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With Memorial Day already in the rear-view mirror, it's time to turn our focus to backyard grilling. Barbecues are a summer staple (if not a completely suitable replacement for real BBQ). While you might think that you can just grab some hot dogs, hamburgers, and lighter fluid and create a memorable event, it's important to realize that preparation is the key to a successful barbecue. We don't grill much at SkyMall Tuesday headquarters because the New York City government frowns upon using charcoal inside of apartment building. That said, we're well-versed in the tools of the trade and know what it takes to put together a backyard feast worth its weight in flank steak. If you're going to man (or woman, as it is 2012) the grill for your friends and family, turn to SkyMall and don the Grill Sergeant BBQ Apron.
When you're in charge of the grill, you have your hands full with flipping, marinating, and imbibing (hey, you work up a thirst standing over that heat). It's hard to stay organized when you have so much going on. You could let someone take over for you, but any grill master worth his salt sauce knows that there can be only one person in charge of the grill and it's poor form to leave your station. That's why you have to keep all of your tools on your person.
Camouflage apron holds 6 bottles or cans, ammo-like, and has a built-in opener and pockets for everything from tools to condiments.
Six bottle or cans seems like a reasonable amount of liquid refreshment to get you through the first hour or so of a barbecue. Just be careful with those condiments when you go to hug someone.
Barbecuing is like anything else in life: proper planning breeds success. Don't just dive headfirst into a barbecue (that's what the pool is for, silly); gather the necessary tools, stay organized, and wear as many liquids as possible on your upper body. Happy summer!


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last hour the averages sold back off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 125 points, or 1.1%, at 11,018. The S&P 500 index fell 19 points, or 1.6%, to 1,192, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 34 points, or 1.4%, to 2,481. For the week, the broad S&P 500 fell 0.2%, interrupting 6 straight week of gains. The Dow industrials gained 0.2% and the Nasdaq rose 1.1% on the week.
U.S. stocks on Thursday started slightly lower after a five-day climb, with the market offering tepid reaction to mixed economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 17 points to 11,105. The S&P 500 Index dropped a point to 1,209. The Nasdaq Composite held a fractional gain at 2,505. For a second straight day the earnings are great. UPS is the diamond of the day up 4% after raising guidance last night. Another transporter, JB Hunt is jumping 3% after beating earnings estimates last night. Yum Brands is up 3% after beating estimates. A few stocks are trading lower following earnings including MGM, Alliance Financial, Fairchild Semi, and Novellus. Plenty of upgrades this morning in the retail space. The list includes Gap, Saks, Nordstrom, Tiffanys, and Nike. Only Gap is modestly higher. After the first hour the averages remain near the unchanged level. Investors seem to be exhausted after a big run up. One sector that continues to perform well is the techs. Intel is up nearly 3% to new highs after CNBC's Cramer made bullish comments last night. Google is higher ahead of earnings tonight. Apple is at another new high. A select number of financials are higher this morning. Citigroup hit $5 for the first time since August. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, and US Bancorp all made new highs this morning. In the afternoon the averages nugged into the green led by the techs. The financials pulled back in the last hour. Citigroup is down 6% from the highs this morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 21 points at 11,144, a fresh closing high for the year. The S&P 500 index rose a point to 1,211 while the Nasdaq Composite gained 10 points to close at 2,515.
Earnings season is upon us and so far so good. Better than expected earnings from Intel, CSX, and JP Morgan are helping push the S&P 500 above 1,200 for the first time since late September 2008. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 31 points to 11,050. The S&P 500 Index rose 4 points to 1,201. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 15 points to 2,481. Intel, CSX, and JP Morgan are all jumping 3% to new highs. Intel received at least four upgrades this morning. Both the tech and financial sectors are performing great with plenty of new highs. In the tech sector Apple is at new highs after running out of iPads. Kulicke & Soffa is jumping 19% to new highs after raising forecasts. Ericcson, Redhat, and Microsoft are higher on upgrades. With the financials Bank of America, US Bancorp, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo are at new highs. UBS and Goldman Sachs are higher on upgrades. Even the retail banks are higher after getting hit yesterday. In the retail space AnnTaylor, Lowes, and McDonalds are higher on upgrades. Family Dollar and Hot Topic are higher after Cramer recommended them. After the first hour the averages remained strong near the highs of the day. The financials and techs look great. One sector not participating are the fertilizer stocks following Goldman Sachs comments indicating pricing weakness. Through the morning and into the afternoon the averages crept higher led by the techs and financials. Research in Motion moved into the green after announcing a billion dollar buyback. In the middle of the afternoon the averages pushed to new highs following better than expected economic activity released in the Fed's Beige Book. The financials and techs keep pushing higher. One tech not rallying is Google ahead of earnings tomorrow. In the last hour the averages pushed to new highs with the Dow rising 100 points. The Nasdaq rose 37 points. A real bull market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 103 points at 11,123. The S&P 500 Index closed up 13 points at 1,210, its first finish above 1,200 since Sept. 26, 2008. The Nasdaq Composite Index gained 38 points at 2,504.
U.S. stocks opened lower on Tuesday for the first day in four after aluminum giant Alcoa reported results short of Wall Street's expectations. Back under 11,000, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 18 points to 10,987. The S&P 500 Index shed 2 points to 1,193. The Nasdaq Composite declined 3 points to 2,454. Alcoa has started the earnings season and Intel will keep it going today. Intel is modestly higher ahead of their numbers tonight as a couple analysts make positive comments. After the open, the techs were the first sector to rebound. Besides Intel, Google, Apple, Ciena, Western Digital, Seagate, Cisco, Juniper, Research in Motion, and Red Hat were all upgraded. I guess the techs are going to have a good quarter. The big question is how much has been priced into the market? The retail sector continues to perform well. Talbots is jumping 7% following earnings. Crocs and DSW are higher following upgrades. One sector getting hit this morning are the regional banks. UBS downgraded a number of the regionals including Huntington Bancshares, KeyCorp, and Regions Financial. All are lower. The big banks are faring much better. JP Morgan is modestly higher ahead of earnings tomorrow. After the first half an hour the averages remain in the red, but a number of techs and a select number of financials are in the green. Through the morning the averages sold back off along with the commodities. The US dollar is improving. Through the morning into the afternoon the averages slowly improved, moving into the green led by the techs. Google, Intel, and Research in Motion are performing well. Intel is at a new high anticipating good earnings news after the close. In the last hour the averages once again clung to gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 13 points at 11,019. The S&P 500 Index rose nearly a point to 1,197, while the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 8 points to 2,465.
U.S. stocks on Monday struggled to maintain opening gains ahead of the unofficial start of earnings season, which kicks off with aluminum giant Alcoa after the close. Trading at 18-month highs, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 12 points to 11,010. The S&P 500 Index climbed 2 points to 1,196. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 3 points to 2,457. A big, big week for the markets. In the tech space, Intel is unchanged ahead of earnings tomorrow. Intel received two upgrades. Texas Instruments is up 2.5% on an upgrade. Google, EMC, and Fairchild Semi are higher on upgrades. Apple is at another new high. Network Appliance is lower on a downgrade. The financials are modestly higher this morning. JP Morgan, Charles Schwab, Bank of America, and GE report earnings this week. In the retail space Abercrombie, Sanderson Farms, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Chicos, Gap, and Dicks were all upgraded. Decker Outdoors is down 4% on a downgrade. A number of Dow components received upgrades including Caterpillar and AT&T. Time Warner and St. Jude Medical were also upgraded this morning. After the first hour the Dow remained in the green up 20 points. The Nasdaq is only up a point. Through the morning the averages did not budge. Investors are awaiting earnings reports later this week. In the afternoon more of the same. Microsoft released their new phone which is geared toward texters and not talkers. Rivals Research in Motion, Google, Apple rallied following the release. In the last hour the averages fought to hold their gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 8 points at 11,005. The S&P 500 Index rose 2 points to 1,196. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 3 points to 2,457.

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Trump Had a Surprise Waiting For CNN When They Tried To Enter The White House – PRICELESS!
One of the well-known journalists from CNN got quite a surprise as he arrived at the White House. Anyone who may have seen this probably had quite a laugh as they witnessed the power of Trump and the little surprise that may or may not have been planned. Most likely not planned at all, but this sure caught CNN’s Jim Acosta off-guard. He was caught on camera having a meltdown when the White House Secret Service failed to recognize him as he tried to enter the White House yesterday.
Michael J. Morrison, who posted the video confirmed that Acosta was having a meltdown when the Secret Service stopped him after he had walked from the South Lawn into the White House without wearing his credentials around his neck. Sadly Morrison said that by the time he was able to get his camera out and start recording that Acosta was already cooling off.
Note from the Editor: This was a popular story for Right Wing News when it first ran a couple weeks ago. We’re bringing it back for your enjoyment and the important message Americans need to receive.
“Jim Acosta, CNN’s White House correspondent, has been having a public meltdown regarding the president’s treatment of the media, and the Washington Post has noticed.
The Post’s media reporter, Paul Farhi, launched an inquiry into Acosta’s “grandstanding” in a piece in Sunday’s style section.
While CNN host Brian Stelter’s 15-minute monologues moaning about Trump’s treatment of the press are run-of-the-mill for cable-news pundits, Acosta’s public displays of resistance in the White House press-briefing room break all precedent. Rather than press Sean Spicer or Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Trump’s agenda, Acosta has spent since roughly last February focusing on how the White House conducts its press briefings and how it treats CNN.
Acosta’s repeated badgering of Spicer to hold on-camera briefings creates clip-worthy scenes, which feel like a bold defense of journalism, even though, given the nature of White House press briefings, they do not actually matter much. Briefings say most about a president’s communications angle, and seeing as Trump seems not to have any clear communications strategy or message beyond his Twitter feed, the briefing has become little more than a charade.
That has not stopped Acosta from tweeting out photos of his socks at non-televised briefings (“I can’t show you a picture of Sean. So here is a look at some new socks I bought over the wknd”), changing his Twitter bio to “I believe in #realnews,” and lambasting an “erosion of our freedoms” at every possible television appearance.
Of course, CNN has been goading this inanity at every point of his performance, no doubt because this “feud” between CNN and the White House generates so many views. While Trump’s communications team has haplessly attempted to cling to #EnergyWeek and #InfrastructureWeek as the media cares only about Russia, CNN has sent its Supreme Court sketch artist to the briefings at which cameras are prohibited. After all, nothing stands more in the way of democracy than not knowing what color tie Sean Spicer chose on a given day.
But of course, if Acosta has legitimate concerns with Trump’s policy and politics, it makes sense that he would clamor for direct access. For the sake of fairness, let’s go through Acosta’s journalistic highlights since the ascent of Trump.
In June, Acosta was quick to quote an anonymous White House official, claiming that Trump did not meet with Representative Steve Scalise following the shooting at Alexandria. Fewer than 30 minutes later, Acosta debunked his own false claim, which had presumably come from a made-up or unreliable source.
Perhaps Acosta’s complaints would be more valid if he agitated for the rights of any other news organizations. Instead, his complaining revolves solely around Trump and CNN, obsessing over this relationship rather than what the government is actually doing.

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I’m going to admit that I wasn’t really introduced to Sherlock Holmes as a character until Steven Moffat’s brilliant modern-day adaption of the series in BBC’s Sherlock. I’d heard about him before, I mean – who hadn’t? It was Sherlock that got me hooked to Conan-Doyle’s creation, and it was Sherlock that got me reading the individual stories, which anybody should read (They’re free downloads on IBooks). When I heard about The Army of Dr. Moreau, Guy Adams’ second novel with Sherlock Holmes, I knew I had to read it as soon as I could. Some of you may know Guy Adams through his work at Angry Robot, with The World House and Restoration (That was where I first heard about Adams, even though I haven’t read the books yet), others may be wanting to read some more Sherlock Holmes. Whatever your taste is, The Army of Dr. Moreau is certainly an enjoyable read.
Although The Army of Dr. Moreau may seem at times a tad too supernatural for Conan-Doyle fans, that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. It is perhaps one of the more enjoyable reads that I’ve read in while now, standing up there with Jim Butcher’s White Night, because – any Dresden Files novel is a fun read, long-running fans of the series will know that by now. The Army of Dr. Moreau sticks to Conan-Doyle’s characters very well, painting an accurate portrayal of Holmes and of course, is narrated in a first person POV by John Watson. What I liked about this tale is that Adams has managed to make Watson unavailable for some scenes that take place, forcing other characters to have a couple of chapters every now and again where they get the chance to tell the story. We get a POV from both Holmes brothers, (yes – Mycroft does show up in this tale) – and a couple of others.
Released last month, The Army of Dr. Moreau is certainly an engaging read, and Adams, like Conan-Doyle before him, made it seem as though it’s Watson narrating the tale, and not the author in certain places, and there’s even a visit to Watson’s editor, who suggests to him that he should perhaps make his cases more extravagant and longer for readers rather than the short stories that he’s used to, in a brilliant bit of foreshadowing.
There are many strengths to Adam’s tale, and I found few weaknesses with The Army of Dr. Moreau. The author has clearly has written Sherlock Holmes before and knows what he’s doing with both the characters and the plot. The action is well-written, and you never know quite what’s going to happen next. Sure, you know Watson and Holmes will make it through, but apart from that, well – Adams has managed to write a very unpredictable novel, whilst still remaining true to the established Holmes lore, even if this is perhaps the closest to fantasy portrayal of Holmes that I have seen. The Army of Dr. Moreau also makes me want to check out Adams’ first Sherlock Holmes book for Titan, The Breath of God. Whilst you don’t have to read that to understand what happens in this,as I did – I’m now wanting to hunt down a copy and give it a read.
Great stuff here, and something that most Sherlock Holmes fans will enjoy. Those who have read H G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau will also enjoy this tale, I think. Adams manages to capture the historical period of 19th Century London very well, with no historical inaccuracies that I spotted and even manages to make a particular trip down the sewers seem very real indeed. Although the mystery element may not make it Holmes’ hardest case, The Army of Dr. Moreau should not be overlooked.

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This is a corner of my first floor studio. Believe it or not, it’s actually clean. I’m still trying to get more organized but this will have to do for now.
I’m getting ready for a community garage sale this Saturday that I’m turning into a craft sale. So I’m busy making more sterling silver jewelry and soap and packaging them. This is my first craft sale so I’m both excited and nervous! I’m not going to prepare too much inventory because this is just going to be more of a local promo for me. But please feel free to give me advice if you have done this before!
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text: A companion utensil to a cake knife, the Cake Server is used to place pieces of cut cake and pie on plates to be served. Often paired as a set with a Cake Server and Knife, this piece of silverware is most often made of plated silver or stainless steel, but can also be made of wood or plastic as well. The Cake Server is made in many different shapes and sizes, with a flat serving surface that is triangular shaped and attached to a straight or bent handle. Typically, the traditional servers used for formal events such as weddings, anniversaries or funerals will have a straight handle and will be made of either stainless steel or silver plated. Plastic and wood are generally a type of material that is used for general purpose serving duties or for casual parties.


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Why couldn't Tom Brady beat out Brian Griese at Michigan? I think you are reaching for questions to support your agenda.
AB is making a fool of himself on social media. This season will be a circus if Carr cant get him the ball.
Does she work on her back for Mr. Kraft?
Good grief guys, you bringing in some good, good, good vibrations in here!

industry_corpus2: Sports


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“Mexican authorities have rescued at least 275 people who were being held in slave-like conditions at a camp where tomatoes are sorted and packed for export, officials said.
Thirty-nine teenagers were among those being held against their will at the Bioparques de Occidente camp in Toliman, in the western state of Jalisco, regional prosecutor Salvador Gonzalez said late Tuesday.
… One of the victims, Valentin Hernandez, went to work at the site with his wife and children. He told AFP he was housed in a tiny room with two other couples who also had children.
‘The food was rancid and rotten. They held us as slaves,’ Hernandez said.
According to the AFP report, workers were not only deprived of their freedom, but they were forced to live in unimaginably humiliating conditions, as well, crammed into overcrowded, unsanitary housing, their pay often issued in vouchers redeemable only at an overpriced company store.
It was only a few years ago that federal authorities here in the United States dubbed Florida’sfields “ground zero for modern-day slavery” after a series of high-profile forced labor prosecutions in the state’s agricultural industry drew increasing public attention to the need for deep and abiding labor reforms in the Sunshine State.
And to their credit, Florida’s tomato growers — not all, but the vast majority of them — did just that. In 2010 the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange signed a sweeping agreement to partner with the CIW in implementing the Fair Food Program on over 90% of the Florida tomato industry’s fields, and since then a quiet revolution has been taking place in Florida farm labor conditions.
“Last week, I attended tomato school.
… Until this year none of my classmates, many of whom were veteran tomato workers, had ever attended a session like this one, where their fellow workers outlined their new rights and responsibilities under the CIW’s Fair Food Code of Conduct as employees of Pacific Tomato Growers, a major corporation that markets its products under the brand names Sunripe and Suncoast.
Since that visit, which took place in 2011 during the Fair Food Program’s pilot season, the Program, and the concrete changes it has brought about, have only grown stronger.
Since January 2011, participating buyers have paid over $10 million into the penny-per-pound program to help improve workers’ wages, and that amount will only continue to grow. Nearly 300 complaints (many involving multiple workers) have been received through the Program’s 24-hour complaint line and investigated and resolved by its enforcement body, the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC). Through the work of the CIW’s education committee — which holds worker-to-worker education sessions around the state of Florida, on the farm, on the clock, throughout the season — the Program empowers over 30,000 worker-monitors, in addition to the CIW and FFSC full time staff, to help guarantee compliance.
And, as readers of this site know, the Fair Food Program’s success has not gone unnoticed. The Program has been closely studied by national and international human rights experts, winning universal praise. From the White House to the United Nations, and most recently PBS’s documentary team at Frontline, observers have singled out the Fair Food Program for its unparalleled success in eliminating gross human rights violations and for its unique structure of worker-driven, market-based enforcement mechanisms.
And — most importantly for purposes of this analysis — not a single slavery case has emerged from the fields under the protection of the Fair Food Program.
Through its combination of education, empowerment, prompt detection, and swift market consequences, the Program has gone beyond prosecution to forge the first successful model of slavery prevention in the US agricultural industry. The Fair Food Program’s zero tolerance policy for slavery — meaning that any grower on whose farm forced labor is found will not be able to sell his tomatoes to any of the Program’s eleven participating buyers — has created a strong and effective market incentive for growers to police their own operations.
That incentive did not exist in the past, when, during the period stretching from 1995-2010, the CIW’s Anti-Slavery program worked with federal prosecutors to put 15 farm bosses behind bars. During that time, while the farm bosses went to prison, the tomatoes from the farms where they worked went to market, without a hiccup. And so, on the ground, the abuses continued.
Today, slavery in Florida’s fields, within the confines of the Fair Food Program, is quickly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to the Program’s unique combination of education, enforcement and market incentives — and thanks to the leadership of a number of the most progressive growers in the industry who have embraced the partnership and shown that what’s good for workers can indeed be good for business.
The transformation of the Florida tomato industry, while still far from complete, is well underway.
What, on the other hand, can be said about the Mexican tomato industry? Unfortunately, the latest slavery case speaks volumes.
There is no Fair Food Program in the fast-growing world of Mexican agribusiness. There are no swift and certain market consequences, no industry-wide worker-to-worker education program, no penny-per-pound program and no Fair Food Standards Council working with farmworkers and growers to protect human rights.
And so, all too predictably, there continue to be gross human rights violations like those alleged in the recent arrests out of Jalisco.
What doesn’t make sense, though, is that US retail food giants continue to purchase tomatoes from these conditions in Mexico. Go back and read the first line of the AFP article at the top of this post — it reads: “where tomatoes are sorted and packed for export.” And not only that, but many supermarket and restaurant companies have significantly increased their Mexican tomato purchases in the past several years, even in the face of the unprecedented advances brought about by the Fair Food Program in Florida.
Of course, multi-billion dollar food companies that operate across the country and across the globe need to fill their massive demand for tomatoes with purchases from places beyond the Fair Food Program. No one is denying those bedrock realities of today’s global marketplace. Geography and the sheer size of their demand won’t allow those companies to direct all their purchases to the producers whose human rights practices are the best in the market.
But what we are witnessing today among all too many retail food companies is much more than the unavoidable consequence of their global footprint. Rather, what those companies are demonstrating is an active preference for the lowest price regardless of human rights.
Rather than direct whatever percent possible of their purchases toward those producers that are doing the right thing by their workers, these retailers seek out the cheapest product possible, which in most cases leads them to Mexico, where tomatoes are, for the most part, still being produced and sold the old way — no questions asked.
And this preference for price over human rights has real world consequences for workers, in Mexico — and right here in Florida, too. The continued support of Mexican tomatoes that may have been picked by workers subjected to gross human rights abuses — up to and including modern-day slavery — when there is a proven alternative like the Fair Food Program allows the Mexican tomato industry to set the low bar with regard to human rights. This creates a powerful downward pressure on wages and working conditions just when the Florida tomato industry has embraced a more modern agricultural approach.
Human rights are not free. The changes happening in Florida’s tomato fields today require a real and sustained investment from all the partners — workers, growers, and retail purchasers alike. As long as cost is, if not the only, the principal criterion when purchasing decisions are made, today’s food giants that choose low price over human rights will continue to stand in the way of long-overdue progress.
In fact — though the thought surely stings their conscience far more than they might allow, and so it remains safely tucked away in the shadows of denial — they will continue to have a hand in every abuse, up to and including slavery, that happens in the far away fields where they buy their tomatoes.
A 4th to Remember: CIW honored as 2013 Four Freedoms Award Laureate!

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Riga Ghetto and Holocaust Museum was opened on September 21, 2010. The main aim of the museum is to preserve memories about the Jewish community in Latvia and the Holocaust tragedy during the Second World War.
The Museum is located in the historical part of Riga - Spīķeri, not far from the former ghetto borders.

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Australia’s first installation of the Océ ColorWave 600 makes a splash at Creffield Digital Print.
Staff from the 120-year-old Melbourne-based printing company first caught sight of the ColorWave 600 overseas earlier this year. After seeing the press again at Visual Impact trade show, the sale was finalised.
Frank Veltman (pictured), managing director of Creffield said that the new system fitted in well with the company’s future plans.
"It’s great technology that enables Creffield to seek out new markets," he said.
Visual Impact was key to promoting and rolling out the ColorWave 600. According to Paul Whitehead, marketing manager at Océ, five other ColorWave 600 systems are due for delivery throughout Australia in the next few months.
"The expo gave us the opportunity to showcase the new technology in advance," Whitehead said.
For Veltman, Creffield now has the ability to woo government customers and maintain a presence in the retail and entertainment markets.
"We now have a substantial customer base in retail and environment," he said. "This gives them the ability to produce promotional materials for sales or events at extremely short notice. We can also produce exceptional quality for government customers who demand work on recycled stocks."
Fuji Xerox Australia has unveiled the Xerox iGen4(tm), regarded as the most productive and highest-quality cut-sheet digital press in the printing industry.
"Building on our hugely successful Xerox iGen3, the industry’s leading high-speed digital colour press, this next generation Xerox iGen4 delivers colour quality and automation that redefine the standards of printing," said Henryk Kraszewski, (pictured) the Colour Production Marketing Manager at Fuji Xerox Australia.
The Xerox iGen4 increases productivity by automating operator tasks, reducing the need to interrupt the press for adjustments and decreasing overall operating costs. As a result, the Xerox iGen4 improves the break-even point between digital and traditional offset printing – making it faster and more economical to print jobs on digital.
Auto Density Control – Patented technology that uses a full-width sensor array to automatically detect and eliminate density variations and streaks, while the press is running. Streaks are inherent in most printing processes and often require operator intervention or a service call to resolve. With this new component, streaks are eliminated and the Xerox iGen4 remains in production.
Carrier Dispensing System – New method of combining dry ink and carrier – in place of traditional developer – that yields consistent colour uniformity from the first print to the last and from job to job. With the Carrier Dispensing System, operators no longer have to stop the machine and change the developer.
High Definition Linearisation – Patented process that eliminates time-consuming gray-scale calibration, resulting in better production of neutral greys and highlight shadows. It also improves photo smoothness, especially in faces, while maintaining sharp background details. High Definition Linearisation ensures greater colour stability from job-to-job and machine-to-machine.
Advanced Colour Profiling – Innovation that enables greater colour consistency and realism in objects such as faces and skies. This tool automatically adjusts colours to closely match offset printing standards in minutes. It can accurately match the popular GRACoL (General Requirements for Applications in Commercial Offset Lithography) standard, and takes advantage of ICC (International Colour Consortium) DeviceLink Profiling for higher performance. A colour matching industry benchmark, GRACoL offers a new source profile option for the most demanding jobs. The ICC DeviceLink Profiling allows for faster processing and improved colour rendering.
High-speed Inline Spectrophotometer – Right in the paper path, the high-speed Inline Spectrophotometer automatically creates colour samples on target sheets, registers them for accuracy and processes the data – all at the rated speed of the Xerox iGen4 – and takes the appropriate action to adjust the press. The results are offset and photo image quality along with spot colour accuracy.
Designed to help print providers reduce their environmental footprint, the Xerox iGen4 uses dry inks that are non-toxic and minimise waste. More than 97 percent of its components are recyclable or remanufacturable.
The battle to protect the planet’s forests often gets bogged down in a contest between competing organisations over who is best qualified to undertake such a role. Long-time industry commentator, Phillip Lawrence, presents a short history of forest certification.
The first recorded attempt to trace wood used for production was in Europe, a French Royal decree of 1637, which stipulated that members of the guild of cabinet makers had to mark the furniture they made so that the wood used could be confirmed as being sourced from France’s own forests.
Trees, wood and forestry came to our generation’s attention in the 1970s with the notion that acid rain was killing forests so rapidly that some iconic forests in Europe and North America were certain to be wiped out in a short space of time. The second issue in the late 1980s was where tropical forests were being cleared extremely rapidly, mostly by fire, to plant food crops and also for cattle grazing lands. The most notable example of land clearing was in Brazil where the demand for hamburger meat in the western world meant vast tracts of land were being cleared using fire in order that cattle could graze. The rate of forest clearing reached almost unbelievable dimensions. The concept that trees, forests and wood were being used to make products was not the issue that drove the need of forestry certifications at that stage.
The first mention of forests in regard to some need to address the potential loss of forestry lands was in a G7/G8 communiqué at the 1987 Venice summit, which noted the need to halt tropical deforestation. In 1989 the Paris summit gave its support for the Tropical Forestry Action Plan. A few years later, in 1992, the International Tropical Timber Organization was started as a group to set standards and control how tropical timber resources were being harvested and used around the world. The focus on tropical timber resources identified that timber was being harvested in many places around the world, not just in the tropics, but also in the cold northern, boreal forest areas of the world.
As a result, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was formed in 1993 with most impetus coming from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The FSC mostly wanted to address issues that related to the impact on forestry life in the event that trees are harvested. It created a strong criterion for harvesting methodology which would greatly reduce the impact that forestry had on the land and the creatures that lived there. They gave particular attention to waterways in their list of forest management controls.
Many people, particularly those in the wood products industry, were very concerned in the early 1990s with a group dominated by environmental groups such as WWF. The controls and requirements that were put on the industry by FSC were rigorous and these controls covered forestry issues as well as social matters such as addressing bio-diversity and local populations. In response, a number of industry bodies were set up to create their own versions of a forestry certification. On June 30 1999, the Pan European Forest Certification (PEFC) organisation was formed in order to bring the many different groups that had individually set up their own ‘codes of conduct’ under one umbrella organisation that could present a common identity label to the buyer of timber products and also to the general public.
PEFC is not a single forestry certification like FSC; PEFC is a controlling body that investigates individual certifications or forestry codes of conduct and then determines if they are achieving a certain level of rigour. So if a forestry certification is quoting a PEFC acceptance it is considered to be a thorough forestry certification that addresses harvesting, bio-diversity and local population issues.
As PEFC gained more acceptances, particularly in its home base of Europe, the FSC group became concerned that their rigorous standards were not being equalled by PEFC and so the market was accepting an inferior forestry standard. At almost every opportunity, FSC focused attention on attacking anyone in the market who certified their products with anything other than FSC. These actions propelled the idea that FSC was in fact just another militant NGO wanting only to stop industrial progress rather than having a real concern about protecting forestry.
However, another view is that the aggressive action of FSC against PEFC in particular has raised the performance of PEFC. This is because PEFC has not responded aggressively to FSC’s attacks but rather inwardly reviewed its own values and standards. Many organisations that have used PEFC have been frustrated by the apparent lack of market retaliation by PEFC against FSC. However, some academic studies have noted that the competition between the two has raised the standard of overall forestry certifications.
PEFC changed its name after about five years of operation to Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification to reflect the worldwide acceptance of its work. PEFC has more area of forestry land under its certification compared to that of FSC. There have been a number of studies carried out documenting the battle that has taken place with FSC attacking the values of PEFC. For the most part, PEFC has been reluctant to engage in a public fight with FSC on which of the two certifications is the better; rather PEFC has preferred to say that both certifications could exist in the market because they are equal.
Unfortunately the inter-certification attention has diluted the original goals of forestry certification. In the first instance, back in the early 90s, the great concern everyone had was on protecting tropical forestry; the fact is that only about 4 percent of certified forestry is located in tropical regions of the world.
Suppliers and organisers speak back to suggestions that PacPrint 09 be closed down.
With the growing financial crisis taking its toll on businesses worldwide, some members of the printing industry began to question the relevance of holding or attending the five-day trade show next year.
PacPrint 09 chairman, Alastair Hadley, acknowledged that there had been questions directed to him about where the show was going. "People are looking at their costs and how they can do things better," he said.
For some, this has meant cutting back the size of their stands, while others intend on increasing their presence at the show. One supplier remained optimistic and considers the show valuable to its longevity.
"We don’t expect too many sales to be signed at the show, but it is important to maintain confidence in the industry and prepare for when the cycle turns," he said.
Hadley said there was no intention of cancelling PacPrint or shortening the duration of the show.
"We’ve got more exhibitors than in 2005 which is interesting considering the amount of mergers and acquisitions in the industry," he said. Last week it was announced that 300 exhibitors are expected to take part in the show.
Hadley noted that the industry’s larges players such as Heidelberg, Fuji Xerox, Currie Group, Muller Martini and GBC were among the first to finalise their involvement in the show, later followed by a flurry of smaller companies and newcomers keen to get onboard.
"PacPrint will happen and it will be a good show regardless," Hadley said.
2009 is looking to be a tough year for printers, but there has never been a better time to join a hub, according to Kerim El Gabaili, coordinator of Sydney’s new offset printing collective.
Based in Auburn, the hub – which is expected to open in March next year – has been in the making for over a year now. As former chairman of Co-operative Sydney Digital Print (CDP) which opened in September 2006, El Gabaili saw the potential to roll out the same business model again.
"The digital hub was a perfect case study of how this can work," he said.
The new hub is located on the same block as CDP so that both groups can compliment the other and take care of customer’s work in both offset and digital. While El Gabaili (pictured) will focus on establishing the offset hub, Trevor Boreham of Inform Print has taken on the role of chairman for CDP.
One of the advantages of being part of a hub is that it allows members access to the latest equipment so that they can in turn compete with the larger companies.
"This is a great opportunity for smaller printers to come together, work collectively and be more efficient than the big printers," El Gabaili said.
One Sydney company, Prografica, has already joined while El Gabaili is in discussions with five other companies. He aims to attract eight to 10 companies all up, who do not necessarily need to be located in Sydney.
"It would suit Melbourne-based printers who have clients in Sydney," he said.
Once members have been selected, the second phase of the hub’s rollout will be finding and installing the best equipment which can complement the work each company does. El Gabaili is expecting to purchase two 2-colour and one 5-colour press.
A firm believer in the value of teamwork and collaboration, El Gabaili lists these traits as vital to the success of a hub.
"The fundamental key is having good leadership and good people who are willing to change their thinking to focus on ‘what’s in it for the group’, not ‘what’s in it for me’," he said.
El Gabaili is well aware of the changing economic landscape and the impacts that this will have on the printing industry. These reasons made opening another hub all the more compelling; for him it is a way of surviving and staying strong.
"The big players are all merging to create more efficiencies," he said. "This is an opportunity to do the same at the smaller end of town."
Melbourne-based company, Graphic Impressions, declares independence by installing a Horizon perfect binder, CABS 5000 and bringing all its work back in-house.
For the last six-and-a-half years, Graphic Impressions, has been responsible for printing over 30 magazines for 12 different publishers. Some of the magazines are their own as the company operates across the different disciplines of printing and publishing. The joint venture between managing director, Tony Callahan and director, Silvio Morelli, began as a way of fusing the two men’s complementary backgrounds in printing and publishing.
"We realised that we could start a business together given my involvement with printing and Silvio’s portfolio of magazines," Callahan (pictured) said.
With many of their own titles growing in the number of pages per issue the demand for perfect binding increased. Callahan also took note of an increasing number of titles previously printed overseas, coming back home.
"Over the last three months I have noticed a lot more Australian magazines that were produced overseas have now returned back to Australia," he said. "All of a sudden there is more value-add to having a product completed in-house rather than relying on outsourced suppliers."
The prospect of doing all the bindery themselves began to loom large for Callahan and Morelli, but it wasn’t until they met with the Currie Group’s Bernie Robinson that this vision quickly began to transform itself into a reality. Robinson, consulted with them about what Graphic Impressions needed to move into perfect binding and suggested the Horizon CABS 5000.
"In terms of quality, what the Currie Group had far outweighed anything else I had seen," Callahan said.
The CABS 5000 consists of a six-hopper gatherer, a 15-clamp perfect binder and a three-knife trimmer. The system has the latest in sophisticated automated set-up functions and a production speed capable of handling 5,200 books-per-hour. Complementing the Horizon system is the computerized cross folder, equipped with six buckles and two cross knives.
"Our commitment to Graphic Impressions was about finding and providing them with equipment that is not only easy to use, but would also save them money," Robinson said.
Pictured: (L-R) Bernie Robinson, sales director; Mr Yasushi Matsuhara, director, export division and Tony Callahan, managing director of Graphic Impressions.
On his trip to Australia, director of Horizon’s export division, Mr Yasushi Matsuhara, called in to Graphic Impressions to meet the team and offer training and assistance with the machine.
He noted that in Japan, there have already been 30 installations of the CABS 5000, with more expected to follow.
"We are putting Horizon binding systems in more and more printing companies that have always outsourced and never worked with bindery systems before," Mr Matsuhara explained.
The Horizon also requires less manpower on the factory floors. Originally, Callahan planned that he would need five staff on the CABS 5000, but the automation has made it possible for him to run it with only a team of four.
Feedback from the staff has been glowing, he said. "They have never seen automation like it before and the intelligence has made things very easy for them."
Most of all, Callahan says, the CABS 5000 has given his company greater independence and freedom to move forwards.
"Our destiny is now in our own hands," he said.
The CABS 5000 consists of an 18-hopper gatherer, a 15-clamp perfect binder and a three-knife trimmer. The system has the latest in sophisticated automated set-up functions and a production speed capable of handling 5,200 books-per-hour. Complementing the Horizon system is the computerized cross folder, equipped with six buckles and two cross knives.
Pictured: (L-R) Bernie Robinson, sales director; with Horizon’s Mr Yasushi Matsuhara, director, export division, Japan and Tony Callahan, managing director of Graphic Impressions.
Salmat’s acquisition of HPA begins to pay off for the company, increasing its revenue by 35 per cent.
The purchase, which took place in November 2007 was widely hailed by Salmat’s executives during last week’s annual general meeting.
"HPA resulted in Salmat recording its highest ever turnover with revenue increasing 35 per cent to $812 million," said Richard Lee, chairman.
While Salmat’s earnings for the year were originally up 22.6 per cent to $57.6 million, the impact of significant items, namely costs related to the launch of Lasoo and HPA, brought the final result back to $44.1 million.
Joint managing director, Peter Mattick, said that HPA helped boost BusinessForce’s revenue along with the growth of laser print volumes. Changes to the BusinessForce division also meant that some PrintZoo sites and Perth and Canberra branches were quickly merged, with more to follow in Brisbane and Adelaide.
"This [HPA] integration involved brining together around 2000 staff across more than 15 sites to form one cohesive group," Mattick said.
"We are almost half way through the integration program and remain on track to meet our internal deadline of completion by the end of calendar 2009."
HPA will be the main focus for Salmat in the coming year, where its real benefits are expected to come into fruition. "We are excited about the opportunities for additional revenue and synergy cost savings from what is now Salmat’s largest division," Lee said.
Beyond Australia, Salmat also entered into a new venture with New Zealand Post, covering the distribution of unaddressed mail in New Zealand. The business is still finding its feet, according to Mattick, and he expects "significant improvement" over the next two years.
It is also the end of an era for the company as join managing directors Philip Salter and Mattick phase out of the daily runnings, handing over the reins to new-comer, Grant Harrod.
"We believe that this arrangement will enable Salmat to enjoy continued access to the valuable corporate knowledge of Salmat’s founders while at the same time benefiting from the fresh new leadership of Harrod," chairman Lee said.
Looking to the future, the company expects increased market stability with pricing returning to "more realistic levels" in the coming months. For now, Salmat will focus on the completion of its BusinessForce integration program, promoting its service offering across the group-wide client base, reducing debt and pursuing organic business growth.
Unperturbed by economic uncertainty, Mattick also added that Salmat expects "a good half-year result and remain comfortable with a forecast of $75-80 million for the full year."
Larger than life Australian magazine, Body of Work 1:1, entered into Guinness Book of Records.
Bigger is better when it comes to magazines, says Bob Armstrong of Armstrong Miller + McLaren. The photographer, who was responsible for producing the 1×2 metre magazine wanted a way of grabbing people’s attention and he found the answer was size.
"Body of Work 1:1 was designed for corporations and wealthy people who want to make a statement and this is a different way of doing that," he said.
Only one copy of Body of Work 1:1 exists, though McLaren is happy to print more for those wanting to buy it. The magazine took two weeks to produce, which included being printed on a HP press and then bound.
Armstrong believes that Body of Work 1:1 is the largest magazine in the world and plans on entering it into the Guinness Book of Records. He notes that it is interactive and engaging.
"When you put a painting up it’s just a painting on the wall, but Body of Work 1:1 is a cover and 20 pages," he said. "This isn’t a coffee table book; it’s a coffee table."
At a time when magazine circulation is plummeting and many people are looking to the internet, Armstrong reckons that the trick is to made print do what online media cannot.
"All the magazines we design can’t go on the web," he said. "People have tried to make online versions of Body of Work, but that’s not what the magazine is made for."
Body of Work 1:1 is currently showing at The Menzies Hotel, 14 Carrington Street Sydney and will make its way across Australia.
Adobe’s senior vice president, John Loiacono, calls in on Australia to promote Creative Suite 4.
Loiacono, (pictured) who is responsible for the creative solutions business unit under which CS4 was launched, was heavily involved in the creation of the new software and was impressed by feedback from the locals.
"The reviews from the press, analysts and customers have all been positive," he said.
He sees Australia as "an emerging market and growth area" for Adobe. After meeting with media and government organisations, Loiacono hopes that the take up of Adobe in Australia will increase.
Prior to its release there was much talk throughout industry circles that CS4 was merely an "update" and not a new product in its own right. Loiacono is pleased to discover that attitudes have since changed.
"People now realise that it is a full-blown release that is packed with new features," he said.
Loiacono sees Adobe’s involvement with internet as vital to its future. He points towards new CS4 features such as web conferencing and In Context Editing (ICE) as vital to connecting Adobe users with others.
The release of Creative Suite 4 coincides not only with a tense economy, but also the release of rival software, Quark Version 8. Loiacono, however, is not particularly swayed by either factors.
"Everyone recognises that they have budget constraints and need to control their spending," he said. "But I’ve spoken with a number of agencies who told me that if they could only update one application it would be Creative Suite."
Loiacono was unable to discuss or reveal sales figures for Creative Suite 4. Of Quark, he is similarly optimistic.
"We still run into some Quark users," he admitted. "They are competition that we take very seriously – but Adobe’s Creative Suite remains popular with users and we are confident with the product we have."
Congratulations to PMP on their apparent "testicular fortitude". Whatever the facts; perhaps if there were more "declining" of work due to low prices supposedly being offered by competitors (and how often to we see actual proof of those prices), the local printing industry may be in a better and more profitable position.
I read with interest your article on colour shifting inks. Kodak’s Traceless has been around for quite a few years but seems to be prohibited by the expensive readers and proprietory consumable. I understand that Merck KGaA supply the inks and that the reader is there just to authenticate. It seems that these technologies are searching for a problem and market rather than the other way around!
It is also interesting that this product is not marketed in the world’s largest counterfeight geographical area – China. Why would you not market a product into the largest market with the greatest potential, is this because it is not secure or more expensive to implement than the product it is trying to protect? In a year when China has suffered terribly with problems in the dairy food chain I would have thought this would be a good opportunity if the product can stand up?
In my experience security solutions mainly have to be overt (look at bank notes!), if tag and trace is to be a success then it has to be cost effective in the consumables and in the decoder. So far, either thermocratic inks (a little bit expensive on the consumables) with a cheaper decoder (typically your thumb!) or, optical decoders with standard inks will be the future of tag and trace technologies.
I think that the Premier is missing the point – older Australians are more likely to read a paper – printed material. How is he going to do his on-line advertising ? Where will people find it? Will they have to go to websites of that particular body?
It’s as if fate prepared the page-layout for this week’s Pint21online – neatly juxtaposed like Ying and Yang, were two good news/bad news stories.
The "bad" one was the NSW Government’s edict to reduce print advertising in favour of on-line.
The "good" one was the story about Lindsay Yates taking a pro-active initiative, and projecting themselves out into the marketplace, in a rare example of self-promotion.
Rare, in the sense that as an industry we’ve never had to do much in the way of marketing. It would be very interesting to try and recall what have been some of the big, self-promotional events staged by printing companies over the last decade? Certainly Lilyfield’s ground-breaking effort to mark their move "out to the sticks" was an epochal event, as was Rapid Digital’s extraordinary "smoke and mirrors" event to mark their acquisition of not one, but two huge digital devices.
These events don’t just happen and aren’t cheap (feeding a bunch of hungry/thirsty inebriates is never going to be a cheap exercise), but not only do they promote the individual company, these events also send a signal out to the business community that printing is alive and well, and "out there".
Let companies be encouraged to undertake these events. How? Through the print awards of course!
We already have a category called "Self-Promotion" – why restrict it to purely the printed page? Why not think laterally and reward "good behaviour", ie, self-promoting events which elevate the profile of the entire printing industry?
We move in exciting times – we have to keep up, and staging such events is very much part of that process. Well done.
This article is hardly newsworthy. Webstar have been ISO 12647-2 accredited for some months now (through Printspec), and although it is good to see OAP keeping up with industry developments, I would have thought an article explaining where the industry is at with ISO implementation and the benefits for printers, publishers and clients would be of greater interest.
A recent court case involving a disputed print job has some important lessons about when a customer is allowed to break a contract to print. Wal Abramowicz has the details.
On the 5 August 2008, the Local Court of New South Wales handed down a decision in a printing case.
The background facts were that the customer was an importer of high priced clothing. The customer had engaged the printer to print a catalogue. The agreement comprised various emails between the parties and conversations. The printer provided a quote that was accepted and the customer provided a DVD and CD containing images to be used in the catalogue. Various proofs were produced by the printer and various changes were made by the customer. Ultimately an inkjet proof was produced and it was approved and signed by the customer. The person who approved the proof on behalf of the customer left for overseas and was overseas when the printing work was done.
About a quarter of the catalogues were delivered to the customer who contacted the printer advising that the job was not acceptable. The customer made a number of complaints. These were rejected by the printer. The printer attempted to deliver the balance of the catalogues but delivery was refused.
The customer complained that the catalogues had a number of faults including inferior resolution of the photographic imagery, scuffing on the images, inferior stitching causing damage to images, inadequate cropping and poor page alignment. They also claimed that the catalogues were not in accordance with printing industry standards.
As a result of those complaints the customer argued that it was entitled to terminate the agreement and that it was not liable to pay the printer. Furthermore, the customer entered into a new contract with another printer to produce the catalogues and it claimed the costs of that printing work.
During the course of discussions between the parties prior to the acceptance of the quote, the customer had handed the printer a sample of a previous catalogue and requested that the new catalogue be the same as the sample provided.
* Was the phrase "same as sample" an essential obligation or condition of the agreement or not?
* Did the flaws found in the catalogues produced by printer constitute a breach of an essential term and therefore a breach of the contract, or justify termination as they were sufficiently serious?
What the court found was that, in this case, there was no express or explicit agreement between the parties that the term "same as sample" was essential. In fact, during cross examination, one of the customer’s witnesses conceded that the sample catalogue that was provided to the printer had itself a number of flaws.
The Court noted that even though the customer submitted that the catalogues printed by printer were not in accordance with or did not meet printing industry standards, no independent expert evidence was called by customer in relation to that issue. The onus of proving this issue was upon the customer to satisfy the Court on a balance of probabilities. The customer failed to do that. There was no evidence at all that the catalogues produced by the printer were less than the industry standard. Further, the Court found that although a number of flaws were referred to during the evidence, many of those flaws were trivial.
The customer argued that there was a breach of an essential term of the contract which permitted it to terminate the contract and not pay for the printing. The Court held that there was no such breach. As a result the customer had wrongfully terminated the contract and was liable to pay printer the cost of printing the catalogues. It also ordered that the customer pay the legal costs of the proceedings to the printer.
* In negotiating an agreement reduce all the terms to writing.
* If some of the terms are so essential that any breach of them would allow you to bring the agreement to an end, state that they are essential terms in the agreement.
* If the quality of the printing work is an important issue then make arrangements for a representative of the client to be present at the time that the job is being printed.
* If you find yourself arguing a matter before the Court, consider engaging an expert to give an opinion relating to the complaints of the printed article.
Five-month Coles WA contract was priced at below acceptable margins, says Brian Evans, ceo PMP.
Moving to hose down reports that PMP had lost a valuable catalogue printing contract to rival IPMG, he claimed the job’s pricing was simply unacceptable. “If I didn’t have full presses it might be different, but our volumes are 20 per cent higher than last year so we have to make commercial decisions about work that is unattractive,” he said, in explaining why he did not compete for the job.
The response comes as rivalry between the two web printing giants intensifies. Following the commissioning of the big MAN Roland heatset web presses last year, PMP won back much of the work lost during its troubled upgrade. This year it snatched one of the largest print runs in the business from Hannanprint, the valuable Ikea catalogue job. Industry sources speculate that the proposed IPMG Warwick Farm gravure plant is in part a strategy to reclaim the iconic contract.
Evans (pictured) speculated that the pricing on the Coles WA catalogue is based on a fairly optimistic view of the value of the Australian dollar next year. He points out that PMP is the largest buyer of paper in the country and as such is able to leverage its business to get the best price.
He believes prices for print will stabilise and says PMP will continue to gauge the value add per tonne and knock back work that simply keeps the presses turning.
The Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) invites suitably qualified organisations to tender for the provision of printing and promotional products services as a member of a Printing and Promotional Products Panel.
Organisations tendering for offset and/or digital printing must have been in the printing industry for a minimum of five years.
I arrived in Perth in early November 2008 having been granted permanent residency in Australia, with my skills verified by Trades Recognition Australia. With over 21 years’ print experience I am seeking a print position that either will enable me to provide me with the opportunity to practise my craft or further develop my production management skills.
I have extensive machine minding experience and knowledge of overseeing die-stamping, gilt-edging, book-binding, thermographic process, embossing (deboss and emboss), letterpress printing, and aiding customers and their designers to provide print-ready artwork.
I take pride in my work and like to work methodically and efficiently. I have a creative streak and enjoy problem solving. I consider myself polite and courteous and fully understand the importance of these qualities. I am able to communicate well with people at all levels, from different social and economic backgrounds. I have greatly developed organisational skills and can prioritise workloads and successfully meet deadlines.
I am reliable and trustworthy, have a good sense of humour and possess the ability to develop and motivate myself and others. I am a capable worker with effective time management skills. I have developed into a strong team member, happy to contribute ideas and energy, as well as being able to work on my own initiative.
I am fully computer literate with knowledge of all the major modern operating systems. The technical aspect of building computers also interests me. I have undertaken several computing courses in my free time, including C/C++ Programming and A+ Certification among others.
I enjoy playing team sports including cricket and rugby. I also enjoy pool and snooker. I love travelling and the underwater world and snorkel whenever possible. I enjoy socialising locally with friends and take a keen interest in local activities. I am married with no children.
As the Production Manager I was responsible the smooth running of all litho/digital print and book-binding production work using the Optimus/Printcost management information system. I reported to the managing director and had line-managerial responsibility for eleven staff in the factory consisting of two lithographic printers, one digital printer, a guillotine operator, a print finisher, two finishing hands, three book-binders and one book-binding manager. I followed the job from estimating to artwork, printing, delivery and invoicing. I was able to bring my extensive hands-on print experience to the role, ensuring all work is carried out to the highest standard and often very tight deadlines to guarantee complete customer satisfaction in a very competitive print market. Confidentiality is also key given that our customers included Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral and Lloyds of London.
Upping the standard in printer’s promotion, the high-profile Sydney printer lashes out with upmarket reception.
Determined to change the market’s perception of the company as solely a provider of printing, the principals of Artarmon-based Lindsay Yates, spent two years working on a rebranding campaign. Based on the concept of being a communication company, not just a printer, the invitation list for the glamorous event in the middle of Sydney’s CBD targeted new and old clients in the advertising, design and direct marketing community.
He said the launch is the start of a sustained campaign to raise the company’s profile and flagged expansion in the coming year from both organic growth and takeover options. He highlighted the company’s environmental record, including its FSC accreditation as well as its acquisition of a Heidelberg XL 105. “I think it is a good story to tell the market,” he said.
The company commissioned a new set of creative material to hand out at the launch. (pictured).
WorldWide OnLine Printing franchise for sale. Northern Suburbs of Melbourne.
Priced well below a Greenfield (new) site.
This store was opened in 2007, and having posted sales of $240,000 in FY08 (Jul 08 to end June 08), is now at around break even. Not a bad performance from a start up, with little active external marketing effort.
This business provides a great opportunity for the purchaser to leverage of the hard work done in the first year, at close to half of the original purchase price.
Purchase Price $120,000 plus SAV – excellent value compared to a Greenfield (start up) price of over $200,000. Valid reason for sale.


text: One businessman revealed to us recently of how he and fellow importers of meat should pay Rp2000 per Kg for the so-called ‘coordination fee’ to a business association. With annual import of more than 100,000 tons, these guys paid more than Rp200 billion per annum. Nobody believes any business association utilizes such a big amount of ‘coordination fee’ for its own activities.


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Frequently, I think about the world in animated cartoons. When I think about different people, their cartoon image pops up in my head, and some key memories I’ve associated with them “autopopulate” around that image. I have a quirky brain.
With Papa, it’s being in elementary school and having him come pick up me up from class to take me out to Subway for lunch. Even at a young age, my love and loyalty could be secured through food. In all seriousness, it was this…special thing. We didn’t talk about anything in particular that I remember, but it was fun. I looked forward to it.
I have this sense of adventure. This itch to travel, see the world, learn different cultures, and experience…things. It started with our first trip I can remember, to Washington DC with Papa, Dada, and Dadi-Ma. Then it was Paris. Then national parks. Then driving across the country. Then it was talking about the trips he was planning. My dad planted that seed in me; that desire to see the world in it’s blemished entirety.
I remember the first thing I ever really baked was a pineapple upside down cake. My mom was out of town at a conference, and I was probably around 12, and I wanted to surprise my dad at dinner. I made it, I’m sure it looked okay (though in my memory, it was gorgeous), and I remember Papa eating some…and getting this look on his face. He took another bite, and called it interesting. I got mad. I tried some. Turns out, I had mixed up the salt and sugar amounts. He started laughing. That’s probably when I started learning how to laugh at my mistakes and myself.
My college graduation, my wedding, my medical school acceptance, my white coat ceremony, my match day on facetime, and my medical school graduation — I remember my dad smiling. Not a toothy smile, but his smile. Each one is a memory stuck to his Mita-mental-cartoon.
The vehemence with which I love my family sometimes surprises me. It’s particular days like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays, etc that I think about just how deep that love and respect goes, and how much they have taught me. I’m always taken back by it. Happy Father’s Day to fathers out there, and particularly to mine who gave me adventure, laughing, and a love of Subway.


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With so many things to do in Garda, it's important to choose a good Hotel.
With a garden, B&B Villa De Ade is located in Garda, a 15-minute walk from Lake Garda. Free WiFi access is available in all areas. Each room here will provide you with a flat-screen TV, air conditioning and a balcony.

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Halima Aden’s look can be re-created with the following: Color Sensational The Inti-Matte Nudes in Blushing Bud, The Colossal Big Shot Volum’Express mascara in Very Black, Color Tattoo Eye Chrome in Bronze Sheen, Master Precise Skinny Gel Pencil in Defining Black, and Brow Precise Micro Pencil in Auburn by Maybelline New York. Viscose nylon top by Hilfiger Collection. Hijab by Nike.
People are staring at Halima Aden, and it’s for one of two reasons: She’s dressed very differently from everyone else at this New York City restaurant, and she’s stunningly beautiful. The people gawking at the model include a family in matching pastel-blue sweaters, a jet-lagged Italian couple, and a bevy of thin blondes swaddled in Mansur Gavriel accessories. And also me. We’ve met for Sunday breakfast at a restaurant that overlooks Central Park and sells $20 lemon-ricotta pancakes. Aden is wearing a version of what she wears every day: an ankle-skimming long-sleeved dress and a cinnamon-hued hijab (head scarf, if you’re unfamiliar) that frames her perfect face like a cameo necklace. Even the braces gleaming on her teeth look glamorous. The answer to why people are staring is probably c) all of the above.
But Aden is not thinking about this. She’s thinking about French toast, and specifically about whether it will be OK on her system given that she had heartburn the night before. “What are you, 50?” I ask. “I know,” she says, giggling as though heartburn were just another quirky frolic on the route toward becoming a globe-trotting model. The French toast is deemed OK; she takes hers with a heavy pour of maple syrup and a thick frosting of butter. The sweetness and the braces and the fact that she chugged a hot chocolate as an aperitif before breakfast make Aden seem even younger than her (very young) 19 years. If she were about two feet shorter, she could pass for a tween.
Not in front of the camera, though. Like any model, Aden in real life is a different animal from Aden in photos. In photos, she can look beguiling or innocent depending on the tilt of a cheek or the lift of a brow. When she appeared at the fall 2017 Yeezy presentation in a fawn-colored faux-fur coat, pointy heels, and a jet-black hijab, she looked like the ruler of some futuristic civilization that we’d all be lucky to join. Strolling down the runway at Max Mara in a sumptuous camel coat and trousers, she looked like a tall glass of honey. And at Alberta Ferretti, she seemed right at home goofing around backstage with Gigi Hadid. If her otherworldly beauty makes her a natural beside the blondest Hadid, Aden’s biography is starkly different.
Cotton jacket, cotton dress, and polyester skirt by Loewe. Leather boots by Sacai.
Born in a refugee camp in Kenya, she moved to the U.S. with her mom at age seven and grew up in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a town of about 65,000. The summer after graduating from high school, she filled out an application for the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, which awards scholarships to winners. The pageant accepted her. Then a tiny obstacle presented itself: the swimsuit portion of the event. Aden was raised Muslim, and strutting across the stage in a bikini didn’t quite accord with her interpretation of Islam; she prefers to dress modestly, wearing a hijab in public and clothes that aren’t too short or too tight. She asked the pageant organizers if she could wear something with a bit more coverage. “Absolutely,” they said.
It is tempting to thrust meaning onto Aden, to label her, to turn her into propaganda. In a contentious political and social environment, it would be easy to see her as a poster child for the resistance. A woman in a hijab on the cover of a glossy beauty magazine (or walking down a major runway, for that matter) could be viewed as a counterweight to a Muslim ban. Is she a symbol? Maybe. But she doesn’t live a symbolic life; she lives a human life. If there is symbolism to be read into her, it is in our work, not hers.
Cotton sweatshirt and silk top by Gucci. Makeup colors: Brow Stylist Shape & Fill in Dark Brunette, Infallible Paints Eye Shadow in Mint Detox, and Infallible Pro- Glow Powder in Sun Beige by L’Oréal Paris.
The world of Western high fashion that Aden has been whirled into is slowly catching up. Dolce & Gabbana launched a collection that included hijabs last year, and H&M featured a hijabi model in a video campaign the year before. Nike has developed a lightweight “Pro Hijab.” Advancements like this are either big wins for inclusion, or opportunistic attempts to capitalize on a giant (and largely underserved) market, or both. But whether the underlying motive is empowerment or profit, brands are sending a clear signal when they serve Muslim women at a time when anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise: Fashion is for everyone.
Cotton trench coat by Céline. Hijab by Nike. Makeup colors: Inimitable Mascara in Noir Black, Rouge Coco Gloss Moisturizing Glossimer in Chilli, and Les Beiges Healthy Glow Luminous Colour in Medium by Chanel.
The runway still shows us a narrow sliver of humankind — mostly white, mostly thin, almost always young. Aden has yet to meet another model who wears a hijab. And she herself is still figuring out the intricacies of the profession, like how to avoid getting foundation on her scarf when the makeup artists are doing their thing (surrounding your face with tissue helps) and how to sleep on a plane (pro tips: Get a window seat and use your tray table as a headrest).
For now, the Yeezy-wearing, boundary-demolishing young model in front of me is focused on the immediate future. This includes getting her braces off, finishing her glass of pineapple-banana-orange-pomegranate juice (which she holds like a champagne flute), and getting to the airport in time for her afternoon flight back to Minnesota. Next week: London.
Fashion stylist, Beat Bolliger. Hair: Philippe Tholimet. Makeup: Val Garland. Manicure: Marian Newman.


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The French Film Festival UK celebrates its 20th anniversary this year (8 - 30 November) with a programme bigger and stronger than ever before ! As a long standing supporter of ’La Fete du Cinema’ over the years, we are pleased to accompany this important edition with ’The Universe of Jacques Demy’ a season dedicated to the French director that will get you in the mood for the upcoming feast of French cinema!
Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17 year-old Genevieve Emery (Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, the pair make love. Genevieve becomes pregnant and then must choose between waiting for Guy’s return or accepting an attractive offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant (Marc Michel).
Featuring a cavalcade of colours, sumptuous cinematography and an ingenuous score by Michel Legrand, the romantic Les Parapluies de Cherbourg is undoubtedly Demy’s masterpiece.
Nominated for four Academy Awards - including Best Original Score - the film also won the Palme d’Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.
Now in its 20th year, the French Film Festival (8 - 30 November 2012) presents a wide spectrum of French-language cinema from major hits to cutting edge new directors and retrospectives at leading cinemas throughout the country.
Cities covered include London, Birmingham, Manchester, Warwick, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and many more.
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Creature used for the test: Priestess Uadjit, Level 39/65, Evolution stage 4/4.
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Maria's Space: Are You Financially Prepared For A Family Health Crisis?
Are You Financially Prepared For A Family Health Crisis?
Americans are living longer, which means more time with the grandchildren, more time to travel to those places you didn’t see when you were younger and more time to devote to leaving your mark on the world.
But a longer life expectancy also comes with problems.
At least 70 percent of Americans will eventually watch as an aging loved one’s life is taken over by a growing list of impairments that could mean there’s a need for long-term care. And many family members will be unprepared both financially and emotionally to make decisions about what’s best for that person they care about so much.
Can you recognize the need for care? The first step in providing long-term care is identifying that a loved one needs the care. “Sometimes this can sneak up on you slowly or it can happen overnight,” Orestis says. Some of the telltale signs include cognitive impairment, such as forgetfulness or confusion; a house that is not as tidy or organized as it once was, or has objects in odd places; and physical deterioration, such as marked weakness, loss of strength and stamina, difficulty balancing or drastic weight loss.
Do you know what the right kind of care is? There are four types of long-term care. Home health care allows someone to remain in their own home while receiving care by licensed or unlicensed workers, as well as designated family members. Assisted living is housing for someone unable to live independently, but who just needs mid-level custodial care, medication support, lifestyle activities, transportation and meals. Nursing homes are for those who need higher level skilled care. Finally, hospice care is for people in the final six months of life.
Are you prepared to pay for it? The cost of long-term care can devastate a family’s finances, Orestis says. The annual cost of nursing home care, for example, is more than $80,000. Generally, there are three options for paying for long-term care: tapping into retirement savings, buying long-term care insurance, or relying on Medicaid and Medicare.

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Vegan and Dairy-Free Thai Iced Tea Pops Recipe from Oh My Veggies!
If you’ve ever ordered Thai iced tea while dining out, a few things probably occurred to you. First off, you probably noticed that it tastes more like a dessert than a simple dinner-accompanying beverage. Secondly, you were probably floored at the drink’s deliciousness and wished you could make it at home, all the while figuring you couldn’t make it at home because it’s full of exotic Thai secrets that you could never access. Thirdly, and this goes along with my point under “secondly,” you probably noticed that it was orange, attributing that fact to all those exotic Thai secrets.
Today I’m here to unlock the mystery of Thai tea for you. That, and to give you a recipe for a killer summertime sweet.
So, what exactly is it that gives Thai tea its distinct flavor? Well, there’s the tea for starters. It’s strong, so that’s one thing. Notice this recipe calls for eight tea bags in six pops. I wouldn’t recommend giving these treats to your kids, unless you’re into flying kids. Then there’s the tea itself, which is black tea of the Ceylon variety. Using Ceylon does seem to add a slight distinctness to the flavor (I tested this), but regular black tea works as well. There’s also loads of sugar (higher flying kids?), and in conventional Thai tea, condensed milk. That’s it!
“Then why is it orange?” you ask. As it turns out, most restaurants add orange food coloring to their Thai tea. I was a little disappointed to find out that it wasn’t exotic Thai magic. So these Thai Iced Tea Pops are not orange. They also contain coconut milk in place of condensed dairy milk, so they’re vegan! The coconut milk content is also a bit higher than it might be in Thai tea you drink, because they’re dessert. They are also incredibly delicious, which is why I’ve been eating them like crazy and have been flying Alissa for the last week or so. Thank you Thailand. It’s been a VERY productive week.
This post was originally published on July 10, 2014.
Sweet and creamy Thai iced tea, in popsicle form – and vegan, to boot! We can’t think of a better way to cool down.
Remove from heat and add the tea bags and sugar. Stir until the sugar dissolves, then let the tea bags steep for 5 minutes. Remove the tea bags from the saucepan, or strain the mixture if you used loose tea.
Stir in the coconut milk. You can heat it back up, if necessary, to dissolve any stubborn chunks.
Transfer the mixture to the refrigerator and chill until it’s at room temperature or a little below. About an hour should do it.
Remove the saucepan from the refrigerator and give the mixture a stir. The coconut milk and tea may have separated a bit during refrigeration (or a lot, if you left it in there for a while), so just stir it enough to bring the mixture back to uniformity.
Carefully pour the tea mixture into your popsicle molds and freeze until solid. Remove from molds and serve.
The refrigeration step helps prevent separation during freezing. Coconut milk typically separates into cream and water during chilling. By refrigerating and then stirring the mixture before freezing, you’re essentially shortening the freeze time of the mixture, and in turn its opportunity to separate before freezing solid.
Also, the number of servings here assumes you’re using a 1/2 cup mold. This will obviously vary if your molds are bigger or smaller.
Genius!! I’ll definitely be making these and I won’t have to worry about the Mr snatching them since he’s not a tea person. More for me!
Haha, great! Sounds like you’re in for a productive week as well 😉 Enjoy!!
I love Thai iced tea, so I’m going to need these ASAP!
If you like Thai iced tea you will LOVE these!
This sounds incredible. I’ve never had Thai Iced Tea but definitely want to make these popsicles!
Thank you! Thai iced tea is great – it’s amazing how a few little modifications over regular tea give it a distinctive flavor. I hope you enjoy these!
Thanks Olivia! They really were refreshing and tasty!
These look delicious! I’d love to know which type of popsicle mold you’re using. I’m struggling to find one that works well!
Thank you! I used the Tovolo Groovy Ice Pops Mold. It works well for me. The trick is to be patient when removing the pops from the molds – it sometimes takes a minute or so of running under hot water, but the pops always come out just fine.
I’m curious if you’ve ever used the ZOKU pop makers because I’m debating whether or not to buy another of those (after none broke!), or try something new.
These look super dee duper tasty, by the way!
Oh my goodness! I had no idea it wasn’t actually orange!! I too thought it was some exotic tea, how funny! What a great dessert!
These look so good! I have been craving ice cream lately due to the heat, but this is a healthier and more frugal choice. Thanks so much for the recipe. I love all things coconut. Coconut milk is my favorite for ice cream and smoothies. Pinning this now! Thanks, again.
Thanks Heather! The coconut milk makes these really creamy, so they should satisfy your ice cream cravings. Enjoy!!
Oh I am SO going to make these! I make a Thai tea smoothie and Thai tea pudding that we love. So having another delicious Thai tea treat has me very excited. YAY!
I can’t wait to try these!!!! I LOVE Thai iced tea but it’s a rare indulgence as it’s not exactly healthy. These sound amazing. :). Thank you! I am having so much fun exploring your recipes! Your website is a gem!
Thanks Alice! I wish I had some tips, but I’ve never had a problem getting pops out of the molds! I just run the mold under hot water until it loosens. Sometimes it takes a minute or two, but they always come out for me.
great healthy version of thai tea pops!
Now I’m dreaming of Thai iced coffee pops…rather than the iced coffee I’m about to get. Love this idea!!
I have definitely always wondered a little bit about that orange color. Mind you, that has never stopped me from ordering a Thai iced tea every chance I get! Licking into one of these shall be the pinnacle of my summer! Especially since the boyfriend DESPISES tea. So more for me.
Yeah, I have to admit, I don’t think my newfound knowledge of the orange coloring will stop me from ordering in the future…Thai iced tea is just too good. Glad I can now supplement at home with color-free pops 🙂 I hope you enjoy these!
Thanks Dana! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
Who knew they could be so simple-and vegan! Yeah, baby!
I was surprised myself at how something so simple turned out so tasty!
I thought they were pretty delicious. 🙂 Thanks Shaun!
Perfect for a warm afternoon! Delish!
Oh my gosh these look so good! Thai ice tea is one of my absolute favorite things and I couldn’t agree more that it tastes more like dessert. Definitely want to try these pops!
I love Thai iced tea, and think this would be a great way to enjoy it since we’re going to have 100º+ temps this week. My husband is diabetic. Are there any sugar substitutes you would recommend to use instead of regular sugar so I can keep down the carbs?
You could really go with whatever sweetener works with your husband’s diet. I like liquid stevia, so if that’s suitable for him you could give it a try. I’d just add a few drops at a time until you get the flavor somewhere on par with a glass of sweet iced tea. Enjoy!
Holy cow these are amazing! I made mine with Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice Tea instead black, and it is to die for.


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Startups 100 is in the news again! As one of only four businesses registered in Wales to make it into the Startups 100, A-Star Sports was interviewed by BBC Radio Wales’ Sarah Dickins (sitting in for Jason Mohammad) on Tuesday 27th May. The interview covers taking risks, being successful and reaching No. 27 in this year’s list.
Also interviewed were Ian Wallis of startups.co.uk, the organisers of Startups 100, and Bethan Stevens of Sosban & The Old Butcher’s Restaurant, also listed in the Startups 100.
“Now completing its hat-trick of appearances in Startups 100, children’s sport franchise A-Star Sports continues to go from strength to strength. Since achieving British Franchise Association accreditation last year, the franchise has grown to encompass six territories operated by the four directors and 10 additional territories with nine separate franchise owners. The franchise’s after-school sports classes continue to perform strongly, catering for more than 4,000 children per week, and its newly-launched party and holiday club ventures have also seen significant growth; A-Star Sports holiday clubs cater for around 200 children per day during the school holidays, and the founders plan to increase the number of parties held across 2014 from 550 to 1,000.


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Lindsay DeLand graduated from the LTS Program in 2014 and immediately began teaching in Japan. Her MA project was titled “Graphic Novels as Motivating Authentic Texts for Adult English Language Learners”.
Lindsay (on right) on commencement day 2014 at the University of Oregon with cohort members Richard Niyibigira and Sejin Kim.
Where are you working now, and what are you teaching?
I work at Tokyo International University in Kawagoe, Japan. I teach mostly speaking and listening skills to Japanese undergraduate students, but I also teach an academic composition class to international undergraduates from a number of different countries. It’s a blast!
I love that I get to make so many meaningful relationships with so many amazing students. For me, all the interaction with different people is the best part of the teaching job. I’ve learned a lot from my students, and I’ve gotten to watch them learn and grow a lot as well.
What is something you learned while in LTS that you use in your teaching (or life) now?
I learned how to design a curriculum, which has been invaluable to me since starting at TIU. Before the LTS program, I wouldn’t have had any idea how to go about planning a class when you’re just given a textbook and total freedom! It’s still a challenge for me, but I’m improving with practice, and I’m grateful for the foundation in curriculum design I got at Oregon.
Lindsay presenting her action research at Thailand TESOL International this year.
Looking back, what advice would you give current or future LTS students?
Both while you’re a graduate student and when you become a full-time teacher, remember to make time for yourself on top of your work and studies. Teaching is a great job but it’s also very stressful and can be all-consuming. If you don’t find a way to balance a healthy and happy personal life on top of your work life, work will feel a lot harder! When I was an LTS student, I often studied with friends from my cohort to make the workload feel easier, and we regularly got together for fun to keep each other sane. Now, even when my semesters are busy, I make sure to do at least one fun and rewarding activity a week, like exploring a new part of Tokyo or just spending time with friends. It helps me refresh my brain so I can better tackle my job!
Great advice! Get some time for yourself folks! Yes, work hard but DO NOT forget to stay healthy!


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You can group your comics into folders. You have a couple of presets to choose from, and your comics will automatically be grouped for you based on the information stored inside them.
For example: If you folder group on “Seriesgroup”, and you have a comic with “Batman” filled in as its Seriesgroup, then that comic will appear in the “Batman” folder.
To try this out yourself, click the folder icon top left and pick a field you wish to group your comics on. Now click on a folder to see the comics that are inside.
You’ll also notice you have an “[All Comics]” folder at the top. Click it to see all your comics.