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Young Achievers Award – James Cryer's clarion call to the future
A proposed new awards system to recognise the winning qualities in young professionals across our industry will not even mention the term – apprenticeship.
Imagine a gala event held at one of our capital city's lavish hotels with TV cameras and the press jostling as glamorous young things strut the stage to the acclaim of an audience of thousands. Next day the media exposure is overwhelming with press and TV coverage.
Hollywood? The final episode of Celebrity Detox? Australia's Next Top Model? No – this is the grand final of the Printing Industries National Young Achiever of the Year Award! Fanciful? Maybe. Impossible? Possibly, but all it needs is vision, something the visual arts industries has in spades!
Parents would be lining up outside printing companies demanding their offspring be given a job!
Back to reality. Full marks to Bill Healey for appointing Joan Grace to head-up the new printing industry training initiative. Out of the RMIT train wreck may arise a better programme more suited to the needs of our industry.
The printing industry is a collection of fiercely independent tribes with multiple training-streams and therein lies our strength and weakness when it comes to inducting new entrants. I'm not suggesting all these tribes should get crunched-up into one over-arching, supra-organisation – it'll never happen! I am suggesting that there is an opportunity, bigger than the differences and it is the need to attract and retain new entrants. (Note my avoidance of the word, apprentices.)
Joan's arrival, and her focus on building exciting new training pathways, creates the perfect opportunity for us, as a multi-sector industry, to come together and work towards creating an industry-wide programme to recognise, reward and retain the best and the brightest. This would extend across all sectors; signage, labels, packaging, mailing, etc – not just offset. It would recognise all functional roles such as customer-service, production admin and sales, not just apprentices.
It would be a fully integrated system of states' awards leading to a national awards structure not dissimilar to the current National Print Awards. By bringing all the associations together to cooperate, it would also raise the profile of print, which would in turn, help attract new entrants!
Where to start? The good news is we've already begun!
I refer to the existing event known as the NSW LIA/Heidelberg Graduates Awards, which has been a great showcase of the best and brightest apprentices mainly from the offset sector. It contains the organisational expertise to enable an expansion. It could easily be re-defined to include all the other segments that go to comprise the greater printing church; labels, flexible, packaging, mailing, signage – reminding us that we are a collection of diverse tribes.
Heidelberg has been a stalwart sponsor from the start. Nevertheless, with the need to broaden the award's ambit and to present it as a true mirror of the industry, it would be more appropriate to re-brand it as the Printing Industries awards scheme. Individual suppliers could still sponsor a particular award category.
The changing mix in training pathways. We have a unique opportunity to re-think the calibre and type of individuals we wish to attract and reward. Sadly, the need for factory-floor based apprentices is dwindling as other more exciting roles emerge. This is the story of our industry right now, not doom and gloom but readjustment. The contemporary industry is based on more capital, less labour, keeping the dream alive but with fewer bodies.
Apprenticeships have zero resonance within the design or digital printing fields. The obvious response is to widen the definition of who can enter a new-look awards scheme and include all vocations within the broad visual-communications industry. Young Achievers can be any outstanding employee, according to certain agreed-upon standards of excellence.
Taking ownership. This new, broad-based awards program should fall under the aegis of the Printing Industries (plural) Association of Australia, the body that purports, by its very name, to represent all the colourful tribes. Actual implementation would be via a body set up comprising all the participating sectors.
Printing Industries' Young Achievers Awards has a natural flavour to it and it's agnostic; it doesn't align itself with any sector, process, technology or commercial interest. This is vital; it must be free of commercial bias, like the ABC.
A multi-sector approach like this also meshes perfectly with Printing Industries' recent success in gaining federal funding to promote the attraction and retention of trainees. What better way to justify such a grant than to invest in a high-profile event, which showcases the best of the best across all sectors of our industry, not just the dwindling offset base?
To quote from Worldskills Australia's own website, the Young Achiever Awards would be:
… committed to the development … of vocational education … and to build a skills culture by inspiring young people, celebrating skills excellence and providing them with an opportunity to showcase their talent.
There is nothing there about apprentices but everything about achievement. That's the printing industry of tomorrow!
James Cryer
JDA Print Recruitment
Foster's foresight for Printing Industries seminars
Printing Industries is enlisting the former national foresight manager for global brewing giant, Foster's, to speak at its Planning and Innovating for the Future seminars in October and November.
Steve Tighe – who has not only worked for Foster's, but also with Holden, Kraft, ClubsNSW and the Victorian State Library – will be giving a presentation outlining how print companies can work better with their clients during the seminars, to be held in Sydney and Melbourne.
According to Tighe (pictured), the changes occurring now and into the future have significant implications for the printing industry, while also presenting significant opportunities.
"It's important that printing company managers understand consumer values and attitudes and how and why behaviours and needs are changing in order to work better with their clients," he says. "My presentation will focus on this with particular attention to the rise of post materialistic values and attitudes, what it all means and the impact this is likely to have on Australian lifestyles over the next 10 years."
The seminars, hosted by Printing Industries, will focus on the importance of printing companies being able to understanding the changing social attitudes, behaviours and needs of their client's customers.
"Every company in our industry either provides direct services to consumers or services other businesses who service consumers," says Bill Healey, Printing Industries CEO. "It's therefore essential that printing companies understand what drives consumers in order to be able to work with their clients to communicate the right messages in the best way for them.
"This Media Super sponsored seminar has sourced one of Australia's top speakers on the future and innovation who will explain in a simpler and entertaining way what the trends are and how printing companies can leverage this knowledge to create new business opportunities," he says.
The Planning and Innovating for the Future seminar will be held in Sydney on 23 October and in Melbourne on 21 November 2012.
Sydney will hold a luncheon session beginning with drinks at noon and the presentation over lunch from 12.30 pm at Dooleys Lidcombe Catholic Club. Bookings are $80 per person and can be made by contacting Mark Tolentino, e-mail: email@example.com
Melbourne will finalise its venue shortly and expressions of interest can be left with Mandy Palmer, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Industry players show support for PICA NSW
Some of the local printing industry's biggest players have shown their support for this year's PICA NSW event, with a group of 15 companies already signed on to partner with the PIAA for the awards event in November.
The 2012 NSW Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards, which will be held on 2 November at the Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, has already named Employers Mutual as its major partner, but Printing Industries has added several other big names to the growing list of sponsor companies.
"We have the support of Kodak and Lanier as Silver Partners; Bottcher, Quote & Print, BJ Ball Papers, Heidelberg, Fuji Xerox and Konica Minolta as Bronze Partners and Brissett Rollers, SkilledForce and Currie Group as Pewter Partners," says Bill Healey, Printing Industries CEO and NSW general manager, adding that it was "heartening to see last year's Major Partner, Employers Mutual, continue their support as the naming rights sponsor for 2012 and Media Super continue as our Platinum Sponsor."
Healey (pictured) welcomes the new partnership arrangements saying it was a good confidence boost for the local industry.
"The PICA awards are the major activity for our NSW printers and it's a great boost to our printing community to have so many industry partners prepared to support this event in a period of particularly difficult trading conditions," he says. "These companies are an integral part of our printing community providing key support services and are well respected in their respective field of workers compensation and superannuation services."
Healey says he also commends the NSW Government's Office of Environment and Heritage and Applied Training Solutions for continuing their Gold Partnerships, adding that there was still time and space for other companies to come on board in support of PICA NSW.
"There is still an opportunity for other to join us and they can do this by contacting Mark Tolentino in our Sydney office," he says.
The NSW Call for Entries was open and companies had until 10 September to submit their entries. Click here for more information.
The Call for entries forms can be downloaded here and the brochure here
PIAA launches Australia's largest printing apprenticeship program
Printing Industries has launched what it says is the largest program in support of apprenticeships ever for the printing and graphic communications industry in Australia.
The apprenticeship program is aimed to increase the retention rates of current apprentices – both young and mature age – and encourage new entrants by challenging out-of-date perceptions about the industry. It will run over 12 months and necessitate the establishment of a national Apprenticeship Advisory Service and Mentoring Program.
The Australian government's Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education is funding around $1.4 million for the new program as part of the government's commitment to increasing the skill levels of and opportunities for the Australian workforce.
Bill Healey (pictured), Printing Industries CEO, says the project had been under development with the Australian Government for some time. He welcomes the boost to industry apprenticeships and says Printing Industries would be working with the government and all industry stakeholders to ensure the industry had a suitable trained workforce to help it reposition itself to take advantage of innovative technologies and opportunities.
"This is part of the Association's strategy to ensure that the evolving digital industry and lithographic industry is provided with an adequate supply of new, well-trained employees for its future needs," says Healey. "We know our industry has a low-profile among job seekers and our apprenticeships are not popular with young job seekers who mistakenly view us as being low, old fashioned technology.
"We need to correct these misconceptions and make our industry an attractive career option, a commitment supported by the government," he says.
It is anticipated that the Printing Industries mentoring program will provide, mentoring and support to approximately 500 apprentices in their first year of training and an additional 500 existing apprentices identified as needing support to complete their apprenticeships.
"Our first year apprentice target groups will be school leavers, vulnerable youth and mature workers in addition to existing apprentices identified as being at risk of not completing their apprenticeship," says Healey. "Directly employed industry apprentices do not currently have access to this kind of support and in smaller businesses may not receive the support they need to help them through their apprenticeship. We believe this initiative creates the opportunity to greatly increase the existing numbers."
Printing Industries will use its national network and infrastructure to manage the services which will be provided by an additional eight specialist staff.
An associated national advisory service will be staffed by two advisors based in Sydney, and will be responsible for providing information to school leavers and other potential apprentice applicants, employers, Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and employment brokers to increase the take up of industry apprentices.
This will provide apprentice communication services in support of the six state mentors and will include the creation of website, social media and telephone support services; the development of new information packs for employers and guidance counsellors; careers expos and seminars; and chat rooms linking industry experts with potential apprentices.
The initiative's mentoring program will utilise six mentors, whose role will involve the identification, selection and matching of apprentices to ensure a 'good fit' between the apprentice, their employer and industry. They will engage with employers and potential apprentices and their families to promote apprenticeships and how they can be best used.
The mentors will also provide a 'pastoral care' style support to overcome a broad range of barriers faced by apprentices that could threaten the successful completion of their apprenticeship. This will also include strategies to improve career progression and apprentice retention levels. They will also work with businesses to ensure they understand the apprenticeship system and open up new areas for employment.
Healey says negotiations are currently underway with the Australian Government for a second, larger long-term project focussed on adapting apprenticeships to the industry's long term needs with particular emphasis on promoting competency-based progression.
Inquiries about the program can be directed to National Program Manager Ian Walz on (02) 8789 7362 or e: email@example.com
NSW calls for 2012 PICA entries
The New South Wales PICA Award entries are now open, with entry open until 10 September for printing industry hopefuls who wish to be featured in the 2012 Awards.
The Employers Mutual 2012 Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards (PICA), which will be held on 2 November at the Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, will be running with under the theme of 'the Power of Print.'
Printing businesses will have until 10 September this year to submit their entries for both the Business Categories and Print Categories of the awards.
Printing Industries CEO and NSW general manager, Bill Healey (pictured), says entry forms are being printed for distribution over the coming weeks.
"Hopefully companies have already begun putting aside their best work to showcase our 2012 theme – the Power of Print – and we can expect to see some very innovative, high quality entries," says Healey. "Based on feedback we received last year, the forms have been modified to make them easier to use. They have been divided into two distinctive sections to keep the print and business categories separated.
"There have also been changes to the wording of some print categories making them more explicit which is intended to help companies to correctly categorise individual entries."
Healey also welcomed the ongoing support from Employers Mutual as the naming rights partner for this year's event.
"It is very heartening when you have Australia's leading workers compensation claims manager supporting your event for the second successive year," he says. "Our NSW partner support list is developing well with many companies already signed on."
Included in this year's NSW partner list is, platinum partner Media Super; gold partners Applied Training Solutions (ATS) and the NSW Government Office of Environment and Heritage; silver partner Kodak; bronze partners Heidelberg, Bottcher Systems, Quote & Print, BJ Ball Papers and Konica Minolta and pewter partners MAS National, SkilledForce and Currie Group.
"I encourage companies that have yet to confirm their support to contact us as soon as possible to maximise the opportunity partnering with NSW's highest profile activity for 2012," says Healey.
NSW PICA will be held on Friday 2 November 2012 at the Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour.
The Call for Entries brochure can be downloaded and the Entry forms are available here.
Toshiba 'No-Print Day' scrapped
Toshiba America has scrapped its plans to hold a 'National No-Print Day' on October 23 following a sustained backlash from the global printing industry labelling the event as a 'misinformed' greenwashing campaign.
The peak US printing body, Printing Industries of America (PIA), today announced that, after a conversation between its president and CEO, Michael Makin (pictured), and Toshiba USA's senior vice president, Bill Melo, the electronics company had decided to abort its No-Print Day campaign.
In a letter sent to PIA members early on June 21 Sydney time, Makin outlined some of his conversation with Melo and thanked everyone in the US and the global printing industry who contributed to the protest against the Toshiba initiative.
The letter, released on June 20 (US time), reads:
"I am pleased to report that as a result of protests by Printing Industries of America, its members, and the industry as a whole, Toshiba has agreed to abort its National No Print Day!
Last evening I had a lengthy conversation with Bill Melo, Toshiba USA's senior vice president of marketing, services and solutions regarding its ill-conceived initiative.
Mr. Melo was quite "concerned" with how the campaign had been received by the commercial printing industry and stressed it was never the intent of his company to disenfranchise or insult our industry. He explained that the campaign was always directed at the office marketplace where he opined there was needless waste.
My retort to Mr. Melo was that if this was truly the case, his campaign should have been more specific. It was not promoted as "let's save office waste day" but rather National No-Print Day. I argued this was tantamount to having a "Do Not Walk" day or "Do Not Eat" day and that the grassroots response from our industry was only to be expected.
I reiterated our position that Toshiba abandon the notion of a No-Print day. If it wants to focus its eyes on the office marketplace, its campaign should be centered there and not by extension implicate or disparage America's printing industry.
Mr. Melo did commit to going back to the drawing board and assured me the promotion on its website will be removed and that any relaunch of a campaign directed at office waste will explicitly explain that this in no way references the legitimate commercial printing industry and its importance to the American economy. I thanked Mr. Melo for his swift response to our concerns but cautioned that any follow-up campaign containing misleading statements regarding paper would be subject to similar scrutiny, particularly from the paper industry. He indicated he would be making an outreach to this sector as well.
Thank you to everyone who joined in our effort to protest this initiative. This is a major victory…"
Australia's Printing Industries, in conjunction with Two Sides played a major part in the local resistance to the Toshiba initiative. Printing Industries' chief, Bill Healey, says that, "we know it [No-Print Day] has global implications, and the decision reflects the effort we all put in."
Kellie Northwood, national manager of Two Sides Australia, says Toshiba's decision to abort its No-Print Day, "reflects that they have listened to their industry peers and wider community. There are times when businesses implement a flawed policy and whether it through lack of education or understanding, if that business rectifies their error this should be acknowledged."
Enterprise Connect offers health checks for print businesses
Printing Industries is encouraging all small to medium printers to apply for a Enterprise Connect Business Review and gain an independent assessment of their business. One company already benefitting from the process is Theo Pettaras' Digitalpress, which has seen a 15% increase in productivity.
Following advice from their business adviser, Digitalpress implemented a cash flow management system and developed a detailed business and marketing plan to define market demands and clarify the future vision for the Sydney-based printer.
"We were in an early growth stage and were very focused on the day to day running of the business, we welcomed an outside perspective on improvements we could make to the way we do business," said Pettaras.
Experienced Enterprise Connect Business Advisers are available to conduct a top-to-bottom analysis of individual businesses within the printing industry. The Business Review is conducted on-site and involves assessing strengths and weaknesses, benchmarking against other businesses in the industry and providing recommendations for business improvements.
Enterprise Connect has been offering the Business Review service to Australian businesses across an expanding range of industries for over three years, approving over 5,500 Business Reviews.
Enterprise Connect recently established the Printing and Publishing Industries Support Network to provide professional business advice, development services and linkages to businesses within the printing and publishing industries. With specialist expertise and networks, Enterprise Connect can now provide more tailored advice and support to printing businesses.
Printing industries CEO Bill Healey, said feedback from printing businesses among the first to pilot the Enterprise Connect Business Review had strongly endorsed the value of undertaking the Business Review and of accessing other tailored services offered by Enterprise Connect.
"The Business Review is conducted by an Enterprise Connect Business Adviser whose goal is to help the printing business to reach the next level with unbiased advice and their specialist knowledge of the printing industry.
"These people have significant private sector experience at a senior level and are focussed on helping companies to achieve very real and sustainable change and use a range of industry contacts, tools and resources to assist business for the longer term," Healey said.
According to Healey, on average each client could expect their review to identify at least five recommended actions across a wide range of areas including strategy, human resource management, financial management, business and production processes and marketing.
"Once they have completed the review, businesses can access Tailored Advisory Service funding to help implement change. The goal is to make the individual business robust and sustainable into the future,' adds Healey.
Hagop Tchamkertenian, national manager for policy and government affairs at Printing Industries, said he was hopeful the Printing and Publishing Industries Support Network will provide a new impetus and result in increased take-up of the services offered by the Enterprise Connect.
"We have been calling for increased support for our industry for some time. Having a dedicated Network for our industry is a major triumph. It is now up to printing industry participants to take full advantage of the opportunity that has been made available to them and strive to become more efficient, competitive and sustainable.
"83 per cent of Enterprise Connect clients have reported improvements in productivity and efficiency. We are now inviting our industry to take up the opportunity and become part of the process of continuous improvement," said Tchamkertenian.
To find out more about accessing business improvement services tailored to the printing industry, contact Printing Industries on 1800 227 425, or to apply for an Enterprise Connect Business Review visit enterpriseconnect.gov.au or call 131 791.
RMIT dumps print training – printing industry outrage
RMIT University will close the book on its International Centre of Graphic Technology (ICGT) centre in 18 months as falling apprenticeship numbers force its hand. The Printing Industries Association of Australia said it was "shocked and dismayed.
David Currie, CEO of Currie Group and a long-term supporter of the Institute and of printing training around the nation, also said he was, "Mortified and shattered as a result." Currie Group has provided millions of dollars in equipment and support and is at a loss as to why the decision was taken.
The shock announcement follows a series of 2011 investments that saw ICGT's press hall at RMIT's Brunswick campus install a purpose-built climate controlled pre-press facility. Currie Group alone has contributed two Shinohara offset presses, a HP Indigo 5000 digital engine along with a state-of-the-art Horizon finishing line.
The training centre is also nearly a year into a five-year agreement signed with Heidelberg for a 2006 model Speedmaster SM 52-8-P, an installation that marked the first time print apprentices has access to an eight-colour perfector press. RMIT has invested more than $1 million in the past three years into the ICGT.
According to John Barnes, director of TAFE at RMIT, the university is already in consultation with industry stakeholders to ensure a niche-training organisation steps up to serve their requirements. "We shall be working with every apprentice and their employers to ensure that all current training programs are completed. All existing programs will be taught until completion," he said.
"Unfortunately, the printing industry has been experiencing long-term difficulties in sourcing apprentices. In turn, this has cut numbers at the ICGT to the point where its activities are no longer viable. The education industry is changing and we at RMIT are putting our efforts into growth areas which reflect our strengths as a global university of technology and design – areas of high growth and high demand."
An "extremely disappointed" Bill Healey, CEO of Printing Industries, believes it is imperative for the industry to act quickly and collectively to remedy the situation.
"While the announcement is extremely disappointing we must be proactive in finding a solution, not just for Victoria and Tasmania, but for the industry nationally.
"Apprenticeship numbers have been declining over many years and all publically funded training providers have been experiencing difficulties in justifying stand-alone training organisations in their states. Industry needs to step in and take control of its own destiny and look to creating a national approach to apprenticeship training," he said.
Healey said the PIAA has been exploring the feasibility of establishing a single national training arrangement to ensure the needs of the printing industry continued to be met into the future. "Such an arrangement would focus on improved efficiency and better promotion of a nationally consistent training pathway for apprentices.
"We are currently preparing an application for funding to look at the future of apprenticeships, in conjunction with the Australian Metal Workers Union. Given the RMIT announcement, this will need to be fast-tracked," said Healey.
He called on the Victorian Government to ensure ongoing funding is provided to enable the industry to meet its skill requirements. "We believe this is essential if our members are to retain a place in the multi-channel communication world of the future," he said.
Printing Industries will be meeting with RMIT as matter of urgency to ensure apprentice training in Victoria and Tasmania continues for existing and new apprentices during the 18 month RMIT wind-up period.
Ron Patterson, state manager for Printing Industries Victoria and Tasmania, is disappointed by the announcement after working with RMIT over a number of years to develop a new approach to industry training
"A great many people have been working to create a better system for our apprentices and a modern, relevant curriculum to attract more apprentices into our technologically driven industry, so RMITs decision to bail out is not welcomed."
"However it won't deter us and I am confident that any consolidation of training agendas would be welcomed by suppliers who are regularly faced with having to provide expensive equipment to multiple sites. Consolidation could lead to a better allocation of costly resources and to closer co-operation with industry. We must focus on achieving this as quickly as possible," said Patterson. "
Member buying Group launched by Printing Industries
Printing Industries members now have access to the best deals on everything from electricity and gas purchasing to glass window replacement – even wine purchasing – following the launch of its members' Buying Group.
CEO Bill Healey said the Buying Group has been created to provide members with a platform for aggregated purchasing of regularly used goods and services to improve the bottom line of their business and family budget.
"Our goal is to return real cash value to members as part of our membership benefits services and to provide an easily accessible resource to achieve this. The Buying Group has its own password protected website www.printersbuyinggroup.com.au which also offers some basic purchasing control tools to assist member companies monitor their purchasing and contract transactions.
"We are celebrating the launch with a range of some 20 products and services and will progressively bring on board more services as they are identified from member feedback and on completion of negotiations currently underway," he said.
Printing Industries has partnered with EMSquared to provide a managed web portal aggregating its existing and new services into a single, managed purchasing environment.
"EMSquared have brought together the aggregated buying power of our industry and several other industry groups, including the Australian Hotels Association, to negotiate better prices for a large range of business related services.
"This includes the ability for members to access obligation free contract tender and negotiation services covering waste management, electricity and gas supply, phone and internet services and insurance. This is in addition to the 16 pre-negotiated offers included in the launch," said Healey.
Printing Industries will be introducing new services on a regular basis via special Buying Group newsletters, so members should make sure they keep an eye for the latest offers. If there's something you think would be useful to include, please let us know at: email@example.com
The pre-negotiated offers include:
- Leasing
- Energy
- Insurance
- Travel
- Workers Compensation services
- Fuel discounts and account management
- Volkswagen and Subaru Vehicle purchasing discounts
- Holden vehicle leasing
- Europcar corporate and leisure vehicle hire
- Glass replacement and installation
- Software
- IT maintenance and management services
- IT equipment purchasing (computers, printers, storage & networking)
- Hotel accommodation discounts – local and international
- Gift certificates and gift boxes
- Wine purchasing


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During the winter months I often keep the door that separates my studio from the playroom open to let some warm air from the fireplace in the playroom into the studio space that we otherwise don't keep heated because it's not connected to our house heat. It would simply be too expensive to keep the in-wall electrical heating units running all the time. Keeping the door open is really frustrating though. My youngest two always try to venture in there, sometimes with crackers in their hand, and turn the studio into the same kind of mess that their playroom is in all the time even though I make sure that everything gets picked up at least every other day. But since I'm worried about something happening to all my photo equipment if the room gets too cold, I continue with the endless repeating to my middle child to please not go in there and the running after my baby boy and bringing him back into the playroom. I think it's probably the forbidden nature of the room that keeps them going back, but I just can't let them go wild in there even once – the cost to me could be pretty significant if they were to break something in there.
Here is my baby boy from yesterday venturing in there again, after the what seems like a hundredth time of me bringing him back out. It wasn't the last time for the day either.
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Monday, January 1, 2018
10 New Year's Resolutions for Writers
That is not a good resolution. I'll tell you why.
A writer has very little control over whether or not they become published. Nuances of the market, trends, financial belt tightening in the industry, a book too similar to your own that breaks out... all of these things are beyond a writer's control. You might as well make your New Year's resolution that this year you're going to win the Westminster Dog Show - as the dog, not the handler.
(Side note - it's not impossible. In 1903 unaware Victorians named a lemur best in show for the Foreign Breed Class at the Crystal Palace Cat Show in London)
On New Year's Eve of 2009 I looked down into my drink (they were getting bigger) and told myself to come up with a better resolution, because the old standby of "get published" wasn't coming through for me. I decided instead that I would join an online writer's group.
And that changed everything.
My forum of choice was AgentQueryConnect. First I lurked, occasionally sending direct messages to posters whose commentary I enjoyed. Then I began posting, throwing myself into the world and meeting people that I continue to interact with to this day. Next I found a few posters that I thought would be a good fit for critique partners, and made that personal connection leap.
And as Frost says, that has made all the difference.
I continue to use the critique partners that I met on AQC, all of whom have gone on to become published writers as well. Through AQC I learned how to write a query that works, format a manuscript the right way, write a synopsis, and navigate the industry in general. I learned how to take control of the little things that could add up to "get published."
So here are some writerly resolutions that I suggest for 2017, ones that are entirely within your power to execute.
1. Join a writer's group or forum. AQC is my touchstone, but there are some other great ones out there such as AbsoluteWrite and the forum at Writer's Digest.
2. Get serious about tracking those queries. Sure, you've had rejections, but do you remember from who? Or even why? QueryTracker.net is indispensable, and I highly recommend going for the paid version. It's worth it.
3. Find a critique partner that isn't your mom or a friend. If you want a real critique it needs to come from another writer - not just a reader. Finding someone online to give you feedback takes out the awkward quality of a friend who might not want to tell you something isn't working, and also allows you the freedom to go ahead and cry in front of your computer without them ever knowing you did. A good CP should be at about the same level you are in terms of craft and career. Get online, find someone in your genre, and trade manuscripts.
4. Pay for membership in a writer's group that fits your needs. Whether you write mysteries, sci-fi, picture books or adult literary, there is a professional group that fits your style. Most groups offer different levels of membership depending on whether you are published or pre-published. Examples are SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators), MWA (Mystery Writers of America), SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America), ITW (International Thriller Writers) and RWA (Romance Writers of America). You can learn a lot from these communities and their publications.
5. Scout out local opportunities. I've met with various writer's groups that home-base out of a local library or private home. Ask your local librarian if s/he knows about any such groups.
6. Subscribe to a professional magazine that seems like your style. I highly recommend both Writer's Digest and Poets & Writers (even though I totally hear Adam Sandler's "Hoagies & Grinders" in my head every time I get a Poets & Writers in the mail).
7. Learn about what's going on in the industry itself. Yes, I know. You're a writer, not a business person. In this day and age you must be both. You can glean a lot of information about the industry from both online forums, writers groups, and professional subscription listed above. However, if you can afford a subscription and want to mainline industry info, Publisher's Weekly is the way to go.
8. You need to know what's selling if you want to position yourself and your work in the market. A subscription to Publisher's Marketplace will tell you who's buying what, and what agents are selling right now in your genre. This is not a necessity, but it can be a good tool.
9. Go to a writing conference in your area. I only attended one as a pre-pub - and it was romance centered - but it was close, convenient, and affordable. It gave me the opportunity to sit down at a table with agents and published authors, and most importantly, I learned how not to approach time by watching other people make snafus.
10. Lastly, write your book. Yes, that's what I put last. Everything above is instrumental in getting your work published, and most of them are actionable before you have something to show and share. If you have a finished manuscript, most of the above goals will help change and craft that ms during the road to publication. If you haven't started yet, you can still dive in and learn as you go.
Best of luck to everyone writing in 2018!
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- Robert Markowitz said...
Thank you, Mindy! As I have a manuscript I'm about to send out, I especially appreciate your recommendation of the paid version of query tracker, and your reminder that I can hone my synopsis through AgentQueryConnect and AbsoluteWrite. I've already used AgentQueryConnect along with QueryShark to hone my query, and of course you -- with your invaluable Saturday Slash!
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I hope this list is helpful! Realistic goals means more checkmarks in boxes!
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As a lot of you know, I am taking Public Relations at Durham College. If you have no idea what Public Relations is, see my blog post from last week for this post to make a little more sense. At DC, I am almost finished the Public Relations Advanced Diploma Program. It's a nice, big, fancy name that means I am going to receive a three-year PR Diploma in only two years, five semesters. Who doesn't like the sound of that?! Not only am I done in only two years (hello, I am going to be graduating when I am 20 years old), I get an incredible, fast-tracked education.
Obviously, a lot of different college's offer the Public Relations program, so you're probably wondering what makes Durham College's program so special. Well, there's a lot. So let me try to break it down for you.
01/Course Variety
In DC's program, I take so many different courses. I have taken photography, marketing, copy writing, business writing, videography, social media, media relations, design, and publication management to name a few. I have been able to create some crazy awesome content in class that resembles real-life situations such as a media conference project where myself and some classmates had to reach out to a local non-profit organization and create an entirely unique media campaign and host a media conference at our school for the event in which the organization's representatives attended. Some content we create is actually used for other purposes as well. For example, as Public Relations students we write stories for the college's alumni magazine, Reflections, which is distributed to over 20,000 college alumni.
02/Event Opportunities
As a Public Relations student, my classmates and I have the opportunity to attend various PR events hosted by associations such as Canadian Public Relations Society and the International Association of Business Communicators. These events give us the opportunities to meet Public Relations professionals from various organizations and hear their opinions on current trends and behaviours. Not only are we able to attend these public events, but we also attend events through our program. Students are able to attend the Canada's Walk of Fame Awards ceremony, the CTV and CP24 studios, and various PR agencies in Toronto. These events really give students an idea of what PR life looks like and how the media and events side of PR is run.
03/Field Trip
I do not know many of my friends who are in College and University who actually get the opportunity to still go on a field trip. Not only do we get to go on a field trip in second year, but it is for three days, to a destination that is voted on by the class, and we get to plan the entire trip ourselves. This year, my class has chosen to visit Chicago, Illinois and we will be visiting various Public Relations professionals in the city who will talk to us about their jobs and responsibilities. Some of these people include the PR from various agencies, Choose Chicago, the White Sox and more.
When I mentioned the field trip, alarms may have gone off in your head about how much a trip would cost you to Chicago for three days because hello, tuition is already a hassle right? Well, the trip cost is actually covered by fundraising done by students in class. Students raise at least $350.00 each, and the left over money is donated to charities chosen by the class as a whole. So not only do you get to go on a field trip but it is mostly paid for through fundraising and the rest of the money is donated.
05/The Teachers
I have had my fair share of awful teachers in the past. Amazing teachers are rare in a lot of cases, but not when it comes to Durham College's PR program. The teachers of this program are very open and honest with each student and always offer extra support, even if it is in their own time. The experience some of these teachers bring to the table is mind boggling. One teacher previously ran the communications at Ontario Power Generation, one teacher had a career freelancing in PR, and one teacher has their own photography business and travels all over the world. The program coordinator herself has previously worked for CBC Television, as the publicist for the Fifth Estate and has worked for the Olympics. This roster of teachers is hard to beat; they are passionate, they know their stuff and they have great connections in the industry.
This might be a little different from most of my posts because it sounds like a sell, but I am just too passionate about my program and the education I am receiving, that I needed to share it with you. This program has made me realize a lot of things about myself and has made me dream and hope for things I never knew I wanted. And I want those things for you.
Have any questions about Durham College's Public Relations Advanced Diploma Program? Let me know!
Happy studying my friends.
Until next time,
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Heath Grundy (Sydney)
Heath Grundy has reached a purple patch of Supercoach form and has scored 100 or above over the last three weeks. His price sits at 412k and it is slowly increasing, so he could be a handy pick up.
Jeremy Howe (Collingwood)
High-flying Jeremy Howe is averaging 121.3 points over the last three weeks. With Supercoach favourite Michael Hurley going down with a hamstring injury, Howe could be a good replacement.
Bernie Vince (Melbourne)
Over 2000 teams still have Bernie Vince in them and he is only averaging 73. There is better options out there around the same price.
Michael Hurley (Essendon)
Michael Hurley will miss a couple of weeks with a hamstring injury, but it isn't severe and he won't be out for long. Hold on to him if you have a decent rookie on the bench.
Jack Redden (West Coast)
Jack Redden is another one who has found a purple patch of form. His three-round average is 121.3 and he is still only 462k and in 1% of teams. A nice point of difference.
Jack Macrae (Bulldogs)
I've said it before and I'm saying it again, find a way to get Jack Macrae into your team. He has been huge this year and is the highest averaging player in Supercoach, going at an average of 135 points.
Dayne Zorko (Brisbane)
Dayne Zorko was dreadful for Supercoach players at the start of the year, but he seems to have returned from whatever holiday he was on and is discounted as a result. Scored 164 two weeks ago and 121 last week. It's a big risk, but it might pay off.
Seb Ross (St Kilda)
He's teased us with some big scores but overall Seb Ross has been bitterly inconsistent and has dropped a lot in value. If he is still in your team it is best to trade him now.
Ollie Wines (Port Adelaide)
Ollie Wines hasn't been too bad this year but he is another one that has been very inconsistent and is losing money. Trade if you can get him to someone you like.
Stephen Coniglio (GWS)
The GWS midfielder was a must have at the start of the season but he has dropped in form over the last couple of weeks. It hasn't been too drastic and does not yet warrant a trade.
Aaron Sandilands (Fremantle)
Big Sandi is having a nice run at the moment with a three-round average of 125.7. He won't face a tough opponent for a couple of weeks so he could be good to bring in now.
Jarrod Witts (Gold Coast)
Jarrod Witts started the year well but has dropped away lately. He can still post a big score but he can also post a very low one. Trade if you have one to spare.
Patrick Ryder (Port Adelaide)
Paddy Ryder has not been back from injury long, but is slowly building back to his All Australian form. Hold on to him for now because there is improvement in him.
James Harmes (Melbourne)
James Harmes has come on to the Supercoach scene out of the blue and with most of the forward superstars hit with injuries, he could be a handy inclusion. He has averaged 107 over the last three rounds and is 415k.
Ben Ronke (Sydney)
Ben Ronke probably isn't going to kick seven goals every week, but he is capable of scoring okay. If you're looking for a fresh rookie to bring in, he could be the man. Mature age and has a low breakeven. Tick, tick.
Jason Castagna (Richmond)
Jason Castagna's scores are either great or terrible and that's not what you want in a Supercoach side. He's not an urgent 'get rid of' but if you're looking to make a change, he's probably the one.
Isaac Heeney (Sydney)
Isaac Heeney hasn't score above 100 for three weeks but the Swans have an easy month of football ahead and he could return to form and put on some big scores. Hold for now.


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My purpose in life is to assist others in achieving greater personal success. To do this, I believe people need to paying close attention to a combination of their physical, mental and spiritual well being.
Over the years, I have studied numerous spiritual teachers and Mindset techniques, including NLP, Time Line Therapy & Hypnotherapy. I am also a huge advocate of Natural Health.
In this session I interview my guest Lisa Bevan, co-creator of the Decide Strive Thrive personal success system and owner of Mindset for Mum.
Using Lisa's expert knowledge in personal change, we take a detailed look at what beliefs are and how we individually go about creating them. The beliefs we hold impact every part of our lives.
Lisa also explains that we can change our beliefs at any point in time. Firstly you need to recognise what your beliefs are, then utilise established techniques to change them.


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Safari is my favourite web browser. This is a fast browser and an excellent all-around choice. It is a space-saving user interface gets out of the way as much as possible. Safari is based on WebKit, the open source search engine, introduced by Apple engineers and now powers a number of desktop and mobile products like Google Chrome web browser.
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Apr 26, 2015
McCall on Northampton defeat
Mark McCall bemoaned his side's lack of discipline in their 25-20 win away to Northampton Saints.
The Saracens director of rugby was frustrated with his team's high penalty count in a topsy-turvy contest at Stadium MK.
Speaking after the game, McCall said: "We're frustrated with our own team to be honest. You can't expect win games of that nature when you give away the amount of penalties we gave away, it's also the nature of the penalties that we gave away. I think we gave away seven penalties for offside, and four of them were in the first 25 minutes. That allowed Stephen Myler to keep the scoreboard ticking over and we're disappointed with that.
"In the last 20 minutes of the match we didn't do the right things at the right time often enough. I think we lost a bit of composure in the last 20 minutes and Northampton took advantage of that.
"We started the game well, we were clinical with first few scores that we got but then we had a horrible six minutes where Billy drops the ball over the line which would have made it 21-10. Then Billy rolls his ankle, and it was a big blow to lose a player like him, then his replacement is off two minutes later. It was a poor six minutes. That being said, we were 20-13 up after 25 minutes but we didn't deal with a restart, then we got penalised then Maro Itoje was sin-binned and the momentum of the whole game swung. In fairness to the Saints, they took advantage of that brilliantly.
"I thought it was a two point game and we when we fared their defence in the last 20 minutes, we could have been a little bit smarter. I don't think we managed our energy well enough in the last 20 minutes and I still think there was a game to be won. If we'd been a little bit smarter we still could won the match."
On Billy Vunipola and Jackson Wray, McCall added: "Billy's rolled his ankle and we'll know more about that in the next couple of days. Jackson has a 'normal concussion' if you can describe it like that, and he's up and about and feels ok now."
On the last few Premiership games, he went on to say: "We have a weekend off coming up, which I think the players deserve. We understand what's required and the Exeter game is a huge for us. It's been a really demanding eight or nine weeks for us. It's been relentless and non-stop, but enjoyable as well."


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High School Sailing Practices
All sailors are expected to rig (set up) and derig (take down) boats for practice. Sailing teams focus on team racing, strategic and tactical training, and physical fitness. Drills performed at practice will foster experience to properly prepare a sailor for regattas. Many practices will include mini-races to offer sailors opportunity to try, fail and ultimately succeed at racing.
Spring season: April 2 – May 9, 2019.
Fall season: Aug. 22 – Oct. 24, 2019.
Practices are Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30 – 8:30 PM.
Summer Intensives
Beginning HS Sailing Training Camp: Week of July 8. In this week long training camp, we'll focus on boathandling, basic rules of the road, fitness, proper sailing conditioning and short course race tactics.
Pre-season HS Sailing Clinic: Week of August 5. This week long clinic is limited to the first 30 sailors that sign up. The coaching staff will be onsite this week to evaluate the sailors and start pairing up teams for the fall 2019 season.
Hoover Sailing Club also offers opportunities for students to join their Junior Race Team.
Host Club and Location
Hoover Sailing Club hosts the location and boats for practice and local regattas.
Map & Directions
Head Coach: Jamie Jones
Coach Jones has coached youth, high school and collegiate sailors for over 25 years. He's currently the Program Director of Hoover Sailing Club's Learn to Sail program, the Head Racing Coach for the Denison University Sailing Team and the Head Coach of the Central Ohio High School Sailing Association, comprising 11 local Central Ohio High Schools. In 2017, Jamie was recognized by US Sailing as its Outstanding Organizational Leader. Jamie was STEM Instructor Certified through US Sailing's Reach program in 2014. He's currently serving US Sailing as the Regional Training Coordinator for our area, as the Junior Championship Chair. He sits on the Community Sailing Committee providing guidance to all Learn to Sail programs in the Midwest. In 2017, Jamie was appointed a voting board position as Area Director, MISSA East for HS Sailing. He's an accomplished sailor and races competitively with his family and kids.
Assistant Coach: Dave Alvarado
Our Head Race Team coach also fills in as our Assistant High School coach. Dave has been coaching young sailors off and on for the past 14 years. He's a US Sailing Level 2 Certified instructor, past Junior National Champion in the Interlake Sailing Class and a former high school and collegiate sailor.
High School Sailing Quick Links
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Hayate the Combat Butler!! (Sub)
If the player not showing please click to the episode number button bellow to see it or jump to next episode. Reload page after changing video quality.
Watch Hayate the Combat Butler!! full episodes online English sub.
Other titles:Hayate no Gotoku!!
Synopsis: Picks up after episode 19 of Hayate no Gotoku! season 1. Season 2 is supposed to follow the manga more closely.
Hayate is still working as the Sanzenin Butler, and season 2 features a lot more Hinagiku, as scenarios that include herself and Hayate allude to potentially mutual feelings between them. Nagi is also interested in escalating her relationship with Hayate, since Nagi's perception of her relationship with Hayate remains based on the miscommunication that occurred on their first meeting.
Language: English Sub
Status: Completed
Aired: Apr 4, 2009 to Sep 19, 2009
Genres: Action, Comedy, Harem, Parody, Romance
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Community Kitchen – October 10, 2017
A shared evening of cooking and dinner with recipes from the community!
Tuesday, October 10, 2017, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
$16 for JCCCNC Members, $20 for General Public
JCCCNC's Community Kitchen is our ongoing communal dinner program bringing members of community together to learn Japanese and Japanese American family recipes and to share a multi-generational communal dinner. Adapting our Baachan's Kitchen program started in 2016, our Community Kitchen is open to all who want to enjoy and share Japanese home-style cooking while connecting with the community.
October Community Kitchen Menu:
- Tonjiru (Pork Soup)
- Saba Shioyaki (Grilled Mackerel)
- Hijiki (Seaweed) Salad
- Kinoko Gohan (Mushroom Rice)
- Dessert
- BYOB – Bring drinks to share!


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If this is not the perfect cat park for you, you can design it yourself, buying the pieces separately so that it completely fits your needs.
The cat parks require assembly by the customer, only screwing (holes already made and screws included.) If you have doubts during the assembly, you can write us and we will attend you quickly so you can enjoy it as soon as possible.
"Please, remember that our products are handmade using recycled pine wood, so the product you receive at home will never be identical to the image on the web. Maybe, it has small imperfections typical of wood. The wood we use goes through a process of anti-woodworm and anti-humidity treatment"


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Brittany and Chip were such a sweet couple. They exchanged cards before the ceremony and plenty of tears were had. Unbeknownst to Chip, Brittany had gotten him a wedding band set with stones all the way around the band. When it was put on his finger at the ceremony, he was pleasantly surprised!
The guests proved to be quite an animated bunch. Not a single moment was dull at the reception, which if you didn't know, is every wedding photographer's dream! Typically at the end of the night, there usually isn't a large group of people left to send the bride and group off. This bubble exit, however, was an exception. Brittany and Chip walked through a group of people making a ruckus on the way to their limo. It was awesome!


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Gulags & Abandoned Cities & Diving
July 8, 2012
Lovely Magadan & Its Non-Lovely Past
We have a city tour of Magadan this morning. As there are very long days now, we are in no hurry to get up early to get everything seen and done before dark so we haul down to the breakfast room around 8. Took us a bit to find it. We're on the third floor and the bar is on the 4th floor and the breakfast room on floor 2. We were up and down the stairs a few times before we figured out which door. Mostly the room is filled with our tour members but there are a few other businessmen staying at the hotel and are in there for their breakfast too. We weren't sure of the procedure on the first morning but Julia was already in there to make sure we all knew what to do. There is a menu that lists everything they can serve you. It is Russian with little tiny letters underneath in English. Good thing I have brought my glasses. It's a little hard to go through the menu while the lady is standing there impatiently waiting for you to point to something but we managed and apparently, you can get as many items as you want. Don't remember what we had that first morning but then we walked over to the buffet type items and there were some meats and cheeses and cereals as well so I ended up with too much. Still, a good breakfast albeit a bit odd to us on the serving factor. Coffee was in a pot and nice and strong.
We meet in the lobby for our city tour. Julia is our tour leader but for Magadan, we have Dave Raizman, a 71 year old gentleman who has lived here and studied Magadan history for many years. Julia did the translations for him. Olga is with us today as well. She is one of the owners of the travel agency that arranged our tour. Dave was quite interesting and I wish we'd been able to understand him in Russian because I'm sure we didn't get all the stories he had to tell and the ones we did get were great.
We started with a drive down to the harbor, western harbor or Alexey Nagaev harbor in Nagaev bay which is 40 m deep with 2 meters of ice in the winter. They go ice fishing for smelt. Magadan actually has two harbors but the major one is on the Sea of Okhotsk. Magadan is actually much bigger than it seemed at first and distances were quite deceiving. When we were standing by the sea, the fishermen and the boats and the small ships were miniscule because the area was so large.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Magadan. I find it easier to quote some sort of "source" rather than try to remember everything that I was told several weeks ago. Wikipedia might have a rep but I've found a lot of their information to be good and reliable so here is Wikipedia's Magadan info: """"Magadan (Russian: Магада́н; IPA: [məɡɐˈdan]) is a port town and the administrative center of Magadan Oblast, Russia, located on the Sea of Okhotsk in Nagayevo Bay in the Gulf of Tauisk and serving as a gateway to the Kolyma region. Population: 95,925 (2010 Census preliminary results);[4] 99,399 (2002 Census);[5] 151,652 (1989 Census).[8].""""""
"""""Magadan was founded in 1929 on the site of an earlier settlement from the 1920s.[citation needed] During the Stalin era, Magadan was a major transit center for prisoners sent to labor camps. From 1932 to 1953, it was the administrative center of the Dalstroy organization—a vast and brutal forced-labor gold-mining operation and corrective labor camp system. The town later served as a port for exporting gold and other metals mined in the Kolyma region.[9] Its size and population grew quickly as facilities were rapidly developed for the expanding mining activities in the area. Town status was granted to it on July 14, 1939.[citation needed]
On an official visit in May 1944, U.S. Vice-President Henry Wallace failed to understand the true nature of Magadan.[10] The watchtowers had been temporarily taken down and the prisoners were locked up, while a model farm had been set up for his inspection.[11] He took an instant liking to his secret policeman host, admired handiwork done by prisoners, and later glowingly called the city a combination of Tennessee Valley Authority and Hudson's Bay Company. Eight years later he apologized for not understanding the true situation."""""" Interesting side note here, I don't remember studying any of this in school so when we came across this information about Wallace in the museum, I was clueless. As usual, the Aussies and Brits in the group knew more about politics than I did but luckily my husband knew this story and explained it to me so I didn't appear totally brainless.
And finally a bit more Wikipedia: """"Ship building and fishing are the major industries. The town has a seaport (fully navigable from May to December) and a small international airport, Sokol Airport. There is also a small airport nearby, Magadan 13. The unpaved Kolyma Highway leads from Magadan to the rich gold-mining region of the upper Kolyma River and then on to Yakutsk.
Magadan is very isolated. The nearest major city is Yakutsk, 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi) away via an unpaved road which is best used in the winter, especially since there is no bridge over the Lena River at Yakutsk (the choices are: ferry from Nizhny Bestyakh in the summer, when the rest of the road may not be passable due to standing water, or over the ice in the dead of winter).
The principal sources of income for the local economy are gold mining and fisheries. Recently, gold production has declined. [12] Fishing production, although improving from year to year, is still well below the allocated quotas, apparently as a result of an aging fleet.[13] Other local industries include pasta and sausage plants and a distillery.[14] Although farming is difficult owing to the harsh climate, there are many public and private farming enterprises."""""
There was a monument down by the harbor dedicated to the different professions that built Magadan. As we were rather on the outskirts of town, there were also plenty of dachas around us, again, many were tarpaper type shacks and others were more substantial houses that would probably stand up in a heavy wind. Dave, our guide today, told us how the ships would come into the harbor behind an ice breaker carrying prisoners – usually political prisoners from Stalin's era. The prisoners would have to walk up the streets to the sorting camps and decontamination camp.. As they are coming in behind an ice breaker, obviously it is bitterly cold and there were always prisoners who didn't make it due to the weather and ill health.
In the distance on a hillside is rock formation known as Stone Castle because its profile looks a bit like castle ruins. Sailors would paint below the stone castle the name of their ship and the year they put into port. This was about 1913 to the 1920's. At the beginning of Magadan, there were about 500 people living here. At the end of the 19th century, gold was discovered and miners started coming. It was very hard to get here and a very hard life once here. In 1931-1932 were about 4000 horses here and thousands of miners but there were no roads to the gold fields which were about 500 km north of Magadan so men would have to ride horses or take dog sleds. We climbed back into our bus and drove the route that the prisoners would have walked from the ships.
From the harbor, our bus climbed up the hill to the Mask of Sorrows monument overlooking Magadan. It is a rather steep hill and we were told the story of a group of former prisoners who came to visit the monument a few years past. Most of them were in their 80's and not in the best of health. Shortly after the bus turned onto the road leading up to the monument, the bus broke down. The former prisoners all looked at one another and agreed that it was a sign that they must continue the journey on foot. They all made it to the top of the hill. I feel like I can understand their commitment that they started their journey so many years ago off the ship and into the forced labor camps on foot and now they have come full circle and are free men and women now but still needed to complete the circle on foot.
The Russian orthodox church did not like the Mask of Sorrows being built. So when it was built, nobody was paid any salary and they had to wait for years to get their money. The artist was going after symbolism, realism and his own style. The right side of the monument has the people on it or the brain for emotions while the left side is for memory and has the number 937 on it for 1937 when there was wide political oppressions. 1937-1957 some 800,000 people were put into these camps. They usually came via Vladivostok to the western harbor. 160,000 died of hunger, the cold, and disease. They all worked in the mines. 11,000 were killed for political crimes. They were accused of crimes and that's how they ended up here but while here, they might be accused of a new crime and for the second accusation, they usually got a death sentence.
They were put into the camps where the gold was and there were around 300 camps in this area. Approximately 2 million were deprived of their freedom. Some were forbidden from leaving the camps but others worked in town. Around 3000 are still not "rehabilitated" as they were convicted of violent crimes such as murder. They now live among the regular people of the area and not many actually know who they are because now they have families and children and grandchildren and such. This was the translation we got but it didn't make a lot of sense such as how do they know this and who has the records that 3000 former violent criminals are now happy grandparents and upstanding citizens.
There were about 60 different nationalities in the camps. In 1953 when Stalin died, many of the prisoners were released and they returned to their home areas. Gulag is a synonym for the State Department of Camps.
Again I go to Wikipedia to tell the Mask of Sorrows story: """"The Mask of Sorrow (Russian: Маска скорби, Maska skorbi) is a monument perched on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the many prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps in the Kolyma region of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. It consists of a large Concrete statue of a face, with tears coming from the left eye in the form of small masks. The right eye is in the form of a barred window. The back side portrays a weeping young woman and a headless man on a cross. Inside is a replication of a typical Stalin-era prison cell. Below the Mask of Sorrow are stone markers bearing the names of many of the forced-labor camps of the Kolyma, as well as others designating the various religions and political systems of those who suffered there.
The statue was unveiled on June 12, 1996 with the help of the Russian government and financial contributions from seven Russian cities, including Magadan. The design was created by famed sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, whose parents fell victim to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s; the monument was constructed by Kamil Kazaev. The mask stands 15 metres high and takes up 56 cubic metres of space.""""
The Mask of Sorrows is a very compelling monument. Its faces and tears are quite evocative of the prisoners who lived and died in the region and the camps. I wanted to photograph every inch of it.
Originally 3 or 4 monuments were planned, one in each of the major towns or villages that played a major part in the gulags and prisoners but this was the only one that was completed (I heard both numbers of 3 or 4 so not sure how many were planned). We were unable to get inside to see the small museum that is in the monument. We started at the mask and worked our way downhill past the rocks below the monument where the religions are represented and the other camps were spelled out in stone. We also got a bit of a nature lesson from Julia as she pointed out some of the plants that helped the prisoners and also some of the native plants like the dwarf pine that lays down flat in the winter under the blanket of snow but pops back up in the spring to produce its pinecones. Usually I didn't have a problem understanding Julia but I could swear she was talking about "wolf vines" for about half of the day. We finally got her to spell it because a wolf vine wasn't making any sense to us.
Dave has published several books on the region and the camps and such but they are all out of print now and none of them are in English either. Apparently there is a lot of "self-publishing" going on in that part of the world before the internet and such so there were never many of the books as he had to pay for them to get them published. At least I am fairly sure that is the story of his books. He showed us his only copy of one of them with photos and graphs. I believe they told us there was some interest in publishing them again but Julia didn't think it would happen and it certainly wasn't going to be translated into English, worse luck.
After the Mask of Sorrows, we drive back into town and stop at the new cathedral that is a centerpiece of worship and is actually not even finished being built. As we entered, we walked through scaffolding and plastic sheets to keep the dust out of the interior. Its onion domes in gold and copper are clearly visible and identifiable from the hilltops around town. We were able to photograph inside which was lovely because so often you can't take photos in a church and this church was magnificent. There was an entire golden wall of icons at the front of the church. The walls were totally covered with brilliant and magnificent frescoes. It had a wonderful chandelier hanging from the center dome. There were a few people inside for worship and also a few tourists like us who were busy snapping photos all around. I don't know the icons and don't know the saints but it was beautiful. I would have spent much longer inside taking more photos but the tour moved on to the next stop.
We went to the museum. Normally not a big museum fan here and we picked up a museum guide. Dave, our guide up to this point, left us here as he works at the museum. He sort of just disappeared so we never really even got to say thank you and how much we appreciated his insight and knowledge. Our museum lady took us to the gulag display first. It appeared that she might be going to read us each display and each caption which Julia then had to translate. As the room was crowded with displays and captions, I was a bit dismayed to think of how long it would take and my interest, while keen, would just not survive a long time at this. Some of the other tour members were already walking around the room taking photos at other displays and paying little attention to Julia and the museum lady so she sped up and started skipping a few things. That worked out better and it was fascinating again. (Oh shame on me, ye of little attention span!). Typical of museums from former communist states though. Lights had to be turned on as we walked through and turned off as we left and doors opened and closed as we went along and a great effort made by the museum staff to keep the group together in one room at a time. Unfortunately, they failed at this. Intrepid tourists we are and very good about wandering off into rooms that weren't on the tour.
Of great interest to me in the museum (besides the Wallace display where my husband enlightened me) were photos of the prisoners doing various camp chores and work. Also was an actual watchtower from one of the gulags. And the star! This was a wooden star with lights that was situated on top of one of the main buildings in a labor camp. A goal or chore was put out for the prisoners to complete. If it was completed then the star would be lit and a reward of some fashion would be given to the prisoners. I don't think it was lit very often. Still, Pavlov's dog responses. It gave hope. There were also copies of death certificates in the museum. Officially, a death certificate had to give the reason for the death but the old ones just left it out because often reason of death was execution. After the camps closed, relatives got death certificates with "reason of death – shot".
Along with the photos of the prisoners doing tasks were some paintings of the ships coming in winter. The ice breaker plowing through the ice with the prisoner ships following behind was chilling both in contemplation of the weather and also in realization of the hardships facing the men and women who were on the prisoner ships. There were several faded newspapers as well with the Politburo members on the front page, Stalin being center stage. Interesting that many of our tour members knew the names of the politburo leaders. I barely know the names of my own political leaders.
Following the Gulag room, we visited some other rooms of the museum including the animal room which had stuffed animals of the region including a mistakenly wayward polar bear because they don't have polar bears here. They have found mammoth bones here and use them to carve beautiful scrimshaw and animals and scenes for sale – not cheap but magnificent. Another room we visited was the stones and minerals room. Some lovely geodes and other semi-precious stones. One of the main products of the area was tin and coal and gold. Gold mining is still happening and not in an environmentally friendly way either.
Time for lunch! We stopped at a small café where we just walked through the line and got what we wanted. It was tasty but was hard to figure out what everything was so I ended up with a mixed meat cutlet (more like a mystery meat cutlet) and potatoes but some great chicken noodle soup. My hubby had a pork cutlet and then some buns: a cheese bun and a cherry bun. Could have used another cherry bun.
Next stop was shopping! I'm very good at shopping but this was a gold and ivory shop. The mammoth ivory carvings were impressive and expensive. It was hard to try and find a good one at a reasonable price. We never even got to look at the gold because the group left to go meet a real ivory carver so we bought a small mammoth carving and then ran around the corner with Simon to the ivory carver's shop which was a small room in a basement of an apartment block. Quite dusty inside but he had some nice carvings. He had a really nice fish that I would have bought but it wasn't for sale and supposedly a part of a larger piece. He brought out a musk ox for 10,000 rubles or about $250 but that was too much money and we didn't have that much on us anyway. Otherwise, he only had some key chains for sale and I really didn't like them. He did have some large ivory tusks and several tour members picked them up and they are quite heavy. He pays about $150 a kilo.
Finally out of the carver shop and onto the bus where we are going to the beach where it is fisherman's day. Seems like the whole town is at the beach! The bus couldn't get down to beach as too many cars stopped alongside the road so we walked and was ok down but a bit harder up. Quite a celebration at the beach with bouncy castles and other things for kids to play on and many food stalls plus many people were doing their own barbeque on the beach. We arrived just as they were reaching the conclusion of a lovely musical on the little mermaid and the evil mermaid was captured shortly after we arrived. We lost the rest of the group and missed it where Simon and group with him met the mayor of Magadan. Started our walk back up the hill to the bus so I can get there in time.
Then back to town for free time and everyone decided to meet to go to The Steak House for dinner at 8. Hubby and I went on a mission to find some fresh fruit. We had seen vendors in street kiosks while on the bus but now, nothing. Supposedly there was a store just up the road but when we found it, all the food had been cleared out of it and it was just a liquor store now. Walked past a WWII monument in the park square where the lady looked like the "heart beating lady" in Kharkov Ukraine (stern "Mother Ukraine" forbidding figure with a sound system of a beating heart – rather creepy). Finally went back to the hotel and had the lady write down stores. We found the first one easily enough but it was a very small store and the fruit was not nice so we walked back to fruit market outside of gold and ivory market and got fruit.
Tomorrow we leave for our overnight camping trip and we are not taking suitcases so I packed. Then downstairs to meet for dinner It was a longer walk than I thought but we went through the park with some great carvings like totem poles in one little corner. We came out of the park through a deserted amusement park with bumper cars and a Ferris wheel and more but no on there. One ride included a really creepy looking lady as its symbol on the top of the ride.
Dinner at the steak house was good. We had a very long day though so my hubby and I were about to fall asleep in our plates. We put our money on the table and left with Simon who had work to do at the hotel. We didn't walk back through the park so now we know two ways to get there. Didn't take us long to hit the bed and fall asleep.


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Expo Milano 2015 is a World or Universal exposition. World Expos take place every 5 years and have duration of 6 months. Participants include countries, international organizations, NGOs, corporations and other institutions such as the European Union.
The theme chosen for Expo Milano 2015, 'Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life' invites the participants to actively address pressing global challenges linked to food and sustainability: food security, food safety, food quality and healthy diets, preserving our environment, climate protection, sustainable renewable energy, and fair trade relations.
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