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The consulting and engineering firm ÅF Pöyry estimates that demand for market pulp will grow by approximately 2.5 per cent a year over the next five years.
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Metsä Fibre's customers consider Metsä Fibre as a reliable supplier with even pulp quality.
Plastic was once considered an irreplaceable material. Now plastic has become a problem to which we are frantically trying to find a solution. There is therefore plenty of demand for a biodegradable, bio-based and sustainably produced material.
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Metsä Fibre kicked off the pre-engineering project for the Kemi bioproduct mill in the spring of 2019. The project is now proceeding in terms of the environmental permit process, among other things.
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A comprehensive circular economy is incomplete without the bioeconomy. The bioeconomy can contribute in several ways to the circular economy, and this includes the utilisation of organic side and waste streams from forestry and the converting of these production side streams into value-adding products. Metsä Fibre has world-leading capabilities in this field.
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The high-quality and sustainable sawn timber we produce is used to a particularly high degree in end uses where the carbon remains sequestered in the wood for a period spanning decades or even a century. Such end uses include various wood construction solutions and furniture.
Thanks to sound forest management, Finland's forests are growing by roughly 20 per cent more than they are being used. This is why Finnish sawn timber is a sustainable and resource-smart solution.
Metsä Fibre possess solid and long-standing know-how in the conversion of northern softwood. We know our raw material and the opportunities it offers inside out.
Northern sawn softwood offers extremely advantageous strength qualities in relation to weight, due to which it is well-suited for use in load-bearing structures. In terms of its appearance, northern wood is consistent, and it is easy to process and treat in the preferred manner.
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If all preconditions are met, a new bioproduct mill will start up in Kemi during the year 2022. So far, the results of the prefeasibility study look promising. This was the encouraging message of a public event organised on December 18 in Kemi, where Metsä Fibre gave an update on the progress of the project to an audience of around 200.
Metsä Fibre has received a Supplier Excellence Award from C&S, one of China's major tissue producers, for being the company's Partner in Excellence.
Established in 2011, Chemarts is a Finnish collaboration between two Aalto University schools, the School of Chemical Engineering (CHEM) and the School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS). At its heart, Chemarts is the study of bio-based materials and its main aim is to inspire young students from design and technical schools to get interested in wood-based fibres and to explore biomaterials together. Chemarts was also conceived to consider how design can be a strategic tool when developing new cellulose-based products or new materials.
As demand for high-quality paper products in China and Asia increases, the partnership between Metsä Fibre and Asia Symbol is set to deepen.
Metsä Group's innovation company, Metsä Spring, and the Japanese Itochu Corporation, have established a joint venture to build and operate a unique test plant. The hope is that this pilot will kick-start a new revolution in future ecological textile fibre production.
Since mid-2017, China's government has moved to ban a wide range of imported waste, from scrap metals to scrap paper, upending a recycling industry that had thrived since the mid-80s, transforming the world's rubbish into usable materials when raw materials have been cost-prohibitive.
Come and visit us on 20 March at Shanghai Pulp Week Annual Meeting or on 21 March at Hawkins Wright Shanghai Symposium.
In an uncertain world, it can be helpful to prepare for various emerging outcomes. We asked Antti Kiljunen from Metsä Fibre and Risto E.J. Penttilä from the Nordic West Office consultancy firm to discuss business success factors under various scenarios.
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This is a unique form of collaboration among the Pulp and Paper industry with the target of promoting the safety work within the industry.
As living standards in China rise, the demand for quality paper products grows.
The year 2019 has started at full speed here in Shanghai, and I hope it will prove to be an excellent year for both us and our valued customers. As our CEO, Ismo Nousiainen, stated in the previous issue of Echo Magazine, we are focusing on excellence in our strategy.
Metsä Fibre is the world's leading supplier of bleached softwood market pulp, with an annual production capacity of around 3.25 million tonnes. Efficient and reliable logistics are a crucial part of the company's pulp production chain. Some 62 per cent of the pulp produced by Metsä Fibre is exported.
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The forests of Finland are satisfying a growing need for responsibly produced, renewable materials used in a wide variety of products. The Pro Nemus ("For the Forest") visitor centre adjoining Metsä Fibre's new bioproduct mill in Äänekoski provides an overview of the broad range of opportunities that the forest provides, with exhibits illustrating the bioproduct mill ecosystem, the products of the forest industry and the process of delivering them to customers around the world.
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To tackle the widely-recognized global challenges, such as scarcity of resources and harmful plastic waste in oceans, the European Commission has adopted a plastic strategy with the aim to accelerate the transition to more circular economy and at the same it is updating its bioeconomy strategy to promote the use of renewable raw materials and bio-based products. Can the EU, with the innovations of companies like Metsä Fibre, find a more sustainable solution and lead the world toward lasting change?
China continues to drive the global pulp business, an industry offering huge opportunities with regards to sustainability, says Brian McClay.
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Delivering increasingly efficient and sustainable production processes represents an important driver of Metsä Fibre's operations. Implementing these advanced pulp production technologies offers essential benefits to both circular economy and bioeconomy ecosystems. Metsä Fibre's state-of-the-art Äänekoski bioproduct mill represents a textbook example of efficient and sustainable production at work.
In 1845, James Cropper founded a paper manufacturing company bearing his name. Today, this prestigious paper innovator is globally renowned for supplying distinct, custom-made paper products to many of the world's leading brands and designers. The company, carefully stewarded by 6 generations of the Cropper family, is committed to the highest standards of sustainability and was one of the first in the UK to import the special chemical pulp from what is today Metsä Fibre.
Let me begin with a confession. I feel slightly ashamed to walk around downtown Helsinki with a plastic carrier bag nowadays, and if my shopping is small enough, then I fold up the bag and hide it under my arm. Plastic carrier bags have become rather embarrassing.
Collaboration with educational and research institutions is helping Metsä Fibre to gain a broader understanding of natural phenomena and future technologies, and to reach leading professionals in the field. We met up at Lappeenranta University of Technology to discuss the goals and benefits of partnership.
Metsä Fibre's vision is that our customers value us as their preferred supplier for high-quality bioproducts and services that create added value for their business. The vision is based on reliability– reliability as in being a trustworthy partner or as in performing consistently well. As we all know, trust is something that needs to be earned.
The uptimes of all of Metsä Fibre's pulp mills are considered to be excellent as a result of effective predictive maintenance and correctly timed investments. Reliability, delivery consistency and consistent quality are ensured through long-term life-cycle planning.
Metsä Group's innovation company Metsä Spring Ltd. and Japanese Itochu Corporation have established a joint venture, investing approx. EUR 40 million in building and operating a test plant to demonstrate a new technology for converting paper-grade pulp into textile fibres.
A renovation project launched in May by Metsä Fibre at its pulp mill in Kemi, northern Finland, has entered a preliminary study stage that will continue until summer 2019.
Metsä Fibre's annual RADAR customer satisfaction survey for its pulp and biochemical customers has been completed for 2018.
In line with its strategic objectives, Metsä Fibre is increasingly focusing on strengthening customer relationships, improving performance, developing its personnel and building the capacity to regenerate, says CEO Ismo Nousiainen.


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The good news: Junior got into college. The not-so-good news: It's going to cost you.
It's time for the annual ritual when families fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, wait for the aid letters to roll in and then sit down to decide which school is "the one." And in many cases, the final price tag can trump a great curriculum, sprawling campus and renowned professors.
That's why having a frank, open conversation with your child about the family's financial options is one of the most important steps you take when choosing a school, says David Childress, a vice president at Student Aid Services, a provider of research and tools to college enrollment and financial-aid offices. That includes discussing ways to make the most of scholarships, grants and other aid.
There is more than $236 billion in student aid, such as loans, scholarships and grants, available each year, according to Student Aid Services. Undergraduates receiving aid get an average of $13,218 per year.
Here's how to begin your conversation:
1. Dissect and compare each award letter.
Once you receive the financial-aid award letters from all the schools, it's time to sit down as a family and compare them—carefully. There is no standard format for award letters so the information contained in each can vary widely.
Typically, a letter lists financial aid from multiple sources, such as school scholarships, work-study money and federal loans, along with your expected family contribution. Some schools outline the cost of attendance, including tuition, room and board, and miscellaneous expenses like books, according to financial-aid site finaid.org. Some just include tuition and fees while others don't include the cost of attendance at all.
To help with the math, colleges and universities participating in federal student-aid programs are now required to have a net-price calculator on their websites. The tool estimates the cost of attendance, including tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, transportation and personal expenses. Then it subtracts any aid, such as a Pell Grant, scholarship or loan, the family expects the student to receive. You'll need to input information such as parental income, household size and number of children currently in college.
Leslie Tobakos, mother of two college-aged kids, compared apples to apples on tuition, room and board and fees by making a spreadsheet to track the bottom line for each school. She wrote down all the names of the schools her daughter had applied to and realized they were all over the country. Some schools were farther from home, like Claremont McKenna College in California. She had to consider travel expenses, including trips home for the holidays.
"I didn't care how much money they were giving us," says Ms. Tobakos, who lives in White Lake, Mich. "I cared what the bottom line would be."
2. Do the family math.
Once you've determined exactly how generous each school is—or isn't—being, you'll need to calculate how much your family (the parents and the student) will need to dish out.
Spell out how much you'll pay each semester and what that money covers. It could include tuition, room and board. Take into account aid that covers only the first year and how you'll make up the difference the following years.
Then specify which expenses your child will be expected to pay for—say, dining out, books and activity fees—and how he or she come up with the money.
Kate O'Connor, a senior at Michigan State University, works about 25 hours a week through a work-study program and about 20 hours at a part-time job to help with costs not covered by loans, scholarships and grants, because her parents couldn't afford to contribute.
3. Find free money.
That duct-tape dressmaking may be your ticket to some extra cash for college.
There are scholarships to fit just about any group or niche. (Yes, even duct tape.) Sites such as Fastweb.com, SchoolSoup.com and SallieMae.com/scholarships list many options.
If Junior plays a sport for school or a league, for instance, he or she should look into the $500 BigSun Scholarship (bigsunathletics.com). If your teen is a leader—say, for a school group or in your community—look into the $2,000 Discus Awards College Scholarship (discusawards.com/scholarship-info).
Ms. O'Connor landed a scholarship from Kentucky Fried Chicken worth more than $20,000 over four years. It's geared toward high-school seniors with financial need who pursue an education at a public institution in their home state.
Students may be eligible for state aid. Many companies offer scholarships to children of employees. Children of veterans may qualify for awards as well. And families also should reach out to civic, religious, community and ethnic groups.
4. Consider a payment plan.
Many schools—public, private, large and small—offer tuition payment plans that generally don't charge interest rates. There typically is a one-time, upfront fee of about $50, and you make monthly payments—the monthly amount is based on the family's income level—says Charlie Rocha, senior vice president of student lending at Sallie Mae. You can either apply directly through the school or the payment-plan provider.
5. Look at your loan options.
In the end, your family may have no choice but to borrow money.
First look into federal loans, which typically have the lowest interest rates. The subsidized federal Stafford Loan currently has a fixed interest rate of 3.4%. The federal PLUS loan for parents has a fixed rate of 7.9%. Perkins loans have a fixed interest rate of 5%. You can apply for these with the Fafsa. (Go to fafsa.ed.gov.) Private bank loans should be your last option since they tend to have higher rates.
Be sure to discuss the post-graduation implications of a loan. That means spelling out payment amounts, when they will start, how long they will last and the overall cost over the life of the loan.
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If Republicans wake up on November 3rd to find their majority-making hopes dashed, they may be looking at a state like Colorado for evidence of opportunities missed.
At the beginning of this midterm cycle, Colorado offered the GOP just the kind of scenario it was looking for to reverse the Democrats' victories — both in the state and nationwide — from 2006 and 2008.
For instance, incumbent Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter surprised many in his own party by deciding not to seek election, giving the GOP a prime pick-up opportunity. Also, Democrat Michael Bennet, an appointed senator running in his first campaign for office, provided Republicans a tasty target for the GOP, which is also eyeing at least one Democrat-held House seat.
Add to that the national mood and a primary threat to Bennet from former State House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, and the state appeared a recipe for Republican midterm success.
But a summer of pandemonium within the GOP has produced a much different picture just two weeks before the Aug. 10 primary.
Consider these recent events:
- Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck had to apologize for deriding Tea Party movement members who question whether President Barack Obama was really born in the United States. A Democratic "tracker" recorded Buck, a favorite of activists, saying, "Will you tell those dumba---s at the tea party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I'm on the camera?"
- Buck and GOP rival Jane Norton have engaged in a gender-laced exchange of insults, with Norton questioning why Buck is not "man enough" to criticize her directly and Buck mocking Norton for her "high heels."
- A plagiarism scandal has inflicted a possibly fatal wound on the candidacy of Republican gubernatorial frontrunner Scott McInnis. The other GOP gubernatorial contender, Dan Maes, has had to pay a fine to settle alleged campaign finance violations.
- On Monday a raucous quarrel erupted on Denver talk radio station KHOW between the state Republican chairman Dick Wadhams and former Rep. Tom Tancredo, who is jumping into the governor's race as a third-party candidate after McInnis and Maes refused to make way for him.
Internal party disputes, ideological spats and GOP nominees who are considered too conservative also threaten to spoil the GOP's chances in other states like Florida, Kentucky and Nevada. But more than any other state right now, Colorado epitomizes how Republicans are coming close to blowing a golden opportunity.
Public feud over private conversations
In the KHOW radio brawl, which at one point featured a barking dog in the background, Tancredo said Wadhams had privately told him that McInnis was "untrustworthy" and Maes was "a joke." Tancredo said to Wadhams, "You dislike them both — you don't trust either one."
Wadhams denied saying this. Each man then called the other a liar as the host of the program jumped in to side against the party chairman.
In the wake of the plagiarism scandal that has crippled McInnis, state GOP leaders have been searching for a way to replace either candidate but can't do anything until the primary is over because most of the state votes by mail in the primary and that process is already well under way.
Tancredo's entry as a third-party candidate seems likely to pave a path to victory for Democratic candidate, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. But Tancredo insisted, "I have a better chance of beating Hickenlooper in a three-way race than Scott or Maes does in a two-way race."
In 2007, Tancredo mounted a long-shot bid for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination.
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The unforced errors and feuding on the Republican side have created a distraction, said Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli. "It has a tremendous potential for hurting the other races," he said.
He said it wasn't a question of Tancredo depressing Republican turnout – in fact, he may well increase turnout among committed conservatives. But rhetorically Tancredo "has no restraints," Ciruli said. He has a penchant for saying things that "distract from any other issues."
Case in point: while campaigning three weeks ago with Buck, Tancredo said "the greatest threat to our liberty, the greatest threat to the Constitution, the greatest threat to our way of life, everything we believe in... is the guy who is in the White House."
"I don't agree," Buck told reporters after the campaign event. "There are a lot of threats to this country, and I don't think the man in the White House is the greatest threat to this country at all."
"Colorado has a very substantial number of moderates in both parties and unaffiliated voters who are not attached to either party," Ciruli said. "Those folks generally like non-confrontational campaigns. They don't like extremes, they don't like intense partisanship."
"Not only will this gubernatorial debate drive off moderates and unaffiliateds from the Republican label, Hickenlooper could become rallying point for Democrats who had been really on the defensive here with unaffiliated voters," he said.
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Joanna Burgos, a National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman, disputed the idea that the governor's race could affect the chances of one of the GOP prime pickup opportunities: Colorado's Fourth district in the northeast and eastern part of the state, where first-term Democrat Rep. Betsy Markey faces Republican Cory Gardner.
She pointed out that the district supported GOP presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 even as Markey was winning her race. "This is a Betsy Markey vs. Cory Gardner race and won't be affected by the top of the ticket," she said.
Markey has cast risky votes for her party leadership's agenda items: a cap-and-trade bill, the health care law, and the stimulus.
There's at least one previous case of GOP intra-party turmoil in one race spilling over into down-ballot races.
"The clearest recent example of a gubernatorial downdraft is Ohio 2006," said Claremont McKenna College political scientist Pitney. "The incumbent GOP governor (Bob Taft) had been ensnared in scandal and his party's candidate to replace him (Ken Blackwell) was unpopular. Together with bad national trends, trouble at the top of the ticket helped bring down incumbent senator Mike DeWine and cost the GOP a couple of House seats."
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Democratic donors have lifted Bennet to a huge cash advantage: as of June 30, he had more than $2.5 million in cash on hand, more than five times as much as his challenger Andrew Romanoff.
So dire is Romanoff's campaign cash plight that he has decided to sell his house and loan his campaign $325,000.
Progressives in and outside Colorado have been divided in their loyalties, with some backing Bennet on the strength of his support for a public option as part of the health care reform, while others see Romanoff as the more genuine progressive and the more experienced lawmaker.
Romanoff was able to generate some early enthusiasm for his candidacy, as well as an endorsement from former President Clinton. But their primary has been far more tame than the bitter Republican contest, leaving it more likely that the Democrats will emerge with a well-funded nominee unscathed by intra-party battles.


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- Cooking spray
- 2 cups (about 8 ounces) diced cooked turkey breast
- 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's Healthy Request cream of mushroom soup
- 4 slices (3/4 ounce each) fat-free processed Swiss cheese
- 1 box (6 ounces) Stove Top stuffing mix for turkey, prepared according to directions but omitting margarine
Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat an 8″ x 8″ pan with cooking spray. Layer turkey in bottom of pan. Top evenly with soup, cheese slices, and then prepared stuffing (spread stuffing to edges of pan). Cover with foil and bake for 15 minutes. Remove foil and continue baking an additional 15 minutes, or until bubbly.
This recipe can be made one to two days ahead and stored, tightly covered, in the refrigerator. It may be doubled to make a 9″ x 13″ casserole.
Yield: 4 servings.
Serving size: 1/4 of recipe.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories: 296 calories, Carbohydrates: 38 g, Protein: 27 g, Fat: 4 g, Saturated Fat: 1 g, Sodium: 1,257 mg*, Fiber: 1 g
Exchanges per serving: 2 1/2 starch, 3 very lean meat. Carbohydrate choices: 2 1/2.
*This recipe may not be suitable for people who need to limit their sodium intake.
This recipe was developed by Tami Ross, a Diabetes Nutrition Specialist and Certified Diabetes Educator in Lexington, Kentucky.


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Chart::Clicker::Decoration::Legend::Tabular - Tabular version of Legend
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Alhambra Place includes 24 exclusive, pet-friendly residences, and the luxury condominiums range in size from approximately 4,000 to 7,000 square feet. The floor plans are spacious and provide an ample amount of privacy. Residents of Alhambra Place have access to deeded dockage, a fitness center, heated pool, sauna, concierge services, and 24-hour security.
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Upcoming Local Events
Riverside Arts MarketEvery Saturday March-December from 10am-4pm715 Riverside Ave. under the Fuller Warren Bridge
Located beneath the sheltering expanse of the Fuller Warren Bridge structure, the weekly Riverside Arts Market features the work of up to 160 artists, musical entertainment, street performers, food vendors, and a fresh produce market! Admission and parking are free, and feel free to come by foot, bike, or car - and don't forget that pets are welcome. Click Here for details
First Friday Art WalkFirst Friday of every month 5-9pm in Downtown St. Augustine
Enjoy great art, music, food and friends! When you shop Art Galleries of St. Augustine member galleries, be confident you are dealing with a gallery of quality artwork, service and integrity. Click Here to learn more.
Farmer's Markets in Jacksonville
If you are looking for a local farmer's market to buy some fresh fruits and vegis and other goodies, click Here for a list of local farmer's markets that are located all around the Jacksonville community categorized by date and time.
Art Walk DowntownFirst Wednesday of every month 5pm-9pm
Held each month -- rain or shine -- Art Walk spans a 15-block radius within the Downtown core. With 30 to 40 galleries, museums, cultural venues, restaurants, bars and businesses participating each month and dozens of artists in the open-air Hemming Plaza, Art Walk is the ultimate opportunity to savor and support Jacksonville's deep pool of creative talent. Click Here for more information.
Storytime at the Library
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Mother of the bride/ bridegroom dresses mainly for mothers. Young couples' big day is also yours. Want to order a decent and classically designed mother dress at affordable prices? Here we provide hundreds of mother of the bride dresses for you to choose from. All our dresses will be delicately tailored of high quality fabrics, looks expensive and comfortable to wear. Plus size mother of the bride dresses can also find your dresses here, for all our dresses can be custom made according to your given measurements.
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Customized color correction service with cropping, straightening, sharpening, application of your own Lightroom presets and the option of having PIE do the image selection for you.
Studio portraits, baby, school, kindergarten. PIE caters to all types of retouching like skin cleanups, head swapping, background removal or any other type of Photoshop work that you may need done on your images.
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Choose a clean and classic layout or just have the team customize an album that grabs ones attention, tells a unique story and highlights the unique moments and emotions captured by you. Unlimited changes and online proofing included.
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Our Video editing service caters to all types of videographers from wedding videos to short commercials. Choose one of our existing styles of editing or just have the team match your own. Includes color correction, sequencing of multiple cameras, lighting effects, audio leveling and music overlays.
To place an order or to know more about the services we provide, click on "More Info".
Color Correction
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- Image Selection*
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Video Editing
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- Customized Editing Styles
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- Audio Leveling
- Music Overlay
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Advanced Retouching
€ 0,25
- Fast Cutouts (Image Extraction)
- Detailed Cutouts (Clipping Path)
- Original Shadow
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Image Restoration
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- Black & White To Black & White
- Black & White To Sepia
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ProImageEditors is a postproduction service provider since 2005. A production house based out of Mumbai, India and a company strength of 240+ employees, PIE works with professional photographers and videographers across the globe helping them SAVE TIME, SAVE MONEY and GROW THEIR BUSINESS. The idea is simple: We provide image and video editing services through customized workflows based on your post production needs. This gives you more time to focus on other aspects of your business like customer acquisition, more time planning and shooting great pictures or just more time with your family.
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The latest news and articles about ProImageEditors image and video editing services for wedding and studio photography professionals.
3 quick tips for a stronger visual language
To achieve authentic photography it is important to condense emotions. Pictures that tell a story have a certain expression, a clear philosophy and a special visual language. These images are not irrelevant or created by chance. They have a clear right to exist because they represent something particular. They often pinpoint what other pictures fail to do: an emotion, an event or a unique moment. There are many ways for a photographer to create such images. Visual language is especially important for wedding photography. I would like to share 3 quick tips for a stronger visual language that carry my business from the beginning.
Maybe you are already using some of my advice. If not, today is the best day to start!
Speed up your Lightroom export!
Guest article by Karlis Kalnins. Every update for Adobe Lightroom comes with hopes for performance improvements, but results in disappointment. Everyday image editing of RAW-files as well as importing and exporting media can take up an excessive amount of time. While I unwind from my latest wedding reportage, my computer already spends night and day[…]
Quick Tip: Fast culling with a game controller
As you all probably know ProImageEditors don't only offer image editing, but also selection services. You can save a lot of time if you decide to let us do the culling and editing for you. But should you still prefer to do the culling by yourself, because you like it so much or just have the time, today we have a great guest article by Karlis: You can use a game controller to do the culling with Lightroom or Photo Mechanic! So let's see how it works …
ProImageEditors in PHOTO PRESSE 13/2015
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Steffen "Stylepirate" Böttcher is a german wedding, portrait & celebrity photographer. In July he visited our offices and is now sharing his experience in his blog. Click the link to read his article and have a look at the images! Steffen is a famous photographer in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other countries. He[…]
Wedding Meetups: Vienna, Bonn and Munich
A vibrant community of talented wedding photographers have developed a strong network in the recent years and these days several gatherings or conventions are being held all over the world (a trending term called "Meetups"), building a community for networking with active photographers. For photographers this is a great opportunity to meet and understand what[…]
Video Interview by Amos Struck (Fotos verkaufen)
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Profifoto Magazine Article about ProImageEditors
Profifoto is one of the leading photography magazines for professional photographers across Germany and other parts of German speaking Europe. The Profifoto team visited the ProImageEditors production Office at Mumbai, India in 2014 to learn more about the company, its services, its core business values and its people. This magazine article was published in April[…]
Image Editing Outsourced – Cost and Benefits
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Video interview of Hezikiah De Souza & Marc Ludwig (FotoTV)
An exclusive video interview of Hezikiah De Souza (Director – ProImageEditors) and Marc Ludwig (Founder – FotoTV). The interview was held at the FotoTV. studio in Cologne, Germany where Marc gets Hezi provide more information on subjects like. The Outsourcing Model and Why Should One Outsource The Business and Its Founders The People, Workflow and[…]


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Jesse Martin's father seeks hockey reform
NOTE: The following was sent to me by Terry Martin, father of injured DU senior center Jesse Martin, and it is being published verbatim. As most of you know, Jesse nearly died from a hit to the head Oct. 30 at North Dakota. He is recovering from three fractures of the C2 vertebra while still attending DU as an honors student, and he is around his teammates every day. This week, he will travel with the Pioneers to St. Paul, Minn., where they will begin the WCHA playoff finals on Friday as the No. 2 seed.
Jesse had major spinal surgery in November at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, and he is scheduled to meet with those same surgeons on Thursday. Jesse wants to play hockey at DU again, at some point next season as a fifth-year redshirt or in 2012-13 if he can obtain a medical sixth-year waiver from the NCAA. He will discuss that seemingly impossible challenge with his doctors on Thursday. Meanwhile, his parents are back in Edmonton, Jesse's hometown, wondering if Jesse's horrific injury can prevent another family from this type of ordeal, or worse.
My son Jesse played hockey against (Montreal Canadiens forward) Max Pacioretty in the United States Hockey League (USHL) a few years ago – we thought he was a terrific hockey player then, and a better one since turning pro. I nearly collapsed last (week), watching him get hit by Zdeno Chara. Today I'm praying for his recovery.
It was only late October when Jesse received a hit to the head while playing hockey for the University of Denver. The result was vertebra fractures and a spinal cord injury. Doctors said he came within 2 milimeters of dying. We have since learned that only 2 percent of those suffering such injuries survive, and if they do, the outcome is usually paralysis of the entire body below the neck, or, death within a couple of years due to respiratory challenges. Those are the facts. That is the reality.
The game of hockey is not slowing down (just like car racing), nor (just like car racing) should it. But as horrific as it sounds, and despite those who tritely suggest "our game is a dangerous one, always has been, and always will be," we are on our way to witnessing someone getting killed, and, given the dynamics of the game, sooner rather than later. It is simply wrong to suggest that the integrity of the sport, or its entertainment value will be compromised by creating reasonable and sensible rules, implemented with consistency, commitment and genuine concern for protecting players, our sons, brothers and nephews – not stats – from having their lives irrevocably changed from playing a game they love.
According to AP Sports Writer Chris Jenkins, the death of Dale Earnhardt of NASCAR "was the wake-up call that caused a safety revolution … it was a major change for a sport that had been at the back of the pack when it came to driver (read hockey player) safety." And just like NASCAR, those who decide what happens in hockey have the means to improve safety and reduce injuries significantly. Today. Unfortunately those same decision-makers lack the desire, and the will, to act responsibly.
And therein lies the tragedy – we not only have the means, but also, the opportunity.
Who then among us should be surprised to learn of an all-to-sudden-death, over time, in hockey. Could Gary Bettman live with that tragedy? It seems he could.
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Burlington, Vt.- Junior midfielder Scott Hopmann (Annapolis,Md./St. Mary's) led visiting UMBC with three goals and eight other Retrievers hit the nets as UMBC never trailed in an 11-8 America East Conference victory over Vermont.
UMBC improved to 2-0 in league play and 4-5 overall, whileVermont slipped to 0-2 in America East and 1-9 overall. The Retrievers have won their first two league games for the first time since 2009.
Hopmann added an assist for his second consecutive four-point game. Senior midfielder Rob Grimm (Black River, N.Y.), who scored a goal and added an assist, and junior attackman Joe Lustgarten (Wading River, N.Y.), who contributed a pair of assists, were the other multiple-point scorers for the Retrievers.
Vermont junior attackman Drew Philie led all scorers with five goals and one assist for the game.
The Retrievers led, 6-3, late in the second quarter, but Vermont scored twice in the final 41 seconds of the stanza, including a score by Drew Philie with three ticks remaining andVermont trailed, 6-5 at halftime.
The Catmounts forged the only tie of the game as Philie recorded his fourth goal with 6:50 to play in the third quarter.
But the Retrievers made the contest's pivotal run of 4-0 and took command at 10-6 with 8:05 remaining. Hopmann started and ended the surge, giving UMBC the lead for good on an unassisted score with 1:13 to play in the third. Just 45 seconds into the fourth quarter, freshman midfielder Derek Bertolini (Madison, Conn.) recorded an unassisted goal, and after Retriever face-off speclialist Phil Poe won the ensuing draw, Vermont was called for a slashing penalty. UMBC converted on that opportunity, as Grimm (Black River, N.Y.) converted a feed from Lustgarten 38 seconds after the Bertolini score.
Hopmann finalized the run to give UMBC its first four-goal lead
of the game and the Retrievers kept the hosts from closing with
three goals down the stretch to defeat Vermont for the
ninth time in nine total meetings.
UMBC junior goalkeeper Adam Cohen (Arnold, Md./Severn) made eight of his ten saves in the second half as Vermont outshot the Retrievers, 34-26.
Poe won 16 of 23 face-offs and corralled a season best nine ground balls.
UMBC led, 3-2, after one quarter, a stanza which was highlighted by the first career goal by sophomore LSM Nathan Klein (). Klein gave the Retrievers a 3-1 advantage 16 seconds after Philie scored his first goal of the game, scooping up a Poe face-off win and beating Vermontnetminder David Barton with 6:55 to play in the quarter.
After scoring five points in his first five outings of the season, Hopmann now has eight goals and 11 points in his last three. Lustgarten has eight assists in his last three contests.
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Glacier National Park, which includes over one million acres of Rocky Mountain scenery, was designated as the country's 10th national park in 1910. The Great Northern Railway soon began building a series of hotels and chalets throughout the park. Early visitors typically arrived by train at East Glacier or West Glacier. They journeyed through the mountains each day on horseback and stayed at a different hotel or chalet at night. The completion of Going-to-the-Sun Road in the early 1930s made it much easier for visitors to experience the awesome scenery of the park itself and for motorists from the eastern and western United States to enter the park. Even today, the only other roads in the park are short access roads to hotels, visitor centers, campgrounds, and trails.
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3. Today the vast majority of visitors arrive by car. Almost all drive on Going-to-the-Sun Road, the only road crossing the park. What would be some of the advantages and disadvantages of having only one major road through such a large park?
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Hi friends and family, As you all know, my mother (and creator/maintainer of this blog) has passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. I've attached the full text from her obituary below. If you wish to sign a guestbook for Joan, you can find the newspapers obituary located here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-miller&pid=162245982&fhid=5928 I will continue to [...]


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Rick Santorum is missing the bigger picture when he tries to align himself with rural America.
"If you look at where my Republican opponent has won, it's always in and around the cities," he told a campaign-trail crowd over the weekend in vacation hotspot Osage Beach, Missouri, pop. 4,351. For many conservatives, that's a cultural trouble sign—despite the fact that when Santorum says Mitt Romney wins "the areas the Democrats win, and I win the areas the Republicans win," he's unintentionally warning Republicans that he himself may not be so competitive in a general election.
So why is Santorum throwing cities under the bus? It's not just to pander to rural primary voters. No matter how enthusiastic, they can't deliver must-win states like Illinois, where two thirds of the population resides in the Chicago metropolitan area. Nor is Santorum simply speaking in code calibrated to appeal to Republicans who don't like the kind of diversity that typifies America's big (and heavily Democratic) cities.
The truth is subtler than that. Actually, it's staring us in the face. But because of effective messaging by Democrats, it's mostly just a conservative instinct instead of a fully formed campaign issue. At the level of principle, what actually bothers Republicans most about America's big cities is the stark division between rich and poor.
Surprised? To be sure, Republicans are often less troubled than Democrats by a wide national spectrum of income and wealth. Free-market thinkers assume, on the basis of good evidence, that a society where people occupy all rungs of the economic ladder is probably a relatively freer society. Cultural conservatives tend to agree—not because they're die-hard capitalists (though frequently they are), but because they recognize the essential role that a middle class plays in moderating and ameliorating the political consequences of substantial class disparities.
What's politically scary about cities from a culturally conservative perspective is that Democrats have built such huge bases there by building powerful coalitions among America's richest and poorest voters. Nowadays, the wealthy and the impoverished aren't the most conservative of constituents when it comes to culture (even if marriage, increasingly, is a luxury good). And not just religious Republicans are concerned that the middle class is uniquely dependent on social traditionalism. This is the thesis of Coming Apart, Charles Murray's much-discussed book on the roots of downward mobility among middle-class whites.
Even though neoconservatism made its biggest impact on the Republican party as an urban-renewal movement, Rick Santorum—like too many Republicans—is missing the most important point about the deepest implications of changing city cultures. Put bluntly, what the right fears about cities is happening everywhere, not just in states that tip Democratic because of their big cities. It's taking root in the heartland's metropolitan areas, too—including suburbs. A study last year authored by Stanford sociologist Sean Reardon showed that middle classes are shrinking and upper classes are self-segregating in some 90 percent of large and mid-sized metro areas, measured from 2000 to 2007. That includes red states, though you wouldn't know it from the Republican rhetoric that makes headlines.
Dig deeper, and you will find conservatives who grasp the extent of the problem. The news media does have an interest in caricaturing Republicans' view of the urban/rural divide, but Santorum's use of the problem as a knock on Romney demonstrates how easy it is for Republicans to play to type.
Several thousand years ago, Socrates and Plato warned that citizens who loved money above all would divide into rich and poor, with class war and mob rule the unhappy result. That's a message Republicans still have a chance to deliver this election cycle. But it'll take a change in the way they think about cultural politics to do it.


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I have no idea whether or not this problem is directly related to the limited abilities of the Barca rendering engine which we are continually being told doesn't handle HTML like every other satisfactory rendering engine on the planet ... BUT I DO KNOW THAT THIS APPEARS TO BE A MAJOR FLAW IN THE BARCA PRO prog !!!
I, some time ago, set up an html template which I use for selling stuff on eBay occasionally. It works OK and displays all the info without problem ... HOWEVER, for some bizarre reason, BARCA Pro WILL NOT handle the MAILTO command in accordance the HTML protocol !!!!
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Here's how OUTLOOK respons (correctly) ...
Here's how even Googlemail respons (correctly) ...
... and here's how BARCA PRO chooses to respond to the command ...
... placing the command in the attachments tab ... that's got to be the single most rediculous bit of inept BASIC HTML COMMAND CODE handling EVER !!!
I know the mailto command in the web page is correct and I also know that OUTLOOK and GOOGLEMAIL handle it correctly, so WHY OH WHY OH WHY can't Barca ?????? It's basic, bread and butter stuff !!!!!!!!
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Quote:Right, new student to add. I help train the white belts in basic throws, anyway I was showing a guy how to do defense against a two handed grab (remove arm, step in, throw) and when I had finished demonstrating I grabbed him. Instead of doing said actions he gave me a massive haymaker in the face and gave me a blood nose...WTF????!!
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Raptors set franchise mark with 48th win
Bucks set franchise mark with 66th loss
Greivis Vasquez scored 25 points, Kyle Lowry had 24 and the Toronto Raptors set a franchise record with their 48th win, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 110-100 on Monday night.
Jonas Valanciunas had 14 points and 13 rebounds and Tyler Hansbrough had 12 points and 11 rebounds as the Raptors won for the sixth time in seven games and completed the first season sweep of Milwaukee in franchise history.
Toronto had dropped 11 consecutive games against the Bucks coming into this season, but has since won four straight.
Ramon Sessions scored 21 points, Jeff Adrien had 19 points and Brandon Knight 18 as the Bucks lost their 14th straight road game, matching a record for futility set in the 2004-05 season.
Milwaukee has not won away from home since beating Philadelphia on Feb. 24.
The loss guaranteed that the Bucks (15-66) will finish with the worst record in the NBA. Milwaukee came in trailing Philadelphia by two games in the standings.
Knight, Milwaukee's leading scorer, returned to the lineup after sitting out Saturday's loss at Washington with a sore right hip.
The short-handed Bucks, who have five players injured and another suspended (center Larry Sanders), had just nine healthy bodies available against Toronto.
Sessions and Knight both hit 3-pointers as Milwaukee used a 12-1 run to cut its deficit to six points, 92-86, with 6:53 remaining.
That was as close as Milwaukee got, however. Vasquez made a free throw after Sessions was called for a technical, Lowry added a driving layup and Valanciunas added a pair from the free throw line, putting Toronto up 99-88 at 5:51.
Toronto's DeMar DeRozan got the night off to rest, with Vasquez taking his spot in the starting lineup. Vasquez made an impact right away, hitting three of Toronto's six 3-pointers in the first quarter, as the Raptors built a 32-19 lead after one.
Vasquez had two more 3-pointers in the second, getting eight points and four assists as Toronto took a 59-46 lead at halftime.
Lowry, who didn't score in the second, had 10 points in the third as the Raptors took an 84-79 lead into the final quarter.
NOTES: The Raptors won 47 games in the 2006-07 and 2000-01 seasons. ... DeRozan made a brief address to the crowd as the Raptors unveiled their Atlantic Division championship banner before the game. ... Toronto finished its home schedule at 26-16. The Raptors play their final regular season game at New York on Wednesday. ... The Bucks host Atlanta in their final game Wednesday. ... Brendan Shanahan, who was introduced earlier in the day as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs, watched from a courtside seat.


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The Rollin' Stone B/SR, shown in its glory at the '57 NHRA Nats, is about to be reborn
When we got Jim Smith's note about his latest restoration project, it seemed like the perfect expression of "more of the same." You see, this is the second time Jim and his crew at the Hot Rod Garage in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, are restoring the historic Rollin' Stone B/SR.
"The first restoration was done by our shop around 2000, with the goal to do some vintage racing," Jim writes. As often happens, though, plans changed. The car was sold, and Jim's idea of building a 12-second drag car gave way to the new owner's wish to make it a show car. He took it to the '07 Grand National Roadster Show (marking the 75th anniversary of the Deuce) and the Pebble Beach Concours that same year. In January 2008, it was sold at Barrett-Jackson and is now in the collection of Larry Martin, "a prominent Houston collector who really appreciates the historical significance of this car," Jim says.
The black-and-white photos in this story speak to that significance. Jim says the car "raced all over the Southwest in the late '50s," and he first saw it when he was a teenager in Dallas in 1956. Its owner, Carl Stone, ran the roadster at the '57 NHRA Nationals in Oklahoma City—just the third Nationals, and the first under NHRA's fuel ban. Stone won the B/SR class, running 13.97 at 98.03 mph.
In HOT ROD's coverage of the Big Go (in the Nov. '57 issue), they called Carl's roadster "one of the neatest cars at the Nationals." Eric Rickman photographed the car during the race weekend, and he wrote a feature that ran in the Jan. '58 HOT ROD. When we got Jim's note, we dug up those feature photos plus some unpublished outtakes from the photo archive.
"Now to the interesting part," Jim says. He and his son "kept all the original running gear, rearend, '39 trans with Zephyr gears, and the original uncut frame, along with the '57 283 engine." When Larry Martin learned Jim had all those parts, he asked Jim to "reunite all this original equipment with the original body to make it a truly authentic restoration." Jim and his crew are "progressing nicely," he says, and he hopes to have it finished by the end of 2013.


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