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Teal: Kind of Blue, A Little Green, Pretty Great
I own teal bowls, scarves, plant pots, shoes, blouses, and bedside tables. For one reason or another, what I don't have is a room painted in this, my favorite color.
To me, teal is the perfect moody color with a lot of depth and versatility; the photos above show a darker teal used in a bathroom, a common area, two bedrooms, and kitchen.
I like that teal can skew blue or green, and I prefer it combined with bright white and warm-colored wood. Add some fresh green houseplants, and I am right at home. (Sounds like I need to start painting, huh?)
Are you a fan of teal? Is there a color you find yourself drawn to again and again?
Images: 1. ElsieMarley via DesignSponge 2. Apartment Therapy 3. ethanollie via Apartment Therapy 4. Lonny 5. The Joy of Home via Style by Emily Henderson
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i did teal on our living room wall as an accent. we love it and it adds a nice pop of color with browns & reds we have in the room.
JUST purchased Benjamin Moore Deep Ocean. I am right there with you on this. I can't wait to bathe my walls in this gorgeous shade.
Absolutely beautiful!
I happen to love this color. It's so beautiful and inviting. I happen to like the way it looks featured in each of these rooms. Lovely.
my living room has two walls painted teal (turquoise?) with a bright orange and white floral printed chair. I'm still kind of unsure what color rug to put in there, but i love love love the color of the walls. (behr's beach towel)
Anyone know the name of the paint in the first picture of the bathroom?
jy196 - I think it might be Glidden Peacock Blue.
Aw, this is the color I want to paint our kitchen, except that it's a little too dark with our medium toned wood cabinets. Whenever we get around to remodeling the kitchen, I'm putting in white cabinetry and painting this color on the walls.
My kitchen is carribean teal from Benjamin Moore and I love it! It makes the ugly green countertop less ugly :D not to mention that it's such a delight to look at.
I painted the common areas of my home this color (a little lighter) and I am in absolute love. I made light boxes out of a gorgeous fabric (the pattern is called Pisces) and I just love it!
Reflecting Pool from Ralph Lauren is everywhere in my house. Gorgeous color!
That first bathroom is fab. I want a teal room!
Love. We have a teal dining room and I love it to tears.
LOVE teal...or for that matter, any sort of blue-green. It just beckons to me. I just want to lay down and take a long nap in picture 4.
@jy196 - The paint color is actually "Realm" by Behr. This bathroom redo was featured on Design*Sponge a while back and immediately fell in love with it (I'm determined to paint our foyer this color!), so I paid close attention when the bathroom's owner posted the paint color in the comments. :)
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I love that colour! I think I've also spotted my mystery wish-list houseplant hanging in that first picture. Please, if you know what it's called, put me out of my misery and tell me.
i love teal!
@acrossthepond: that looks kind of like a string of pearls succulent
@Across the Pond, I don't quite remember the proper botanical name (senecio something) but the common name of this succulent is String of Pearls. Just google "string of pearls plant" and you should find it easily.
Ooh, you star, MisaL! That's the plant I've been looking out for, for 20 years!!! Thank you!
Oh no! I just googled it and it's not the same plant but it's still really cool. Thanks anyway!
So funny to see my bathroom on apt. therapy! For all those who wanted to know the paint color: it is Realm by Behr.
Thanks for all the kind words!
hessilou and literaghost - thank you both for answering my question
I love this color too. It's so dramatic and moody and jewel like. I have a coat that color, a blouse and a some beautiful pottery also that color. I finally made the plunge and painted a bedroom caribbean sea or something like t hat from Behr paints. It looks gorgeous and my bed pops with white linen.
I've been obsessed with this color for years (which my wardrobe proves), but nothing in my apartment is this color! How can this be?! This must be remedied...
I'd been thinking of doing three of the five walls in my bedroom a blueberry or plum color, but you may have convinced me to go teal. I certainly am bookmarking this for color suggestings!
I love this color. I painted two of the walls in my studio "Moonlight Pool" by Behr and the other two sage green. I love the drama it provides. (Pics of the room here) http://currykaydesigns.com/2010/06/something-lovely-for-my-supplies/
I love all the blue-greens, from aqua on down to teal, and think they are such a popular color family it might be due to some genetic programming! Who knows?
I was delighted to visit Turkey and find my favorite color everywhere, including on the tiled walls of many mosques and palaces. Green is the holy color of Islam (I'm told it's because plants are so loved in dry and desert places -- beautiful idea, don't know if it's true), but the color is interpreted as more turquoise than green in Turkey. In fact the word "turquoise" means "Turkish" in French.
I love turquoise and teal especially in glazes and pottery, where the color is mottled rather than uniform; it can glow like a jewel, which doesn't happen with solid-color painted walls. I like it combined with dark carved wood and lots of white stucco, and maybe a few faded red or coral accents.
We did our entryway in a lighter teal, and we just love it! It makes anything you put on the wall just leap out at you. Great color.
I adore the darker teal and white combo. I have it in my dining room and it instantly looked better. Add in the damask pattern wallpaper and it's fabulous. teal really makes art pop too.
I love it and it's on my walls (as featured on AT's house tour "Casey's Loft Life"
Love the use of reclaimed wood and bold colors.
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Any suggestions on upholstery fabric in this colour? I live in Canada and I've been looking for over a year!


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Steam Update Restores Earth 2160 PlayabilitySteam operator Valve has released a new version of the digital distribution client, which resolves the issues Earth 2160 owners have been experiencing for over two months.
After a February client update, the Steam version of Reality Pump's strategy game refused to load due to Steam-specific error. Though aware of the issue, Steam sold the broken game for more than two months, but pulled it shortly after our report.
While the game has yet to return to the Steam Store, owners of Earth 2160 will be prompted to download the client update when they try to boot the game. After restarting Steam, the game may be listed under the "Not Installed" category, even if it is installed, but "Install Game" will restore the game without re-downloading the entire 900MB.
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Software roundup: build a Kinect-controlled web app
Despite being written off by most hardcore gamers as a gimmick, Microsoft's hands-free game controller Kinect is already being used for more than just games. And with over 18 million units, it's more widespread than you might think.
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is another promising commercial option, but with support for
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Open Doors has been instrumental in expanding the penetration of the Autodesk Training and Certification delivery, developing the Program and increasing the reach of Professional Training and Certification to Autodesk's customers.
The business focus to encourage and develop Certification in Autodesk products; and engaging and equipping ATCs to deliver the business requirement has proved not only successful, it is sustainable and can be expanded to continue to deliver growth in the key performance indicator that Certification represents.
"Since we launched the Autodesk Open Doors initiative last year it has generated excellent engagement with the end user community delivering an increase in uptake of exams year on year," says Kirstin Donoghue, Autodesk Partner Manager EMEA at KnowledgePoint. "Open Doors EMEA 2012 is now the biggest ever training event for Autodesk, which is a significant and important achievement for Autodesk Certification."
Paul Gibbons, Director and co-founder of KnowledgePoint, comments: "We welcome the valuable acknowledgement from the LPI that the commendation represents for our work as a proactive business partner and appointed distributor for the Autodesk Professional Training and Certification EMEA Programs. "
The results of anew survey carried out on behalf of
education and training distributor KnowledgePoint add fuel to the debate over
engineering skills shortages at a time of high unemployment.
Almost half (48%) of the engineering design professionals polled see skills shortfalls in their industry sector as serious - with 48% also believing that the current education system is making the problem worse.
Recently, engineering industry commentators have been discussing whether there really are skills shortages when there are thousands of engineers out of work. The situation suggests that it is more a shortage of the right skills and this is not being addressed by the education system.
The survey, by One Poll on behalf of KnowledgePoint was designed to gauge the importance of certification qualifications to design and engineering professionals. A good majority (59%) of respondents thought it was important to have certification qualifications on key design and engineering products and solutions. However, disappointingly, only half said that their organisation actively encouraged them to pursue these qualifications, with 51% claiming that they would be interested in pursuing certification themselves. Only 32% of those surveyed had already taken certification exams.
Not surprisingly, when the results are broken down by age, 71% of designers and engineers in the 35 – 54 age range said they thought certification was important compared to just 51% of 18 – 24 year olds. 57% of the older age range blamed the current education system for skill shortages as opposed to 44% of 18 – 24 year olds. These figures are indicative of the fact that older engineers with traditional skills, feel more vulnerable in the jobs market than younger students and professionals.
A recent report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) estimates that the UK needs over 31,000 new graduate engineers every year for the next five years to meet industry demand in 2017. "However, there is no doubt that many engineers find their skills outdated; sometimes even as soon as they come onto the jobs market," says Graeme Philips, Autodesk Program Manager EMEA at KnowledgePoint.
"Achieving certification on key products can help professionals develop a contemporary knowledge and understanding and gain significant advantage in the jobs market."
Other key findings of the KnowledgePoint survey include:
Broadly, men were more positive about certification than women; 59% said it was important, compared to 49% of women.
Computing and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, have announced the finalists for the UK IT Industry Awards 2011.
The success of KnowledgePoint in winning through to the Finals of the BCS and Computing UK IT Industry Awards, in the category Small Business Project of the Year, is an outstanding achievement and evidences the success of a unique business initiative that KnowledgePoint has taken in the IT education and training software sector.
In July 2010 KnowledgePoint was appointed distributor for the Autodesk Professional Certification EMEA Program. Autodesk is a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software.
Authorized Training Centers are critical partners in delivering the Autodesk learning programmes. KnowledgePoint develop the program and proactively support the learning and training capabilities in exam and certification management, integrated learning, courseware and certification programmes.
This has been an imaginative and visionary direction for KnowledgePoint to take; providing an outsourced managed solution to support Autodesk's Training and Certification Partners across EMEA and has driven a new business model both for KnowledgePoint and Autodesk. The model was conceived and implemented within 10 weeks and has delivered to the business requirement set by Autodesk for the first year.
This is a unique business initiative in the IT education and training software sector; there is no other similar business model and as such represents a ground-breaking development for the sector throughout EMEA.
David Clarke, Chief Executive Officer of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, says: "Congratulations to the finalists; the competition to reach this stage of our prestigious Awards is tough. Our Awards are central to our mission to recognise the innovation and professionalism of those working in IT and I'm delighted that we have such a variety of high quality entries. They are an excellent reflection of the impact IT has on so many aspects of our information society and the potential IT has to transform business, society and our lives."
Abigail Waraker, Editor of Computing, comments: "I would like to congratulate the finalists. The UK IT Industry Awards are rigorously judged and to be announced as a finalist is a great achievement."
Says Paul Gibbons, co-founder and Director of KnowledgePoint: "We are delighted to have come through the qualifying stages to achieve being a Finalist for this prestigious award. It's always rewarding to be recognised as a contender in business excellence by such a highly regarded Institute and against such outstanding competition from all sectors of industry."
On demand won this year's Digital Printer Awards 2011 in the category "Digital and the Environment" with a bespoke project delivered to the University of East London (UEL).
The Awards recognise the peak of achievement in this rapidly growing industry sector by judging on creativity, originality and innovative thinking as epitomising the very best in digital application.
The winning entry focused on KnowledgePoint's joint project design and implementation for the "build your own prospectus" facility and the reduction in environmental impact that the switch to a digital and variable data print solution has helped UEL to achieve.
|Content obsolescence – material can be immediately updated and new courses added instead of waiting until the next academic year.
|Waste – the equivalent of 4,000 240 page prospectuses have been saved, i.e. 1.7 tonnes which equates to a saving of 2.5 tonnes CO2.
|Savings achieved on printing and shipping by introducing 40 page individual digital prospectuses.
|The eco efficiency of providing information has improved.
Catherine Downes, Director, Corporate Marketing UEL comments: "We are delighted to have won such a prestigious Award – we have taken a major step forward to reduce our environmental impact by switching to a digital and variable data print solution using KnowledgePoint's XMedia service. Such innovation is synergistic with our business ethos of breaking the mould in education marketing."
Professor Patrick McGhee, Vice Chancellor UEL adds: "The success of our collaboration with KnowledgePoint, and our determination to improve UEL's student recruitment experience, has resulted in the implementation of cutting edge technology which brings genuine value to our student programme and has made a positive difference to our business."
KnowledgePoint Co-Founder Paul Gibbons says: "It's been an important business development to deliver significant change and environmental efficiencies for UEL and it is always rewarding to be recognised for achieving business excellence.
About UEL
UEL is a global learning community with 23,000 students from over 120 countries worldwide.
The Learning & Performance Institute have accredited Graeme Phillips as a Professional Fellow in recognition of his experience in the training industry; and in particular in his current role with KnowledgePoint.
Graeme has led a dynamic distributor model throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to drive training and certification for Autodesk; KnowledgePoint are the EMEA Authorised Training Center Program and Courseware distributor for Autodesk.
Paul Gibbons, co-founder and Director at KnowledgePoint says: "This is a well deserved tribute for all Graeme's hard work and we are delighted that he has been recognised by the LPI."
Edmund Monk, Managing Director, The Learning and Performance Institute said: "As a Fellow of the Institute Graeme joins an elite group of highly respected learning professionals from across the globe. Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed upon an Institute member and the award is testament to Graeme's dedication and contribution to workplace learning and a symbol of his knowledge and expertise in this area."
About KnowledgePoint
KnowledgePoint is a specialist services provider in the IT Learning and Training field offering printing, distribution, logistics, operational and marketing support services to numerous major IT corporations operating across the EMEA territory.
About the Learning & Performance Institute
The Learning and Performance Institute is a global Institute for Learning & Development professionals. Established in 1995 the Institute has grown on an annual basis to become the leading authority on Learning & Development.
Through an unrivalled range of membership, certification, accreditation, events and bespoke consultancy services, the Institute focuses on enhancing and recognising the skills and professional status of individuals and organisations engaged in learning activities, and assessing the quality of learning services.
Collectively the Institute is the voice of the Learning & Development community with a commitment to support a continuous improvement in Learning & Development standards.
Excellent operation capability and business delivery are the key attributes which KnowledgePoint deliver to win the Learning Performance Institute (LPI) accreditation as an approved Learning Provider; reflecting the high level of services KnowledgePoint provide to the training industry.
The LPI's purpose is to continuously raise standards of professionalism within the learning community and promote and measure the impact of learning on organisational performance. Alan Bellinger, Executive Consultant at the LPI and responsible for the accreditation says: "KnowledgePoint has significantly expanded the range of services it provides and the enterprise has the vision, agility, and infrastructure to deliver against its challenging goals. This is a period in which the business value that KnowledgePoint can create for its clients has never been greater."
The assessment centred on business capability and financial rigour and commended the high levels of synergy KnowledgePoint has achieved across its five business streams – global and local end-to-end digital production; variable data applications for cross media solutions; publishing; and distributor solutions management programmes.
The LPI also commended KnowledgePoint for its value-add delivery in supply chain management; scaleability of its business model; and managing the delivery of diverse services.
Paul Gibbons, co-founder and Director of KnowledgePoint comments "The LPI Accreditation is an important recognition of our business integrity and service delivery which provides a valuable standard for the business to be measured by. We very much support the LPI approach in raising the standards of professionalism in the learning industry."
KnowledgePoint launch new publishing brand. The high technology platform, the latest digital print equipment and publishing expertise mean that PublishPoint can produce any volume of books at a competitive price, whilst providing a high quality, professional result.
KnowledgePoint, the expert services provider in the learning and training industry, has launched a new brand: PublishPoint. The initiative is a natural step from the on-demand print courseware market in which KnowledgePoint is already a market leader.
The high technology platform, the latest digital print equipment and publishing expertise mean that PublishPoint can produce any volume of books at a competitive price, whilst providing a high quality, professional result.
PublishPoint's sophisticated, robust just in time publishing process has the efficiency and flexibility to deliver exactly what the independent author and publisher market needs. 24/7 availability and a market leading production management system delivers an excellent product and experience to customers.
The flexibility of this digital publishing system is proving helpful in supporting Publishers and self- publishing Authors for occasions when the required print volume of a book makes traditional printing methods impractical. Urgent deadlines for launches, events or new business pitches can all be easily met. And of course resources don't have to be tied up in a large print run - lowering the associated storage and upfront printing costs. And sometimes it can be helpful to utilise a small run to 'test the water' with a niche reading audience.
PublishPoint produce books for businesses in a wide range of sectors across self-publishing authors and independent publishers including academia, education, hobbies, sport, charity, and fiction.
Early successes have already been achieved with first time author Nicola May who has now published two titles( Working It Out and Star Fish) with PublishPoint:
"I am absolutely delighted with my digital printed book; the look and feel couldn't be better - especially against other independently published books. The process was easy and efficient and I always knew what was going on. I saw a complete sample of the book prior to printing which was really helpful and very reassuring. I highly recommend PublishPoint."
Nicola May, Author of Working It Out
Air Research Publications in New Zealand were incurring large freight costs for a book titled Cobber Kain New Zealand by Richard Stowers. They purchased the rights to short printing of this title and chose to produce the title at PublishPoint. This lavishly illustrated book details the life of this heroic Kiwi, using previously unpublished photographs from his family's private collection.
And the first publication of C S Forester's THE PURSUED was celebrated as a Limited Edition of 25 books only for the world market - produced by PublishPoint. Lawrence Brewer, who bought the lost manuscript along with Dr. Colin Blogg, says:
'When after a 70-year absence I tracked down a lost text from a famous English author, I thought the easy bit would be getting it into book-form. Six years later, emerging from the jungle of international copyright, the creation of a Limited Edition was made incalculably easier by PublishPoint, who displayed an alert interest, a spontaneous approach to problem-solving and a clear management structure that made the whole exercise a pleasure. Delivery - on time, on budget. The product - exquisite - and sold out!'.
PublishPoint is a specialist division of the KnowledgePoint Group - an expert services provider in the learning and training industry. KnowledgePoint offers on-demand print, distribution and logistics as well as operational and marketing support services to numerous major corporations and smaller businesses operating across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Recognising the importance of high-quality training in improving customer experience, KnowledgePoint has launched the Autodesk Instructor (AI) Program. This EMEA-wide training investment is designed to enhance existing technical expertise with a soft skills learning styles initiative and provide support to the 4,000 Autodesk Training Center (ATC) instructors throughout the region.
The AI program has been developed in partnership with the Learning Performance Institute (LPI) and includes its internationally-recognised Trainer Performance Monitoring and Assessment (TPMA) program. TPMA trains the trainers in understanding learning styles and how to work with different levels of learning requirements and is used as an independent benchmark of training excellence.
The LPI's program focuses on best practice, learner-focused training and works to continuously raise standards of professionalism within the learning community. It also aims to promote and measure the impact of learning on organisational performance and includes annual monitoring and assessment of all TPMA-qualified trainers to ensure standards are consistently maintained.
"ATC instructors play a key role in helping Autodesk customers improve productivity, innovation and quality through the use of their software. They are already very strong in this, especially on the technical side, and we believe that further support in understanding how learning is received individually will ensure they excel. Having this extra edge can make a real difference to the students themselves, helping further improve the customer experience and, in turn, improve business performance," says Graeme Phillips, Autodesk Program Manager, EMEA at KnowledgePoint.
KnowledgePoint will be running 59 four-day TPMA workshops throughout EMEA (mostly in local languages) from May 2012 to January 2013.
Print & Design Weekly have announced their 2012 finalists. XMedia, a service from KnowledgePoint Ltd, has qualified in the Digital Print category for their innovative and creative work in variable data for Kirklees College.
Kirklees College has marked a first for the further education sector with the launch of its personalised full time and higher education prospectuses, developed entirely by XMedia.
XMedia worked with the Kirklees College marketing and public relations teams to revolutionise the way applicants receive information about the College and its courses. Key drivers for the initiative were engagement with Year 12 students with a more meaningful communication method; and a business objective to achieve a personalised prospectus to put Kirklees College in the forefront of selection using variable data technology.
XMedia delivered a number of major features for the College website. The 'my prospectus' system uses the dynamic content selections and the personal details of the potential student to automatically create unique personalised versions; an 'instantly viewable' online version and a digitally printed full colour version, which also contains the postal address details so it can be posted directly to the potential student.
The system provides a data profile for communication and marketing opportunities achieves a marked reduction in environmental impact and delivers significant cost efficiencies; Kirklees produced 16,000 prospectuses using the litho production methodology prior to the XMedia solution.
The personalised prospectuses are produced in realtime so course information is always accurate and immediately reflects any changes throughout the academic year.
Julie James, schools and college liaison officer at Kirklees says:"Schools have used the tool in group work during career sessions and PSCHE sessions and young people like the idea of receiving a personalised prospectus. The introduction of the build your own prospectus was to bring the college in-line with the way universities connect with prospective students and to update the way the college delivers information to young people."
Michael Bennett, Kirklees College head of marketing and public relations adds: "In the past prospectuses have become out of date, especially as national priorities change. We've come up with an ambitious solution which, we hope, will provide timelier, more accurate information for our potential students. It is further education marketing dragged into the 21st century. There are many more ways in which this technology could support our future strategies and it is good to know that the college is ahead of the game."
Recognition and accreditation of the way KnowledgePoint services our customers is of prime importance to us in enabling a better understanding of the quality we strive for.
Through the identification, achievement and maintenance of global standards in business practice for the KnowledgePoint Group, we ensure our customers are confident in the manner in which we will provide services and customer support to them.
The below gives a short overview of our achievements to date in this area:
ISO 9001 Quality Management System
KnowledgePoint is proud to hold this key quality management accreditation. It is an international standard that reassures our customers that we have demonstrated to an independent evaluator that we pursue a process of continuous improvement to provide a quality service and product.
The benefits that accrue from this important accreditation include:
ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
ISO 14001 is an international standard that reassures KnowledgePoint clients that we have provided evidence to an independent ratifying body that we pursue a programme of continuous improvement in providing an environmentally-friendly service and product and that we invest in the resources necessary to ensure a more sustainable future.
ISO 14001 benefits include:
ISO27001 Information Security Management Standard
ISO 27001 is the international standard for IT disaster recovery and business continuity that confirms the ability of a business to recover and protect the confidentiality and integrity of information and business activities.
The accreditation endorses KnowledgePoint's working practices for meeting the highest standards demanded by the ISO Certification for safeguarding the security of client information and the integrity of business continuity in the best interests of all parties.
The rigorous requirement covers eleven areas of operation:
Investors in People Award
Our Investors in People Standard award helps KnowledgePoint improve performance and realise objectives through the management and development of our team at all levels. We are committed to developing our people through training and performance appraisal and review. In this way we improve the culture and performance of our business and its employees.
Given the nature of our industry – training and study for individual and corporate progress – we believe it imperative that we set high standards for ourselves and undergo due process to see those standards objectively confirmed.
KnowledgePoint is proud to have been awarded Finalist SME Supplier of the Year by the British Computer Society IT Industry Awards.
The Awards recognise, promote and acclaim excellence, professionalism, innovation and outstanding achievement.
To see all our services presented in a catalogue style, we have created a KnowledgePoint Group catalogue online – which using new technology from our XMedia platform, makes your customer journey as easy and user friendly as possible.
Our online catalogue enables you to build your bespoke service booklet, simply pick and choose which of our services are relevant to you and watch as XMedia creates your individual, personalised document.
Using our innovative variable data platform (from XMedia), our group services catalogue gives you the ability to personalise and customise our range of services specifically to your needs – and then view your bespoke document online (through our eViewer) and in hard copy print.
The use of personalised marketing is a proven approach for increasing ROI of your marketing activities – our catalogue demonstrates how XMedia adds a personal element to marketing brochures and ensures all the content is relevant to the customer.
Engage is an innovative outsourced distribution service for the IT training industry. We are a provider of Global Education Programs, Certification and Courseware.
We deliver customer driven global distribution management solutions by high level engagement and liaison with Partner networks at geo and country level.
We liaise with our customers at a strategic level to manage local program definition, implementation, deployment, systems and tools to achieve maximum business effectiveness.
PublishPoint is our on demand book printing solution for the publishing industry; we produce retail-quality paperbacks printed in the style, size, colours and finish of your choice, to your timescales and to your budget.
Our sophisticated and just in time publishing process has the effectiveness and the flexibility to deliver to you exactly what you are looking for. Using our online high technology ordering platform tool gives our customers fast and easy access to their information, ordering their titles and delivery details.
You have 24/7 availability from your computer or your smart phone, combining this with our market leading production management system we provide you with true real time ordering – putting you firmly in control.
You will always be kept in the loop of how your book is progressing through our online tools which update in real time to inform you of your order status. Our primary goal is customer satisfaction and that is why the customer has complete control over everything thing we do, every step of the way.
XMedia is our variable data and marketing service; utilising cutting edge technologies and tools to harness the benefit of personalised content in your marketing activities.
Our ingenious browser-based, user friendly software solution automatically generates personalised content from self-selected information in real time - on screen, for download and/or printing.
For example, one application we apply our solution to is the creation of personalised student prospectuses for Universities.
To explain this further - a traditional prospectus has about 200 pages, of which around 120 are devoted to details about all the individual courses offered by the University. As the student is typically only interested in about five or six courses – around 110 pages of a traditional prospectus are irrelevant to them. Our aim is to totally meet the needs of each individual student, delivering to them exactly the information which is relevant to them and positioning the University as a specialist in their preferred areas of study.
In this application, as well as improving the student's prospectus experience, our XMedia solution meets the business needs of our customers; increasing ROI and student applications whilst reducing costs and impact on the environment.
In a separate application, our XMedia solution created an A4 full colour 12 page brochure for each of our customers sales contacts – including personalisation of the document and selection of the customers specific product, from their entire portfolio, which matched their end users exact requirements.
We provide the tools, platform and output to deliver bespoke personalised documents to your target audience – regardless of delivery format or media (electronic, online, printed).
KnowledgeCast is our global version of On Demand, we offer the same high quality services but on a global scale - specialising in on-demand supply chain services for multi-national customers.
We provide development, design, production, printing, packaging and distribution services for training, reference, coursework and other 'extended audience' materials.
Our global alliance gives our customers access to all of the world's major markets. We have a close working relationship with six key regional global partners to deliver on time and on budget to our customers.
By doing this, we are able to provide localised production to our customers requiring global manufacturing and distribution solutions. In addition, this alliance allows lower distribution costs for the customer too and access to full Global reporting capabilities to ensure ongoing identification of areas for business improvement.
On Demand offers fast, easy and print on demand services. We are proven experts and specialist providers of materials to the training and education markets – supporting our customers business in all areas.
Printing, distribution, logistics, operational and marketing support services, all integrated with our online ordering, tracking and management tools.
With electronic delivery of training materials a very real alternative in the marketplace, On Demand are the courseware delivery specialists – across all media and formats.
Our experience, scope of services and knowledge within the industry makes our value proposition unique.
Welcome to our website, the home of KnowledgePoint Limited – a management solutions and digital services group.
Since 1997 we have differentiated ourselves by refining the unique ways in which we harness technology to deliver high quality services to customers in the training & education marketplace.
With firm beliefs in the value of lifelong learning, all of our services are targeted to deliver true business benefit and proven return on investment within all aspects of training and education organisation, management and delivery.
Our services specialise in:
Digital printing delivered by On demand – training materials at the touch of a button
Variable data publishing delivered by XMedia - customised cross platform solutions
Book publishing delivered by PublishPoint - fast, easy book publishing
Worldwide distributor channel management delivered by Engage – program management solutions
Worldwide digital print delivery delivered by KnowledgeCast - global supply chain services
Recognising the importance of high-quality training in improving customer experience, KnowledgePoint has launched the Autodesk Instructor (AI) Program. This EMEA-wide training investment is designed to enhance existing technical expertise with a soft skills learning styles initiative and provide support to the 4,000 Autodesk Training Center (ATC) instructors throughout the region.
Computing and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, have announced the finalists for the UK IT Industry Awards 2011.
The success of KnowledgePoint in winning through to the Finals of the BCS and Computing UK IT Industry Awards, in the category Small Business Project of the Year, is an outstanding achievement and evidences the success of a unique business initiative that KnowledgePoint has taken in the IT education and training software sector.
...MyLiveBook is an eCourseware delivery platform for the Learning & Education marketplace which provides complete capabilities for content highlighting, note taking and bookmarking. It caters for the needs of each student's own preferences when navigating through the book.
All that is required is for your current courseware content to be loaded on the MyLiveBook platform.
How does eCourseware improve the training experience?
eCourseware offers a highly dynamic and flexible presentation of training materials:
Connect is a provider of EMEA Education Programs, Certification and Courseware for the IT training industry.
We deliver client driven EMEA distribution management solutions by high level engagement and liaison with Partner networks at geo and country level. We liaise with our clients at a strategic level to manage local deployment of strategy, implementation, systems and tools for maximum business effectiveness.
We have global frameworks and content for marketing and public relations initiatives.
Connect provides customised web access, portals and online purchase.
Our business model is sustained by an ethos of supporting lifelong learning through the IT training sector.


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Yoko Kano uses technology extensively to enhance teaching and student learning such as videoconferencing with Japan and online course materials.She is the recipient of the Lecturer of the Year 2009 at UNC-Wilmington. She has published number of publications about her experimental courses using technology and has been making presentations at international as well as national conferences. She serves as the director of Foreign Language Resource Center, the director of the North Carolina Teaching Asia Network, the director of Japan Center-Coastal Chapter, and the coordinator of Asian Studies Minor at UNCW. She has also served as a board member of the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers, a national task force member of American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages Japanese language standard for preschool to college, and theformer president of Carolina Association of Teachers of Japanese.


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The Iron Trial fanart. Adorability!
Twelve-year-old Callum Hunt has grown up knowing three rules by heart. Never trust a magician. Never pass a test a magician gives you. And never let a magician take you to the Magisterium. Callum is about to break all the rules. And when he does, his life will change in ways he can't possibly imagine.
Twelve-year-old Callum Hunt has grown up knowing three rules by heart. Never trust a magician. Never pass a test a magician gives you. And never let a magician take you to the Magisterium. Callum is about to break all the rules. And when he does, his life will change in ways he can't possibly imagine.
I am finishing the edits on the very last chapter of DOLL BONES and my brain is half melted, which led me to not give a lot of details yesterday on the new middle grade series I am writing with Cassie Clare. So I thought I would follow it up today with a couple of answers to the questions people seem to be asking me most frequently.
Q: Wait, what? You're writing a middle grade series with Cassandra Clare?
A: Yes! The first book is titled THE IRON TRIAL and there are going to be five in total. We've written a big chunk of the first book already and it just sold to Scholastic Books. We also have an option deal with Constantin Films to produce the movie. I am, as you might imagine, super excited. We've been planning this for a long time and I know it's going to be a lot of fun.
Q: Did you really get a beehive yesterday?
A: No. Now, you might reasonably ask whether I'm worried that co-writing with Cassie will mean that she's going to be constantly telling you lies about me. But I am pretty sure that co-writing will mean we're on a lot of tours together, so I can keep my eye on her. I am eyeing her suspiciously across the table in a bubble tea shop right now.
Q: So, wait, you were talking about COLDTOWN and DOLL BONES and maybe a faerie book…when does all this come out now? What books are you writing?
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2013: DOLL BONES in the Spring; COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN in the Fall
2014: THE IRON TRIAL and another YA book (probably the faerie one, but possibly a high fantasy).
After that, it will be one book in the Iron series per year until 2018 and probably (hopefully) one YA book per year during that time.
Q: Is there anything you can tell us about THE IRON TRIAL and Callum Hunt?
A: Well, Cassie has already said that he has an injured leg (like Watson or House) and grey eyes. I will add that he is the crankiest protagonist ever. Seriously, the crankiest.
Q: How would you say that Callum is different from other boy protagonists, like Percy Jackson or Harry Potter?
Remember that scene in X-Men: First Class when Professor Xavier and Magneto walk into a bar and try to recruit Wolverine?
Callum is pretty much exactly like Wolverine in that scene. If Harry Potter and Percy Jackson walked into a bar and tried to get him to help them save the world and fulfill his destiny, he would say no. And he would say it crankily.
With less sideburn, though.
Q: Will THE IRON TRIAL be published outside the US?
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Q: Does this mean that it will be your fault if CLOCKWORK PRINCESS, CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE, or Dark Artifices come out late? You know that we will kill you in your sleep if that happens, right?
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The Belle Isle Library, 5501 N. Villa, presents "A Living History: 1900 Guthrie" on Sunday, October 12, 2008, from 2:00 to 3:00pm. Barbara Byrd will re-enact a typical Guthrie woman, Stella Louise Wilson, as we learn about her life and times.
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Aging Americans worried about their droopy upper eyelids often rely on the plastic surgeons scalpel to turn back the hands of time. Increasingly, Medicare is footing the bill.
Yes, Medicare. The public health insurance program for people over 65 typically does not cover cosmetic surgery, but for cases in which a patients sagging eyelids significantly hinder their vision, it does pay to have them lifted. In recent years, though, a rapid rise in the number of so-called functional eyelid lifts, or blepharoplasty, has led some to question whether Medicare is letting procedures that are really cosmetic slip through the cracks at a cost of millions of dollars.
As the Obama administration and Congress wrestle over how to restrain Medicares growing price tag, critics say program administrators should be more closely inspecting rapidly proliferating procedures like blepharoplasty to make sure taxpayers are not getting ripped off.
From 2001 to 2011, eyelid lifts charged to Medicare more than tripled to 136,000 annually, according to a review of physician billing data by the Center for Public Integrity. In 2001, physicians billed taxpayers a total of $20 million for the procedure. By 2011, the price tag had quadrupled to $80 million. The number of physicians billing the surgery more than doubled.
With this kind of management malpractice, its little wonder that the [Medicare] program is in such dire shape, said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who is also a physician. The federal government is essentially asking people to game the system.
Plastic surgeons say there are a number of legitimate reasons for the spike, including a tendency among the elderly to seek fixes for real medical issues they might have quietly suffered through even a decade ago. But surgeons also acknowledge an increased awareness of the surgery fueled by reality television, word-of-mouth referrals, and advertising that promises a more youthful appearance. And doctors concede they face increased pressure from patients to perform eyelid lifts, even when they do not meet Medicares requirement that peripheral vision actually be impaired.
Thomas Scully, former Medicare administrator under George W. Bush, has a blunter assessment; he doubts the jump is caused by anything other than seniors seeking younger-looking eyes. How many seniors among your friends or family have needed eyelid surgery? he said. I bet a hell of a lot of them at 65 say, You know what, I bet I can get Medicare to pay for this. And I can imagine the plastic surgeons love it. If you can go to patients and say that Medicare will pay, they will do it in much larger numbers.
Florida surgeon bills Medicare for more than 2,200 eye surgeries a year
Surgeons who bill Medicare for large numbers of eyelid surgeries dot a map of the United States. Yet 11 of the 20 highest billers in 2008 were in Florida, which is both an elderly mecca and the countrys foremost magnet for questionable Medicare billing.
Among the top surgeons, the data show a South Florida doctor billed Medicare more than $800,000 in 2008 for about 2,200 eyelid lifts. Thats an average of six a day, including weekends. This same doctor was also a top biller in 2006 and 2007.
The Center is barred from naming the Florida surgeon. A 1979 federal court injunction blocks the Department of Health and Human Services from publicly releasing doctors names in conjunction with specific Medicare billing information. The Center sued HHS to obtain the Medicare data but, as a condition for obtaining it, signed an agreement not to publish the names of individual doctors, unless they agreed to discuss their billing histories. After repeated calls for comment, and a fax including the billing referenced by the Center, the Florida physicians office assistant said he would not talk due to prior engagements.
Dr. Michael Migliori, president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, said the Florida surgeons billing level might be feasible, if he was a busy eyelid specialist who performed few or no other procedures. But since the doctor also advertises breast augmentations, tummy tucks, liposuction and a variety of other general cosmetic procedures, Migliori said his billing does seem like an awful lot.
Ryan Stumphauzer, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida and founding member of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, put it more bluntly: There is no way that is anything other than crap.
A spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, after being shown the Centers data analysis, declined to comment.
Guidelines difficult to enforce
Quick, easy, and relatively painless, eyelid surgery is one of the most popular cosmetic procedures, with patients paying out of pocket for more than 200,000 a year, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The process for purely cosmetic surgeries and Medicare-funded blepharoplasty is the same. Doctors numb the eyelids with a local anesthetic before removing fat and excess skin, often with a laser. The entire process usually takes less than 30 minutes, and is performed most often in doctors offices or outpatient surgical centers, some of which are connected to medical spas or beauty clinics.
Medicare reimbursement ranges from $574 to $640 per eye, depending on the setting, but the rules for Medicare coverage are firm. Purely cosmetic surgeries do not qualify. Before filing a Medicare claim, doctors are required to test a patients vision and document that drooping skin significantly compromises a patients eyesight. The exam usually involves lifting a patients eyelids with tape and comparing their vision results to tests performed without tape.
Unlike private insurance plans, though, Medicare does not require pre-authorization of eyelid surgeries. Robert Berenson, a health policy expert at the Urban Institute and former commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, has pushed for selective pre-authorization for some Medicare services. But Berenson questioned whether reviewing physician records in advance would help much in the case of blepharoplasty, if surgeons have learned how to document the need for the procedure in order to work the system.
Dr. Bruce Quinn, who served as Medicare medical director of Californias Medicare Part B program from 2004 to 2008, said monitoring blepharoplasty claims is notoriously difficult. When a claim is reviewed, Quinn said, staff receives a medical record from a doctor that says a patients eyelids interfered with their vision, along with a photo of someone with droopy eyelids. There really isnt anything to review, Quinn said. Its really hard to go much further on that.
In most cases, Medicare trusts that doctors follow the rules and pays the claims it receives. The program later reviews a small percentage of claims and sometimes attempts to recoup money. Experts say the process, derisively known as pay and chase, has allowed fraud to thrive.
Medicare does have the authority to review claims before payment, and does so in certain cases. In 2012, Palmetto GBA, a government contractor that processes and pays Medicare claims, instituted a pre-payment probe of functional eyelid surgery claims in California, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. In California, where the probe is complete, Palmetto denied nearly 62 percent of claims it reviewed. The majority of those errors involved insufficient information showing the eyelid surgeries were reasonable and necessary, a Palmetto spokesman said.
Unnecessary treatments
Unlike the top biller in South Florida, some eyelid surgeons were willing to discuss their Medicare billing. Im disappointed that I am not number one. I wish I was on top, joked John LiVecchi, a Florida plastic surgeon who was among the top 10 billers listed in 2008 Medicare data. LiVecchi, an eyelid specialist, said his practice at St. Lukes Cataract and Laser Institute is one of the largest in the country, which accounts for his numbers. St. Lukes operates five offices in the Tampa Bay area.
LiVecchi, who has had an eyelid lift himself, disputes that patients are flocking to the procedure primarily with vanity in mind. Patients with droopy eyelids often dont realize how much the droopy skin is narrowing their field of vision, he said. LiVecchi said he jokes with his patients that he doesnt want them driving in his neighborhood until after the surgery. Its safer for society, he said.
As for the cosmetic boost, LiVecchi compared eyelid surgery to removing a cancerous lump from a patients face. In both cases the doctors primary objective is keep a patient healthy, he said. A more youthful appearance is only a pleasant side-effect, which he sees no problem with. Doesnt everybody want to look good? he asked.
The benefits of functional eyelid surgery for some patients are documented. A 2011 study published in the journal Ophthalmology, for example, found that the surgery provided significant improvement in vision, peripheral vision, and quality of life activities.
Plastic surgeons interviewed said vision problems are not always the draw. Migliori, the president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, said he sees three or four people a day who need the surgery at his practice at Rhode Island Hospital. But he conceded he faces a lot of pressure from patients who do not qualify. They come in begging for you to do this surgery, Migliori said. You get a lot of pressure to bend the rules.
Migliori said fudging the paperwork wouldnt be hard. You could tell the patient to squint, he said, regarding the requirement that the condition be documented by a photograph, and then fake the vision test. But he thinks the majority of his colleagues are honest.
Surgeons make Medicare eyelid lifts big business
Medicare pays a third, or less, of what many surgeons charge patients out of pocket for cosmetic eye surgery. In the medical world, it is far from a big ticket item. But for practices with a large number of Medicare patients, the dollars quickly add up.
Sean Blaydon, an ophthalmic plastic surgeon at the Center for Aesthetic and Reconstructive Eyelid and Orbital Surgery in Austin, Texas, said his practice is a top biller of Medicare eyelid lifts because with five eyelid specialists, it is likely the largest center in the country. Our bread and butter is eyelids, Blaydon said.
Blaydon said the clinics high numbers make it vulnerable to Medicare appeals. The center keeps all patient records on site and hands them over to Medicare when they ask for them, he said.
Although Medicare contractors have strict rules for eyelid surgery, Blaydon said its hard to judge the reasons why patients are flocking to the surgery like never before. Some of it has to do with vision, he said. And some of it has to do with vanity.
There is no questioning that when they come here they also want to look better, Blaydon said.
The Center for Public Integrity is a non-profit, independent investigative news outlet. For more of its stories on this topic go to publicintegrity.org.


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Witnesses say the fire did some serious damage, before firefighters could get it under control, forcing the 40-plus people who lived there, to run out, into the cold.
"There's 16-apartments in the building and you got to figure a lot of children and elderly sometimes 4 or 5 kids in an apartment." said Echo Valley resident Tami Yates.
Witnesses say the fire spread quickly, starting on the 1st floor and spreading to the roof, causing it to partially collapse.
For residents inside when the fire started, the experience was terrifying.
"Somebody buzzed my door and yelled fire and I just tried to get out of my apartment as quickly as I could."said resident Lisa Raymond.
Building H were the fire broke out is now completely destroyed and the people who called it home, will need a new place to live, in the new year.
"People in this building have lost everything."said Yates.
Thankfully only one person received minor injuries from the fire.
The Red Cross is helping the 40-plus people from the building, find temporary housing.
The state fire marshal is working on trying to determine what started the fire.
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