Mr. Pot Hole

I had this man on my radio show in April 2008 and we talked extensively about potholes and asphalt. Guess what? Asphalt has been engineered to offer the best product. It's not the weather, or the country that causes potholes, it's the micro fractures that start and lead to bigger things. We use the conventional "steamroller" method which is the same analogy as rolling out a pie crust. Try it, it should become apparent why we have potholes. And, no one will take this guy seriously since the paving industry is locked into their old ways.

A. O. Abd El Halim

Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carleton University
Cell: (613) 286-8043
Office: (613) 520-2600 ext. 5789

Professor Abd El Halim is the inventor of the asphalt roller AMIR that has revolutionised the field of pavement construction. During the past 18 years at Carleton, Professor Halim has established Carleton University as an international leading research centre in the fields of transportation engineering, asphalt pavements, and the use of Geosynthetics in civil engineering applications.

Rossco Builders

Here he is again! The giant load of snow slipped off just moments before this photo!

A visit to CHUO-FM

I went to pick up my rock from a pledge I made during their Funding Drive.
One of the red ones is now in my house.



Renowned underground artist/curator/gallerist, Robert Gordon McHarg III, is coming to Ottawa from England to present CHUO ROCKS, another edition in the Rock Show series! The little rocks with big personalities first appeared at Japan's Fuji Rock Festival in 2006, then at Subway Gallery's Rock Show (2006/07) and most recently at Rock Him at London's Trolley Gallery (2008)!

I also checked out the facilities!




And here's a shot of the new Program Director, Dave Aardvark.
www.chuo.fm



Based on the campus of the University of Ottawa, CHUO is the only bilingual Campus Community radio station in Canada. Our FM broadcast reaches throughout the Ottawa/Gatineau region, and our 100 km broadcast radius reaches as far south as northern New York State. Our online broadcast travels through wires all over the world. CHUO has been broadcasting on cable and on campus since 1984. In 1991 CHUO was granted an FM license by the CRTC, and settled into its space at 89.1 FM on May 31, 1991. In June of 2006 we celebrated our 15th Anniversary.