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Health and Wellness event – "Let's Move!"
By Tawnya De Laire Ridi | September 10, 2012
Defense Commissary Agency Dietitian Karen Hawkins helps one 5-year-old with his gloves as others are busy making their kid-sized fruit kabobs. The healthy food demonstration was part of the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Commissarys health and wellness event, which was in direct support for first lady Michelle Obamas Lets Move! campaign, an initiative that combats childhood obesity. While some of the children from the CDC were making fruit kabobs with Karen and vegetable wraps with posts Clinic Radar Clinic Dietitian and Nutritionist Beth Trainer, commissary employees were teaming up with the post's CDC and Morale Welfare and Recreation and showing their support by treating a second group of children from the CDC to a morning of fun-filled exercises.


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—In The Journal, Sept. 20, 1924, was published the work of Dr. Warren Coleman in which he proposes the use of raw white of egg and olive oil or butter fat given separately, as a quite new diet for peptic ulcer.This diet was proposed by me in an article published in Russian in 1910 (Dietetic Treatment of Ulcer of the Stomach, Russk. Vrach, 1910, No. 51, p. 1979), and in German in 1911 (Ueber die diätetische Behandlung von Ulcus ventriculi, St. Petersburg med. Wchnschr.36:13, 1911). I also published an article about this method in 1916 (Russk. Vrach, 1916, No.23), as well as a separate volume in 1918 (Treatment of Ulcer of the Stomach, St. Petersburg, 1918) and an article in 1923 (Vrach. Gaz., 1923, Nos. 17-18, p. 386). The diet has since been successfully used in the clinic that I direct and in several
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I've been away for the weekend; we were at the Dutch coast with 45 adults and 15 children and had a good time. I left prepared, as I knew breakfast and lunch would be bread-based meals: I made meatmuffins and crust-less quiche. At dinner time there was enough good food to choose from, there are a lot of people in the group doing the Dukan diet (a low-fat Atkins type diet: high protein, low carb and low fat). Lots of (slow) movement: a brisk walk on the beach (windy and cold!!) on Saturday morning, a short walk in the afternoon and a good walk on Sunday morning, including climbing some steep dunes. Sleep was not so good, sleeping with the whole family in one room in not-so-comfy beds :p .
Here's last week in foods:
Monday: Leftover pancakes with butter for breakfast. For lunch leftover chicken, parsnips and asparagus. Dinner was slowcooked pork cheecks with oven-roasted broccoli.
Tuesday: Last pancakes with butter. Bacon, eggs and avocado for lunch. Turkey roast with stewed celery and tomatoes for dinner. A tablespoon of almond butter and some smoked lox as a snack.
Wednesday: I decided to start the day with a "fat fast": homemade bone broth and a cup of coffee with coconut cream for breakfast. A few pieces of fresh coconut as mid-morning snack. Lunch was leftover celery and turkey with an avocado. I made 'zucchetti' with shrimp in tomatosauce for dinner. I ate a piece of chorizo and a tablespoon of almond butter as a post-WOD snack.
Thursday: I noticed yesterday that I feel better in the morning if I only eat fat and no carbs/little protein. So I started the day again with homemade bone broth and a few tablespoons of homemade cream cheese. I had a handful of nuts as mid-morning snack. A few leftover shrimps, some meatmuffins and raw fennel for lunch. For dinner we had Crispy duck legs with oven-roasted parsnips. Although I had been baking dessert (brownies, poppy-seed muffins, espresso muffins, blueberry cake – all grainfree) for 60 people for friday evening I didn't even lick my spoon!
Friday: I prepared for the weekend all day. Breakfast was a cup of bonebroth and my easy version of bulletproof coffee (google if you don't know what that is): a cup of good quality espresso with a tablespoon of butter stirred in. Yeah, I see you raising your eyebrow, I did too when I first read about it: put butter in your coffee, are you crazy? But it actually tastes good, it gives an even thicker layer of 'foam' on top of my coffee (I make coffee with a Delonghi ECAM 23.210 and buy organic, 100% arabica coffee beans); I had another bulletproof coffee mid-morning. I notice doing this in the morning makes me want to 'snack' less, it actually keeps me full until lunchtime. For lunch I baked some chicory (witloof) in butter and ate it with a meatmuffin and some lox. As we were travelling around dinner-time and I didn't know what dinner would bring on friday evening (often it's store-bought lasagne or pasta) I decided to make grainfree, 21DSD compliant waffles for the kids and myself as a late-afternoon snack. I ate 2 of them with some butter. I brought a green apple and some hard-boiled eggs with me as a back up-plan for dinner, but by the time we got there I wasn't hungry at all and I only ate my apple. I put all the goodies I baked out for dessert, but wasn't even tempted to try anything!
Saturday: good thing I came prepared to our weekend away, because breakfast and lunch was all bread-based. I ate 2 slices of Civilized Caveman's Banana Bread with butter for breakfast and shared a crust-less quiche with lox and chicory with DH for lunch. We had a few nuts and a hard-boiled egg as a snack during our walks on the beach – I did have a cup of tea with a teaspoon of honey: my throat had been hurting since Thursday and I didn't have anything to soothe it with me. I wasn't really hungry by dinner time, I had a small piece of poached chicken and some raw vegetables (cucumber, lettuce, shredded carrots). There was cake for dessert, but also a big tray of cheese. I wasn't tempted by the cake, but I did eat some (very good quality) cheeses.
Sunday: 2 slices of banana bread with butter and a few mini-meatmuffins before going on another walk in the dunes. I had a slice of roast beef and raw vegetables for lunch. After lunch everyone returned home. I roasted 2 (organic) chickens in the oven for dinner, with parsnips and a few red beets.
Average numbers for week 2:
Calories: 1445/day
Protein: 22,5% of calories (81 grams)
Fat: 66% of calories (108 grams)
Carbs: 11,5% of calories (41 grams)


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Here people use to say A donkey have sex not by donkey (its size), but for persistent. That's my case. I always talk to every girl I see. Some times one of them accept my propossal, and we get sex. But most of them refuses me. Im not Brad Pitt, but not too ugly too, and its common to see not very handsome guys getting very hot girls, how they do it? Was a mystery to me. People say its their pocket, full of money, that attract girls or predisposse them to do anything. But some guys are not rich, and do it very well. So, whats the secret? I like to read books, mostly novels or self improvement, and decided to start reading about psychology, especially women minds. Reading Sigmund Freud's books I learned his ideas about sex, the relation between sex and dreams, and the relation between some traumas when kid and problems in the teen age. It seems he didnt knew for real about women minds, but his own thinkings about sex and women. The book Emotional Intelligence helps a lot understanding how a different aproach can solve some situations that seems imposible or very hard to solve. And it shows each one have different skills, some people do not understand mathematics, but can play music as genius, and viceversa. It show very different skills, and especially the emotions control as the best skill to reach top positions in human organizations. Some other books talk about love and relationship. But thats not exactly what I needed. What I wanted was to learn how to get girls for having sex. Searching the web, a lot of sites promissed to teach that to me. After testing some of the free ones, without any lucky, I decided to try the payd ones and found the right for me. I was in the right way with psychology, but it show me a different approach, and it works for real. I used to get rejected by nine of ten girls, and now its the opposite, now Im getting sex with nine of ten girls I ask for. Its amazing, you can learn it, but not by the guys who already know it, because most of them do that naturally, its in their intelligence skills, and me not. What they told me didnt help me, I had to learn from the people in that website, as they were like me and know exactly why I need.
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Organizing my new life!September 6th, 2013
Two years ago that for work reasons I have my office at home. I usually like to use xdating.com for a couple of times a day while working in the old office but that habit just ends. So sad for me.
Now I'm working at home, I'm in charge of caring of my daughter who is 7 years old. One day I just trying to enter my profile but she discovered me in the act, saddly she saw some pictures she cant. Then the plan was to buy her ice cream every day in change of do not tell this to my wife.
Also there was another big problem. She start to asks about things related to sex and I do not have the answers so now I have two problems. Problem with my daughter cusiosity and problem with my online activities.
I'm going crazy with this, during the day my daughter, my wife is overnight. I do not know what to do.
Cheaters SiteApril 30th, 2013
There are many sites teaching you how to cheat online, to earn points or credits in some games, to access restricted areas, or to earn some money. I think you are reading this because you want to cheat online to earn some money, right? Well, it involves cheating some sites, and creating some anonymous account to get the money. Using your real name and real info to get the money can get you some problems. Better to read about the possible ways of creating accounts to catch some money, and the ways to transfer the money from one account to another. If you are thinking in cheating Big Money, better to get a bank account in some Brittish island. How? Well, you should read truecheater.com or search the web, there are many ways of doing it without moving from your place.
Looking for some vancouver sexFebruary 20th, 2012
Was looking for some vancouver sex resource, this is something new for me, i never went to vancouver before but different things are always so good to enjoy. Well, im planning about visit that canadian city and obviusly try to get some extra fun you know what im talking about. Thats the reason i would like if someone can recomend a good canadian personals resource i mean i want to have sex in vancouver while im there.
I want to start looking for interesting profiles and create some connection then when I stay there talk face to face, by the way i will be there next month so i need something that works fast.
I've heard about many dating websites but I dont know how sure could they be, I notice this website and maybe posting in here could get something interesting about what im talking about, in fact vancouver sex.
Organize your sexual liveJuly 13th, 2011
Generally you only need to organize your sex life if you don't have much of one, which we have all experienced at one stage or another….. for way longer than many of us would care to admit but hey.. that's life. With the ridiculously long working hours most of have and if children are added to the mix it's not really any surprise is it?!!
Well If you need help with this lack of sex in your life here are some tip I took from Claire McFee article.
Book it in – If you are out of the habit to a large degree some of the best advice on the topic I read once said something like "You need to sometimes have sex when you aren't really in the mood just to help you get back in the swing of things." To expect to be in the mood with a regular partner when it's been an age isn't realistic, so as boring and unromantic as it sounds setting a specific time to do the deed for want of a better phrase can actually help get you back into the swing of things. Put it in your diaries and actually stick to it and hopefully your libido will kick back in and it will turn into the spontaneous and enjoyable act it should be.
Raunchy Reading Material – A raunchy book or magazine may do the trick to put you in the mood,. If you are in the category of a partner who is wanting it but you don't, and their usual methods of arousing you are not working like they used to, you can read a chapter or so of one such book to give you head start without your partner even knowing. I promise they won't be complaining!
Off-the-shelf Libido Enhancing Products – I wouldn't go down this path unless you have a good naturopath who knows your history and whether the mix of ingredients and importantly the quantity of each is going to do anything for you and your sex life. Otherwise they could be at best a waste of money or at worst actually making the situation worse and even masking what may be the real problem.
Hormones gone awry? – Look at your hormone levels (more closely than a simple one off blood test result will give you) – but rather – again -with a good naturopath who uses a Vega machine to tell you if you are too high or low in any of these areas and can give you something to rectify it. Otherwise the effect can be literally pushing away with one hand while trying to pull in with the other –confusing to say the least for your partner and not surprisingly affecting your sex life.
So hope this help but if is not enough or you are still under this problem you can visit the doctor or try this out some videos de sex are completely free or even try to find your half orange dateing that is free as well.
Good Luck!!!!
Organize Your ClosetMarch 11th, 2009
The best way to conquer clothes clutter: Hold your own once-a-year fashion show. Empty the closet, then try on each garment in front of a full-length mirror. Does it fit? With what outfits and on what occasions will you wear it? Does it need mending? Will you ever be able to get out that ink stain? Separate pieces into four piles: keep, mend, donate, throw away. Follow the same steps for shoes. Now you can start organizing the keepers, eking out extra space with over-the-door storage and hanging shelves.
Toss mismatched hangers: Their irregular shapes take up more space, and the wire ones that dry cleaners use are hard on your clothes. Try a coordinated set, like the Huggable Hangers.
Keep your clothes stored by outfit: For example, store cardigans with matching slacks, blazers with skirts, rather than by type. Then return hangers to the closet so the hooks face out. Once you've worn a set, hang them the other way (with the hook facing in). At the end of a year you'll be able to tell which clothes you haven't worn — it'll help streamline next April's fashion show/spring-cleaning.
Remove out-of-season items: Wash or dry-clean your winter gear, then bag or box it and stash out of the way.
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Former Boy Meets World actress Maitland Ward was the best thing that happened at the premiere of A Haunted House 2 Wednesday night, when she showed up to the event wearing a see-through LBD with just a little fabric covering her private parts.
Born Ashley Maitland Welkos on February 3, 1977 in Long Beach, California, the actress is best known for the role of Rachel McGuire on Boy Meets World, and has done little else in her acting career. We're not sure if she's working on a career revival or not, but her last credited role came in the form of a guest spot on sitcom Rules Of Engagement in 2007.
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When you buy some EOT teacher's materials you can have a free Skype session to ask me any questions that you might have.
This is me talking to Kevin, an American English teacher based in Colombia.
In this recording we discuss:
Here is the Skype chat history from our session and the useful links that I sent Kevin (minus the free course with Spanish instructions that he needed):
[12:49:41] *** Call from Kevin ***** ***
[12:55:21] Jason West: www.scribblar.com (free virtual classroom to upload EOT materials into)
[12:55:27] Jason West: www.twiddla.com (another free VC)
[12:55:34] Jason West: www.wiziq.com (virtual classroom I use http://www.wiziq.com/EnglishOutThere)
[12:58:20] Jason West: www.podomatic.com (free podcast system to create links for MP3s that can be posted online)
[12:59:10] Jason West: http://voipcallrecording.com/ (free Skype call recorder)
[13:01:37] Jason West: www.audacity.com (free easy MP3 editing to create our trademark 'Before and After' clips of students)
[13:10:18] Jason West: http://www.youtube.com/user/languagesoutthere (our video channel with lots of 'how to' videos)
[13:21:20] Jason West: www.crocodoc.com (free PDF annotation online i.e. you can write on our lesson plan worksheets online!)
[13:21:26] Jason West: www.foxxit.com (another one)
[13:28:46] Jason West: http://englishoutthere.com/english-out-there-affiliate-program (free to join and sell your students self-study courses that work with OO teacher's courses so they can study alone and be guided by you and sell to your teacher colleagues and form a little collective of teachers doing EOT)
[13:36:02] Jason West: www.edmodo.com (billed as the 'Facebook of education' create secure class groups and manage your students learning online and share EOT documents with them)
[13:37:33] Jason West: http://education.skype.com/ (meet other teachers from around the world with students using Skype)
[13:39:33] Jason West: www.voicethread.com (for the painfully shy…asynchronous audio conversations….get you going speaking!)
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Read here -> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Insta ... o-x86.html and following page which seems to indicate the default option on a new unformatted 320gb HD is suitable for most users, so selected it just to see. Install went fine. Using KDE as default desktop.
cat /etc/fstab shows:
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[root@centosdesktop user]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap
I am used to other setups which include a separate /home partition by default. Went to >system>disk management and apparently to not have permissions "there are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmount-contact administrator". There is no option to enter with root privileges.
fdisk -l shows:
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Disk /dev/hda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 38913 312464250 8e Linux LVM
Am I able to access via GUI/ admin password the disk partitioning? Can't seem to find it in menus. I found LVM but completely unfamiliar with it. Might it be best to reinstall and choose a custom partitioning scheme as below rather than try to resize and adjust from current install?
/boot <- also not used to seeing this in other systems (probably a good idea but new to me)
/tmp ?
Any help appreciated
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Moser Baer Has All But Shut Down
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atul Puri, 39, is a charismatic young man. It is impossible not to like him. He is polite to a fault, coolly analytical—a computer engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon helps, no doubt—almost always impeccably dressed in a business suit and smokes Marlboro Lights. He has no hobbies and is a workaholic. No wonder then, that he is usually in office by 10 am and is often the last to leave. If you are an investor you would want someone like Puri to be at the helm of affairs.
Akhil Gupta, senior managing partner and chairman of the Indian arm of Blackstone, one of the world's largest private equity firms, believes that Puri is one of the best entrepreneurs he has met. Gupta invested $300 million (about Rs 1,650 crore) in a company Puri founded: Moser Baser Projects Private Ltd. This company is an independent power producer and an energy company. "Ratul has reached every milestone before time," says Gupta, pausing to deliver one of the highest praises an Indian entrepreneur can hope to get, "He reminds me of a young Mukesh Ambani."
That's Gupta. Now let's talk about another investor, Rajesh Khanna. Khanna was the managing director of Warburg Pincus, another blue-blooded private equity firm, who invested heavily in Moser Baer India Ltd, the magnetic storage and solar panel manufacturing company. This is a company where Puri has been a key decision maker. He became the executive director in 2001. While Khanna did not talk to Forbes India for this story, his actions spoke quite clearly.
Warburg Pincus recently sold a major portion of its stake in Moser Baer, taking a substantial haircut on its original investment. It is estimated that the fund invested almost $220 million (Rs 1,210 crore) in the company. It sold about 24.5 percent of its stake in an off-market transaction to a Seychelles-based entity called Global Town Investment for about $11 million (Rs 61 crore). And then in June, Rajesh Khanna resigned from Moser Baer's board. Investing in Moser Baer is possibly one of the worst investment decisions that Khanna must have made at Warburg Pincus.
Moser Baer India Ltd, the listed entity, is down for the count. Its sales have stagnated and its cash reserves are totally depleted. Its market capitalisation is merely 5 percent of what it was five years ago. It is unable to service its massive domestic debt. Moser's cash flow is about Rs 241 crore. And its debt is a towering Rs 3,267 crore as of March 2011. "Either the cash flows or the value of the assets should support the debt. But in Moser Baer's case both are not adequate," says a board member of Moser Baer. He requested not to be named.
The company also has foreign debt. Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) issued by the company in 2007 are up for repayment but it doesn't have the money to redeem them. FCCBs worth $88.5 million (Rs 487 crore) are now being restructured with the help of lenders. Lenders like State Bank of Hyderabad and Central Bank of India have started a corporate debt restructuring programme.
Puri himself has little time for this company where Moser built its equity. "You know there was a time five years ago when Ratul would go wild if the plant was shut even for a few hours. Over the years [in the last three] that has changed to a situation when the plant is often shut down because there are no raw materials and he is fine with it," says a former Moser Baer senior manager who did not want to be identified.
So, which one is the real Ratul Puri? Is he the phenomenal entrepreneur that Gupta makes him out to be, or a bad businessman who has destroyed capital and almost beggared his shareholders and lenders?
The easy answer is both, but it is also the wrong answer. Business isn't sport. For entrepreneurs there is no recognition for making a hundred on a viciously turning track the way Sachin gets. If you are in a bad business, you are often portrayed as a bad entrepreneur. This is what happened to Ratul Puri. He is stuck with a business whose best days are behind it.
He is the first Indian entrepreneur of size to be tested and bested both by changes in technology as also the Chinese manufacturing juggernaut.
Brave New World, Brave New Moser
Most people today may not realise what a powerful brand Moser Baer was. Deepak Puri, son of a civil aviation bureaucrat, alumni of Modern School in Delhi and a mechanical engineer from Imperial College, London, started Moser Baer in 1983, after a frustrating attempt at making metal furniture in Calcutta, where he was tired of frequent labour strikes.
His lucky break came when the world of storage media changed in 1998. Philips brought to market a much more efficient and reliable way to store data in the form of a compact disc. It was classic disruptive innovation. The personal computer and consumer storage media was changing and technology pundits had already begun to debate which of the two media, magnetic (floppies) or optical would survive.
Deepak Puri was quick to react and bet on optical media. In 1998, Moser Baer secured funding from International Finance Corp and JF Electra (Mauritius) to fund its entry into the CD-R business. Within a year Warburg Pincus came in, at 12 times the valuation that JF Electra had paid.
When Moser Baer's revenues were only Rs 154 crore, Deepak Puri raised about Rs 430 crore to venture into making recordable compact discs (CD-R). From 2000 to 2004, the company had a dream run. Revenues rose from Rs 154.34 crore to Rs 1,501 crore. Profits rose about eight times, to Rs 323 crore. Moser Baer grew to become the world's second largest optical media manufacturer and one of the largest tech hardware exporters from India, shipping to 82 countries.
It was manufacturing several formats like CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW. At that time, Moser Baer was churning out about 3 billion discs a year and had a market share of about 17 percent globally.
It is not known if Deepak Puri or his son Ratul had read The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor. It has an interesting story. Christensen wanted to understand why great firms fail. What better than to study a variety of firms, he thought. His friend advised him against it. The reason as recounted by Christensen is this: "Those who study genetics avoid studying humans because new generations come along only every 30 years or so, it takes a long time to understand the cause and effect of any changes. Instead, they study fruit flies, because they are conceived, born, mature, and die all within a single day. If you want to understand why something happens in business, study the disk drive industry. Those companies are the closest things to fruit flies that the business world will ever see."
Christensen took his friend's advice and showed in the book that as disk drives moved through different technologies, firms that were heavily invested in the older version of the technology and customers with older set of needs could not adopt the new ways. They were rendered obsolete. Moser's situation is so similar to what happened to the disk drive companies that it might be worthy of inclusion in the later editions of the book.
Trouble began somewhere in 2004-05. Moser Baer was still growing in volumes but the profit on each CD started declining. The price of a CD fell from about $1.20 to about 20 cents in just three years. To maintain its volume leadership, Moser Baer needed money to invest in large manufacturing facilities. Should the company have invested fresh capital to invest in business that was seeing its profits disappear? Neither Ratul Puri nor his battery of informed investors thought otherwise. It raised money from Warburg Pincus and International Finance Corp (IFC). The company invested almost $900 million in expanding capacity in 1999-2007. The idea was to build massive, global scale and destroy the competitors.
This never happened. The problem was that Moser's main competitors—Taiwanese companies like Ritek and CMC Corp—were on to a different game. Even as Moser Baer was raising money for expanding capacity, the Taiwanese companies, both CMC and Ritek were struggling because of several anti dumping duties imposed by Europe and the US. Even in India, the Taiwanese were shut out thanks to senior Puri's connections in the corridors of power. Everything changed when the Taiwanese decided to move their manufacturing facilities to China. "Once China came into picture, the cost advantage of Moser Baer got completely eroded," says a senior official in the company.
A far bigger problem was that personal storage in the digital world was changing again. Thanks to the internet, the cost of storage had fallen dramatically. Flash memory was the next big thing for storage and transfer. In an interview with Forbes India in 2009, Ratul Puri had said growth rates fell from a CAGR of 70-80 percent in 2001-03 to about 15-20 percent by late 2004-05. "So you started expanding your capacity and adding capital cost in a falling market," says a senior Moser official.
Even if the Puris wanted to invest in the new sunrise segment—flash memory—they had little leeway. In this race to the bottom, Puris' shareholding had got diluted to about 16 percent. The Taiwanese companies, on the other hand, were at a different stage of raising capital. So, they would take loans, increase capacity and at a high value sell their equity. Moser didn't have that option.
Even as all this was happening, the senior Puri had started taking a back seat in the company making way for Ratul. Both father and son understood that optical media's days were numbered and they needed to derisk the business. Or add a new line of business that would drive future growth and profitability. And it was Ratul's mandate to find the next business opportunity. He bet on solar.
It was October 2005. Ratul Puri knew he had made an impact. In his 77-slide, lengthy PowerPoint presentation to the Moser Baer board, he stated upfront: "Companies in the photovoltaic space are witnessing increasing revenues, profits and high valuations. During the last five years actual growth in the photovoltaic industry has outstripped projected growth by a factor of two. Demand potential of photovoltaic in India is expected to be in excess of 1,000 MW."
Everybody in the room could see his point. Even the senior Puri, who was earlier sceptical of the solar industry, seemed to agree. After all, how difficult could selling solar cells and panels be in a world which would need more and more energy?
And Moser Baer had the skills to get into the business. The idea was that Moser Baer's core competency is in micro coating of surfaces. Manufacturing a solar panel is nothing but coating a silicon wafer on a huge glass panel and that's how the solar business was born.
However, Puri was in a tearing hurry. During 2006-08, Moser Baer invested in a wide range of solar technologies: crystalline silicon, thin film (amorphous silicon)— which it bought from Applied Materials—and a few investments in concentrated solar technology startups like Solaria and SolFocus.
On the supply side, a crucial part of Moser Baer's strategy was to get access to poly silicon (for silicon wafers), the raw material which was in extremely short supply and used to coat the solar panels. Long-term supply deals were signed with companies like REC Group, LDK Solar and Deutsche Solar, among many others. And then on the demand side, Moser Baer entered into agreements, at the time claimed to be about $100 million (Rs 550 crore), with several power producers in Europe.
Of course, all this needed money. So to fund it, Moser Baer made several financing arrangements. First, it issued FCCBs of about $150 million (Rs 825 crore) in June 2007. In October 2007, the company through its solar unit raised another $100 million from a consortium led by IDFC, GIC Special Investments and CDC group. At the time, Moser Baer said the PE infusion was a crucial step towards a potential listing of the solar entity. And then again in September 2008, Moser Baer raised about Rs 411 crore from a group of investors including Nomura, CDC Group, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, IDFC PE and IDFC. At the time, this bunch of investors valued Moser Baer's solar business at Rs 6,350 crore.
By 2008, when Moser Baer was just about getting ready for its solar play, the world was hit by a severe financial downturn. And almost overnight, the solar business' economics changed completely. Till then the photovoltaic manufacturing industry was exploiting the price difference between polysilicon and the demand for solar cells.
As the supply of polysilicon increased, its prices began to fall, while at the same time the economic crisis resulted in cutbacks in solar subsidies across Europe which accounted for more than 60 percent of solar panel demand in the world. To make matters worse, banks developed cold feet and most companies in the solar sector found it extremely difficult to secure funding.
Most of Moser Baer's supply contracts had to be renegotiated. For instance, Solarvalue, one of the companies with which Moser had entered into a supply contract, filed for bankruptcy in May 2012. If that wasn't enough, Puri complicated his life further by suing one of his suppliers, the REC group. "There was no need for it. I mean this was a company we were chasing for more than five years to sign a contract. And you sue them? Moser Baer didn't pay them for which REC sent a legal notice. However, Moser said that the product supplied by REC has quality issues which is why the company had held back the bank guarantees. In the end Moser Baer had to settle this lawsuit at a huge cost in London," adds another former official of Moser Baer. In 2010, REC got hold of bank guarantees worth about $80 million (Rs 440 crore) from Moser Baer.
Through the four years, Moser Baer has suffered. It just didn't have the cost economics right. "By this time the company had become a nonentity in the business. While the Chinese companies were talking of 2 GW in manufacturing capacity, Moser Baer was 150 MW. That's nothing," adds the official.
It also seems Puri had completely underestimated China's manufacturing potential, which benefitted from the country's ability to build huge factories quicker and cheaper than any other nation in the world. This was largely due to its inexpensive, efficient construction crews and a process that permitted streamlining. So, while Moser Baer was still taking baby steps in solar, China became the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels.
According to the China Solar Association, China produced almost 1,180 MW of solar panels in 2007. The Jiangsu province in China alone accounted for 1,000 MW, a quarter of the global total.
Back in Greater Noida at Moser's manufacturing facility, things are quiet. This solar photovoltaic unit isn't producing much. And that's how it has been for the last two years. But the unit in Noida continues to churn out CDs/DVDs to meet whatever demand that exists. Another official who moved out of the company early this year from the human resources department says, "For the last three to four months nobody is going to the plant. They are not getting any salary. The last I heard is that the Noida plant will be shifted to Greater Noida. And the land in Chennai which was bought in 2008 for expansion of Moser's solar business has been lying barren for the last four years." What about the business of selling movie CDs and DVDs which Moser Baer had entered with a lot of fanfare and so-called disruptive business model by selling them at ridiculously cheap prices? "That business is finished. It ended a year or so back," says the official.
Not surprisingly, Puri finds it
better to spend a disproportionate amount of his time in building out the new Moser Baer Projects. His approach is to have a well diversified power portfolio. He is producing power from multiple sources like thermal, solar and hydel. And this company has professionals running the show in each line of business. Gupta of Blackstone agrees that Puri's execution has been top notch. "Execution is very good with great professionals, regular and robust reviews. Ratul is very hands on, detail-oriented and yet has empowered people," he says.
But can Puri wipe off the memory of Moser Baer India Limited, the company that his father built from scratch, from the mind of the investors, especially public investors? At some point Moser Baer Projects will go for a listing. Puri will want to now build a business that will reclaim his father's legacy and redeem his own.
this was the mistake senoir mgmt did in pv business. we must have
carried out all r&D and looked into competitive pricing which we could sustain for longer time and then gradually expand.
I myself was a former employee of moserbaer compact disc division.
The management are bunch of Muggers and Puri is not a proper businessman he is smart plunderer
That's a weird ending to the article. Neither of the two reasons have been elaborated on anywhere else in the article. So very open ended. I hope there's a part II to this article.
Here also, the way Puri Junior is sounding and has worked till now, he is motivated by doing business to make money, to make profits. He might prove lucky just like his father and later gain some business wisdom which is guided by a broader vision. Or he might get just one time lucky and make some more money for some more years. But this is not the way to make long lasting, value creating and enviable organizations.


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Via David Salmonson (Western Dave) on Twitter, I found this from Shannon Hale, a Young Adult fiction writer, on a recent experience on a school visit to talk about her books:
This was a small-ish school, and I spoke to the 3-8 grades. It wasn't until I was partway into my presentation that I realized that the back rows of the older grades were all girls.
Later a teacher told me, "The administration only gave permission to the middle school girls to leave class for your assembly. I have a boy student who is a huge fan of SPIRIT ANIMALS. I got special permission for him to come, but he was too embarrassed."
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It's hard being undefeated. It's even harder when you are the only undefeated team left in the county and you have a target on your back as big as an elephant.
Bristol Panthers - welcome to the land of the elephants.
With their thrilling victory on Friday over Pymatuning Valley, and accompanied by a LaBrae loss to Poland on Tuesday, the Panthers are the last team left in Trumbull County that can list a "0" at the end of their record.
The excitement that is being generated from the town of Bristol is without a doubt the most the town has seen since now-coach Craig Giesy was wearing the black and gold from 2000-03.
During Friday's game against the Lakers, Giesy said he didn't remember an atmosphere like that since he played. And now, being on the bench as a coach, he said it's a completely different feeling.
"The coaches were talking about that, and we don't remember anything like that since we played - and that's been a long time. It was sold out, it was standing-room only. I think there might have been like two tickets left.
"We joke that we want to play and we want to get out on the floor. But last night was the first night we said, 'We don't need to play anymore.' That was a big game. But we love and trust our players and are so happy for them."
The 11-0 start the Panthers are off to ranks with the best starts in school history but is still a few shy of reaching best start of all time. In 1994-95, the team had 17 straight wins, and in 1961-62, the team started 18-0 before first tasting defeat.
Even in Giesy's junior season (2001-02), the Panthers lost their second game of the season before rattling off 23 straight wins and an appearance in the state finals.
There's no predicting the future to see how the season will go from here for the Panthers, who are currently ranked 10th in the state in Division IV. However, it's not an easy road to the 22-0 mark before the start of tournaments.
The biggest game that sticks out in the schedule is game No. 20 at Maplewood. There is a rivalry there, and the coaches know each other well. If Bristol is still undefeated on Feb. 8, the Rockets will throw everything at them to be the team to break up the run. Knowing the Panthers, they will leave everything on the floor to make sure they depart Mecca with an unscathed mark.
When speaking about being undefeated, Giesy shied away from the word. And rightfully so. No coach wants to jinx or start putting unwanted pressure on his team. He also knows that with teams gunning for them, the rest of the season is going to be no cake walk.
"We still have some tough games. That game against PV, those are how tournament games are played. It was good to see how the kids reacted. We were pretty satisfied with the result."
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Montreal's arson squad is investigating a fire at a west end apartment building.
A 46-year old woman was found unconscious when firefighters arrived at 5841 Sherbrooke west at Regent in NDG Sunday morning.
She remained in critical condition.
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The effects of adding 1% and 15% (weight) calcite, as well as 1% and 3% of clay minerals on the wettability of water-repellent sandy soils sampled in aeolian sand region of the western Slovakia were studied both with and without the wetting and drying cycle before the heating phase. The clay minerals were standards from the Source Clay Minerals Repository (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA). The persistence of water repellency was estimated with the water drop penetration time (WDPT) test. After wetting, water repellency disappeared in all the samples. During the drying phase, water repellency re-appeared in all samples (untreated and calcite-treated) as the water content decreased below 1%. Repellency did, however, not reach pre-wetting levels. The effect of calcite addition on water repellency depended on the amount of calcite addition. An addition of 1% and 15% calcite resulted in decrease in WDPT in the treatment without the wetting and drying cycle before the heating at 50°C. The effect of clay contents on water repellency differed strongly among the four clay minerals. Kaolinite and Na-montmorillonite reduced WDPT significantly, while Ca-montmorillonite and illite were less effective or caused even increase in WDPT. The heating at 50°C was used to simulate the effects of hot dry spells on water repellency.
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As a joint venture with Plaquemines Cat and Café Hope, PAWS is having a Cajun Coffee Pawty on Dec. 14 from 1 to 4 p.m.at Budget Saver at 1951 Barataria Blvd., Marrero. The event will offer music, free food and drinks (first-come, first-served), door prizes, cooking demonstrations and information about these organizations.
PAWS is a nonprofit 501©3 no-kill animal shelter giving refuge to about 100 cats and dogs daily. Plaquemines Cat is a nonprofit caring for cats only. They humanely trap, spay and neuter and release feral cats. If a cat is adoptable, they will put it up for adoption. Café Hope is a teaching restaurant located in Marrero. It trains at-risk youth to work in the food industry and has a high success rate for putting students to work.
Admission to the Coffee Pawty is free. The goal is to inform the public of proper pet care and responsibility. Tables will be set up with crafts, books and calendars for sale, and proceeds will be split among the three groups. Donations will be accepted also.
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Halloween week was busy for children, parents and staff at Brighter Horizons. The day care holds a pumpkin carving and decorating contest each year, and the parents have fun carving and decorating while the children help with what they can do. The funniest and scariest pumpkins were awarded a gift certificate to Toys R Us. While it is evident the parents do most or all of the work, the kids still enjoy seeing the results.
For the first time, the 4-year-olds, along with teachers and a number of parents, took a bus trip to St. Bernard Catholic Church in Chalmette to visit a pumpkin patch. As the bus pulled up, the passengers were greeted and escorted to a movie room, where they saw a short film. They had lunch, went for a hayride through the cemetery, played ball and each child picked out a pumpkin to take back to class.
The children decorated their pumpkins the next morning and they had their own contest. They painted and had access to decorations.
Congratulations to Hailey Horton (daughter of Chad and Bridgette Horton), who was selected as the winner of the children's contest. When I asked her where did she get the idea to put earrings on her pumpkin, she pulled back her hair and revealed her own earrings. It was then I realized the pumpkin was suppose to be in her likeness.
On Wednesday, the 3- and 4-year-olds visited Riverbend Nursing Home to trick or treat and sing songs. It was hard to tell who had the most fun: the residents or the children. As they left, they promised to return at Christmas time. Last year, they made and delivered cards for the residents.
American Legion
If you are looking for a place to have a small party, reception, dinner or family reunion, the American Legion, located at 104 Hunt Street in Belle Chasse, is perfect for groups up to 100. It is newly renovated, with a full-size kitchen, tables and chairs, and is available by calling Carlotta or Wheeler Lalonde at 504.393.1667.
Patty Mattison is a Belle Chasse resident who writes about people and events throughout Plaquemines Parish. She can be reached at 504.392.0958 or at email@example.com.


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In Brief: Vidalia onion battle brewing
A battle has commenced over the future of the iconic Vidalia onion.
First came the whispers: Vidalia onions aren't as sweet as they used to be. And they look odd. And go bad quickly.
Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black heard the talk and decided to act. Now lines have been drawn in the low-sulfur sand that makes a Vidalia a Vidalia.
For several years, Black said, onions harvested too early have resulted in inferior Vidalias. So new rules have been instituted to give the onions more growing time.
Cash still reigns in real estate
Money talks, but cash shouts in the real estate market.
An unprecedented number of homebuyers are forgoing a mortgage. Nearly half of all U.S. buyers during September paid cash, compared with 30 percent in 2012, according to RealtyTrac.
"Cash is king," said Dave Delgado, co-owner of a medical supply company in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. He recently paid cash for a couple of suburban rental houses. "It's hard to say how the stock market will do, so we feel more confident and comfortable in the real estate market."
'Pink slime' uproar prompts label changes
Cargill Inc. says it will start labeling beef products that contain finely textured beef after the ingredient came under attack as "pink slime" in 2012.
The Minneapolis-based meat company says the new packages will appear before 2014's grilling season.
It says packages will note when a product "Contains Finely Textured Beef."
Finely textured beef is made by separating the bits of meat that are stuck on fatty trimmings. Those bits are treated to kill bacteria; the resulting product is mixed with ground beef.
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Jamaal Magloire has signed a contract to play with the Miami Heat next year. Per team policy, the terms of the contract were not disclosed.
Last year, Magloire essentially fell off the map. He played with both the Dallas Mavericks and the New Jersey Nets and was rather unproductive playing in only 31 games and averaging less than 10 minutes a game. I was shocked to see him fall off so quickly for a former all-star who is only 30 years old!
Magloire and the Heat hope that the new environment and team will help rejuvenate his career.
"This is an opportunity for me to re-energize my career," the 30-year-old Magloire said. "I love this game so much and the fact that I didn't play last year just makes me more vicious and more hungry to go out there and get the job done this year. The memories I have, it's all motivation now."
The Heat anticipate Magloire competing with Mark Blount for the starting center job. At 6-11, 265 pounds Magloire has good size and can be a solid defender and rebounder. If he is able to turn around his career as the Heat hope for, he will have no issues taking over the job from Blount.
Assuming Magloire is able to resurrect his career, the Heat are going to be a strong contender for a playoff spot in the East. Wade showed us during the Olympics that he can still be one of the top five players in the league. Combine Wade with Marion on the break and, my choice for the first pick, Michael Beasley on the block, and the Heat have three very strong scorers. Rounding out the starting five, Chalmers looks to be the starting point guard and it seems as if the Heat got a steal here. Time will only tell on how well Chalmers will play out but it appears as if he will be a solid PG in the league. The bench is improved with sharp-shooter James Jones signed over the summer and former starting center Mark Blount moved to the pine with the signing of Magloire.
Overall, the Heat will look nothing like the 15 win team that we saw last year. Assuming everybody stays healthy, there should be remarkable improvement in wins with the upgrade of talent.
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Anyone who as a child fantasized that modest train set into an elaborate panorama of tracks, locomotives and papier-mâché mountains will find this book enjoyable. It includes photographs and descriptions of 13 layouts—with only one intended for youngsters—at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. On his setup in Glenview, Ill., Stan Roy can operate 27 separate trains automatically at the same time. Bruce Manson of Lancaster, Pa., says that in the evening he likes to reflect that in his little model world, "there's no crime, no graffiti, no pollution. Everyone's a Republican." Ward Kimball, the Disney animator who designed Jiminy Cricket, has table layouts and two real locomotives in his backyard in San Gabriel, Calif. Frank Sinatra has a lilliputian railroad at his Rancho Mirage compound. It took hobby store owner Paul Kirby 11 weeks to build it in 1982, working with a team of six to 10 people. Kirby says he found Sinatra "is upfront about things. If he doesn't like something, you know about it the day before it happens. The absence of conversation is acceptance." McComas, a commercial and documentary filmmaker, and Tuohy, associate editor of Chicago Lawyer, include plenty of technical details for the serious collector. There must be quite a few of them, since this is the pair's eighth book about toy trains. (TM Books, Wilmette, Ill., $29.95)
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March 17, 2008, 09:43 PM
With the ridiculous price of gas checks, does anyone have a good source for buying 30cal. checks.
Thanks for any info.
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March 17, 2008, 10:29 PM
There used to be a kit to make them from aluminum cans, and they pressed onto any cast bullet when sizing. I don't know if there still available.
I needed some for 45-70 and I'm trying homemade lubed felt wads
instead. I cut them from an old hat, goes pretty fast. From what I learned here:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=123266 .
I think they will work for my application.
Maybe they would for 30cal with a 5/16" leather punch?
March 18, 2008, 07:42 AM
Have you considered cream of wheat as a cheapo gas check? I started experimenting with it a month or two ago when I was looking for a way to home-make gas checks. Some cream of wheat under the bullet appears to act as a gas check when chamber pressure compresses it up under the bullet base. The c.o.w. plug even appears to actually clean the bore, too.
I've successfully tested cream of wheat with lead bullets in 45, 357magnum, 7.62x39, and 7.62x54R. Especially for pistol reloading it slows me down to add the extra step of adding the c.o.w., so I'm trying maybe 10-15 rounds out of a box of 50 made with cream of wheat and the rest just plain lead. This seems to totally prevent/remove any leading and my bores are cleaner than they've ever been. I used to keep my lead 357 loads pretty tame to prevent leading, with this I've been able to shoot some stronger lead bullet loads (no chrono results yet but by felt recoil approaching commercial jacketed bullet recoil) with no leading at all. I have a chronograph on order and am looking forward to collecting some hard data about how hard one can push cream 'o wheat boolits.
A possible downside is loss of accuracy - my initial rifle results have shot safely but accuracy has been quite poor. I plan to explore effects of sizing/lubing/powder charge on accuracy, but I've been cautioned by one guy who does a lot of cream of wheat loading that accuracy may not be all that good with cow. If I can't get cream of wheat loads to work well with rifle I may go back to some sort of punching soda can approach to making gas checks.
One of several earlier THR cream of wheat threads (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=342017&highlight=wheat), food for thought?
March 18, 2008, 08:17 AM
I think I read somewhere that Hornady is the only major commercial producer of gas checks anymore. There might be some smaller bullet makers who make some. But if there *is* only one major manufacturer, then the prices will be pretty well equal.
Harve Curry
March 18, 2008, 10:18 AM
New tests have shown that smokeless reloads topped with cream of wheat or grits have a problem. The problem is COW or grits is hydroscopic and changes while in the loaded case. It also reacts with the powder. Results of these reloads in a pressure barrel or shot over a chronograph are increasingly higher pressure, higher/erratic velocties after each month of storage. Pressure was shown to increase by 10,000psi in one batch of reloads (if my memory serve me correctly) in a 12 month period.
Fillers need to be inert. Some suitable filler would be:
Poly fiber fill (dacron), very light and vaporizes almost instantly, leaving room for the burning expanding gases . It keeps a smokeless powder charge over the primer, while not excessivley increasing projectile/bullet weight or pressure.
Another is GREX I think it's called, a light weight granular shot buffer that can be used for a filler.
But floydster is asking about gas checks and fillers won't take care of that application. A lubed fiber or card wad might. But care has to be taken that the card/wad stays at all times up against the bullet base or you can wind up with a ringed chamber/barrel. Same thing can happen to a gas checked bullet if the check falls off the bullet while in the case.
March 18, 2008, 10:42 AM
New tests have shown that smokeless reloads topped with cream of wheat or grits have a problem. The problem is COW or grits is hydroscopic and changes while in the loaded case. It also reacts with the powder. Results of these reloads in a pressure barrel or shot over a chronograph are increasingly higher pressure, higher/erratic velocties after each month of storage. Pressure was shown to increase by 10,000psi in one batch of reloads (if my memory serve me correctly) in a 12 month period.
I'm not doubting this, but do you have a link handy for this info? I had head the same thing, that the COW could absorb some of the solvents from the powders and thus increasing its burn rate and pressures over some amount of time.
The guy (from castboolits.com) who advised me on this claims that's not true, and he says anyway that he's a research chemist. According to him smokeless powders are hydrophobic (I think that's the word) and reject contact with water. I don't know, I'm certainly no chemist not even an alchemist.
Out of concern just in case there *is* something to this concern, I've promptly shot up any cream of wheat loads I've made though. For rifle loads I put a patch of cotton over the powder up to the case neck, and only fill the neck with c.o.w., hopefully the cotton acts as somewhat of a barrier to that kind of effect if it's real.
The pictures I saw of clean bores after some hot lead loads were compelling enough for me to try. I have heard one can remove leading with a homemade remedy of vinegar plus hydrogen peroxide and let that sit for a few minutes, although it may cause pitting. I'd much rather clean mine by shooting a few extra rounds! Not that I'll use them for anything but paper punching but I also like the idea of being able to load up some pretty stout loads with plain old lead home-cast bullets, too.
March 18, 2008, 11:46 AM
I am surprised there is not more response on this gas check thread, doesn't anyone but me shoot lead in thier rifles???
March 18, 2008, 11:56 AM
I shoot lead bullets in my rifles, and use gas checks, but I've stocked up over the years and have several thousand in each caliber that I shoot. I was looking at my inventory and I have about 6,000 .35 caliber, 4,000 .45 caliber, and assorted amounts for others.
Someone posted that Hornady is the sole source for gaschecks, but that's incorrect. Lyman, Hornady and Gator are currently making gas checks.
Hope this helps.
Travis Two
March 18, 2008, 12:12 PM
Try Bullet Swaging Supply Inc. p.o.box 1056 303 McMillan rd. West Monroe, LA 71291 318-649-5156.
SSN Vet
March 18, 2008, 02:39 PM
Lyman, Hornady and Gator are currently making gas checks
I know nothing about Gator, but had read back in the Fall that Lyman was now just selling the Hornady gas checks under their own label.
March 18, 2008, 04:52 PM
Thanks guys for the input, I'll have to do some searching, last time I checked Lyman was over $40.00 a
thousand for 30 cal. I'll shoot jacketed before I pay that.
March 21, 2008, 01:47 PM
Check out midsouth shooters supply. Pretty sure they are less than $40. You're right, I'd rather shoot jacketed for the common stuff at these crazy prices.
March 24, 2008, 03:01 AM
You can always make your own Gas Checks with this kit made by Corbin (http://www.corbins.com/gascheck.htm). They have kits for over 20 different calibers available. The prices are a little high but you only buy it once and then you can make all the gas checks you will ever need.
Widerer's (http://www.wideners.com/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=1992&dir=278|281|293|408) has .30 Cal gas checks for $26/1000. That's not as high as $40 but they only have 8 units of 1000 in stock so hurry if you want them.
Buffalo Arms (http://www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/2,46.html) sells gas checks for a little better price than you quoted. Their price for .30 Cal gas checks (http://www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,1331.html) is currently $29.79/1000. That's not super cheap but it's not $40 either.
[url=http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0003019210633a.shtml]Cabela's has .30 Cal Lyman gas checks for $28.99/1000.
If you look around a bit you can find them for under $30/1000. I know they should be under $20/1000 but I fear those days will never be seen again, even if Copper prices drop.
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should again study this issue.
Reporting Unqualified Residents was a report
prepared by the RFS Governing Council in response to recommendations made
by the Federation of State Medical Boards regarding licenses for resident
physicians. The Federation of State Medical Boards recommendations were discussed
in the February 3, 1999, Resident Physician Forum column. The RFS supported
the recommendations in a report adopted by the AMA House of Delegates at its
1999 Annual Meeting.
Standardization of Emergency Paging Nomenclature
asks the AMA to research the feasibility of developing standardized language
for emergency paging at hospitals. The delegates recognized that the language
used to alert hospital staff to fires, cardiac arrest of a patient, or other
emergencies can vary widely among hospitals and can cause confusion, especially
among physicians who rotate through different hospitals.
Allowing States to Use the Extinguisher asks
the AMA to enable state and county medical societies to reproduce the program
featuring the character of an "Extinguisher" for local antitobacco efforts.
The Extinguisher program uses a costumed "superhero," comic books, and other
materials to teach children and adolescents about the dangers of tobacco use.
The program has been suspended for financial reasons, but the AMA is looking
for ways to restart the program.
Warning Labels on Bungee Cord Products asks
the AMA to notify the Consumer Product Safety Commission of the potential
for eye injuries associated with the use of bungee cords.
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