up quick so Contact Us Soon!!
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There are Las Vegas Poker chips stacked all around this cake. The playing cards reflect the ages of the three birthdays this cake was made to celebrate! It was a White Cake with an Orange Pineapple Filling and Italian Buttercream Icing covered with Marshmallow Fondant! I was told this cake tasted as good as it looked! If you are in York, PA or the Surrounding areas and would like a Custom fondant Birthday Cake or Special Occasion Cake feel free to Contact Us today for a quote!


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This is a brief description of the development of ventilation solutions and pros and cons that can be associated with the different ventilation systems.
Natural ventilation is driven by the thermal forces that occur in the building. This is achieved when the indoor temperature is significantly higher than outside temperature. The supply air comes through window vents and exit through the chimney or similar. In summer the ventilation is almost non-existent as the temperature in- and outside is relatively balanced. For this system to work, heating is required with a boiler or stove that keeps the chimney warm, which contributes to the thermal force. Changing heating systems that do not contribute to chimney power for example district heating and heat pumps, it becomes difficult to maintain an acceptable air exchange that are needed in the building. Energy efficient renovations often result in making the buildings envelope more airtight for example new windows and insulation, this contributes to a deterioration of the ventilation and lead to poor indoor environment, condensation and mold.
Buildings with this type of ventilation are often poorly ventilated from the beginning. Switching to another system with better performance and with higher air exchange will likely increase the energy consumption for the building.
Exhaust air has the same principle as natural ventilation. The difference is that a fan depressurizes the building instead of the thermal driving force. This makes it easier to control the air flow in the building. When implement mechanical exhaust ventilation in a building with natural ventilation, you can often use existing ducts. To get the right air flow in the building the ducts airtightness is important. The supply air vent normally has simple filters that have problems filtering out pollen and other particles, which can create problems with the indoor environment.
Balanced ventilation with heat recovery provides a good control over the amount of fresh air delivered to the building. Supply air vents are placed in the living and sleeping areas and exhaust vents in the bathroom, toilet and laundry room. Balanced ventilation requires separate ducts for supply and exhaust air which can be space consuming. Supply air temperature is very close to the room temperature which gives comfortable air exchange and high comfort, with minimal risk of draft. Filter in the unit effectively removing impurities, dust and pollen that exist in the outdoor air. System Recycles about 80% of the energy from the exhaust air and use it to heat the supply air.
The buildings envelop airtightness are if great importance to ensure to maximize energy recovery from the exhaust air.
Heat pump extracts the energy in the exhaust air and adds it to the building's heating system, this requires a waterborne heating system. Otherwise, the system functions as a standard exhaust system.
Text author: Benny Magnusson, Sustainable Building Cluster in Dalarna
Background: This article is made in the framework of the project Effective Financing Tools for implementing Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EFFECT4buildings). The aim of the article is to share of experiences on energy efficiency solutions. EFECT4buildings project develop a toolbox with a set of financial instruments for building managers to implement more energy efficiency measures. The project also maps, promote and share experiences among building managers of different technology solutions for energy efficiency in buildings. EFFECT4buildings is implemented with the support from the EU funding Programme Interreg Baltic Sea Region (European Regional Development Fund) and Norwegian national funding.
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You said always…
That we have time,
There is no games
But is alright,
Burned me like flames!
Was my mistake to try…
I'm stuck on you!
You're in my mind,
Happens from blue…
You've filled me inside.
You! so beautiful and I…
My dreams comes true
Since I saw your eyes,
I'm stuck on you.
To put my thoughts away…
I turned on the TV
And day after day
Not thinking of me
Just finding a way
For us to be…
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Sanam Baloch is very popular and beautiful actress of Pakistan. She has proved her talent with professional work, natural expressions and extreme confidence. Sanam Baloch is very famous among Pakistani youth and other part of world. She is beautiful and smart in any type of suiting and dresses. So we are going to present some of her cute pictures in salwar kameez suit.
Sanam Baloch in salwar kameez suit is looking very smart, beautiful and dazzling. Her innocent face reflects the beauty to the maximum extent in different colors and styles of salwar kameez. You may also be interested in Sanam Baloch picture gallery and biography, along with following selection of her photos in salwar kameez.
Sanam Baloch in Simple Salwar Kameez
Sanam Baloch in White Salwar Suit
Sanam Baloch in Black Salwar Kameez
Sanam Baloch in Blue Salwar Qameez
Sanam Baloch in Salwar Suit Hum Tv
Pari Hashmi With Sanam Baloch
Sanam Baloch in Colorful Salwar Kameez


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|Komui Lee (komurin) wrote in marinasylum,
@ 2012-03-04 11:30:00
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|fou, komui lee, miranda lotto
[Video//Action | Closed]
[Timcanpy's recording, while surprising, hadn't shocked Komui as he would have thought. That's what the Exorcists do; they help in situations like this. And of course Lenalee went, of course she did.]
[He's used to this. It's the dead of night and he's sitting here tinkering, waiting for the Exorcists to return, and planning what the rest of them will do if -- ]
[Komui sets down whatever tools he's holding. The lab is so quiet.]
[Video | Private to Miranda and Fou]
[They'd expect video from him, not voice, and a smile even at this late hour, so that's what he gives.] Hey. Sorry, but I need to borrow you for a little bit.


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Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso gave a riding masterclass in tricky conditions at the Sepang International Circuit, winning his sixth of the season to keep the title battle alive going into the final round at Valencia.
Dovizioso, who started from third place on the grid, didn't get a perfect start and had to battle with Honda's Dani Pedrosa on the opening lap. The Italian then caught and passed title rival Marc Marquez on Lap 5, before setting after the leading duo made up of Zarco and Lorenzo.
Dovizioso passed the impressive French rookie on Lap 9, and began stalking his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo, who was himself looking to take his maiden Ducati win.
The paddock went into overdrive as Dovizioso closed the gap – would team orders prevail? Would Ducati order Lorenzo to pull aside? Would Lorenzo follow that order if it was given?
With 6 laps to go, Ducati played its hand and Lorenzo received a dashboard message from his team stating "Suggested Mapping: Mapping 8". Many took this to be a coded instruction to let Dovizioso by. It didn't matter. Just a lap later the Spaniard had a major moment at the final corner, losing the front and saving the bike on his knee as he ran wide, enabling Dovizioso to dive up the inside and take the lead.
The deed was done. Lorenzo effectively rode shotgun behind his team-mate and followed his team-mate home for the runner-up slot. Zarco crossed the line in third, with Marquez in fourth. The result sees the Italian trail the Spaniard by 21 points ahead of the finale in Valencia.
Dovizioso said: "It was a truly perfect weekend: we were quick in every session, both in the dry and in the wet, and today in the rain we dominated. Here at Sepang Jorge and I really had a bike advantage, because our Desmosedici was very fast, and we managed to administer the gap in the best possible way even though track conditions were very difficult because there wasn't much grip. I'm very pleased for the win which keeps my hopes alive for the title, and even though I know it will be very difficult at Valencia because it's a track where Marquez always goes well, we'll be going to Spain with confidence to try and bring home the victory."
Lorenzo said: "It was a great race that showed the progress we made throughout the weekend. I was really at ease on the bike, and even though I'd have preferred a dry race, when I saw it was raining I changed my mentality and tried to keep focussed, in order to avoid a mistake like Misano. I pushed hard but in the last few laps I was in a bit of crisis with the tyres, especially the front, and had a few scary moments in some corners.
"It wasn't the right time to do anything stupid and when I almost crashed at Turn 15 and Andrea passed me I realised that I wasn't going to be able to fight for the win. I know exactly how important a world title is for Ducati, Dovizioso has had a fantastic season and deserves to fight for the championship right down to the last race. In this weekend Andrea has always been faster and I'm pleased for the team for this first 1-2 win of the season, because it means we're working really well."


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September 30, 2015
Last Saturday we celebrated families, fish and the Fraser River! We were excited to join Westminster Savings at their booth at RiverFest, a festival inspired by the Fraser River.
Westminster Savings generously supports our ArtStarts at River Market events that take place once a month in New Westminster. RiverFest took place just outside River Market and inside the neighbouring Fraser River Discovery Centre in New Westminster. It was a beautiful sunny day, with lots of families out and about. Of course, we invited them over to make some art with us!
Our loom welcomed people to "weave the Fraser River", adding pieces of blue and green fabric and yarn to represent the rippling, flowing water.
Families also tried their hand at printmaking — many for the first time! They learned about the many kinds of salmon who inhabit the Fraser River, then drew their own salmon on soft foam. Some kids were very precise in trying to depict a particular salmon, such as the Sockeye, while others boldly invented their own variety. Some families collaborated on a fish and others expressed themselves independently.
The kids then printed their artwork in black or turquoise ink, making a copy to take home and another to hang in our on-site gallery. By the end of the day, we collected a huge and beautiful school of salmon!
Thanks to Westminster Savings and RiverFest for a wonderful, creative day.
We have more free family events coming up soon! Join us at ArtStarts on Saturdays in Vancouver on Saturday, October 31, 2015 and at ArtStarts at River Market in New Westminster on Sunday, November 1, 2015 for Seeds for Bees: A Make and Take-Home Activity to Help Save the Bees with artists and beekeeper Lori Weidenhammer. Sessions start at 11am and 1pm. As always, admission is free! See you there!
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IGF2R Consurf
We, Dawn, Jen, and I, looked at Insulin Growth Factor 2 bound to the IGF2R. This is the conservation of the receptor. There weren't many homologs, only 28 found to align well enough. Therefore we have many amino acids for which there isn't enough information to determine the conservation. From the structure, you can see that the interface with IGF2 isn't well conserved (red arrow), however the carbohydrate–binding surface (Blue arrow) is moderately conserved. This implies the evolution that is known in that IGF2R has evolved from a carbohydrate binding receptor that took on a new role of binding IGF2.


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This is my very first adult garment, and my very first successful zipper (invisible, no less!) installation. I have a lot to say about it!
First, I'm really glad I've made so many baby clothes using tutorials. Since tutorials make you do a lot of the work yourself, they end up teaching garment construction really well. This skirt felt very straightforward and came together with no major mistakes (although making the muslin sure helped with that).
Second, I used this tutorial to insert the zipper, although this one at Colette also looks good. I'm pretty happy with it. There's a slight bulge at the bottom left, but it's not very noticeable and, anyway, I'm really going after process rather than perfection right now. I'm sure the second will be better.
Third, the facing. Yikes. I tried machine sewing and it looked terrible; then I tried handsewing and it also looked terrible plus was too difficult, and so I finally decided on a half-handsewing half-machine sewing solution: I used the handwheel to sew the entire thing to make sure that I was stitching right in the ditch.
Fourth, the hem. Well, there's not much to say, really: handsewed it, and thank goodness for This American Life.
Final result? Honestly, I don't think it's going to get much wear–the combination of the print and the shape is maybe a teensy matronly, and I don't really have anything to wear with it. But the major point was for me to get over my fear of adult garment sewing, so a success on that front!
Next time with this pattern I'll use a fabric with more drape and also cut a size smaller. I took this one in half an inch and it's still a little big. Also, about the facing business: I inspected my similarly shaped Merona skirt to see what it did about the facing business (I mean the business of having to sew it down in a non-noticeable fashion) and realized that the lining took care of it. Merona is my go-to for assessing home-sewn garments: I figure I should be able to sew something at least as adeptly as Target, and in theory I can add the details that distinguish nice clothes that I can't afford anymore, like contrasting facings and pockets, not to mention decent sewing. I bought a shirt from Target recently and was outraged at how poorly it was sewn.
Anyway, I might try inserting a lining in the next one, especially since I'm planning on wool. It's got to cool off here sometime, right?


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Celebrities out in force for the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
July 2013)
A host of well-known names gathered for the gala preview evening of this year's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which officially opens today (9 July 2013).
At the Celebrity Speakers & Catwalk in Bloom Theatre, sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, there was a special appearance in the Catwalk in Bloom fashion show from TV actress, Sally Geeson.
Sally originally came to fame in Bless This House, a 1970's TV home-based sitcom, in which she played the daughter of Sid James, before going on to star alongside him again in some of the Carry On films. She has recently become an ambassador for Anglian Home Improvements, starring in the company's latest advertising campaign, having previously been a happy Anglian customer.
The Catwalk in Bloom fashion show will be running regularly throughout the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show at the Celebrity Speakers & Catwalk in Bloom Theatre. It features a series of horticultural inspired themes, including the 1940's, A Day at the Races, Summer Holiday and Red Carpet Paparazzi.
TV gardener David Domoney, official host of the Celebrity Speakers & Catwalk in Bloom Theatre, said "Hampton Court Palace Flower Show celebrates all that's in fashion with plants but plants have an important influence on fashion too – not only in the pattern of the fabrics but also with the cotton that comes from plants. Hampton is full of plants and energy, and there are lots of hints and tips you can pick up while you're there. Make sure you pop by and see us at the Celebrity Speakers & Catwalk in Bloom Theatre."
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We knew by the end of its opening weekend that Jurassic World was probably destined for a sequel, and since it's become the third-biggest box-office success of all time at this point, it was pretty much guaranteed. Now we finally have the first details of the inevitable followup to 2015's biggest film so far.
Variety reports that Universal Pictures has officially announced the sequel to Jurassic World, and given it a release date of June 22, 2018. Both Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are signed on to return for another trip to the park (though it's hard to see why either of their characters would want to), and director Colin Trevorrow has signed on to co-write the script with his frequent collaborator Derek Connolly. At this point, though, the film does not officially have a director.
We don't know yet what the plot will be (although we can guess it has to do with B.D. Wong's escape with that batch of eggs), or who'll round out the supporting cast, but since Jurassic World has already raked in more than $1.5 billion in worldwide ticket sales, it looks like this film is already destined to be a hit.
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13 Die in Crashes Investigated by State Police During Holiday Weekend
May 31, 2011, 11:33 ET
Troopers Make 357 DUI Arrests; Issue 7,934 Speeding Citations
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thirteen people were killed and 294 others were injured in crashes investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police during the four-day Memorial Day travel period, Commissioner Frank Noonan said today.
State police investigated a total of 808 crashes during the travel period spanning Friday to Monday, Noonan said.
Five of those killed were not wearing seat belts and 83 of the crashes were alcohol-related, including one of the fatal crashes.
Noonan said troopers arrested 357 motorists for driving under the influence; issued 7,934 speeding citations; cited 708 individuals for not wearing seat belts; and issued 115 citations to motorists for not securing children in child safety seats.
During last year's four-day Memorial Day holiday driving period, 16 people died and 290 were injured in 776 crashes to which troopers responded.
Noonan said the numbers cover only those crashes investigated by state police and do not include statistics on incidents to which other law-enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania responded.
For more information, visit www.psp.state.pa.us or call 717-783-5556.
Media contact: Jack J. Lewis, 717-783-5556
SOURCE Pennsylvania State Police Department